Association of orogenic activity with the Ordovician radiation of marine life     

Miller AI  Mao S 《Geology》1995,23(4):305-308

The Ordovician radiation of marine life was among the most substantial pulses of diversification in Earth history and coincided in time with a major increase in the global level of orogenic activity. To investigate a possible causal link between these two patterns, the geographic distributions of 6576 individual appearances of Ordovician vician genera around the world were evaluated with respect to their proximity to probable centers of orogeny (foreland basins). Results indicate that these genera, which belonged to an array of higher taxa that diversified in the Middle and Late Ordovician (trilobites, brachiopods, bivalves, gastropods, monoplacophorans), were far more diverse in, and adjacent to, foreland basins than they were in areas farther removed from orogenic activity (carbonate platforms). This suggests an association of orogeny with diversification at that time.  相似文献   

Processing of cometary grains at the nucleus surface     

Max K. Wallis  Sirwan Al-Mufti 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》1995,71(3):91-97

Cometary material inevitably undergoes chemical changes before and on leaving the nucleus. In seeking to explain comets as the origin of many IDPs (interplanetary dust particles), an understanding of potential surface chemistry is vital. Grains are formed and transformed at the nucleus surface; much of the cometary volatiles may arise from the organic material. In cometary near-surface permafrost, one expects cryogenic chemistry with crystal growth and isotope. This could be the hydrous environment where IDPs form. Seasonal and geographic variations imply a range of environmental conditions and surface evolution. Interplanetary dust impacts and electrostatic forces also have roles in generating cometary dust. The absence of predicted cometary dust envelopes is compatible with the wide range of particle structures and compositions. Study of IDPs would distinguish between this model and alternatives that see comets as aggregates of core-mantle grains built in interstellar clouds.  相似文献   

Comet Halley's dust drag perturbing the Giotto spacecraft     

Max K. Wallis 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》1984,30(1):31-37

Hypervelocity impact sputter causes impulses substantially greater than the initial momenta of micro-grains of comet Halley's dust coma, the effective factor being discontinuous at the dust mass (0.2 g) that just penetrates the spacecraft bumper shield. Marginally non-penetrating grains determine the net drag and torque, calculated here for the Giotto shield and exposed components. The torque due to asymmetries induces a precession of the spacecraft axis, whose amplitude is solved for passage through the model dust coma, to find slowly damped oscillations of significant (1°) amplitude.  相似文献   

Facets of hydrology | J.C. Rodda (Editor), 1976. Wiley,Chichester, 384 pp., U.S. $39.00, £19.50     

Max A. Kohler 《Earth》1977,13(2):216-217

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Amphibole composition in tonalite as a function of pressure: an experimental calibration of the Al-in-hornblende barometer   总被引：66，自引：3，他引：63  

Max W. Schmidt 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1992,110(2-3):304-310

The Al-in-hornblende barometer, which correlates Al^tot content of magmatic hornblende linearly with crystallization pressure of intrusion (Hammarstrom and Zen 1986), has been calibrated experimentally under water-saturated conditions at pressures of 2.5–13 kbar and temperatures of 700–655°C. Equilibration of the assemblage hornlende-biotite-plagioclase-orthoclasequartz-sphene-Fe-Ti-oxide-melt-vapor from a natural tonalite 15–20° above its wet solidus results in hornblende compositions which can be fit by the equation: P(±0.6 kbar) = –3.01 + 4.76 Al _hbl ^tot r ²=0.99, where Al^tot is the total Al content of hornblende in atoms per formula unit (apfu). Al^tot increase with pressure can be ascribed mainly to a tschermak-exchange ( ) accompanied by minor plagioclase-substitution ( ). This experimental calibration agrees well with empirical field calibrations, wherein pressures are estimated by contact-aureole barometry, confirming that contact-aureole pressures and pressures calculated by the Al-in-hornblende barometer are essentially identical. This calibration is also consistent with the previous experimental calibration by Johnson and Rutherford (1989b) which was accomplished at higher temperatures, stabilizing the required buffer assemblage by use of mixed H₂O-CO₂ fluids. The latter calibration yields higher Al^tot content in hornblendes at corresponding pressures, this can be ascribed to increased edenite-exchange ( ) at elevated temperatures. The comparison of both experimental calibrations shows the important influence of the fluid composition, which affects the solidus temperature, on equilibration of hornblende in the buffering phase assemblage.  相似文献   

