Isotope Dilution MC-ICP-MS Rare Earth Element Analysis of Geochemical Reference Materials NIST SRM 610, NIST SRM 612, NIST SRM 614, BHVO-2G, BHVO-2, BCR-2G, JB-2, WS-E, W-2, AGV-1 and AGV-2     

Adam J.R. Kent  Benjamin Jacobsen  David W. Peate  Tod E. Waight  Joel A. Baker 《Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research》2004,28(3):417-429

We present data for the concentrations of eleven rare earth elements (La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Dy, Er, Yb, Lu) in eleven international geochemical reference materials obtained by isotope dilution multi-collector inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (MC-ICP-MS). We have analysed both rock powders and synthetic silicate glasses, and the latter provide precise data to support the use of these as reference materials for in situ trace element determination techniques. Our data also provide precise measurements of the abundance of mono-isotopic Pr in both glasses and powders, which allows more accurate constraints on the anomalous redox-related behaviour of Ce during geochemical processes. All materials were analysed in replicate providing data that typically reproduce to better than one percent. Sm/Nd ratios in all these materials also reproduce to better than 0.2% and are accurate to < 0.2% and can thus be used as calibrants for Sm-Nd geochronology. Our analyses agree well with existing data on these reference materials. In particular, for NIST SRM 610, USGS BHVO-2, AGV-1 and AGV-2, our measured REE abundances are typically within < 2% (and mostly 1%) of REE concentrations previously determined by isotope dilution analysis and thermal ionisation mass spectrometry, consistent with the higher degree of precision and accuracy obtained from isotope dilution techniques. Close agreement of results between basaltic glass reference materials USGS BHVO-2G and BCR-2G and the BHVO-2 and BCR-2 powders from which they were created suggests that little fractionation, concentration or dilution of REE contents occurred during glass manufacture.  相似文献   

Designing Better Map Interfaces: A Framework for Panning and Zooming   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Mark Harrower  Benjamin Sheesley 《Transactions in GIS》2005,9(2):77-89

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Risk-Based Reanalysis of the Effects of Climate Change on U.S. Cold-water Habitat     

Benjamin L. Preston 《Climatic change》2006,76(1-2):91-119

Summary A probabilistic risk assessment was conducted for the effects of future climate change on U.S. cold-water habitat. Damage functions for the loss of current cold-water fish habitat in the United States and the Rocky Mountain region were integrated with probability distributions for U.S. June/July/August (JJA) temperature change using Monte Carlo techniques. Damage functions indicated temperature thresholds for incipient losses (≥5%) of cold-water habitat in the United States and the Rocky Mountains of 0.6 and 0.4 ^∘C, respectively. Median impacts associated with different temperature distributions suggested habitat loss in 2025, 2050, and 2100 of approximately 10, 20, and 30%, respectively, for the United States and 20, 35, and 50%, respectively, in the Rocky Mountains. However, 2100 losses in excess of 60% and 90% were possible for the United States and the Rocky Mountains, respectively, albeit at low probabilities. The implementation of constraints on greenhouse gas emissions conforming to the WRE750/550/350 stabilization scenarios had little effect on reducing habitat loss out to 2050, but median effects in 2100 were reduced by up to 20, 30, and 60%, respectively. Increased focus on probabilistic risk assessment may be a profitable mechanism for enhancing understanding and communication of climate change impacts and, subsequently, risk management.  相似文献   

Modelling Regional Climate Change Effects On Potential Natural Ecosystems in Sweden   总被引：9，自引：0，他引：9  

Deniz Koca  Benjamin Smith  Martin T. Sykes 《Climatic change》2006,78(2-4):381-406

This study aims to demonstrate the potential of a process-based regional ecosystem model, LPJ-GUESS, driven by climate scenarios generated by a regional climate model system (RCM) to generate predictions useful for assessing effects of climatic and CO₂ change on the key ecosystem services of carbon uptake and storage. Scenarios compatible with the A2 and B2 greenhouse gas emission scenarios of the Special Report on Emission Scenarios (SRES) and with boundary conditions from two general circulation models (GCMs) – HadAM3H and ECHAM4/OPYC3 – were used in simulations to explore changes in tree species distributions, vegetation structure, productivity and ecosystem carbon stocks for the late 21st Century, thus accommodating a proportion of the GCM-based and emissions-based uncertainty in future climate development. The simulations represented in this study were of the potential natural vegetation ignoring direct anthropogenic effects. Results suggest that shifts in climatic zones may lead to changes in species distribution and community composition among seven major tree species of natural Swedish forests. All four climate scenarios were associated with an extension of the boreal forest treeline with respect to altitude and latitude. In the boreal and boreo-nemoral zones, the dominance of Norway spruce and to a lesser extent Scots pine was reduced in favour of deciduous broadleaved tree species. The model also predicted substantial increases in vegetation net primary productivity (NPP), especially in central Sweden. Expansion of forest cover and increased local biomass enhanced the net carbon sink over central and northern Sweden, despite increased carbon release through decomposition processes in the soil. In southern Sweden, reduced growing season soil moisture levels counterbalanced the positive effects of a longer growing season and increased carbon supply on NPP, with the result that many areas were converted from a sink to a source of carbon by the late 21st century. The economy-oriented A2 emission scenario would lead to higher NPP and stronger carbon sinks according to the simulations than the environment-oriented B2 scenario.  相似文献   

Shock-induced volatile loss from a carbonaceous chondrite: implications for planetary accretion   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

James A. Tyburczy  Benjamin Frisch  Thomas J. Ahrens 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1986,80(3-4):201-207

