The particular “rammed earth” of the Saadian sugar refinery of Chichaoua (XVIth century,Morocco): mineralogical,chemical and mechanical characteristics     

Naoual Gamrani  Khalid R’kha Chaham  Mouncif Ibnoussina  Fabio Fratini  Luisa Rovero  Ugo Tonietti  Mohammed Mansori  Lehcen Daoudi  Claude Favotto  Nasrrddine Youbi 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2012,66(1):129-140

This work focuses on the building material used in the Saadian sugar refinery of Chichaoua (about 70 km southwest of Marrakesh). The study involved a classification of different types of rammed earth, followed by their mineralogical characterization based on optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). These studies are complemented by chemical investigations, X-ray fluorescence, and thermal analysis (DTA and TGA). The results demonstrate the use of two types of earth for the realisation of rammed earth, the first one non-plastic, -grained with added lime, the other one of low plasticity, and fine grained without addition of lime. Mechanical tests on site and in laboratory how at the first type of material exhibits great strength, exceeding the values known for rammed earth.  相似文献   

Devonian–Carboniferous slivers within the basement area of north-east Oscar II Land, Spitsbergen     

Yoshihide Ohta  Claude Lepvrier  Friedhelm Thiedig 《Polar research》2000,19(2):217-226

Formed during an early compressional period in the opening of North Atlantic Ocean, a Tertiary fold-thrust belt extends along the mid-to- southern part of the western coast of Spitsbergen. Complex thrust structures involve the basement (Caledonian and older) and many shallow dipping thrust faults dissect the overlying cover rocks (Devonian and younger) in Oscar II Land in the northern part of the belt. Some of these faults occur within the basement rocks with slivers or fault blocks of the cover rocks from south-western Brøggerhalvøya to innermost St. Jonsfjorden in north-eastern Oscar II Land. Six of the slivers contain Carboniferous rocks and one is a fault-bounded block with Devonian rocks. These steeply west-dipping faults form a complex fault system- EOFC (Engelskbukta-Osbornbreen Fault Complex) - within the basement area. The lithological units of the basement are separated by faults within the EOFC, which is structurally continuous with the Brøggerhalvøya fold-thrust zone to the north and is thought to continue to the fold-thrust zone on the south-eastern coast of St. Jonsfjorden. Some previous authors considered that the two lithologically contrasting Vendian diamictites and intervening Moefjellet Formation are stratigraphically continuous and defined two separate tilloid successions in the present area. This interpretation has been extended over the whole of western Spitsbergen. However, the present study indicates that these two tilloid formations and the Moefjellet Formation are separated by the faults, probably thrusts, within the EOFC and are not in a continuous stratigraphic relation. Therefore, the two-stage history of Vendian glaciation seems questionable.  相似文献   

Microstructures of metal grains in ordinary chondrites: Implications for their thermal histories     

Hugues LEROUX  Jean‐Claude DOUKHAN  Claude PERRON 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2000,35(3):569-580

