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Soumyajit Mukherjee Kieran F. Mulchrone 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2013,102(4):1165-1170
An analytical model of shear heating in an inclined simple shear zone with Newtonian rheology under a reverse shear sense and an upward resultant pressure gradient is presented. Neglecting a number of secondary factors, the shear heat is expressed as a function of the total slip rates at the boundaries, pressure gradient, dip and thickness of the shear zone, and density, viscosity, and thermal conductivity of the rock. A quartic temperature profile develops with a point of maximum temperature near the bottom part of the shear zone in general. The profile is parabolic if pressure gradient vanishes leading to a Couette flow. The profile attains a bell shape if there is no slip at the boundaries, i.e., a true Pouseille flow. The present model of shear heating is more applicable in subduction channels and some extruding salt diapirs where the rheology is Newtonian viscous and pressure gradient drives extrusion. 相似文献
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Kieran M. Ryan D. Michael Williams Drew S. Coleman Staci Loewy 《Geological Journal》2010,45(4):467-480
The western Ireland Ordovician stratigraphy has been previously used to constrain the timing of docking of an island arc and its fore‐arc basin with the margin of Laurentia for the British and Irish Caledonides. New field relationships and age data indicate that one of the key formations, the Rosroe Formation (459.2 ± 0.8 and 465.1 ± 2.1 Ma), and its supposed lateral equivalent, the Maumtrasna Formation are younger than previously interpreted. New age data for a tuff band in the Maumtrasna Formation (468.9 ± 1.3 Ma) also support previous studies showing it can be correlated to the adjacent Mweelrea Formation. The new field evidence, age data and geochemistry contradict some previous studies and show that the Maumtrasna, Rosroe and Derrylea formations can no longer be considered lateral equivalents. Based on the new stratigraphy a revised tectonic model is required with sedimentation in this part of the Caledonides taking place in a fore‐arc basin outboard of a continental arc and the oceanic arc was an along‐strike equivalent of this arc situated in an embayment of the Laurentian margin. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献
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The Malin Shelf, off north-west Ireland, was an important zone of confluence for marine-based ice streams of the former British–Irish Ice Sheet (BIIS). Legacy geophysical datasets are used to construct models of the seismic character, relative age and distribution of shelf sediments and landforms. Buried and surface landform assemblages provide evidence that during deglaciation of the Late Devensian BIIS, the region was occupied not by a single Hebrides Ice Stream as previously proposed, but by four discrete ice streams, here referred to as the Sea of the Hebrides (SHIS), Inner Hebrides, North Channel and Tory Island ice streams. Our observations of stratigraphic relationships between the deposits of these ice streams indicate physical interactions between them during shelf deglaciation. We interpret an initial dominant cross-shelf flow along the SHIS impeding cross-shelf ice flow from other ice sheet sectors. Following withdrawal of the SHIS grounding line from the shelf edge to mid-shelf bathymetric highs during deglaciation, a reconfiguration of ice sheet flow paths allowed the expansion of smaller cross-shelf ice streams draining central Scotland and north-western Ireland. This internal dynamic behaviour provides a possible physical analogue for time-transgressive flow patterns reported for outlets draining the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. 相似文献
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Continuous field estimation of dissolved organic carbon concentration and biochemical oxygen demand using dual‐wavelength fluorescence,turbidity and temperature 
