Halogen systematics in the Mallik 5L-38 gas hydrate production research well,Northwest Territories,Canada: Implications for the origin of gas hydrates under terrestrial permafrost conditions     

Hitoshi Tomaru  Udo Fehn  Zunli Lu  Ryo Matsumoto 《Applied Geochemistry》2007

The authors report here halogen concentrations in pore waters and sediments collected from the Mallik 5L-38 gas hydrate production research well, a permafrost location in the Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories, Canada. Iodine and Br are commonly enriched in waters associated with CH₄, reflecting the close association between these halogens and source organic materials. Pore waters collected from the Mallik well show I enrichment, by one order of magnitude above that of seawater, particularly in sandy layers below the gas hydrate stability zone (GHSZ). Although Cl and Br concentrations increase with depth similar to the I profile, they remain below seawater values. The increase in I concentrations observed below the GHSZ suggests that I-rich fluids responsible for the accumulation of CH₄ in gas hydrates are preferentially transported through the sandy permeable layers below the GHSZ. The Br and I concentrations and I/Br ratios in Mallik are considerably lower than those in marine gas hydrate locations, demonstrating a terrestrial nature for the organic materials responsible for the CH₄ at the Mallik site. Halogen systematics in Mallik suggest that they are the result of mixing between seawater, freshwater and an I-rich source fluid. The comparison between I/Br ratios in pore waters and sediments speaks against the origin of the source fluids within the host formations of gas hydrates, a finding compatible with the results from a limited set of ¹²⁹I/I ratios determined in pore waters, which gives a minimum age of 29 Ma for the source material, i.e. at the lower end of the age range of the host formations. The likely scenario for the gas hydrate formation in Mallik is the derivation of CH₄ together with I from the terrestrial source materials in formations other than the host layers through sandy permeable layers into the present gas hydrate zones.  相似文献   

Rainfall on the Meghalaya plateau in northeastern India—one of the rainiest places in the world     

Fumie Murata  Taiichi Hayashi  Jun Matsumoto  Haruhisa Asada 《Natural Hazards》2007,42(2):391-399

Monthly and daily variations in rainfall over Cherapunjee and Mawsynram on the Meghalaya plateau of northeastern India are analysed. Cherapunjee and Mawsynram are well known as two of the places with the heaviest rainfall in the world. The daily rainfall variation is attributed to the influence of synoptic scale disturbances, with a periodicity of 10–20 days, and the orographic interaction. The annual and monthly highest rainfalls over Cherapunjee during the 31 years from 1973 to 2003 were much larger than mean values.  相似文献   

A psychological effect of having a potentially viable sequestration strategy     

Katsumi Matsumoto 《Carbon balance and management》2006,1(1):1-2

We are pleased to announce the launch of Carbon Balance and Management, a new online open access journal published by BioMed Central.  相似文献   

Possible Coseismic Large-scale Landslide off the Northern Coast of Papua New Guinea in July 1998: Geophysical and Geological Results from SOS Cruises     

Takeshi Matsumoto  David R. Tappin 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》2003,160(10-11):1923-1943

