Behavior of trace elements during feldspar dissolution in near-equilibrium conditions: Preliminary investigation     

Hlne Pauwels  Pierpaolo Zuddas  Gil Michard 《Chemical Geology》1989,78(3-4):255-267

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Constraints on the formation of cyclic units in ultramafic zones of large basaltic chambers     

Geneviève Brandeis 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1992,112(2-3):312-328

Petrological models for the formation of cyclic units in ultramafic zones at the base of large mafic layered intrusions are still few and simple. In this study, we develop simple physical constraints, such as the volume balance and density relationships between the various liquids involved. We consider the formation of an entire ultramafic zone, made of N cyclic units due to N successive reinjections. We tackle the following problems. Are all the injections of the same chemical composition? Are the N injections responsible for the formation of the whole magma chamber? Two end-member models are examined. In the first one, the chamber grows with each injection and does not lose any magma (variable volume model, VV). In the second one, the chamber initially forms with a large volume of magma and remains at a constant volume with subsequent reinjections of small volumes balanced by eruptions of equal volume (fixed volume model, FV). Several scenarios for the formation of a cyclic unit are envisioned. Petrological data such as thicknesses of the cumulate layers and their compositions, together with the fractionation density of the cumulate phases, allow the calculation of the density evolution, as a function of the initial density only. Thus, the model yields constraints on the density of the initial liquid, and hence on its chemical composition. The volumes of the injected magmas are calculated as well as the evolution of the densities of the different involved liquids. We apply the calculation to the specific case of the Ultramafic Series of the Stillwater complex. The multiple reinjection models require that the initial liquids densities vary between 2.71 and 2.72 g/cm³, corresponding to MgO-rich liquids for which there is no field evidence, either in dikes or in chilled margins. They also require that the source produces liquids of different chemical composition. Thus, the evolution of the igneous system requires another, larger reservoir where differentiation takes place prior to injection into the shallower one. Contrary to the multiple reinjection models, a closed system model where crystallization proceeds in an isolated bottom layer does not require any specific value of density for the liquids, provided, of course, that it is of basaltic composition. On the negative side, such a model is not supported by any physical processes which would account for the formation of cyclic units.  相似文献   

The dynamic cusp at low altitudes: a case study utilizing Viking,DMSP-F7, and Sondrestrom incoherent scatter radar observations     

J. Watermann  O. de la Beaujardière  D. Lummerzheim  J. Woch  P. T. Newell  T. A. Potemra  F. J. Rich  M. Shapshak 《Annales Geophysicae》1994,12(12):1144-1157

Coincident multi-instrument magnetospheric and ionospheric observations have made it possible to determine the position of the ionospheric footprint of the magnetospheric cusp and to monitor its evolution over time. The data used include charged particle and magnetic field measurements from the Earth-orbiting Viking and DMSP-F7 satellites, electric field measurements from Viking, interplanetary magnetic field and plasma data from IMP-8, and Sondrestrom incoherent scatter radar observations of the ionospheric plasma density, temperature, and convection. Viking detected cusp precipitation poleward of 75.5○ invariant latitude. The ionospheric response to the observed electron precipitation was simulated using an auroral model. It predicts enhanced plasma density and elevated electron temperature in the upper E- and F-regions. Sondrestrom radar observations are in agreement with the predictions. The radar detected a cusp signature on each of five consecutive antenna elevation scans covering 1.2 h local time. The cusp appeared to be about 2○ invariant latitude wide, and its ionospheric footprint shifted equatorward by nearly 2○ during this time, possibly influenced by an overall decrease in the IMF B_z component. The radar plasma drift data and the Viking magnetic and electric field data suggest that the cusp was associated with a continuous, rather than a patchy, merging between the IMF and the geomagnetic field.  相似文献   

A comparison between transilient turbulence theory and the exchange coefficient model approaches     

J. Cuxart  P. Bougeault  P. Lacarrère  J. Noilhan  M. R. Soler 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1994,67(3):251-276

