Microplastics in the Southern Ocean   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

Atsuhiko Isobe  Kaori Uchiyama-Matsumoto  Keiichi Uchida  Tadashi Tokai 《Marine pollution bulletin》2017,114(1):623-626

A field survey to collect microplastics with sizes < 5 mm was conducted in the Southern Ocean in 2016. We performed five net-tows and collected 44 pieces of plastic. Total particle counts of the entire water column, which is free of vertical mixing, were computed using the surface concentration (particle count per unit seawater volume) of microplastics, wind speed, and significant wave height during the observation period. Total particle counts at two stations near Antarctica were estimated to be in the order of 100,000 pieces km^? 2.  相似文献   

Stratigraphic records of tsunamis along the Japan Sea,southwest Hokkaido,northern Japan          下载免费PDF全文

Gentaro Kawakami  Kenji Nishina  Yoshihiro Kase  Jun Tajika  Keiichi Hayashi  Wataru Hirose  Tsumoru Sagayama  Tatsuya Watanabe  Satoshi Ishimaru  Ken'ichi Koshimizu  Ryo Takahashi  Kazuomi Hirakawa 《Island Arc》2017,26(4)

The stratigraphy of tsunami deposits along the Japan Sea, southwest Hokkaido, northern Japan, reveals tsunami recurrences in this particular area. Sandy tsunami deposits are preserved in small valley plains, whereas gravelly deposits of possible tsunami origin are identified in surficial soils covering a Holocene marine terrace and a slope talus. At least five horizons of tsunami events can be defined in the Okushiri Island, the youngest of which immediately overlies the Ko‐d tephra layer (1640 AD) and was likely formed by the historical Oshima‐Ohshima tsunami in 1741 AD. The four older tsunami deposits, dated using accelerator mass spectrometry ¹⁴C, were formed at around the 12th century, 1.5–1.6, 2.4–2.6, and 2.8–3.1 ka, respectively. Tsunami sand beds of the 1741 AD and circa 12th century events are recognized in the Hiyama District of Hokkaido Island, but the older tsunami deposits are missing. The deposits of these two tsunamis are found together at the same sites and distributed in regions where wave heights of the 1993 tsunami (Hokkaido Nansei‐oki earthquake, Mw = 7.7) were less than 3 m. Thus, the 12th century tsunami waves were possibly generated near the south of Okushiri Island, whereas the 1993 tsunami was generated towards the north of the island. The estimated recurrence intervals of paleotsunamis, 200–1100 years with an average of 500 years, likely represents the recurrence interval of large earthquakes which would have occurred along several active faults offshore of southwest Hokkaido.  相似文献   

Water mass variability in the western North Pacific detected in a 15-year eddy resolving ocean reanalysis   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Yasumasa Miyazawa  Ruochao Zhang  Xinyu Guo  Hitoshi Tamura  Daisuke Ambe  Joon-Soo Lee  Akira Okuno  Hiroshi Yoshinari  Takashi Setou  Kosei Komatsu 《Journal of Oceanography》2009,65(6):737-756

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A near-infrared survey of Miras and the distance to the Galactic Centre     

Noriyuki Matsunaga †  Takahiro Kawadu  Shogo Nishiyama †  Takahiro Nagayama  Hirofumi Hatano †  Motohide Tamura  Ian S. Glass  Tetsuya Nagata 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,399(4):1709-1729

We report the results of a near-infrared survey for long-period variables in a field of view of 20× 30 arcmin² towards the Galactic Centre (GC). We have detected 1364 variables, of which 348 are identified with those reported in Glass et al. We present a catalogue and photometric measurements for the detected variables and discuss their nature. We also establish a method for the simultaneous estimation of distances and extinctions using the period–luminosity relations for the JHK _s bands. Our method is applicable to Miras with periods in the range 100–350 d and mean magnitudes available in two or more filter bands. While J band means are often unavailable for our objects because of the large extinction, we estimated distances and extinctions for 143 Miras whose H - and   K _s  -band mean magnitudes are obtained. We find that most are located at the same distance to within our accuracy. Assuming that the barycentre of these Miras corresponds to the GC, we estimate its distance modulus to be  14.58 ± 0.02 (stat.) ± 0.11 (syst.) mag  , corresponding to  8.24 ± 0.08 (stat.) ± 0.42 (syst.) kpc  . We have assumed the distance modulus to the Large Magellanic Cloud to be 18.45 mag, and the uncertainty in this quantity is included in the above systematic error. We also discuss the large and highly variable extinction. Its value ranges from 1.5 mag to larger than 4 mag in     except towards the thicker dark nebulae and it varies in a complicated way with the line of sight. We have identified mid-infrared counterparts in the Spitzer /IRAC catalogue of Ramírez et al. for most of our variables and find that they follow rather narrow period–luminosity relations in the 3.6–8.0 μm wavelength range.  相似文献   

