Use of Systematic, Palaeoflood and Historical Data for the Improvement of Flood Risk Estimation. Review of Scientific Methods   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Gerardo Benito  Michel Lang  Mariano Barriendos  M. Carmen Llasat  Felix Francés  Taha Ouarda  Varyl Thorndycraft  Yehouda Enzel  Andras Bardossy  Denis Coeur  Bernard Bobée 《Natural Hazards》2004,31(3):623-643

The catastrophic floods recently occurring in Europe warn of the critical need forhydrologic data on floods over long-time scales. Palaeoflood techniques provideinformation on hydrologic variability and extreme floods over long-time intervals(100 to 10,000 yr) and may be used in combination with historical flood data (last1,000 yr) and the gauge record (last 30–50 yr). In this paper, advantages anduncertainties related to the reconstruction of palaeofloods in different geomorphologicalsettings and historical floods using different documentary sources are described.Systematic and non-systematic data can be combined in the flood frequency analysisusing different methods for the adjustment of distribution functions. Technical toolsintegrating multidisciplinary approaches (geologic, historical, hydraulic and statistical)on extreme flood risk assessment are discussed. A discussion on the potential theoreticalbases for solving the problem of dealing with non-systematic and non-stationary data ispresented. This methodology is being developed using new methodological approachesapplied to European countries as a part of a European Commission funded project (SPHERE).  相似文献   

Hydrous ferric oxide precipitation in the presence of nonmetabolizing bacteria: Constraints on the mechanism of a biotic effect     

Denis G. Rancourt  Pierre-Jean Thibault  Denis Mavrocordatos  Gilles Lamarche 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2005,69(3):553-577

We have used room temperature and cryogenic ⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy, powder X-ray diffraction (pXRD), mineral magnetometry, and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), to study the synthetic precipitation of hydrous ferric oxides (HFOs) prepared either in the absence (abiotic, a-HFO) or presence (biotic, b-HFO) of nonmetabolizing bacterial cells (Bacillus subtilis or Bacillus licheniformis, ∼10⁸ cells/mL) and under otherwise identical chemical conditions, starting from Fe(II) (10⁻², 10⁻³, or 10⁻⁴ mol/L) under open oxic conditions and at different pH (6-9). We have also performed the first Mössbauer spectroscopy measurements of bacterial cell wall (Bacillus subtilis) surface complexed Fe, where Fe(III) (10^−3.5-10^−4.5 mol/L) was added to a fixed concentration of cells (∼10⁸ cells/mL) under open oxic conditions and at various pH (2.5-4.3). We find that non-metabolic bacterial cell wall surface complexation of Fe is not passive in that it affects Fe speciation in at least two ways: (1) it can reduce Fe(III) to sorbed-Fe²⁺ by a proposed steric and charge transfer effect and (2) it stabilizes Fe(II) as sorbed-Fe²⁺ against ambient oxidation. The cell wall sorption of Fe occurs in a manner that is not compatible with incorporation into the HFO structure (different coordination environment and stabilization of the ferrous state) and the cell wall-sorbed Fe is not chemically bonded to the HFO particle when they coexist (the sorbed Fe is not magnetically polarized by the HFO particle in its magnetically ordered state). This invalidates the concept that sorption is the first step in a heterogeneous nucleation of HFO onto bacterial cell walls. Both the a-HFOs and the b-HFOs are predominantly varieties of ferrihydrite (Fh), often containing admixtures of nanophase lepidocrocite (nLp), yet they show significant abiotic/biotic differences: Biotic Fh has less intraparticle (including surface region) atomic order (Mössbauer quadrupole splitting), smaller primary particle size (magnetometry blocking temperature), weaker Fe to particle bond strength (Mössbauer center shift), and no six-line Fh (6L-Fh) admixture (pXRD, magnetometry). Contrary to current belief, we find that 6L-Fh appears to be precipitated directly, under a-HFO conditions, from either Fe(II) or Fe(III), and depending on Fe concentration and pH, whereas the presence of bacteria disables all such 6L-Fh precipitation and produces two-line Fh (2L-Fh)-like biotic coprecipitates. Given the nature of the differences between a-HFO and b-HFO and their synthesis condition dependences, several biotic precipitation mechanisms (template effect, near-cell environment effect, catalyzed nucleation and/or growth effect, and substrate-based coprecipitation) are ruled out. The prevailing present view of a template or heterogeneous nucleation barrier reduction effect, in particular, is shown not to be the cause of the large observed biotic effects on the resulting HFOs. The only proposed mechanism (relevant to Fh) that is consistent with all our observations is coprecipitation with and possible surface poisoning by ancillary bacteriagenic compounds. That bacterial cell wall functional groups are redox active and the characteristics of biotic (i.e., natural) HFOs compared to those of abiotic (i.e., synthetic) HFOs have several possible biogeochemical implications regarding Fe cycling, in the photic zones of water columns in particular.  相似文献   

