Reanalysis of four NASA stratospheric particles     

I. Kapišinský  V. Figusch  A. Hajduk  J. Ivan  K. Iždinský 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》1994,64(3):273-280

Four stratospheric contaminants catalogued in the Cosmic Dust Catalogs published by the NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston were reanalysed. The results are compatible with those obtained in JSC, however additional features have occurred in our chemical analyses and their interpretation is also discussed.  相似文献   

Stage-structured matrix modeling and suggestions for management of atlantic horseshoe crab,Limulus polyphemus, populations on cape cod, massachusetts     

Sara P. Grady  Ivan Valiela 《Estuaries and Coasts》2006,29(4):685-698

The Atlantic horsehoe crab,Limulus polyphemus, is harvested by the biomedical industry for Limulus Amoebocyte Lysate (LAL) a blood compound used to detect endotoxins, for scientific research on vision, and as bait for the eel and conch fisheries. They are also subject to sources of natural mortality such as consumption of eggs by shorebirds and stranding. Recently there has been growing concern over possible declines inLimulus populations along the east coast of the United States. We have used stage-structured matrix modeling to improve our understanding ofLimulus population dynamics in three Cape Cod estuaries (Stage Harbor, Pleasant Bay, and Barnstable Harbor) with differing harvest pressures. The results suggest that a low level of harvest is sustainable, particularly if timing and size-specificity of the harvest are taken into consideration. The model also suggests that efforts should be made to avoid harvesting crabs prior to sexual maturity, as the population growth rate is more sensitive to changes in survival rate of older juveniles than of other stages. The information the model provides could assist local and regional fisheries managers in establishing appropriate regulations for the horseshoe crab fishery.  相似文献   

The liquefaction of clayey soils under cyclic loading   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

Ivan B. Gratchev  Kyoji Sassa  Viatcheslav N. Sokolov 《Engineering Geology》2006,86(1):70-84

This paper seeks to investigate the liquefaction of clayey soils, a phenomenon that has been the trigger for many natural disasters in the last few decades, including landslides. Research was conducted on artificial clay-sand mixtures and natural clayey soils collected from the sliding surfaces of earthquake-induced landslides. The undrained response of normally consolidated clayey soils to cyclic loading was studied by means of a ring-shear apparatus. For the artificial clay-sand mixtures, it was found that the presence of a small amount of bentonite (≤ 7%) would cause rapid liquefaction, while a further increase in bentonite content (≥ 11%) produced the opposite effect of raising soil resistance to liquefaction by a significant degree. It was demonstrated that the bentonite-sand mixture was considerably more resistant to liquefaction than the kaolin-, and illite-mixtures, given the same clay content. The test results of plastic soils revealed the significant influence of plasticity on the liquefaction resistance of soil. The microfabric of clayey soil was investigated by means of a scanning electron microscope. The analysis showed that the liquefaction potential of soil was strongly related to certain particle arrangements. For example, soil vulnerable to liquefaction had an open microfabric in which clay aggregations generally gathered at the sand particle contact points, forming low-strength “clay bridges” that were destroyed easily during cyclic loading. On the other hand, the microfabric of soil that was resistant to liquefaction appeared to be more compact, with the clay producing a matrix that prevented sand grains from liquefying. In the case of the natural soils, the obtained results indicated that their cyclic behavior was similarly influenced by factors such as clay content, clay mineralogy and plasticity. The relation between the liquefaction potential of natural soil and its microfabric was thus also established. On the basis of the obtained results, the authors posited an explanation on the mechanism of liquefaction for clayey soil.  相似文献   

Properties of Weak Contrast PP Reflection/Transmission Coefficients for Weakly Anisotropic Elastic Media   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Pšenčík  Ivan  Martins  Jorge Leonardo 《Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica》2001,45(2):176-199

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Summaries of presentations during the sixth Workshop of the International Association of Phytoplankton Ecology and Taxonomy,Mondsee, Austria, 15–25 September 1986     

H. R. Bürgi  Gerhild Deisinger  M. Dokulil  Barbara Hickel  Utsa Pollingher  Hedy Kling  Pertti Eloranta  Eugen Rott  Peter Pfister  Maria Moustaka  Ivan S. Heaney  Eugen Rott  A. E. Bailey-Watts  Jorgen Kristiansen  Asbjorn Skogstad 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》1987,49(3):375-392

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Radiochemical Determination of Gold in Rocks     

Evgeny TASKAEV  Ivan PENEV  Hubert SCHELHORN  Martin GEISLER 《Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research》1987,11(1):103-106

A method developed for radiochemical determination of gold in rock samples has been applied to six Bulgarian, four ZGI (GDR) and one USGS geostandards. The method is based on acid dissolution of the sample, followed by extraction of gold with copper diethyldithiocarbamate solution in CHCl₃. The chemical yield was determined by using ¹⁹⁹Au tracer. The present data are compared with published values for the ZGI and USGS samples.  相似文献   

Kinematics of refracted and reflected waves in inhomogeneous media with non-planar interfaces     

Ivan Pšenčík  Reviewer V. Červený 《Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica》1972,16(2):126-152