Did boninite originate from the heterogeneous mantle with recycled ancient slab?          下载免费PDF全文

Susumu Umino  Kyoko Kanayama  Keitaro Kitamura  Akihiro Tamura  Osamu Ishizuka  Ryoko Senda  Shoji Arai 《Island Arc》2018,27(1)

Boninites are widely distributed along the western margin of the Pacific Plate extruded during the incipient stage of the subduction zone development in the early Paleogene period. This paper discusses the genetic relationships of boninite and antecedent protoarc basalt magmas and demonstrates their recycled ancient slab origin based on the T–P conditions and Pb–Hf–Nd–Os isotopic modeling. Primitive melt inclusions in chrome spinel from Ogasawara and Guam islands show severely depleted high‐SiO₂, MgO (high‐silica) and less depleted low‐SiO₂, MgO (low‐silica and ultralow‐silica) boninitic compositions. The genetic conditions of 1 346 °C at 0.58 GPa and 1 292 °C at 0.69 GPa for the low‐ and ultralow‐silica boninite magmas lie on adiabatic melting paths of depleted mid‐ocean ridge basalt mantle with a potential temperature of 1 430 °C in Ogasawara and of 1 370 °C in Guam, respectively. This is consistent with the model that the low‐ and ultralow‐silica boninites were produced by remelting of the residue of the protoarc basalt during the forearc spreading immediately following the subduction initiation. In contrast, the genetic conditions of 1 428 °C and 0.96 GPa for the high‐silica boninite magma is reconciled with the ascent of more depleted harzburgitic source which pre‐existed below the Izu–Ogasawara–Mariana forearc region before the subduction started. Mixing calculations based on the Pb–Nd–Hf isotopic data for the Mariana protoarc basalt and boninites support the above remelting model for the (ultra)low‐silica boninite and the discrete harzburgite source for the high‐silica boninite. Yb–Os isotopic modeling of the high‐Si boninite source indicates 18–30 wt% melting of the primitive upper mantle at 1.5–1.7 Ga, whereas the source mantle of the protoarc basalt, the residue of which became the source of the (ultra)low‐Si boninite, experienced only 3.5–4.0 wt% melt depletion at 3.6–3.1 Ga, much earlier than the average depleted mid‐ocean ridge basalt mantle with similar degrees of melt depletion at 2.6–2.2 Ga.  相似文献   

A protocol for coordinating post-tsunami field reconnaissance efforts in the USA     

Rick Wilson  Nathan Wood  Laura Kong  Mike Shulters  Kevin Richards  Paula Dunbar  Gen Tamura  Ed Young 《Natural Hazards》2015,75(3):2153-2165

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Marine biomarkers deposited on coastal land by the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami     

Tetsuya Shinozaki  Shigehiro Fujino  Minoru Ikehara  Yuki Sawai  Toru Tamura  Kazuhisa Goto  Daisuke Sugawara  Tomoya Abe 《Natural Hazards》2015,77(1):445-460

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A Subaru/Suprime-Cam wide-field survey of globular cluster populations around M87 – II. Colour and spatial distribution     

Naoyuki Tamura †  Ray M. Sharples  Nobuo Arimoto  Masato Onodera  Kouji Ohta  Yoshihiko Yamada 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,373(2):601-612

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Near-infrared study of CIZA J1324.7-5736, the second richest cluster of galaxies in the Great Attractor     

T. Nagayama  P. A. Woudt  K. Wakamatsu  S. Nishiyama  C. Nagashima  D. Kato  T. Nagata  H. Nakaya  K. Sugitani  M. Tamura  S. Sato 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,368(2):534-543

We present the result of a deep near-infrared survey of the newly identified X-ray luminous cluster of galaxies CIZA J1324.7-5736 in the Great Attractor (GA) region. In a 35 × 35 arcmin² region, 111 galaxy candidates with   r _{Ks 20} > arcsec  are identified. Comparison of the extinction-corrected   K _s   -band luminosity function of CIZA J1324.7-5736 with those of nearby clusters indicates that the richness class of CIZA J1324.7-5736 is almost the same as, or richer than, the Pavo, Centaurus and Hydra clusters but poorer than the Coma, Perseus and Norma clusters. CIZA J1324.7-5736 is possibly the second richest cluster in the GA region following the Norma cluster. The position of CIZA J1324.7-5736 [in the ( l , b , v ) space] is close to the Centaurus–Crux cluster and the agglomeration of galaxies detected by the Parkes H  i survey. CIZA J1324.7-5736, together with the Centaurus–Crux cluster and the H  i galaxy agglomeration, is most likely to be one of the richest local concentrations in the GA overdensity of galaxies.  相似文献   

Supermassive black hole mass functions at intermediate redshifts from spheroid and AGN luminosity functions     

Naoyuki Tamura  Kouji Ohta  Yoshihiro Ueda 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,365(1):134-146

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