Debris-flow susceptibility of upland catchments     

Mélanie Bertrand  Frédéric Liébault  Hervé Piégay 《Natural Hazards》2013,67(2):497-511

Over the last three decades, many regional studies in mountain ranges under temperate climate revealed that it is possible to discriminate debris-flow and fluvial fans from morphometric indicators measured at the scale of the catchment and the fan itself. The most commonly used indicators are the Melton index (R), a normalized index of the gravitational energy of the catchment, and the fan slope (S). A wide range of thresholds have been proposed for discriminating purpose, but these are generally based on a small population of catchments and may be highly influenced by ambiguous fans included in the data set. A database of 620 upland catchments from several mountain ranges under temperate climate was compiled from the literature to propose robust discriminant morphometric thresholds for debris-flow versus fluvial responses. Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and logistic regression (LR) were performed using the whole data set, and a leave-one-out cross-validation was used to evaluate performances of the models. Sensitivity and specificity scores obtained for LDA and LR were 0.96 and 0.73, and 0.95 and 0.75, respectively. It is also shown that the channel slope above which debris-flow is observed decreases with the gravitational energy of the catchment. Limitations of the morphometric discrimination are discussed.  相似文献   

Strutted Excavation in Soft Soil Incorporating a Jet-Grout Base Slab: Analysis Considering the Consolidation Effect     

José Leitão Borges  Ricardo Gomes Pinto 《Geotechnical and Geological Engineering》2013,31(2):593-615

The influence of the consolidation on a strutted excavation in soft soil is analysed using a computer code based on the finite element method. A base jet-grout slab is considered in order to improve stability against bottom heave failure and minimize wall displacements. The numerical model incorporates the Biot consolidation theory (coupled formulation of the flow and equilibrium equations) with soil constitutive relations simulated by the p–q–θ critical state model. Special emphasis is given to the analysis, during and after the construction period, of the pore pressures, shear stresses, stress levels and displacements in the ground, as well as strut compression loads, wall displacements and bending moments, earth pressures on the wall faces and compression loads and bending moments on the jet-grout slab. The safety factor against bottom heave is also evaluated from the finite element analysis considering formulations of the critical state soil mechanics, and also compared to values obtained with traditional methods that use limit equilibrium approach and bearing capacity fundamentals.  相似文献   

Les Montagnes Noires : cisaillement bordier méridional du bassin carbonifère de Châteaulin (Massif Armoricain,France). Caractéristiques structurales et métamorphiques     

Jean-René Darboux  Bernard Le Gall 《Geodinamica Acta》2013,26(3):121-133

Résumé

L’évolution structurale et métamorphique de la zone des Montagnes Noires, qui borde vers le sud le bassin carbonifère de Châteaulin, est contrôlée par le fonctionnement d’un cisaillement trans-current dextre. Le caractère unique, mais progressif et inhomogène, de la déformation régionale d’âge carbonifère supérieur conduit à remettre en cause le concept d’une structuration hercynienne polyphasée et celui de « phase bretonne ».  相似文献   

Structures et cinématique liées á la mise en place des péridotites de Ronda (Cordilléres Bétiques,Espagne)     

José M. Tubía  Julia Cuevas 《Geodinamica Acta》2013,26(1):59-69

The interaction of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge with the North Atlantic Mantle Plume has produced a magmatic plateau centred about Iceland. The crust of this plateau is 30 km thick on average. This abnormal thickness implies that, unlike other slow-spreading ridges, addition of magmatic material to the crust is not balanced by crustal stretching. The thermal effect of the plume also reduces the strength of the lithosphere. Both mechanisms affect the rifting process in Iceland. A structural review, including new field observations, demonstrates that the structure of the Iceland plateau differs from that of other slow-spreading oceanic ridges. Lithospheric spreading is currently accommodated in a 200 km wide deformation strip, by the development of a system of half-grabens controlled by growth faults. Similar extinct structures, with various polarities, are preserved in the lava pile of the Iceland plateau. These structures are identified as lithospheric rollover anticlines that developed in hanging walls of listric faults. We introduce a new tectonic model of accretion, whereby the development of the magmatic plateau involved activation, growth and decay of a system of growth fault/rollover systems underlain by shallow magma chambers. Deactivation of a given extensional system, after a lifetime of a few My, was at the expense of the activation of a new, laterally offset, one. Correspondingly, such systems formed successively at different places within a 200 km wide diffuse plate boundary. Unlike previous ones, this new model explains the lack of an axial valley in Iceland, the dip pattern of the lava pile, the complex geographical distribution of ages of extinct volcanic systems and the outcrops of extinct magma chambers.  相似文献   

