An improved index of environmental quality for Swiss rivers based on benthic invertebrates     

Claude Lang  Olivier Reymond 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》1995,57(2):172-180

A total of 1424 samples of benthic invertebrates, collected in 56 rivers of western Switzerland (canton of Vaud), was used to improve the RIVAUD (Rivers of Vaud) index of environmental quality. This index, described for the first time in 1989, was based on total number of taxa and on number of taxa intolerant of pollution (Plecoptera, Heptageniidae, and Trichoptera with a case). The 1995 version of RIVAUD, called RIVAUD 95, presented a larger range of values (0–20) than the previous one (0–10), to describe more precisely the variations of environmental quality. According to RIVAUD 95, the environmental quality of Swiss rivers increased with the altitude of sampling sites because anthropogenic impacts decreased along the same gradient. This altitudinal pattern was used to define classes of environmental quality which can be adapted to the rivers of other regions.  相似文献   

ITRS, PZ-90 and WGS 84: current realizations and the related transformation parameters   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

C. Boucher  Z. Altamimi 《Journal of Geodesy》2001,75(11):613-619

 The first results of the International GLONASS Experiment 1998 (IGEX-98) campaign have provided significant material to illustrate the mutual benefits of the GLONASS system and the realization of the International Terrestrial Reference System (ITRS). A specific aspect, namely the relationship between the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS 84) and the PZ-90 system using ITRS as a primary standard, is investigated. A review of current works is carried out. A transformation strategy is proposed for the three systems based on recent results from IGEX-98 and an independent set of transformation parameters derived by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory from ITRF97 and PZ-90 coordinates for 16 global stations. Received: 9 June 2000 / Accepted: 12 June 2001  相似文献   

IAG Newsletter     

Claude Boucher 《Journal of Geodesy》1991,65(2):67-82

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Water quality in rivers of western Switzerland: Application of an adaptable index based on benthic invertebrates   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Claude Lang  Geneviève l'Eplattenier  Olivier Reymond 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》1989,51(3):224-234

Water quality was estimated from 205 samples of benthic invertebrates collected between 1982 and 1986 in 51 rivers of western Switzerland (canton of Vaud). Each sample consisted of the combined list of taxa resulting from one spring sample pooled with one summer sample. Water quality was indicated by total number of taxa and number of taxa intolerant of pollution: i. e. Heptageniidae, Plecoptera, and Trichoptera with a case. Six classes of values were delimited for each of these two variables by cluster analysis. Values from zero to five were attributed to each class. The index of water quality was computed by adding these two values in each sample. According to this index, good water quality was indicated by 42% of samples. This index can be adapted to other rivers because its components are easily modified.  相似文献   

Genesis of intermediate igneous rocks at the end of the Sveconorwegian (Grenvillian) orogeny (S Norway) and their contribution to intracrustal differentiation     

Jacqueline Vander Auwera  Michel Bogaerts  Olivier Bolle  John Longhi 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2008,156(6):721-743

Abundant ferroan, metaluminous granitoids (970–950 Ma) emplaced at the end of the Sveconorwegian collisional orogeny (1130–900 Ma) are dominated by intermediate to silicic compositions with rare mafic facies. Both 73% fractional crystallization of an amphibole-bearing gabbroic cumulate substracted from the parent mafic composition and 30% non-modal batch melting of an amphibolitic source equivalent in composition to the mafic facies produce a monzodioritic liquid with appropriate trace element composition. A better fit is obtained for the partial melting process. Both processes could have occurred simultaneously to produce mafic cumulates and restites. As there is no evidence for large volumes of dense mafic rocks in the Sveconorwegian upper crust, these dense mafic rocks were probably produced in the lower crust. Formation of these granitoids, thus, contributed to the vertical stratification of the Proterozoic continental crust and also to the transfer of water from the lower crust to the surface.  相似文献   

Formation of Zn-rich phyllosilicate, Zn-layered double hydroxide and hydrozincite in contaminated calcareous soils     

Olivier Jacquat  André Villard  Ruben Kretzschmar 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2008,72(20):5037-5054

Recent studies demonstrated that Zn-phyllosilicate- and Zn-layered double hydroxide-type (Zn-LDH) precipitates may form in contaminated soils. However, the influence of soil properties and Zn content on the quantity and type of precipitate forming has not been studied in detail so far. In this work, we determined the speciation of Zn in six carbonate-rich surface soils (pH 6.2-7.5) contaminated by aqueous Zn in the runoff from galvanized power line towers (1322-30,090 mg/kg Zn). Based on 12 bulk and 23 micro-focused extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectra, the number, type and proportion of Zn species were derived using principal component analysis, target testing, and linear combination fitting. Nearly pure Zn-rich phyllosilicate and Zn-LDH were identified at different locations within a single soil horizon, suggesting that the local availabilities of Al and Si controlled the type of precipitate forming. Hydrozincite was identified on the surfaces of limestone particles that were not in direct contact with the soil clay matrix. With increasing Zn loading of the soils, the percentage of precipitated Zn increased from ∼20% to ∼80%, while the precipitate type shifted from Zn-phyllosilicate and/or Zn-LDH at the lowest studied soil Zn contents over predominantly Zn-LDH at intermediate loadings to hydrozincite in extremely contaminated soils. These trends were in agreement with the solubility of Zn in equilibrium with these phases. Sequential extractions showed that large fractions of soil Zn (∼30-80%) as well as of synthetic Zn-kerolite, Zn-LDH, and hydrozincite spiked into uncontaminated soil were readily extracted by 1 M NH₄NO₃ followed by 1 M NH₄-acetate at pH 6.0. Even though the formation of Zn-precipitates allows for the retention of Zn in excess to the adsorption capacity of calcareous soils, the long-term immobilization potential of these precipitates is limited.  相似文献   

