Coastal uplift rate at Matanzas (Cuba) inferred from MIS5e phreatic overgrowths on speleothems          下载免费PDF全文

Jo De Waele  Ilenia M. D'Angeli  Nicola Tisato  Paola Tuccimei  Michele Soligo  Joaquín Ginés  Angel Ginés  Joan J. Fornós  Igor M. Villa  Esteban R. Grau González  Stefano M. Bernasconi  Tomaso R. R. Bontognali 《地学学报》2017,29(2):98-105

Many morphological elements in Cuba's landscape (e.g. marine terraces, tidal notches) demonstrate that coastal uplift has taken place, but the rate at which this occurs is not known. Carbonate phreatic overgrowths on speleothems have been found in a cave in Central North Cuba, ~1 km from the present coastline at 16 m asl. They form exceptional and unique mushroom‐shaped speleothems and balconies decorating the walls of the rooms. These phreatic overgrowths on speleothems (POS) formed at the oscillating air–water interface in sea‐level controlled anchialine lakes. U/Th dating of these overgrowths suggests ages that are compatible with the Marine Isotope Stage 5e (i.e. 130–115 ka). These POS have fixed this sea‐level highstand and demonstrate that this part of Cuba has been subjected to a much lower uplift rate than previously reported, that is, less than 0.1 mm/year since the last interglacial.  相似文献   

Sub‐millennial climate shifts in the western Mediterranean during the last glacial period recorded in a speleothem from Mallorca,Spain     

Edward J. Hodge  David A. Richards  Peter L. Smart  Angel Gins  David P. Mattey 《第四纪科学杂志》2008,23(8):713-718

Very few high‐resolution and directly dated terrestrial archives of the last glacial period exist for the western Mediterranean region, yet this is a key locality for recording sub‐millennial North Atlantic and Mediterranean climate change. Here, we present evidence of effective precipitation changes based on growth history and δ¹³C of calcite in a Mallorcan stalagmite that grew between 112 and 48 ka. Effective precipitation in Mallorca appears to have been sensitive to proximal sea surface temperature variations and at certain times, ca. 76 ka for example, changed rapidly from moist to arid conditions in only a few centuries. A sea‐level highstand during Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5a interrupted growth. Regrowth started promptly after this, but effective precipitation decreased markedly for much of the later part of MIS 5a, and also for shorter periods correlative with Heinrich events H8 (ca. 90 ka) and H6 (ca. 65 ka), with growth ceasing during H5 (ca. 48 ka). Arid episodes in Mallorca appear to be expressions of extremely cold periods recorded further north in Europe and occur contemporaneously with rapid decreases in Greenland temperature. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

What does 'good ecological potential' mean, within the European Water Framework Directive?     

Borja A  Elliott M 《Marine pollution bulletin》2007,54(10):1559-1564

The most important objective within the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) is to achieve a ‘good ecological status’ (GES) for all waters, by 2015. Some methodologies have been developed for assessing GES within natural water bodies, in which the ecological status is a perceived or measured deviation from a reference condition. However, the WFD also consider ‘Heavily modified water bodies’ (HMWB) (a water body resulted from physical alterations by human activity, which substantially change its hydrogeomorphological character, e.g. a harbour). In implementing the WFD, environmental managers are required to assess the status of HMWBs in terms of achieving ‘Good Ecological Potential’ (GEP). This contribution defines and studies GEP from an ecological point of view, taking into account some ecological restoration principles. Finally, this contribution gives some guidance on how establish GEP, using as example a harbour within the North East Atlantic.  相似文献   

Observations of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 around the Deep Impact event by the OSIRIS cameras onboard Rosetta     

Horst Uwe Keller  Sonia Fornasier  Stubbe F. Hviid  Jörg Knollenberg  Miriam Rengel  Gabriele Cremonese  Detlef Koschny  Ekkehard Kührt  Holger Sierks  Cesare Barbieri  Hans Rickman  Michael F. A'Hearn  Maria-Antonella Barucci  Vania da Deppo  Björn J.R. Davidsson  Stefano Debei  Fritz Gliem  José J. Lopez Moreno  Giampiero Naletto  Angel Sanz Andrés 《Icarus》2007,187(1):87-103