— The epicentral area of the 1998 Papua New Guinea Earthquake and Tsunami off Sissano Lagoon, northern coast of Papua New Guinea (M=7.1; 17 July, 1998) was surveyed by the Research Vessel Kairei in January 1999. Precise bathymetric survey by use of SEABEAM-2112 and other geophysical surveys (bottom reflectivity, sub-bottom profiling, surface ship gravity and geomagnetic surveys) were carried out and four piston core samples were collected during the nine days' survey. The area was also surveyed by use of the Japanese deep sea research ROV Dolphin-3K and research submersible Shinkai-2000 after the regional geophysical survey, in order to locate the possible seismic faults and/or underwater landslides as the source of tsunami and to study the process which took place off Sissano Lagoon and the driving force of the event. The study area is characterised by substantial fan sediment supply from Sissano Lagoon. Straight small-scale submarine canyons and valleys are eroding the shelf slope constructed by the fan sediment. Topographic features of arcuate slumps caused by landslides are recognised at numerous sites of the study area. Most of them are old and the most recent is located 25 km northeast off the Sissano Lagoon. Two major topographic depressions on the shelf were located off Sissano Lagoon. The western is a depression of about 10-km width and the eastern is a meandering deep-sea canyon. Amphitheatre topographic features with slumps caused by landslides that were discovered by Kairei's cruise were extensively surveyed in the study area. Six dives by Dolphin-3K and seven dives by Shinkai-2000 revealed that a fresh crack of about 15 km in total length is located along the slope of the amphitheatre. The crack is apparently the upper slope of a large-scale slumping on the amphitheatre, characterised by tensional stress on it. The easternmost part of the fresh crack is accompanied by living chemosynthetic organisms such as mussels and tube worms. The chemosynthetic community is apparently associated with cold seepage along the crack suggesting that the crack was constructed very recently. The areas other than the crack were rather old with bioturbation.  相似文献   

Geochemical Process of Gas Hydrate Formation in the Nankai Trough Based on Chloride and Isotopic Anomalies in Interstitial Water   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Hitoshi Tomaru    Ryo Matsumoto    Hailong Lu  Takashi Uchida 《Resource Geology》2004,54(1):45-51

Abstract: Interstitial water expelled from gas hydrate-bearing and -free sediments in the Nankai Trough are analyzed in terms of Cl-, SO₄²-, δ¹⁸O and δD. The baselines for the Cl- concentration and δ¹⁸O value are close to seawater values (530 mM and 0%), indicating that the interstitial water is of seawater origin. The δD values decrease with depth, implying isotopic exchange of hydrogen between upwelling biogenic methane depleted in D and interstitial water. The Cl- concentrations in gas hydrate-bearing sediments are anomalously low, while the δ¹⁸O and δD values are both high, suggesting that the water forming these gas hydrates was poor in Cl- and enriched in ¹⁸O and D during gas hydrate formation. Calculation of the gas hydrate saturations using Cl "and δ¹⁸O anomalies gives results of up to 80 % in sand, and shows that the δ¹⁸O baseline is not consistent with the Cl" baseline. The δ¹⁸O baseline increases by +1% in gas hydrate-free clay and silt. This is considered to be caused by clustering of water molecules after gas hydrate dissociation in response to the upward migration of the base of gas hydrate stability, as indicated by the presence of a double bottom-simulating reflector at this site. The water clusters enriched in ¹⁸O are responsible for the increase in the δ¹⁸O baseline with normal Cl". The abrupt shallowing of the base of gas hydrate stability may induce the dissociation of gas hydrates and the accumulation of gases in the new stability zone, representing a geological process that increases gas hydrate saturation.  相似文献   

Preface     

Ryo Matsumoto 《Resource Geology》2004,54(1):1-2

Editorial Board for the Special Issue on "Gas Hydrate in Nankai Trough, Japan"
Takashi U chida (JAPEX Research Center, Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd.), Amane W aseda (JAPEX Research Center, Japan Petroleum Exploration Co., Ltd.), Naotatsu S hikazono (Department of Applied Chemistry, Keio University), Yutaka A oki (JGI Inc.) and Yoshihiro T suji (Technology Research Center, Japan Oil,
Gas and Metals National Corporation)  相似文献   

Physicochemical, mineralogical, and geochemical characteristics of lacustrine sediments of the Konya Basin, Turkey, and their significance in relation to climatic change     

