Shallow gas depth-contour map of the Skagerrak-western Baltic Sea region     

Troels Laier  Jørn Bo Jensen 《Geo-Marine Letters》2007,27(2-4):127-141

A shallow gas depth-contour map covering the Skagerrak-western Baltic Sea region has been constructed using a relatively dense grid of existing shallow seismic lines. The digital map is stored as an ESRI® shape file in order to facilitate comparison with other data from the region. Free gas usually occurs in mud and sandy mud but is observed only when sediment thickness exceeds a certain threshold value, depending on the water depth of the area in question. Gassy sediments exist at all water depths from approx. 20 m in the coastal waters of the Kattegat to 360 m in the Skagerrak. In spite of the large difference in water depths, the depth of free gas below seabed varies only little within the region, indicating a relatively fast movement of methane in the gas phase towards the seabed compared to the rate of diffusion of dissolved methane. Seeps of old microbial methane occur in the northern Kattegat where a relatively thin cover of sandy sediments exists over shallow, glacially deformed Pleistocene marine sediments. Previous estimates of total methane escape from the area may be correct but the extrapolation of local methane seepage rate data to much larger areas on the continental shelf is probably not justified. Preliminary data on porewater chemistry were compared with the free gas depth contours in the Aarhus Bay area, which occasionally suffers from oxygen deficiency, in order to examine if acoustic gas mapping may be used for monitoring the condition of the bay.  相似文献   

Sediment velocity estimation using iterative 3-D migrations of short offset seismic reflection data in deep water     

Shipley  Thomas H.  Bangs  Nathan L.  Henning  Alison T. 《Marine Geophysical Researches》1998,20(6):479-494

In deep ocean settings where water depth greatly exceeds the source-to-receiver length, the geometry is insufficient for accurate determinations of velocity from reflection-moveout. However, velocities are crucial for estimates of physical properties and image processing. Focusing analyses with conventional post-stack two-dimensional migration improves images, but does not produce geologically meaningful velocities except in the special case of a two-dimensional earth. For the more general case of the three-dimensional earth there is no a priori method to determine the degree of geometrical complexity. We present a technique using a short-offset three-dimensional (3-D) data set over the 5 km deep trench west of the Lesser Antilles. These data illustrate highly sensitive post-stack 3-D focusing analyses (± 20 m s^–1 interval velocities), and the relationship of these seismically derived velocities to rock velocities. In our Barbados example we were able to establish the presence of a widespread 80-160 m thick low-velocity zone at and above the main low-angle fault. This observation suggests the water-rich décollement leaks water into the overlying sections. Also evident is a low-velocity section associated with turbidite sands. These results are confirmed with sparse logging data and well samples. Deep-water short offset 3-D experiments provide a potentially effective approach for velocity estimation, replacing the operational complexity of long-offsets with simpler short-offset techniques. In areas of structural complications and abundant diffracted energy, it is a surprisingly accurate method, utilizing the high fidelity 3-D wavefield and the information carried in zero-offset diffraction ellipsoids. The velocity used to properly collapse a diffraction ellipsoid is explicitly the velocity of propagation in the media since the travel path is known exactly. Thus, the derived velocities should closely represent rock velocities, unlike the 2-D case where the propagation geometry is not known.  相似文献   

Time-based signal characteristics as predictors of fish size and species for a side-looking hydroacoustic application in a river   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：1  

Burwen  Debby L; Fleischman  Steven J; Miller  James D; Jensen  Mark E 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》2003,60(3):662-668

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Prediction of influence of stern wedges on power boat performance     

N. Jensen  R. Latorre 《Ocean Engineering》1992,19(3)

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IGU: PRELIMINARY NOTICE 1968 MEETINGS     

J. Granville Jensen 《The Professional geographer》1966,18(1):47-47

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Variation in the abundance of sandeels Ammodytes marinus off southeast Scotland: an evaluation of area-closure fisheries management and stock abundance assessment methods     

Greenstreet  Simon P.R.; Armstrong  Eric; Mosegaard  Henrik; Jensen  Henrik; Gibb  Iain M.; Fraser  Helen M.; Scott  Beth E.; Holland  Gayle J.; Sharples  Jonathan 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》2006,63(8):1530-1550

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Single-Well Dipole Flow Tests: Parameter Estimation and Field Testing     

S. Hvilshøj  K.H. Jensen  B. Madsen 《Ground water》2000,38(1):53-62

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Crossing new frontiers: extending tephrochronology as a global geoscientific research tool     

Peter M. Abbott  Britta J. L. Jensen  David J. Lowe  Takehiko Suzuki  Daniel Veres 《第四纪科学杂志》2020,35(1-2):1-8

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Ostracod palaeoecology and environmental change in the Laptev and Kara seas (Siberian Arctic) during the last 18 000 years     

Anna Stepanova  Ekaterina Taldenkova  Henning A. Bauch 《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》2012,41(4):557-577

Fossil ostracod assemblages were investigated in five AMS ¹⁴ C‐dated cores from various water depths of the Laptev and Kara seas ranging from the upper continental slope (270 m) to the present‐day shelf depth (40 m). Six fossil assemblages were distinguished. These represent the varying environmental conditions at the North Siberian continental margin since about 18 ka. In the cores from the shelf the ostracod assemblages reflect the gradual transition from an estuarine brackish‐water environment to modern marine conditions since 12.3 ka, as induced by the regional early Holocene transgression. The core from the upper continental slope dates back to c. 17.6 ka and contains assemblages that are absent in the shelf cores. The assemblage older than 10 ka stands out as a specific community dominated by relatively deep‐water Arctic and North Atlantic species that also contains euryhaline species. Such an assemblage provides evidence for past inflows of Atlantic‐derived waters from as early as c. 17.2 ka, probably facilitated by upwelling in coastal polynyas, and a considerable riverine freshwater influence with enhanced surface water stratification owing to the proximity of the palaeocoastline until early Holocene times. In all studied cores, relative increases in euryhaline species dominant in the inner‐shelf regions are recorded in the mid–late Holocene sediments (<7 ka), which otherwise already contain modern‐like ostracod assemblages with relatively deep‐water species. This observation suggests euryhaline species to be largely sea‐ice‐ and/or iceberg‐rafted and therefore may provide evidence for a climate cooling trend.  相似文献   

The Meteoritical Bulletin,No. 96, September 2009     

Michael K. Weisberg  Caroline Smith  Gretchen Benedix  Christopher D. K. Herd  Kevin Righter  Henning Haack  Akira Yamaguchi  Hasnaa Chennaoui Aoudjehane  Jeffrey N. Grossman 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2009,44(9):1355-1397

Abstract— The Meteoritical Bulletin No. 96 contains a total of 1590 newly approved meteorite names with their relevant data. These include 12 from specific locations within Africa, 76 from northwest Africa, 9 from the Americas, 13 from Asia, 1 from Australia, 2 from Europe, 950 from Antarctica recovered by the Chinese Antarctic Research Expedition (CHINARE), and 527 from the American Antarctic program (ANSMET). Among these meteorites are 4 falls, Almahata Sitta (Sudan), Sulagiri (India), Ash Creek (United States), and Maribo (Denmark). Almahata Sitta is an anomalous ureilite and is debris from asteroid 2008 TC3 and Maribo is a CM2 chondrite. Other highlights include a lunar meteorite, a CM1 chondrite, and an anomalous IVA iron.  相似文献