The transilient turbulence model of Stull and Driedonks (1987) and the exchange coefficient model of Bougeault and Lacarrère (1989) are intercompared on four convective days of the HAPEX-MOBILHY experiment. We show that the numerical formulations of the models are very close to each other, despite their totally different theoretical backgrounds. Both models describe the mixing effect of the turbulence via matrices having the same general characteristics. The results of the models are also found to be very similar in general, although the transilient approach requires more computations. Some systematic differences are noted and discussed in detail. We argue that similar work should be conducted on non-convective cases before deciding on the superiority of one or the other approach.  相似文献   

La Tramontane et le Mestral de la Côte Catalane     

E. Fontserè 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》1949,1(2):127-137

Résumé Pendant la moitié froide de l'année, le grand courant atmosphérique qui la plupart des jours se dirige du Golfe de Biscaye vers la Méditerranée est divisé près du sol en deux branches par les Pyrenées et par la dépression intérieure catalane, alors très froide, de sorte que dequis Blanes jusqu'à Vilanova on ne trouve généralement que des vents locaus. L'une de ces branches, après avoir parcouru le midi de la France jusqu'au Roussillon, pénètre en Catalogne en sautant sur les Albères sous la forme de vent du NNW (tramontane); l'autre suit le bassin de l'Èbre et débouche en mer comme un vent du NW (mestral). Ces deux vents deviennent parfois très violents en Ampourdan et au SE de la Serra de Balaguer, où ils constituent alors des cataractes furieuses d'air sec qui se précipitent vers la mer et qui sont dangereuses pour les petits bateaux pêcheurs et pénibles pour l'aviation. Leur violence, leur siccité et les nuages orographiques qu'ils produisent, font ranger ces deux vents parmi les phénomènes côtiers les plus notables.

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Summary During the cold months, the great atmospheric current which most of the time goes from the Gulf of Biscay to the Mediterranean sea is divided in its lower layers in two branches by the Pyrenees and the central Catalonian depression, which in this season is very cold. Therefore the zone between Blanes and Vilanova is a protected one, with local winds only. One of the current branches runs over the souther parts of France until the Roussillon, and leaping over the frontier mountains of the Alberes enters in Catalonia as a NNW wind (tramontana). The other branch runs over the Ebro depression and reaches the Mediterranean as a NW wind (mestral). Frequently these two winds become furious at the Ampourdan and at the leeward of the Serra de Balaguer, where they fall down to the sea as cataracts of dry air, violent enough to be dangerous for the fishing boats and troublesome for the aircraft. Their violence, their dryness and the orographic clouds that they produce, place these winds amongst the most conspicuous coastal phenomena.

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Zusammenfassung Während der kalten Jahreshälte wird die große Luftströmung, die an der Mehrzahl der Tage vom Golf von Biskaya gegen das Mittelmeer weht, durch die Pyrenäen und die zu dieser Zeit sehr kalte innerkatalanische Senke in zwei Arme geteilt, während von Blanes bis Vilanova im allgemeinen nur lokale Winde auftreten. Der eine dieser Arme durchströmt Südfrankreich bis ins Roussillon, überschreitet die östlichen Pyrenäenausläufer (Alberes) und dringt als NNW-Wind in Katalonien ein (Tramontana); der andere folgt dem Ebrobecken und mündet als NW-Wind auf das Meer (Mestral). Beide Winde werden manchmal sehr heftig, der erste im Ampurdan (der nordöstlichen Ecke Kataloniens), der zweite südöstlich der Serra de Balaguer (nordöstlich Tortosa), wo sie einen wilden Katarakt trockener Luft bilden, der sich auf das Meer hinabstürzt und für die kleinen Fischerboote gefährlich und für die Aviatik beschwerlich ist. Durch ihre Heftigkeit, ihre Trockenheit und die von ihnen gebildeten Hinderniswolken gehören diese Winde zu den bemerkenswertesten Küstenerscheinungen.

