Implications of Stratigraphic and Paleoclimatic Records of the Last Interglaciation from the Nordic Seas     

Henning A. Bauch  Helmut Erlenkeuser  Pieter M. Grootes  Jean Jouzel 《Quaternary Research》1996,46(3):260-269

Climatic reconstruction of glacial to interglacial episodes from oxygen isotopes in sediment cores from the Nordic seas is complicated by strong local meltwater contributions to the oxygen isotope changes. Combination of benthic and planktic foraminiferal isotope data with foraminiferal abundances and ice-rafted debris (IRD) allows separation of local and global effects and subdivision of the marine oxygen isotope events 6.2–5.4, which include the last interglaciation, into: (1) a meltwater phase after glacial stage 6, recorded by large amounts of IRD and low foraminiferal abundance, indicating surface water warming; (2) an IRD-free period with high deposition rates of subpolar foraminifera and other CaCO₃pelagic components, recognized here as the “full” interglaciation; and (3) a phase with the recurrence of IRD and the demise of subpolar species. Comparison of ice-core records and marine data implies that the global climate during the last full interglaciation and that during the postdeglacial Holocene were similar. The records show no significantly different variations in the proxy data. In contrast, the oxygen isotopes of planktic foraminifera and ice cores indicate significant differences during each of the deglacial transitions (Terminations I and II) that preceded these two interglaciations. These suggest that during Termination II the climatic evolution in the Nordic seas was less affected by abrupt changes in ocean–atmosphere circulation than during the last glacial to interglacial transition.  相似文献   

Statistical Characteristics of Xenoliths in the Antioch Kimberlite Pipe,Marshall County,Northeastern Kansas     

Kotov  Sergey  Berendsen  Pieter 《Natural Resources Research》2002,11(4):289-297

Geometrical characteristics of xenoliths in the Antioch kimberlite pipe have been considered in statistical terms. A method of conversion of 2D intersections to 3D dimensions was used. It has been shown that the Rosin-Rammler distribution of mass leads to the Weibull distribution of sizes, whereas a fractal distribution of sizes can be expressed as the Pareto distribution. Lognormal, Weibull, and Pareto distributions have been tested as model distributions. The Pareto distribution could be the most appropriate model for the distribution of xenoliths. This conclusion is in agreement with the general concept that the xenoliths formed as a result of an underground explosion without additional breakage occurring during magma transport. The final distribution may be shifted from the initial model as a result of processes of redistribution and sorting of xenoliths in liquid-crystalline flows.  相似文献   

Simulation of gravity gradients: a comparison study     

G. Balmino  J. Barriot  R. Koop  B. Middel  N. C. Thong  M. Vermeer 《Journal of Geodesy》1991,65(4):218-229

At different European institutes software has been developed for evaluation of the gravitational potential of the Earth using high degree spherical harmonic expansions. In this report the results of a comparison of a number of these software packages are presented. We compared the results for the second order derivatives (gravity gradients). It appeared that one of the most critical points in these computations is the definition of the coordinates, which should be as accurate as possible. Machine dependency and algorithm setup were of less importance, the former being only reflected in CPU timing results.  相似文献   

Late Quaternary ice-rich permafrost sequences as a paleoenvironmental archive for the Laptev Sea Region in northern Siberia     

Lutz Schirrmeister  Christine Siegert  Victor V. Kunitzky  Pieter M. Grootes  Helmut Erlenkeuser 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2002,91(1):154-167

Ice-rich permafrost sequences with large polygonal ice wedges represent excellent archives for paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Such deposits contain numerous well-preserved records (ground ice, paleosols, peat beds, different types of fossils), which permit characterization of environmental conditions during a clearly defined period of the past 60 ka. Based on field investigations carried out within framework of the German-Russian project "Laptev Sea System 2000" on the Bykovsky Peninsula (SE of the Lena Delta) results from cryolithological studies, sedimentological analyses, as well as new radiocarbon data are presented. For the first time it is shown that the Ice Complex accumulated without significant interruptions from approximately 60 k.y. B.P. until the end of the Pleistocene. Geochemical data (total organic carbon, C/N, '¹³C_org) and the mass-specific magnetic susceptibility clearly show changing environmental conditions from stadial to interstadial times in the Late Pleistocene and during the transition to the Holocene. These results permit us to reconstruct the development of an Arctic periglacial landscape in the coastal lowland during Ice Complex formation in the Late Quaternary. This evolution coincided generally with the global environmental trend up to marine isotope stage 4.  相似文献   