Abstract— This paper reports one of the first attempts to investigate by analytical transmission electron microscopy (ATEM) the microstructures and compositions of Fe‐Ni metal grains in ordinary chondrites. Three ordinary chondrites, Saint Séverin (LL6), Agen (H5), and Tsarev (L6) were selected because they display contrasting microstructures, which reflects different thermal histories. In Saint Séverin, the microstructure of the Ni‐rich metal grains is due to slow cooling. It consists of a two‐phase assemblage with a honeycomb structure resulting from spinodal decomposition similar to the cloudy zone of iron meteorites. Microanalyses show that the Ni‐rich phase is tetrataenite (Ni = 47 wt%) and the Ni‐poor phase, with a composition of ～25% Ni, is either martensite or taenite, these two occurring adjacent to each other. The observation that the Ni‐poor phase is partly fcc resolves the disagreement between previous transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and Mössbauer studies on iron meteorites and ordinary chondrite metal. The Ni content of the honeycomb phase is much higher than in mesosiderites, confirming that mesosiderites cooled much more slowly. The high‐Ni tetrataenite rim in contact with the cloudy zone displays high‐Ni compositional variability on a very fine scale, which suggests that the corresponding area was destabilized and partially decomposed at low temperature. Both Agen and Tsarev display evidence of reheating and subsequent fast cooling obviously related to shock events. Their metallic particles mostly consist of martensite, the microstructure of which depends on local Ni content. Microstructures are controlled by both the temperature at which martensite forms and that at which it possibly decomposes. In high‐Ni zones (>15 wt%), martensitic transformation started at low temperature (<300 °C). Because no further recovery occurred, these zones contain a high density of lattice defects. In low‐Ni zones (<15 wt%), martensite grains formed at higher temperature and their lattice defects recovered. These martensite grains present a lath texture with numerous tiny precipitates of Ni‐rich taenite (Ni = 50 wt%) at lath boundaries. Nickel composition profiles across precipitate‐matrix interfaces show that the growth of these precipitates was controlled by preferential diffusion of Ni along lattice defects. The cooling rates deduced from Ni concentration profiles and precipitate sizes are within the range 1–10 °C/year for Tsarev and 10–100 °C/year for Agen.  相似文献   

Burial rates of organic matter along the eastern Canadian margin and stable isotope constraints on its origin and diagenetic evolution   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Alfred N. N. Muzuka  Claude Hillaire-Marcel 《Marine Geology》1999,160(3-4):251-270

Organic carbon (OC) and nitrogen (N) contents and δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N values in total organic matter (OM) were measured in sub-surface sediments (0–30 cm sub-bottom) from 21 cores raised from the Laurentian Channel of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Labrador Sea, to document OM fluxes and storage along the eastern Canadian margin. Storage rates as high as 2.5 g m⁻² yr⁻¹ for OC and 0.2 g m⁻² yr⁻¹ for N are observed in the Laurentian Channel, suggesting that the shelf plays a significant role in terms of OM storage (from 1 to 2% of the primary production). Based on the isotopic composition of the essentially marine OM of the Labrador Sea (δ¹³C/V-PDB=−21.9±0.4‰; δ¹⁵N/AIR=7.6±0.6‰; n=12), there is no isotopic evidence for a significant relative input of terrestrial OM along the Laurentian Channel (δ¹³C/V-PDB=−21.9±0.4‰; δ¹⁵N/AIR=8.0±0.9‰; n=10), either due to high relative fluxes of marine OM and/or to the trapping of continental OM in the estuary and upstream. High storage rates of OM are also observed on the continental rise of the Labrador Sea (as high as 1.1 g C m⁻² yr⁻¹ and 0.09 g N m⁻² yr⁻¹). They contrast with one order of magnitude lower rates on the slope, due to low sedimentation rates (SR) and sediment winnowing by the Western Boundary Undercurrent (WBUC). Reduced early diagenetic alteration of OM is observed, particularly in the Laurentian Channel. It results in discrete (i) losses of OC and N, (ii) shifts in C/N ratios, suggesting preferential removal of N-bearing OM also highlighted by losses in total hydrolysable amino acids (HAA). In the Labrador Sea slope records, due to low SR, OM concentration changes linked to long term temporal variations may superimpose on these diagenetic trends, and some influence of the WBUC is noticeable.  相似文献   

Contrasting responses of oligochaetes (Annelida) and chironomids (Diptera) to the abatement of eutrophication in Lake Neuchâtel   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Claude Lang 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》1999,61(3):206-214

