The origin of rutile-ilmenite aggregates (“nigrine”) in alluvial-fluvial placers of the Hagendorf pegmatite province, NE Bavaria, Germany     

H. G. Dill  F. Melcher  M. Füßl  B. Weber 《Mineralogy and Petrology》2007,89(3-4):133-158

Summary Titanium placer deposits occur in alluvial-fluvial drainage systems which dissect Moldanubian gneisses intruded by Late Variscan pegmatites (Hagendorf province) in southern Germany. Based upon their texture (zonation, exsolution lamellae, intergrowth), microchemical data (Nb, Cr, Ta, V, Fe, W, Sn) and mineral inclusions, two major grain types of intergrown rutile and ilmenite have been established. Grains of type A are always zoned and consist of rutile cores enveloped by ilmenite containing small inclusions of wolframite. A core-rim transition zone is characterized by complex relations of rutile and ilmenite, with rutile lamellae being rich in Nb, V and Fe. Types B1 and B2 aggregates consist of ilmenite with lamellae of niobian rutile and/or ilmenorutile, and additionally have inclusions of ferrocolumbite, pyrochlore, betafite, sphalerite, pyrrhotite and Fe oxides. Such grain types featuring an intimate intergrowth of rutile and ilmenite were called nigrine. Type-C grains are quite similar in their morphological appearance but consist of W-enriched rutile devoid of mineral inclusions and reaction products. Pseudorutile and leucoxene replacing minerals of the nigrine aggregates are presumably caused by supergene alteration under fluctuating redox conditions. Phosphate and aluminum remobilized by supergene processes led to the formation of hydrous Ti-rich phases containing Al, P and Fe. High Nb and W concentrations in nigrine aggregates and in rutile type C may be taken as a marker for highly differentiated granites or pegmatites. This has implications for both, heavy-mineral-based provenance analysis and stream sediment exploration.  相似文献   

High resolution simulation of recent Arctic and Antarctic stratospheric chemical ozone loss compared to observations     

Om Prakash Tripathi  Sophie Godin-Beekmann  Franck Lefèvre  Marion Marchand  Andrea Pazmiño  Alain Hauchecorne  Florence Goutail  Hans Schlager  C. Michael Volk  B. Johnson  G. König-Langlo  Stefano Balestri  Fred Stroh  T. P. Bui  H. J. Jost  T. Deshler  Peter von der Gathen 《Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry》2006,55(3):205-226

Simulations of polar ozone losses were performed using the three-dimensional high-resolution (1^∘ × 1^∘) chemical transport model MIMOSA-CHIM. Three Arctic winters 1999–2000, 2001–2002, 2002–2003 and three Antarctic winters 2001, 2002, and 2003 were considered for the study. The cumulative ozone loss in the Arctic winter 2002–2003 reached around 35% at 475 K inside the vortex, as compared to more than 60% in 1999–2000. During 1999–2000, denitrification induces a maximum of about 23% extra ozone loss at 475 K as compared to 17% in 2002–2003. Unlike these two colder Arctic winters, the 2001–2002 Arctic was warmer and did not experience much ozone loss. Sensitivity tests showed that the chosen resolution of 1^∘ × 1^∘ provides a better evaluation of ozone loss at the edge of the polar vortex in high solar zenith angle conditions. The simulation results for ozone, ClO, HNO₃, N₂O, and NO _y for winters 1999–2000 and 2002–2003 were compared with measurements on board ER-2 and Geophysica aircraft respectively. Sensitivity tests showed that increasing heating rates calculated by the model by 50% and doubling the PSC (Polar Stratospheric Clouds) particle density (from 5 × 10⁻³ to 10⁻² cm⁻³) refines the agreement with in situ ozone, N₂O and NO _y levels. In this configuration, simulated ClO levels are increased and are in better agreement with observations in January but are overestimated by about 20% in March. The use of the Burkholder et al. (1990) Cl₂O₂ absorption cross-sections slightly increases further ClO levels especially in high solar zenith angle conditions. Comparisons of the modelled ozone values with ozonesonde measurement in the Antarctic winter 2003 and with Polar Ozone and Aerosol Measurement III (POAM III) measurements in the Antarctic winters 2001 and 2002, shows that the simulations underestimate the ozone loss rate at the end of the ozone destruction period. A slightly better agreement is obtained with the use of Burkholder et al. (1990) Cl₂O₂ absorption cross-sections.  相似文献   

