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Volcanic ash layers in sediment cores are valuable geochronological markers in paleolimnological research. The composition
of volcanic glass is related to identifiable, chronologically distinctive volcanic eruptions. Consequently, tephra layers
provide time horizons allowing regional-scale correlations for lake sediments. Volcanic glass is often present in samples
routinely prepared by paleolimnologists such as diatom slides and thin sections. Knowledge of the morphological and optical
properties of volcanic glass allows for its identification. This is essential for the identification of ash layers that are
not macroscopically visible or to track their vertical migration in soft organic sediments. The purposes of this note are
to: (1) describe how the morphological (i.e., shape, vesicularity) and optical (i.e., refractive index and birefringence)
properties can be used to identify volcanic glass in preparations from lake sediments; and (2) show how the quantification
of volcanic glass from diatom slides is used to quantify the density-induced displacement of a 4.5 cm-thick Mazama ash-layer
through organic sediments and to approximate its timing of initial deposition. 相似文献
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A hydrogeological study was conducted in northwestern New Brunswick, Canada, to improve the predictability of fracture-dominated groundwater flow within folded bedrock composed of fine-grained turbidites. Borehole televiewer logging and outcrop mapping, integrated with hydraulic packer tests revealed enhanced hydraulic conductivity associated with northeasterly striking bedding-plane fractures formed during folding and flexural slip. These fractures impart azimuthal anisotropy to the aquifer because of moderately dipping fold limbs. High-angle fractures form a well-developed non-stratabound network, comprising two open fracture sets striking NNE parallel to the current direction of principal stress, and WNW parallel to the direction of principal stress that dominated during the Acadian orogeny. The subset of fractures showing significant oxidation, deemed most important to the groundwater flow system, is dominated by bedding-plane and high-angle fractures striking near-parallel to the maximum principal stress direction, resulting in extensional opening and enhanced hydraulic conductivities. An equivalent porous media model, incorporating anisotropy and varying hydraulic conductivity with depth, indicates that horizontal flow dominates the aquifer with relatively minor exchange between different model layers. These findings have implications for understanding flow directions in the Black Brook Watershed and elsewhere in the Matapédia Basin where fractures formed under similar stress conditions. 相似文献