Mercury-binding proteins in the slipper limpet,Crepidula fornicata,exposed to increased soluble mercury     

Florence L. Harrison  Kathleen Watness  David A. Nelson  James E. Miller  Anthony Calabrese 《Estuaries and Coasts》1987,10(1):78-83

Crepidula fornicata were held in a flow-through bioassay system and exposed to sand-filtered seawater to which no soluble mercury (control) was added or to which either 5, 25, or 50 μg 1^?1 soluble Hg was added. At specific intervals during the 16-week experiment, a group of limpets was removed from each tank; one subgroup was exposed for 48 h to high concentrations of Hg, and another was analyzed for Hg-binding proteins by gelpermeation chromatography and spectrometry. Mortality from exposure to Hg in the 48-h acute toxicity tests was related to concentrations of Hg experienced both during the long-term exposure period and the 48-h exposure period. Chronic exposure to low levels of Hg resulted in increased amounts of total Hg in the whole body and in the low-molecular-weight Hg-binding proteins. No evidence was found for increased tolerance to Hg with preexposure.  相似文献   

Growth of a manganese nodule from Peru Basin: A radiochemical anatomy     

J.L Reyss  N Lemaitre  T.L Ku  V Marchig  J.R Southon  D.E Nelson  J.S Vogel 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1985,49(11):2401-2408

Attempts have been made to study the entire growth history of a manganese nodule from the northern part of Peru Basin in the Pacific using radiochemical profiles of ${}^{230}\text{Th}{}^{232}\text{Th}$, ${}^{227}\text{Th}{}^{230}\text{Th}$, and ${}^{10}\text{Be}{}^9\text{Be}$. Combined with the observations on Fe-Mn contents and textural variation, the radiochemical data indicate that the nodule grew more or less concentrically throughout most of its existence since it formed 1.5 my ago, receiving Mn from both bottom water and pore water. This condition appeared to have changed about 180 ky ago when the growth became asymmetric in that the top and bottom sides became fixed in their relative positions on the sea floor. Since then, the bottom side accreted with a fast rate of close to 200 mm/my, apparently fueled by the supply of diagenetically remobilized Mn in pore water from the sediment substrate. In the meantime, the top side accumulated at about 6 mm/my, a value which is in the normal range for deep-sea nodules having their Mn supplied from the hydrogenous source.  相似文献   

Origin of discontinuities in coal-bearing strata at roaring creek (basal Pennsylvanian of Indiana)     

W.John Nelson  Donald L. Eggert  William A. Dimichele  Amy C. Stecyk 《International Journal of Coal Geology》1985,4(4):355-370

Basal Pennsylvanian coal-bearing strata exposed along Roaring Creek, west-central Indiana, exhibit extreme lateral discontinuity. Coal seams abruptly change in thickness and elevation; they split, grade into shale, are cut out by channels and disrupted by soft-sediment deformational structures. Initial sediments were laid down by a network of southwest-flowing streams that traversed a deeply channelized upland surface of Mississippian carbonate rocks. Channels aggraded rapidly as uplands were worn down, so the region changed through time from uplands to upper deltaic plain. Local environments included channels, localized point bars, small natural levees and crevasse splays, overbank deposits, and swamps. Differential compaction and subsidence, slumping stream banks, and possibly collapsing sinkholes influenced sedimentation. As a consequence, coals are too discontinuous for economical mining, although they are locally thick and high in quality.  相似文献   

Pollen analysis of a late pliocene and early pleistocene section from the Gubik Formation of Arctic Alaska     