The OSIRIS cameras on the Rosetta spacecraft observed Comet 9P/Tempel 1 from 5 days before to 10 days after it was hit by the Deep Impact projectile. The Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) monitored the cometary dust in 5 different filters. The Wide Angle Camera (WAC) observed through filters sensitive to emissions from OH, CN, Na, and OI together with the associated continuum. Before and after the impact the comet showed regular variations in intensity. The period of the brightness changes is consistent with the rotation period of Tempel 1. The overall brightness of Tempel 1 decreased by about 10% during the OSIRIS observations. The analysis of the impact ejecta shows that no new permanent coma structures were created by the impact. Most of the material moved with . Much of it left the comet in the form of icy grains which sublimated and fragmented within the first hour after the impact. The light curve of the comet after the impact and the amount of material leaving the comet ( of water ice and a presumably larger amount of dust) suggest that the impact ejecta were quickly accelerated by collisions with gas molecules. Therefore, the motion of the bulk of the ejecta cannot be described by ballistic trajectories, and the validity of determinations of the density and tensile strength of the nucleus of Tempel 1 with models using ballistic ejection of particles is uncertain.  相似文献   

The effect of the "Prestige" oil spill on the plankton of the N-NW Spanish coast     

Varela M  Bode A  Lorenzo J  Alvarez-Ossorio MT  Miranda A  Patrocinio T  Anadón R  Viesca L  Rodríguez N  Valdés L  Cabal J  Urrutia A  García-Soto C  Rodríguez M  Alvarez-Salgado XA  Groom S 《Marine pollution bulletin》2006,53(5-7):272-286

Chlorophyll, primary production, zooplankton biomass and the species composition of phytoplankton and zooplankton were studied in 2003, after the Prestige shipwreck. The information obtained was compared to previous data series available for the area affected by the spill. A large data series on plankton variables for the N-NW Spanish coast existed, and therefore a realistic evaluation of the effects by comparison with the range of natural variability could be carried out. We emphasized the evaluation of impact during the spring bloom, the first important biological event after the spill. Some minor changes were observed occasionally, but they did not show any clear pattern and were more related to the natural variability of the ecosystem than to effect of the spill. Plankton community structure did not undergo any changes. Only a few species were more abundant during spring 2003 than in previous years. No significant changes were detected in the planktonic community during productive periods, such as the spring bloom and the summer blooms related to intrusions of East North Atlantic Central Waters. The lack of evidence of the effects of the spill on planktonic communities is discussed in terms of the characteristics of the fuel, the high dynamics of the water masses, the biological mechanisms through which the fuel from the surface waters is transferred to the sea floor and, particularly, the influence of the natural variability by means of large and meso-scale hydrographic processes in the area under study. At the present time it is not possible to determine any minor effects the spill may have had on the plankton owing to the great variability of the planktonic cycles and the short-term impact of the oil from the Prestige on the pelagic system.  相似文献   

Daily scale modelling of aquifer–river connectivity in the urban alluvial aquifer in Langreo, Spain     

Pedro Martínez-Santos  Pedro E. Martínez-Alfaro  Eugenio Sanz  Angel Galindo 《Hydrogeology Journal》2010,18(6):1525-1537

Evaluating aquifer–river interactions is naturally complex, particularly within urban settings. This is largely due to the difficulties involved in quantifying most elements of the water balance. The ability of numerical models to deal with several dynamic variables simultaneously makes them valuable tools to address this kind of problem. An applied, modeling-based approach to investigate the spatial and temporal variations of aquifer–river connectivity within a shallow urban aquifer is presented. Model development is based on comprehensive field campaigns in Langreo, Spain. Two calibration runs (for summer and winter conditions) were carried out in order to evaluate the spatial distribution of recharge rates. The model suggests that baseflows are largely negligible in comparison with total streamflows. This is mostly attributed to the abrupt nature of the catchment, which prevents the existence of sufficiently large alluvial systems to a great extent. Modelling results also show that aquifer–river connectivity at the study site is constrained by urban pumping as well as by seasonal fluctuations.  相似文献   

