Stream-sediment geochemical prospecting for uranium in the paleozoic of the Belgian ardennes     

H. Martin  J.P. Lefin  L. Dejonghe  J. Henry 《Journal of Geochemical Exploration》1983,19(1-3)

During the years 1979 and 1980, a preliminary program of uranium exploration in the Paleozoic of the Belgian Ardennes was carried out under the sponsorship of the Commission of European Communities. The Laboratory of Mineralogy of the Polytechnic Faculty of Mons was charged with the radiometric section of the program, the Geochemistry Laboratory of the Free University of Brussels with the hydrogeochemical exploration, and the Geochemistry Laboratory of the University of Louvain with the stream sediment exploration. The Geological Survey of Belgium had the responsibility for coordinating the three programs, the statistical and computer treatment of the data, and the compilation of the different maps.Orientation studies at the Geochemistry Laboratory of the University of Louvain showed that a positive geochemical response for uranium could be obtained with bank sampling, which consists of collecting colluvium and alluvium on both sides of the rivers. This necessitates a large sampling density of about one sample per km² (10 205 samples from an area of 11 000 km²).The frequency distribution of the values of uranium follows the lognormal law with a geometric mean of 1.06 ppm and a threshold of 2.36 ppm (P= 0.954). The anomalies (> 3 ppm) fall into three main areas each in a different geological setting: (1) at the periphery of the Cambro-Silurian Massif of Stavelot; (2) within the transition beds between the Visean and Namurian; and (3) in the lower Devonian of the central Ardennes.The first two areas coincide with zones of known radiometric anomalies and of the occurrence of uraniferous minerals.In the third zone, follow-up work has led to the discovery of a uraniferous mineral assemblage consisting of a weathered mass of iron oxide, leucoxene and phosphates.Statistical analyses of the results indicate no significant relationship between U and either organic carbon or Mn, a negative correlation between U and carbonate and pH, and a good positive correlation between U and Cu, V and Fe. The last correlation may indicate an association of U, V, and Cu with iron oxides formed during meteoric alteration.  相似文献   

New hole centers in natural quartz     

D. Maschmeyer  G. Lehmann 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》1983,10(2):84-88

In natural citrines five new hole centers were detected and analyzed by electron paramagnetic resonance. An additional one was observed in rose-colored quartz crystals with radiation defects as the cause of coloration. Characteristic hyperfine patterns due to an adjacent aluminum impurity were resolved in the spectra of three of these centers. Their relations to other hole centers of well-known structure in quartz and fused silica are discussed and possible models for their structures are proposed.  相似文献   

Subliquidus glass-glass immiscibility along the albite-diopside join     

D.J. Henry  I.D.R. Mackinnon  I. Chan  A. Navrotsky 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1983,47(2):277-282

A calorimetric study has shown that glasses along the albite-diopside join in the system albiteanorthite-diopside have positive enthalpies of mixing. Thermodynamic calculations based on these data describe a nearly symmetric, metastable, subliquidus irascibility gap along the join with a critical temperature at 910 K. The existence of the miscibility gap was tested experimentally by annealing an Ab₅₀Di₅₀ glass at 748 K and 823 K. Annealed glasses were examined by optical microscopy and by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. The glasses showed morphological and chemical features consistent with unmixing of two glass phases. The apparent mechanism of phase separation involves initial spinodal decomposition followed by coarsening to produce 0.1 μm–0.3 μm spherical glass phases.  相似文献   

High-Resolution Seismic Reflection Evidence for Middle Holocene Environmental Change, Owasco Lake, New York   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Henry T. Mullins  John D. Halfman 《Quaternary Research》2001,55(3):322

Approximately 70 km of new decimeter-resolution seismic reflection profile data from Owasco Lake, New York define a middle Holocene (4600 ¹⁴C yr B.P.) erosion surface in the north end of the lake at water depths as great as 26 m. Beneath the lake, post-glacial sediments are up to 9 m thick and represent about 10% of the total sediment fill. Early to middle Holocene sediments, 6 m thick, contain biogenic gas at the south end of the basin and a large (4 km×300 m×15 m) subaqueous slide deposit along the east-central portion of the lake. Late Holocene sediments are thinner or absent, particularly at the north end of the lake. The middle Holocene erosion surface may have been produced by a drop in lake level. Alternatively, it may represent a change in climate during the transition between the relatively warm Holocene hypsithermal and cool neoglacial. At this time (4600 ¹⁴C yr B.P.) circulation in Owasco Lake appears to have evolved from sluggish to active. The increased circulation, which persists today, probably resulted from atmospheric cold fronts with strong southwesterly winds that piled up water at the north end of the lake. The increased water circulation may have been ultimately driven by decreasing insolation, which produced an increased pole-to-equator thermal gradient and, thus, stronger global winds that began at the transition between the hypsithermal and neoglacial.  相似文献   

