Metal contamination and filtering in soil from an iron (magnetite) mine–smelter complex in the critical Hudson Highlands watershed,New York     

Sivajini Gilchrist  Alexander E. Gates  Matthew Gorring  Evert Jan Elzinga 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2011,63(5):1029-1041

Organic material in metal contaminated soils around an abandoned magnetite mine–smelter complex in the critical Highlands watershed protects the groundwater and surface water from contamination. Metals in these waters were consistently below local and national water standards. Two groups of soil types cover the area: (1) Group A disturbed metal-rich soils, and (2) Group B undisturbed organic soils. Chromium and nickel were more elevated than other metals with Cr more widespread than Ni. In Group A, Cr correlated strongly with sesquioxides in the lower horizons (Fe₂O₃: r = 0.74, p < 0.025; Al₂O₃: r = 0.92, p < 0.005). In Group B, Cr correlated strongly (r = 0.96, p < 0.005) with soil organic matter (SOM) in the O-horizons. Ni–Cr (Group A: 52 and 70% in O- and lower horizons, respectively; Group B: ~100% in both horizons) and V–Cr correlations (78% only in Group A lower horizons) suggest similar retention mechanisms for these elements. Average soil \textpH_\textCaCl2 {\text{pH}}_{{{\text{CaCl}}_{2} }} for both groups ranged between 3.65 and 5.91, suggesting that soil acidity is determined by organic acids and solubility of Al³⁺ releasing H⁺ ions. SOM and sesquioxides contribute significantly to creating naturally occurring filtration systems, removing metals, and protecting water quality. High Ca, Fe, and Ti in Group A soils suggest slag and ash were mixed into the soils. Some low-Cr sources include magnetite, slag, and ash (100, 100 and 200 mg/kg, respectively). Constant ZrO ₂ :TiO ₂ ratios in the lower soils indicate soil formation from breakdown of underlying tailing rocks, contributing Cr to these layers.  相似文献   

Erratum to: Geostatistical characterization of soil moisture and chloride distribution in deep vadose profiles of the Badain Jaran Desert, Northwestern China     

Feng Pan  Jinzhu Ma  Xangyang Zhou  W. Mike Edmunds  John B. Gates 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2013,70(5):2423-2423

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Groundwater recharge mechanism in an integrated tableland of the Loess Plateau,northern China: insights from environmental tracers     

Tianming Huang  Zhonghe Pang  Jilai Liu  Jinzhu Ma  John Gates 《Hydrogeology Journal》2017,25(7):2049-2065

Assessing groundwater recharge characteristics (recharge rate, history, mechanisms (piston and preferential flow)) and groundwater age in arid and semi-arid environments remains a difficult but important research frontier. Such assessments are particularly important when the unsaturated zone (UZ) is thick and the recharge rate is limited. This study combined evaluations of the thick UZ with those of the saturated zone and used multiple tracers, such as Cl, NO₃, Br, ²H, ¹⁸O, ¹³C, ³H and ¹⁴C, to study groundwater recharge characteristics in an integrated loess tableland in the Loess Plateau, China, where precipitation infiltration is the only recharge source for shallow groundwater. The results indicate that diffuse recharge beneath crops, as the main land use of the study area, is 55–71 mm yr^?1 based on the chloride mass balance of soil profiles. The length of time required for annual precipitation to reach the water table is 160–400 yrs. The groundwater is all pre-modern water and paleowater, with corrected ¹⁴C age ranging from 136 to 23,412 yrs. Most of the water that eventually becomes recharge originally infiltrated in July–September. The Cl and NO₃ contents in the upper UZ are considerably higher than those in the deep UZ and shallow groundwater because of recent human activities. The shallow groundwater has not been in hydraulic equilibrium with present near-surface boundary conditions. The homogeneous material of the UZ and relatively old groundwater age imply that piston flow is the dominant recharge mechanism for the shallow groundwater in the tableland.  相似文献   

