Calculation of the local standard of rest from 20 574 local stars in the New Hipparcos Reduction with known radial velocities     

Charles Francis  Erik Anderson 《New Astronomy》2009,14(7):615-629

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The hypocentral resolution of microearthquake surveys carried out at sea     

Jeremy Duschenes  R. C. Lilwall  T. J. G. Francis 《Geophysical Journal International》1983,72(2):435-451

Summary. The ability to locate the hypocentres of earthquakes occurring along ridge crests and fracture zones accurately is a prerequisite to solving several problems associated with seafloor tectonics and oceanic crustal formation. Such resolution has rarely been achieved in the past, often because the seismic networks deployed were inadequate for the task. We demonstrate that sea surface receivers are not useful in such studies, and that the minimum acceptable size for a seafloor network is five receivers, of which at least one must be capable of detecting shear waves unambiguously.  相似文献   

A threshold for sequentially self-propagating star formation     

A.P. Whitworth  N. Francis 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2002,329(3):641-646

When a stellar wind bubble expands into an homogeneous medium, there are two possible outcomes. This is due to the fact that the self-gravity of the swept-up shell acts in two orthogonal directions: tangentially , to promote fragmentation of the shell, and radially , to decelerate expansion of the shell. The outcome depends on whether self-gravity works faster in the tangential or the radial direction.
If the wind power ℒ_o is large and the effective isothermal sound speed a _o in the swept-up gas is small – approximately         – tangential self-gravity works faster. A thin dense shell is swept up and fragments while it is still expanding supersonically. This is the scenario often invoked to explain sequentially self-propagating star formation.
However, if ℒ_o is small and/or a _o is large, radial self-gravity works faster. Expansion of the bubble stalls before the shell can fragment. The expansion speed ceases to be supersonic, the outer shock dissipates, and the shell is neither thin nor dense. Under this circumstance, the shell is unlikely to fragment and star formation will not propagate sequentially.
These conclusions are probably not altered significantly when the medium into which the wind blows is inhomogeneous, provided that the mean density on opposite sides of the bubble does not differ by many orders of magnitude.  相似文献   

The Melting Relations of Iron, and Temperatures in the Earth's Core     

Francis Birch 《Geophysical Journal International》1972,29(4):373-387

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Les « Sables fauves », témoins de mouvements tectoniques dans le bassin d'Aquitaine au Miocène moyenThe ‘Sables fauves’, showing tectonic deformations in the Aquitaine Basin during Middle Miocene     

Philippe Gardère  Jacques Rey  Francis Duranthon 《Comptes Rendus Geoscience》2002,334(13):987-994

New data about the ‘Sables fauves’ clearly show two different kinds of organisations: stratigraphic superposition of Langhian and Serravallian units to the south and embankment of Serravallian sediments in Langhian deposits to the north. The result consists in two different palaeogeographic schemes. The Langhian Sea is widely extended, forming the ‘Lectoure Gulf’, whereas the Serravallian Sea is much more reduced, with valleys fillings to the north and a little gulf to the south. This involves a tectonic activity along a structure which orientation is N120°E (‘flexure de la Douze’) and a relative rising of the northern part, of about 30 m. To cite this article: P. Gardère et al., C. R. Geoscience 334 (2002) 987–994.  相似文献   

Effects of loads in the upper crust on estimates of the elastic thickness of the lithosphere   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Roger J. Banks  Susan C. Francis  Roger G. Hipkin 《Geophysical Journal International》2001,145(1):291-299

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“A strikingly rich zone”—Nutrient enrichment and secondary production in coastal marine ecosystems     

