Urban Ground Water Pollution: A Case Study in Cuttack City, India     

Jyotirmaya Das  Rama Krishna Sahoo  B.K. Sinha 《Ground Water Monitoring & Remediation》2002,22(3):95-103

A large number of ground water samples (360) was collected from 60 stations over six consecutive seasons to study the influence of the main sewerage drain on shallow ground water table beneath the municipal area of Cuttack, India. A majority of the samples collected from stations close to the drain exceeded the maximum permissible limits set by the World Health Organization (WHO). Almost all the samples near the drain exceeded the WHO limit for NO₃^- and Na⁺. However, the concentrations decreased as the distance from the drain increased. The winter season registered the maximum concentrations of NH₄⁺, NO₃^-, and SO₄^2- ions whereas the minimum values always coincided with the rainy season. R-mode factor analysis was conducted to find relationships amongst the 16 chemical parameters studied. Fluoride showed a negative correlation with Cl^-, Na⁺, NO₃^-, SO₄^2-, and PO₄^3-. The concentration of F^- may be lower in raw waste water than naturally occurs in the ground water. Therefore, a decrease in the concentration of F^- near the drain may be attributed to dilution by contributions of waste water to the ground water. The rest of the parameters were found to be directly related to the distance of collection points to the sewerage. The distribution of nutrients is strongly affected by leaching of waste water into the ground water.  相似文献   

Core formation and chemical equilibrium in the Earth—I. Physical considerations     

Shun-ichiro Karato  V. Rama Murthy 《Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors》1997,100(1-4):61-79

Current models of planetary formation suggest a hierarchy in the size of planetesimals from which planets were formed, causing formation of a hot magma ocean through which metal-silicate separation (core formation) may have occurred. We analyze chemical equilibrium during metal-silicate separation and show that the size of iron as well as the thermodynamic conditions of equilibrium plays a key role in determining the chemistry of the mantle (silicates) and core (iron) after core formation. A fluid dynamical analysis shows that the hydrodynamically stable size of iron droplets is less than 10⁻² m for which both chemical and thermal equilibrium should have been established during the separation from the surrounding silicate magma. However, iron may have been separated from silicates as larger bodies when accumulation of iron on rheological boundaries and resultant large scale gravitational instability occurred or when the core of colliding planetesimals directly plunged into the pre-existing core. In these cases, iron to form the core will be chemically in dis-equilibrium with surrounding silicates during separation. The relative role of equilibrium and dis-equilibrium separation has been examined taking into account of the effects of rheological structure of a growing earth that contains a completely molten near surface layer followed by a partially molten deep magma ocean and finally a solid innermost proto-nucleus. We show that the separation of iron through a completely molten magma ocean likely occurred with iron droplets assuming a hydrodynamically stable size ( 10⁻² m) at chemical equilibrium, but the sinking iron droplets are likely to have been accumulated on top of the partially molten layer to form a layer (or a lake) of molten iron which sank to deeper portions as a larger droplet. The degree of chemical equilibrium during this process is determined by the size of droplets which is in turn controlled by the size and frequency of accreting planetesimals and the rheological properties of silicate matrix. For a plausible range of parameters, most of the iron that formed the core is likely to have been separated as large droplets or bodies and chemical equilibrium with silicate occurred only at relatively low temperatures and pressures in a shallow magma ocean or in their parental bodies. However, a small portion of iron that separated as small droplets was in chemical equilibrium with silicate at high temperatures and pressures in a deep magma ocean during the later stage of core formation. Therefore the chemistry of the core is mostly controlled by the chemical equilibrium with silicates at relatively low temperatures and pressures, whereas the chemistry of the mantle controlled by the interaction with iron during core formation is likely to have been determined mostly by the chemical equilibrium with a small amount of iron at high temperatures and pressures.  相似文献   

Core formation and chemical equilibrium in the Earth—II: Chemical consequences for the mantle and core     