Stochastic scattering and other contributions to the Sun's wake in the local hydrogen cloud     

Max K. Wallis 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》1976,13(1):65-74

Gas streaming through the solar system experiences both destructive and scattering processes, the latter primarily in collisional interactions with the solar wind protons. The scattering interactions can be important in filling the downstream wake. They may effectively increase the velocity dispersion and also cause discrete orbit changes.The downstream intensity moment is here evaluated analytically for particles suffering a single, discrete collision, and compared with the moment from a thermal velocity dispersion (both in the absence of a central force field). The elastic scattering collisions of protons in H-gas lead to a contribution to theL backscatter from the wake equivalent to an initial thermal velocity of about 1 km s^–1, giving an intensity for cool gas of the order of 10R. This exceeds the contribution due to focussing in the solar gravitational field if the radiation pressure is not less than 0.8 of the gravitational attraction.  相似文献   

论信息时代的城市发展     

金江军  潘懋  承继成 《国土资源信息化》2005,20(2):2-5,41

城市信息化是中国城市发展的新主题与新动力,是解决目前我国城市发展中诸多难题的重要途径。本文首先对比了数字城市和信息城市,然后指出了建设信息城市的迫切性和重要性,最后提出了城市信息科学的学科范畴。  相似文献   

Geolord-AT空三加密软件处理数码航片的方法     

熊彬  冒国华 《现代测绘》2005,28(4):32-34

在Geolord-AT空三加密软件中对数码航片进行框标定向的前期处理，创建带有框标的数码航片或者直接创建内定向的＊．kb文件，使数码航片顺利按要求通过内定向。  相似文献   

贵阳乌当上古生界的海侵—海退层序   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：1  

毛家仁 《现代地质》2005,19(1):119-126

在位于上扬子古陆边缘的贵阳乌当泥盆纪至石炭纪剖面上, 泥盆系包括蟒山群碎屑岩和高坡场组白云岩, 其中可以识别出 5个三级层序; 石炭系至二叠系船山统包括祥摆组、旧司组、上司组、摆佐组、黄龙组、马平组和梁山组,其中祥摆组和梁山组为含煤碎屑岩系地层, 其余各组为碳酸盐岩地层, 可以划分出 5个三级层序。与贵州南部至广西一带较为完整的泥盆系和石炭系相对比(泥盆系包含 13个三级层序,石炭系至二叠系船山统包含 6个三级层序 ), 贵阳乌当剖面以较薄的地层厚度和较多的三级层序的缺失为特征, 成为间断大于沉积的典型地层代表, 这是由于古陆边缘海退作用的沉积响应大于海侵作用所致。石炭纪与二叠纪过渡时期的大幅度慢速海侵作用改变了这种局面, 同邻区一样研究区域也进入了大片海域发育的时期, 所以阳新统和乐平统的层序大致与贵州南部至广西一带相近, 这是由于与相应的三级海平面上升相关的大幅度慢速海侵作用的结果。  相似文献   

地磁场与气候变化关系的新探索   总被引：5，自引：2，他引：5  

高晓清  柳艳香  董文杰  汤懋苍 《高原气象》2002,21(4):395-401

对地磁场与气候变化的统计研究早已表明，二者有很好的相关关系。本文的目的是对它们的关系给出一种可能的物理解释。利用近600年的地磁场模型资料和全球平均温度序列分析了两者变化的关系，发现它们有很好的对应，且地磁场变化超前于全球气温变化。从地磁场的变化来看，21世纪初全球变暖的趋势应该减缓。文中对地表浅层热场（地热带、火山和地温场）的分布特征与地球内部软流圈－岩石圈边界上焦耳热场的分布特征进行了对比分析。结果表明，地表浅层热场与地球深层焦耳热的分布有很好的对应关系，这可能暗示地表浅层热场是地球深层焦耳热的反映，地磁场通过焦耳热的不断释旋影响气候变化。  相似文献