Robert E. Nelson  L. David Carter 《Quaternary Research》1985,24(3):295-306

A 14-m-thick section of marine and nonmarine sediments of the Gubik Formation of northern Alaska, exposed in bluffs near Ocean Point on the Colville River, has been studied by means of pollen analysis. Pollen from the marine sediments, of probable late Pliocene age, records a boreal forest of spruce and birch with minor amounts of alder in the adjacent terrestrial vegetation. Pine and perhaps true fir were probably at or near their northern limit here, but hemlocks and hardwoods were absent. The suggested environment for the Arctic Slope during the time represented by the marine sediments is similar to that of present-day Anchorage. Pollen floras from the overlying fluvial strata, of early or middle Pleistocene age, record predominantly herbaceous taxa indicating tundra conditions probably more severe than those of the present day. These deposits were most likely contemporaneous with glacial conditions in the Brooks Range to the south. Pollen of woody taxa (spruce, alder, birch, heaths) is rare through most of the section, although birch and alder percentages similar to those found in modern river sediments indicate an interstadial or interglacial warming in midsection. Inland climates during glacial episodes may have been similar to those of the present Arctic coast.  相似文献   

The transport and dispersion of airborne contaminants in boundary layers over the ocean and an isolated island cape     

D. D. Reible  F. H. Shair  R. J. Cayer  D. W. Nelson 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1987,39(1-2):93-102

A series of sixteen atmospheric tracer experiments using sulfur hexafluoride (SF₆), chemical smoke and meteorological balloons was conducted to explore the transport of airborne contaminants in the boundary layer over the ocean surface and in the separating boundary layer over an isolated island cape. The immediate objective of the tests was to determine the impact of local pollutant sources on a background air quality sampling program conducted in the South Pacific from elevated towers on Tutuila Island, American Samoa. In addition to satisfying this objective, the tests are of interest in that they illustrate the local behavior of pollutants in a complex natural atmospheric flow.Offshore tracer tests indicated that the crosswind dispersion of pollutants over the ocean surface can be approximately modeled using the simple Gaussian plume model. The observed crosswind dispersion of the tracer corresponded to that expected under neutrally stable atmospheric conditions, consistent with the near equilibration of the ocean surface and air temperature in the South Pacific. Local, or near-field, tests indicated that tracer released into the wake downwind of the leading edge of the cape mixed rapidly to a height of about 8 m above the surface (i.e., 30–40% of the cape height). Due to decoupling between the boundary layer over the cape and the freestream flow, however, very little of the tracer was observed above this height. This suggests that the impact of local pollutant sources (i.e., on the cape) would be minimized if the proposed sampling towers were elevated significantly above an 8 m altitude (e.g., twice that height).  相似文献   

Plutonium oxidation state distributions in the Pacific Ocean during 1980–1981     

Donald M. Nelson  Anne E. Carey  Vaughan T. Bowen 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1984,68(3):422-430

The concentration of plutonium and its oxidation state distribution have been measured as a function of depth at three locations in the North Pacific Ocean. Concentration profiles were similar to those observed in the same area during 1974 with primary maxima at depths of a few hundred meters below the surface and secondary maxima near the bottom. Oxidation state distribution profiles were similar at the three locations with plutonium about equally divided between the reduced and oxidized forms except near the bottom. There the oxidized form was more abundant and comprised ～ 90% of the total plutonium. No major change in oxidation state occurred at the depths of the shallow concentration maxima suggesting that their formation and persistence were not dependent upon a redox change. The concentration maxima near the bottom coincided with the enhanced abundance of the poorly sorbed oxidized form suggesting that they resulted from the loss of oxidized plutonium from the sediments.  相似文献   

Pleistocene to recent alkalic volcanism in the region of Sanganguey volcano,Nayarit, Mexico   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

