A New Mesopsychid (Mecoptera) from the Middle Jurassic of Northeastern China     

SHIH ChungKun  QIAO Xiao  Conrad C. LABANDEIRA  REN Dong 《《地质学报》英文版》2013,87(5):1235-1241

The family Mesopsychidae Tillyard,1917 presently consists of ten described genera from the Early Permian to the Early Cretaceous of Australia,China,Kyrgyzstan,Russia,South Africa,Tajikistan,and Ukraine.Herein,a new genus and a new species of fossil mesopsychid,Epicharmesopsyche pentavenulosa gen.et sp.nov.,is described from the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation of Inner Mongolia,China,supplementing the family-level diversity.The well-preserved,new material reveals many characters,including antennae,wing venation,shape and genitalia that increase our morphological understanding of the family,although unfortunately the mouthparts and most of the legs are not preserved.Diagnosis of the Mesopsychidae is emended to include a four-or five-branched MP in both the fore-and hind wings.This is the first documentation of a wing coupling structure in the Mesopsychidae,consisting of three to four frenula bristles on the humeral lobe at the base of the costal margin of both hind wings.Asymmetrical shape and size of the left and right wings on a specimen of E.pentavenulosa gen.et sp.nov.,seems to be a common condition for mesopsychid taxa from northeastern China.  相似文献   

A priori testing of sparse adaptive polynomial chaos expansions using an ocean general circulation model database   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Justin Winokur  Patrick Conrad  Ihab Sraj  Omar Knio  Ashwanth Srinivasan  W. Carlisle Thacker  Youssef Marzouk  Mohamed Iskandarani 《Computational Geosciences》2013,17(6):899-911

This work explores the implementation of an adaptive strategy to design sparse ensembles of oceanic simulations suitable for constructing polynomial chaos surrogates. We use a recently developed pseudo-spectral algorithm that is based on a direct application of the Smolyak sparse grid formula and that allows the use of arbitrary admissible sparse grids. The adaptive algorithm is tested using an existing simulation database of the oceanic response to Hurricane Ivan in the Gulf of Mexico. The a priori tests demonstrate that sparse and adaptive pseudo-spectral constructions lead to substantial savings over isotropic sparse sampling in the present setting.  相似文献   

Soil characteristics and site effect assessment in the city of Delhi (India) using H/V and f–k methods     

A.K. Mundepi  J.J. Galiana-Merino  Kamal  Conrad Lindholm 《Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering》2010

Local site conditions substantially affect the characteristics of seismic waves and its potential to cause earthquake damage. To accurately identify the variation of seismic hazard at different locations within the cities, measurements from a three-component station may be used for estimating the resonance frequencies and evaluate the expected level of damage at each site. This information can also be complemented with array measurements of ambient noise in order to estimate the V_s profiles and characterize the corresponding sediment layers at each site.  相似文献   

Deterministic earthquake damage and loss assessment for the city of Bucharest, Romania   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Dominik Lang  Sergio Molina-Palacios  Conrad Lindholm  Stefan Balan 《Journal of Seismology》2012,16(1):67-88

On March 4, 1977, an earthquake with a moment magnitude M _w 7.4 at a hypocentral depth of 94 km hit the Vrancea region (Romania). In Bucharest alone, the earthquake caused severe damage to 33,000 buildings while 1,424 people were killed. Under the umbrella of the SAFER project, the city of Bucharest, being one of the larger European cities at risk, was chosen as a test bed for the estimation of damage and connected losses in case of a future large magnitude earthquake in the Vrancea area. For the conduct of these purely deterministic damage and loss computations, the open-source software SELENA is applied. In order to represent a large event in the Vrancea region, a set of deterministic scenarios were defined by combining ranges of focal parameters, i.e., magnitude, focal depth, and epicentral location. Ground motion values are computed by consideration of different ground motion prediction equations that are believed to represent earthquake attenuation effects in the region. Variations in damage and loss estimates are investigated through considering different sets of building vulnerability curves (provided by HAZUS-MH and various European authors) to characterize the damaging behavior of prevalent building typologies in the city of Bucharest.  相似文献   

Comparative Study of Sand Porosity and a Technique for Determining Porosity of Undisturbed Marine Sediment     

Conrad W. Curry  Richard H. Bennett  Matthew H. Hulbert  Kenneth J. Curry  Richard W. Faas 《Marine Georesources & Geotechnology》2013,31(4):231-252

Porosity is a fundamental property of marine sediment from which wet bulk density can be easily determined and used in a variety of geoacoustic, geotechnical, and sedimentological studies, analyses, and models. However, methods of sampling marine sands suffer from the common problem of core disturbance making the in situ porosity difficult to obtain. Embedding the sediment within an epoxy resin matrix will minimize the disturbance to the microfabric and preserve the in situ sedimentary structure for subsequent study. Image analysis can then be used on thin sections to study the microfabric and porometry. A comprehensive review and analysis of published data on the porosity of predominantly clean sands has been completed and a simple, accurate, and nondestructive technique is described for preparing and measuring the porosity of marine sediment (siliciclastic sand) that has been infiltrated aboard ship immediately upon sample collection and chemically fixed and infiltrated with epoxy shortly thereafter. The average porosity of 36 samples of marine sand collected offshore Fort Walton Beach, Florida, and embedded with resin was determined to be 41.30%. From the review of published data the average porosity of sand was determined to be 37.7%, 42.3%, and 46.3% for packed, natural (in situ), and loose packing conditions, respectively, for a range of sorting coefficients and grain sizes.  相似文献   