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The Gulf of Cadiz: an unstable giant contouritic levee   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

T. Mulder  M. Voisset  P. Lecroart  E. Le Drezen  E. Gonthier  V. Hanquiez  J.-C. Faugères  E. Habgood  F. J. Hernandez-Molina  F. Estrada  E. Llave-Barranco  D. Poirier  C. Gorini  Y. Fuchey  A. Voelker  P. Freitas  F. Lobo Sanchez  L. M. Fernandez  N. H. Kenyon  J. Morel 《Geo-Marine Letters》2003,23(1):7-18

Recent multibeam bathymetry and acoustic imagery data provide a new understanding of the sedimentary system located in the Gulf of Cadiz which is under the influence of a strong current, the Mediterranean Outflow Water (MOW). When it comes out from the Strait of Gibraltar, the MOW is either channelled along major or secondary channels, or spills over a sedimentary levee. Frequent earthquakes and the constant current shearing generate widespread sediment deformation and instability of contourite deposits. Secondary channels can form by retrogression following an initial failure. At their mouth, sediment accumulates in the form of small sandy contourite lobes. These observations suggest that the Gulf of Cadiz system shares many similarities with channel–levee complexes formed by turbidity current activity. The main difference is that, in the Gulf of Cadiz, the main process is a strongly flowing saline current which locally interacts with gravity processes.  相似文献   

Plio-Quaternary reactivation of the Neogene margin off NW Algiers, Algeria: The Khayr al Din bank     

Abdelkarim Yelles  Jacques Déverchère  Rabah Bracène  Pierre Strzerzynski  Guillaume Bertrand  Thierry Winter  Pascal Le Roy  Hamou Djellit 《Tectonophysics》2009,475(1):98-116

The Algiers region, northern Algeria, is known to be seismically active, with recurrent large (M>6) earthquakes. Because of the lack of high-resolution bathymetry, the offshore structures remained for a long time poorly known. Thanks to a new marine data base (MARADJA 2003 cruise), the offshore part of the margin is accurately mapped, and new active and recent structures are described. West of the bay of Algiers, the margin enlarges, forming the Khayr al Din bank, interpreted as a tilted block of the passive margin born during the opening of the Algero-Provençal basin. At the slope break, a 80 km-long fault-tip Quaternary fold, namely the Khayr al Din fault, extends at the foot of the margin off NW Algiers and represents the largest active structure of the coastal area, together with the Sahel anticline. We also map for the first time a set of overlapping, en echelon active folds in the upper part of the Khayr al Din bank, located off previously known active structures on land. Most of these faults represent actually a threat for the Algiers region in terms of seismic hazard but also geological hazards, such as tsunamis, as most of them depicts significant dimensions and slip rates. The highest long-term horizontal shortening rate is found on the Khayr al Din fault and is estimated at 0.5 ± 0.1 mm/yr, with a maximal magnitude of 7.3, which provides one of the highest seismogenic potential in the region.A new tectonic framework for the Algiers region is proposed, in which the main south-dipping offshore structure, of opposite vergence relative to most thrusts on land, appears to be nowadays the main driving fault system, as also found further east in the Boumerdès (M 6.8) 2003 rupture zone. The overall apparent pop-up structure of the recent and active faults may result from a progressive migration of the plate limit from the Late Miocene, north-dipping suture zone on land, to the Quaternary, south-dipping main Khayr al Din fault at sea, suggesting a process of subduction inception.  相似文献   

Combined climatic and geological forcings on the spatio-temporal variability of piezometric levels in the chalk aquifer of Upper Normandy (France) at pluridecennal scale     

Smail Slimani  Nicolas Massei  Johanna Mesquita  Danièle Valdés  Matthieu Fournier  Benoît Laignel  Jean-Paul Dupont 《Hydrogeology Journal》2009,17(8):1823-1832

The temporal variability of water-level fluctuations in the chalk aquifer of Upper Normandy, France is constrained by natural climate fluctuations and is closely linked to the regional geological patterns. The chalk plateaus are covered with 5–50 m thick semi-permeable surficial formations; the thickness of the underlying chalk aquifer varies from 50 to 300 m. The relationship among climate oscillations, piezometric levels, and geologic structure were investigated by correlation, Fourier spectral, and continuous wavelet analyses of selected piezometric time-series data. Analysis focused on two piezometers located on the uplifted side of a major fault and two piezometers on the downthrown side. After generalization to other piezometers in the region, it was deduced that, in the downthrown compartments, a substantial aquifer and surficial formations thickness would imply a strong attenuation of annual variability, while multi-year variability is clearly expressed. Conversely, in the uplifted compartments, a thin layer of surficial formations and small thickness of the chalk authorizes strong variations on the annual mode with respect to the contribution of long-term climatic oscillations (multi-year variability). The results then demonstrated—and proposed a spatial determination of—the differential influence of geological patterns on the filtering of climate-induced oscillations in piezometric variability.  相似文献   

