Comparison of accelerator and radiometric radiocarbon measurements obtained from Late Devesian Lateglacial lake sediments from Llyn Gwernan, North Wales, UK     

J. JOHN LOWE  STEPHEN LOWE  ALISON J. FOWLER  ROBERT E. M. HEDGES  TIM J. F. AUSTIN 《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》1988,17(3):355-369

Accelerator mass spectrometry measures of the radiocarbon activity of various chemical fractions prepared from Late Devensian Lateglacial lake sediments from the site of Llyn Gwernan, near Cader Idris, North Wales are presented and assessed. These are compared with radiocarbon measurements obtained by radiometric (decay) counting which were reported earlier from the same site and are considered in the light of pollen-stratigraphic information. The potential advantages of accelerator radiocarbon measurements to the assessment of the chronology and correlation of Lateglacial lake sediments are evaluated.  相似文献   

Fossil sharks     

JOHN R.F. DICK  M.I. COATES  W.D.I. ROLFE 《Geology Today》1986,2(3):82-85

Sharks were around as early as the Silurian and were most abundant during the Carboniferous. During the Eocene, some of them were even larger than today's Great White Shark.  相似文献   

The Mantle Source for Olivine Nephelinite, Basanite, and Alkaline Olivine Basalt at Fort Selkirk, Yukon, Canada   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1  

FRANCIS  DON; LUDDEN  JOHN 《Journal of Petrology》1990,31(2):371-400

Olivine nephelinite, basanite, and transitional alkaline basaltlavas of the Quaternary Fort Selkirk volcanic complex in thecentral Yukon represent three distinct alkaline magma serieswhich have evolved along diverging paths. They cannot be relatedby low-pressure crystal-liquid fractionation, and systematicisotopic differences make it difficult to derive them by variabledegrees of melting of a common mantle source. Field evidencerequires, however, that these three magma series are intimatelyrelated in time and space, and they share a number of anomalouschemical characteristics including low Ca/Na ratios with respectto the majority of terrestrial equivalents. When the effectsof differential olivine fractionation are ignored, the compositionalspectrum of the Fort Selkirk lavas approximates a binary mixingline between transitional alkaline basalt and olivine nephelinite.A population gap along this mixing line, located between thecompositions of the nephelinite and basanite lavas, coincideswith the compositions of amphibole and/or amphibole–garnet–clinopyroxeneassemblages observed in mantle xenoliths. This compositionalgap may represent a thermal divide separating two minimum-meltcompositions in a mantle source consisting of a lherzolite hostcut by amphibole–garnet–clinopyroxenite veins. Theolivine nephelinite endmember may have been derived by earlymelting in the amphibole–garnet–clinopyroxeniteveins, whereas the transitional alkaline basalt would representmore extensive melting of the host lherzolite.  相似文献   

Sedimentology and architecture of the Douglas Creek terminal splay,Lake Eyre,central Australia     

JOHN A. FISHER  CARMEN B. E. KRAPF  SIMON C. LANG  GARY J. NICHOLS  TOBIAS H. D. PAYENBERG 《Sedimentology》2008,55(6):1915-1930

Douglas Creek terminal splay, sited on the western shoreline of Lake Eyre North, central Australia, covers a surface area of approximately 4 km² with a down‐system length of 2·5 km from the distributary channels terminus to the splay fringe. Two distributary channels feed two sediment lobes which have amalgamated to form the terminal splay. Three primary facies associations have been identified sub‐dividing the creek terminus into distributary channel, proximal and distal splay sections. Proximal splay sediments are characterized by erosionally based, relatively thick (> 100 mm), stacked sheets of coarse to medium sand which commonly display trough and planar cross‐bedding, whereas the distal splay is characterized by thin (generally < 50 mm) massive beds of very fine sand, silt and clay. The change in splay sedimentology is interpreted as reflecting the transition from bedload‐dominated deposition to suspended load‐dominated deposition from decelerating sheetfloods as they spread out from the channel onto the dry lake bed. A proximal to distal splay transition zone is also noted where deposits of both facies associations interfinger laterally and vertically. In scale, geometry and facies associations, the Douglas Creek terminal splay is very different to the often cited Neales terminal splay complex located 70 km to the north. It is suggested that these architectural differences reflect variations in discharge volume, input sediment distribution and the degree of vegetation cover. Understanding the variation in terminal splay architecture has very significant implications for the modelling of analogous subsurface petroleum systems, which at present relies on few modern‐day analogues.  相似文献   

Quaternary sedimentology of the Rose Creek fan delta, Walker Lake, Nevada, USA, and implications to fan-delta facies models   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

