Closure of a hyperextended system in an orogenic lithospheric pop‐up,Western Pyrenees: The role of mantle buttressing and rift structural inheritance     

Nicolas Saspiturry  Ccile Allanic  Philippe Razin  Benoit Issautier  Thierry Baudin  Eric Lasseur  Olivier Serrano  Sophie Leleu 《地学学报》2020,32(4):253-260

The Early Cretaceous hyperextended Mauléon rift is localized in the north‐western Pyrenean orogen. We infer the Tertiary evolution of the Mauléon basin through the restoration of a 153‐km‐long crustal‐scale balanced cross‐section of the Pyrenean belt, which documents at least 67 km (31%) of orogenic shortening in the Western Pyrenees. Initial shortening, accommodated through inversion of inherited crustal structures, led to formation of a pop‐up structure, in which the opposite edges underwent similar shortening with different tectonic reactivation styles, localized versus. distributed. Underthrusting of the Iberian margin accommodated further convergence, forming the Axial Zone antiformal stack of crustal nappes within a lithospheric pop‐up. Thin‐skinned and thick‐skinned structures propagated outward from the heart of this pop‐up, a block of strong mantle acting as a buttress inhibiting complete inversion of the Mauléon rift basin.  相似文献   

Observation of a Complex Solar Wind Reconnection Exhaust from Spacecraft Separated by over 1800 R E     

Lavraud  B.  Gosling  J. T.  Rouillard  A. P.  Fedorov  A.  Opitz  A.  Sauvaud  J.-A.  Foullon  C.  Dandouras  I.  Génot  V.  Jacquey  C.  Louarn  P.  Mazelle  C.  Penou  E.  Phan  T. D.  Larson  D. E.  Luhmann  J. G.  Schroeder  P.  Skoug  R. M.  Steinberg  J. T.  Russell  C. T. 《Solar physics》2009,256(1-2):379-392

We analyze Wind, ACE, and STEREO (ST-A and ST-B) plasma and magnetic field data in the vicinity of the heliospheric current sheet (HCS) crossed by all spacecraft between 22:15 UT on 31 March and 01:25 UT on 1 April 2007 corresponding to its observation at ST-A and ST-B, which were separated by over 1800 R _E (or over 1200 R _E across the Sun?–?Earth line). Although only Wind and ACE provided good ion flow data in accord with a solar wind magnetic reconnection exhaust at the HCS, the magnetic field bifurcation typical of such exhausts was clearly observed at all spacecraft. They also all observed unambiguous strahl mixing within the exhaust, consistent with the sunward flow deflection observed at Wind and ACE and thus with the formation of closed magnetic field lines within the exhaust with both ends attached to the Sun. The strong dawnward flow deflection in the exhaust is consistent with the exhaust and X-line orientations obtained from minimum variance analysis at each spacecraft so that the X-line is almost along the GSE Z-axis and duskward of all the spacecraft. The observation of strahl mixing in extended and intermittent layers outside the exhaust by ST-A and ST-B is consistent with the formation of electron separatrix layers surrounding the exhaust. This event also provides further evidence that balanced parallel and antiparallel suprathermal electron fluxes are not a necessary condition for identification of closed field lines in the solar wind. In the present case the origin of the imbalance simply is the mixing of strahls of substantially different strengths from a different solar source each side of the HCS. The inferred exhaust orientations and distances of each spacecraft relative to the X-line show that the exhaust was likely nonplanar, following the Parker spiral orientation. Finally, the separatrix layers and exhausts properties at each spacecraft suggest that the magnetic reconnection X-line location and/or reconnection rate were variable in both space and time at such large scales.

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The Apparent Layered Structure of the Heliospheric Current Sheet: Multi-Spacecraft Observations     

Foullon  C.  Lavraud  B.  Wardle  N. C.  Owen  C. J.  Kucharek  H.  Fazakerley  A. N.  Larson  D. E.  Lucek  E.  Luhmann  J. G.  Opitz  A.  Sauvaud  J.-A.  Skoug  R. M. 《Solar physics》2009,259(1-2):389-416

Solar Physics - Multiple current sheet crossings are ubiquitous features of the solar wind associated with high-beta plasma sheets, notably during the passage of the heliospheric current sheet...  相似文献   

A recent meteorite shower in Antarctica with an unusual orbital history     

P.H. Benoit  D.W.G. Sears 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1993,120(3-4):463-471

