Micropalaeontological record of Holocene estuarine and marine stages in the Corgo do Porto rivulet (Mira River, SW Portugal)   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

María Alday  Alejandro Cearreta  Mrio Cacho  M. Conceio Freitas  Csar Andrade  Cristina Gama 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》2006,66(3-4):532-543

The Corgo do Porto is a small tributary of the Mira River, outleting 3.5 km upstream of its mouth. The valley is flat-floored due to terrigenous siltation and forms an alluvial plain reclaimed for agriculture/aquaculture. These conditions were quite distinct in the recent past because of extensive marine flooding of this area during the high-rate positive eustatism that followed the Last Glacial Maximum. The Holocene sedimentary column registers changes imposed by several forcing factors, mainly the climate-driven sea-level rise. As part of a multidisciplinary study, the sedimentological and micropalaeontological (benthic foraminifera and calcareous nannofossils) contents of a core taken from this infill were analyzed, and five different stages were distinguished within its environmental evolution: Stage A (prior to 10,000 cal yrs BP) consists of muddy, matrix-supported sand with abundant pebbles, barren of microfossils, and free of carbonates and organic matter that represents a fluvial environment contemporaneous of a low sea level. Between 10,000 and circa 4000 cal yrs BP the sediment is made of homogeneous mud, with bioclasts and organic matter. However, the assemblages of foraminifera and calcareous nannoplankton allowed the identification of several environmental stages, defining a cycle of increasing–decreasing marine influence inside the valley: brackish and brackish-marine sedimentation (Stage B), full-marine sedimentation (Stage C) and a return to brackish-marine sedimentation (Stage D). The final part of the core is barren of microfossils (Stage E) and it represents the modern sedimentation in the area with an accreting alluvial plain. This Holocene sedimentary sequence reflects an evolutionary succession that closely agrees with the palaeoenvironmental model previously presented by the authors elsewhere for the south-western Portuguese coast, where a change in the rate of sea-level rise has been recorded at around 5500 cal yrs BP when a very effective sandy barrier formed and isolated restricted brackish to fresh-water lagoonal environments from the open sea.  相似文献   

Volcanic particles in agriculture and gardening          下载免费PDF全文

Valentin R. Troll  Juan Carlos Carracedo  Beatrice Jägerup  Michael Streng  Abigail K. Barker  Frances M. Deegan  Francisco Perez‐Torrado  Alejandro Rodriguez‐Gonzalez  Harri Geiger 《Geology Today》2017,33(4):148-154

Volcanic pyroclasts of small size, such as lapilli and small pumice stones, are widely used in agriculture, gardening, and for pot plants as natural inorganic mulch. The technique of using pyroclasts to enhance topsoil stems from the eighteenth century, and specifically from the ad 1730–1736 eruption on Lanzarote. Critical observations on plant development during and after the eruption showed that the vegetation died when buried under a thick layer of lapilli, but grew vigorously when covered thinly. While the agriculture of Lanzarote was restricted to cereals before the eruption, it diversified to many kinds of fruit and vegetables afterwards, including the production of the famous Malvasía wines in the Canaries. The population of Lanzarote doubled in the years after the eruption, from about 5000 in 1730 to near 10 000 in 1768, predominantly as a result of the higher agricultural productivity. This outcome led to widespread use of lapilli and pumice fragments throughout the islands and eventually the rest of the globe. Lapilli and pumice provide vesicle space for moisture to be retained longer within the planting soil, which can create an environment for micro‐bacteria to thrive in. Through this route, nutrients from volcanic matter are transported into the surrounding soil where they become available to plant life. The detailed processes that operate within the pyroclasts are less well understood, such as the breakdown of nutrients from the rock matrix and transport into the soil by biological action. Further studies promise significant potential to optimize future agricultural efforts, particularly in otherwise arid areas of the globe.  相似文献   

Paleontology,sedimentology and paleoenvironment of a new fossiliferous locality of the Jurassic Cañadón Asfalto Formation,Chubut Province,Argentina     