TERENCE C. BLAIR  JOHN G. MCPHERSON† 《Sedimentology》2008,55(3):579-615

The 3·2 km long Rose Creek fan delta of west‐central Nevada is prograding from an active rift margin into the 32 m deep Walker Lake. A case study of the forms, processes and facies of this fan delta reveals that the proximal and medial zones mainly are of sub‐aerial origin, and the distal zone is of lacustrine origin. Pebbly to bouldery rock‐avalanche mounds >100 m thick (Facies A) and muddy to bouldery debris flow levées 0·5 to 2·0 m thick (Facies B) dominate the proximal zone, whereas mostly matrix‐supported cobbly pebbly debris flow lobes 0·1 to 1·0 m thick (Facies C) typify the medial zone. Surficial pebble lags and gully fills (Facies D) are widespread in both zones but, in exposures, comprise only partings or lenticles between debris flow units. The distal fan delta mainly consists of lakeshore to lake‐bottom tracts formed by extensive wave reworking of debris flow facies. Nearshore deposits include erosional cobbly boulder lag beaches (Facies E), pebbly constructional beaches attached at headcuts or on barrier spits (Facies F), pebbly upper shoreface (Facies G) and sandy lower shoreface (Facies H) tracts positioned lakeward of the beach, and pebbly landward‐dipping foresets (Facies I) and backshore‐pond sand and mud (Facies J) present landward of the spits. Erosional lag beaches fringe the windward north side of the fan‐delta front, attached constructional beaches characterize the central zone, and southward‐elongating barrier spits typify the leeward south side, extending from the zone of greatest projection of the fan delta into the lake. Shoreline facies asymmetry results from largely unidirectional longshore drift caused by high fetch to the north and minimal fetch to the south, combined with the arcuate shape of the fan‐delta front. The spits overlie a platform deposited below common wave base consisting of south‐east‐trending cones of pebbly Gilbert foresets (Facies K) and sandy toesets (Facies L). Typically slumped silt and mud (Facies M) fringe both this platform and lower shoreface sand in deeper water. This case demonstrates facies types and patterns that are inconsistent with the widely promoted fan‐delta facies model having a front consisting of an apron of radially directed Gilbert foresets deposited where sub‐aerial flows enter the lake. The Rose Creek fan‐delta front instead features a sharp contact between sub‐aerial and lakeshore facies formed where waves erode, sort and redistribute heterogeneous debris flow sediment into the various shallow‐to‐deep lake facies. Gilbert foresets are present only in the lee of the fan delta where sediment moving by longshore drift reaches the brink of the spit front. This facies scenario results from the infrequency of fan‐building events versus nearly constant wind‐induced waves, a scenario that, in contrast to the popular Gilbert model, probably is the norm for fan deltas. The level of Walker Lake, and thus the position of wave reworking on the Rose Creek fan delta, fluctuated over a range of ～157 m during the last 18 kyr, producing complex interfingering between sub‐aerial and lakeshore facies across a 1700 m wide radial belt, typifying a wave‐modified, freestand lacustrine fan delta.  相似文献   

Kinetic limitations on cloud droplet formation and impact on cloud albedo   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

ATHANASIOS NENES  STEVEN GHAN  HAYDER ABDUL&#;RAZZAK  PATRICK Y. CHUANG  JOHN H. SEINFELD 《Tellus. Series B, Chemical and physical meteorology》2001,53(2):133-149

Under certain conditions mass transfer limitations on the growth of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) may have a significant impact on the number of droplets that can form in a cloud. The assumption that particles remain in equilibrium until activated may therefore not always be appropriate for aerosol populations existing in the atmosphere. This work identifies three mechanisms that lead to kinetic limitations, the effect of which on activated cloud droplet number and cloud albedo is assessed using a one‐dimensional cloud parcel model with detailed microphysics for a variety of aerosol size distributions and updraft velocities. In assessing the effect of kinetic limitations, we have assumed as cloud droplets not only those that are strictly activated (as dictated by classical Köhler theory), but also unactivated drops large enough to have an impact on cloud optical properties. Aerosol number concentration is found to be the key parameter that controls the significance of kinetic effects. Simulations indicate that the equilibrium assumption leads to an overprediction of droplet number by less than 10% for marine aerosol; this overprediction can exceed 40% for urban type aerosol. Overall, the effect of kinetic limitations on cloud albedo can be considered important when equilibrium activation theory consistently overpredicts droplet number by more than 10%. The maximum change in cloud albedo as a result of kinetic limitations is less than 0.005 for cases such as marine aerosol; however albedo differences can exceed 0.1 under more polluted conditions. Kinetic limitations are thus not expected to be climatically significant on a global scale, but can regionally have a large impact on cloud albedo.  相似文献   

Changes in aerosol size- and phase distributions due to physical and chemical processes in fog   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

KEVIN J. NOONE  JOHN A. OGREN  ANNELI HALLBERG  JOST HEINTZENBERG  JOHAN STRÖM  HANS-CHRISTEN HANSSON  BIRGITTA SVENNINGSSON  ALFRED WIEDENSOHLER  SANDRO FUZZI  MARIA CHRISTINA FACCHINI  BEATE G. ARENDS  AXEL BERNER 《Tellus. Series B, Chemical and physical meteorology》1992,44(5):489-504

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A middle Proterozoic palaeokarst unconformity and associated sedimentary rocks, Elu Basin, northwest Canada     

