Spatial expansion of oil prospecting and geopolitical balance     

Reijo K. Helle 《GeoJournal》1987,14(2):211-216

In this report the author investigates the oil drilling activity after the oil crisis in 1973 when the western industrial countries made efforts to create a new balance. Efforts in oil prospecting culminated in oil drilling in order to compensate for the crude oil sources which were no longer under the control of western industrial countries. This development is studied in the frame of reference put forward by Saul Cohen in his theory of geopolitical balance concerning horizontal and vertical compensation.  相似文献   

Geochemical Baselines of Nickel and Chromium in Various Surficial Materials in the Barents Region, NW Russia and Finland     

Reijo Salminen  Igor Bogatyrev  Victor Chekushin  Sergey P. Glavatskikh  Virgilija Gregorauskiene  Heikki Niskavaara  Lubov Selenok  Markku Tenhola  Olga Tomilina 《Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research》2004,28(2):333-341

The geochemical baselines of nickel and chromium were studied from the data produced by the Barents Ecogeochemistry project, a large international regional geochemical mapping exercise. The project surveyed major and trace element distributions in stream water, organic and mineralogically-modified soil horizons, and terrestrial moss in the northwestern part of Russia and in Finland. Other materials were collected during the pilot phase and later from thirty special sites. The results on respective materials by XRF, ICP-MS and ICP-AES showed that both geological and anthropogenic factors have an influence on the geochemical baseline concentrations of Ni and Cr in organic soil and stream water. The main explanation of the observed distribution patterns in terrestrial moss is human activity, but geological factors can also affect the baselines. The variation of geochemical baselines in the mineral-rich soil horizon depends only on variations in bedrock. The mineralogy of samples mainly controls the leachability properties of soil samples.  相似文献   

Lithostratigraphy and age estimations of the Pleistocene erosional remnants near the centre of the Scandinavian glaciations in western Finland     

Reijo Pitkäranta 《Quaternary Science Reviews》2009,28(1-2):166-180

Extensive, 20–100 m thick Quaternary sediment accumulations, deposited before the latest Weichselian stage, were discovered in the Suupohja region in western Finland, near the centre of the Scandinavian glaciations. Fourteen lithofacies have been identified and interpreted in the accumulations. Geomorphologically and lithostratigraphically these accumulations occur in two forms: (1) till-covered beaded gravelly ridges that have occasional fine-grained sediments and paleosols between the gravel and the overlying till, and (2) irregularly shaped broad multilayer accumulations that include up to seven till units, three silt/clay units and three sand units. These sediments have been deposited in glacial, glaciofluvial, glaciomarine/-lacustrine and possibly in littoral and eolian environments during up to six glacial–deglacial cycles. The units are divided into five formations, which are proposed to form the Suupohja Group. According to the luminescence datings, lithostratigraphy and sedimentary structures, the sediments below the uppermost till are interpreted to have been deposited before the latest Weichselian glaciation, which occurred during the Middle or Late Weichselian Substage. This article clarifies the multiple lithostratigraphy of the Suupohja region and introduces potential type sections for further stratigraphic studies. The rich diversity of the sediments and their large extent makes this region one of the key areas in the Pleistocene research of the glaciated areas of northern Europe.  相似文献