Global and regional factors responsible for the drowning of the Central Apennine Chattian carbonate platforms     

Marco Brandano  Michele Lustrino  Irene Cornacchia  Mario Sprovieri 《Geological Journal》2015,50(5):575-591

This work discusses and interprets the factors responsible for the Oligocene–Miocene drowning of the Central Apennine platform deposits, based on facies and stable‐isotope analyses of two representative stratigraphic sections. The Mediterranean carbonate platforms were affected during the Oligocene–Miocene boundary by a carbonate production crisis that was induced by global factors and amplified by regional events, such as volcanic activity. The positive δ¹³C shift observed in the studied sections corresponds to vertical facies changes reflecting the evolution from middle carbonate ramp to outer ramp‐hemipelagic depositional environments. This drowning event is recorded not only in the Apennine platforms, but also in other Mediterranean platforms such as in southern Apulia, Sicily and Malta, and outside the Mediterranean Basin. The ~24–23.5 Ma Mi‐1 glacial maximum may have had a significant influence on this drowning event because it was associated with high rates of accumulation of continent‐derived sediments. The increased continental weathering and runoff sustained high trophic conditions. These probably were a consequence of the Aquitanian–Burdigalian volcanic activity in the Central‐Western Mediterranean, that may have led to an increase in nutrient content in seawater and an increase in atmospheric and marine CO₂ concentrations. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Kinemetry: a generalization of photometry to the higher moments of the line-of-sight velocity distribution     

Davor Krajnovi&#;  Michele Cappellari  P. Tim de Zeeuw  Yannick Copin 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,366(3):787-802

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The grazing encounter between IC 2163 and NGC 2207: pushing the limits of observational modelling     

Curtis Struck  Michele Kaufman  Elias Brinks †  Magnus Thomasson  Bruce G. Elmegreen  Debra Meloy Elmegreen 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2005,364(1):69-90

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The chemical evolution of Omega Centauri's progenitor system     

Donatella Romano  Francesca Matteucci  Monica Tosi  Elena Pancino  Michele Bellazzini  Francesco R. Ferraro  Marco Limongi  Antonio Sollima 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,376(1):405-415

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Star clusters with primordial binaries – III. Dynamical interaction between binaries and an intermediate-mass black hole     

Michele Trenti  Eliani Ardi  Shin Mineshige  Piet Hut 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,374(3):857-866

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The SAURON project – X. The orbital anisotropy of elliptical and lenticular galaxies: revisiting the  (V/σ, ɛ)  diagram with integral-field stellar kinematics     

Michele Cappellari  Eric Emsellem  R. Bacon  M. Bureau  Roger L. Davies  P. T. de Zeeuw  Jesús Falcón-Barroso  Davor Krajnovi&#;  Harald Kuntschner  Richard M. McDermid  Reynier F. Peletier  Marc Sarzi  Remco C. E. van den Bosch  Glenn van de Ven † 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,379(2):418-444

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Nonlinearity and unsteadiness in river meandering: a review of progress in theory and modelling     

Michele Bolla Pittaluga  Giovanni Seminara 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2011,36(1):20-38

River meandering has been extensively investigated. Two fundamental features to be explored in order to make further progress are nonlinearity and unsteadiness. Linear steady models have played an important role in the development of the subject but suffer from a number of limits. Moreover, rivers are not steady systems; rather their states respond to hydrologic forcing subject to seasonal oscillations, punctuated by the occurrence of flood events. We first derive a classification of river bends based on a systematic assessment of the various physical mechanisms affecting their morphodynamic equilibrium and their evolution in response to variations of hydrodynamic forcing. Using the database by Lagasse et al. ( 2004 ) we also show that natural meanders are typically mildly curved and long, i.e. such that both the centrifugal and the topographic secondary flows are weak, but they are almost invariably nonlinear. We then review some recent developments which allow us to treat analytically the flow and bed topography of mildly curved and long nonlinear bends subject to steady forcing, taking advantage of the fact that flow and bed topography in mildly curved long bends are slowly varying. Results show that nonlinearity has a number of consequences: most notably damping of the morphodynamic response and upstream shifting of the location of the nonlinear peak of the flow speed. Next we extend the latter model to the case of unsteady forcing. Results are found to depend crucially on the ratio between the flood duration and a morphodynamic timescale. It turns out that, in a channel subject to a repeated sequence of floods, the system reaches a dynamic equilibrium. We conclude the paper discussing how the present assessment relates to the debate on meander modelling of the late 1980s and suggesting what we see as promising lines of future developments.  相似文献   