SHANE M. PELECHATY  NOEL P. JAMES  CHARLES KERANS  JOHN P. GROTZINGER 《Sedimentology》1991,38(5):775-797

A major palaeokarst erosion surface is developed within the middle Proterozoic Elu Basin, northwestern Canada. This palaeokarst is named the sub-Kanuyak unconformity and truncates the Parry Bay Formation, a sequence of shallow-marine dolostones that were deposited within a north-facing carbonate platform under a semi-arid climate. The sub-Kanuyak unconformity exhibits up to 90 m of local relief, and also formed under semi-arid conditions when Parry Bay dolostones were subaerially exposed during a relative sea-level drop of about 180 m. Caves and various karren developed within the meteoric vadose and phreatic zones. Their geometry, size and orientation were largely controlled by northwest- and northeast-trending antecedent joints, bedding, and lithology. Near-surface caves later collapsed forming valleys, and intervening towers or walls, and plains. Minor terra rossa formed on top of highs. Karstification was most pronounced in southern parts of Bathurst Inlet but decreased northward, probably reflecting varying lengths of exposure time along a north-dipping slope. The Kanuyak Formation is up to 65 m thick, and partially covers the underlying palaeokarst. It consists of six lithofacies: (i) breccia formed during collapse of caves, as reworked collapse breccia and regolith; (ii) conglomerate representing gravel-dominated braided-fluvial deposits; (iii) sandstone deposited as braided-fluvial and storm-dominated lacustrine deposits; (iv) interbedded sandstone, siltstone and mudstone of sheet flood origin; (v) dolostones formed from dolocretes and quiet-water lacustrine deposits; and (vi) red-beds representing intertidal-marine mudflat deposits. Rivers flowed toward the northwest and northeast within karst valleys and caves; lakes were also situated within valleys; marine mudflat sediments completely cover the palaeokarst to the north. A regional correlation of the sub-Kanuyak unconformity with the intra-Greenhorn Lakes disconformity within the Coppermine homocline suggests that similar styles of karstification occurred over an extensive region. The Elu Basin palaeokarst, however, was developed more landward, and was exposed for a longer period of time than the Coppermine homocline palaeokarst.  相似文献   

Dry deposition of sulfur: a 23-year record for the Hubbard Brook Forest ecosystem   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

GENE E. LIKENS  F. HERBERT BORMANN  LARS O. HEDIN  CHARLES T. DRISCOLL  JOHN S. EATON 《Tellus. Series B, Chemical and physical meteorology》1990,42(4):319-329

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Changes in Silicic Melt Structure Between the Two Bandelier Caldera-Forming Eruptions, New Mexico, USA: Evidence from Zirconium and Light Rare Earth Elements     

STIX  JOHN; GORTON  MICHAEL P. 《Journal of Petrology》1990,31(6):1261-1283

The Cerro Toledo Rhyolite is a group of high-silica rhyolitedomes and tephras which were erupted during the period betweenthe Lower Bandelier Tuff (LBT) at 1?45 Ma and the Upper BandelierTuff (UBT) at 1?12 Ma. The tephra sequence reflects the changingcomposition of the most fractionated liquids at the top of themagma chamber or chambers owing to crystallization during this0?33-Ma interval, over which it is possible to trace magma evolutionin detail. Incompatible elements such as Cs and Lu generallyincrease in concentration upsection through the tephra sequence.By contrast, Zr initially decreases upsection from 153 ppm to134 ppm in the middle, then increases upward to 320 ppm in themost evolved rhyolites. The Zr/Cs and Hf/Cs ratios initiallydecline, then become constant. The dramatic rise in Zr at nearlyconstant Zr/Cs suggests suppression of zircon crystallizationand a change from a high degree of zircon oversaturation toone of marginal oversaturation in the most evolved magmas. Theobserved Zr trends in the Cerro Toledo Rhyolite are oppositeto those (1) predicted by experimental studics of Zr solubilityin silicic magmas and (2) observed in the Bishop Tuff. LREEshow broadly similar relations to Zr and Hf. We have examined two parameters—iron content and volatilecontent of the magma—which may have controlled the crystallizationbehavior of zircon and the LREE-rich phase(s). The dramaticincrease in Zr and LREE in the most evolved Cerro Toledo Rhyolitesand basal UBT plinian tephras is accompanied by similar increasesin iron and halogen contents. If changa in the halogen contentsof matrix glasses are indicative of changes in overall volatilelevels at the top of the magma chamber(s), the increase in volatilesand iron may have modified the structural state of the magmaand increased the solubilities of zircon and the LREE-rich phase(s),thereby raising the saturation levels of Zr and LREE and stabilizingthese elements in the melt. Disruption of the melt structuremay have resulted from (1) Fe as a network modifier or quasi-molecularcomplex, (2) breaking of bridging oxygens by anions such asOH^– and F^–, and/or (3) complexing of Al and alkalisby OH, F, and/or Cl.  相似文献