Zusammenfassung Es werden die Grundbeziehungen für die Berechnung von Strahlen seismischer Wellen in inhomogenen Milieus abgeleitet, in denen die Geschwindigkeit allgemein von drei krummlinigen Koordinaten abhängt. Die angeführten Beziehungen stellen ein System von gewöhnlichen Differentialgleichungen erster Ordnung dar. Die numerische Lösung dieses Systems bietet eine Möglichkeit, die Strahlendiagramme, Laufzeitkurven und Isochronen für die gegebenen Geschwindigkeitsmodelle zu konstruieren. Aufmerksamkeit wird ebenfalls dem Einfall der Strahlen auf eine unebene Grenzschicht gewidmet. Die Beziehungen für die Berechnung reflektierter und refraktierter Strahlen werden abgeleitet. Anhand der abgeleiteten Beziehungen werden Strahlendiagramme und Laufzeitkurven für eine Geschwindigkeitsverteilung berechnet, die durch die vorläufige Interpretation der Ergebnisse von seismischen Tiefensondierungen am tschechoslowakischen Teil des Profils VI gewonnen wurden.  相似文献   

Metamorphic assemblages and the direction of flow of metamorphic fluids in four instances of serpentinization   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Ivan Barnes  John B. Rapp  James R. O'Neil  Richard A. Sheppard  Arthur J. Gude III 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1972,35(3):263-276

Fluids related to Serpentinization are of at least three types. The first reported (Barnes and O'Neil, 1969) is a fluid of local meteoric origin, the chemical and thermodynamic properties of which are entirely controlled by olivine, orthopyroxene, brucite, and serpentine reactions. It is a Ca⁺²-OH^–1 type and is shown experimentally to be capable of reacting with albite to yield calcium hydroxy silicates. Rodingites may form where the Ca⁺²-OH^–1 type waters flow across the ultramafic contact and react with siliceous country rock.The second type of fluid has its chemical composition largely controlled before it enters the ultramafic rocks, but reactions within the ultramafic rocks fix the thermodynamic properties by reactions of orthopyroxene, olivine, calcite, brucite, and serpentine. The precipitation of brucite from this fluid clearly shows that fluid flow allows reaction products to be deposited at a distance from the point of solution. Thus, textural evidence for volume relations during Serpentinization may not be valid.The third type of fluid has its chemical properties fixed in part before the reactions with ultramafic rocks, in part by the reactions of orthopyroxene, olivine, and serpentine and in part by reactions with siliceous country rock at the contact. The reactions of the ultramafic rock and country rock with the fluid must be contemporaneous and require flow to be along the contact. This third type of fluid is grossly supersaturated with talc and tremolite, both found along the contact. The occurrence of magadiite, kenyaite, mountainite, and rhodesite along the contact is probably due to a late stage low-temperature reaction of fluids of the same thermodynamic properties as those that formed the talc and tremolite at higher temperatures. Oxygen isotope analyses of some of these minerals supports this conclusion.Rodingites form from Ca⁺²-rich fluids flowing across the contact; talc and tremolite form from silica-rich fluids flowing along the contact.Isotopic analyses of the fluids indicate varied origins including unaltered local meteoric water and connate water. Complexion Spring water may be a sample of only slightly altered Jurassic or Cretaceous sea water.Publication authorized by the Director, U.S. Geological Survey.  相似文献   

The impact of boundary forcing on RegCM4.2 surface energy budget     

Ivan Güttler  Čedo Branković  Lidija Srnec  Mirta Patarčić 《Climatic change》2014,125(1):67-78

The surface energy budget components from two simulations of the regional climate model RegCM4.2 over the European/North African domain during the period 1989–2005 are analysed. The simulations differ in specified boundary forcings which were obtained from ERA-Interim reanalysis and the HadGEM2-ES Earth system model. Surface radiative and turbulent fluxes are compared against ERA-Interim. Errors in surface radiative fluxes are derived with respect to the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment/Surface Radiation Budget satellite-based products. In both space and time, we find a high degree of realism in the RegCM surface energy budget components, but some substantial errors and differences between the two simulations are also present. The most prominent error is an overestimation of the net surface shortwave radiation flux of more than 50 W/m² over central and southeastern Europe during summer months. This error strongly correlates with errors in the representation of total cloud cover, and less strongly with errors in surface albedo. During other seasons, the amplitude of the surface energy budget components is more in line with reference datasets. The errors may limit the usefulness of RegCM simulations in applications (e.g. high-quality simulation-driven impact studies). However, by using a simple diagnostic model for error interpretation, we suggest potential sensitivity studies aiming to reduce the underestimation of cloud cover and overestimation of shortwave radiation flux.  相似文献   

Effect of climate change on corrosion rates of structures in Australia     

Nayruti Siddharth Trivedi  Murali Sankar Venkatraman  Clement Chu  Ivan S. Cole 《Climatic change》2014,124(1-2):133-146

As structures built now will be expected to last well past 2064 (50 years) it is vital that the effect of climate change be considered in their design and material selection. In particular changes in the rate of corrosion of metal components must be considered. To this end this study estimates the maximum likely change in the corrosion rate for the year 2070 so it can be included in current design. Changes in corrosion are estimated for 11 coastal and inland locations in Australia. For each station the climatic data (3-hourly) in 2070 is estimated by modifying current data with probable changes based on two climate change models (CSIRO: CSIRO-Mk 3.5 and MRI: MRI-CGCM 3.2.2). The former is for high global warming rate and the later the A1FI scenario. This climatic data is then run the Corrosion “predictor” (a multi-scale process model) to predict corrosion at each location. It is found that significant changes occur with corrosion in coastal locations increasing substantially, in contrast the corrosion at inland locations will decrease moderately. The increase in coastal locations is associated with a greater build up of salt due to less frequent rain evens while the reduction in inland locations is associated with a reduction in RH and thus surface wetness.  相似文献