Linear Richardson plots from non-fractal data sets     

Steven I. Dutch 《Mathematical Geology》1993,25(6):737-751

Richardson analysis, one of the principal methods of fractal analysis, is performed by measuring the perimeter of a curve with strides of varying length and constructing a log-log plot of perimeter against stride length. Certain simple geometrical forms can produce linear plots that mimic fractal behavior, and two smooth curves have been discovered that produce linear Richardson plots for strides varying by two orders of magnitude or more. The existence of such curves was not suspected before this study. Richardson analyses that suggest fractal geometry of low dimension or over a limited range of stride length should be checked against the source data for independent evidence of self-similarity.  相似文献   

Geochemistry of the Hawi lavas,Kohala Volcano,Hawaii   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Steven R. Spengler  Michael O. Garcia 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1988,99(1):90-104

Hawi lavas form the late stage alkalic cap on Kohala Volcano and range in composition from hawaiite to trachyte. New, detailed field mapping of Kohala and reinterpretation of previously published age data suggest that there was no significant eruption hiatus between the Hawi and underlying Pololu shield lavas as was previously suggested. Mineral and whole-rock chemical data are consistent with a crystal fractionation origin for the hawaiite to trachyte compositional variation observed within the Hawi lavas. Plagioclase, clinopyroxene, Ti-magnetite, olivine and apatite fractionation are needed to explain this variation. The clinopyroxene fractionation may have occurred at moderate pressure because it is virtually absent in these lavas and is not a near liquidus phase at pressures of less than 8 Kb. Plagioclase would be buoyant in the Hawi hawaiite magmas so a mechanism like dynamic flow crystallization is needed for its fractionation and to account for the virtual absence of phenocrysts in the lavas. Hawi lavas are distinct in Sr and Nd isotopic ratios and/or incompatible element ratios from the Pololu lavas. Thus they were derived from compositionally distinct sources. Compared to other suites of Hawaiian alkalic cap lavas, Hawi lavas have anomalously high concentrations of phosphorus and rare earth elements. These differences could be due to greater apatite content in the source for the Hawi lavas.  相似文献   

Landfill Drilling – Think Safety First     

Steven P. Maslansky 《Ground Water Monitoring & Remediation》1988,8(1):40-41

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REE in the Great Whale River estuary, northwest Quebec   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Steven J. Goldstein  Stein B. Jacobsen 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1988,88(3-4)

We report rare earth element (REE) concentrations of a longitudinal profile within the estuary of the Great Whale River in northwest Quebec and in Hudson Bay. All of the measured REE have concentrations less than those predicted by conservative mixing of seawater and river water, demonstrating removal of the REE from solution. REE removal is rapid, occurring primarily at salinities less than 2‰. Removal of the REE is greatest for the light REE, and ranges from about 7% for the light REE to no more than 40% for the heavy REE. Fe removal is essentially complete at low salinity. The shape of the Fe and REE vs. salinity profiles is not consistent with a simple model of destabilization and coagulation of iron and REE-bearing colloidal material. A linear relationship between the activity of free ion REE³⁺ and pH is consistent with a simple ion-exchange model for REE removal.Surface and subsurface samples of Hudson Bay seawater are characterized by high REE concentrations and high La/Yb relative to average seawater. The subsurface sample has a Nd concentration of 100 pmol/kg and an ε_Nd of −29.3 ± 0.3. These characteristics are consistent with the high REE concentration, high La/Yb, and low ε_Nd of river inputs into Hudson Bay. These results indicate that rivers draining the Canadian Shield are a major source of non-radiogenic Nd and REE to the Atlantic Ocean. We estimate that outflow of water from Hudson Bay to the Labrador Sea could supply ≈ 30% of the non-radiogenic Nd in North Atlantic Deep Water.  相似文献   

2,3-Dimethylbiphenyl: Kinetics of its cyclisation reaction and effects of maturation upon its relative concentration in sediments     

Robert Alexander  Steven James Fisher  Robert Ian Kagi 《Organic Geochemistry》1988,13(4-6)

The rate constants of the cyclisation reaction of 2,3-dimethylbiphenyl to give 1-methylfluorene under non-catalytic conditions have been obtained at five temperatures between 460 and 500°C. The activation energy, activation entropy and frequency factor for the reaction have been determined from the experimental data. These kinetic parameters were then used to calculate the temperature ranges where the reaction occurs under natural conditions in sedimentary sequences which have experienced different heating rates. The coincidence of the measured and calculated values has been taken as evidence that the cyclisation reaction occurs in sediments under non-catalytic conditions.  相似文献   

The short term response to eutrophication abatement     

Knut L. Seip  Hein Sas  Steven Vermij 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》1990,52(3):199-220

We compare results of a new model for predicting the short term inter annual changes in chlorophyll-a (chl-a) in lakes after reductions in total phosphorus (TP) to predictions made by least squares regression models. In the new method, slopes of chl-a/TP graphs (both axes in mg · m^–3) are depicted in frequency diagrams and used to extract information on the expected, short term chl-a/TP response. The short term response for nine shallow (< 10 m deep) and nutrient rich lakes to changes in TP was found to be: Chl-a = 0.49 · TP + 17.3, and for nine deep, P-limited lakes: Chl-a = 0.08 · TP + 3.5. If the TP-reduction is known to be greater than 10 mg · m^–3, the expected slope increases to 0.58 for shallow lakes and to 0.26 for deep lakes. The slope, 0.58, is 8% lower than the slope for the long term response calculated by regression for the shallow lakes. For deep lakes the slope, 0.26, is 2 to 3 times higher than that calculated by regression, indicating that reductions in TP for deep lakes give greater effects than least squares regression equations suggest. We have also calculated the reduction in TP which will give about 80% probability that a reduction in chl-a will be observed next year. For shallow, P-limited lakes this reduction is about 30 mg · m^–3 (5% of average initial in-lake TP concentration), and for deep lakes about 14 mg · m^–3 (35% of average initial in-lake TP concentration).  相似文献   

