Climate change inferred from analysis of borehole temperatures: First results from Alberta Basin,Canada     

Jacek A. Majorowicz 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》1993,140(4):655-666

High quality temperature measurements have been made to depths of 30 to 220 m at 42 sites in 62 observational hydrogeological wells in Alberta. The temperature profiles commonly show near-surface inversions with a minimum temperature at depths of 30 to 50 m. Thermal modelling suggests a surface temperature history with warming reaching 2°C over the past 30 to 60 years. Recent climate warming evident from the analysis of the air temperature data in the region seems to provide at least a partial explanation of the increased ground temperatures. A sudden increase of the surface ground temperature caused by land clearing may be the other explanation, although modelling of such a sudden increase can only explain the observed temperature-depth data if the onset of such warming is 20–30 years old, which is in disagreement with the history of land development in the studied area. The effect of near-surface inversions of the temperature profiles also has been observed in the forested areas. The above support the climate based effect. The superposition of the climatic effect and man-made activity effect upon the ground warming is a very complicated process calling for considerably more research.  相似文献   

29Si and 27Al magic-angle-spinning NMR studies of the thermal transformation of kaolinite   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

João Rocha  Jacek Klinowski 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》1990,17(2):179-186

Thermal transformations of kaolinite of different degree of crystallinity have been monitored by ²⁷Al and ²⁹Si high-resolution NMR with magic-angle spinning (MAS NMR), X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared, atomic absorption spectrophotometry and thermogravimetric analysis. NMR shows differences in the dehydroxylation process of kaolinites with different degree of crystallinity and reveals the presence of short-range order in metakaolinite. ²⁹Si NMR spectra acquired with a 30 s recycle delay of poorly and highly crystalline samples heated at 480 and 500° C, respectively, contain three distinct signals; we discuss their assignment in the light of experiments involving leaching of the samples with aqueous KOH. Ca. 40% of Si sites retain their original Q ³ symmetry just above the onset of dehydroxylation and the Q ⁴ environment is present showing that a small amount of amorphous silica has already segregated. The spectrum of samples treated at 1000° C contains a signal at -110ppm (from Q ⁴ silicons) and a faint resonance, from mullite, at ca. -87 ppm. ²⁹Si NMR also shows that cristobalite germs are already present at 950–1000° C. The ²⁷Al MAS NMR spectra of metakaolinite reveal the presence of 4-, 5-and 6-coordinated Al. Changes in the three Al populations as a function of temperature have been monitored quantitatively. Below 800° C, 4-and 5-coordinated Al appears at the expense of 6-coordinated Al, but above 800° C the amount of 6-coordinated Al increases again. We suggest a dehydroxylation scheme which accounts for the presence of 4-and 5 coordinated Al. Above 900–950° C the latter signal is no longer present in the ²⁷Al NMR spectra and new 4-and 6-coordinated Al species (mullite and γ-alumina) appear. We propose new ideas for the structure of metakaolinite.  相似文献   

Book review     

Richard Barakat  Petr Vanicek  Randall L. Mackie  Jacek A. Majorowicz  Ley Truskinovsky  Andrea Borgia  Steven Carey  Ursula B. Marvin 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》1990,134(3):485-507

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Phase equilibria and compositions of Fe-Mg-Al minerals and melts in water-saturated peraluminous granitic systems     

Jacek Puziewicz  Wilhelm Johannes 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1988,100(2):156-168

Phase assemblages and phase compositions were studied experimentally in water-saturated, biotite-bearing peraluminous granitic melts as a function of alumina excess and temperature. The runs were performed at 2 and 5 kbars under NNO buffer. Biotite was stable only in composition containing 5% of normative corundum; it coexisted with cordierite and hercynite at 2 kbars and with hercynite at 5 kbars. In composition containing 10% of normative corundum biotite was not observed; abundant cordierite and hercynite were the only Fe-Mg-Al minerals. These relationships show that, at constant pressure, the amount of cordierite increases with increasing excess of alumina. Simultaneously the stability of biotite decreases due to preferential partitioning of Mg into cordierite and Fe into biotite. Besides the distribution of Fe, Mg and Al among the coexisting solid phases, solubility of these elements in the melts is given. Below 900° C melts are poor in iron and magnesium and correspond, in terms of these elements, to leucogranites. It is suggested that the leucogranitic magmas, such as parental magmas of European Hercynian and Himalayan leucogranites, must have been formed through highly efficient separation of partial melt from restite, in which ferromagnesian components are concentrated. Peraluminous granites rich in ferromagnesian minerals originate supposedly from restite-bearing magmas.  相似文献   

Experimental studies of sublimation of highly volatile ices in relevance to the ices of the solar system     

Jacek Leliwa-Kopystyński  Miquel A. Satorre  Carmina Santonja 《Acta Geophysica》2013,61(5):1304-1321

Studies of sublimation of complex ices prepared by deposition of gaseous CO, CH₄, N₂, and NH₃ molecules on a cold plate have been performed. The low pressure and low temperature system was used: 10^?9–10^?5 mbar and the lowermost temperature 10 K. Diagnostic of composition of evaporates (at an actual temperature) was done by means of the mass spectrometer. The latter allowed following simultaneously the partial pressure of five different ions or radicals escaping from the substrate. It has been found that highly volatile molecules that were used simultaneously with the low volatile ones to form the complex ices (mixtures or clathrates) present a different sublimation pattern than the sublimation of pure high-volatile ices. In particular, the high-volatile component sublimes at two or even three different temperature regimes: At low temperature that is typical for sublimation of this component, as well as at much higher temperatures. This effect seems to be important when degassing and outbursts from cometary nuclei are considered. It can be also important for modeling of cryovolcanic processes on the icy satellites.  相似文献   

