Holocene Environmental Change and River-Mouth Sedimentation in the Baie des Anges, French Riviera     

Michel Dubar  Edward J. Anthony 《Quaternary Research》1995,43(3)

River mouths on the steep, high-relief coast of the French Riviera exhibit thick sequences of Holocene marine, estuarine, deltaic, and river channel-floodplain sediments that overlie basal fluvial Pleistocene gravel. Gravel is uncommon in most of the early to middle Holocene aggradational-progradational marine, estuarine, deltaic sediments, despite an ample supply from rock units in the steep adjoining uplands. River-mouth gravel is common only in late Holocene river channels and in barrier beaches perched on finer-grained nearshore sediments. Neither downslope grain-size fining on alluvial fans nor sediment stacking patterns during sea-level (base-level) rise readily account for the lack of early to middle Holocene gravel in the river-mouth sediment wedges. Holocene sea-level rise led to the storage of fine-grained sediments in shallow marine, estuarine, and deltaic environments in the present coastal zone. We infer that humid temperate conditions, a dense forest cover, landscape stabilization, and a regular quiescent river flow regime associated with the Atlantic climatic optimum limited gravel supply in the adjoining catchments and gravel entrainment downstream during the early Holocene. Sea-level stabilization in the middle and late Holocene coincided with a marked change in bioclimatic conditions toward the present Mediterranean-type regime, which is characterized by a less dense forest cover, soil erosion, and episodic catastrophic floods. The late Holocene was thus a time of downstream bedload channel aggradation, fine-grained floodplain and paludal sedimentation, and seaward flushing of clasts leading to the formation and consolidation of the gravel barrier beaches that bound the rivermouths and embayments.  相似文献   

Book reviews     

Mark S. T. Bukowinski  Philip E. Wannamaker  Manfred Koch  Yukio Fujinawa  Dr. Pradeep Talwani  D. Möhlmann  Andrew H. Knoll  Lucia Lovison-Golob  Krzysztof Haman  Hanna Pawłowska  Henryk Piwkowski  Dr. Anthony Dore  Nguyen Xuan Huy  Edward R. Cook  Jan Błecki  Jacek Leliwa-Kopystynski  Magdalena Sroczynska-Kozuchowska 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》1993,140(1):139-177

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Th-228/Th-232 and Pb-210 geochronologies in marine and lake sediments     

Minoru Koide  Kenneth W. Bruland  Edward D. Goldberg 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1973,37(5):1171-1187

Two dating techniques, applicable to coastal marine and lacustrine sediments over periods ranging from years to a century, evolve from the natural radioactive series: Th-228/ Th-232 from the Th-232 series and Pb-210 from the U-238 series.There is an excess of Th-228 over and above that supported by the parents Th-232 or Ra-228 in such deposits. The amounts of Th-232-supported and Ra-228-supported Th-228 are similar, indicating that both radium and thorium isotopes are removed from solution in these coastal zones quite rapidly after introduction or formation. The radium isotopes are probably transferred from the overlying waters to the sediments via phytoplankton, where they are reportedly enriched. In the surface levels of the deposits analyzed, there is nearly an order of magnitude more unsupported than supported Th-228. This excess Th-228 can be used both for dating purposes over time periods of the order of a decade and as permissive evidence that the uppermost levels of the deposit were obtained during the coring operation. Preliminary results from several lakes indicate the possibility that Th-228/Th-232 geochronologies are held by their sediments.Average rates of accumulation of lake sediments have been obtained from decreases in Pb-210 activity as a function of depth, although surface layers of the deposits may not have been recovered in the coring operation. Finally, Pb-210 geochronologies have been extended from varved to unvarved marine sediments.  相似文献   

Noble gases in eleven H-chondrites     

E. Ganapathy  Edward Anders 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1973,37(2):359-362

He, Ne, Ar and Xe were measured in aliquots of 11 H-chondrites, to complement trace element studies on the same meteorites (Laulet al., 1972). Bielokrynitschie, Charsonville, Pultusk and Supuhee have lost radiogenic gases before cosmic-ray exposure and Doroninsk, during exposure.  相似文献   

Aluminum-26 in meteorites—VII. Ureilites,their unique radiation history     

Laurel L Wilking  Gerald F Herman  Edward Anders 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1973,37(7):1803-1810

