Variability of rainfall over Lake Kariba catchment area in the Zambezi river basin,Zimbabwe     

Shepherd Muchuru  Joel O. Botai  Christina M. Botai  Willem A. Landman  Abiodun M. Adeola 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》2016,124(1-2):325-338

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Convection at the melting point: A thermal history of the earth's core     

Willem V. R. Malkus 《地球物理与天体物理流体动力学》2013,107(1):267-278

Abstract

Higgins and Kennedy (1971) concluded that the Earth's fluid core has a stable stratification if it is at its melting point. Busse (1972) and Elsasser suggested as an alternative that a hydrostatic-isentropic distribution of particulate solid can produce neutral stability in a partially molten core. Here this suggestion is quantified and a determination is made of the efficiency of the production of fluid motion from the heat flux. This is used to establish that macroscopic convection can exist only if the particulate solid is of sufficiently small size. A thermal history of the core compatible with upper mantle heat flux is advanced in which it is suggested that the inner core is a fairly recent feature. The implication of these results for convection-driven and precession-driven dynamos is that both can function for a small enough suspended particulate, that the convection-dynamo will fail for particles greater than one micron in diameter, and that the precession-driven dynamo probably cannot survive particles greater than ten microns in diameter.  相似文献   

Hydrophobic and electrostatic parameters in bacterial adhesion   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

Mark C. M. van Loosdrecht  Willem Norde  Johannes Lyklema  Alexander J. B. Zehnder 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》1990,52(1):103-114

Recently it has been shown that the initial stages of bacterial adhesion to a model-surface of sulphated polystyrene can best be described using hydrophobic and electrostatic parameters. In the present study it is tested whether these parameters can generally be applied to predict bacterial adhesion by using (i) glass, as a model for hydrophilic and natural surfaces of silicates and oxides, (ii) polystyrene coated with proteins, as a model for a surface coated with an organic layer, and (iii) river Rhine sediment, as an example of a natural surface. Adhesion to glass was dominated by electrostatic interaction, whereas adhesion to polystyrene coated with various types of proteins depended on the surface characteristics of the bacteria and the type of protein. By relating Van der Waals interactions to hydrophobicity of the interacting species, the adhesion of bacteria to the various surfaces including the river Rhine sediments could be interpreted in terms of the DLVO-theory. It is therefore concluded that the conceptual principles of the DLVO-theory (interplay of Van der Waals and electrostatic interactions) are suitable to describe, at least qualitatively, the initial processes of bacterial adhesion to a wide range of surfaces.  相似文献   

Reflectance anisotropy and syn-deformational coalification of the Jewel seam in the Cadomin area, Alberta, Canada     

Willem Langenberg  Wolfgang Kalkreuth 《International Journal of Coal Geology》1991,19(1-4)

The Jewel seam of the Cadomin area is complexly folded and cut by several thrust faults. Vitrinite reflectance anisotropy was determined from twenty oriented coal blocks, collected from various structural positions. Five of the blocks have uniaxial anisotropies, five have biaxial positive anisotropies, the remaining ten are biaxial negative. The biaxial coals display maximum reflectance axes parallel to nearby fold axes, which suggests a relationship between vitrinite anisotropy and deformation. The biaxial vitrinite reflectance ellipsoids result from superposition of tectonic strains on a primary, sedimentary burial related, uniaxial anisotropy. A tectonic stress field was probably present during the later stages of sedimentary burial and subsequent deformation.Coalification resulted largely from pre-deformational, sedimentary burial, but the final coalification stage was syn-deformational, as illustrated by the intersection of isorank surfaces and the Jewel seam and the biaxial vitrinite reflectance anisotropy.  相似文献   

Atmospheric nitrogen deposition to the North Sea     

Willem A.H. Asman  Ruwim Berkowicz 《Marine pollution bulletin》1994,29(6-12):426-434

The groups of nitrogen components that contribute most to the eutrophication of the sea are ammonia, nitrogen oxides and their respective reaction products. The emission of ammonia is mainly from animal husbandry, whereas the emission of nitrogen oxides is mainly from combustion processes. Ammonia reacts in the atmosphere to form particulate ammonium. Nitrogen oxides react to form nitric acid, nitrous acid, particulate nitrate and peroxyacetyl nitrate. The various nitrogen components have different physical and chemical properties. Therefore, their dry and wet deposition velocities differ. The dry deposition velocity of gas to the sea depends on its solubility, reactivity, concentration in seawater and the wind speed. The dry deposition velocity of a particle depends on its size and the wind speed. The wet removal rate is a function of meteorological conditions. For a gas it further depends on the solubility and reactivity of the gas. For a particle, it further depends on the particle's ability to act as a condensation nucleus for particles. The total deposition of ammonia and its reaction products to the North Sea is about 140 kt N a⁻¹. The total deposition of nitrogen oxides and their reaction products is about 200 kt N a⁻¹.  相似文献   

Porphyroclast systems as kinematic indicators     

C.W Passchier  C Simpson 《Journal of Structural Geology》1986,8(8)