Oscar F. Gallego  Nora G. Cabaleri  Claudia Armella  Wolfgang Volkheimer  Sara C. Ballent  Sergio Martínez  Mateo D. Monferran  Diego G. Silva Nieto  Manuel A. Páez 《Journal of South American Earth Sciences》2011,31(1):54-68

A new Late Jurassic assemblage of “conchostracans”, ostracods, bivalves and caddisfly cases from the locality “Estancia La Sin Rumbo”, Chubut Province (Patagonia, Argentina) is recorded. The fossils occur in the upper part of an outcropping 45 m thick volcaniclastic lacustrine sequence of yellowish tuffs and tuffites of the Puesto Almada Member, which is the upper member of the Cañadón Asfalto Formation with U/Pb age of 161 ± 3 Ma. The sequence represents one sedimentary cycle composed of a (lower) hemicycle of expansion and a (higher) hemicycle of contraction of the water body. The invertebrates lived in small freshwater bodies during the periods of expansion of the lake. The occurrence of a great number of small spinicaudatans, associated with mud-cracks, is evidence of dry climatic conditions and suggests several local mortality events. The spinicaudatan record of the fushunograptid–orthestheriid (component of the Eosestheriopsis dianzhongensis fauna) and the presence of Congestheriella rauhuti Gallego and Shen, suggest a Late Jurassic (Oxfordian to Tithonian) age. Caddisfly cases are recorded for the first time in the Cañadón Asfalto Basin.  相似文献   

The Chan Hol cave near Tulum (Quintana Roo,Mexico): evidence for long‐lasting human presence during the early to middle Holocene          下载免费PDF全文

Fabio Hering  Wolfgang Stinnesbeck  Jens Folmeister  Eberhard Frey  Sarah Stinnesbeck  Jerónimo Avilés  Eugenio Aceves Núñez  Arturo González  Alejandro Terrazas Mata  Martha Elena Benavente  Carmen Rojas  Adriana Velázquez Morlet  Norbert Frank  Patrick Zell  Julia Becker 《第四纪科学杂志》2018,33(4):444-454

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The diurnal cycle of marine cloud feedback in climate models     

Mark J. Webb  Adrian P. Lock  Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo  Sandrine Bony  Jason N. S. Cole  Tsuyoshi Koshiro  Hideaki Kawai  Carlo Lacagnina  Frank M. Selten  Romain Roehrig  Bjorn Stevens 《Climate Dynamics》2015,44(5-6):1419-1436

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Determination of synthetic wind functions for estimating open water evaporation with Computational Fluid Dynamics     

P. Vidal‐López  V. Martínez‐Alvarez  B. Gallego‐Elvira  B. Martín‐Górriz 《水文研究》2012,26(25):3945-3952

A computational fluid dynamics (CFD)‐based methodology is proposed to derive convective mass‐transfer coefficients (wind functions) that are required for estimating evaporation of water bodies with the mass‐transfer method. Three‐dimensional CFD was applied to model heat transfer in two water bodies: a Class‐A tank evaporimeter and an on‐farm artificial pond. The standard k–? model assuming isotropic turbulence was adopted to describe turbulent heat transport, whereas the heat and mass transfer analogy was assumed to derive the wind functions. The CFD‐derived wind functions were very similar to those empirically derived from the experimental water bodies. The evaporation rates calculated with the synthetic wind functions were in good agreement with hourly and daily evaporation measurements for the tank and pond, respectively. The proposed CFD‐approach is generalisable and cost effective, because it has low input data requirements. Besides, it provides additional capability of modelling the spatial distribution of the evaporation rate over the water surface. Although the application of CFD to water bodies evaporation modelling is still in development, it looks very promising. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Spatial interpretation of high-resolution environmental proxy data of the Middle Pleistocene Palaeolithic faunal kill site Schöningen 13 II-4, Germany     

Brigitte Urban  Kim J. Krahn  Thomas Kasper  Alejandro García-Moreno  Jarod M. Hutson  Aritza Villaluenga  Elaine Turner  Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser  Dalia Farghaly  Mario Tucci  Antje Schwalb 《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》2023,52(3):440-458