Modelling Indonesian rainfall with a coupled regional model   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Edvin Aldrian  Dmitry Sein  Daniela Jacob  Lydia Dümenil Gates  Ralf Podzun 《Climate Dynamics》2005,25(1):1-17

Long-term high-resolution coupled climate model simulations using the Max Planck Institute Regional Climate Model and the Max Planck Institute Ocean Model have been performed with boundary forcings from two reanalyses: firstly from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, and secondly from the joint reanalysis of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. This study employs a special coupling setup using a regional atmospheric model and a global ocean model. The latter model applies a special conformal grid from a bipolar orthogonal spherical coordinate system, which allows irregular positions of the poles and focuses on the detail over the Maritime Continent. The coupled model was able to simulate stable and realistic rainfall variabilities without flux correction and at two different ocean resolutions. The coupled system is integrated for a period between 1979 and 1993 and the results are then compared to those from uncoupled runs and from observation. The results show improved performance after coupling: a remarkable reduction of overestimated rainfall over the sea for the atmospheric model and of warm SST biases for the ocean model. There is no significant change in rainfall variability at higher ocean model resolution, but the ocean circulation shows less transport variability within the Makassar Strait in comparison to observations. This paper has not been published or considered by any other journal in any language.  相似文献   

北京密云环斑花岗岩锆石U-Pb年龄和Hf同位素及其地质意义   总被引：22，自引：31，他引：22  

杨进辉吴福元  柳小明谢烈文 《岩石学报》2005,21(6):1633-1644

密云岩体位于华北克拉通东部,由环斑花岗岩和斑状黑云母花岗岩组成,是典型 A 型环斑花岗岩岩体之一。锆石的 LA-ICPMS U-Pb 年代学研究表明,密云环斑花岗岩形成于1681±10Ma 和1679±10Ma,而围岩片麻岩的原岩形成于2521±14Ma。锆石的 LA-MC-ICPMS Hf 同位素研究表明,太古代片麻岩来源于亏损地幔物质的部分熔融,从而表明2.5 Ca 是华北克拉通地壳重要的生长期;环斑花岗岩中锆石 Hf 同位素组成为δ_(Hf)(t)=～-5,两阶段模式年龄为 T_(DM2)=2.6～2.8Ga,表明它们来源于太古代新生地壳的部分熔融,密云环斑花岗岩侵位于华北克拉通大陆裂解、伸展环境,可能与全球古元古代未期Columbia 超大陆的裂解有关。  相似文献   

大别造山带碧溪岭橄榄岩中锆石U-Pb年龄和Hf同位素研究     

郑建平  孙敏GriffinWL钟增球  汤华云张志海 《岩石学报》2007,23(2):343-350

在详细形态和内部结构研究基础上,对碧溪岭橄榄岩锆石进行了配套的U-Pb年龄和Hf同位素分析。碧溪岭橄榄岩锆石主体是变质成因的,但有少量岩浆锆石残留。这些锆石主体给出了220～210Ma的变质生长/重结晶作用年龄;一颗具较高Th/U比值的锆石给出646Ma的近协和年龄,限定了早期岩浆结晶作用的最小年龄。真正的侵位年龄可以由745Ma的上交点年龄来限定;210～222Ma则记录着深俯冲陆壳折返过程中的锆石生长。除少数颗粒的ε_(Hf)为负值外(-2.9),大部分锆石的ε_(Hf)是正的(高达 8.1)并具新元古代的亏损地幔模式年龄(0.6～1.0Ga,平均0.8Ga)。这些结果说明碧溪岭橄榄岩的初始物质是扬子大陆岩石圈内新元古代岩浆堆积作用产物。这样的岩浆堆积物来源于亏损的软流圈地幔,侵入于扬子的深部地壳之中(如底侵)并部分混染了古老地壳组分。它们随扬子向华北之下深俯冲碰撞和造山带折返过程中经历着复杂的变质改造作用。  相似文献   

