Climate variability over the last 9900 cal yr BP from a swamp forest pollen record along the semiarid coast of Chile     

Antonio Maldonado  Carolina Villagrán 《Quaternary Research》2006,66(2):246-258

We present a fossil pollen analysis from a swamp forest in the semiarid coast of Chile (32°05′S; 71°30′W), at the northern influence zone of southern westerly wind belt. A ∼10,000 cal yr BP (calendar years before 1950) palynological sequence indicates a humid phase characterized by dense swamp forest taxa dated between ∼9900 and 8700 cal yr BP. The presence of pollen-starved sediments with only scant evidence for semiarid vegetation indicates that extreme aridity ensued until ∼5700 cal yr BP. The swamp forest recovered slowly afterwards, helped by a significant increase in moisture at ∼4200 cal yr BP. A new swamp forest contraction suggests that another slightly less intense drought occurred between ∼3000 and 2200 cal yr BP. The swamp forest expansion begins again at ∼2200 cal yr BP, punctuated by a highly variable climate. Comparisons between the record presented here with other records across the region imply major variations in the extent of the southern westerlies during the Holocene. This variability could have been caused either by latitudinal displacements from the present mean position of southern westerlies wind belt or by changes in the intensity of the South Pacific Subtropical Anticyclone, both of which affect winter precipitation in the region.  相似文献   

On the use of teleseismic receiver functions for studying the crustal structure of Iceland     

Vera Schlindwein 《Geophysical Journal International》2006,164(3):551-568

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Organic carbon accumulation in oligotrophic coastal lakes in southern Brazil during the last century     

Bueno  Carolina  Sanders  Christian J.  Niencheski  Felipe Hax  Andrade  Carlos  Burnett  William  Santos  Isaac R. 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2021,66(1):71-82

Journal of Paleolimnology - We report organic carbon (OC) accumulation rates in three freshwater ecosystems in southern Brazil, along the largest shallow coastal lagoon ecosystem in the world, the...  相似文献   

Effect of organic acids and fluoride on the dissolution kinetics of hydrous alumina. A model study using the rotating disc electrode     

Vera Žutić  Werner Stumm 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1984,48(7):1493-1503

The dissolution of aluminium oxide was studied with an oxide film covered rotating disc aluminium electrode. This allows us to make measurements under conditions of well defined mass transport under conditions representative of those found in natural waters (conc. of Al, organic acids and fluoride), and permits us to distinguish between surface-controlled and transport-controlled rates.Under steady-state conditions, the dissolution current is a direct measure of the flux of dissolving Al ions at the aqueous interface of the amorphous hydrous oxide film.At pH 3–6 and in presence of organic ligands, dissolution is controlled by a surface process, i.e. the rate of detachment of surface complexes. Fluoride ions in concentrations ≥ 10^?6 M increase dramatically the dissolution rate: at pH = 4 the process is controlled by convertive diffusion of F^? from the solution to the surface (k_F- = (3.6 ± 0.5) × 10^?2cms^?1). Competitive and reversible adsorption of organic ligands (10^?6 ? 10^?2M) displacing fluoride slows down the rate of detachment of the surface complex which becomes the rate-limiting step. The affinity of ligands for the Al₂O₃ surface sites increases in the sequence: formate ~ chloride ~ carbonate < acetate < sulphate < salicylate < fumarate < maleate < malonate ? oxalate ? fluoride ≤ citrate.The results are compared with simulated weathering experiments and interpreted in terms of the surface complexation model.  相似文献   

Boost for Bulgarian anti-pollution research     

Vera Rich 《Marine pollution bulletin》1982,13(11):373-374

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Funds setback for Hudson River project     

Vera Rich 《Marine pollution bulletin》1983,14(5):161-162

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Bulgaria     

Vera Rich 《Marine pollution bulletin》1983,14(5):162-165

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Norway     

Vera Rich 《Marine pollution bulletin》1983,14(9):325-334

This section of a two-part report is introduced by Drs Ehler and Basta of NOAA. It deals with operational discharges of oil from marine transportation sources and was compiled by Virgil F. Keith, Robert A. Mondor and Nannette J. Goldberg, of Engineering Computer Optecnomics, Inc., Annapolis, MD 21401, and Charles N. Ehler, Daniel J. Basta and Thomas F. LaPointe of the Ocean Assessments Division, Office of Oceanography and Marine Services, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Rockville, MD 20852. Charles Ehler is the Acting Chief of the division; Daniel Basta is the Acting Chief of its Strategic Assessment Branch. The second part of the report on predicting surface transport of pollutants in the Gulf will form next month's Viewpoint.  相似文献   