Kinematics, mechanics, and potential earthquake hazards for faults in Pottawatomie County, Kansas, USA     

Gregory C. Ohlmacher  Pieter Berendsen 《Tectonophysics》2005,396(3-4):227-244

Many stable continental regions have subregions with poorly defined earthquake hazards. Analysis of minor structures (folds and faults) in these subregions can improve our understanding of the tectonics and earthquake hazards. Detailed structural mapping in Pottawatomie County has revealed a suite consisting of two uplifted blocks aligned along a northeast trend and surrounded by faults. The first uplift is located southwest of the second. The northwest and southeast sides of these uplifts are bounded by northeast-trending right-lateral faults. To the east, both uplifts are bounded by north-trending reverse faults, and the first uplift is bounded by a north-trending high-angle fault to the west. The structural suite occurs above a basement fault that is part of a series of north–northeast-trending faults that delineate the Humboldt Fault Zone of eastern Kansas, an integral part of the Midcontinent Rift System. The favored kinematic model is a contractional stepover (push-up) between echelon strike-slip faults. Mechanical modeling using the boundary element method supports the interpretation of the uplifts as contractional stepovers and indicates that an approximately east–northeast maximum compressive stress trajectory is responsible for the formation of the structural suite. This stress trajectory suggests potential activity during the Laramide Orogeny, which agrees with the age of kimberlite emplacement in adjacent Riley County. The current stress field in Kansas has a N85°W maximum compressive stress trajectory that could potentially produce earthquakes along the basement faults. Several epicenters of seismic events (<M2.0) are located within 10 km of the structural suite. One epicenter is coincident with the northwest boundary of the uplift. This structural suite, a contractional stepover between echelon northeast-trending right-lateral faults, is similar to that mapped in the New Madrid Seismic Zone, and both areas currently feature roughly east–west maximum compressive stress trajectory. Based on these similarities, the faults in Pottawatomie County have the potential for seismicity. The results demonstrate that mechanical analysis of minor structural features can improve our knowledge of local earthquake hazards.  相似文献   

冻融作用对土工程性质影响的研究现状   总被引：32，自引：0，他引：32  

齐吉琳  程国栋  P.A.Vermeer 《地球科学进展》2005,20(8):887-894

冻融过程中土结构受冷生作用的影响，可导致土的工程性质发生变化。在冻土地区进行路堑开挖、新消边坡的加固和路基修建时，由于新近暴露的土受到冻融风化作用，在相关的变形和稳定性分析中，选择土性参数时必须考虑土工程性质的变化。在查阅大量文献的基础上，从试验仪器和研究方法、冻融作用下土的物理性质和力学性质的变化及其机理等几个方面，对土的工程性质受冻融循环影响而改变的研究现状进行了总结和分析，列出了典型的研究成果。文献研究表明，土经过冻融后，渗透性会增大；松散土和密实土的密度具有不同的变化趋势；原状超固结土的结构性受到破坏，因而三轴试验的应力应变曲线峰值受到削弱，一维压缩试验中表现为前期固结压力降低；强度的变化则有诸多不同的试验结果。针对目前的研究现状并根据作者的相关工作，提出了进一步研究的思路。  相似文献   

Geochemistry and petrogenesis of lamproites,late cretaceous age,Woodson County,Kansas, U.S.A.     

