Risk in the Okavango Delta in the face of social and environmental change     

Julie Wilk  Donald Kgathi 《GeoJournal》2007,70(2-3):121-132

Information from 117 questionnaires and focus groups in four villages in the Okavango Delta, Botswana was used to identify households exposed to different levels of risk in order to relate them to various livelihood activities and coping strategies. Current household strategies such as migration and diversification that are used to cope with recurring hazards such as drought, reduced flooding and animal disease are becoming more limited because of fencing policies and changed flooding regimes. In the light of future challenges such as climate change and increased upstream water abstractions, the heavy reliance on government assistance will probably increase especially among female-headed households and high-risk households. Without targeted initiatives based on spatial and social distributions of risk, then the dependency syndrome of Botswana is likely to continue and be exacerbated.  相似文献   

Sedimentary geochemistry of core PG1351 from Lake El’gygytgyn—a sensitive record of climate variability in the East Siberian Arctic during the past three glacial–interglacial cycles     

Martin Melles  Julie Brigham-Grette  Olga Yu. Glushkova  Pavel S. Minyuk  Norbert R. Nowaczyk  Hans-W. Hubberten 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2007,37(1):89-104

The ca. 13 m long sediment core PG1351, recovered in 1998 from the central part of Lake El’gygytgyn, NE Siberia, was investigated for lithostratigraphy, water content, dry bulk density (DBD), total organic carbon (TOC), total nitrogen (TN), total sulphur (TS) and biogenic silica (opal) contents, and for TOC stable isotope ratios (δ¹³C_TOC). The event stratigraphy recorded in major differences in sediment composition match variations in regional summer insolation, thus confirming a new age model for this core, which suggests that it spans the last 250 ka BP. Four depositional units of contrasting lithological and biogeochemical composition have been distinguished, reflecting past environmental conditions associated with relatively warm, peak warm, cold and dry, and cold but more moist climate modes. A relatively warm climate, resulting in complete summer melt of the lake ice cover and seasonal mixing of the water column, prevailed during the Holocene and Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 3, 5.1, 5.3, 6.1, 6.3, 6.5, 7.1–7.3, 7.5, 8.1 and 8.3. MIS 5.5 (Eemian) was characterized by significantly enhanced aquatic primary production and organic matter supply from the catchment, indicating peak warm conditions. During MIS 2, 5.2, 5.4, 6.2 and 6.4 the climate was cold and dry, leading to perennial lake ice cover, little regional snowfall, and a stagnant water body. A cold but more moist climate during MIS 4, 6.6, 7.4, 8.2 and 8.4 is thought to have produced more snow cover on␣the perennial ice, strongly reducing light penetration and biogenic primary production in␣the lake. While the cold–warm pattern during␣the past three glacial–interglacial cycles is probably controlled by changes in regional summer insolation, differences in the intensity of the warm phases and in the degree of aridity (changing snowfall) during cold phases likely were due to changes in atmospheric circulation patterns. This is the seventh in a series of eleven papers published in this special issue dedicated to initial studies of El'gygytgyn Crater Lake and its catchment in NE Russia. JulieBrigham-Grette, Martin Melles, Pavel Minyuk were guest editors of this special issue.  相似文献   

Luminescence geochronology for sediments from Lake El’gygytgyn,northeast Siberia,Russia: constraining the timing of paleoenvironmental events for the past 200 ka     

Steven L. Forman  James Pierson  Jeaneth Gómez  Julie Brigham-Grette  Norbert R. Nowaczyk  Martin Melles 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2007,37(1):77-88