Remagnetization mechanism of Lower Cretaceous rocks from the Organyà Basin (Pyrenees,Spain)     

Z.?GongEmail author  M.?J.?Dekkers  J.?Dinarès-Turell  T.?A.?T.?Mullender 《Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica》2008,52(2):187-210

Widespread Cretaceous remagnetization is documented in several Mesozoic basins in North Central Spain. Organyà Basin (South Central Pyrenean foreland) is atypical in the sense that the lower part of the rock sequence (Berriasian-Barremian limestones) is remagnetized while the upper portion (Aptian-Albian marls) is not (Dinarès-Turell and García-Senz, 2000). Here, this view is confirmed by the analysis of 41 new paleomagnetic sites over the entire basin, so that a 3D view is obtained. Thermoviscous resetting of the natural remanent magnetization can be ruled out, hence the remagnetization is chemical in origin. A positive breccia-test on remagnetized strata constrains the remagnetization age to older than the Paleocene-Eocene, when the backthrust system was active. The remagnetization is argued to have occurred early in the geological history of the Organyà Basin either in the elevated geothermal gradient regime during the syn-rift extension or at the earliest phase of the later compression. Burial is considered the most important cause combined with the lithological effect that limestones are more prone to express remagnetization than marls. The observed pressure solution in the remagnetized limestone is likely associated with the remagnetization, whereas it is unlikely that externally derived fluids have played an important role.  相似文献   

Sources of in-situ 36Cl in basaltic rocks. Implications for calibration of production rates     

Irene Schimmelpfennig  Lucilla Benedetti  Robert Finkel  Raphaël Pik  Pierre-Henri Blard  Didier Bourlès  Pete Burnard  Alice Williams 《Quaternary Geochronology》2009,4(6):441-461

In-situ cosmogenic ³⁶Cl production rates from spallation of Ca and K determined in several previously published calibration studies differ by up to 50%. In this study we compare whole rock ³⁶Cl exposure ages with ³⁶Cl exposure ages evaluated in Ca-rich plagioclase in the same 10 ± 3 ka lava sample taken from Mt. Etna (Sicily, 38° N). The exposure age of the sample was determined by K–Ar and corroborated by cosmogenic ³He measurements on cogenetic pyroxene phenocrysts. Sequential dissolution experiments showed that high Cl concentrations in plagioclase grains could be reduced from 450 ppm to less than 3 ppm after 16% dissolution. ³⁶Cl exposure ages calculated from the successive dissolution steps of this leached plagioclase sample are in good agreement with K–Ar and ³He age. Stepwise dissolution of whole rock grains, on the other hand, is not as effective in reducing high Cl concentrations as it is for the plagioclase. 330 ppm Cl still remains after 85% dissolution. The ³⁶Cl exposure ages derived are systematically about 30% higher than the ages calculated from the plagioclase. We could exclude contamination by atmospheric ³⁶Cl as an explanation for this overestimate. Magmatic ³⁶Cl was estimated by measuring a totally shielded sample, but was found to account for only an insignificant amount of ³⁶Cl in the case of the 10 ka whole rock sample. We suspect that the overestimate of the whole rock exposure age is due to the difficulty in accurately assessing all the factors which control production of ³⁶Cl by low-energy neutron capture on ³⁵Cl, particularly variable water content and variable snow cover. We conclude that some of the published ³⁶Cl spallation production rates might be overestimated due to high Cl concentrations in the calibration samples. The use of rigorously pretreated mineral separates reduces Cl concentrations, allowing better estimates of the spallation production rates.In the Appendix of this paper we document in detail the equations used. These equations are also incorporated into a ³⁶Cl calculation spreadsheet made available in the supplementary data.  相似文献