Abyssal current influence on the southwest Bermuda Rise and surrounding region     

Neal W. Driscoll  Edward P. Laine 《Marine Geology》1996,130(3-4):231-263

Echograms (3.5 kHz) and bottom photographs reveal that the northward flowing Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) has strongly influenced the modern depositional regime on the southwest Bermuda Rise. The spatial distribution of echo character types, the orientation and nature of current-controlled structures, and limited current meter data show that AABW flows with varying intensities along three primary pathways around and over the southwest Bermuda Rise. The main core of AABW flows clockwise around the eastern and western flanks of the southern Bermuda Rise, roughly parallel to the 5400 m isobath. This current bifurcates at 28°30′N, 69°W where a portion flows northeast over the southwest Bermuda Rise and the remainder continues north along the physiographic boundary between the southwest Bermuda Rise and the Hatteras Abyssal Plain. Secondary ribbons of AABW branch off the main core of AABW during its southerly journey along the southeastern Bermuda Rise, and flow west through fracture zones. Finally, a diffuse, northward flowing AABW sweeps the entire southwest Bermuda Rise.

A progression of current-controlled bedforms occurs beneath the main path of the AABW reflecting the spatially varying current velocities and sediment supply. The main core of AABW flows west through the narrow Vema Gap creating erosional furrows along the border between the southwest Bermuda Rise and the Vema Gap. Current velocities greater than 20 cm s⁻¹ are inferred from the bedforms in this region. Farther north along the southwestern edge of the Bermuda Rise, sediment waves become more prevalent. This transition from erosional to more depositional bedforms results from diminished current velocities (5–15 cm s⁻¹) and increased sediment supply. Although some of these bedforms on the southwest Bermuda Rise appear to be relict, their orientation is consistent with current meter data and abyssal current direction inferred from bottom photographs.  相似文献   

Compound paleovalley fills in the Lower Pennsylvanian New River Formation, West Virginia, USA     

Jesse T. Korus  Erik P. Kvale  Kenneth A. Eriksson  R.M. Joeckel   《Sedimentary Geology》2008,208(1-2):15-26

Ancient paleovalley fills are typically interpreted in the rock record using over-generalized models without carefully considering modern analogs, especially in light of recent discoveries. It is now known that many Quaternary paleovalleys are compound in origin, exhibit considerable stratigraphic complexity, contain multiple incisions, and can be orders of magnitude larger than their putative ancient counterparts. Compound paleovalley fills in the Lower Pennsylvanian New River Formation (NRF) are directly comparable to these Quaternary analogs, stimulating a paradigm shift in the interpretation of ancient paleovalleys. In the NRF, multiple laterally- and vertically-juxtaposed fill successions, separated by incision surfaces, record high-frequency fluvial responses to external controls within lower-order sequences. Lowstand incision and sediment bypass, as predicted in sequence stratigraphy, is largely discounted by the available evidence and the definition of regional sequence boundaries is not straightforward. The identification of genetic sequences may be the most effective approach to understanding the NRF and, by inference, many other ancient paleovalleys. Results from this study of the NRF promote a revised model for ancient paleovalleys that incorporates: 1) the pre-eminence of compound architecture, 2) periodic episodes of incision and subaerial exposure occurring in response to high-frequency changes in climate or relative sea level, 3) fluvial downcutting as the primary cause of paleovalley incision, although some sediments are still preserved in a net-erosional regime, and 4) composite, time-transgressive sequence boundaries that may be difficult or impossible to correlate regionally.  相似文献   

Long-term environmental change and shifts in the aquatic plant community of Jones Creek,Thousand Islands National Park,Ontario, Canada based on plant macrofossil analysis     

Ryan Boxem  Emma L. Davis  Jesse C. Vermaire 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2018,60(2):349-360

Plant macrofossils and pollen were analyzed from sediment cores to identify long-term changes in the aquatic plant community of Jones Creek, Thousand Islands National Park, Ontario, Canada. Six sediment cores were recovered from Jones Creek in February 2014. One complete core and five top/bottom samples were analyzed for plant macrofossil abundance and diversity. Sediment analysis and ²¹⁰Pb dating confirmed a productive wetland throughout the core, dating back beyond 1883 AD. Jones Creek is currently dominated by thick stands of cattails, particularly the hybrid white cattail (Typha x glauca Godr). The relative abundance of Typha pollen began to increase in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, reaching a relative abundance of nearly 40% in the modern day surface sediment. Common macrofossils recovered from the sediment record included seeds of Carex, Schoenoplectus, Najas, and Eleocharis. There is evidence that community composition, as recorded by the macrofossil record, has shifted in Jones Creek in response to human activities. In particular there has been a reduction in sedge species between historical and present day conditions as the wetland shifted from a sedge dominated wet-meadow wetland to a cattail dominated system. The results of our study indicate that future restoration efforts should be directed towards reintroducing native sedge species that were present prior to major changes in land-use that occurred in the St. Lawrence region throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  相似文献   

