Plants As Indicators of Focused Ground Water Discharge to a Northern Minnesota Lake     

Donald O. Rosenberry  Robert G. Striegl  Dallas C. Hudson 《Ground water》2000,38(2):296-303

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Cooling rates of hyaloclastites: applications of relaxation geospeedometry to undersea volcanic deposits   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Martin Wilding  Donald Dingwell  Rodey Batiza  Lionel Wilson 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2000,61(8):527-536

 Glass fragments from three different hyaloclastites have been used to evaluate the range of cooling rates experienced by undersea volcanic deposits. We found that the glass fragments retain structures with a range of apparent quench rates from 25 to 0.15 K min^–1. The most rapid cooling rates are interpreted to be those resulting from cooling of the lava near the water interface. Simple conductive cooling models produce a range of quench rates comparable to those of the more rapidly cooled samples. The very slow apparent quench rates are unlikely to result from simple linear cooling through the glass transition, because of the onset of crystallization; instead, they are indicators of a more complex thermal history that involves the annealing of glasses at temperatures within the glass transition interval for a dwell time sufficient to allow the relaxation of the glass to lower temperature structures. The thermal history recorded in these samples illustrates the complexity of eruptive processes and demonstrates that quench rates for natural glasses retain information relevant to more complex cooling models. Received: 10 February 1999 / Accepted: 9 September 1999  相似文献   

Deforestation, hunting and the ecology of microbial emergence     

Nathan D. Wolfe  Mpoudi Ngole Eitel  Jim Gockowski  Pia K. Muchaal  Christian Nolte  A. Tassy Prosser  Judith Ndongo Torimiro  Stephan F. Weise  Donald S. Burke 《Global Change & Human Health》2000,1(1):10-25

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Dissolved silicate dynamics of the Rhode River watershed and estuary     

David L. Correll  Thomas E. Jordan  Donald E. Weller 《Estuaries and Coasts》2000,23(2):188-198

We continuously measured dissolved silicate concentrations and fluxes discharged from various Rhode River subwatersheds for a period of 14 yr from 1984 to 1998 and for 15 mo in 1971–1972. We also measured dissolved silicate concentrations along a transect from the head of the tide in Rhode River estuary to Chesapeake Bay. The average concentration of dissolved silicate discharged from the Rhode River watershed was 10.8 mg Si l^?1. There were consistent and significant differences in silicate concentrations discharged over time and space among subwatersheds. Mean annual silicate flux from the watershed was 26.6 kg Si ha^?1 and 93% of this occurred during the winter and spring seasons. There were large interannual variations in silicate flux, due primarily to differences in precipitation and water discharge, rather than silicate concentration. Land use had little or no effect on silicate flux from various subwatersheds. Silicate concentrations discharged from a subset of subwatersheds in 1995–1996 were 25% to 35% lower than in a period with similar precipitation in 1971–1972. Mean annual concentrations of silicate discharged from nine subwatersheds have been declining about 1.5% yr^?1 or by 0.21–0.26 mg Si l^?1 yr^?1 over the last 25 yr. Despite high average silicate fluxes from the watershed, at times the Rhode River estuary developed low dissolved silicate concentrations, which could have been limiting to the growth of diatoms. Examples were in the spring after a winter with low watershed discharge (as low as 0.019 mg Si l^?1 in 1995) and after protracted drought (as low as 0.041 mg Si l^?1 in 1993).  相似文献   

A new strategy for analyzing the chronometry of constructed rock features in deserts     

Niccole Villa Cerveny  Russell Kaldenberg  Judyth Reed  David S. Whitley  Joseph Simon  Ronald I. Dorn 《Geoarchaeology》2006,21(3):281-303

The western Great Basin contains thousands of constructed rock features, including rock rings, cairns, and alignments. Unlike subtractive geoglyphs, such as the Nasca Lines of Peru, that remove desert pavement, these surface features alter the location and positioning of cobble‐ to bouldersized rocks. The chronology of surface rock features has remained unconstrained by numerical ages because no prior chronometric approach has been able to yield age control. We propose a new strategy for studying these features by analyzing anthropogenic modifications to rock coatings, an approach that permits the use of several dating methods, two of which are assessed here: radiocarbon dating of pedogenic carbonate and rock‐varnish microlaminations. Initial results from Searles Valley, eastern California, suggest that constructed rock features may be as old as early Holocene and terminal Pleistocene. Archaeological surveys of desert areas would be greatly enhanced if they noted altered positions of rock coatings. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.  相似文献   