This study focused on the luminescence dating of sediments from Lake El’gygytgyn, a meteorite impact crater 100 km north of the Arctic Circle in northeast Siberia, formed 3.58 Ma ago. The sediment is principally eolian deposited in to a lake with nearly permanently ice. The fine-grained polymineral and quartz extracts taken from nine distinct levels from the upper 12.3 m of sediment core PG1351 were dated by infrared stimulated (IRSL) and green stimulated luminescence (GSL) using multiple aliquot additive dose procedures. The veracity of these ages is evaluated by comparing to an age model for the core derived from magnetic excursions and from correlation of variations of the magnetic susceptibility record to similar magnitude variations in δ ¹⁸O in the Greenland Ice core record. The IRSL ages from the upper 9 m of core correspond well with the independent age control for the past ca. 200 ka. However, sediments deeper in the core at 12.3 m with an inferred age of ca. 250 ka age yield a saturated IRSL response and therefore a non-finite OSL age. The youngest sediment dated from 0.70 m depth yielded the IRSL age of ca. 11.5 ka, older than the corresponding age of 9.3–8.8 ka, indicating a discrepancy in dating the youngest sediments in the upper 1 m of core. This study confirms the utility of IRSL by the multiple aliquot additive dose method to date sediments <200 ka old from eastern Siberia. This is the sixth in a series of eleven papers published in this special issue dedicated to initial studies of El’gygytgyn Crater Lake and its catchment in NE Russia. Julie Brigham-Grette, Martin Melles, Pavel Minyuk were guest editors of this special issue.  相似文献   

Impact of partial steps and momentum advection schemes in a global ocean circulation model at eddy-permitting resolution   总被引：4，自引：6，他引：4  

Barnier Bernard  Gurvan Madec  Thierry Penduff  Jean-Marc Molines  Anne-Marie Treguier  Julien Le Sommer  Aike Beckmann  Arne Biastoch  Claus Böning  Joachim Dengg  Corine Derval  Edmée Durand  Sergei Gulev  Elizabeth Remy  Claude Talandier  Sébastien Theetten  Mathew Maltrud  Julie McClean  Beverly De Cuevas 《Ocean Dynamics》2006,56(5-6):543-567

Series of sensitivity tests were performed with a z-coordinate, global eddy-permitting (1/4°) ocean/sea-ice model (the ORCA-R025 model configuration developed for the DRAKKAR project) to carefully evaluate the impact of recent state-of-the-art numerical schemes on model solutions. The combination of an energy–enstrophy conserving (EEN) scheme for momentum advection with a partial step (PS) representation of the bottom topography yields significant improvements in the mean circulation. Well known biases in the representation of western boundary currents, such as in the Atlantic the detachment of the Gulf Stream, the path of the North Atlantic Current, the location of the Confluence, and the strength of the Zapiola Eddy in the south Atlantic, are partly corrected. Similar improvements are found in the Pacific, Indian, and Southern Oceans, and characteristics of the mean flow are generally much closer to observations. Comparisons with other state-of-the-art models show that the ORCA-R025 configuration generally performs better at similar resolution. In addition, the model solution is often comparable to solutions obtained at 1/6 or 1/10° resolution in some aspects concerning mean flow patterns and distribution of eddy kinetic energy. Although the reasons for these improvements are not analyzed in detail in this paper, evidence is shown that the combination of EEN with PS reduces numerical noise near the bottom, which is likely to affect current–topography interactions in a systematic way. We conclude that significant corrections of the mean biases presently seen in general circulation model solutions at eddy-permitting resolution can still be expected from the development of numerical methods, which represent an alternative to increasing resolution.  相似文献   

From rifting to spreading in the eastern Gulf of Aden: a geophysical survey of a young oceanic basin from margin to margin   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Sylvie Leroy  Pascal Gente  Marc Fournier  Elia d'Acremont  Philippe Patriat  Marie-Odile Beslier  Nicolas Bellahsen  Marcia Maia  Angelina Blais  Julie Perrot  Ali Al-Kathiri  Serge Merkouriev  Jean-Marc Fleury  Pierre-Yves Ruellan  Claude Lepvrier  Philippe Huchon 《地学学报》2004,16(4):185-192