: Lake Neuchâtel (Switzerland) has been recovering from human-induced eutrophication since 1982. Oligochaetes and chironomid larvae were used to monitor the recovery of sediment at a depth of 40 m. In oligochaete communities, the mean proportion of individuals belonging to species indicative of oligotrophic conditions (mostly Spirosperma velutinus and Stylodrilus heringianus) increased from 16 % in 1984 to 33 % in 1992, but decreased to 11 % in 1997. Based on oligochaetes, benthic conditions deteriorated in 1997 whereas, based on the increase of oligotrophic chironomids (mostly Micropsectra), they improved. This difference was attributed to the impact of large planktonic algae whose sedimentation had altered oxygen concentrations at the water-sediment interface. Oligochaetes were more affected than chironomids because they are less mobile and they depend more on the inner sediment for their food and reproduction than the latter. However, based on the combined response of oligochaetes and chironomids, benthic recovery was stalled in 1997 but was not reversed.  相似文献   

Dark Matter in Clusters of Galaxies     

Claude R. Canizares 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1999,267(1-4):251-260

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利用多模式对中国气温序列中不连续点的检测   总被引：11，自引：4，他引：7  

李庆祥  MattheW J.Menne  Claude N.Williams Jr  Bomin Sun 《气候与环境研究》2005,10(4):736-742

发展了一种对元数据依赖程度较小的气候序列均一化思路,在缺乏元数据的基础上,采取3种不同的方法,对中国东南部地区年平均最高、最低气温序列进行了均一性检验;并对其中不连续的气温序列进行了订正.对比表明,订正后序列较订正前更为合理.在检验过程中发现,对于最低气温检验可以明显得出比最高气温更多的不连续点.为了进一步认识这个问题,对此进行了进一步分析,认为最低温度对变化更为敏感主要是由于其物理特征:最低温度一般出现在夜间,夜间大气较为稳定,因此一些变化(如仪器,迁站)可能引起明显的不连续现象,而最高气温往往出现在白天,因此大气混合比较充分,空间的均一性要明显强于最低温度.另外,热岛现象、台站密度等因素均是影响气温序列均一化的因素.  相似文献   

Land use change effects on runoff and erosion from plot to catchment scale on the basaltic plateau of Southern Brazil     

Nilza Maria Dos Reis Castro  Anne‐Vronique Auzet  Pierre Chevallier  Jean‐Claude Leprun 《水文研究》1999,13(11):1621-1628

In the region of the basaltic plateau in Southern Brazil, problems of runoff and erosion on the deep ferrallitic soils are becoming increasingly recognized. Land use change from conventional tillage using disk plough to no‐tillage on residues without terracing occurred at the beginning of the 1990s and it spread very quickly. Measurements of runoff and sediment concentrations on 1 m² plots receiving natural rainfall and simulated rainfall under different crops with different stages of growth and different tillage systems, field surveys and measurements of rills and gullies in nested experimental catchments indicate a relative decrease of runoff on slopes but an increase of subsurface flow, and a marked decrease of sheet and rill erosion and soil loss from plot to catchment scales. Nevertheless, the extension of parts of the gully system is still continuing, strongly influenced by extreme rainfall. Copyright © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

硝酸钠改良半咸水凡纳滨对虾(Litopenaeus vannamei)池塘底质和水质的研究          下载免费PDF全文

江兴龙  关瑞章  Claude E. Boyd 《海洋与湖沼》2009,40(5):557-562

采用在8口土池开展半咸水养殖凡纳滨对虾施用NaNO3对比实验的方法,进行了硝酸钠对半咸水对虾养殖池塘底质和水质的改良效果、机理及应用前景的研究。结果表明,NaNO3处理组显著提高了池塘底泥表层的氧化还原电位,显著降低了底泥的BOD5和可利用磷的浓度;显著降低了池塘水中的蓝藻相对密度;处理组的养殖成活率、产量和饲料系数分别比对照组显著提高8.2%、10.1%和降低9.2%(P<0.05);处理组养殖效益明显高于对照组,每公顷池塘养虾净增加收入人民币9765元;NaNO3的施用起到了有效改良池塘底质和水质的作用。因此,NaNO3的应用可为半咸水对虾养殖池塘底质和水质的改良开辟一个新的途径,具有一定的应用前景。  相似文献