Porphyroclasts of relatively strong minerals in mylonites commonly have an internal monoclinic shape symmetry defined by tails of dynamically recrystallized material. The geometry of a porphyroclast and its tails, called a ‘porhyroclast system’, can serve as a valuable indicator of the sense of vorticity. Porphyroclast systems have been divided into σ- and δ-types on the basis of the geometry of the tails. σ-Types have wedge-shaped recrystallized tails whose median lines lie on opposite sides of a reference plane parallel to the tails and containing the symmetry axis for the system. σ-Types are further subdivided into a σ_a-types, in which the porphyroclast is isolated in a relatively homogeneous matrix, and σ_b-types, in which the porphyroclast system is associated with a shear band foliation in the matrix. δ-Types typically have narrow recrystallized tails whose median lines cross the reference plane adjacent to the porphyroclast. Consequently, embayments of matrix material occur adjacent to the porphyroclasts and the tails display characteristic bends.A porphyroclast system in a mylonite develops when the relatively weak dynamically recrystallized grain aggregate in the porphyroclast mantle changes its shape due to non-coaxial flow in the adjacent matrix. This behaviour has been modelled in shear box experiments. Passive marker lines around rigid cylinders embedded in silicone putty were subjected to simple shear. The experiments were modified to simulate a change in recrystallization rate (R) with respect to rate of deformation (γ) by decreasing the diameter of the rigid cylinder during deformation at variable rates. The ratio R/γ appears to be one of the most important factors in determining which porphyroclast system will develop. At high R/γ values, flow of recrystallized material away from the porphyroclast is continuously appended by the production of new grains and wedge-shaped σ_a-type tails develop. At low R/γ values, relatively few new grains are added to the tails which become thinned and deflected by drag due to the spinning motion of the porphyroclast. In addition, most porphyroclast systems at low shear strains are of σ_a-type or lack monoclinic symmetry, whereas δ-types are only developed at high shear strain values. Complex porphyroclast systems, characterized by two generations of tails, are observed in many of the natural and model shear zones studied and may form due to fluctuating R/γ. Conditions that allow isolated σ_a- and δ-type porphyroclast systems to be used as sense of vorticity indicators are: the systems should have a monoclinic shape symmetry; matrix grain size should be small with respect to porphyroclast size; matrix fabric should be homogeneous; deformation history should be simple, and observations should be made on sections normal to the inferred bulk vorticity vector for the mylonite.  相似文献   

Evaluation of Ground-Water Contamination from Nonpoint Sources: A Case Study     

Cors van den  Brink Willem J. Zaadnoordijk 《Ground water》1995,33(3):356-365

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δ objects as a gauge for stress sensitivity of strain rate in mylonites     

C.W. Passchier  C.E. ten Brink  P.D. Bons  D. Sokoutis 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1993,120(3-4):239-245

Our understanding of the flow properties of deforming rocks in the Earth's lithosphere is mainly based on theoretical work and on the extrapolation of high-strain-rate experimental data to the low strain rates of rock deformation in nature. The geometry of structures in naturally deformed rocks can be an additional source of information on the rheology of the lithosphere. Flow experiments show that the geometry of a mantle of recrystallised material around a rigid object can be used to distinguish between a linear or power-law relation of differential stress and strain rate in strongly deformed rocks such as mylonites. This means that it is possible to use geometrical patterns in deformed rocks to constrain aspects of the rheology and to check the applicability of theoretical models and the extrapolation of laboratory data on creep in rocks to nature.  相似文献   

Instructions for Authors     

John Dyson  Willem Wamsteker 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2003,288(3):409-415

Instructions for Authors

Instructions for Authors  相似文献   

Ground viscosity and stiffness measurements for near surface seismic velocity   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Robert Ley  Willem Adolfs  Ralph Bridle  Mohammad Al-Homaili  Aldo Vesnaver  Paul Ras 《Geophysical Prospecting》2006,54(6):751-762

In land surveys, the weathering layer can often distort the seismic signal due to it passing through rapid velocity and density changes, dispersion, scattering and inelastic absorption. In a simple spring‐dashpot model for the earth response, an equivalent medium groups these complex phenomena into two parameters only; these are called ground viscosity and ground stiffness. The most recent controllers for vibrators can estimate both parameters. To validate these measurements, Saudi Aramco conducted an experiment measuring ground viscosity and stiffness from two different vibrator control systems over an area of varying terrain conditions, including unconsolidated sand and limestone outcrop. The two systems measured different values, but detected similar trends that correlated well with weathering conditions and surface geology, e.g. lower viscosity values on the outcrop than on the sand. The ratio of ground viscosity to ground stiffness can approximate the shallow S‐wave velocity, which we converted into P‐wave velocity through calibration with sparse uphole data. Static corrections incorporating this velocity information somewhat improved the focusing of seismic time sections. This new approach does not require additional acquisition efforts, and can model shallow complex formations in arid areas where classical static methods often fail.  相似文献