Debris flow burial of ancient wall system in the Upper Po River valley     

William C. Mahaney  Pierre Tricart  Rene W. Barendregt  Christopher Carcaillet  Davide Rabufetti  Volli Kalm 《Geology Today》2010,26(6):209-215

The regrouping area, where Hannibal is thought to have reformed his army after forging a path through a massive rockfall in the Cottian Alps, has been reshaped by a blanket of sediment deposited from debris flows following heavy rain in spring, 2008. Analysis of precipitation data for the period mid‐May to mid‐June, 2008, shows that 722 mm of rain fell at 2150 m, falling off to half that amount at 3325 m on the flanks of Mon Viso. Following exhaustive analysis of environmental factors connected with the invasion of Italy at the start of the Second Punic War (218 bc ), identification of the regrouping area for the Carthaginian Army centred on the presence of an ancient stone wall system which possibly dates from Hannibalic times. Lichen cover, lichen diameters, weathering characteristics, degree to which boulders had sunk into the resident soil, and presence of ancient hearths all combined to make this area a choice locale for reconstructive geoarchaeology. Large scale mass wasting off a prominent bedrock bar adjacent to the wall system in the Upper Po River Valley resulted in burial of most of the prominent wall structures which will complicate any exploration geoarchaeology attempts in future.  相似文献   

Water contents of clinopyroxenes from sub‐arc mantle peridotites          下载免费PDF全文

Michael Turner  Simon Turner  Dawnika Blatter  Rene Maury  Michael Perfit  Gene Yogodzinski 《Island Arc》2017,26(5)

One poorly constrained reservoir of the Earth's water budget is that of clinopyroxene in metasomatised, mantle peridotites. This study presents reconnaissance Sensitive High‐Resolution, Ion Microprobe–Stable Isotope (SHRIMP–SI) determinations of the H₂O contents of (dominantly) clinopyroxenes in rare mantle xenoliths from four different subduction zones, i.e. Mexico, Kamchatka, Philippines, and New Britain (Tabar‐Feni island chain) as well as one intra‐plate setting (western Victoria). All of the sub‐arc xenoliths have been metasomatised and carry strong arc trace element signatures. Average measured H₂O contents of the pyroxenes range from 70 ppm to 510 ppm whereas calculated bulk H₂O contents range from 88 ppm to 3 737 ppm if the variable presence of amphibole is taken into account. In contrast, the intra‐plate, continental mantle xenolith from western Victoria has higher water contents (3 447 ppm) but was metasomatised by alkali and/or carbonatitic melts and does not carry a subduction‐related signature. Material similar to the sub‐arc peridotites can either be accreted to the base of the lithosphere or potentially be transported by convection deeper into the mantle where it will lose water due to amphibole breakdown.  相似文献   

Upward continuation of Dome-C airborne gravity and comparison with GOCE gradients at orbit altitude in east Antarctica     

Hasan Yildiz  Rene Forsberg  Carl Christian Tscherning  Daniel Steinhage  Graeme Eagles  Johannes Bouman 《Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica》2017,61(1):53-68

An airborne gravity campaign was carried out at the Dome-C survey area in East Antarctica between the 17th and 22nd of January 2013, in order to provide data for an experiment to validate GOCE satellite gravity gradients. After typical filtering for airborne gravity data, the cross-over error statistics for the few crossing points are 11.3 mGal root mean square (rms) error, corresponding to an rms line error of 8.0 mGal. This number is relatively large due to the rough flight conditions, short lines and field handling procedures used. Comparison of the airborne gravity data with GOCE RL4 spherical harmonic models confirmed the quality of the airborne data and that they contain more high-frequency signal than the global models. First, the airborne gravity data were upward continued to GOCE altitude to predict gravity gradients in the local North-East-Up reference frame. In this step, the least squares collocation using the ITGGRACE2010S field to degree and order 90 as reference field, which is subtracted from both the airborne gravity and GOCE gravity gradients, was applied. Then, the predicted gradients were rotated to the gradiometer reference frame using level 1 attitude quaternion data. The validation with the airborne gravity data was limited to the accurate gradient anomalies (T_XX, T_YY, T_ZZ and T_XZ) where the long-wavelength information of the GOCE gradients has been replaced with GOCO03s signal to avoid contamination with GOCE gradient errors at these wavelengths. The comparison shows standard deviations between the predicted and GOCE gradient anomalies T_XX, T_YY, T_ZZ and T_XZ of 9.9, 11.5, 11.6 and 10.4 mE, respectively. A more precise airborne gravity survey of the southern polar gap which is not observed by GOCE would thus provide gradient predictions at a better accuracy, complementing the GOCE coverage in this region.  相似文献   

