Calculation of melt pond albedos on arctic sea ice     

ALEXANDER P. MAKSHTAS  IGOR A. PODGORNY 《Polar research》1996,15(1):43-52

An analytical approximation of spectral albedo is derived for a melt pond with a Lambertian bottom assuming that Rayleigh scattering in the water is small compared to absorption. A Monte Carlo method is used to verify that scattering can he ignored in the water. This enables us to calculate pond albedos in the 400–700 nm wavelength hand using the analytical approximation. Model calculations and observations indicate that a step-decrease in albedo is likely t o occur when a melt pond initially forms, and melt pond albedos in the visible depend more on the structural and optical properties of the bottom than on the depth of the pond.  相似文献   

Two major unconformities beneath the Neoproterozoic Murchisonfjorden Supergroup in the Caledonides of central Nordaustlandet, Svalbard     

DAVID G. GEE  ALEXANDER M. TEBEN'KOV 《Polar research》1996,15(1):81-91

Two unconformities have been found in central Nordaustlandet. New mapping has located a major unconformity at the base of the Neoproterozoic Murchisonfjorden Supergroup, with quartzites and basal conglomerates of the Djevleflota Formation unconformably overlying dark phyllites of the Helvetesflya Formation and metavolcanic rocks of the Svartrabbane Formation. A second unconformity separates the Helvetesflya from the Svartrabbane formations. These rocks were isoclinally folded, metamorphosed in lower greenschist facies, and, apparently, syntectonically intruded by Grenville-age granites, prior to uplift, erosion and Neoproterozoic deposition. Caledonian tectonothermal activity, as recorded in the Neoproterozoic strata , appears to vary very little across Svalbard's Eastern Terrane from Ny Friesland, in the west, to Murchisonfjorden in western Nordaustlandet and, via Wahlenbergfjorden, to the central Nordaustlandet area, described here. Upright folds with associated high angle, usually E-dipping cleavages, characterise the Caledonian deformation over an east-west distance of about 100 km. This evidence allows the possibility that the pre-Devonian basement, to the east of Nordaustlandet, beneath the northern Barents Sea (Barentsia), may be composed of Grenville-age complexes little influenced by Caledonian tectonothermal activity. Alternatively, Barentsia is dominated by Caledonian hinterland tectonics, with extensive middle Paleozoic tectonothermal reworking of a Precambrian basement.  相似文献   

Stratigraphy of a Neoglacial end moraine in Norway     

MICHAEL J. ALEXANDER  PETER WORSLEY 《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》1973,2(3):117-142

There exposures in an outer end moraine ridge at Autre Okstindbredal, north Norway, are described and interpreted. The presence of perennially frozen ground is attributed to the present or very recent climate of the area and suggest the occurence of true sporadic permafrost. Several buried soil horizons including podzols are recognised within the moraine ridge sections. These are considered to be derived. It is thought that their occurance as imbricate stress is best explained by a basal freeze-in mechanism associated with marginal thrusting when the local glacier possessed a sub-polar thermal régime. This freeze-in phase is of late Neoglacial age but not necessarily associated with the widespread eighteenth century advance in Scandinavia. The soils in part date from the postglacial climatic optimum.  相似文献   

Petrology and Geochemistry of Boninites from the North Termination of the Tonga Trench: Constraints on the Generation Conditions of Primary High-Ca Boninite Magmas   总被引：14，自引：11，他引：14  

SOBOLEV  ALEXANDER V.; DANYUSHEVSKY  LEONID V. 《Journal of Petrology》1994,35(5):1183-1211

