The onset of natural convection in vertical fault planes:consequences for the thermal regime in crystalline basementsand for heat recovery experiments     

Cécile Tournier  Pierre Genthon  & Michel Rabinowicz 《Geophysical Journal International》2000,140(3):500-508

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Recent advances and low cost concept for the gamma-ray lens project MAX     

Xavier Leyre  Michel Sghedoni  Francis Arbusti  Primo Attina  Peter von Ballmoos 《Experimental Astronomy》2005,20(1-3):455-464

Until recently, focusing of gamma-radiation was regarded as an impracticable task. Today, gamma-ray lenses have become feasible and present promising perspectives for future instrumentation. For the first time in high energy astronomy the signal/noise ratio will be dramatically improved as gamma-rays are collected on the large area of a lens from where they are focused onto a small detector. Besides an unprecedented sensitivity, MAX will feature very high angular and energy resolution. The conjunction of this new technique of Gamma Ray focusing and the new possibilities brought by the developping formation flying technology will allow a great step for Gamma Astronomy. This paper will describe after a short recall of the scientific objectives of MAX, the design of the MAX formation flying concept and the associated main design drivers and constraint.  相似文献   

Impact melt rocks from New Quebec Crater,Quebec, Canada     

Richard A. F. Grieve  Richard B. Bottomley  Michel A. Bouchard  P. Blyth Robertson  Charles J. Orth  Moses Attrep 《Meteoritics & planetary science》1991,26(1):31-39

Abstract— Approximately 1500 g of float samples of impact melt rocks have been recovered from gravel deposits ～4 km north and northeast of the rim of the 3.4 km diameter New Quebec Crater (61°17′N; 73°40′W) in northern Quebec, Canada. Previously, only two small samples of impact melt rocks were known. The newly recovered samples have cryptocrystalline to microcrystalline matrices with microlites of andesine and pigeonite. Mineral clasts of quartz and feldspar occur and, in some cases, show shock metamorphic features. The melt rocks have a normative mineralogy corresponding to ～70% quartz, orthoclase and albite and are compositionally similar. Their major element composition can be modeled as a mix of granitic gneisses that make up the target rocks. The melt rocks show enrichments, however, in Cr (21 ppm), Co (9 ppm), Ni (12 ppm) and Ir (1.5 ppb) over the target rocks. Interelement ratios suggest a chondritic impacting body, although they do not define a specific type. Assuming a C-1 chondrite, the impact melt rocks average ～2% meteoritic contamination. Stepwise ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar dating using a laser on three chips from three samples give integrated ages of 0.6–2.5 Ma. From the best plateau ages, the age of the New Quebec impact is taken to be 1.4 ± 0.1 Ma, which places it before the first major northern hemisphere continental glaciation of the Pleistocene. A number of considerations suggest that the impact melt rocks were originally deposited in fractures in the crater wall and later transported to their discovery site by glacial ice and melt water.  相似文献   

Dynamical evolution of NEAs: Close encounters, secular perturbations and resonances     

Patrick Michel  Christiane Froeschlé  Paolo Farinella 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》1996,72(1-3):151-164

We discuss the main mechanisms affecting the dynamical evolution of Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) by analyzing the results of three numerical integrations over 1 Myr of the NEA (4179) Toutatis. In the first integration the only perturbing planet is the Earth. So the evolution is dominated by close encounters and looks like a random walk in semimajor axis and a correlated random walk in eccentricity, keeping almost constant the perihelion distance and the Tisserand invariant. In the second integration Jupiter and Saturn are present instead of the Earth, and the 3/1 (mean motion) and v ₆ (secular) resonances substantially change the eccentricity but not the semimajor axis. The third, most realistic, integration including all the three planets together shows a complex interplay of effects, with close encounters switching the orbit between different resonant states and no approximate conservation of the Tisserand invariant. This shows that simplified 3-body or 4-body models cannot be used to predict the typical evolution patterns and time scales of NEAs, and in particular that resonances provide some “fast-track” dynamical routes from low-eccentricity to very eccentric, planet-crossing orbits.  相似文献   

The production of cosmogenic nuclides by galactic cosmic‐ray particles for 2π exposure geometries     