Trend in frequency of extreme precipitation events over Ontario from ensembles of multiple GCMs     

Ziwang Deng  Xin Qiu  Jinliang Liu  Neal Madras  Xiaogang Wang  Huaiping Zhu 《Climate Dynamics》2016,46(9-10):2909-2921

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Hydrogen generation from mantle source rocks in Oman     

C. Neal  G. Stanger 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1983

Hydrogen gas, associated with Ca²⁺ OH-rich alkaline groundwaters (pH = 10–12), is at present emanating from ultramafic rocks of the Oman ophiolite. Isotopic and chemical evidence indicates that hydrogen is formed by low-temperature redox reactions in a closed groundwater environment. This is normally a cryptic process in the hydrosphere but is fortuitously revealed by the unusual hydrogeological conditions in Oman where atmospheric oxygen is totally assimilated. It is suggested that hydrogen generation in mantle source rocks at depth and in the early Archaean surface environment may be more widespread than has hitherto been realised.  相似文献   

An experimental appraisal of the terms in the heat and moisture flux equations for local advection     

A. R. G. Lang  K. G. McNaughton  Chen Fazu  E. F. Bradley  E. Ohtaki 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1983,25(1):89-102

Terms in the heat and vapour flux equations, appropriate to the atmospheric surface layer with horizontal heterogeneity in one direction, have been evaluated empirically. The experimental site was a flooded rice field, which was bounded to windward by a semi-arid region. Local conditions over the rice were always stable, but the vertical fluxes of heat and water vapour were large. All terms in the flux equations were either measured directly, or, if sufficiently small, estimated, except the term containing fluctuating pressure, which was obtained by difference. The relative magnitudes of the major terms (production and pressure covariance) were similar to those reported previously for horizontally homogeneous flow with similar stabilities. Current parameterizations of the pressure covariance terms sometimes gave values which differed by factors of five or ten from the experimental results, and the interrelationships depended upon the stability.  相似文献   

Can we assess the impacts of climatic changes?     

Jesse H. Ausubel 《Climatic change》1983,5(1):7-14

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Book reviews     

Jesse H. Ausubel 《Climatic change》1986,8(1):95-97

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Some genetic implications of silica and aluminosilicates in peat and coal     

Alan Davis  Suzanne J Russell  Susan M Rimmer  Jesse D Yeakel   《International Journal of Coal Geology》1984,3(4):293-314

The inorganic content of Okefenokee peat, in the absence of a significant detrital contribution, is a function of sponge spicule, phytolith, and diatom abundance in addition to the degree of organic matter decomposition and the frequency of fires. The detrital component (quartz) dominates ash composition where it is present.No clear correlation has been observed between the inorganic content of coals examined in this study and their maceral composition. Vitrinite-rich coals have a wide range of ash yield. These observations suggest that the minerals have been introduced detritally rather than accumulated as a result of peat degradation. Quartz in the coals appears to be detrital, and the presence of 2m₁ mica indicates that there is also a detrital contribution to the clay minerals present.  相似文献   

A wind tunnel boundary-layer simulation of wind flow over complex terrain: Effect of terrain and model construction     

D. Neal  D. C. Stevenson  D. Lindley 《Boundary-Layer Meteorology》1981,21(3):271-293

The report presents the results of a wind-tunnel study of the flow of the natural wind over complex terrain. A 1:4000 undistorted scale model of Gebbies Pass in the South Island of New Zealand was prepared and tested in the boundary-layer wind tunnel in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Canterbury.Three forms of construction, viz., terraced, contoured and roughness-added, were compared. Velocity and turbulence profiles, Reynolds stresses and spectra were measured, and correlation of results between different types of construction was calculated. The terraced form was much simpler to construct but was found to be unsatisfactory. The correlation between the contoured and roughness-added models was as high as 0.94, although the roughness-added model made a significant difference to the results in the lower 20%; of the boundary layer. The results of these tests will be compared with results from the field in a future report.  相似文献