Epiclastic deposits and ‘horseshoe-shaped’ calderas in Tahiti (Society Islands) and Ua Huka (Marquesas Archipelago), French Polynesia     

Jean-Philippe Clment  Christelle Legendre  Martial Caroff  Herv Guillou  Joseph Cotten  Claire Bollinger  Grard Guille 《Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research》2003,120(1-2):87-101

Occurrences of debris avalanche deposits newly identified in Tahiti (Society Islands) and Ua Huka (Marquesas Archipelago) are described and interpreted here. In both islands, the breccias are located within horseshoe-shaped residual calderas. In Tahiti, the epiclastic formations, up to 500 m thick, lie on the floor of the central depression and in the valley of the northwards running Papenoo River. In Ua Huka, the breccias crop out within a depression limited by a semicircular crest in four bays along the southern coast. Their thickness is ca. 100 m. A few clasts collected in the Tahitian breccias and some rocks forming their substratum have been dated (K–Ar datings) and analysed (major and trace elements, Sr–Nd isotopes) for this study. Using these data, we show that the debris avalanche(s) occurred in Tahiti Nui at the end of the growth of the shield volcano (between 570 000 and 390 000 years ago), maybe in consequence of the emplacement of the plutonic body which occupies the central part of the caldera. In Ua Huka, the collapse took place nearly 3 Ma ago, between the construction of the shield volcano and that of the inner one. The southwards orientation of the caldera, like that of the neighbouring island Nuku Hiva, might reflect a preferential direction of weakness in the substratum of the central Marquesas.  相似文献   

Tunnel channels in southeast Alberta, Canada: : evidence for catastrophic channelized drainage     

Claire L. Beaney 《Quaternary International》2002,90(1)

Tunnel channels in southeast Alberta are attributed to erosion by channelized, subglacial meltwater flows. An anabranching tunnel channel network dissects the preglacial drainage divide of the ancestral Milk River. Channel morphology and landform associations are used to evaluate competing hypotheses of tunnel channel formation. Mechanisms that invoke subaerial channel incision, direct glacial erosion or steady state, time-transgressive erosion at the ice margin cannot explain convex-up longitudinal channel profiles, anabranching channel networks or confinement to the preglacial drainage divide. Results conclude that the tunnel channel network in southeast Alberta represents late-stage erosion by a channelised subglacial flow of catastrophic dimensions. Interpretations for this tunnel channel network are in agreement with conclusions obtained for the regional subglacial landform assemblage.  相似文献   

Structure-from-motion,multi-view stereo photogrammetry applied to line-scan sediment core images     

Jacq  Kévin  Ployon  Estelle  Rapuc  William  Blanchet  Claire  Pignol  Cécile  Coquin  Didier  Fanget  Bernard 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2021,66(3):249-260

Journal of Paleolimnology - Images of sediment cores are often acquired to preserve primary color information, before such profiles are altered by subsequent sampling and destructive analyses. In...  相似文献   

Predicting seasonal ocean variability around New Zealand using a coupled ocean-atmosphere model     

Catherine O. de Burgh-Day  Claire M. Spillman  Craig Stevens  Oscar Alves  Graham Rickard 《新西兰海洋与淡水研究杂志》2019,53(2):201-221

We present a first assessment of the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and 300m Heat Content (HC) ensemble mean skill of the Australian Community Climate and Earth-System Simulator-Seasonal v1.0 (ACCESS-S1) around New Zealand on seasonal timescales, using a set of retrospective ensemble forecasts for 1990-2012. This was verified against Reynolds AVHRR analysis and Bluelink ReANalysis 3.5 (BRAN3.5). For inshore areas with depth <300m, the model shows skill forecasting for summer at a lead time of 0 months, with 66% and 65% of model grid cells having correlation coefficients exceeding 0.6 for SST and 300m HC respectively. Regions of lower skill seem to be associated with the model representation of the complex and variable frontal systems around New Zealand, and an overly-strong response to the El Niño Southern-Oscillation (ENSO). Nevertheless, the skill of ACCESS-S1 around New Zealand suggests there is potential for the development of useful seasonal forecast products for the region.  相似文献   

Modeling cancer incidence in A-bomb survivors: a perspective     

Claire D. Sherman 《Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA)》1999,13(1-2):48-65

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Hydraulic Tomography: 3D Hydraulic Conductivity,Fracture Network,and Connectivity in Mudstone     

Claire R. Tiedeman  Warren Barrash 《Ground water》2020,58(2):238-257

We present the first demonstration of hydraulic tomography (HT) to estimate the three-dimensional (3D) hydraulic conductivity (K) distribution of a fractured aquifer at high-resolution field scale (HRFS), including the fracture network and connectivity through it. We invert drawdown data collected from packer-isolated borehole intervals during 42 pumping tests in a wellfield at the former Naval Air Warfare Center, West Trenton, New Jersey, in the Newark Basin. Five additional tests were reserved for a quality check of HT results. We used an equivalent porous medium forward model and geostatistical inversion to estimate 3D K at high resolution (K blocks <1 m³), using no strict assumptions about K variability or fracture statistics. The resulting 3D K estimate ranges from approximately 0.1 (highest-K fractures) to approximately 10⁻¹³ m/s (unfractured mudstone). Important estimated features include: (1) a highly fractured zone (HFZ) consisting of a sequence of high-K bedding-plane fractures; (2) a low-K zone that disrupts the HFZ; (3) several secondary fractures of limited extent; and (4) regions of very low-K rock matrix. The 3D K estimate explains complex drawdown behavior observed in the field. Drawdown tracing and particle tracking simulations reveal a 3D fracture network within the estimated K distribution, and connectivity routes through the network. Model fit is best in the shallower part of the wellfield, with high density of observations and tests. The capabilities of HT demonstrated for 3D fractured aquifer characterization at HRFS may support improved in situ remediation for contaminant source zones, and applications in mining, repository assessment, or geotechnical engineering.  相似文献   