Scott W. Nixon  Betty A. Buckley 《Estuaries and Coasts》2002,25(4):782-796

Despite a recent review concluding that there is little or no reason to expect that the production of fish and other animals will increase with nutrient enrichment or eutrophication, there is a variety of evidence that anthropogenic nutrients can stimulate secondary production in marine ecosystems. Unique multiple-year fertilization experiments were carried out over fifty years ago in Scottish sea lochs that showed dramatic increases in the abundance of benthic infauna and greatly enhanced growth of fish as a result of inorganic nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) additions. These experiments appear to have provided a good qualitative model for the responses of the Baltic Sea to nutrient enrichment and resulting eutrophication. Historical comparisons by others have shown that the weight of benthic animals per unit area above the halocline in the Baltic is now up to 10 or 20 times greater than it was in the early 1920s and that the total fish biomass in the system may have increased 8 fold between the early part of the 1900s and the 1970s. While there are no similar data for the highly enriched central and southern North Sea, there is convincing evidence that the growth rates of plaice, sole, and other species have increased there since the 1960s or 1970s. Cross-system comparisons have also shown that there are strong correlations between primary production and the production and yield of fish and the standing crop and production of benthic macrofauma in phytoplankton-dominated marine ecosystems. Concerns over the growing nutrient (especially N) enrichment of coastal marine waters are clearly valid and deserve the attention of scientists and managers, but the recent demonizing of N ignores the fact that nutrients are a fundamental requirement for producing biomass. Decisions regarding the amount of N or P that will be allowed to enter marine ecosystems should be made with the full knowledge that there may be tradeoffs between increases in water clarity and dissolved oxygen and the abundance of oysters, clams, fish, and other animals we desire.  相似文献   

Dysaerobic conditions during Heinrich events 4 and 5: Evidence from phosphorus distribution in a North Atlantic deep-sea core     

Federica Tamburini  Sylvain HuonPhilipp Steinmann  Francis E GroussetThierry Adatte  Karl B Fllmi 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2002,66(23):4069-4083

Reactive phosphorus undergoes diagenetic transformation once transferred into marine sediments. The degree of regeneration and redistribution of phosphorus depends on early diagenetic and environmental conditions, which may be linked to larger scale phenomena, such as bottom water circulation, water column ventilation, and organic carbon flux. Phosphorus phases of the <50-μm-sized fraction of deep-sea sediments from core SU 90-09 (North Atlantic, 43°31′N, 30°24′W, 3375 m below sea level) have been analyzed using a sequential extraction technique (SEDEX method) to reconstruct phosphorus geochemistry during Heinrich events 4 and 5. Comparison with Holocene samples from the same site indicates that postdeposition diagenetic transformation has not affected phosphorus distribution in the deep part of the sediments. Total and reactive phosphorus average 0.40 ± 0.04 mg/g and 0.30 ± 0.05 mg/g, respectively, and are comparable to values found in analog deep-sea environments in the North Atlantic. Detrital phosphorus, the phase linked to igneous- and metamorphic-derived material, sharply increases during Heinrich events and covaries with the ice-rafted debris record, whereas authigenic and Fe-bound phosphorus phases, both influenced by redox conditions, decrease or even disappear. These findings suggest that during the deposition of Heinrich layers (HLs), environmental parameters hampered the precipitation of these phases. Large freshwater discharges in relation to iceberg surges may have provoked a temporary stratification of the water column. Accordingly, dysaerobic conditions in the sediments may have fostered the loss of dissolved phosphorus from the sediments to the water column, in a direct and rapid response to the changed conditions. Decreasing trends in organic matter elemental ratios (total organic carbon/organic phosphorus) and Rock-Eval oxygen index values, along with the presence of partly authigenic dolomite and ankerite within HLs, also support this assumption.  相似文献   

Scale-Compensation Stereoscope     

E. C. Francis 《The Photogrammetric Record》1965,5(26):137-138

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Life under pressure: insights from electronic data-storage tags into cod swimbladder function     

van der Kooij  Jeroen; Righton  David; Strand  Espen; Michalsen  Kathrine; Thorsteinsson  Vilhjalmur; Svedang  Henrik; Neat  Francis C.; Neuenfeldt  Stefan 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》2007,64(7):1293-1301

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