Evaluation of the Global Mean Sea Level Budget between 1993 and 2014     

Don P. Chambers  Anny Cazenave  Nicolas Champollion  Habib Dieng  William Llovel  Rene Forsberg  Karina von Schuckmann  Yoshihide Wada 《Surveys in Geophysics》2017,38(1):309-327

Evaluating global mean sea level (GMSL) in terms of its components—mass and steric—is useful for both quantifying the accuracy of the measurements and understanding the processes that contribute to GMSL rise. In this paper, we review the GMSL budget over two periods—1993 to 2014 and 2005 to 2014—using multiple data sets of both total GMSL and the components (mass and steric). In addition to comparing linear trends, we also compare the level of agreement of the time series. For the longer period (1993–2014), we find closure in terms of the long-term trend but not for year-to-year variations, consistent with other studies. This is due to the lack of sufficient estimates of the amount of natural water mass cycling between the oceans and hydrosphere. For the more recent period (2005–2014), we find closure in both the long-term trend and for month-to-month variations. This is also consistent with previous studies.  相似文献   

Statistical analysis of main and interaction effects during the removal of BTEX mixtures in batch conditions, using wastewater treatment plant sludge microbes     

E. R. Rene Ph.D.  M. S. Jo  S. H. Kim  H. S. Park Ph.D. 《International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology》2007,4(2):177-182

Biodegradation has proved to be a versatile technique to remediate benzene, toluene, ethyl benzene and xylene mixtures in contaminated soil and groundwater. In this study, a mixed microbial culture obtained from a wastewater treatment plant was used to degrade liquid phase ethyl benzene and xylene, at initial concentrations varying between 15 to 75 mg/l. Experiments were conducted according to the 2^k?1 fractional factorial design to identify the main and interaction effects of parameters and their influence on biodegradation of individual ethyl benzene and xylene compounds in mixtures. The removal efficiencies of these compounds varied between 2 to 90% depending on the concentration of other compounds and also on their interaction effects. A statistical interpretation of the results was done based on the Fishers variance ratio (F) and probability (P) values. Though all the main effects were found significant (P < 0.05) at the 5% confidence level, the interactions between benzene and toluene and benzene and xylene concentrations were also found to be statistically significant and play a major role in affecting the total ethyl benzene and xylene removal.  相似文献   

基于精密单点定位技术的航空测量应用实践   总被引：38，自引：6，他引：38  

张小红  刘经南  Rene Forsberg 《武汉大学学报(信息科学版)》2006,31(1):19-23

讨论了基于精密单点定位技术来实现无地面基准站的航空测量。计算结果表明，用观测值的验后残差计算得到的实测动态及静态模拟动态进行精密单点定位的三维RMS均优于3cm；用动态数据精密单点定位的结果同多基准站的双差解求较差计算出的RMS．南北分量和东西分量均优于5cm，高程分量优于10cm；用基准站的静态数据模拟动态单点定位解算得到的坐标同已知坐标求较差计算出的RMS，南北分量和东西分量均优于3cm，高程分量优于5cm。  相似文献   

新技术应用——直接固体进样石墨炉分析   总被引：5，自引：1，他引：5  

赵泰  ReneNowka 《岩矿测试》2003,22(1):79-80

样品的消解问题在原子吸收光谱技术中普遍存在,从环境学研究、食品检查、材料分析到过程分析和医学应用,样品消解都是分析的最大可能误差来源,试剂污染、交叉干扰、原始样品的改变,所有这些问题都是分析工作者多年来一直努力探求解决的课题。直接固体进样石墨炉分析技术正是其中一种简单的解决方案。直接固体进样石墨炉分析的优点是:①直接分析原始样品;②无需样品消解和溶剂稀释;③降低污染的可能性;④高灵敏度,ｐｇ或ｆｇ级的检出水平,只有昂贵的ＩＣＰ ＭＳ才能得到同样的检出限;⑤较少的样品量,10μｇ～50ｍｇ即可。随着商品仪器的面…  相似文献   

