Seismic investigations in the Weddell Sea Embayment     

Kristen Haugland  Yngve Kristoffersen  Anders Velde 《Tectonophysics》1985,114(1-4)

Seismic multi-channel data collected during Norwegian Antarctic Research Expeditions in 1976–1977 and 1978–1979 outline aspects of the Cenozoic depositional environment in the Weddell Sea Embayment. Acoustic basement, probably representing the East Antarctic craton, is exposed in a 50–100 km wide swath along the ice barrier between 78°S–75.5°S on the eastern side of the Crary Trough. The shelf prograded westward and northward from the craton into a subsiding basin colinear with the Transantarctic Mountain Range. Measured sediment thicknesses exceed 5 km. During middle and late Tertiary times a submarine fan complex—the Crary Fan—developed on the southeastern margin of the Weddell Sea Embayment. The glacially eroded Crary Trough is located at the contact between the craton and a sedimentary basin to the west. The entire sedimentary section is undisturbed by faulting or folding, which indicates that any movements related to Cenozoic uplift of the Trans-Antarctic Mountains and/or relative motion of East Antarctica had little effect in the area north of the Filchner Ice Shelf east of 41°W.  相似文献   

Grain boundary energy as a clue to mineral segregations — A preliminary study     

Anders Lindh 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1976,54(4):315-327

Dihedral angles between two grains of quartz and one of pyrrhotite, sphalerite resp. hematite are measured at triple junctions. An approach to equilibrium is noted. The sulphides have dihedral angles greater than 120 ° and the oxide less than 120 °. No significant influence of sphalerite composition on dihedral angle can be proved. It is concluded that the average grain boundary energy between two grains of quartz is smaller than that between quartz and a sulphide but greater than that between quartz and hematite. Sulphide — biotite interfaces are found to be parallel to the biotite cleavage. Parallelism is concluded to meet a requirement of minimum grain boundary energy. Assuming random distribution of grains, the interfacial area between sulphides and transparent minerals is found to be too small in comparison with that between sulphides. The sulphide clustering, observed and inferred, is suggested to depend on a combination of grain boundary energy and epitaxial growth, but may to some extent be inherited from the ore-generation stage.  相似文献   

Isotopic anomalies of noble gases in meteorites and their origins—VI. Presolar components in the Murchison C2 chondrite     

Leo Alaerts  Roy S. Lewis  Jun-ichi Matsuda  Edward Anders 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1980,44(2):189-209

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A hydrothermal investigation of the system FeOFe₂O₃TiO₂: A discussion with new data     

Donald H. Lindsley  Anders Lindh 《Lithos》1974,7(2):65-68

New experimental data on the system FeOFe₂O₂TiO₂ using a new oxygen buffer are presented. It is found that there is a narrow range of oxygen fugacity above 550°C within which hematite and ilmenite coexist stably.  相似文献   

Rutile chemistry and thermometry as provenance indicator: An example from Chios Island,Greece     

Guido Meinhold  Birte Anders  Dimitrios Kostopoulos  Thomas Reischmann 《Sedimentary Geology》2008,203(1-2):98-111

In the present study we focused on detrital rutile separated from 12 psammitic samples that belong to three different sedimentary successions (Carboniferous, Permo-Carboniferous, Permo-Triassic) occurring on Chios Island, Greece. The Ti, Cr, Al, Fe, Nb, Zr, Si, and V contents of the rutiles were obtained by electron-microprobe analyses to trace their provenance.The Cr and Nb concentrations of the analysed rutile grains show a wide range and indicate that this mineral in the Carboniferous succession is mainly derived from metamafic rocks, whereas in the Permo-Carboniferous and Permo-Triassic successions stem from a metapelitic source. The calculated formation temperatures using the Zr-in-rutile thermometer range from ca. 520 to 850 °C with “hotter” rutile being encountered in the Permo-Carboniferous and Permo-Triassic successions. This feature together with the rutile chemistry indicate a change in source-rock lithology through time, which could either reflect an increasing depth of erosion of an exhumed ‘Variscan’ nappe pile of heterogeneous composition in the hinterland or a change in the style of accretion and erosion of different terranes at the southern margin of Laurussia during the subduction of a branch of the Palaeotethys Ocean in the Late Palaeozoic. In general, this study underscores the importance of rutile chemistry and thermometry in quantitative single-mineral provenance analysis and in chemostratigraphic analysis of clastic sedimentary rocks.  相似文献   

Impact of Monthly Radioxenon Source Time-Resolution on Atmospheric Concentration Predictions     

Michael Schöppner  Martin Kalinowski  Wolfango Plastino  Antonio Budano  Mario de Vincenzi  Anders Ringbom  Federico Ruggieri  Clemens Schlosser 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》2014,171(3-5):699-705