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下载免费PDF全文 Dissolved organic matter (DOM) quality and quantity is not measured routinely in‐situ limiting our ability to quantify DOM process dynamics. This is problematic given legislative obligations to determine event based variability; however, recent advances in field deployable optical sensing technology provide the opportunity to address this problem. In this paper, we outline a new approach for in‐situ quantification of DOM quantity (Dissolved Organic Carbon: DOC) and a component of quality (Biochemical Oxygen Demand: BOD) using a multi‐wavelength, through‐flow fluorescence sensor. The sensor measured tryptophan‐like (Peak T) and humic‐like (Peak C) fluorescence, alongside water temperature and turbidity. Laboratory derived coefficients were developed to compensate for thermal quenching and turbidity interference (i.e., light attenuation and scattering). Field tests were undertaken on an urban river with ageing wastewater and stormwater infrastructure (Bourn Brook; Birmingham, UK). Sensor output was validated against laboratory determinations of DOC and BOD collected by discrete grab sampling during baseflow and stormflow conditions. Data driven regression models were then compared to laboratory correction methods. A combination of temperature and turbidity compensated Peak T and Peak C was found to be a good predictor of DOC concentration (R2 = 0.92). Conversely, using temperature and turbidity correction coefficients provided low predictive power for BOD (R2 = 0.46 and R2 = 0.51, for Peak C and T, respectively). For this study system, turbidity appeared to be a reasonable proxy for BOD, R2 = 0.86. However, a linear mixed effect model with temperature compensated Peak T and turbidity provided a robust BOD prediction (R2 = 0.95). These findings indicate that with careful initial calibration, multi‐wavelength fluorescence, coupled with turbidity, and temperature provides a feasible proxy for continuous, in‐situ measurement of DOC concentration and BOD. This approach represents a cost effective monitoring solution, particularly when compared to UV – absorbance sensors and DOC analysers, and could be readily adopted for research and industrial applications. 相似文献
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Prehistorical frequency of high‐energy marine inundation events driven by typhoons in the Bay of Bangkok (Thailand), interpreted from coastal carbonate boulders 下载免费PDF全文
下载免费PDF全文 Rapidly rising populations of low‐lying megacities in Asia mean that understanding the potential risk of coastal flooding by storm surge is of paramount concern. The city of Bangkok and the wider Chao Phraya River delta at the head of the Gulf of Thailand is a region topographically vulnerable to coastal flooding, but without the record of a high‐energy marine inundation (HEMI) event in historical time owing to the atypical path that a typhoon must take to be able to produce such an event. This work builds upon previous findings that identified coastal depositional evidence for HEMI events in the form of coastal carbonate boulders (CCBs) located on Ko Larn Island in the eastern Bay of Bangkok. The HEMI events were most likely driven by typhoons and the CCBs are therefore interpreted as typhoon deposits. Through uranium/thorium dating, it is revealed that from ad 1400 to ad 1600 the Bay of Bangkok possibly experienced a phase of relatively heightened storm impact. During this period, the frequency of typhoon‐driven HEMI events was approximately four events in 200 years. Waves generated onshore minimum flow velocities (MFVs) in excess of 5 m/s. Such exceptional MFVs are unlikely to be produced during the annual northeast monsoon, but are consistent with typhoon‐impacted coastlines elsewhere in the tropical Asia–Pacific region where similar CCB evidence exists. Since ad 1600, the Bay of Bangkok has enjoyed a relatively quiescent phase, recording less frequent HEMI events and of lower magnitude. However, the re‐occurrence of a typhoon‐driven HEMI event on the scale of the prehistorical events that emplaced carbonate boulders at elevation on Ko Larn Island would threaten low‐lying coasts in the Bay of Bangkok, including the Chao Phraya delta, with potentially damaging inundation. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献
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Paul F. Greenwood Nigel A. Lengkeek Matthew J. Piggott Kieran Pierce 《Organic Geochemistry》2009,40(10):1055-1062
The structures of two distinctive series of C3n highly branched alkanes (HBAs), previously detected in sedimentary and aquatic extracts, were identified as polypropylene (PP) oligomers with different end groups, using gas chromatography (GC) and mass spectrometry (MS) correlation with diastereoisomeric mixtures of authentic C15 and C18 standards. A C15 member of the earlier eluting series was assigned as 2,4,6,8-tetramethylundecane and a C15 member of the later eluting series as 4,6,8-trimethyldodecane. The C3n HBA GC–MS profiles of extracts from a typical PP GC sample vial lid were also shown to closely match those previously detected in sediment and water extracts, providing convincing evidence that the purported environmental occurrences are a result of PP contamination. Both C3n series correspond to the first eluting diastereoisomer of the respective standards, also consistent with an industrial isotactic PP source. Mass spectra of all five standards are presented to help assignment of new polymethyl alkanes. 相似文献