Effects of hillslope dynamics and network geometry on the scaling properties of the hydrologic response     

Michele Di Lazzaro  Elena Volpi 《Advances in water resources》2011,34(11):1496-1507

This paper investigates the specific contributions of river network geomorphology, hillslope flow dynamics and channel routing to the scaling behavior of the hydrologic response as function of drainage area. Scaling relationships emerged from the observations of geomorphological and hydrological data and were reproduced in previous works through mathematical models, for both idealized self-similar networks and natural basins. Recent literature highlighted that scale invariance of hydrological quantities depends not only on the metrics of the drainage catchment but also on effective flow routing. In this study we employ a geomorphological width function scheme to test the simple scaling hypothesis adopting more realistic dynamic conditions than in previous approaches, specifically taking into account the role of hillslopes. The analysis is based on the derivation of the characteristic distributions of path lengths and travel times, inferred from DEM processing and measurements of rainfall and runoff data. The study area is located in the Tiber River region (central Italy).Results indicate that, while scaling properties clearly emerge when the hydrologic response is defined on the basis of the sole geomorphology, scale invariance is broken when less idealized flow dynamics are taken into account. Lack of scaling appears in particular as a consequence of the catchment to catchment variability of hillslope velocities.  相似文献   

Expanding pools morphology in live-bed conditions     

Stefano Pagliara  Michele Palermo  Iacopo Carnacina 《Acta Geophysica》2011,59(2):296-316

Sediment load plays a fundamental role in natural river morphology evolution. Therefore, the correct assessment of the role of the sediment load on natural or anthropic pools morphology downstream of river grade control structures, such as rock chute or block ramps, is of fundamental interest for preserving the fish habitat and the river morphology. This work presents an experimental study on the sediment load influence on rectangular expanding pools downstream of block ramps in live-bed conditions. Several longitudinal and transversal expanding ratios have been tested. Ramp slopes were varied between 0.083 and 0.25. The effect of the pool geometry and the sediment load on hydraulic jump downstream of block ramp as well as scour morphologies and flow patterns have been analyzed. Equations were derived to evaluate the maximum scour hole depth, the longitudinal distance of the section in which it occurs, and the maximum water elevations both in the pool and in the downstream contraction.  相似文献   

Global surface wave inversion with model constraints‡     

Michele Cercato 《Geophysical Prospecting》2011,59(2):210-226

Practical applications of surface wave inversion demand reliable inverted shear‐wave profiles and a rigorous assessment of the uncertainty associated to the inverted parameters. As a matter of fact, the surface wave inverse problem is severely affected by solution non‐uniqueness: the degree of non‐uniqueness is closely related to the complexity of the observed dispersion pattern and to the experimental inaccuracies in dispersion measurements. Moreover, inversion pitfalls may be connected to specific problems such as inadequate model parametrization and incorrect identification of the surface wave modes. Consequently, it is essential to tune the inversion problem to the specific dataset under examination to avoid unnecessary computations and possible misinterpretations. In the heuristic inversion algorithm presented in this paper, different types of model constraints can be easily introduced to bias constructively the solution towards realistic estimates of the 1D shear‐wave profile. This approach merges the advantages of global inversion, like the extended exploration of the parameter space and a theoretically rigorous assessment of the uncertainties on the inverted parameters, with the practical approach of Lagrange multipliers, which is often used in deterministic inversion, which helps inversion to converge towards models with desired properties (e.g., ‘smooth’ or ‘minimum norm' models). In addition, two different forward kernels can be alternatively selected for direct‐problem computations: either the conventional modal inversion or, instead, the direct minimization of the secular function, which allows the interpreter to avoid mode identification. A rigorous uncertainty assessment of the model parameters is performed by posterior covariance analysis on the accepted solutions and the modal superposition associated to the inverted models is investigated by full‐waveform modelling. This way, the interpreter has several tools to address the more probable sources of inversion pitfalls within the framework of a rigorous and well‐tested global inversion algorithm. The effectiveness and the versatility of this approach, as well as the impact of the interpreter's choices on the final solution and on its posterior uncertainty, are illustrated using both synthetic and real data. In the latter case, the inverted shear velocity profiles are blind compared with borehole data.  相似文献