A sampler-based technique for the study of near-bed sediment dynamics: application in the eastern English Channel     

Georges?ChapalainEmail author  Laurent?Thais 《Geo-Marine Letters》2004,24(2):125-132

A simple technique for studying near-bed hydrodynamics and sediment dynamics is presented. The method combines the use of (1) a benthic tripod hosting a series of electromagnetic current meters, and (2) a newly developed near-bed multi-level water-sediment mixture sampler. The instrument package was deployed successfully at a shallow water station in the eastern English Channel. The currents at elevation 0.9 m above the bottom were asymmetrical, the flood current peak being slightly stronger than the ebb current peak. At elevation 0.3 m above the bottom, the ebb/flood current peak asymmetry vanished. The observed SSCs (suspended sediment concentrations) were tidally modulated, with a contrasting vertical distribution over the ebb and flood phases of the tidal current: the profile was uniform in the ebb phase whereas a stratification appeared in the flood phase. The depth dependence and time evolution of the SSCs are attributable to a combination of local resuspension and advection-dispersion of remotely suspended fine sediment by ebb currents. Suspended sediment fluxes were uniform during the ebb phase and increased with elevation above the bottom during the flood phase.  相似文献   

Technopoles, high-tech industries and regional development: A critical review     

Georges Benko 《GeoJournal》2000,51(3):157-167

Technologies have played an important role in the restructuring of the productive system in the last quarter of the 20th century. The article looks at the macroeconomic context and at the transformation of the industrial organization. It then defines the concept of technopole. The author traces the principal elements of the different attempts of theorization with a critical angle, shows the logic of contemporary industry localisation, as well as the role of technopoles in regional development. Regional and industrial policy are then seen as the basis of the process of industrialization and of the technological transfer.  相似文献   

Preface     

Prof. Georges Prevelakis 《GeoJournal》2000,52(2):281-283

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An early Palaeozoic supra-subduction lithosphere in the Variscides: new evidence from the Maures massif   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Jean-Philippe Bellot  Christine Laverne  Georges Bronner 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2010,99(3):473-504

Petrographic and geochemical studies of peridotites and melagabbros from the Maures massif (SE France) provide new constraints on the Early Palaeozoic evolution of the continental lithosphere in Western Europe. Peridotites occur as lenses along a unit rooted in the main Variscan suture zone. They are dominantly spinel peridotites and minor garnet–spinel peridotites. Spinel peridotites represent both residual mantle and ultramafic cumulates. Mantle-related dunites and harzburgites display high temperature textures, with olivine (Mg#_0.90), orthopyroxene (Mg#_0.90) and spinel (TiO₂ < 0.2%; Cr#_0.64–0.83) compositions typical of fore-arc upper mantle. Ultramafic cumulates are dunite adcumulates, harzburgite heteradcumulates and mesocumulates, melagabbro heteradcumulates and amphibole peridotites, with olivine (Mg#_0.85–0.89), orthopyroxene (Mg#_0.86–0.89) and Cr-spinel (TiO₂ = 0.5–3.3%; Cr#_0.7–0.98) compositions typical of ultramafic cumulates. Cr-spinel compositions of both spinel peridotite types suggest their genesis in a supra-subduction zone lithosphere. Core to rim zoning in spinel is related to the incomplete influence of regional metamorphism and serpentinisation. The covariation of major and minor elements with Al₂O₃ for cumulates is consistent with igneous processes involving crystal accumulation. Both mantle and cumulate dunites and harzburgites have U-shaped REE patterns and extremely low trace element contents, similar to peridotites from modern fore-arc peridotites (South Atlantic) and from ophiolites related to supra-subduction zones (Semail, Cyclops, Pindos, Troodos). Melagabbros also have U-shaped REE patterns similar to xenoliths from the Philippine island arc, but also similar to intrusive ultramafic cumulates from the Semail nappe of Oman related to a proto-subduction setting. A wehrlite has a REE pattern similar to that of amphibole peridotites reflecting metasomatism of clinopyroxene-bearing peridotites due to subduction-related fluids. The Maures spinel peridotites and melagabbros are therefore interpreted as the lowermost parts of a crustal sequence and minor residual mantle of lithosphere generated in a supra-subduction zone during Early Palaeozoic time. Garnet–spinel peridotites are chemically close to melagabbros, but have recorded high pressure metamorphism before their retrogression similar to spinel peridotites into amphibolites to greenschists facies metamorphism. They indicate burial to mantle depths of the margin of the supra-subduction lithosphere during the Early Palaeozoic continental subduction. Both peridotite types were exhumed during the Upper Palaeozoic continental collision. Comparable observations from other Variscan-related peridotites, in particular of the Speik complex of the Autroalpine basement, and a common age for the subduction stage allow extension of these regional conclusions to a broad area sharing the Cambrian suture zone, extending from the Ossa-Morena to the Bohemian massif.  相似文献   