The Privatization of the Oceans by Rognvaldur Hannesson     

Henry Frew 《The Professional geographer》2007,59(1):156-156

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Gold overprint of PGE alloy: an example from the Fadeevka Au-PGE placer, Russian Far East     

G. G. Shcheka  B. Lehmann 《Mineralogy and Petrology》2007,89(3-4):275-282

Summary We document a rare case of micron-sized gold inclusions in Ir–Os alloy and overgrowth rims on Pt–Fe alloy from an alluvial Au-PGE placer derived from an Uralian/Alaskan type intrusion in Primorye, Russia. The gold inclusions occasionally form complex aggregates with cooperite [PtS] or tolovkite [IrSbS], and replace magmatic inclusions of Ir-rich Pt–Fe alloy which exsolved from the Ir–Os–Pt matrix. Gold has a relatively constant composition (>90 wt.% Au, a few wt.% Ag, and up to 8 wt.% Pt). The gold rims form superfine (3–5 μm) discontinuous films on the Pt–Fe alloy crystals often followed by cooperite overgrowth. Both gold textures suggest an electrochemical control of gold precipitation via selective Pt–Fe leaching during low-temperature overprint and/or weathering of PGE alloy.  相似文献   

Ted Harrison 1930–2007     

Henry Rishbeth 《Astronomy& Geophysics》2007,48(3):3.37-3.37

Associate of the RAS, pioneer in ionospheric incoherent scatter theory and observation, practical manager and leader, not least of EISCAT.  相似文献   

Quantifying the response of phytoplankton photosynthesis to ultraviolet radiation: Biological weighting functions versus in situ measurements in two Swiss lakes     

Patrick J. Neale  Elena Litchman  Cristina Sobrino  Cristiana Callieri  Giuseppe Morabito  Vivian Montecino  Yannick Huot  Peter Bossard  Christine Lehmann  Daniel Steiner 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》2001,63(3):265-285

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Inverse model method for estimating assimilation by aquatic invertebrates     

John T. Lehmann  Robert Foy  Donna A. Lehman 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》2001,63(2):168-181

Physiological data indicate that a 3-compartment model appropriately represents ingestion, assimilation, and accumulation of somatic and reproductive tissue by an aquatic invertebrate predator. A secondary production model calibrated to growth and respiration data is used to constrain the model equations. Inverse solution methods are used to estimate rate constants for digestion and for net accrual of tissue by growing animals at different temperatures. Predicted time to 50% maximum digestion matches well with the empirical rate of digestion of prey enzymes in the predator gut. Model-derived digestion rates are consistent with the assimilation rate constant obtained by independent radiotracer methods, and with experimental detection time for prey enzymes. The model approach permits parameter estimation within a complex system of equations so that results can be compared with experimental data.  相似文献   

Classification of Non-oriented Fractures Along Boreholes to Joint Sets and its Success Degree     

E. Henry  D. Marcotte  P. Kavanagh 《Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering》2001,34(4):257-273

Summary   The feasibility and safety of a mining project or the choice among alternative mining methods could depend on the joint densities and orientations within the rock mass. The accurate determination of the orientation of all joints is technically difficult and often economically unrealistic. This study presents a new approach in classifying joints found in exploration boreholes as joint sets, whose statistical distribution is determined from a few hundred oriented joints in boreholes. Each non-oriented joint is classified as belonging to a set based on its “a posteriori” probability of membership in a Bayesian framework. The theoretical rate of success of the classification can be computed for each possible borehole orientation and plotted on a stereonet to determine the optimal orientation of new boreholes. The performance and limitations of this approach are investigated. An application example at the Mont Porphyre's large scale block-caving project at Gaspé Mines, Quebec, Canada, is studied.  相似文献