K. Inoue  M. Saito  T. Naruse 《Geomorphology》1998,23(2-4)

Physicochemical, mineralogical, and geochemical characteristics of 279 highly calcareous lacustrine sediment samples obtained from a 30 m drilling core in the western part of the Great Konya Basin, Turkey were studied. The sediments have a predominance of silt and clay fractions with a median diameter of 3–5 μm. Vertical changes of the amounts of water soluble components, gypsum, carbonates, and non-salt minerals such as quartz, feldspars, and layer silicates in the sediments suggest that there were climatic changes in the Konya Basin. The dominant clay mineral is smectite followed by kaolinite, illite, and palygorskite. The oxygen isotopic (δ¹⁸O) ratios of six quartz samples from the Konya sediments, a terra rossa soil beside Lake Bey ehir gölü and paleosols at the foot of Mt. Erciyes Da ranged from +18.1 to +20.6‰. The dominant clay minerals and δ¹⁸O ratios suggest that part of quartz and coexisting layer silicates is of long-range transported and/or local aeolian dust origin from arid and semi-arid regions such as North Africa, Israel, and the surroundings. The relatively high deposition rate might be due to aeolian dust input and/or the sediment input introduced by the rivers such as the Çar amba river from the Toros (Taurus) mountains. The vertical distributions of electro-conductivity, amounts of water soluble and non-salt components, and the gypsum content of the sediments suggest that gypsum-rich layers were formed under shallow, saline waters, possibly associated with warm to hot and dry environments such as the Last Interglacial epoch and the Early Holocene. The sediments characterized by relatively high amounts of non-salt sediments, in which gypsum did not accumulate, could be deeper water phases formed under the cold and/or wet environments such as the Glacial epochs.  相似文献   

Alignment silkworms as seismic animal anomalous behavior (SAAB) and electromagnetic model of a fault: a theory and laboratory experiment     

池谷元伺  松本裕史  黄清华 《地震学报(英文版)》1998,11(3):365-374

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The carbon isotopic ratio of atmospheric carbon dioxide at Tsukuba,Japan   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Hisayuki Inoue  Yukio Sugimura 《Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry》1985,2(4):331-344

To find out the secular and seasonal trends of the ¹³C value and CO₂ concentration in the surface air and the determination of the ¹³C in the atmospheric CO₂ collected at Tsukuba Science City was carried out during the period from July 1981 to October 1983. The monthly average of the ¹³C value of CO₂ in the surface air collected at 1400 LMT ranged from -7.52 to \s-8.45 with an average of -7.96±0.25 and the CO₂ concentration in the air varied from 334.5 l 1^-1 to 359 l 1^-1 with an average of 347.2±6.3 l 1^-1. The ¹³C value is high in summer and low in winter and is negatively correlated with the CO₂ concentration. In general, the relationship between the ¹³C and the CO₂ concentration is explainable by a simple mixing model of two different constant carbon isotopic species but the relationship does not always follow the model. The correlation between the ¹³C value and the CO₂ concentration is low during the plant growth season and high at other times. The observed negative deviation of the ¹³C value from the simple mixing model in the plant growth season is partly due to the isotopic fractionation process which takes place in the land biota.  相似文献   

Study on the compositional dependence of the apparent partition coefficient of iron and magnesium between coexisting garnet and clinopyroxene solid solution     

Yasutami Oka  Takashi Matsumoto 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1974,48(2):115-121

Compositional dependence of apparent partition coefficient of iron and magnesium between coexisting garnet and clinopyroxene from Mt. Higasiakaisi is studied by means of a multicomponent regular solution model. It is shown that garnet and clinopyroxene solid solutions are positively non-ideal, and the non-ideal parameters according to the symmetric regular solution model are 2.58 kcal and 2.39 kcal, respectively, assuming the equilibration temperature of the mass to be 550° C.Notations a _i ^h activity of component i in phase h - _ij interaction parameter of component i and j in a solid solution - _i activity coefficient of component i - X _i mole fraction of component i - K partition coefficient of Fe and Mg between coexisting garnet and clinopyroxene - K apparent partition coefficient of Fe and Mg between coexisting garnet and clinopyroxene - G ⁰ difference in free energy of the partition reaction - H ⁰ difference in enthalpy of the partition reaction - S ⁰ difference in entropy of the partition reaction - R gas constant - G garnet - Alm almandine component - Py pyrope component - Gr grossular component - Sp spessartine component - CPx clinopyroxene - Hd hedenbergite component - Di diopside component - Jd jadeite component - Ts Tschermac's molecule component Deceased on April 17, 1974.  相似文献