Solid-recovery impact-induced volatile loss experiments on the Murchison C2M meteorite indicate that for an impact of a given velocity, H₂O and total volatiles are driven from the sample in the same proportion as present initially. We infer that the volatiles other than H₂O driven from the meteorite also have the same bulk composition as those of the starting material. Thus, the early bulk composition of an impact-induced atmosphere of a planet growing by accretion from material like Murchison would be the same as the volatile composition of the incident planetesimals. Incipient devolatilization of Murchison occurs at an initial shock pressure of about 11 GPa and complete devolatilization occurs at a pressure of about 30 GPa. If an Earth-sized planet were formed from the infall of planetesimals of Murchison composition, incipient and complete devolatilization of accreting planetesimals would occur when the planet reached approximately 12% and 27%, respectively, of its final radius. Thus, impact-induced devolatilization of accreting planetesimals and of the hydrated surface would profoundly affect the distribution of volatiles within the accreting planet. For example, for a cold, homogeneous accretion of a planet, prior to metallic core formation and internal differentiation, the growing planet would have a very small core with the same volatile content as the incident material, a volatile-depleted “mantle”, and an extremely volatile-rich surface.  相似文献   

Release of radioactivity from waste packages     

Benjamin Ross 《Engineering Geology》1989,26(4):351-372

The rates at which nuclides contained in high-level wastes are released into solution may be controlled by chemical kinetics, equilibrium solubilities, or solid-state diffusion. Recent research has focused on equilibrium solubility as a relatively predictable factor that in many situations can be expected to hold release rates to low levels. Simple analytic solutions based on equilibrium solubility are available to describe dissolution in various physical situations. For more soluble elements, chemical kinetics may need to be invoked if low release rates must be demonstrated.  相似文献   

Global positioning system carrier phase: Description and use     

Benjamin W. Remondi 《Journal of Geodesy》1985,59(4):361-377

After removing the modulation from the Global Positioning System (GPS) signal (L ₁ orL ₂) a pure carrier signal remains. Suppose this carrier is continuously and precisely tracked by aGPS receiver. Furthermore, suppose the phase of the carrier is periodically measured and recorded (nearly simultaneously at two or more locations) with respect to receiver oscillators having the same nominal frequency as theGPS carrier. This paper first considers alternative modeling and processing approaches to these observational data for static operations. Then an approach to dynamic relative positioning using triple differences is presented. This approach should lend itself to performing centimeter accuracy relative surveys in seconds rather than hours. An approach to fixing cycle slips, automatically, is included.  相似文献   

Initial relative positioning results using the global positioning system     

Clyde C. Goad  Benjamin W. Remondi 《Journal of Geodesy》1984,58(2):193-210

The National Geodetic Survey (NGS) has become increasingly involved with research and development for relative positioning using the Global Positioning System (GPS). The NGS has procured two Macrometers^TM and is also a participant in the development of the Texas Instruments' TI4100. The Macrometers were delivered in March 1983 and 3 months of testing has now been completed. These data have been processed using a variety of newly developed processing techniques, and numerical intercomparisons of several base line solutions are given. A byproduct of one technique is the estimation of the relative variations of the ground clocks to the subnanosecond level. ^™Macrometer is a registered trademark of Macrometrics, Inc., Woburn, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Presented at the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, XVIII General Assembly, Hamburg, August 15–27, 1983.  相似文献   

Growth,production, food consumption,and mortality of juvenile spot and croaker: A comparison of tidal and nontidal nursery areas     

Benjamin M. Currin  James P. Reed  John M. Miller 《Estuaries and Coasts》1984,7(4):451-459

As the dominant juvenile finfish in southeast and Gulf of Mexico nursery areas, spot and croaker growth, food consumption, production, and mortality are compared in tidal salt marshes and nontidal brackish systems. Growth rates of spot and croaker from 5 studies ranged from 0.021–0.04 g per g per d. Differences in the annual production and food consumption estimates were primarily due to differences in average biomass. Although mean biomass varied widely, the daily production to mean biomass ratios ranged from 0.021–0.037, suggesting that these systems probably could support more juvenile fish than are present. Spot mortality ranged from 0.023–0.041% per d. Despite large hydrographic differences between tidal and nontidal systems and large differences in the amount of detrital input, the secondary production values and many of the fish population parameters are remarkably similar. This is interpreted as confirmation of the basic trophic similarity of the different systems and the highly adaptable and general nature of juvenile fish. The primary consumers are supported by 50–100% of the algal production. But because the dominant fishes consume only 10–35% of that secondary production, at least in some systems, food does not appear to limit juvenile fish production. Predation on the juveniles is implicated as a limiting factor.  相似文献   

Unilateral ARMA processes on a square net by the herringbone method     

Benjamin F. Turner  W. E. Sharp 《Mathematical Geology》1994,26(5):557-564

Because multidimensional ARMA processes have great potential for the simulation of geological parameters such as aquifer permeability, it was important to resolve which of two proposed alternative methods should be used for determining the two-dimensional weighting parameter, , for a unilateral ARMA (1, 0) process on a square net. Practical simulations demonstrates that the correct formulation is: =₁₀/(1+ ₁₀ ² where _r,s is the correlation between lattice points at lagsr and s. When the simulations are performed with correlations of 0.8 or more a residual bias was detected which was found to be caused by a difference in the variance between the one- and two-dimensional models. This can be rectified by modifying the two- dimensional model as follows: z_ij=(z_{i–1, j} + z_{i, j–1}) + a_ij where ²=1/(1 + ₁₀ ² ).  相似文献