资源定量评价发展方向展望   总被引：8，自引：0，他引：8  

DonaldA.Singer 《地球科学》2001,26(2):152-156

未来的资源定量评价希望能够评估未发现矿产资源的量、价值并对其进行定位预测, 以能够表达矿产资源的经济潜力和不确定性.近年来金属价格的长期下跌提出了对更大型的矿床的需求.敏感度分析表明了减少评价中不确定性和风险的最有效途径是降低有关吨位估计因素的不确定性.到目前为止, 在评价中所有可能造成误差的因素中, 那些与吨位估计误差有关的因素是最重要的.鉴于吨位模型的绝对重要地位以及矿床模型是吨位最有效的预测手段, 正确地选择矿床模型是控制误差最重要的途径.地表大部分地区被大面积裸露的岩石和沉积物所覆盖.由于很多出露地表的矿床已经被发现, 人们开始把注意力转向盖层下面岩石可能显露的矿化信息上.这些区域的资源评价必需依靠对其周边地区的外推、地下覆盖岩石新的地质填图或者通过在其他成功勘探区获得的经验进行类推.盖层对评价的不确定性以及评价的方法与程序都具有深远的影响, 因为地下地质现象的不可见性和地球物理方法所获得的是一种被削弱了的信息.许多早期的评价方法都是基于从那些出露地表的矿床中总结出的地球化学和地球物理变量之间的关系而进行的, 而现在我们同样需要研究基于地下隐伏矿床的勘探经验.矿床模型在资源定量评价中的重要地位基于以下两个原因: (1) 大多数矿床类型具有明显不同的品位和吨位分布; (2) 不同的矿床类型出现在不同的地质背景中, 而这种背景可从地质图中进行区分.在综合利用地质、矿产、地球物理和地球化学等地学信息进行资源评价及矿床勘探中, 矿床模型起着至关重要的作用.品位和吨位模型以及定量描述、经济和矿床密度模型的发展将有利于减少这些新的评价的不确定性.   相似文献   

Integrated Hydrologic Modeling to Untangle the Impacts of Water Management During Drought     

Lauren M. Thatch  James M. Gilbert  Reed M. Maxwell 《Ground water》2020,58(3):377-391

Over the past century, groundwater levels in California's San Joaquin Valley have dropped by more than 30 m in some areas mostly due to excessive groundwater extraction used to irrigate agricultural lands and sustain a growing population. Between 2012 and 2015, California experienced the worst drought in its recorded history, depleting surface water supplies and further exacerbating groundwater depletion in the region. Due to a lack of groundwater regulation, exact quantities of extracted groundwater in California are unknown and hard to quantify. Recent adoption of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act has intensified efforts to identify sustainable groundwater use. However, understanding sustainable use in a highly productive agricultural system with an extremely complex surface water allocation system, variable groundwater use, and spatially extensive and diverse irrigation practices is no easy task. Using an integrated hydrologic model coupled with a land surface model, we evaluated how water management activities, specifically a suite of irrigation and groundwater pumping scenarios, impact surface water–groundwater fluxes and storage components and how those activities and the relationships between them change during drought. Results showed that groundwater pumping volume had the most significant impact on long-term water storage changes. A comparison with total water storage anomaly (TWSA) estimates from NASA's Gravity Recover and Climate Experiment (GRACE) provided some insight regarding which combinations of pumping and irrigation matched the GRACE TWSA estimates, lending credibility to these scenarios. In addition, the majority of long-term water storage changes during the recent drought occurred in groundwater storage in the deeper subsurface.  相似文献   

Pneumatic Slug Manifold Design and Practical Considerations     

Donald M. Reeves  Tanten T. Buszka  Madison E. Wayt  Daniel G. Greene 《Ground water》2020,58(3):416-418

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Estimating flood quantiles at ungauged sites using nonparametric regression methods with spatial components     

Martin Durocher  Donald H. Burn  Shabnam Mostofi Zadeh  Fahim Ashkar 《水文科学杂志》2019,64(9):1056-1070

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A hydrodynamics-based surge scale for hurricanes   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Jennifer L. Irish  Donald T. Resio 《Ocean Engineering》2010,37(1):69-81

Record hurricane surges over the last several years have demonstrated the need for an improved surge hazard warning scale for hurricanes. Here, a simple hydrodynamics-based surge scale for hurricane surge hazard is presented. This surge scale incorporates readily available meteorological information along with regional-scale bathymetry into a single measure of expected surge levels at the coast. We further outline an approach for estimating expected flood inundation and damages based on the alongshore extent of high surges during hurricanes. Comparisons between this new surge scale and historical hurricane observations show a measurable improvement over existing surge indices, including the Saffir-Simpson scale. It is anticipated that the proposed surge scale will improve public awareness of surge hazard and assist governments in communicating critical decisions regarding evacuation and emergency response.  相似文献