A geophysical survey in the eastern Gulf of Aden, between the Alula–Fartak (52°E) and the Socotra (55°E) transform faults, was carried out during the Encens–Sheba cruise. The conjugate margins of the Gulf are steep, narrow and asymmetric. Asymmetry of the rifting process is highlighted by the conjugate margins (horst and graben in the north and deep basin in the south). Two transfer fault zones separate the margins into three segments, whereas the present‐day Sheba Ridge is divided into two segments by a transform discontinuity. Therefore segmentation of the Sheba Ridge and that of the conjugate margins did coincide during the early stages of oceanic spreading. Extensive magma production is evidenced in the central part of the western segment. Anomaly 5d was identified in the northern and southern parts of the oceanic basin, thus confirming that seafloor spreading in this part of Gulf of Aden started at least 17.6 Ma ago.  相似文献   

Alumina solubility in orthopyroxene coexisting with sapphirine and quartz   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Julie A. Hollis  Simon L. Harley 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2003,144(4):473-483

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Geochemistry of carbonaceous impactites from the Gardnos impact structure, Norway     

I Gilmour  B.M French  J.I Abbott  J Newton 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2003,67(20):3889-3903

The Gardnos impact structure in southern Norway is one of only two known impact structures (among ∼175) whose impactites contain significant amounts (typically 0.2-1.0 wt.%) of carbon, or 5 to 10 times the amount present in the target rocks; Sudbury, Canada is the other. This study extends a previous investigation of the geochemistry and petrology of Gardnos impactites (French et al., 1997) with additional sampling and a detailed investigation of the nature and possible origin of the carbonaceous material present.Two principal carbon components have been identified in Gardnos impactites: (1) impact-produced diamonds, 0.5 to 1 μm in size, with a cubic crystal structure, predominantly hexagonal morphologies with platey layers and an estimated concentration of < 0.19 ppm in Gardnos suevites and (2) graphitic carbon ranging from poorly ordered to moderately crystalline.Geochemical data suggests that there are no suitable target rocks that could provide a single source for the carbon in Gardnos impactites. However, Raman spectroscopy, stable isotope analysis and transmission electron microscopy of the impact diamonds and graphitic carbon suggests that there were at least two episodes of C emplacement in Gardnos impactites: an impact-related incorporation and shock transformation of graphitic material from target rocks followed by later mobilization of C, possibly during postimpact cooling or later regional metamorphism.  相似文献   

The Photogrammetric Society: 1952–2001     

K. B. Atkinson  & I. Newton 《The Photogrammetric Record》2002,17(100):577-600

A scholarly account of the formative discussions, the founding and the first 20 years of the Photogrammetric Society was published in 1971 and republished in 1974. This present review concentrates on the latter years of the life of the Photogrammetric Society prior to its merger with the Remote Sensing Society in 2001.
The authors joined the Photogrammetric Society in 1960 and were conspicuous in its affairs for many years. Although both occupied the Society's presidential chair, they also fulfilled several other roles in its efficient management. Atkinson's first contribution to the Photogrammetric Record was published in 1968 and Newton's in 1971.  相似文献   

Experimental determination of the spinel peridotite to garnet peridotite inversion at 900° C and 1,000° C in the system CaO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2, and at 900° C with natural garnet and olivine   总被引：20，自引：1，他引：20  