To spatially characterize the palaeolakeshore environment at the archaeological kill site Schöningen 13 II-4 of the Middle Pleistocene Reinsdorf sequence, in-depth palynological, geochemical, aquatic microfossil and archaeological analyses were undertaken on sediment sections with an average thickness of about 15 cm, concordantly overlain by faunal remains, dominated by horse, from the unique ‘Spear Horizon’ layers of the 1995 excavation campaign. The data reveal a distinctive lake level drop, documented by the change from a carbonate-rich lake marl to a carbonate-free organic mud with increased carbon content and decreasing C/N, Si/Al, Si/K and Fe/Al ratios, indicating a higher pedogenic supply of organic matter and drier conditions at the site. Compared with older, similar transitional phases of lake level changes occurring within the Reinsdorf sequence, it is important that these youngest sediments are undisturbed, indicating continuous development. Ostracod and diatom analyses indicate a lowering water level with higher salinities and rich aquatic vegetation. Mesorheophilic ostracod species along with tychoplanktic diatom taxa point to flowing waters and turbulence at the lakeshore, presumably related to spring-fed streams originating from nearby highlands. Palynological results reveal a very diverse zonal vegetation pattern around the palaeolakeshore considering an area of investigation of approximately 50 × 75 m and a tessellated type of regional vegetation during the formation of the archaeological horizons. On topographically lower elevated areas, birch groves and taxa favouring wet, marshy conditions such as Cyperaceae, indicative of terrestrialization, were predominating, while other stands of this transitional phase reveal a very dry, grass-dominated steppe woodland favouring a rich wildlife with a striking number of megaherbivores. Our results suggest that the lithological differences of the ‘Spear Horizon’ layers containing the archaeological finds were due to their respective topographical situation and that the layers were deposited almost simultaneously during the beginning of the lake level drop. Human activities seem to have concentrated in sparsely vegetated areas along the palaeolakeshore, rather than in areas of adjacent denser birch swamp forest stands.  相似文献   

Delayed carbon sequestration and rising carbon prices     

Alejandro Caparrós 《Climatic change》2009,96(3):421-441

We set out a dynamic model to investigate optimal time paths of emissions, carbon stocks and carbon sequestration by land conversion, allowing for non-instantaneous carbon sequestration. Previous research in a dynamic general equilibrium framework, assuming instantaneous carbon sequestration, has shown that land conversion should take place as soon as possible. On the contrary, previous research within a partial equilibrium framework has shown that, with increasing carbon prices, it is optimal to delay carbon sequestration through land conversion. We show that land use change alternatives, e.g. reforestation, have to be used as soon as possible before the singular path is reached, i.e. the unique trajectory that brings the system to the steady-state. We also show that faster increasing carbon prices can induce a reduction in the rate of reforestation, and that this may take place after an initial phase of increased reforestations or even immediately, depending upon the shape of the increase in carbon prices. Finally, we show that the type of species used is relevant and that the land conversion rate gets smaller the longer it takes the trees to grow. We analyze four different carbon accounting methods, describing the conditions that make them efficient and discussing the comparative advantages of each of them.  相似文献   

Solar Rotation During the Period 1847?–?1849     

F. Sánchez-Bajo  J. M. Vaquero  M. C. Gallego 《Solar physics》2010,261(1):1-9

Solar rotation rate has been measured using the sunspot positions recorded by W.C. Bond during the period 1847 – 1849 at the Harvard College Observatory. From the drawings carried out by Bond we have selected the sunspots and groups of sunspots with more reliable positions presented in three or more drawings on successive days. We have calculated from the positions of the selected sunspots (41 in total) a synodic rotation rate of ω=[(12.92±0.08)−(1.5±1.0)sin ² φ] degrees/day, where φ is the heliographic latitude. This rate, although slightly lower, is similar to the actual solar rotation rate, confirming no important changes in the solar rotation during the last 160 years.  相似文献   

Bright spectroscopic binaries: III. Binary systems with orbital periods of P > 500 days     

Dennis Jack  Missael Alejandro Hernández Huerta  Faiber Danilo Rosas-Portilla  Klaus-Peter Schröder 《Astronomische Nachrichten》2024,345(1):e230123

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