Tectonique superposée de la zone de faille d’Arakapas (Massif de Troodos,Chypre)     

Lapierre Henriette  Angelier Jacques  Cogné Xavier  Grand Thierry  Mascle Georges 《Geodinamica Acta》2013,26(4):197-206

Résumén

Une analyse tectonique du couloir faillé d’Arakapas est menée à partir de la mesure de plus de 3 000 plans striés relevés dans les formations ophiolitiques du Troodos et du Kellaki. Des mesures ont également été effectuées dans les formations du Crétacé terminal — Paléogène et du Néogène, afin de préciser l’âge des différents stades de la déformation. Elles ont été traitées par les méthodes des dièdres droits et du calcul du tenseur des contraintes. Il est montré que le couloir d’Arakapas a été le siège de plusieurs déformations successives. Au Néogène règne un régime en extension qui succède à un jeu décrochant dextre contemporain des compressions d’âge Crétacé terminal à Miocène. Un jeu décrochant antérieur peut-être mis en évidence. Il serait compatible avec le fonctionnement en faille transformante océanique proposé par divers auteurs.  相似文献   

Maris Gullying: canonical analysis of erosion and sedimentation sequences (Baronnies - France)     

Michel Lecompte  Jan Chodzko  René Lhénaff  Alain Marre 《Geodinamica Acta》2013,26(3):115-124

Abstract

The gullying action on Jurassic and Cretaceous marls in the Baronnies is observed, warm season after cold season, thanks to a network of measuring stakes arranged in 12 gullies. The climate, characterized by summer heath, rather cold but luminous winters, and quite heavy rain, can be classified as mountainous-mediterranean. Seasonal ablation/sedimentation measures have been carried out upon 119 stakes five times within two years (768 days): two in automn, two in early spring (april), and one at end-of-spring.

Ablation and sedimentation sequences are described among the stakes population by Correspondance Factor Analysis (CFA), and their covariations in space and time are explained by Canonical Correspondance Analysis (CCA) according to biophysical environment variables.

Axis 1 of the CFA opposes ground level variations according to their amplitude, high or moderate, regardless of the direction of variation and of measurement date. Axis 2 presents a temporal variation, opposing, on one side, sedimentation sequences at post-winter terms and ablation sequences at postsummer terms, to their converse on the other side.

The CCA indicates that talwegs in their medium and lower parts are more likely to undergo hard gullying or strong accumulation, especially on steep, or conversely flat, vegetationfree slopes of oxfordian marls; on the contrary, interfluve ridges and Gonson moderate gentle to moderate slopes on cenomanian marls, possibly with some vegetation are less dynamic (canonical axis 1). This result allows to extend former observations on rythmic, contrasted variations of gullies bottoms, well different of interfluves and gonson, progressive, regular, ones.

Owing to their varied reactions to seasonal erosive agents (cryoclasty, concentrated run-off), upper parts of talwegs and lower parts of gully slopes and interfluves (canonical axis 2) originate seasonal contrasts revealed by CFA’s axis 2. However, to insure this point of view, more sampling is needed.  相似文献   

Tectonic evolution of a restricted ocean basin: the Powell Basin (Northeastern Antarctic Peninsula)     

José Rodriguez-Fernandez  Juan-Carlos Balanya  Jesús Galindo-Zaldivar  Andrés Maldonado 《Geodinamica Acta》2013,26(4):159-174

Abstract

The Powell Basin is one of the few present-day examples of a small isolated ocean basin largely surrounded by blocks of continental crust. The continental blocks in this basin result from the fragmentation of the northern Antarctic Peninsula. This basin was created by the eastward motion of the South Orkney microcontinent relative to the Antarctic Peninsula. The axial rift, identified by multichannel seismic profiles obtained during the HESANT 92/93 cruise, and the gravimetric anomalies of the basin plain, together with the transcurrent faults along the northern and southern margins, indicate a predominant WSW-ENE trend of basin extension. The South Orkney microcontinent was incorporated into the Antarctic Plate during the Miocene as a consequence of the end of basin spreading. The eastern and western margins are conjugate and have an intermediate crust in the region of transition to the basin plain. The differences in the basement structure and the architecture of the depositional units suggest that the extensional process was asymmetrical. The southern transtensive margin and the northern transcurrent margin are rectilinear and steep, without any intermediate crust in the narrow fault zone between the base of the continentalblocks slope and the oceanic crust. The multichannel seismic profiles across the central sector of the basin reveal a spreading axis with a double ridge and a central depression filled with sediments. The geometry of the reflectors in this depression indicates that the ponded deposits belong to the early stages of oceaniccrust accretion. This structure is similar to the overlapping spreading centres observed in fast-spreading oceanic axes, where the spreading axis has relay and overlapping segments.