Past and future polar amplification of climate change: climate model intercomparisons and ice-core constraints   总被引：2，自引：2，他引：2  

V. Masson-Delmotte  M. Kageyama  P. Braconnot  S. Charbit  G. Krinner  C. Ritz  E. Guilyardi  J. Jouzel  A. Abe-Ouchi  M. Crucifix  R. M. Gladstone  C. D. Hewitt  A. Kitoh  A. N. LeGrande  O. Marti  U. Merkel  T. Motoi  R. Ohgaito  B. Otto-Bliesner  W. R. Peltier  I. Ross  P. J. Valdes  G. Vettoretti  S. L. Weber  F. Wolk  Y. YU 《Climate Dynamics》2006,26(5):513-529

Climate model simulations available from the PMIP1, PMIP2 and CMIP (IPCC-AR4) intercomparison projects for past and future climate change simulations are examined in terms of polar temperature changes in comparison to global temperature changes and with respect to pre-industrial reference simulations. For the mid-Holocene (MH, 6,000 years ago), the models are forced by changes in the Earth’s orbital parameters. The MH PMIP1 atmosphere-only simulations conducted with sea surface temperatures fixed to modern conditions show no MH consistent response for the poles, whereas the new PMIP2 coupled atmosphere–ocean climate models systematically simulate a significant MH warming both for Greenland (but smaller than ice-core based estimates) and Antarctica (consistent with the range of ice-core based range). In both PMIP1 and PMIP2, the MH annual mean changes in global temperature are negligible, consistent with the MH orbital forcing. The simulated last glacial maximum (LGM, 21,000 years ago) to pre-industrial change in global mean temperature ranges between 3 and 7°C in PMIP1 and PMIP2 model runs, similar to the range of temperature change expected from a quadrupling of atmospheric CO₂ concentrations in the CMIP simulations. Both LGM and future climate simulations are associated with a polar amplification of climate change. The range of glacial polar amplification in Greenland is strongly dependent on the ice sheet elevation changes prescribed to the climate models. All PMIP2 simulations systematically underestimate the reconstructed glacial–interglacial Greenland temperature change, while some of the simulations do capture the reconstructed glacial–interglacial Antarctic temperature change. Uncertainties in the prescribed central ice cap elevation cannot account for the temperature change underestimation by climate models. The variety of climate model sensitivities enables the exploration of the relative changes in polar temperature with respect to changes in global temperatures. Simulated changes of polar temperatures are strongly related to changes in simulated global temperatures for both future and LGM climates, confirming that ice-core-based reconstructions provide quantitative insights on global climate changes. An erratum to this article can be found at  相似文献   

Individual accessibility and distance from major employment centers: An examination using space-time measures   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

J. Weber 《Journal of Geographical Systems》2003,5(1):51-70

 Distance has often been assumed to be an influence on intraurban accessibility, whether in traditional proximity-based measures of accessibility, or through expectations about distance-minimizing travel behavior and the logic of the monocentric model. This paper examines the importance of distance from major employment centers to individual accessibility in Portland, Oregon, using space-time accessibility measures computed using GIS. The results of this research indicate that distance from these locations has mixed results on individual accessibility. This appears to reflect the importance of time, both the time of day activities are scheduled as well as time constraints, to individual activity patterns. Received: September 2002 / Accepted: January 2003 The author gratefully acknowledges the contributions of two anonymous reviewers, whose comments greatly improved the content of this paper  相似文献   

Crustal shear velocity structure across the Dead Sea Transform from two-dimensional modelling of DESERT project explosion seismic data   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

J. Mechie  K. Abu-Ayyash  Z. Ben-Avraham  R. El-Kelani  A. Mohsen  G. Rümpker  J. Saul  M. Weber 《Geophysical Journal International》2005,160(3):910-924

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D’Orbigny: A non-igneous angritic achondrite?     