Comparison of Building Damage Assessment Methods for Risk Analysis in Mining Subsidence Regions     

Ali Saeidi  Olivier Deck  Thierry Verdel 《Geotechnical and Geological Engineering》2013,31(4):1073-1088

The occurrence of subsidence phenomena in urban regions may induce small to severe damage to buildings. Many methods are provided in the literature to assess buildings damage. Most of these methods are empirical and use the horizontal ground strain as a subsidence intensity in the vicinity of a building. Application and comparison of these methods with a case study is the main objective of this paper. This comparison requires some harmonization of the existing methods and the development of a software, which combines the subsidence hazard prediction, the damage evaluation methods and a database of buildings with structural parameters as well as the geographical coordinates of the buildings An additional results is the development of a method for the prediction of the horizontal ground strain in the vicinity of each building. Results are given as a map of damaged buildings for the case study and the different existing methods with some statistical calculations such as the mean and the standard deviation of damage in the city. Comparison of these results allows identification of the “safer” method that give the higher mean of damage. The comparison of the calculated results and observed damage in Lorrain region show that, the Dzegeniuk et al. methods is more realistic in comparison of the other empirical methods.  相似文献   

Stratoid granites of Madagascar: structure and position in the Panafrican orogeny     

Anne Nédélec  Jean-Louis Paquette  Jean-Luc Bouchez  Philippe Olivier  Bruno Ralison 《Geodinamica Acta》2013,26(1):48-56

Abstract

Stratoid granites constitute a major feature of the Precambrien basement of Madagascar. A detailed structural study was carried out NNW of Antananarivo. New zircon isotopic data on a typical alkaline granite ascertain their Panafrican age (585 Ma). The sheets of granites metric to kilometric of thickness, are interlayered with migmatitic gneisses and amphibolites. Their internal structures, determined by anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility measurements, everywhere yield foliations gently dipping to the west, and lineations striking WSW-ENE. These structures were mostly acquired at the magmatic stage in the granites, in the country-rocks they resulted from high-temperature plastic deformation.

The very constant structural pattern, interpreted in terms of shear deformation of a section of the crust, as well as the low P (P = 4 - 5 kb) - high T (T # 750°C) conditions, suggest that the emplacement of the stratoid granites was coeval with a late-orogenic stage in the Panafrican Mozambique belt, and possibly linked to the thinning of the lithosphere.  相似文献   

A new chlorite geothermometer for diagenetic to low-grade metamorphic conditions   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Franck Bourdelle  Teddy Parra  Christian Chopin  Olivier Beyssac 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2013,165(4):723-735

The evolution of chlorite composition with temperature (and pressure) serves as basis to a number of chlorite chemical thermometers, for which the oxidation state of iron has been recognised as a recurrent issue, especially at low temperature (T). A new chlorite geothermometer that does not require prior Fe³⁺ knowledge is formulated, calibrated on 161 analyses with well-constrained T data covering a wide range of geological contexts and tested here for low-T chlorites (T < 350 °C and pressures below 4 kbar). The new solid-solution model used involves six end-member components (the Mg and Fe end-members of ‘Al-free chlorite S’, sudoite and amesite) and so accounts for all low-T chlorite compositions; ideal mixing on site is assumed, with an ordered cationic distribution in tetrahedral and octahedral sites. Applied to chlorite analyses from three distinct low-T environments for which independent T data are available (Gulf Coast, Texas; Saint Martin, Lesser Antilles; Toyoha, Hokkaido), the new pure-Fe²⁺ thermometer performs at least as well as the recent models, which require an estimate of Fe³⁺ content. This relief from the ferric iron issue, combined with the simple formulation of the semi-empirical approach, makes the present thermometer a very practical tool, well suited for, for example, the handling of large analytical datasets—provided it is used in the calibration range (T < 350 °C, P < 4 kbar).  相似文献   

Log-uniform distribution of gold deposits along major Archean fault zones     

Olivier Rabeau  Jean-Jacques Royer  Michel Jébrak  Alain Cheilletz 《Mineralium Deposita》2013,48(7):817-824

The location of potentially unrecognized gold deposits in the close vicinity of the Cadillac–Larder Lake Fault Zone in the Archean Abitibi Subprovince (Canada) is predicted by applying a stochastic approach to the distribution of known gold deposits. The methodology uses the distances between neighboring orogenic gold deposits along the fault trace. The cumulative distribution of the curvilinear inter-distances along the fault zone, are adequately represented by a log-uniform model. The average inter-distance is 1.95 km, and an upper inter-distance of 5.6 km is observed. The same distribution pattern appears along the Destor–Porcupine Fault Zone (Abitibi). This log-uniform distribution shows that the spatial distribution of gold deposits is regionally controlled by the major crustal shear zone. Lithologies and structures only seem to exert a local influence at the deposit scale. The log-uniform spacing could be interpreted as the result of the crustal failure locations induced by hydraulic overpressure along mechanically independent segments on the main fault.  相似文献