New age constraints on counter-clockwise rotation of NE Japan     

Ayumi K. Baba  Takaaki Matsuda  Tetsumaru Itaya  Yutaka Wada  Noriyuki Hori  Masahiko Yokoyama  Nobuaki Eto  Rieko Kamei  Haider Zaman  Tesfaye Kidane  Yo-Ichiro Otofuji 《Geophysical Journal International》2007,171(3):1325-1341

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Microbiological and Chemical Studies in the Seas of Hiuchi and Bingo—II     

Yoichi Yoshida  Masao Kimata 《Journal of Oceanography》1970,26(1):6-10

The distribution of inorganic nitrogen compounds and the metabolic rates of these compounds by microorganisms as a whole were investigated in the Seas of Hiuchi and Bingo. The results obtained are as follows:

1. Of inorganic nitrogen compounds, the contents in sea water, those in bottom muds, the uptake or liberation rates of microorganisms as a whole in sea water, and the liberation rates from bottom muds to sea water are 0.2～4.0 μg at. N/l, 3～60 μg at.N/100 g, 0.01～0.5 μg at.N//lhr, and 0.3～1.9 μg at.N/100 cm²/hr, respectively, and these contents or rates of ammonia usually are the largest of these inorganic nitrogen compounds.
2. From the above-mentioned results and the others, it is suggested that the nitrogen in the seas circulates mainly in sea water itself and the course of nitrogen cycle, which passes through bottom muds, is not so important, and further that, of the cycle of inorganic nitrogen compounds, the main course is the course which ammonia is liberated from organic nitrogen compounds and it is immediately uptaked by microorganisms, and the course which it is oxidized to nitrate and the others are not so important.

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Specific accumulation and temporal trends of organochlorine contaminants in Dall's porpoises (Phocoenoides dalli) from Japanese coastal waters     

Kajiwara N  Watanabe M  Tanabe S  Nakamatsu K  Amano M  Miyazaki N 《Marine pollution bulletin》2002,44(10):1089-1099

Organochlorine compounds (OCs) such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and its metabolites (DDTs), chlordane related compounds, hexachlorocyclohexane isomers (HCHs), hexachlorobenzene (HCB), tris(4-chlorophenyl) methane (TCPMe) and tris(4-chlorophenyl) methanol were determined in the blubber of Dall's porpoises (Phocoenoides dalli) collected from Japanese coastal waters in 1998/1999. Among OCs analyzed, PCBs were the predominant contaminants with concentrations ranging from 1.5 to 39 microg/g on a wet weight basis. OCs concentrations were relatively low and less variable in mature females possibly due to the lactational excretion from their bodies, while in males the concentrations were increased with body length. Concentrations and compositions of DDTs and HCHs showed significant differences between the truei-type population off the Pacific coast of northern Japan and dalli-type from the Sea of Japan/Okhotsk, suggesting its usefulness to discriminate different populations. OCs levels detected in truei-type porpoises collected in 1998/1999 were lower than those collected in 1984, except TCPMe. On the other hand, except DDTs, the residue levels of other organochlorines in dalli-type porpoises showed no significant decrease since 1984.  相似文献   

The Carbon Cycle of Sandy Lands in China and its GlobalSignificance   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Feng Qi  Cheng Guoduong  Mikami Masao 《Climatic change》2001,48(4):535-549

The quantitative C dynamics of desertifiedlands in Northern China were predicted for the years2000 and 2030, based on the areas and conversion rates(positive and negative) of desertified lands in thepast forty years and organic carbon contents of soils.The top 1.0 m soil layer of natural desertified landsin China contained some 7,841 Tg of organic carbon asof 1992. In China, over the last 40 years, a total of2,812 Tg of organic carbon was released from desertlands and, in the reverse process about 644 Tg oforganic-C were fixed into lands undergoingdesertification. Thus, China's desert lands have showna net release of 2,168 Tg of organic-C over the past40 years, equivalent to 7,949 Tg of CO₂. By theyear 2000, the area of desertified lands in China hadincreased 40,300 km² and released 368 Tg oforganic-C into the atmosphere. By 2030 this area willincrease to 249,700 km² and release about 1,996 Tg of organic-Cinto the atmosphere. Net releases of151 Tg and 1,243 Tg of organic-C can be expectedby the year 2000 and 2030, respectively. This wouldbe equivalent to a net release of 553 Tg of CO₂by 2000 and 4,558 Tg by 2030. Thus, the organiccarbon released through land desertification in Chinacould be an important factor affecting changes inconcentrations of greenhouse gases worldwide.  相似文献   

Heterogeneous Saltation: Theory, Observation and Comparison   总被引：7，自引：0，他引：7  

Yaping Shao  Masao Mikami 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》2005,115(3):359-379

In the theory of saltation, under development since the 1940s, it is often assumed that saltation is homogeneous, i.e., saltating particles are uniform in size and follow identical trajectories. This assumption is a limitation to the development of saltation theory. In this paper, as in some other studies made since the 1980s, we are concerned with the saltation of multi-sized particles in turbulent flows, a process that we refer to as heterogeneous saltation. The theory deals with several questions, including the variation of particle size distribution with height, the entrainment rates of particles in different size ranges, and the associated profiles of saltation flux, particle momentum flux and particle concentration. It is hypothesised that saltation is dynamically similar and ‘universal’ similarity functions can be established. The similarity function for saltation flux is presented. Field observations are carried out at the southern fringe of the Takla Makan Desert in April 2002. Measurements of streamwise saltation flux of 32 particle size groups are made using a sand particle counter, together with measurements of wind speed and other atmospheric variables. These data are used to validate the saltation theory, by examining whether the observed saltation flux and particle size distribution can be reproduced. It is shown that the theory is promising in predicting these quantities.  相似文献   

Late Holocene marine terraces of the Cartagena region,southern Caribbean: The product of neotectonism or a former high stand in sea-level?     