The Antarctic meteorite collection has proved to be a source of many important discoveries, including a number of previously unknown or very rare meteorite types. A thermoluminescence (TL) survey of meteorite samples recovered by the 1988/89 European expedition and pre-1988 American expeditions to the Allan Hills Main blue ice field resulted in the discovery of 15 meteorites with very high TL levels ( > 100 krad at 250°C in the glow curvc). It is likely that these samples are fragments of a single meteoroid body which: (1) fell very recently and (2) experienced a decrease in orbital perihelia from 1.1 AU to 1 AU within the last 10⁵ yr. Carbon-14 data for two of the samples confirm their young terrestrial age compared to most Antarctic meteorites. Studies of the cosmogenic isotopes in at least one non-Antarctic meteorite which also has very high natural TL, Jilin, indicate that the meteorite experienced a multi-stage irradiation history, the most recent stage being 0.4 Ma in duration following a major break-up of the object. These meteorites, and the few equivalent modern falls, are the only documented samples from bodies which were recently in Earth-approaching (Amor) orbits (i.e., with perihelion > 1.0 AU), as opposed to the Earth-crossing (Apollo) orbits which are the source of most other meteorites. Their rarity indicates that such rapid orbit changes are unusual for meteoroid bodies and may be the result of isolated, large break-up events.  相似文献   

Preliminary study of the redistribution and transformation of HgS from cinnabar mine tailings deposited in Honda Bay, Palawan, Philippines     

Gaboury Benoit  Jon M. Schwantes  Gil S. Jacinto  Margaret R. Goud-Collins 《Marine pollution bulletin》1994,28(12):754-759

Mining operations in Palawan, Philippines, resulted in cinnabar (HgS) mine tailings being used to build a 600 m long peninsula in Honda Bay. Samples collected from the peninsula as well as sediments from the surrounding waters had elevated mercury levels as high as 570 ppm. Natural processes are transporting mercury as much as 10 km from the peninsula, mainly in a coastwise direction, and preferentially associated with fine-grained, organic-rich sediments. Depth of penetration into sediments exceeds 10 cm near the source. As the HgS is transported away from the peninsula, it is rapidly altered to more bioavailable forms; 50% conversion occurs within a distance of only 10–40 m.  相似文献   

Phase changes and thermodynamic properties of CaTiO3. Spectroscopic data,vibrational modelling and some insights on the properties of MgSiO3 perovskite     

Philippe Gillet  François Guyot  Geoffrey D. Price  Benoit Tournerie  Andrée Le Cleach 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》1993,20(3):159-170

The effect of pressure (up to 21 GPa at room temperature) and temperature (up to 1570 K at room pressure) on the Raman spectrum of CaTiO₃ is presented. No significant changes, which could be attributed to a major structural change, are observed in the spectra up to 22 GPa. The pressure shifts of the Raman modes can be related to a significant compression of the Ti-O bond. Discontinuous changes in the spectra upon heating may be related to phase changes observed by calorimetry and X-ray diffraction. The important temperature shifts of some low-frequency modes can be related to an increase in the Ti-O-Ti angle in agreement with the X-ray data showing a decrease of the structural distortion with increasing temperature. These data are compared to those available for MgSiO₃-perovskite and show that CaTiO₃ is a good structural analogue for MgSiO₃-perovskite. The present spectroscopic data are used to calculate the specific heat and entropy of CaTiO₃. The role of the low frequency modes in the calculations is emphasized. Good agreement is observed between calculated and experimentally determined values in the 0–1300 K temperature range. A similarly defined model is proposed for MgSiO₃-perovskite. It is found that the entropy lies between 57 and 64 J/mol/K at 298 K and between 190 and 200 J/mol/K at 1000 K in agreement with the values inferred from experimental equilibrium data. Finally we briefly discuss the values of the Grüneisen parameters of both perovskites inferred from macroscopic and microscopic data.  相似文献   

Experimental calibration of lake-sediment spectral reflectance to chlorophyll a concentrations: methodology and paleolimnological validation   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Alexander P. Wolfe  Rolf D. Vinebrooke  Neal Michelutti  Benoit Rivard  Biplob Das 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2006,36(1):91-100