We report here a detailed mineralogical, geochemical, and experimentalstudy of a high-Ca boninite suite from the northern terminationof the Tonga trench. Most samples are strongly olivine porphyriticand show a significant range of phenocryst compositions includinga very refractory olivine-spinel assemblage Fo₉₄–Cr_N =87. They are also characterized by a wide range of incompatible-elementcontents, e.g., (La/Yb)_N varies from 0.5 to 16, whereas compatiblemajor-element concentrations (Al₂O₃, FeO, CaO, SiO₂, and MgO)remain essentially the same. Primary melt compositions for thesuite were established on the basis of an experimental studyof melt inclusions in phenocrysts and numerical modelling ofthe reverse of fractional crystallization. Tongan primary meltsare characterized by high MgO contents (22–24 wt.%) andoriginated in the mantle wedge at pressures of 20–25 kbarand temperatures of 1450–1550 C. H₂O contents in primarymelts were estimated from direct measurements of melt inclusionsby ion probe, and range from 2.0 to 1.0 wt.%, and a strong correlationexists between H₂O and other incompatible element contents.The primary melts crystallized in the presence of an H₂O-richfluid in the temperature range 1390–1150 C and pressuresof 1.7–0.15 kbar. Continuous degassing of melts took placeduring crystallization. Trace-element concentrations in primarymelts were estimated using proton- and ion-probe analyses ofmelt inclusions in olivine, and whole-rock analyses. Our datasuggest that three independent components (D, E1, and E2) wereinvolved. Component D was a refractory mantle depleted in incompatibleelements, likely to be hot ‘dry’ Iherzolite producedby previous melting within a mantle plume. Component E1 wasan H₂O-rich fluid containing LILE and Th, and had an H₂O/K₂Ovalue of 20; it was probably produced by dehydration of thesubducted slab. Component E2 is thought to have been an incompatible-element-enrichedsilicate melt of plume origin. Formation of high-Ca boninitesrequires interaction of hot ‘dry’ residual mantle,associated with plumes, with a subduction-related H₂O-bearingcomponent.  相似文献   

Progressive alteration in CV3 chondrites: More evidence for asteroidal alteration     

ALEXANDER N. KROT  MICHAEL I. PETAEV  EDWARD R. D. SCOTT  BYEON-GAK CHOI  MICHAEL E. ZOLENSKY  KLAUS KEIL 《Meteoritics & planetary science》1998,33(5):1065-1085

Abstract— The oxidized CV3 chondrites can be divided into two major subgroups or lithologies, Bali-like (CV3_oxB) and Allende-like (CV3_oxA), in which chondrules, calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) and matrices show characteristic alteration features (Weisberg et al, 1997; Krot et al, 1997d; Kimura and Ikeda, 1997). The CV3_oxB lithology is present in Bali, Kaba, parts of the Mokoia breccia and, possibly, in Grosnaja and Allan Hills (ALH) 85006. It is characterized by the presence of the secondary low-Ca phyllosilicates (saponite and sodium phlogopite), magnetite, Ni-rich sulfides, fayalite (Fa>₉₀), Ca-Fe-rich pyroxenes (Fs_10–50Wo_45–50) and andradite. Phyllosilicates replace primary Ca-rich minerals in chondrules and CAIs, which suggests mobilization of Ca during aqueous alteration. Magnetite nodules are replaced to various degrees by fayalite, Ca-Fe-rich pyroxenes and minor andradite. Fayalite veins crosscut fine-grained rims around chondrules and extend into the matrix. Thermodynamic analysis of the observed reactions indicates that they could have occurred at relatively low temperatures (<300 °C) in the presence of aqueous solutions. Oxygen isotopic compositions of the coexisting magnetite and fayalite plot close to the terrestrial fractionation line with large Δ¹⁸O_{fayalite-magnetite} fractionation (～20%). We infer that phyllosilicates, magnetite, fayalite, Ca-Fe-rich pyroxenes and andradite formed at relatively low temperatures (<300 °C) by fluid-rock interaction in an asteroidal environment. Secondary fayalite and phyllosilicates are virtually absent in chondrules and CAIs in the CV3_oxA lithology, which is present in Allende and its dark inclusions, Axtell, ALHA81258, ALH 84028, Lewis Cliff (LEW) 86006, and parts of the Mokoia and Vigarano breccias. Instead secondary nepheline, sodalite, and fayalitic olivine are common. Fayalitic olivine in chondrules replaces low-Ca pyroxenes and rims and veins forsterite grains; it also forms coarse lath-shaped grains in matrix. Secondary Ca-Fe-rich pyroxenes are abundant. We infer that the CV3_oxA lithology experienced alteration at higher temperatures than the CV3_oxB lithology. The presence of the reduced and CV3_oxA lithologies in the Vigarano breccia and CV3_oxA and CV3_oXB lithologies in the Mokoia breccia indicates that all CV3 chondrites came from one heterogeneously altered asteroid. The metamorphosed clasts in Mokoia (Krot and Hutcheon, 1997) may be rare samples of the hotter interior of the CV asteroid. We conclude that the alteration features observed in the oxidized CV3 chondrites resulted from the fluid-rock interaction in an asteroid during progressive metamorphism of a heterogeneous mixture of ices and anhydrous materials mineralogically similar to the reduced CV3 chondrites.  相似文献   