Aqueous and petroleum fluid flow associated with sand injectites   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Rene Jonk  John Parnell  Andrew Hurst 《Basin Research》2005,17(2):241-257

Field, petrographic and fluid inclusion characteristics of sand injectites from five outcrop localities and from the subsurface of the Tertiary of the south Viking Graben are described. Although the case studies are from a wide variety of sedimentological, stratigraphic and tectonic settings, and hence their diagenetic evolutions differ significantly, it is possible and useful to assign diagenetic events to three distinct phases of fluid flow associated with sand injectites in sedimentary basins. Firstly, there is fluid flow associated with the injection of the fluid–sediment mix during shallow burial. Early diagenetic imprints in sand injectites reveal that basinal fluids, which may be released during movement along deeper‐seated faults, can be associated with this process and thus the injection process may reveal information on the timing of basin‐scale movement of fluids. Secondly, following the injection process, basinal fluids continue to migrate through uncemented injectites and mix with the ambient meteoric and/or marine pore fluids that invade injectites from the overlying and surrounding host sediments. Early, often pervasive, carbonate cementation is common within sand injectites and rapidly turns sand injectites into flow barriers during shallow (<1 km) burial. If early carbonate cementation is not pervasive, fluid inclusions in late quartz cement (～>2 km of burial) reveal additional information on fluid flow associated with sand injectites during deeper burial. The latest phase of fluid flow occurs when sand injectites are reactivated as preferential fluid conduits during phases of deformation, when well‐cemented subvertical sand injectites become sites of focussed brittle deformation (fracturing). This study shows that sand injectites are a common and volumetrically important type of structural heterogeneity in sedimentary basins and that long‐lived fluid flow associated with sand injectites in very different settings can be assessed and compared systematically using a combination of petrography and fluid inclusion studies.  相似文献   

Correcting wind‐induced bias in solid precipitation measurements in case of limited and uncertain data     

Vincent Fortin  Charles Therrien  François Anctil 《水文研究》2008,22(17):3393-3402

Automatic precipitation gauges tend to underestimate solid precipitation in the presence of wind. Loss as a function of wind speed is typically evaluated by comparing the gauge with a more accurate measurement made using a double‐fence intercomparison reference gauge (DFIR). For small precipitation events, small errors in the observations can induce large errors in the ‘catch’ ratio, i.e. the ratio of the automatic gauge measurement to the DFIR observation. For this reason, precipitation events of less than 3 mm are typically discarded before performing the regression analysis. This can mean discarding more than 90% of the observations. This paper shows how the method of weighted least squares can be used to perform a regression analysis that can take into account the whole sample to provide a more accurate estimation of the relationship between the catch ratio and the wind speed. This methodology is then used to obtain an adjustment curve for a shielded Geonor T‐200B precipitation gauge in Northern Québec. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada.  相似文献   

Interpreting characteristic drainage timescale variability across Kilombero Valley,Tanzania   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1       下载免费PDF全文

Steve W. Lyon  Alexander Koutsouris  Friedemann Scheibler  Jerker Jarsjö  Rene Mbanguka  Madaka Tumbo  Keven K. Robert  Asha N. Sharma  Ype van der Velde 《水文研究》2015,29(8):1912-1924

We explore seasonal variability and spatiotemporal patterns in characteristic drainage timescale (K) estimated from river discharge records across the Kilombero Valley in central Tanzania. K values were determined using streamflow recession analysis with a Brutsaert–Nieber solution to the linearized Boussinesq equation. Estimated K values were variable, comparing between wet and dry seasons for the relatively small catchments draining upland positions. For the larger catchments draining through valley bottoms, K values were typically longer and more consistent across seasons. Variations in K were compared with long‐term averaged, Moderate‐resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer‐derived monthly evapotranspiration. Although the variations in K were potentially related to evapotranspiration, the influence of data quality and analysis procedure could not be discounted. As such, even though recession analysis offers a potential approach to explore aquifer release timescales and thereby gain insight to a region's hydrology to inform water resources management, care must be taken when interpreting spatiotemporal shifts in K in connection with process representation in regions like the Kilombero Valley. © 2014 The Authors. Hydrological Processes published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.  相似文献