Radio and near-infrared observations of the steep-spectrum Galactic plane radio source WKB 0314+57.8     

D. A. Green  M. Lacy  S. Bhatnagar  E. L. Gates  P. J. Warner 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2004,354(4):1159-1164

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Analytical Solutions for Determination of Non-Steady- State and Steady-State Capture Zones     

Y. Jeffrey Yang  Richard D. Spencer  Todd M. Gates 《Ground Water Monitoring & Remediation》1995,15(1):101-106

This paper presents analytical solutions for determining non-steady-state capture zones produced by a single recovery well and steady-state capture zones produced by multiple recovery wells. Analysis of non-steady-slate capture zones is based on the lime-dependent location of caplure zone stagnation points and the geometric similarity between steady-slate and non-steady-state capture zones. The analytical solution of steady-state capture zones is obtained from spatial variations of discharge potential across the capture zone boundary. Both capture zone analyses are based on the assumptions of uniform flow field with a constant hydraulic conductivity, the Dupuit assumption of insignificant vertical flow, a negligible delayed yield, and a fully penetrating well with a constant pumping rate. For a ground water pump-and-trcat remediation program, the pumping rate and well location design variables can be adjusted to ensure containment of the ground water contaminant plume.  相似文献   

Chloride and the environmental isotopes as the indicators of the groundwater recharge in the Gobi Desert,northwest China   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

J. Z. Ma  Z. Ding  J. B. Gates  Y. Su 《Environmental Geology》2008,55(7):1407-1419

The long term recharge in Gobi Desert from Hexi Corridor to Inner Mongolia Plateau was estimated to be 1 mm year⁻¹ by using the chloride mass balance method from one unsaturated zone profile, which shows that no effective modern recharge is taking place. A good rainfall database from Zhangye provides definition of the stable isotopic composition of modern rainfall. The signature of groundwater from the late Pleistocene differs markedly from that of the Holocene, shown clearly by the compositions of −10.5‰ δ¹⁸O as compared with values of −7‰ at the present day. It is apparent that the groundwaters in the Minqin Basin, Ejina Basin and feeding the lake system of the Badain Jaran are part of a regional flow network related to a wetter past climate as source of recharge. The recharge source in the past and to a limited extent in the more arid conditions of the present day included the foothills of the mountains of the Tibetan Plateau. The tritium age determinations accurate to the year are impossible and of no meaning to groundwater studies. A tritium value in the groundwater means multiple recharge ages in this region.  相似文献   

西部华夏地区深部可能存在与华北和扬子大陆相似的太古代基底   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

郑建平  Griffin WL  汤华云  张志海  苏玉平  刘观亮 《高校地质学报》2008,14(4):549-557

华夏地区是否存在古陆是一个长期争论的问题。火山作用的天然超深钻取样,提供了探索大陆基底属性和形成演化过程的重要手段。西部华夏地区地表所出露的最古老岩石不老于中元古代,但对广西省东南部晚中生代—新生代火山岩中锆石捕虏晶的U-Pb年代学和Lu-Hf同位素研究则表明：与华北和扬子大陆相似,西部华夏地区有未暴露的太古代基底。该基底的主体年龄是2.9~2.5 Ga,也有3.85 Ga,3.55 Ga和3.3~3.2 Ga的年龄等。它们的亏损地幔模式年龄（t DM）为2.5 Ga至≥3.9 Ga。说明西部华夏地区的基底经历了复杂的改造过程,包括3.6~3.2 Ga,2.5 Ga,1.0 Ga和0.5 Ga时的地幔物质加入,以及2.0~1.8 Ga和1.6~1.5 Ga时的地壳再熔融事件等。对西部华夏地区强烈改造岩石圈的认识,将有助于从物质组分角度对华南成矿作用背景的思考。  相似文献