Cosmogenic ²⁶A1 activities have been measured by γ-γ coincidence counting in the three ureilites which had not previously been studied. The values in dpm/kg are: Dingo Pup Donga, 38.4 ± 2.4; North Haig, 39.3 ± 4.8; Dyalpur, 55.8 ± 4.8. Five of the six known ureilites thus have lower ²⁶A1 contents, 63 per cent to 77 per cent, than the calculated saturation values, in marked contrast to most other stony meteorites. This cannot be attributed to short cosmic ray exposure ages. Nor do size and depth effects account for the narrow range of ²⁶A1 activities, because a nuclear particle track study indicates that preatmospheric radii were highly variable, from ≥ 40 cm for Goalpara to only a few cm for Dingo Pup Donga. By default, the most likely explanation is that the ureilites had much smaller or much larger orbits than all other stony meteorites.  相似文献   

Foreword     

Edward Anders  Arden L. Albee 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1973,37(4):719

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Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Network     

Edward Venzke  E. Venzke 《Bulletin of Volcanology》1999,61(4):273-274

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On the origin of solar metric type II bursts     

Cliver  Edward W.  Webb  David F.  Howard  Russell A. 《Solar physics》1999,187(1):89-114

The vast majority of solar flares are not associated with metric Type II radio bursts. For example, for the period February 1980–July 1982, corresponding to the first two and one-half years of the Solar Maximum Mission, 95% of the 2500 flares with peak >25 keV count rates >100 c s^–1lacked associated Type II emission. Even the 360 largest flares, i.e., those having >25 keV peak count rates >1000 c s^–1, had a Type II association rate of only 24%. The lack of a close correlation between flare size and Type II occurrence implies the need for a 'special condition' that distinguishes flares that are accompanied by metric Type II radio bursts from those of comparable size that are not. The leading candidates for this special condition are: (1) an unusually low Alfvén speed in the flaring region; and (2) fast material motion. We present evidence based on SMM and GOES X-ray data and Solwind coronagraph data that argues against the first of these hypotheses and supports the second. Type II bursts linked to flares within 30° of the solar limb are well associated (64%; 49/76) with fast (>400 km s^–1) coronal mass ejections (CMEs); for Type II flares within 15° of the limb, the association rate is 79% (30/38). An examination of the characteristics of 'non-CME' flares associated with Type IIs does not support the flare-initiated blast wave picture that has been proposed for these events and suggests instead that CMEs may have escaped detection. While the degree of Type II–CME association increases with flare size, there are notable cases of small Type II flares whose outstanding attribute is a fast CME. Thus we argue that metric Type II bursts (as well as the Moreton waves and kilometric Type II bursts that may accompany them) have their root cause in fast coronal mass ejections.  相似文献   

The occurrence frequency of white-light flares     

Donald F. Neidig  Edward W. Cliver 《Solar physics》1983,88(1-2):275-280

We derive an occurrence frequency for white-light flares (WLF) of 15.5 ± 4.5 yr^?1 during a 2.6 year period following the maximum of solar cycle 21. This compares with a frequency 5–6 yr^?1 derived by McIntosh and Donnelly (1972) during solar cycle 20. We find that the higher frequency of the more recently observed WLFs is due to the availability of patrol data at shorter wavelengths (λ ? 4000 Å), where the contrast of the flare emission is increased; the improved contrast has allowed less energetic (and hence more frequently occurring) events to be classified as WLFs. We find that sufficient conditions for the occurrence of a WLF are: active region magnetic class = delta; sunspot penumbra class = K, with spot group area ≥ 500 millionths of the solar hemisphere; 1–8 Å X-ray burst class ≥ X2.  相似文献   

U.S. Mussel Watch: 1977–1978 results on trace metals and radionuclides     

Edward D. Goldberg  Minoru Koide  Vern Hodge  A.Russel Flegal  John Martin 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》1983,16(1):69-93

The results of the U.S. Mussel Watch Monitoring Program for the period 1976–1978 for trace metals and artificial radionuclides in bivalves are presented. The substances analysed included Ag, Cu, Zn, Cd, Ni, Pb, ²³⁸Pu, ^239+240Pu and ²⁴¹Am. The analyses of organic substances will be presented elsewhere. The concentrations of these substances in the bivalves may reflect upwelling processes, anthropogenic inputs or natural levels. Off the California coast, mussels show markedly elevated Pu and Cd concentrations in coastal areas adjacent to the most intensive upwelling zones. Elevated levels of Pb, for example, are found in organisms living adjacent to highly urbanized places. The general patterns of distribution repeat themselves year after year at a given site. Thus, it is concluded that annual monitoring activities may not be necessary and that a frequency of sampling of several or so years may be more appropriate to identify pollution problems. Finally, national or regional baselines for metal concentrations in bivalves from unpolluted waters are proposed. National baselines for Pb in the west coast mussels of 1·0 parts 10^?6 and for Ag in east coast mussels of 0·05 parts 10^?6 are suggested.  相似文献