Impacts of a bivalve mass mortality event on an estuarine food web and bivalve grazing pressure     

Hannah F. E. Jones  Conrad A. Pilditch  David P. Hamilton  Karin R. Bryan 《新西兰海洋与淡水研究杂志》2013,47(3):370-392

Declines in bivalve populations have been quite common worldwide, often associated with coastal development, pollution and climate change. In addition to the impacts of these chronic stressors, occasional mass mortality events may have severe consequences on ecosystem services and biodiversity. In this study, we examined the impact of a mass mortality event of the clam (Austrovenus stutchburyi) on an estuarine food web and the grazing pressure exerted by the bivalve population. In February 2009, c. 60% of the clam population died in Whangateau Harbour, New Zealand. Population clearance rate calculations suggest that the clam population do not exert significant top-down control on phytoplankton biomass in the estuary, and thus the impact of the mortality event on bivalve grazing pressure was less severe than the reduction in abundance would suggest. A trophic model shows that phytoplankton play a limited role in the estuary food web, which is instead dominated by microphytobenthos and clams. This study highlights the importance of microphytobenthos in shallow estuaries, and the application of the trophic model is a useful tool that can identify key components of the ecosystem and could help inform monitoring programmes.  相似文献   

Growth of vertically segmented normal faults     

Conrad Childs  Andrew Nicol  John J. Walsh  Juan Watterson 《Journal of Structural Geology》1996,18(12):1389-1397

The geometry and evolution of vertically segmented normal faults, with dip separations of < ca 11.5 m have been studied in a coastal outcrop of finely bedded Cretaceous chalk at Flamborough Head, U.K. Fault trace segments are separated by both contractional and extensional offsets which have step, overlap or bend geometries. The location of fault trace offsets is strongly controlled by lithology occurring at either thin (ca 1 mm-8 cm) and mechanically weak marl layers or partings between chalk units. Fault segmentation occurred during either fault nucleation within, or propagation through, the strongly anisotropic lithological sequence. An inverse relationship between fault displacement and number of offsets per length of fault trace reflects the progressive destruction of offsets during fault growth. The preservation of fault offsets is therefore dependent on offset width and fault displacement. Fault rock, comprising gouge and chalk breccia, may vary in thickness by 1.5–2.0 orders of magnitude on individual fault traces. Strongly heterogeneous fault rock distributions are most common on small faults (< 10 cm displacement) and are produced mainly by destruction of fault offsets. Shearing of fault rock with increasing displacement gives rise to a more homogeneous fault rock distribution on large faults at the outcrop scale.  相似文献   

Ergebnisse präzisionsgravimetrischer Messungen auf einer WE-Linie in der DDR 1977     

Werner Conrad  Karel Diviš  Claus Elstner  Rezensent Z. Šimon 《Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica》1979,23(2):114-121

Summary Results of gravity measurements performed in 1977 along a WE-profile situated in the GDR area are discussed. Systematic influences caused by the variations of the hydrologic conditions in the local regions of the observation points reach 100 nm s^–2. From the results of the yearly repeated gravity measurements (1970/77) a mean yearly gravity variation of about 20 nm s^–2 a^–1 was calculated for the sedimentary eastern part of the profile.  相似文献   

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D. Conrad Grégoire 《Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research》2002,26(1):5-5

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Temporal change of C-isotope signatures and methanogenic pathways in rice field soil incubated anoxically at different temperatures     

Axel Fey  Ralf Conrad 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2004,68(2):293-306

Production of CH₄ and CO₂ was quantified in anoxically incubated soil samples taken from an Italian rice field. The rates increased with temperature between 10 and 37°C. The δ¹³C of the accumulated CO₂, CH₄ and acetate changed with time in a systematic way. The data were used in mass balance equations to constrain isotopic fractionation factors and pathways of CH₄ production. The calculations were further constrained by the determination of ¹⁴CH₄ production from ¹⁴CO₂ at steady state. At 50°C, CH₄ was exclusively produced from CO₂, indicating a fractionation factor of α_CO2/CH4 = 1.073. Between 10 and 37°C, the results showed a temporal change in the methanogenic pathway. A relatively high (40-60%) CO₂-derived fraction of CH₄ production in the beginning was followed by a phase in which contribution of CO₂-derived CH₄ decreased to low (<15%) values, and ultimately by the steady state phase in which values increased to <40% (the theoretically expected value). The rate of change from one phase to the next increased with temperature. Incubation temperature had a strong effect on the overall fractionation of ¹³C during the formation and consumption of acetate, with stronger fractionation at low than at high temperature. The results further showed that, especially at low temperatures, fractionation occurred during acetate turnover and acetoclastic methanogenesis, despite the fact that steady-state conditions caused (apparent) substrate-limitation.  相似文献