V. Rama Murthy  Shun-ichiro Karato 《Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors》1997,100(1-4):81-95

We present here a new model of core formation which is based on the current understanding of planetary accretion and discuss its implications for the chemistry of the Earth's mantle and core. Formation of the Earth by hierarchical accretion of progressively larger bodies on a time scale much longer than that of solid body differentiation in the nebula indicates that a significant fraction of metal in the core could be inherited from preterrestrially differentiated planetesimals. An analysis of the segregation of this iron to form the core suggests that most of the metal settles to the core without interaction with silicates; only a small fraction of the metal chemically equilibrates at high temperatures and pressures with the silicates. The siderophile element abundances in the mantle are considered to be a consequence of a two-step equilibration with iron, once preterrestrially in the planetesimals at low temperatures and pressures, and later in the Earth at high temperatures and pressures. The highly siderophile elements such as Re, Au and the platinum group elements in the mantle are essentially excluded from silicates from the preterrestrial equilibration. We attribute the abundances of these elements in the mantle to the later equilibration in the Earth at substantially reduced metal-silicate partition coefficients (D^met/sil), for which there is a considerable experimental evidence now. Mass balance considerations constrain the fraction of core metal involved in such an equilibration at approximately 0.3 – 0.5%. The model accounts for the levels and the near-chondritic ratios of the highly siderophile elements in the mantle. The mantle abundances of the less siderophile elements are largely determined by preterrestrial metal-silicate equilibrium and are not significantly affected by the second equilibration. The extreme depletion of sulfur and the lack of silicate melt-sulfide signature in the noble metal abundances in the mantle are natural consequences of this mode of core formation. Sulfur was added to the magma ocean during the high-T, high-P equilibration in the Earth, not extracted from it by sulfide segregation to the core. Except for Ni and Co, the overall siderophile abundances of the mantle can be well matched in this two-step equilibration model.

The mantle characteristics of Ni and Co are unique to the Earth and hence suggest a terrestrial process as the likely cause. One such process is the flotation and addition of olivine to the primitive upper mantle. In our model of core formation, neither the elemental and isotopic data of Re---Os, nor the low sulfur content of the mantle remains as an objection to the existence of a magma ocean and olivine flotation.

The small fraction of core metal that equilibrates with silicates at high T and P suggests that the light elements O, Si or H are unimportant in the core, leaving S (and possibly C) as prime candidates. Sulfur, as FeS associated with incoming iron metal, is directly sequestered to the core along with the bulk of the iron metal. It appears unlikely that other light elements can be added to the core after its formation. U and Th are excluded from the core but the model allows for entry of some K; however, the extent to which K serves as a heat source in the core remains uncertain.

The model is testable in two ways. One is by investigation of the metal-silicate partitioning at high temperatures and pressures under magma ocean conditions to determine if the (D^met/sil) values are lowered to the levels required in the model. The other is by experiments to determine if a solvus closure between metal and silicate liquids occurs at high temperatures relevant to a magma ocean.  相似文献   

Heavy Mineral Placer Deposits of Ekakula Beach, Gahiramatha Coast, Orissa, India     

Bhaskar Chandra ACHARYA  Prasanta Kumar PANIGRAHY  Binod Bihari NAYAK  Rama Krishna SAHOO 《Resource Geology》1998,48(2):125-136

Abstract: Ilmenite, hematite, garnet, monazite, zircon, rutile, magnetite, sillimanite, pyroxene and amphibole from the beach sands of Ekakula, Gahiramatha coast, Orissa, India are reported here for the first time. Their total concentration varies from 26. 4 to 100%. Ilmenite, monazite and zircon are between 100 and 300 um in size and are well rounded in shape. Ilmenite-hematite intergrowth is common. Ilmenite has 50. 02–54. 73% TiO₂, 42. 42–46. 90% FeO (total Fe) and small amounts of Al, Mn, Mg, Ca, Ba, Si, V, Cr, and Zn. The bulk samples contain 10. 63–41. 42 % TiO₂, 6. 15–26. 07 % FeO, 5. 86–16. 75 % Fe₂O₃, 7. 41–61. 74 % SiO₂, 1. 39–12. 83% A1₂O₃, 0. 32–4. 97% CaO, 0. 53–4. 24% P₂O₅, 0. 17–3. 27% MgO, 0. 15–2. 97% Na₂O, 0. 07–2. 34% K₂O, and 0. 05–0. 71% V₂O₅ together with appreciable amounts of La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Y, U, Th, Zr, and trace amounts of Pb, Zn, Cu, Ni, Co, and Cr. Khondalite, charnockite, calc-silicate granulite, leptynite, migmatite, gneiss, basic granulite and pegmatite of the Eastern Ghats appear to be the major source for the above heavy mineral assemblages. The samples are amenable to gravity and magnetic methods of beneficiation.  相似文献   

Trace element geochemistry of Archean volcanic rocks     

V. Rama Murthy 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1974,38(4):611-627

K, Rb, Sr, Ba and rare earth elements of some Archean volcanic rocks from the Vermilion greenstone belt, northeast Minnesota, were determined by the isotopic dilution method. The characteristics of trace element abundances, supported by the field occurrences and major element chemistry, suggest that these volcanic rocks were formed in an ancient island arc system. A felsic rock is suggested to be derived by partial melting of a basaltic source, presumably in an ancient subduction zone.It is well known that the distribution coefficients (liquid/source) for the above trace elements are almost invariably greater than one. Continuous extraction of volcanic liquids from the upper mantle through geologic time would result in depletion of these elements in the upper mantle. However, all trace element abundances in many Archean volcanic rocks are almost identical to their modern equivalents. This gross constancy of trace element concentration in rocks of different geologic age raises some important questions as to the evolution of the upper mantle. It is proposed that the trace elements have been repeatedly and fully recycled in a restrictive and closed system of crust and upper mantle during the last three billion years (recycled mantle), or the trace elements have been replenished from the lower part of the mantle by some undefined process (replenished mantle). It is believed that interplay of both recycling and replenishment have been responsible for crust-mantle evolution in geological history.  相似文献   

