Estimating Synaphobranchus kaupii densities: Contribution of fish behaviour to differences between bait experiments and visual strip transects     

Verena M. Trenkel  Pascal Lorance 《Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers》2011,58(1):63-71

Kaup's arrowtooth eel Synaphobranchus kaupii is a small-bodied fish and an abundant inhabitant of the European continental slope. To estimate its local density video information using the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Victor 6000 were collected at three locations in the Bay of Biscay slope. Two methods for estimating local densities were tested: strip transect counts and bait experiments. For bait experiments three behaviour types were observed in about equal proportions for individuals arriving near the seafloor: moving up the current towards the ROV, moving across the current and drifting with the current. Visible attraction towards the bait was the highest for individuals swimming against the current (80%) and about equally low for the other two types (around 30%); it did not depend on current speed nor temperature. Three main innovations were introduced for estimating population densities from bait experiments: (i) inclusion of an additional behaviour category—that of passively drifting individuals, (ii) inclusion of reaction behaviour for actively swimming individuals and (iii) a hierarchical Bayesian estimation framework. The results indicated that about half of individuals were foraging actively of which less than one third reacted on encountering the bait plume and the other half were drifting with the current. Taking account of drifting individuals and the reaction probability made density estimates from bait experiments and strip transects more similar.  相似文献   

IAG Newsletter     

Pascal Willis 《Journal of Geodesy》1995,69(2):109-122

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Potential Interests of the IGS for the Galileo System     

Pascal Willis  John M. Dow 《GPS Solutions》2001,4(4):68-71

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Melting and premelting of silicates: Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction of Li2SiO3 and Na2SiO3     

Pascal Richet  Bjorn O. Mysen  Denis Andrault 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》1996,23(3):157-172

The isostructural lithium (Li₂SiO₃) and sodium (Na₂SiO₃) metasilicates have been investigated from room temperature up to the melting point by single-crystal Raman spectroscopy and energy-dispersive X-ray powder diffraction. The unit-cell parameters and Raman frequencies of Li₂SiO₃ vary regularly with temperature up to the melting point, which is consistent with the lack of premelting effects in calorimetric measurements. In contrast, Na₂SiO₃ undergoes a transition at about 850 K from orthorhombic Cmc 2₁ symmetry, to a lower symmetry (possibly Pmc 2₁), and shows near 1200 K changes in the Raman spectra that correlate well with the premelting effects as determined from calorimetry observations. In both compounds, a high alkali mobility likely sets in several hundreds of degrees below the melting point. Premelting in Na₂SiO₃ is associated with extensive deformation of the silicate chains as evidenced near the melting point by similarities in the Raman spectra of the crystalline and liquid phases.  相似文献   

IAG Newsletter     

Pascal Willis 《Journal of Geodesy》1993,67(2):127-138

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The transfer of organic signatures from bedrock to sediment     

John Parnell  Stephen Bowden  Gordon R. Osinski  Colin W. Taylor  Pascal Lee 《Chemical Geology》2008,247(1-2):242-252

A case study in the Canadian Arctic demonstrates how an organic geochemical signature in the regional bedrock can be transferred by erosion and redeposition to younger geological formations and surface sediments. The hydrocarbon composition recorded in Laurentian (Lower Palaeozoic) carbonate bedrock was incorporated into overlying Miocene and Quaternary formations, and modern mass waste, alluvium, snow/ice, and proglacial deposits, and further distant in ice-rafted detritus. The retention of the original geological organic signature is reflected in consistent thermal maturities (hopane ratios) and environmental indicators (sterane distributions). In the modern sediments, the geological signature is variably mixed with a modern microbial organic signature reflected in high values of carbon preference index and diploptene. These data show that hydrocarbon occurrences in bedrock may be detected by the analysis of surface detritus, especially in carbonate terrains. However they also indicate that environmental signatures may be misleading if they are inherited from older geological units.  相似文献   

“Crack seal” vein geometry in eclogitic rocks     

Pascal Philippot 《Geodinamica Acta》2013,26(3):171-181

Abstract

Fluid-deposited veins occur in eclogite facies rocks in the Mont Viso meta-ophiolitic complex, Western Alps. These veins contain omphacite, garnet, rutile and apatite implying that veining took place at near to peak metamorphic conditions. Two types of omphacitic vein structure are described, (a) Cross-fibre veins which are charactenzed by omphacite fibres which long axis is parallel to the stretching direction of the country rocks. The fibres are cut accross by linear arrays of solid/fluid inclusions oriented normal to the long axes of the fibres, which are interpreted as crack-seal phenomena. (b) Massive, coarse-grained randomly oriented concentric and sector zoned omphacite with garnet, rutile and apatite in " hydrostatic " veins suggests nucleation in open fractures during eclogite facies metamorphic conditions.

