Automated recognition of valley heads from digital elevation models     

Andrea Tribe 《地球表面变化过程与地形》1991,16(1):33-49

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Book review     

Richard Barakat  Petr Vanicek  Randall L. Mackie  Jacek A. Majorowicz  Ley Truskinovsky  Andrea Borgia  Steven Carey  Ursula B. Marvin 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》1990,134(3):485-507

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Connections and Collaborations of Local Water Management Organizations of Utah     

Andrea Armstrong  Douglas Jackson-Smith 《社会与自然资源》2017,30(11):1343-1357

Fragmented water governance arrangements complicate sustainable water management in the western U.S. where local water management organizations (LWMOs), including municipalities and irrigation groups, directly manage water conveyance systems. LWMOs make critical decisions that determine water delivery and management, but have traditionally not collaborated with one another. Our research examines the ways in which LWMOs are increasingly interconnected within a context of widespread urbanization. We draw on three years of qualitative research on LWMOs in Utah, including interviews and in-depth qualitative case studies, to analyze the conditions under which collaborations between LWMOs emerge, or have not yet occurred. Our findings indicate that historically fragmented LWMOs are engaging in cooperative efforts based on their extensive water infrastructure connections. LWMOs did not transform cooperative efforts into collaborations unless such a collaboration protected internal interests. LWMOs engaged in collaborations primarily to reduce their liabilities in the instance of infrastructure failure.  相似文献   

Geological structure and kinematics of normal faults in the Otway Basin,Australia, based on quantitative analysis of 3‐D seismic reflection data          下载免费PDF全文

Jennifer Ziesch  Chiara M. Aruffo  David C. Tanner  Thies Beilecke  Tess Dance  Andreas Henk  Bastian Weber  Eric Tenthorey  Andrea Lippmann  Charlotte M. Krawczyk 《Basin Research》2017,29(2):129-148

The Otway Basin in the south of Victoria, Australia underwent three phases of deformation during breakup of the southern Australian margin. We assess the geometry and kinematics of faulting in the basin by analysing a 3‐D reflection seismic volume. Eight stratigraphic horizons and 24 SW‐dipping normal faults as well as subordinate antithetic faults were interpreted. This resulted in a high‐resolution geological 3‐D model (ca. 8 km × 7 km × 4 km depth) that we present as a supplementary 3‐D PDF (Data S1). We identified hard‐ and soft‐linking fault connections over the entire area, such as antithetic faults and relay ramps, respectively. Most major faults were continuously active from Early to Late Cretaceous, with two faults in the northern part of the study area active until at least the Oligocene. Allan maps of faults show tectonic activity continuously waned over this time period. Isopach maps of stratigraphic volumes quantify the amount of syn‐sedimentary movement that is characteristic of passive margins, such as the Otway Basin. We show that the faults possess strong corrugations (with amplitudes above the seismic resolution), which we illustrated by novel techniques, such as cylindricity and curvature. We argue that the corrugations are produced by sutures between sub‐vertical fault segments and this morphology was maintained during fault growth. Thus, they can be used to indicate the kinematics vector of the fault movement. This evidences, together with left‐stepping relay ramps, that 40% of the faults had a small component (up to 25°) of dextral oblique slip as well as normal (dip‐slip) movement.  相似文献   

Integration of 3D large‐scale earthquake simulations into the assessment of the seismic risk of Bogota,Colombia     

Andrea C. Riao  Juan C. Reyes  Luis E. Yamín  Jacobo Bielak  Ricardo Taborda  Doriam Restrepo 《地震工程与结构动力学》2021,50(1):155-176

Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia, is mostly located on a lacustrine soil deposit surrounded by hills in a central plateau of the eastern cordillera of the Colombian Andes. This highly populated urban area is exposed to a significant seismic hazard from local and regional fault systems. In addition, the potential ground motion amplification during earthquakes due to the presence of soft soil deposits, along with the effects of the surface and subsurface topography, can strongly influence the seismic hazard and consequently the seismic risk to the city. This study aims to develop a physics‐based framework to generate synthetic ground records that can help better understand the seismic response of the basin and other amplification effects during strong earthquake shaking in the region, and to incorporate these effects into the estimation of seismic risk. To this end, a set of simulations were first conducted on Hercules, the wave propagation octree‐based finite element simulator developed by the Quake Group at Carnegie Mellon University, to identify the impacts of hypothetical strong earthquakes scenarios. Then, the results from these simulations were integrated with the exposure and vulnerability information previously developed for the main building constructions in the city to assess the seismic risk in the region under different conditions of analysis. Results from this more detailed model are compared with previously published results from simplified models. Sensitivity analyses help identify critical aspects that should be considered in the future to improve the seismic risk assessment of infrastructure.  相似文献   

Evolution of mass-transfer during progressive oblique under-thrusting of the Variscan foreland: eastern Bohemian Massif     

Andrea Kolaříková  Didier Marquer  Karel Schulmann 《Geodinamica Acta》2013,26(3):81-93

Abstract

Four ductile shear zones were sampled in the autochthonous Thaya basement and the Upper Bíte? nappe (Moravian unit) at the Eastern margin of the Bohemian massif. In both studied units, the tectono-metamorphic evolution and the chemical mass transfer are different. Two deformational events are recognised: the first deformation stage under amphibolite facies conditions is overprinted by a second event under greenschist facies conditions.

The first deformation affected the western margin of the Thaya basement and the whole Bíte? nappe: microstructures are characterised by dynamic recrystallisation of feldspars and quartz, and occurrence of myrmekites and grain-boundary migration of quartz. None or weak chemical mass transfer is related to this medium to high temperature deformation. This deformation corresponds to the thrusting of Moldanubdian units on the Brunovistulian units (Moravian nappes and autochthonous Thaya basement).

The second deformation generated shear zones in the until then preserved Thaya basement and reactivated both shear zones of the western margin of the Thaya basement and those of the Bíte? nappe. This deformation is retrograde and mainly associated with chemical mass transfer: a decrease of CaO, FeO, FeO/Fe₂O₃ and an increase of MgO, K₂O and H₂O. These chemical changes are related to greenschist metamorphic reactions leading to the destabilisation of feldspars and the crystallisation of white micas and Ca-silicates. The large chemical mass transfer is associated with the circulation of a large volume of fluids. A model of progressive fluid circulation correlated with Variscan prograde and retrograde metamorphism during the collision of Moldanubian and Brunovistulian units is proposed.  相似文献   

Nickel-rich metasomatism of the lithospheric mantle by pre-kimberlitic alkali-S–Cl-rich C–O–H fluids     

Andrea Giuliani  Vadim S. Kamenetsky  Mark A. Kendrick  David Phillips  Karsten Goemann 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2013,165(1):155-171

Metasomatism of the lithospheric mantle sometimes produces unusual assemblages containing native metals and alloys, which provide important insight into metasomatic processes in the mantle. In this study, we describe the metasomatic enrichment of a refractory harzburgite xenolith in Ni, Fe and, to a lesser extent, Cu, Co, As and Sb. The xenolith (XM1/422) derives from the Bultfontein kimberlite (Kimberley, South Africa) and hosts Ni mineralisation that includes native nickel (Ni_84.5-98.0), heazlewoodite (Ni₃S₂) and Ni-rich silicates (e.g. up to 37.5 wt % NiO in olivine, and 22.4 wt % NiO in phlogopite). The presence of several mineral phases enriched in alkali and volatile species (e.g. phlogopite, phosphates, carbonates, chlorides, djerfisherite) indicates that the transition metal cations were likely introduced during metasomatism by alkali-rich C–O–H fluids or alkali-carbonate melts. It is postulated that sulphide breakdown and fluid reaction with refractory mantle rocks contributed to the fluid’s enrichment in Ni and other metallic cations. The Ni-rich assemblages of xenolith XM1/422 show local chemical disequilibrium, and modelling of the Ni diffusion profiles adjacent to olivine-native nickel and olivine-heazlewoodite grain boundaries, suggests a close temporal relationship between Ni-rich metasomatism and subsequent entrainment by the kimberlite magma. However, metal-rich metasomatism has also been observed in other lithospheric mantle domains, including orogenic peridotitic massifs and the suboceanic mantle; regions unaffected by kimberlite magmatsim. As micro-scale occurrences of metallic phases are easily overlooked, it is possible that metal-rich metasomatism is more widespread in the Earth’s mantle than previously recognised.  相似文献   