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Positioning fisheries in a changing world 总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0
R. Quentin Grafton Ray Hilborn Lori Ridgeway Dale Squires Meryl Williams Serge Garcia Theodore Groves James Joseph Kieran Kelleher Tom Kompas Gary Libecap Carl Gustaf Lundin Mitsutaku Makino Thorolfur Matthiasson Richard McLoughlin Ana Parma Gustavo San Martin Ben Satia Carl-Christian Schmidt Maree Tait Lin Xiu Zhang 《Marine Policy》2008,32(4):630-634
Marine capture fisheries face major and complex challenges: habitat degradation, poor economic returns, social hardships from depleted stocks, illegal fishing, and climate change, among others. The key factors that prevent the transition to sustainable fisheries are information failures, transition costs, use and non-use conflicts and capacity constraints. Using the experiences of fisheries successes and failures it is argued only through better governance and institutional change that encompasses the public good of the oceans (biodiversity, ecosystem integrity, sustainability) and societal values (existence, aesthetic and amenity) will fisheries be made sustainable. 相似文献
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Experimental frictional heating of coal gouge at seismic slip rates: Evidence for devolatilization and thermal pressurization of gouge fluids 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Kieran O'Hara Kazuo Mizoguchi Toshihiko Shimamoto James C. Hower 《Tectonophysics》2006,424(1-2):109-118
High velocity (1 m/s) friction experiments on bituminous coal gouge display several earthquake-related phenomena, including devolatilization by frictional heating, gas pressurization, and slip weakening. Stage I is characterized by sample shortening and reduction in the coefficient of friction (μ) from 1 to 0.6. Stage II is characterized by high frequency ( 5 Hz) oscillations in stress and strain records and by gas emissions. Stage III is marked by rapid weakening (μ 0.1 to 0.35) and sample shortening, together with continued gas emissions. Stage IV produces stable stress records and continued weakness (μ 0.2), but without gas emission. Stage I shortening is due to compaction of the gouge and the weakening is attributed to mechanical or thermal effects. Stage II behavior is interpreted as due to coal gasification and fluctuations in fluid pressure, resulting in high frequency stick-slip type behavior. Dramatic reduction in shear stress in stage III is attributed to gas pressurization by pore collapse and corresponds to a frictional instability, analogous to nucleation of an earthquake. Microstructural observations indicate the deformation was brittle during stages I and II but ductile during stages III and IV. Time dependent finite element frictional heat models indicate the center of the samples became hot ( 900 °C) during stage II, whereas the edge of samples remained relatively cold (< 300 °C). Vitrinite reflectance of coal samples shows an increase in reflectance from 0.5 to 0.8% over the displacement interval 20–40 m (20–40 s), indicating that the reflectance responds to frictional heating on a short time scale. The energy expended per unit area in these low stress, large displacement experiments is similar to that of higher stress ( 50 MPa), short displacement ( 1 m) earthquakes ( 107 J/m2). 相似文献
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Kieran R. Hickey 《Climatic change》2011,106(3):483-506
The sustained hourly gale record from Valentia Observatory, SW Ireland over the time period from 1874–2006 shows very significant
variations including high values in the 1920s, 1940s, 1960s and 1980s but a decline since then down to the lowest recorded
levels at present. Most gales occur in winter and in particular in December and January. An analysis of the wind duration
and speed data shows that there has been increased variability in the duration of gales over the last 20 years and despite
an overall decline in mean wind speed there is no indication that gale strengths have changed in any systematic way. This
gale data is strongly in contrast to the outputs and predictions from the various scenarios in the ECHAM4 models which predict
at worst no changes in cyclonicity of depressions below 1,000 hPa but significant increases in cyclonicity of severe depressions
below 940 hPa. At present the actual data is running contrary to the model outcomes at Valentia and elsewhere in Ireland.
The sustained gales have given rise to wave heights in excess of 30 m and this documentary evidence is verified by more recent
satellite and marine buoy data. 相似文献