A mechanism for pyroxene-pyroxenoid and pyroxenoid-pyroxenoid transformations     

R. J. Angel  G. D. Price  A. Putnis 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》1984,10(5):236-243

A mechanism for the solid state replacement of clinopyroxene by pyroxenoids has been derived from consideration of the crystal structures. The mechanism involves the propagation of partial dislocations, with Burgers vectors of 1/4 \([2\bar 3\bar 1]\) , through the clinopyroxene matrix to generate a resultant shear; the passage of one dislocation gives rise to a single chain-repeat unit of wollastonite in each silicate chain. Pyroxenoids may thus be formed from clinopyroxene by the periodic introduction of these dislocations on parallel slip-planes, and pyroxenoid to pyroxenoid inversions may proceed by the introduction and removal of such shears by the propagation of the correct combination of partial dislocations. The Burgers vectors for these dislocations in each of the pyroxenoid mineral structures has been calculated. A two step mechanism is proposed for clinopyroxene to bustamite, and pyroxenoid to bustamite inversions, which utilises the same shear as above which generates a wollastonite structure. The second step is a shear of 1/2[001] on the plane \((1\bar 10)\) of this wollastonite intermediate, to give a bustamite structure.  相似文献   

The experimental determination of the johannsenite-bustamite equilibrium inversion boundary     

R. J. Angel 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1984,85(3):272-278

The CaMnSi₂O₆ clinopyroxene, johannsenite, inverts to bustamite at elevated temperatures. The inversion boundary has been reversibly determined at five pressures up to 22 kbar, using synthetic phases, and shown to have the equation; P(kbar)=0.0411T(°C)–10.7The determination allows the calculation of the enthalpies and free energies of formation for both clinopyroxene and bustamite of CaMnSi₂O₆ composition, and these are compared with data available for the CaFeSi₂O₆ composition which shows analagous inversion behaviour. Johannsenite appears to be of comparable stability to hedenbergite at STP, but at elevated temperatures hedenbergite may be stabilised by crystal field effects associated with the Fe²⁺ ion. Together with the stabilisation of the bustamite structure by manganese, this accounts for the low inversion temperature of johannsenite compared to that for hedenbergite.  相似文献   

On the use and abuse of Newton's second law for variable mass problems     

Angel R. Plastino  Juan C. Muzzio 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》1992,53(3):227-232

We clarify some misunderstandings currently found in the literature that arise from improper application of Newton's second law to variable mass problems. In the particular case of isotropic mass loss, for example, several authors introduce a force that actually does not exist.Facultad de Ciencias Astronómicas y Geofisicas de la Universidad Nacional de La PlataOn a Fellowship from the Comisión de Investigaciones Cientificas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires.Member of the Carrera del Investigador Cientifico del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas de la República Argentina.  相似文献   

Testing the applicability of a Marine Biotic Index (AMBI) to assessing the ecological quality of soft-bottom benthic communities, in the South America Atlantic region   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Muniz P  Venturini N  Pires-Vanin AM  Tommasi LR  Borja A 《Marine pollution bulletin》2005,50(6):624-637

Recently, several monitoring programmes have been undertaken to evaluate the impact of different anthropogenic activities, upon a range of coastal ecosystems located in the South-western Atlantic. In the present contribution, the applicability of the AZTI's Marine Biotic Index (AMBI) is tested, to establish the benthic health of the ecosystem using these data sets. As the AMBI was created previously for use in European estuarine and coastal environments, its general applicability to new geographical locations is discussed. In general, the results are in agreement with those obtained using traditional univariate and multivariate methods. Some inconsistent results are observed, when low abundances and/or number of taxa are recorded in the samples. Moreover, when the macrofauna samples are dominated by large nematodes, the classification of the benthic ecosystem health using AMBI is not consistent with previous results achieved applying other statistical techniques. Thus, parallel to the application of this index to a wider extend, the complementary use of different indices and/or methods is recommended to assess confidently the environmental quality of a coastal area.  相似文献