Fluorapatite surface composition in aqueous solution deduced from potentiometric, electrokinetic, and solubility measurements, and spectroscopic observations     

Claire Chaïrat  Eric H. Oelkers  Jacques Schott 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2007,71(24):5888-5900

The surface chemistry of fluorapatite in aqueous solution was investigated using electrokinetic techniques, potentiometric titrations, solubility measurements, and attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy. All methods indicate the formation of Ca/F depleted, P enriched altered layer via exchange reactions between H⁺ and Ca²⁺, and OH⁻ and F⁻ at the fluorapatite (FAP) surface. Observations suggest that this leached layer has a di-calcium phosphate (CaHPO₄) composition and that it controls the apparent solubility of FAP. Electrokinetic measurements yield an iso-electric point value of 1 ± 0.5 consistent with a negatively charged FAP surface at pH > 1. In contrast, surface titrations give an apparent pH of point of zero charge of ∼7.7, consistent with a positively charged surface at pH < 7.7. These differences are shown to stem from proton consumption by both proton exchange and dissolution reactions at the FAP surface. After taking account for these effects, FAP surface charge is shown to be negative to at least pH 4 by surface titration analysis.  相似文献   

Phytoplankton index of biotic integrity for Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries     

Richard V. Lacouture  Jacqueline M. Johnson  Claire Buchanan  Harold G. Marshall 《Estuaries and Coasts》2006,29(4):598-616

A Phytoplankton Index of Biotic Integrity (P-IBI) was developed from data collected during 18 yr 91985–2002) of the Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Monitoring Program. Dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN), orthophosphate (PO₄), and Secchi depth were used to characterize phytoplankton habitat conditions. Low DIN and PO₄ concentrations and high Secchi depths characterized least-impaire conditions. Thirty-eight phytoplankton metrics were tested for their ability to discriminate between impaired and least-impaired habitat conditions. Twelve discriminatory metrics were chosen, and different combinations of these twelve metrics were scored and used to create phytoplankton community indexes for spring and summer in the four salinity regimes in Chesapeake Bay. The scoring criteria for each metric were based on the distribution of the metric’s values in least-impaired conditions relative to the distribution in impaired conditions. An independent data set and jackknife validation procedure were used to examine P-IBI performance. The P-IBI correctly classified 70.0–84.4% of the impaired and least-impaired samples, grouped by season and salinity, in the calibration data set. The P-IBI is a management tool to assess phytoplankton community status relative to estuarine nutrient and light conditions.  相似文献   

Daytime lidar measurements of the mesospheric sodium layer     

C. Granier  G. Megie 《Planetary and Space Science》1982,30(2):169-177

Daytime lidar measurements of the mesospheric sodium layer have been performed at the Haute Provence Observatory from 1979 to 1981. High values of the signal to noise ratio (> 50) are obtained by simultaneously reducing the receiver bandwidth down to 20 pm and its field of view to 3.10^?4 radian. The long term behaviour of the sodium layer during daytime is similar to the one already observed for nighttime by previous lidar soundings. No regular variation of the characteristics parameters of the sodium layer-total content, altitude of the concentration maximum, topside and bottom side scale heights-during the diurnal cycle or during day-night transitions have been observed, suggesting that the photochemical processes are not dominant in governing the behaviour of the upper atmospheric sodium atoms.  相似文献   

The use of sedimentary algal pigments to infer historic algal communities in Lake Apopka,Florida   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Matthew?N.?WatersEmail author  Claire?L.?Schelske  William?F.?Kenney  Andrew?D.?Chapman 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2005,33(1):53-71

The primary producer community of Lake Apopka, a large (125 km²), shallow (mean depth, 1.7 m), polymictic Florida lake, shifted from macrophyte dominance to phytoplankton dominance in the 1940s. Today, frequent wind resuspension of highly organic, unconsolidated sediments supports a meroplanktonic community that is predominantly diatoms, but during calm periods the algal community is dominated by planktonic cyanobacteria. Sedimentary algal pigments (chlorophyll derivatives and carotenoids) and chemical proxies for nutrient enrichment (polyphosphate, total phosphorus and biogenic silica) in three sediment cores were used to investigate historic changes in primary producers. Sediments were separated into three stratigraphic zones using multivariate statistical techniques. Stratigraphic zonation was established in each core although sediment deposition at one site was insufficient to adequately resolve temporal changes. These results show the importance of selecting suitable sites for paleolimnological studies. The oldest zone represents macrophyte-derived sediments, and the two overlying zones represent phytoplankton-derived sediments deposited since the 1940s. Algal pigments in the most recent sediment zone show little degradation, which might be due to the presence of viable meroplankton in the sediment. After the initial primary producer shift from macrophytes to phytoplankton, the lake experienced a short period of cyanobacterial dominance followed by a period of benthic diatom abundance before being replaced by the present algal community consisting of cyanobacteria and meroplanktonic diatoms. Chlorophyll derivatives and carotenoids were highly correlated with total phosphorus. Historic trends inferred from the data include algal and cyanobacterial productivity that increased with increased phosphorus loading. The study demonstrates that valid paleolimnological proxies for historic eutrophication are available in loosely consolidated sediments of shallow, subtropical lakes.  相似文献