Resistance of a coastal ecosystem to increasing eutrophic conditions: the Bay of Brest (France), a semi-enclosed zone of Western Europe     

Olivier Le Pape  Yolanda Del Amo  Alain Menesguen  Alain Aminot  Bernard Quequiner  Paul Treguer 《Continental Shelf Research》1996,16(15):1885-1907

The Bay of Brest is a semi-enclosed coastal ecosystem receiving high nutrients loading from freshwater inputs. In order to analyse the response of phytoplankton stocks to increasing eutrophic conditions, a survey of the annual cycle of hydrographic properties, nutrients and chlorophyll a concentrations, and carbon uptake rates was performed at four stations in 1993. This database has been compared to earlier measurements performed during several comparable surveys within the last 20 years. As compared to the seventies, a doubled nitrate loading is now entering this ecosystem, which is related to increased agricultural activities on the drainage basins, while the geographical origin of the nitrate input has been modified. As a result of these anthropogenic modifications, summer averaged Si/N stoichiometric balance has decreased during the two last decades but, contrary to what has been observed in other coastal ecosystems, phytoplankton stocks have not increased. Several ecological factors have hindered eutrophication: the high hydrodynamic mixing with adjacent marine waters, caused by the macrotidal regime, induces important nutrients losses, temperature and mostly light limit primary production while Si and P high recycling maintain nitrogen limitation in this ecosystem. Conjunction of these non-anthropogenic factors explains the global stability of phytoplankton stocks.  相似文献   

The Cretaceous–Tertiary transition in Guatemala: limestone breccia deposits from the South Petén basin     

W. Stinnesbeck  G. Keller  J. de la Cruz  C. de León  N. MacLeod  J. E. Whittaker 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1997,86(3):686-709

Limestone breccia deposits in southern Mexico, Guatemala and Belize have recently been interpreted as proximal to distal ballistic fallout deposits, generated by a bolide impact that struck Yucatan at K/T boundary time. We review the age, lithology and the depositional environment of five K/T boundary sections in the South Petén area of Guatemala (Caribe, Aserradero, Chisec, Actela, Chemal) in order to evaluate the nature and origin of K/T limestone breccia deposition. The sections are located 500?km south of the proposed impact site at Chicxulub and trend in an east–west direction from the Guatemala/Mexico border to southern Belize. In four of the five sections examined, a breccia unit up to 50?m thick overlies reef-bearing shallow-water limestones of late Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) age. Rhythmically bedded limestones, marls and siltstones of early Danian age overlie the breccia and were deposited under middle-to outer-neritic conditions. The breccia consists of differently coloured layers of shallow-water limestones. Clast size generally decreases upsection to thin layers of predominantly rounded clasts, and these fine-grained rudstones grade into grainstones at the top. In at least one section (EI Caribe) diagenetically altered glass spherules are present in the uppermost layers of the grainstone. These glass spherules are of stratigraphic position and chemical composition similar to black and yellow glass from Beloc, Haiti and Mimbral, Mexico, which some workers have chemically linked to melt glass within the breccia of the Chicxulub cores. We suggest that breccia deposition in Guatemala may have been multi-event, over an extended time period, and related to the collision of the Yucatan and Chortis plates as well as related to a major impact or volcanic event at the end of the Cretaceous.  相似文献   

关于L—Fuzzy子群     

刘龙章  乐励华 《华东地质学院学报》1997,20(3):293-300

本文利用模型子群概念，引入了Ｌ－Ｆｕｚｚｙ子群概念。基于模糊集合的层次结构特征，得到Ｌ－Ｆｕｚｚｙ了群若干重要性质；给出并证明Ｌ－Ｆｕｚｚｙ子群的一系列等价刻划；文章最后讨论Ｌ－Ｆｕｚｚｙ子群同态性质 。  相似文献   

赣东北地区重要火成岩的40Ar／39Ar年龄   总被引：11，自引：0，他引：11  

赵崇贺 《地球科学》1997,22(3):257-260

在赣东北蛇绿混杂岩带发现含晚古生代放射虫硅夺，测定了该带内的和带外几个关键地点的火山岩和辉长岩的＾４０Ａｒ／＾３０Ａｒ同位素地南年龄，获得了以下结果：火山岩的坪年龄为４３４．９－４８６．７Ｍａ，辉长岩的坪年龄为２３２．５－２６６．３Ｍａ，因此可以肯定赣东北地区有早生代晚期的火山活动，证实了上述火成冉不是中、新元古代的产物，它们中的一部分与晚古生代硅质岩都是蛇绿岩套的成员，属该区晚古生代洋壳的组成部  相似文献   

The effects of source rocks and chemical weathering on the petrogenesis of siliciclastic sand from the Neto River (Calabria, Italy): implications for provenance studies     

Emilia Le Pera  Josè Arribas  Salvatore Critelli  & Amparo Tortosa 《Sedimentology》2001,48(2):357-378