Secondary calcium-iron-rich minerals in the Bali-like and Allende-like oxidized CV3 chondrites and Allende dark inclusions     

ALEXANDER N. KROT  MICHAEL I. PETAEV  MICHAEL E. ZOLENSKY  KLAUS KEIL  EDWARD R. D. SCOTT  KEIKO NAKAMURA 《Meteoritics & planetary science》1998,33(4):623-645

Abstract— We have characterized Ca-Fe-rich silicates (salite-hedenbergite pyroxenes (Fs_10–50Wo_45–50), andradite (Ca₃Fe₂Si₃O₁₂), kirschsteinite (CaFeSiO₄), and wollastonite (Ca₃Si₃O₉)) in the type I chondrules and matrices in the Bali-like and Allende-like oxidized CV3 chondrites and Allende dark inclusions. In type I chondrules in the Bali-like CV3 chondrites, metal is oxidized to magnetite; magnetite-sulfide nodules are replaced by Ca-Fe-rich pyroxenes with minor andradite and pure fayalite. We infer that Ca-Fe-rich pyroxenes, andradite, fayalite, magnetite, and phyllosilicates (which occur in mesostases) formed at relatively low temperatures (<300 °C) in the presence of aqueous solutions. Thermodynamic analysis of phase relations in the Si-Fe-Ca-O-H system and large O isotopic fractionation of the coexisting magnetite and fayalite (～20%) (Krot et al., 1998) are consistent with this interpretation. In type I chondrules in the Allende-like CV3 chondrites and dark inclusions, magnetite-sulfide nodules are replaced by Ca-Fe-rich pyroxenes and ferrous olivine; low-Ca pyroxene and forsterite phenocrysts are rimmed and veined by ferrous olivine. It appear that the Ca-Fe-rich pyroxenes predate formation of ferrous olivine; the latter postdates formation of talc and biopyriboles (Brearley, 1997). The Allende dark inclusions are crosscut by Ca-Fe-pyroxene-andradite veins and surrounded by Ca-rich rims that consist of Ca-Fe-rich pyroxenes, andradite, wollastonite, and kirschsteinite. Calcium-rich veins and rims formed after aggregation and lithification of the dark inclusions. The rimmed dark inclusions show zoned depletion in Ca, which is due to a lower abundance of Ca-Fe-rich pyroxenes close to the rim. Calcium was probably leached from the inclusions and redeposited along their edges. We infer that the Allende-like chondrites and dark inclusions experienced similar aqueous alteration to the Bali-like chondrites and were metamorphosed subsequently, which resulted in loss of aqueous solutions and dehydration of phyllosilicates. We conclude that Ca-Fe-rich silicates in the oxidized CV3 chondrites and Allende dark inclusions are secondary and resulted from aqueous fluid-rock interactions during progressive metamorphism of a heterogeneous mixture of hydrous (ices?) and anhydrous materials; the latter were possibly mineralogically similar to the reduced CV3 chondrites.  相似文献   

Formation of the Waiho Loop terminal moraine,New Zealand          下载免费PDF全文

DAVID ALEXANDER  TIMOTHY DAVIES  JAMES SHULMEISTER 《第四纪科学杂志》2014,29(4):361-369

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Tsunami backwash deposits with Chicxulub impact ejecta and dinosaur remains from the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary in the La Popa Basin,Mexico     