Modes of thickening of analogue weak lithospheres   总被引：4，自引：2，他引：4  

Florence Cagnard  Jean-Pierre Brun  Denis Gapais 《Tectonophysics》2006,421(1-2):145-160

Several compressional contexts, such as those involving juvenile or thickened crust, are expected to be associated with rather hot lithospheres whose mechanical behaviour remains poorly documented. In this paper, we present a series of analogue models dedicated to compression of lithospheres characterized by a thin upper brittle crust overlying a weak ductile crust and a ductile sub-Moho mantle. The models show that (1) deformation is controlled by the ductile layers that undergo distributed thickening, (2) thrust systems are limited to the upper brittle crust, (3) thrusting induces burial and stacking of upper crust pop-downs. The overall deformation patterns can be basically interpreted in terms of pop-down thrusting of the brittle crust and pure-shear type ductile flow of crust and mantle. Moreover, the models show that the sinking of supracrustal units does not require inverse density profiles but can be simply driven by compression. Model deformation patterns are consistent with those shared by many ancient belts, including not only Archaean granite–greenstone belts, but also more generally Paleoproterozoic ones. They provide also insights on deformation modes that may characterize modern thickened and abnormally hot domains like High Plateaus.  相似文献   

Effects of food particle size on Perca fluviatilis larval growth     

Lakhdar Tamazouzt  Claude Leray  Anne-Marie Escaffre  Denis Terver 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》1998,60(2):89-98

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Experimental Evaluation of Factors Affecting Temporal Variability of Water Samples Obtained from Long-Screened Wells   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

Thomas E. Reilly  Denis R. LeBlanc 《Ground water》1998,36(4):566-576

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Quantifying the Effects of Well Development in Unconsolidated Material     

Gilles Wendling  Robert P. Chapuis  Denis E. Gill 《Ground water》1997,35(3):387-393

A fully instrumented physical model was designed and built to reproduce development by surging and monitor its effects during surging and after development. The model simulates a horizontal layer in a confined aquifer with control of vertical overburden pressure. An automatic apparatus produced development by surging in successive phases up to 24 hours. Aquifer tests in steady-state conditions were performed between successive phases. The paper reports the main results of three experiments performed with Johnson screens 200 mm in diameter; they had slot sizes between the D₅₄ and D₇₀ of the aquifer soil. This soil was placed under controlled conditions, and initial homogeneity was obtained as confirmed by initial control tests. Pore pressures (and thus hydraulic heads) were continuously monitored during development phases and aquifer tests by 22 electronic piezometers at distances between 0 and 1 m from the screen. These piezometers measured water pressures every 0.1 s when required. Solid particles passing through the screen were recovered to study the solid yield and the gradation of particles. Positive and negative values of local gradients reached values up to 400 close to the screen at the beginning of development and decreased with time of development. These high values produced high seepage forces displacing particles in the aquifer. The well yield was increased by a factor of 6 after development. These model test results confirmed empirical criteria on entrance velocity, internal stability criteria, and field values of "sand" production by development. In addition, they enabled a quantification of skin effects to be considered in interpreting an aquifer test.  相似文献   

Automated Calibration of a Contaminant Transport Model for a Shallow Sand Aquifer     

K. John Holmes  Wen-sen Chu  Denis R. Erickson 《Ground water》1989,27(4):501-508

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Book review     

G. Leigh Anderson  Denis Marcotte 《Mathematical Geosciences》1986,18(5):511-515

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Petrogenesis of orthopyroxene-magnetite-ilmenite intergrowths from an ultramafic layer     

Denis Daval 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1987,95(3):301-310

A new occurrence of myrmekitic orthopyroxene-magnetite-ilmenite intergrowth from a thin ultramafic layer within a heterogeneous noritic rock from the Frederiksdal area, South Greenland, was investigated chemically and texturally. Compositionally, the intergrown ilmenite and orthopyroxene show the lowest recorded MgO content from pyroxene-oxide mineral intergrowths. The magnetite-ilmenite intergrowth has skeletal morphology, consisting of sets of thinly tabular plates parallel to the (111) planes of the spinel structure. The orthopyroxene-oxide intergrowth is considered to be the result of a simultaneous magmatic crystallization, that of the oxide minerals being faster.  相似文献   

Fission-track dating of glass inclusions in volcanic quartz     

Denis Vincent  Roberto Clocchiatti  Yves Langevin 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1984,71(2):340-348

We have extended fission-track dating techniques to volcanic pyroclastic rocks, using quartz-bearing uranium-rich glass inclusions. We use both the glass itself and the surrounding quartz as track detectors, the latter having a much higher resetting temperature. We can thus derive the age of the last low-temperature thermal event, as well as that of the most recent deposition of quartz on the walls of the inclusions. This method has been applied to a Sardinian sample and to a Moroccan Precambrian sample.  相似文献