D. M. Jenkins  R. C. Newton 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1979,70(4):407-419

Hydrothermal experiments were carried out at 2 kbar water pressure, 700 °–800 ° C, with the objective of determining the level of dissolved Zr required for precipitation of zircon from melts in the system SiO₂-Al₂O₃-Na₂O-K₂O. The saturation level depends strongly upon molar (Na₂O + K₂O)/Al₂O₃ of the melts, with remarkably little sensitivity to temperature, SiO₂ concentration, or melt Na₂O/ K₂O. For peraluminous melts and melts lying in the quartz-orthoclase-albite composition plane, less than 100 ppm Zr is required for zircon saturation. In peralkaline melts, however, zircon solubility shows pronounced, apparently linear, dependence upon (Na₂O + K₂O)/Al₂O₃, with the amount of dissolvable Zr ranging up to 3.9 wt.% at (Na₂O + K₂O)/Al₂O₃ = 2.0. Small amounts (1 wt.% each) of dissolved CaO and Fe₂O₃ cause a 25% relative reduction of zircon solubility in peralkaline melts.The main conclusion regarding zirconium/zircon behavior in nature is that any felsic, non-peralkaline magma is likely to contain zircon crystals, because the saturation level is so low for these compositions. Zircon fractionation, and its consequences to REE, Th, and Ta abundances must, therefore, be considered in modelling the evolution of these magmas. Partial melting in any region of the Earth's crust that contains more than 100 ppm Zr will produce granitic magmas whose Zr contents are buffered at constant low (< 100 ppm) values; unmelted zircon in the residual rock of such a melting event will impart to the residue a characteristic U- or V-shaped REE abundance pattern. In peralkaline, felsic magmas such as those that form pantellerites and comendites, extreme Zr (and REE, Ta) enrichment is possible because the feldspar fractionation that produces these magmas from non-peralkaline predecessors does not drive the melt toward saturation in zircon.Zircon solubility in felsic melts appears to be controlled by the formation of alkali-zirconosilicate complexes of simple (2:1) alkali oxide: ZrO₂ stoichiometry.  相似文献   

Thermodynamic parameters of CaMgSi2O6-Mg2Si2O6 pyroxenes based on regular solution and cooperative disordering models     

T. J. B. Holland  A. Navrotsky  R. C. Newton 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1979,69(4):337-344

Thermodynamic parameters for the reaction: $$\begin{gathered} Mg_2 Si_2 O_6 = Mg_2 Si_2 O_6 \hfill \\ enstatite clinopyroxene \hfill \\ \end{gathered} $$ in the system CaO-MgO-SiO₂ have been deduced from phase equilibrium and enthalpy of solution data. From the regular solution theory, the seventeen currently available reversed experimental compositions of coexisting enstatite and clinopyroxene, presumed to be ordered diopside, lead, by a statistical regression, to the following best fit parameters: ΔH ^o=6.80 kJ ΔS ^o=2.75 J/K W _H ^Cpx =24.47 kJ (regular solution enthalpy parameter) W _V ^Cpx =0.105 J/bar (regular solution volume parameter). The derived parameters are not significantly affected by the (necessary) choice of W ^Opx in the range 20–50 kJ. The above values are in very good agreement with deductions from the solution calorimetry on synthetic CaMgSi₂O₆-Mg₂Si₂O₆ clinopyroxenes of Newton et al. (1979), which also places bounds on possible departures from the optimal values of these parameters. The calorimetric data may also be interpreted in terms of a Bragg-Williams cooperative-disordering model (Navrotsky and Loucks, 1977), in which diopside-structure clinopyroxene and a ‘relaxed’ low-Ca clinopyroxene (‘Fe-free pigeonite’) approach each other in composition, structural state, and stability with increasing temperature. The ΔH ^o parameter deduced from the regular solution theory is reinterpreted as the enthalpy change of enstatite to Mg₂Si₂O₆ pigeonite; the ΔH ^o of the transformation of enstatite to the diopside structure would, in this case, be considerably larger than 6.8 kJ. The curvature of the enthalpy of solution data, explained by the regular solution theory in terms of M2-site energetics (involving W _H ^cpx ), is reinterpreted as due to disordering and ‘relaxation’ in the Navrotsky-Loucks model. Although the regular solution theory with the best-fit parameters accounts for all of the reversed enstatite and diopside compositions to within 18 ° C, and is a convenient representation of the phase equilibria for purposes of geothermometry, the disordering model is, at the present level of knowledge, equally valid and allows for a region of stability of two coexisting clinopyroxenes.  相似文献