Plutonic and gneissic rocks of the Sila Massif in the uppermost portion of the Neto drainage basin (Calabria, Southern Italy) weather and erode under a humid Mediterranean climate. During the development of weathering profiles, a combination of chemical weathering and granular disintegration processes occurred. Chemical weathering involves a loss of both plagioclase (mainly during grus generation) and K-feldspar (mainly during soil formation). This loss is attributed to transformation of plagioclase to clay minerals and to leaching and dissolution of K-feldspar. Sand composition is quartzofeldspathic and nearly homogeneous along the main channel of the Neto River, even where the river cuts across a blanket of sedimentary cover. Thus, fluvial transport does not alter sand composition within the Neto drainage basin. Petrographic indices are effective in (1) discriminating between contributions from similar (granite and gneiss) source rocks (Qm/F); (2) relating the provenance of plutoniclastic and gneissiclastic sand found in the headwaters to grus horizons (Qm/F; Q/Rg); and (3) distinguishing between upstream first-cycle and downstream multicycle sand (Q/Rg). This last distinction is further emphasized by considering both aphanitic and phaneritic varieties of rock fragments (RgRmRs diagram). Chemical weathering is the main sand producer within the regolithic environment in northern Calabria. In addition, rapid erosion resulting from steep slopes removes weathered products, and rapid and short transport leads to minimal sediment maturation. In general, the F/Q index is climate and relief dependent; thus, it should be used in conjunction with palaeoclimatic and palaeophysiographic evidence for provenance interpretations of ancient quartzofeldspathic sandstones.  相似文献   

关于华南大地构造问题的再认识   总被引：29，自引：3，他引：29  

赵崇贺 《现代地质》1996,10(4):512-517

自８０年代以来，华南大地构造格局问题的讨论是我国地学的热点之一。有关华南陆块地质构造演化及形成时代存在多家之说，其中“江南古陆”是否存在与原“板溪群”时代的归属是争论的焦点。许多学者从不同的角度提出了各种观点和构造演化模式。从近几年来在皖南、赣东北地区的一系列新发现，可以得出如下看法：（１）“板溪群”不是一个前震旦纪的变质地层单位；（２）“江南古陆”是不存在的；（３）华南不存在加里东后地台，而存在晚古生代洋盆，它可能是东特提斯洋的一部分；（４）印支运动在赣东北地区有重要的表现，晚古生代浅变质岩和蛇绿混杂岩是它的岩石记录  相似文献   

On barotropic and baroclinic tides over an arbitrary sloping topography     

J. Y. Le Tareau  R. Maze 《Annales Geophysicae》1996,14(9):961-975

Some theoretical concepts about the frictionless dynamics of propagation of the barotropic tide over two-dimensional continental slopes of arbitrary shape are developed. A numerical procedure which generalizes the exact solution obtained over a rectilinear sloping topography is given. This technique can be applied to compute the harmonic components of the barotropic tide everywhere over sloping bottom contours of any shape. It permits in particular the avoidance of discontinuities at the boundaries of rectilinear-continental-slope profiles. The barotropic tidal results are used afterwards to calculate the barotropic forcing for the generation of internal tides. Numerical experiments are performed to study the interaction between the tide and some typical sloping topographies. A three-layered model is used for this purpose. Results are compared with those previously obtained over a rectilinear continental slope.  相似文献   

Radionuclides and sulfur content in Mount Etna plume in 1983–1995: new constraints on the magma feeding system     

M. F. Le Cloarec  M. Pennisi 《Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research》2001,108(1-4)

Radionuclide activities (²¹⁰Pb, ²¹⁰Bi, ²¹⁰Po) were investigated in Mount Etna plume from 1983 to 1995. At SE crater the long-term observation (12 years) of the ²¹⁰Po/²¹⁰Pb ratio shows that it can behave as a degassing vent not directly related to the main magma reservoir depending on the magma level inside the volcano. Since 1992, the simultaneous determination of radionuclides and sulfur in the main plume results in new constraints on the degassing model of Lambert et al. (Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 76 (1986) 185). The ²¹⁰Po/SO₂ and ²¹⁰Pb/SO₂ ratios enable us to identify two sources of ²¹⁰Po in the plume: one is magmatic, correlated with SO₂, the other one is an additional component issued from the decay of ²¹⁰Pb in the shallow degassing cell, and depends directly on the residence time of the gases before their emission. Estimations of the volume of degassing magma, the residence time of the gases and the proportion of undegassed magma renewing the shallow degassing cell are given for the period 1992–1995. During the 1992 eruption, the rate of degassing magma volume is estimated to have been as high as 5×10⁶ m³/day, and the volume of the shallow degassing magma reservoir about 0.5 km³. In 1994 and 1995 the rate of non-erupted degassing magma volume was estimated to have been about 0.18 km³/year. During the entire 1983–1995 period, only 15–20% of the degassed magma was erupted.  相似文献   

A Model of PCB Bioaccumulation in the Sea Bass Food Web from the Seine Estuary (Eastern English Channel)     

V. Loizeau  A. Abarnou  P. Cugier  A. Jaouen-Madoulet  A. -M. Le Guellec  A. Menesguen 《Marine pollution bulletin》2001,43(7-12):242-255

A bioaccumulation model was developed to simulate the PCB contamination in the sea bass food web from the Seine Estuary. The model relies upon a contaminant mass balance budget for each biological species. Biological processes determine the extent of bioaccumulation: respiration and feeding rates control the uptake of contaminants whereas excretion, spawning, and growth act on the chemicals removal. A step-by-step modelling approach was followed. A first version was a steady-state model validated for the bioaccumulation processes. In the second version seasonal variation was taken into account, and finally in the third version, the model was coupled with a population dynamics model to describe PCB contamination in each age class.  相似文献   

从陕西旬邑上新生界剖面看黄土高原新近系/第四系界线   总被引：6，自引：2，他引：6  

薛祥煦  岳乐平  王建其 《地层学杂志》2001,25(3):161-165

新近系 /第四系界线在黄土高原大都以磁性 M/ Ga界线为界进行划分 ,它与岩性分界往往并不一致 ,后者都低或高于前者一小段距离。根据旬邑剖面的岩性、孢粉、古动物、磁化率、粒度及地化资料 ,并参考了其他一些剖面的岩性 ,认为以二者之间的过渡层底为界进行划分比较合理  相似文献