Intraseasonal variability in South America during the cold season   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Mariano S. Alvarez  C. S. Vera  G. N. Kiladis  B. Liebmann 《Climate Dynamics》2014,42(11-12):3253-3269

Intraseasonal (IS) variability in South America is analyzed during the cold season using 10–90 day bandpass filtered OLR anomalies (FOLR). IS variability explains a large percentage of variance with maximum values over Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, and southern Brazil. The leading pattern of FOLR, as isolated from an EOF analysis, (Cold Season IS pattern, CSIS), is characterized by a monopole centered over southeastern South America (SESA) with a northwest-southeast orientation. CSIS induces a large modulation on daily precipitation anomalies, especially on both wet spells and daily precipitation extremes, which are favored during positive (wet) CSIS phases. Large-Scale OLR anomalies over the tropical Indian and west Pacific Oceans associated with CSIS exhibit eastward propagation along tropical latitudes. In addition, circulation anomalies in the Southern Hemisphere reveal the presence of an anticyclonic anomaly over Antarctica with opposite-sign anomalies in middle latitudes 10 days before CSIS is maximum as well as evidence of Rossby wave-like patterns. Positive precipitation anomalies in SESA are favored during wet CSIS phases by the intensification of a cyclonic anomaly located further south, which is discernible over the southeastern Pacific for at least 14 days before CSIS peaks. The cyclonic anomaly evolution is accompanied by the intensification of an upstream anticyclonic anomaly, which remains quasi-stationary near the Antarctica Peninsula before the CSIS peak. We speculate that the stationary behavior of the anticyclonic center is favored by a hemispheric circulation anomaly pattern resembling that associated with a negative southern annular mode phase and a wavenumber 3–4 pattern at middle latitudes.  相似文献   

The origin of young mare basalts inferred from lunar meteorites Northwest Africa 4734, 032, and LaPaz Icefield 02205     

Stephen M. Elardo  Charles K. Shearer Jr.  Amy L. Fagan  Lars E. Borg  Amy M. Gaffney  Paul V. Burger  Clive R. Neal  Vera A. Fernandes  Francis M. McCubbin 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2014,49(2):261-291

Northwest Africa (NWA) 4734 is an unbrecciated basaltic lunar meteorite that is nearly identical in chemical composition to basaltic lunar meteorites NWA 032 and LaPaz Icefield (LAP) 02205. We have conducted a geochemical, petrologic, mineralogic, and Sm‐Nd, Rb‐Sr, and Ar‐Ar isotopic study of these meteorites to constrain their petrologic relationships and the origin of young mare basalts. NWA 4734 is a low‐Ti mare basalt with a low Mg* (36.5) and elevated abundances of incompatible trace elements (e.g., 2.00 ppm Th). The Sm‐Nd isotope system dates NWA 4734 with an isochron age of 3024 ± 27 Ma, an initial ε_Nd of +0.88 ± 0.20, and a source region ¹⁴⁷Sm/¹⁴⁴Nd of 0.201 ± 0.001. The crystallization age of NWA 4734 is concordant with those of LAP 02205 and NWA 032. NWA 4734 and LAP 02205 have very similar bulk compositions, mineral compositions, textures, and ages. Their source region ¹⁴⁷Sm/¹⁴⁴Nd values indicate that they are derived from similar, but distinct, source materials. They probably do not sample the same lava flow, but rather are similarly sourced, but isotopically distinct, lavas that probably originate from the same volcanic complex. They may have experienced slightly different assimilation histories in route to eruption, but can be source‐crater paired. NWA 032 remains enigmatic, as its source region ¹⁴⁷Sm/¹⁴⁴Nd definitively precludes a simple relationship with NWA 4734 and LAP 02205, despite a similar bulk composition. Their high Ti/Sm, low (La/Yb)_N, and Cl‐poor apatite compositions rule out the direct involvement of KREEP. Rather, they are consistent with low‐degree partial melting of late‐formed LMO cumulates, and indicate that the geochemical characteristics attributed to urKREEP are not unique to that reservoir. These and other basaltic meteorites indicate that the youngest mare basalts originate from multiple sources, and suggest that KREEP is not a prerequisite for the most recent known melting in the Moon.  相似文献