Formation of syn-kinematic veins under conditions of at least P > 12 kbar and 500 < T < 550 °C indicates that fracturing and solution transfer processes occurred during subduction event.  相似文献   

Assessment of Alaska’s North Slope Oil Field Capacity to Sequester CO2     

Pascal Umekwe  Joanna Mongrain  Mohabbat Ahmadi  Catherine Hanks 《Natural Resources Research》2013,22(1):45-58

The capacity of 21 major fields containing more than 95% of the North Slope of Alaska’s oil were investigated for CO₂ storage by injecting CO₂ as an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) agent. These fields meet the criteria for the application of miscible and immiscible CO₂-EOR methods and contain about 40 billion barrels of oil after primary and secondary recovery. Volumetric calculations from this study indicate that these fields have a static storage capacity of 3 billion metric tons of CO₂, assuming 100% oil recovery, re-pressurizing the fields to pre-fracturing pressure and applying a 50% capacity reduction to compensate for heterogeneity and for water invasion from the underlying aquifer. A ranking produced from this study, mainly controlled by field size and fracture gradient, identifies Prudhoe, Kuparuk, and West Sak as possessing the largest storage capacities under a 20% safety factor on pressures applied during storage to avoid over-pressurization, fracturing, and gas leakage. Simulation studies were conducted using CO₂ Prophet to determine the amount of oil technically recoverable and CO₂ gas storage possible during this process. Fields were categorized as miscible, partially miscible, and immiscible based on the miscibility of CO₂ with their oil. Seven sample fields were selected across these categories for simulation studies comparing pure CO₂ and water-alternating-gas injection. Results showed that the top two fields in each category for recovery and CO₂ storage were Alpine and Point McIntyre (miscible), Prudhoe and Kuparuk (partially miscible), and West Sak and Lisburne (immiscible). The study concludes that 5 billion metric tons of CO₂ can be stored while recovering 14.2 billion barrels of the remaining oil.  相似文献   

Impactites of the Haughton impact structure,Devon Island,Canadian High Arctic     

Gordon R. Osinski  John G. Spray  Pascal Lee 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2005,40(12):1789-1812

Abstract— Contrary to the previous interpretation of a single allochthonous impactite lithology, combined field, optical, and analytical scanning electron microscopy (SEM) studies have revealed the presence of a series of impactites at the Haughton impact structure. In the crater interior, there is a consistent upward sequence from parautochthonous target rocks overlain by parautochthonous lithic (monomict) breccias, through allochthonous lithic (polymict) breccia, into pale grey allochthonous impact melt breccias. The groundmass of the pale grey impact melt breccias consists of microcrystalline calcite, silicate impact melt glass, and anhydrite. Analytical data and microtextures indicate that these phases represent a series of impact‐generated melts that were molten at the time of, and following, deposition. Impact melt glass clasts are present in approximately half of the samples studied. Consideration of the groundmass phases and impact glass clasts reveal that impactites of the crater interior contain shock‐melted sedimentary material from depths of >920 to <1880 m in the pre‐impact target sequence. Two principal impactites have been recognized in the near‐surface crater rim region of Haughton. Pale yellow‐brown allochthonous impact melt breccias and megablocks are overlain by pale grey allochthonous impact melt breccias. The former are derived from depths of >200 to <760 m and are interpreted as remnants of the continuous ejecta blanket. The pale grey impact melt breccias, although similar to the impact melt breccias of the crater interior, are more carbonate‐rich and do not appear to have incorporated clasts from the crystalline basement. Thus, the spatial distribution of the crater‐fill impactites at Haughton, the stratigraphic succession from target rocks to allochthonous impactites, the recognition of large volumes of impact melt breccias, and their probable original volume are all analogous to characteristics of coherent impact melt layers in comparatively sized structures formed in crystalline targets.  相似文献   

The H i opacity of the intergalactic medium at redshifts 1.6 < z < 3.2     

David Kirkman †  David Tytler †  Nao Suzuki †  Carl Melis  Susan Hollywood  Kory James  Geoffrey So  Dan Lubin †  Tridivesh Jena    Michael L. Norman  Pascal Paschos 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2005,360(4):1373-1380

We use high-quality echelle spectra of 24 quasi-stellar objects to provide a calibrated measurement of the total amount of Lyα forest absorption (DA) over the redshift range  2.2 < z < 3.2  . Our measurement of DA excludes absorption from metal lines or the Lyα lines of Lyman-limit systems and damped Lyα systems. We use artificial spectra with realistic flux calibration errors to show that we are able to place continuum levels that are accurate to better than 1 per cent. When we combine our results with our previous results between  1.6 < z < 2.2  , we find that the redshift evolution of DA is well described over  1.6 < z < 3.2  as   A (1 + z )^γ  , where   A = 0.0062  and  γ= 2.75  . We detect no significant deviations from a smooth power-law evolution over the redshift range studied. We find less H  i absorption than expected at   z = 3  , implying that the ultraviolet background is  ∼40  per cent higher than expected. Our data appears to be consistent with an H  i ionization rate of  Γ∼ 1.4 × 10⁻¹² s⁻¹  .  相似文献