Robert L. Cullers  Subramanian Ramakrishnan  Pieter Berendsen  Tom Griffin 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1985,49(6):1383-1402

Lamproite sills and their associated sedimentary and contact metamorphic rocks from Woodson County, Kansas have been analyzed for major elements, selected trace elements, and strontium isotopic composition. These lamproites, like lamproites elsewhere, are alkalic (molecular $\text{K}{}_2\text{O + Na}{}_2\text{O}\text{Al}{}_2\text{O}{}_3\text{= 1.6–2.6}$), are ultrapotassic $\text{(}\text{K}{}_2\text{O}\text{Na}{}_2\text{O}\text{= 9.6–150)}$, are enriched in incompatible elements (LREE or light rare-earth elements, Ba, Th, Hf, Ta, Sr, Rb), and have moderate to high initial strontium isotopic compositions (0.7042 and 0.7102). The silica-saturated magma (olivine-hypersthene normative) of the Silver City lamproite could have formed by about 2 percent melting of a phlogopite-garnet lherzolite under high $\text{H}{}_2\text{O}\text{CO}{}_2$ ratios in which the Iherzolite was enriched before melting in the incompatible elements by metasomatism. The Rose Dome lamproite probably formed in a similar fashion although the extreme alteration due to addition of carbonate presumably from the underlying limestone makes its origin less certain. Significant fractional crystallization of phases that occur as phenocrysts (diopside, olivine, K-richterite, and phlogopite) in the Silver City magma and that concentrate Co, Cr, and Sc are precluded as the magma moved from the source toward the surface due to the high abundances of Co, Cr, and Sc in the magma similar to that predicted by direct melting of the metasomatized Iherzolite.Ba and, to a lesser extent, K and Rb and have been transported from the intrusions at shallow depth into the surrounding contact metamorphic zone. The Silver City lamproite has vertical fractionation of some elements due either to volatile transport or to variations in the abundance of phenocrysts relative to groundmass most probably due to flow differentiation although multiple injection or fractional crystallization cannot be conclusively rejected.  相似文献   

Increasing a freshwater lens below a creek ridge using a controlled artificial recharge and drainage system: a case study in the Netherlands     

Pieter S. Pauw  Esther S. van Baaren  Martijn Visser  Perry G. B. de Louw  Gualbert H. P. Oude Essink 《Hydrogeology Journal》2015,23(7):1415-1430

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Size-resolved characterisation of organic compounds in atmospheric aerosols collected at Welgegund,South Africa     

Wanda Booyens  Pieter G. Van Zyl  Johan P. Beukes  Jose Ruiz-Jimenez  Matias Kopperi  Marja-Liisa Riekkola  Miroslav Josipovic  Andrew D. Venter  Kerneels Jaars  Lauri Laakso  Ville Vakkari  Markku Kulmala  Jacobus J. Pienaar 《Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry》2015,72(1):43-64

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The role of economic sectoral structure as a policy mechanism towards more resilient peripheral regions: the case of South Africa     

van Aswegen  Mariske  Retief  Francois Pieter 《GeoJournal》2021,86(6):2823-2843

The role of economic sectoral structure in regional growth and development is widely acknowledged. However, there has been scarce reflection on its role as a policy instrument, particularly for peripheral regions. In reaction, this paper investigates the role of economic sectoral structure as a policy instrument towards more resilient peripheral regions. Through a multiple country policy analysis, the paper determines to what degree economic sectoral structure is reflected in regional development policies of 18 countries with predominantly rural characteristics and lagging regions. Moreover, the role of economic sectoral structure towards more resilient regions is quantified and measured for a specific peripheral region case in South Africa as developing country exhibiting poor economic resilience. The paper highlights related variety as a key ingredient for a region to reach a state of dynamic stability between adaptation and adaptability towards enhanced long-term resilience capacity of the peripheral region. The research concludes that policy focus should support the maintenance of the sectors and industries of comparative advantage on the regional scale, but strongly focus on sectoral comparative advantage within the national scale (if present) to establish a more robust region. This will establish and strengthen the identified peripheral growth centres as centres of national competitiveness and specialisation. Primary policy actions as emanated from the literature and the multiple country policy analysis will promote more efficient sectoral composition as key towards more resilient peripheral regions. It is acknowledged that these policy actions must be informed by a detailed regional economic analysis for different peripheral regions to determine inherent and latent economic potential and link with interdependent industries. This paper will highlight that regional policy should become more explicit by exploiting the role of economic and natural resources as growth engines for the peripheral regional economy in a more effective way through a multi-centred territorial structure.

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