S. A. Nelson  I. S. E. Carmichael 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1984,85(4):321-335

Forty five cinder cones and associated lava flows have erupted within the last 300,000 years along five parallel lines through the calc-alkaline volcano, Sanganguey, in the northwestern segment of the Mexican Volcanic Belt. Lavas erupted from these cinder cones include ne- and hynormative alkali basalts, hawaiites, mugearites, and benmoreites. It is unusual that this suite has erupted in a calc-aikaline volcanic belt where volcanoes in the vicinity have been erupting calc-alkaline andesites, dacites and rhyodacites.Incompatible trace elements such Ba, Rb, Sr, and LREEs show little change with decreasing Mg, Ni, and Cr in the series alkali basalt to hawaiite, suggesting that simple crystal fractionation of observed phenocrysts has not been the dominant process in the derivation of the hawaiites from the alkali basalts. Petrographic evidence of magma mixing along with observed variation of trace element abundances suggests that the alkali basalts might represent mixtures of primitive magma with more evolved compositions.Crystal fractionation is capable of explaining major and most trace element trends in the series hawaiite — mugearite — benmoreite. However, such a process could only occur at pressure because of the requirement that clinopyroxene be a major crystallizing phase.The anomolous association of alkaline magmatism contemporaneously with calc-alkaline magmatism is probably related to the complex tectonic history associated with the rearrangement of plate boundaries in the vicinity of western Mexico.  相似文献   

Some comments on the limb shift of solar lines     

Jacques M. Beckers  George Driver Nelson 《Solar physics》1978,58(2):243-261

The well-known correlation between granulation intensity and velocity fluctuations causes a shift of the average line position called the convective blue shift. It is argued that this convective blue shift is most likely reponsible for the limb effect of solar Fraunhofer lines. To explain the center-to-limb variation of this limb effect it is essential that both horizontal and vertical motions in the granulation are considered. The effects of a variation in the granulation properties across the Sun on large scale velocity pattern observations are discussed. Abnormal granulation patterns observed inactive regions and at the boundaries of supergranules could be responsible for part or all of the downflow observed there.On leave from Astronomy Department, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash., U.S.A.Operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. under contract AST 74-04129 with the National Science Foundation.  相似文献   

Spatial statistical techniques for aggregating point objects extracted from high spatial resolution remotely sensed imagery   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Trisalyn Nelson  K. Olaf Niemann  Michael A. Wulder 《Journal of Geographical Systems》2002,4(4):423-433

 Using a local maximum filter, individual trees were extracted from a 1 m spatial resolution IKONOS image and represented as points. The spatial pattern of individual trees was determined to represent forest age (a surrogate for forest structure). Point attributes, based on the spatial pattern of trees, were generated via nearest neighbour statistics and used as the basis for aggregating points into forest structure units. The forest structure units allowed for the mapping of a forested area into one of three age categories: young (1–20 years), intermediate (21–120 years), and mature (>120 years). This research indicates a new approach to image processing, where objects generated from the processing of image data (rather than pixels or spectral values) are subjected to spatial statistical analysis to estimate an attribute relating an aspect of forest structure. Received: 22 April 2002 / Accepted: 23 November 2002  相似文献   

The Use of Seasonal Climate Forecasting in Policymaking: Lessons from Northeast Brazil     

Maria Carmen Lemos  Timothy J. Finan  Roger W. Fox  Donald R. Nelson  Joanna Tucker 《Climatic change》2002,55(4):479-507

This article examines the use of seasonal climate forecasting in public and private efforts to mitigate the impacts of drought in Ceará, Northeast Brazil. Here, forecasts have been directed towards small scale, rainfed agriculturalists as well as state and local level policymakers in the areas of agriculture, water management, and emergency drought relief. In assessing possibilities and constraints of forecast application in Ceará, the present analysis takes into account three types of variables: (a)characteristics of the forecasts; (b) policymaking systems; and (c)institutional environments. We conclude that, on the one hand, several factors in the Ceará case have limited the effectiveness of seasonal climate forecast use. First, the current level of skill of the forecasts is inadequate for the needs of policy development and farmer decisionmaking. Second, forecast information application has been subject to distortion, misinterpretation and political manipulation. Third, focus on the forecast as a product until recently neglected to take into account end users' needs and decisionmaking behavior. On the other hand, climate forecasting has the potential to offer a dramatic opportunity for state and local level bureaucracies to embark on a path of proactive drought planning.  相似文献