The depositional units of the margins and basin plain have been grouped into four depositional sequences, comprising the classic stages in the formation of an ocean basin: pre-rift (S1), syn-rift (S2), syn-drift (S3), and post-drift (S4). The pre-rift sequence has deformed reflectors and is observed in the southern and eastern margins. The syn-rift sequence, tectonically disrupted, fills depressions bounded by faults and is well-developed in the eastern margin where it is truncated by an erosive surface identified as the break-up unconformity. The syn-drift sequence is wedge-shaped in the basin, thickening towards the margins and having onlap relations on the flanks of the spreading ridge. The post-drift sequence is the thickest unit and is characterised by a cyclic pattern of alternating packages of high-amplitude reflectors, very continuous, and low-amplitude reflectors. Towards the western and eastern margins, the same sequence has channel-levee complexes and channelised, wedged bodies attributed to turbiditic deposits of submarine fans derived from canyons located in the slope and outer shelf. The cyclic nature of this sequence is probably related to advancing and receding grounded ice sheets in the continental shelf since the latest Miocene.  相似文献   

Review: Hydraulic head measurements—new technologies, classic pitfalls     

Vincent E. A. Post  Jos R. von Asmuth 《Hydrogeology Journal》2013,21(4):737-750

The hydraulic head is one of the most important metrics in hydrogeology as it underlies the interpretation of groundwater flow, the quantification of aquifer properties and the calibration of flow models. Heads are determined based on water-level measurements in wells and piezometers. Despite the importance of hydraulic head data, standard textbooks used in groundwater curricula provide relatively little discussion of the appropriate measurement procedures. This paper presents a review of the literature dealing with the determination of hydraulic heads, and aims to provide quantitative guidance on the likely sources of error and when these can be expected to become important. The most common measurement procedures are discussed and the main sources of error are identified, i.e. those related to (1) the measurement instruments, (2) the conversion from pressure to heads, (3) time lag effects, and (4) observation well defects. It is argued that heads should be determined following well-defined guidelines, and that it should become standard practice in hydrogeology to provide quantitative estimates of the measurement error.  相似文献   

Formation of drying crack patterns in soils: a deterministic approach     

Hervé Peron  Lyesse Laloui  Liang-Bo Hu  Tomasz Hueckel 《Acta Geotechnica》2013,8(2):215-221

Soils, as well as most of deformable multiphase porous materials, are likely to suffer from desiccation cracking, leading to the formation of regular crack patterns affecting their permeability. The ensuing crack spacing has often been related to a concept sometimes called “sequential infilling”: it is assumed that desiccation cracks are formed by successive generations. However, such a concept does not consider the pattern of a simultaneous crack formation at a given moment. Using our desiccation cracking test results and their numerical simulation, we propose a consistent explanation for the formation of desiccation crack patterns in soils. We show that the “sequential infilling” concept is suitable only when the position of the crack(s) clearly stems from the stress field. To derive an estimate of the desiccation crack spacing, the overall energy of the system needs to be considered. Statistical variability should be superimposed on the mean deterministic conditions discussed here.  相似文献   

On-line fluorometry of multiple reactive and conservative tracers in streams   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Dennis Lemke  Pierre-André Schnegg  Marc Schwientek  Karsten Osenbrück  Olaf A. Cirpka 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2013,69(2):349-358

Performing tracer tests using artificial tracer compounds is a common practice to characterize natural streams regarding their (reactive) transport properties. Recently, the fluorescent compound resazurin was introduced as a reactive stream tracer to quantify hyporheic exchange and metabolic activity of streams. This tracer, together with its reaction product resorufin and a conservative tracer (in our case fluorescein), provides additional information about transport properties of the stream and its hyporheic zone and can therefore overcome restrictions that are commonly affiliated with the use of conservative tracers alone. However, all previously published studies using this tracer system were based on manual sampling of the water. This usually limits the number of measurements and thus the achievable temporal resolution, and potentially endangers data quality due to inadequate handling of samples. In this paper, a modified version of the GGUN-FL30 on-line fluorometer is presented in which the optics have been modified to allow measuring the concentrations of all three tracers simultaneously at intervals of 10 s. Experiments under controlled and natural conditions showed that the performance of the on-line fluorometer regarding tracer separation efficiency and practical detection limits is comparable to a high-performance laboratory spectrofluorometer. Furthermore, suggestions are given on how to correct tracer signal fluctuations caused by temporal changes in temperature and pH that might occur during a field tracer test.  相似文献