Modelling of Shape Changes of the Nuclei of Comets C/1995 O1 Hale–Bopp and 46P/Wirtanen Caused by Water Ice Sublimation     

Dziak-Jankowska  Beata  Leliwa-Kopystyński  Jacek  Królikowska  Mał Gorzata 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2002,90(1-4):35-44

The aim of this modelling work is to assess shape changes of cometary nuclei caused by sublimation of ices. The simplest possible model is assumed with the nucleus being initially spherical and its thermal conductivity being neglected. We have calculated the time-dependent sublimation flux versus cometographic latitude. If the rotation axis of the comet is inclined to the orbital plane, then sublimation leads to non-symmetrical changes of the nucleus shape. Calculations were performed for the nuclei of comets Hale–Bopp and Wirtanen.  相似文献   

Palaeo- and rock-magnetic investigations across Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary at St Bertrand’s Spring,Drôme,France: applications to magnetostratigraphy     

Tiiu Elbra  Petr Schnabl  Kristýna Čížková  Petr Pruner  Šimon Kdýr  Jacek Grabowski  Daniela Reháková  Andrea Svobodová  Camille Frau  William A.P. Wimbledon 《Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica》2018,62(2):323-338

Palaeo- and rock-magnetic investigations of the St Bertrand’s Spring (Le Ravin de Font de St Bertrand) locality in France were carried out in order to contribute to, and improve, the stratigraphy of the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary interval. Magnetic susceptibility shows slightly diamagnetic behaviour in the lowermost part of the profile and an increase (paramagnetic) towards its middle and upper parts. Rock-magnetic measurements throughout the section show magnetite as the main magnetic fraction, together with traces of hematite. Additionally, thermal demagnetization indicates the presence of goethite. Our magnetostratigraphy indicates three normal/reversed polarity sequences; possibly encompassing the magnetozones M19r to the M17n. This suggests that the St Bertrand section straddles the Tithonian/Berriasian boundary and reaches the middle Berriasian sensu lato.  相似文献   

Origin of diffuse interstellar bands: spectroscopic studies of their possible carriers     

Jan Fulara  Jacek Kre owski 《New Astronomy Reviews》2000,44(10)

The results of astrophysical observations that provide evidence for the molecular origin of the diffuse interstellar bands (DIBs) are reviewed. It is established that molecular systems with a linear, planar or spherical carbon skeleton are good candidates as DIB carriers, and laboratory spectroscopic data concerning such systems are discussed. The characteristic features of the electronic spectra of fullerenes, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and of linear carbon chains and their ions are found to be consistent with the principal spectroscopic features of DIBs. Analysis of the astrophysical electronic spectra of several simple molecules that have so far been assigned indicates that polar molecules should be easier to detect in this way than those without a permanent electric dipole moment.  相似文献   

Large ground surface temperature changes of the last three centuries inferred from borehole temperatures in the Southern Canadian Prairies, Saskatchewan   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Jacek A. Majorowicz  Jan Safanda  Robert N. Harris  Walter R. Skinner 《Global and Planetary Change》1999,20(4):715

New temperature logs in wells located in the grassland ecozone in the Southern Canadian Prairies in Saskatchewan, where surface disturbance is considered minor, show a large curvature in the upper 100 m. The character of this curvature is consistent with ground surface temperature (GST) warming in the 20th century. Repetition of precise temperature logs in southern Saskatchewan (years 1986 and 1997) shows the conductive nature of warming of the subsurface sediments. The magnitude of surface temperature change during that time (11 years) is high (0.3–0.4°C). To assess the conductive nature of temperature variations at the grassland surface interface, several precise air and soil temperature time series in the southern Canadian Prairies (1965–1995) were analyzed. The combined anomalies correlated at 0.85. Application of the functional space inversion (FSI) technique with the borehole temperature logs and site-specific lithology indicates a warming to date of approximately 2.5°C since a minimum in the late 18th century to mid 19th century. This warming represents an approximate increase from 4°C around 1850 to 6.5°C today. The significance of this record is that it suggests almost half of the warming occurred prior to 1900, before dramatic build up of atmospheric green house gases. This result correlates well with the proxy record of climatic change further to the north, beyond the Arctic Circle [Overpeck, J., Hughen, K., Hardy, D., Bradley, R., Case, R., Douglas, M., Finney, B., Gajewski, K., Jacoby, G., Jennings, A., Lamourex, S., Lasca, A., MacDonald, G., Moore, J., Retelle, M., Smith, S., Wolfe, A., Zielinski, G., 1997. Arctic environmental change of the last four centuries, Science 278, 1251–1256.].  相似文献   

Book reviews     

Yu. N. Korenkov  Carl W. Cable  Vernon F. Cormier  Vassily Levin  Jacek A. Majorowicz  Yehuda Bock  Waclaw M. Zuberek  Teng-fong Wong  William L. Power  Gary A. Robbins  Piotr Raczka  Krzysztof E. Haman  Katarzyna Chałasinska-Macukow  Ryszard Balcer  Henryk Piwkowski 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》1991,137(3):309-336

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