PETER SCHULTE  JAN SMIT  ALEXANDER DEUTSCH  TOBIAS SALGE  ANDREA FRIESE  KILIAN BEICHEL 《Sedimentology》2012,59(3):737-765

The La Popa Basin in north‐eastern Mexico features outstanding, continuous three‐dimensional exposures of the Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary event deposit in shallow shelf environments pierced by salt stocks. In the area to the south‐east of the El Papalote diapir, the Cretaceous–Palaeogene deposit consists of two superimposed sedimentary units and erosively overlies upper Maastrichtian sand‐siltstones with soft‐sediment deformation and liquefaction structures. The basal unit 1 is an up to 8 m thick chaotic, carbonate‐rich bed that discontinuously fills incised gutters and channels. Besides abundant silicic and carbonate ejecta spherules from the Chicxulub impact, unit 1 includes large sandstone boulders and abundant shallow‐water debris (for example, mud clasts, algae, bivalve shells, gastropod shells and vertebrate remains). Unit 1 is conformably overlain by unit 2. Distal to the diapir, unit 2 consists of a centimetre to decimetre‐thick conglomeratic, coarse bioclast and spherule‐bearing sandstone bed. Closer to the diapir, unit 2 becomes a metre‐thick series of four to eight conglomeratic to fine‐grained graded sandstone beds rich in shell debris and ejecta spherules. Unit 2 is conformably overlain by structureless to parallel laminated sandstone beds that may mark the return to the pre‐event depositional regime. The sedimentary characteristics of the Cretaceous–Palaeogene deposit, including its erosive base, its sheet‐like geometry, the presence of multiple, graded beds, evidence for upper flow regime conditions and the absence of bioturbation, support an origin by a short‐term multiphase depositional event. The occurrence of soft‐sediment deformation structures (for example, liquefaction) below the Cretaceous–Palaeogene deposit suggests that earthquakes were the first to occur at La Popa. Then, shelf collapse and strong backflow from the first tsunami waves may have triggered erosion and deposition by violent ejecta‐rich hyperconcentrated density flows (unit 1). Subsequently, a series of concentrated density flows resulting from tsunami backwash surges may have deposited the multiple‐graded bedding structures of unit 2. The specific depositional sequence and the Fe‐Mg‐rich as well as Si‐K‐rich composition of the ejecta spherules both provide a critical link to the well‐known deep marine Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary sites in the adjacent Burgos basin in north‐eastern Mexico. Moreover, the pulse‐like input of Chicxulub ejecta material at the base of the event deposit allows for correlation with other Cretaceous–Palaeogene boundary sites in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic, as well as in Central and Northern America. The presence of diverse dinosaur and mosasur bones and teeth in the event deposit is the first observation of such remains together with Chicxulub ejecta material. These findings indicate that dinosaurs lived in the area during the latest Maastrichtian and suggest that the tsunami waves not only eroded deltas and estuaries but the coastal plain as well.  相似文献   

THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES     

ALEXANDER MELAMID 《Geographical review》1997,87(4):542-545

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The age of the Kara impact structure,Russia     

MARIO TRIELOFF  ALEXANDER DEUTSCH  ELMAR K. JESSBERGER 《Meteoritics & planetary science》1998,33(2):361-372

Abstract— For the ～65 km sized Kara impact structure close to the polar Ural, we report an age of 70.3 ± 2.2 Ma (2s?), defined by the mean of ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar plateau ages for three glassy or crystalline impact melt rocks cleaned from mineral and rock clasts. The fine structure of the age spectra of these samples can quantitatively be simulated by modeling taking into account ³⁹Ar recoil effects, without assuming the presence of excess Ar. The calculations corroborate our age results by showing that ³⁹Ar recoil does not affect the plateau fractions. Previously, Kara has been proposed as a probable K/T impact site or was related to the Campanian-Maastrichtian boundary at 73 Ma. At the 2s? level, both suggestions are ruled out by the well-constrained age for the Kara impact structure.  相似文献