J. Ignacio Martínez  Yusuke Yokoyama  Andres Gomez  Adriana Delgado  Hiroyuki Matsuzaki  Esteban Rendon 《Journal of South American Earth Sciences》2010,29(2):214-224

The detailed stratigraphic survey and paleontological study (mollusks, corals, foraminifera and ostracods) of four low-level, ～3 m, marine terrace sections: Punta Canoas, Manzanillo del Mar, Playa de Oro, and Tierra Bomba Island, from the Cartagena region, southern Caribbean, supplemented with 22 radiocarbon dates, reveals that the northern terraces were deposited as parasequences in a clastic depositional system compared to the Tierra Bomba Island succession that was deposited in a carbonate depositional system between ～3600 and ～1700 cal yrs BP. Drier conditions and the southern location of the ITCZ at about 3 ka triggered stronger easterly Trades and more dynamic southwestward sediment drift fed by the Magdalena River mouth, thus promoting the formation of sand spits that ultimately isolated the Cienaga de Tesca coastal lagoon from the Caribbean Sea. Our estimates support the hypothesis that the present position of the terraces is the product of neotectonism rather than a higher 3 ka, sea-level. Upheaval of the terraces varies between ～3.8 mmyr^?1 at Punta Canoas and ～2.2 mmyr^?1 at Tierra Bomba to ～1.5 mmyr^?1 at Manzanillo del Mar and Playa de Oro terraces. Our study corroborates previous contentions on the role of mud diapirism and the dynamics of the Dique Fault as late Holocene upheaval mechanisms.  相似文献   

Decadal variability of Subtropical Mode Water subduction and its impact on biogeochemistry     

Eitarou Oka  Bo Qiu  Yusuke Takatani  Kazutaka Enyo  Daisuke Sasano  Naohiro Kosugi  Masao Ishii  Toshiya Nakano  Toshio Suga 《Journal of Oceanography》2015,71(4):389-400

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Geochemical evolution of historical lavas from Askja Volcano, Iceland: Implications for mechanisms and timescales of magmatic differentiation     

Takeshi Kuritani  Tetsuya Yokoyama  Hiroshi Kitagawa  Eizo Nakamura 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2011,75(2):570-587

The mechanisms and the timescales of magmatic evolution were investigated for historical lavas from the Askja central volcano in the Dyngjufjöll volcanic massif, Iceland, using major and trace element and Sr, Nd, and Pb isotopic data, as well as ²³⁸U-²³⁰Th-²²⁶Ra systematics. Lavas from the volcano show marked compositional variation from magnesian basalt through ferrobasalt to rhyolite. In the magnesian basalt-ferrobasalt suite (5-10 wt% MgO), consisting of lavas older than 1875 A.D., ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr increases systematically with increasing SiO₂ content; this suite is suggested to have evolved in a magma chamber located at ∼600 MPa through assimilation and fractional crystallization. On the other hand, in the ferrobasalt-rhyolite suite (1-5 wt% MgO), including 1875 A.D. basalt and rhyolite and 20th century lavas, ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr tends to decrease slightly with increasing SiO₂ content. It is suggested that a relatively large magma chamber occupied by ferrobasalt magma was present at ∼100 MPa beneath the Öskjuvatn caldera, and that icelandite and rhyolite magmas were produced by extraction of the less and more evolved interstitial melt, respectively, from the mushy boundary layer along the margin of the ferrobasalt magma chamber, followed by accumulation of the melt to form separate magma bodies. Ferrobasalt and icelandite lavas in the ferrobasalt-rhyolite suite have a significant radioactive disequilibrium in terms of (²²⁶Ra/²³⁰Th), and its systematic decrease with magmatic evolution is considered to reflect aging, along with assimilation and fractional crystallization processes. Using a mass-balance model in which simultaneous fractional crystallization, crustal assimilation, and radioactive decay are taken into account, the timescale for the generation of icelandite magma from ferrobasalt was constrained to be <∼3 kyr which is largely dependent on Ra crystal-melt partition coefficients we used.  相似文献   

Investigation of cutting methods for small samples of Hayabusa and future sample return missions     

Masayuki Uesugi  Ryo Noguchi  Tooru Matsumoto  Junya Matsuno  Takashi Nagano  Akira Tsuchiyama  Shigenori Harada  Kaori Yokoyama  Yoshiaki Yodo  Noboru Takeda  Toru Yada  Shogo Yakame  Yuzuru Karouji  Yukihiro Ishibashi  Masanao Abe  Tatsuaki Okada  Akio Fujimura  Mitsuru Ebihara  Fumio Kitajima  Keisuke Nagao  Tomoki Nakamura  Hiroshi Naraoka  Takaaki Noguchi  Ryuji Okazaki  Hisayoshi Yurimoto 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2014,49(7):1186-1201

We report the investigation of cutting methods for Hayabusa samples. The purpose of our study is to explore the possibility of applying multiple analyses to a single particle effectively. We investigated the cutting performance of a blade dicing saw, laser, focused ion beam (FIB), and physical breaking by microindenter. Cutting performance was examined by estimating the aspect ratio of the cut slit, i.e., depth over width of the slit. We also investigated the possible contamination and sample damage by cutting. The result of the investigation shows that we can cut the samples from <50 μm to 500 μm using those methods with aspect ratios from 10 to 20, although they would introduce some contamination or damage to the samples. Our investigations also provide an important basis for the analysis of samples obtained by future sample return missions.  相似文献   

Statistical re-examination of reported emission lines in the X-ray afterglow of GRB 011211     

Robert E. Rutledge  Masao Sako † 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2003,339(3):600-606

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