Etude de la thermoluminescence de la meteorite Saint Severin     

Georges Valladas  Claude Lalou 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1973,18(1):168-171

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AMS radiocarbon dating and varve chronology of Lake Soppensee: 6000 to 12000 14C years BP     

Irena Hajdas  Susan D Ivy  Jürg Beer  Georges Bonani  Dieter Imboden  André F Lotted  Michael Sturm  Martin Suter 《Climate Dynamics》1993,9(3):107-116

For the extension of the radiocarbon calibration curve beyond 10000 ¹⁴C y BP, laminated sediment from Lake Soppensee (central Switzerland) was dated. The radiocarbon time scale was obtained using accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dating of terrestrial macrofossils selected from the Soppensee sediment. Because of an unlaminated sediment section during the Younger Dryas (10000–11000 ¹⁴C y BP), the absolute time scale, based on counting annual layers (varves), had to be corrected for missing varves. The Soppensee radiocarbon-verve chronology covers the time period from 6000 to 12000 ¹⁴C y BP on the radiocarbon time scale and 7000 to 13000 calendar y BP on the absolute time scale. The good agreement with the tree ring curve in the interval from 7000 to 11450 cal y BP (cal y indicates calendar year) proves the annual character of the laminations. The ash layer of the Vasset/Killian Tephra (Massif Central, France) is dated at 8230±140 ¹⁴C y BP and 9407±44 cal y BP. The boundaries of the Younger Dryas biozone are placed at 10986±69 cal y BP (Younger Dryas/Preboreal) and 1212±86 cal y BP (Alleröd/Younger Dryas) on the absolute time scale. The absolute age of the Laacher See Tephra layer, dated with the radiocarbon method at 10 800 to 11200 ¹⁴C y BP, is estimated at 12350 ± 135 cal y BP. The oldest radiocarbon age of 14190±120 ¹⁴C y BP was obtained on macrofossils of pioneer vegetation which were found in the lowermost part of the sediment profile. For the late Glacial, the offset between the radiocarbon (10000–12000 ^14C y BP) and the absolute time scale (11400–13000 cal y BP) in the Soppensee chronology is not greater than 1000 years, which differs from the trend of the U/Th-radiocarbon curve derived from corals.  相似文献   

Spatial dynamics in France: Past and present     

Georges Benko 《GeoJournal》1993,31(3):289-299

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Free networks: minimum norm solution as obtained by the inner adjustment constraint method     

Georges Blaha 《Journal of Geodesy》1982,56(3):209-219

The main goal of this paper is to show that the solution obtained by adjusting a free network via the inner adjustment constraint method is the minimum norm solution. The latter is a special case of the class of “minimum trace” solutions, where the trace of the variance-covariance matrix for the adjusted parameters is a minimum. The derivations are carried out in terms of pseudo-inverses, the various other forms of generalized inverses having been left out of consideration.  相似文献   

A few basic principles and techniques of array algebra     

Georges Blaha 《Journal of Geodesy》1977,51(4):337

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Le Trias comme période salifère     

Georges Busson 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1982,71(3):857-880

1. In the Earth history not a system probably comprises so many evaporites than Triassic. They are not restricted to such or such protoocean but cover huge epicontinental cratonic plateforms with very finely bedded deposits as well as they fill rifts located in very diversified geodynamic areas. The first condition in order that such deposits can exist is a severe aridity.
2. Triassic corresponds to an extraordinary transgression in the sense of a new onlap of the sedimentary realm, a reconquest of ancient areas by new deposits, however their facies may be. In that general setting evaporites are themselves remarkably transgressive and from two points of view a) they sometimes onlap directly — that is to say without any basal detritic intercalation — different terms of peneplaned basement, b) these evaporites often succeed Permian emersion or continental detritic deposits of lower parts of Triassic. They extract their salts from Ocean. They often underlie pure marine Jurassic facies. For all these reasons evaporites appear as the first emissaries of oceanic realm and so as the first witnesses of a marine transgression.
3. Evaporites occur in Triassic, particularly in the Middle East, North Africa, on the two present margins of North Atlantic, on Western and Northern Europe, etc. The whole constitutes a huge saline ring round the western part of Triassic Tethysian sea. In that area, on the less tectonized plateforms a grandiose facies distribution pattern appears clearly: going farther from open sea in a centrifugal way, there are salts more and more soluble, until detritic deposits from continent. The pellicular sheets of water which covered the large plateforms resulting from late permian peneplanation should be favourable to modification of chemism, very gradual and at last very total, producing a geographical distribution of salt deposits. The most probable mover of these “floods” could be a very likely multiphase rise of eustatic level, the effects of which we cannot imagine because they occured on plateforms unknown in the geography of recent world. Effects of local morphology which induced a pecular distribution of salts can modify the general plateform distribution pattern.

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