I. Leya  S. Neumann  R. Wieler  R. Michel 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2001,36(11):1547-1561

Abstract— We present a purely physical model for the calculation of depth‐dependent production rates in 2π exposure geometries by galactic cosmic rays (GCR). Besides the spectra of primary and secondary particles and the excitation functions of the underlying nuclear reactions, the model is based on the integral number of GCR particles in the lunar orbit. We derived this value from adjusting modeled depth profiles for ¹⁰Be, ²⁶Al, and ⁵³Mn to measured data from the Apollo 15 drill core. The J_0,GCR value of 4.54 cm^?2 s^?1 and the solar modulation parameter of M = 490 MeV determined this way for 1 AU is in reasonable agreement with the J_0,GCR value derived recently for the meteoroid orbits (Leya et al., 2000b). We also show that the mean GCR proton spectrum in the lunar orbit has not changed substantially over about the last 10 Ma. For the major target elements we present depth‐dependent production rates for ¹⁰Be, ¹⁴C, ²⁶Al, ³⁶Cl and ⁵³Mn, as well as for the rare gas isotopes ^20,21,22Ne. In addition we present production rates for ^36,38Ar from Fe and Ni. The new results are consistent with the data for stony meteoroids presented recently by our group (Leya et al., 2000b), but for the rare gas isotopes the new production rates sometimes differ significantly from earlier estimates. The applicability of the ²²Ne/²¹Ne ratio as a shielding parameter is also discussed.  相似文献   

A climatic variation observed in permafrost temperature at Kangiqsualujjuaq in northern Quebec     

Lai Yuanming  Wu Ziwang  Zhu Yuanlin  Michel Allard 《极地研究(英文版)》2001,12(1)

Permafrost temperatures from the surface down to about 9 m from 3 bore holes distributed around Kangiqsualujjuaq village on the coast of Hudson Strait were recorded and analyzed for the period 1989-1998. The results indicate that the permafrost is getting warm along the southern shore of Hudson Strait from 1993 to 1998 though it became cooling for the past 40 a or more. The observed trend in the order of 0. 098℃/a at the 9 m depth is consistent with the long-term regional warming observed in air temperatures. It also coincides with that all the global circulation models predict an enhanced warming in polar regions associated with the increase in concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.  相似文献   

EXPERIMENTS ON THE STABILITY OF FeOOH ON THE SURFACE OF THE MOON     

Lawrence A. Taylor  Jacqueline C. Burton 《Meteoritics & planetary science》1976,11(3):225-230

The FeOOH phase in Apollo 16 rocks is akaganéite. Other polymorphs of FeOOH, i.e. geothite and lepidocrocite, may exist but have not been identified by X-ray diffraction. Experiments performed during this study using akaganéite, geothite, and lepidocrocite placed at 135°C and under a pumping vacuum of 10^?2 torr, demonstrate that these forms of FeOOH are not stable on the surface of the Moon, where daytime temperatures are about 140°C and pressures are about 10^?7 torr. The effect of the vacuum is to strip off the water, and the temperature speeds up this dehydration process. These data lend support to the contention of Taylor et al. (1973) that the FeOOH in lunar rocks formed by the oxyhydration of lawrencite, FeCl₂, due to contamination by terrestrial water vapor.  相似文献   

Teleseismic body wave radiation from a seismic source in a layered medium     

Michel Bouchon 《Geophysical Journal International》1976,47(3):515-530

Summary. A simple method is presented which combines the reciprocity theorem and the flat layer theory to yield teleseismic body wave radiation from seismic sources embedded in the Earth's crust. The source is represented by its equivalent body forces and can be quite general. The effect of Yucca Flat geology on explosion signals is studied in detail. In particular, the m _b— M _s relation is shown to be dependent on detonation medium and source depth. Application to shallow earthquake faults demonstrates the strong influence of free surface and layering on the shape of P- and S-wave teleseismic spectra.  相似文献   

Magnetic properties and opaque mineralogy of drilled submarine intrusive rocks   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

David J. Dunlop  Michel Prévot 《Geophysical Journal International》1982,69(3):763-802

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The Jovian stratosphere in the ultraviolet     

Richard Wagener  John Caldwell  Tobias Owen  Therese Encrenaz  Michel Combes 《Icarus》1985,63(2):222-236

The center-of-disk reflectivity of Jupiter in the wavelength range from 1450 to 3150A?has been computed from 30 low-dispersion IUE spectra taken during solar maximum in 1978–1980. A vertically inhomogeneous radiative transfer program is used to compute model reflectivities of various stratospheric compositions for comparison. Ammonia and acetylene are well determined because they show narrow absorption bands in the ultraviolet. Above 1800A?, these two gases provide a good fit to the data, but not below. At shorter wavelengths the fit would be much improved by a small amount (5–15 ppb) of propadiene/allene (C₃H₄). Voyager IRIS spectra show that the IR bands of allene are not strong enough to be detected in such a small amount. Additional absorption around 1600A?can be reproduced best with the presence of cyclopropane (C₃H₆, <15ppb), although other absorbers (e.g., hydrocarbon molecules with more than three carbon atoms, oxygen- or nitrogen-containing molecules, or a high-attitude haze) could also explain the spectrum in this region. The data are too noisy to detect possible CO Cameron band absorption near 2000A?.  相似文献