The general characterisation of the global radioxenon background is of interest for the verification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. Since the major background sources are only a few isotope production facilities, their source term has an emphasized influence on the worldwide monitoring process of radioxenon. In this work, two different datasets of source terms are applied through atmospheric transport modelling, to estimate the concentration at two radioxenon detection stations in Germany and Sweden. One dataset relies on estimated average annual emissions; the other includes monthly resolved measurements from an isotope production facility in Fleurus, Belgium. The quality of the estimations is then validated by comparing them to the radioxenon concentrations that have been sampled at two monitoring stations over the course of 1 year.  相似文献   

Reactivity of dissolved organic matter in response to acid deposition     

Sara M. Ekström  Margareta Sandahl  P. Anders Nilsson  Dan B. Kleja  Emma S. Kritzberg 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》2016,78(3):463-475

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Modeling and visualizing uncertainties of flood boundary delineation: algorithm for slope and DEM resolution dependencies of 1D hydraulic models   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Sven Anders Brandt 《Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA)》2016,30(6):1677-1690

As flood inundation risk maps have become a central piece of information for both urban and risk management planning, also a need to assess the accuracies and uncertainties of these maps has emerged. Most maps show the inundation boundaries as crisp lines on visually appealing maps, whereby many planners and decision makers, among others, automatically believe the boundaries are both accurate and reliable. However, as this study shows, probably all such maps, even those that are based on high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs), have immanent uncertainties which can be directly related to both DEM resolution and the steepness of terrain slopes perpendicular to the river flow direction. Based on a number of degenerated DEMs, covering areas along the Eskilstuna River, Sweden, these uncertainties have been quantified into an empirically-derived disparity distance equation, yielding values of distance between true and modeled inundation boundary location. Using the inundation polygon, the DEM, a value representing the DEM resolution, and the desired level of confidence as inputs in a new-developed algorithm that utilizes the disparity distance equation, the slope and DEM dependent uncertainties can be directly visualized on a map. The implications of this strategy should benefit planning and help reduce high costs of floods where infrastructure, etc., have been placed in flood-prone areas without enough consideration of map uncertainties.  相似文献   

Calendar time interpolation of amplitude maps from 4D seismic data          下载免费PDF全文

Anders Fredrik Kiær  Ola Eiken  Martin Landrø 《Geophysical Prospecting》2016,64(2):421-430

A calendar time interpolation method for 2D seismic amplitude maps, done in two steps, is presented. The contour interpolation part is formulated as a quadratic programming problem, whereas the amplitude value interpolation is based on a conditional probability formulation. The method is applied on field data from the Sleipner CO₂ storage project. The output is a continuous image (movie) of the CO₂ plume. Besides visualization, the output can be used to better couple 4D seismic to other types of data acquired. The interpolation uncertainty increases with the time gap between consecutive seismic surveys and is estimated by leaving a survey out (blind test). Errors from such tests can be used to identify problems in understanding the flow and possibly improve the interpolation scheme for a given case. Field‐life cost of various acquisition systems and repeat frequencies are linked to the time‐lapse interpolation errors. The error in interpolated amplitudes increased by 3%‐4% per year of interpolation gap for the Sleipner case. Interpolation can never fully replace measurements.  相似文献   

Artificial neural networks for removal of couplings in airborne transient electromagnetic data          下载免费PDF全文

Kristoffer K. Andersen  Casper Kirkegaard  Nikolaj Foged  Anders V. Christiansen  Esben Auken 《Geophysical Prospecting》2016,64(3):741-752

Modern airborne transient electromagnetic surveys typically produce datasets of thousands of line kilometres, requiring careful data processing in order to extract as much and as reliable information as possible. When surveys are flown in populated areas, data processing becomes particularly time consuming since the acquired data are contaminated by couplings to man‐made conductors (power lines, fences, pipes, etc.). Coupled soundings must be removed from the dataset prior to inversion, and this is a process that is difficult to automate. The signature of couplings can be both subtle and difficult to describe in mathematical terms, rendering removal of couplings mostly an expensive manual task for an experienced geophysicist. Here, we try to automate the process of removing couplings by means of an artificial neural network. We train an artificial neural network to recognize coupled soundings in manually processed reference data, and we use this network to identify couplings in other data. The approach provides a significant reduction in the time required for data processing since one can directly apply the network to the raw data. We describe the neural network put to use and present the inputs and normalizations required for maximizing its effectiveness. We further demonstrate and assess the training state and performance of the network before finally comparing inversions based on unprocessed data, manually processed data, and artificial neural network automatically processed data. The results show that a well‐trained network can produce high‐quality processing of airborne transient electromagnetic data, which is either ready for inversion or in need of minimal manual processing. We conclude that the use of artificial neural network scan significantly reduce the processing time and its costs by as much as 50%.  相似文献