Rossby wave propagation into the tropics in two GFDL general circulation models     

George N Kiladis  Steven B Feldstein 《Climate Dynamics》1994,9(4-5):245-252

During the northern winter the eastern Pacific is characterized by upper level westerly flow extending from the equator into the midlatitudes of both hemispheres. Theoretical and simple modeling studies suggest that such a region should favor the penetration of Rossby waves into the tropics from higher latitudes. Observational results by Kiladis and Weickmann using 200 mb data indicate that Rossby waves do indeed propagate freely into the tropical eastern Pacific during the northern winter from the Asian jet exit region. They also confirmed that cross-equatorial dispersion of energy from the Northern into the Southern Hemisphere occurs frequently. The present study examines these interactions in climatological runs of two GFDL GCMs. The northern wintertime mean states of these models are characterized by a rather realistically simulated upper level westerly regime in the tropical Pacific. Despite the relative weakness of the Asian jet and wave activity with respect to observations, propagation of Rossby waves into the tropics is present in both models, and these waves are strongly positively tilted as seen in the observations. A momentum budget of the zonal wind and E vector diagnostics over the tropical Pacific indicate that these transients are an important component of the momentum balance of the equatorial westerlies in both the observations and in the models.This paper was presented at the Second International Conference on Modelling of Global Climate Variability, held in Hamburg 7–11 September 1992 under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. Guest Editor for these papers is L. Dümenil  相似文献   

Vertical Distribution and Partitioning of Chromium in a Glaciof luvial Aquifer     

Nikolaos P. Nikolaidis  Gary A. Robbins  Michelle Scherer  Brian McAninch  Gordon Binkhorst  Jay Asikainen  Steven L. Suib 《Ground Water Monitoring & Remediation》1994,14(3):150-159

The vertical distribution and partitioning (between the solid and aqueous phase) of chromium in a glaciofluvial aquifer in northeastern Connecticut were assessed. Most of the chromium (99 percent of its mass) is bound to the soil. Retardation is primarily the result of binding to organic matter and adsorption to iron oxide coatings. However, other attenuation mechanisms also appear to be significant. If the degree of chromium binding observed here is representative of other chromium contaminated sites, pump-and-treat remediation will not remove the vast amount of chromium from the subsurface. However, most of the chromium may be immobile, and removal may not be required following the initial pumping to remove the mobile fraction. Further knowledge of the mechanisms that bind chromium to the soil, their reversibility, and their kinetics is essential to developing effective remediation strategies.  相似文献   

Hydrothermally altered dolerite dykes in East Greenland: implications for Ca-metasomatism of basaltic protoliths     

N. M. Rose  D. K. Bird 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1994,116(4):420-432

Dolerite dykes that cut Tertiary baslats near the Skaergaard intrusion, East Greenland, are extensively altered to metasomatic assemblages indicating large scale mobilisation of calcium and alkalis. The alteration is characterised by replacement of the dolerite by prehnite together with lesser amounts of epidote, amphibole, salite, titanite, calcite and chlorite, resulting in a complete loss of primary igneous texture. A related type of alteration in the same dykes consists of albite, epidote, amphibole and chlorite with only partial loss of primary texture. Textural relations indicate that the albitic alteration occurs first and is progressively overprinted by the later CaAl-silicate dominated alteration with a consequent large addition of calcium and removal of sodium. Quartz is absent at all stages of alteration. The metasomatic reactions are confined to the centres of a group 10 to 20 metres wide, compound dykes, that were intruded late relative to the majority of Tertiary dykes in this part of East Greenland. These dykes contain abundant leucocratic segregations, the pegmatitic and drusy nature of which suggest volatile pressure increased at late stages in dyke cooling, possibly leading to an early episode of autometasomatism. The later CaAl-silicate alteration is localised around these segregations, but affects the surrounding dolerite. Hydrogen isotope data indicates that the fluids responsible for precipitation of the CaAl-silicates were meteoric, and derived from the surrounding basalt-hosted hydrothermal system. The physical attributes of the dykes, including their width, compound nature, and high initial porosity, are all factors that favoured the influx of surrounding pore fluids into the dyke centres, where they became isolated and reacted to form the CaAl-silicate assemblages. Fluid flow into the dyke centres may have been characterised by fluid movement orthogonal to isotherms. Changes in the relative concentrations of aqueous species in fluids coexisting with albite and CaAl-silicates as a function of temperature along such flowlines are considered an important factor in driving the observed Ca–Na exchange.  相似文献   

Radiocarbon ages of pre-bomb clams and the hard-water effect in Lakes Michigan and Huron     

David K. Rea  Steven M. Colman 《Journal of Paleolimnology》1995,14(1):89-91

Five radiocarbon ages, all determined by accelerator mass spectrometry, have been obtained for two pre-bomb bivalves from Lake Michigan and one from Lake Huron. After correcting those ages for the fractionation of¹⁴C in calcite and for the radioactively inert CO₂ in the atmosphere, we find residual ages, caused by the hard water effect, of about 250 years for Lake Michigan and 440 years for Lake Huron.  相似文献