G. Kurat  M.E. Varela  G. Weckwerth  H.W. Weber  E. Wäsch 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2004,68(8):1901-1921

D’Orbigny is the sixth and by far the largest angrite known. Its bulk chemical and mineral chemical compositions, rare gas abundances and oxygen and rare gas isotope compositions fit the compositional ranges known from other angrites. It is, however, peculiar with respect to three features: the abundance of hollow shells, the presence of abundant open druses and the abundant presence of glasses.The shape, structure and texture of D’Orbigny and its mineral and bulk chemical compositions indicate an unusual genesis under changing redox conditions. In our view, data and observations are incompatible with an igneous origin of this rock but are suggestive of a complex growth and metasomatism scenario. The sequence of events apparently began with the formation of spheres of a phase which later vanished and therefore is unknown but could have been CaS. On top of these spheres (sizes from < 1-30 mm) olivine-anorthite intergrowths precipitated forming compact shells and fluffy protrusions. Aggregation of these objects plus occasional large plates made of the same intergrowths led to formation of a highly porous object with abundant large open space between the olivine-anorthite intergrowths. The aggregate also included previously formed olivines, olivinite rocks and Al-spinels. The latter carry highly porous decomposition rims of Cr-enriched Al-spinel and record mildly oxidizing conditions prevailing very early in D’Orbigny’s history. Conditions changed (with falling T?) and became oxidizing causing the phase(s) that constituted the spheres to become unstable. Their breakdown liberated large amounts of Ca and trace elements which at least in part re-precipitated by reacting with Si and Mg from the vapor to form augites that grew into the open space thus forming augite druses. Also, some of the preexisting olivine was converted into augite, which is very rich in refractory lithophile trace elements (abundances ∼ 10 × CI). Augites grew mainly under oxidizing conditions leading to atomic Fe/(Fe+Mg) ratios of about 0.44. Finally, conditions became highly oxidizing and strongly mobilized Ca from a source that apparently became unstable. The high partial pressures of Ca and Fe (and also Ti) led to precipitation of Ca-olivine and kirschsteinite (∼Fo1La20 and ∼Fo1La33, respectively) and of titaniferous aluminous hedenbergite—atomic Fe/(Fe+Mg) ∼ 0.97. Ulvöspinel and sulfides were also precipitated. Because the original phase(s) forming the early spheres vanished during these oxidizing events, the shells remained empty.In this scenario, D’Orbigny provides us with a record of changing conditions ranging from extremely reducing to highly oxidizing and with a record of the formation of an achondritic rock from a chondritic source. Angrites bear many similarities with CAIs, texturally, mineralogically and chemically. Possibly, they can be seen as CAIs, which grew larger than the ones we know from carbonaceous chondrites. Thus, angrites may bear a record of rare and special conditions in some part of the early solar nebula. They reproduce most of the textures and structures of CAIs: crystallized liquids (Asuka 881371, LEW 87051), metasomatic granoblastic rocks (LEW 86010, Angra dos Reis?) and aggregates (D’Orbigny). In addition, all angrites record metasomatic alterations, subsolidus processing after formation, also similar to what is recorded by most CAIs. Obviously, they missed the alkali metasomatic event recorded by many CAIs but they record a siderophile—lithophile element separation event that is not recorded by CAIs.  相似文献   