Chlorophyll a preserved in lake sediments reflects, in part, past primary production. This study assesses the spectral properties of sedimentary chlorophyll a using visible-near infrared reflectance (VNIR) spectroscopy, with the objective of establishing a new, non-destructive paleolimnological proxy. Reflectance spectra were determined from a dilution series (n = 10) involving incremental additions of pulverized modern algae to a lake sediment matrix of low organic content. This enabled an assessment of the development of sediment reflectance spectra in relation to different sediment chlorophyll a concentrations, and subsequent regression of spectral features against measured concentrations of chlorophyll a and derivatives obtained by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The experiment demonstrates that ubiquitous troughs in sediment reflectance near 675 nm are attributable to chlorophyll a and derivative compounds. A significant correlation (r ² = 0.98, P < 0.01) was obtained between the area of the reflectance trough in the 650–700 nm interval and summed concentrations of chlorophyll a, all derivative isomers, and degradational pheopigments. A simple linear inference model derived from this experiment was applied to a down-core sequence of VNIR spectra from a productive prairie lake (Alberta, Canada), where it produced inferred sediment chlorophyll a concentrations in concordance with HPLC measurements. Although a larger training set is desirable to further refine the inference model, the analyses reported here demonstrate that reflectance spectroscopy provides a rapid, semi-quantitative method for assessing the chlorophyll a content of lake sediments.  相似文献   

Lithospheric controls on the formation of provinces hosting giant orogenic gold deposits   总被引：10，自引：0，他引：10  

Frank P. Bierlein  David I. Groves  Richard J. Goldfarb  Benoit Dubé 《Mineralium Deposita》2006,40(8):874-886

Ages of giant gold systems (>500 t gold) cluster within well-defined periods of lithospheric growth at continental margins, and it is the orogen-scale processes during these mainly Late Archaean, Palaeoproterozoic and Phanerozoic times that ultimately determine gold endowment of a province in an orogen. A critical factor for giant orogenic gold provinces appears to be thickness of the subcontinental lithospheric mantle (SCLM) beneath a province at the time of gold mineralisation, as giant gold deposits are much more likely to develop in orogens with subducted oceanic or thin continental lithosphere. A proxy for the latter is a short pre-mineralisation crustal history such that thick SCLM was not developed before gold deposition. In constrast, orogens with protracted pre-mineralisation crustal histories are more likely to be characterised by a thick SCLM that is difficult to delaminate, and hence, such provinces will normally be poorly endowed. The nature of the lithosphere also influences the intrinsic gold concentrations of potential source rocks, with back-arc basalts, transitional basalts and basanites enriched in gold relative to other rock sequences. Thus, segments of orogens with thin lithosphere may enjoy the conjunction of giant-scale fluid flux through gold-enriched sequences. Although the nature of the lithosphere plays the crucial role in dictating which orogenic gold provinces will contain one or more giant deposits, the precise siting of those giants depends on the critical conjunction of a number of province-scale factors. Such features control plumbing systems, traps and seals in tectonically and lithospherically suitable terranes within orogens.  相似文献   

On a Non-local Parameterisation for Shear Turbulence and the Uniqueness of its Solutions     

Benoit Cushman-Roisin  Alastair D. Jenkins 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2006,118(1):69-82

A non-local parameterisation of shear turbulence is proposed, which includes a dimensionless multiplicative constant as the sole tunable parameter. Analytical and numerical solutions in the case of plane Couette flow exhibit sheared velocity profiles with logarithmic behaviour near the boundaries, and the classical logarithmic flow profile is reproduced for a semi-infinite domain. We also prove that the families of analytical solutions obtained are locally unique: if the velocity is a strictly-increasing function of the distance from the boundary, a small perturbation of the velocity profile must be of the same functional form as the basic flow.  相似文献   

Observations of the Sunyaev–Zel''dovich effect at high angular resolution towards the galaxy clusters A665, A2163 and CL0016+16     

F.-X. Désert  A. Benoit  S. Gaertner  J.-P. Bernard  N. Coron  J. Delabrouille  P. de Marcillac  M. Giard  J.-M. Lamarre  B. Lefloch  J.-L. Puget  A. Sirbi 《New Astronomy》1998,3(8):1073-669

We report on the first observation of the Sunyaev–Zel'dovich (SZ) effect, a distortion of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation (CMB) by hot electrons in clusters of galaxies, with the Diabolo experiment at the IRAM 30 m telescope. Diabolo is a dual-channel 0.1 K bolometer photometer dedicated to the observation of CMB anisotropies at 2.1 and 1.2 mm. A significant brightness decrement in the 2.1 mm channel is detected in the direction of three clusters (Abell 665, Abell 2163 and CL0016+16). With a 30 arcsec beam and 3 arcmin beamthrow, this is the highest angular resolution observation to date of the SZ effect. Interleaving integrations on targets and on nearby blank fields have been performed in order to check and correct for systematic effects. Gas masses can be directly inferred from these observations.  相似文献