Boundary conditions effect on linearized mud-flow shallow model     

Cristiana Di Cristo  Michele Iervolino  Andrea Vacca 《Acta Geophysica》2013,61(3):649-667

The occurrence of roll-waves in mud-flows is investigated based on the formulation of the marginal stability threshold of a linearized onedimensional viscoplastic (shear-thinning) flow model. Since for this kind of non-Newtonian rheological models this threshold may occur in a hypocritical flow, the downstream boundary condition may have a nonnegligible effect on the spatial growth/decay of the perturbation. The paper presents the solution of the 1D linearized flow of a Herschel and Bulkley fluid in a channel of finite length, in the neighbourhood of a hypocritical base uniform flow. Both linearly stable and unstable conditions are considered. The analytical solution is found applying the Laplace transform method and obtaining the first-order analytical expressions of the upstream and downstream channel response functions in the time domain. The effects of both the yield stress and the rheological law exponent are discussed, recovering as particular cases both power-law and Bingham fluids. The theoretical achievements may be used to extend semi-empirical criteria commonly employed for predicting roll waves occurrence in clear water even to mud-flows.  相似文献   

Conceptualising the geographic world: the dimensions of negotiation in crowdsourced cartography     

Andrea Ballatore  Peter Mooney 《International journal of geographical information science》2013,27(12):2310-2327

In crowdsourced cartographic projects, mappers coordinate their efforts through online tools to produce digital geospatial artefacts, such as maps and gazetteers, which were once the exclusive territory of professional surveyors and cartographers. In order to produce meaningful and coherent data, contributors need to negotiate a shared conceptualisation that defines the domain concepts, such as road, building, train station, forest and lake, enabling the communication of geographic knowledge. Considering the OpenStreetMap Wiki website as a case study, this article investigates the nature of this negotiation, driven by a small group of mappers in a context of high contribution inequality. Despite the apparent consensus on the conceptualisation, the negotiation keeps unfolding in a tension between alternative representations, which are often incommensurable, i.e., hard to integrate and reconcile. In this study, we identify six complementary dimensions of incommensurability that recur in the negotiation: (1) ontology, (2) cartography, (3) culture and language, (4) lexical definitions, (5) granularity, and (6) semantic overload and duplication.  相似文献   

Rank-based strategies for cleaning inconsistent spatial databases     

Nieves R. Brisaboa  M. Andrea Rodríguez  Rodrigo A. Troncoso 《International journal of geographical information science》2013,27(2):280-304

A spatial data set is consistent if it satisfies a set of integrity constraints. Although consistency is a desirable property of databases, enforcing the satisfaction of integrity constraints might not be always feasible. In such cases, the presence of inconsistent data may have a negative effect on the results of data analysis and processing and, in consequence, there is an important need for data-cleaning tools to detect and remove, if possible, inconsistencies in large data sets. This work proposes strategies to support data cleaning of spatial databases with respect to a set of integrity constraints that impose topological relations between spatial objects. The basic idea is to rank the geometries in a spatial data set that should be modified to improve the quality of the data (in terms of consistency). An experimental evaluation validates the proposal and shows that the order in which geometries are modified affects both the overall quality of the database and the final number of geometries to be processed to restore consistency.  相似文献