Recurring middle Pleistocene outburst floods in east-central Alaska     

Duane G Froese  Derald G SmithJohn A Westgate  Thomas A AgerShari J Preece  Amanjit SandhuRandolph J Enkin  Florence Weber 《Quaternary Research》2003,60(1):50-62

Recurring glacial outburst floods from the Yukon-Tanana Upland are inferred from sediments exposed along the Yukon River near the mouth of Charley River in east-central Alaska. Deposits range from imbricate gravel and granules indicating flow locally extending up the Yukon valley, to more distal sediments consisting of at least 10 couplets of planar sands, granules, and climbing ripples with up-valley paleocurrent indicators overlain by massive silt. An interglacial organic silt, occurring within the sequence, indicates at least two flood events are associated with an earlier glaciation, and at least three flood events are associated with a later glaciation which postdates the organic silt. A minimum age for the floods is provided by a glass fission track age of 560,000 ± 80,000 yr on the GI tephra, which occurs 8 m above the flood beds. A maximum age of 780,000 yr for the floods is based on normal magnetic polarity of the sediments. These age constraints allow us to correlate the flood events to the early-middle Pleistocene. And further, the outburst floods indicate extensive glaciation of the Yukon-Tanana Upland during the early-middle Pleistocene, likely representing the most extensive Pleistocene glaciation of the area.  相似文献   

Climatology of Regional Flow Patterns around Basel     

R. O. Weber 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》1998,59(1-2):13-27

Summary Recently a method has been developed to classify local-scale flow patterns from the wind measurements at a dense network of stations. It was found that in the area around Basel twelve characteristic near-surface flow patterns occur. However, as the dense network of stations was running for one year only during the MISTRAL field experiment, no reliable climatology of the flow patterns can be inferred from these data. Mainly the annual cycle is not well determined from a single year of observations. As there exist several routinely operated meteorological stations with longer data records in and near the area discussed, a method was searched to identify the local flow patterns from the wind observations at these few permanent stations. A linear discriminant analysis turned out to be the best method. Based on wind data from 11 stations which were simultaneously in operation during 1990–1995, a six-year climatology of the flow patterns could be obtained and compared to synoptic weather types. Although there are relations to existing synoptic classes there is no unique correspondence between them and the flow patterns. Received February 24, 1997 Revised June 9, 1997  相似文献   

天然变形方解石质岩石的低温塑性     

刘俊来 《地质学报》2002,76(3):372-372

对四套具不同特点的方解石质原岩断层构造岩应用光学显微镜、透射电子显微镜和阴极发光显微镜开展了系统研究。它们都表现出相似的变形显微构造特点与变形作用,宏观碎裂结构与微观糜棱状结构。碎屑颗粒或者变形的原岩颗粒具有发育的晶内变形显微构造(变形双晶、扭折和微破裂等),基质颗粒为弥散的极细粒物质。透射电镜下的微构造表现为反映脆性变形与晶质塑性变形共存的位错  相似文献   

Sweden     

Helmut Goerke  Gerhard Eder  Kurt Weber  Wolfgang Ernst 《Marine pollution bulletin》1979,10(5):127-132

Four invertebrate and one fish species (Cerastoderma edule, Mya arenaria, Arenicola marina, Crangon crangon, Solea solea) from a single area of the German Wadden sea were investigated for concentrations of ten organochlorine pollutants in 1976. PCB concentrations (wet tissue basis) were predominating with 10–200 ng g^?1, while p,p′-DDD, dieldrin, α-HCH, γ-HCH and p,p′-DDE generally ranged between 1 and 10 ng g^?1. Values of α-endosulfan were even lower; p,p′-DDT, endrin and heptachlor epoxide could not be detected. Residue levels in shrimps were close to the lower range of values which have been found in this species from other areas of the North Sea since 1974. The patterns of residue concentrations in the five aquatic species were remarkably different indicating species- and compound-specific bioaccumulation. Trophic level and lipid content were shown to be responsible for PCB concentrations increasing from bivalves to fish.  相似文献