Structural Configuration of Mahanadi Offshore Basin,India: An Aeromagnetic Study     

Nayak  Goutam Kumar  Rao  Ch. Rama 《Marine Geophysical Researches》2002,23(5-6):471-479

Aeromagnetic data collected over the Offshore Mahanadi Basin along the Eastern margin of India display high amplitude magnetic anomalies. The presence of a Cretaceous volcanic sequence masks the seismic response from the underlying basement and results in poor quality seismic data. In this study spectral analysis of the aeromagnetic data collected over this part of the Offshore Mahanadi Basin was carried out. Results of this analysis indicate the presence of a high density, highvelocity (6.45 km/s) mafic layer within the crystalline basement varying from 4–6 km depth. This intra-basement layer seems to have been affected by a number of lineaments, which have played a role in the evolution of the Mahanadi Offshore Basin. The western part of the offshore basin is affected by the volcanism related to the 85°E Ridge, whereas the intense anomaly band (900 nT) offshore Puri, Konark and Paradip is interpreted as a combined effect of crystalline Precambrian basement overlain (i) by Cretaceous volcanic rocks of variable thickness (25–860 m) and (ii) by a mafic layer within the basement.  相似文献   

Object-oriented semantic labelling of spectral–spatial LiDAR point cloud for urban land cover classification and buildings detection     

Anandakumar M. Ramiya  Rama Rao Nidamanuri  Ramakrishnan Krishnan 《国际地球制图》2016,31(2):121-139

The urban land cover mapping and automated extraction of building boundaries is a crucial step in generating three-dimensional city models. This study proposes an object-based point cloud labelling technique to semantically label light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data captured over an urban scene. Spectral data from multispectral images are also used to complement the geometrical information from LiDAR data. Initial object primitives are created using a modified colour-based region growing technique. Multiple classifier system is then applied on the features extracted from the segments for classification and also for reducing the subjectivity involved in the selection of classifier and improving the precision of the results. The proposed methodology produces two outputs: (i) urban land cover classes and (ii) buildings masks which are further reconstructed and vectorized into three-dimensional buildings footprints. Experiments carried out on three airborne LiDAR datasets show that the proposed technique successfully discriminates urban land covers and detect urban buildings.  相似文献   

Multiple spectral similarity metrics for surface materials identification using hyperspectral data     

Rama Rao Nidamanuri 《国际地球制图》2016,31(8):845-859

Modern hyperspectral imaging and non-imaging spectroradiometer has the capability to acquire high-resolution spectral reflectance data required for surface materials identification and mapping. Spectral similarity metrics, due to their mathematical simplicity and insensitiveness to the number of reference labelled spectra, have been increasingly used for material mapping by labelling reflectance spectra in hyperspectral data labelling. For a particular hyperspectral data set, the accuracy of spectral labelling depends considerably upon the degree of unambiguous spectral matching achieved by the spectral similarity metric used. In this work, we propose a new methodology for quantifying spectral similarity for hyperspectral data labelling for surface materials identification. Developed adopting the multiple classifier system architecture, the proposed methodology unifies into a single framework the differential performances of eight different spectral similarity metrics for the quantification of spectral matching for surface materials. The proposed methodology has been implemented on two types of hyperspectral data viz. image (airborne hyperspectral images) and non-image (library spectra) for numerous surface materials identification. Further, the performance of the proposed methodology has been compared with the support vector machines (SVM) approach, and with all the base spectral similarity metrics. The results indicate that, for the hyperspectral images, the performance of the proposed methodology is comparable with that of the SVM. For the library spectra, the proposed methodology shows a consistently higher (increase of about 30% when compared to SVM) classification accuracy. The proposed methodology has the potential to serve as a general library search method for materials identification using hyperspectral data.  相似文献   

Monsoon-extratropical circulation interactions in Himalayan extreme rainfall     

Ramesh K. Vellore  Michael L. Kaplan  R. Krishnan  John M. Lewis  Sudhir Sabade  Nayana Deshpande  Bhupendra B. Singh  R. K. Madhura  M. V. S. Rama Rao 《Climate Dynamics》2016,46(11-12):3517-3546

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Agricultural droughts and crop production in the Indian arid zone     

A. S. R. A. S. Sastri  B. V. Ramana Rao  Y. S. Rama Krishna  G. G. S. N. Rao 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》1982,31(4):405-411

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