A Petrogenetic Model of Basalts from the Northern Central Indian Ridge:3-11°S          下载免费PDF全文

Dwijesh RAY  Sridhar D. IYER  Ranadip BANERJEE  Saumitra MISRA  M. WIDDOWSON 《《地质学报》英文版》2007,81(1):99-112

1 Introduction The Northern Central Indian Ridge (NCIR) between 3° and 11°S latitudes is joined to the north with the slow spreading Carlsberg Ridge (CR; ~24–26 mm/a, full spreading rate) and to the south with the intermediate spreading Southern Central Indian Ridge (SCIR; ~50 mm/ a) (Fig. 1). Earlier petrological investigations of the Central Indian Ridge were concentrated either on or along the CR to the north and at the southern end of the CIR up to the Rodriguez Triple Junc…  相似文献   

THEATRES OF ACCUMULATION. STUDIES IN ASIAN AND LATIN AMERICAN URBANISATION. By Warick Armstrong and T. G. McGee.     

RAY WATTERS 《New Zealand geographer》1989,45(1):48-48

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A layperson's introduction to hydrocarbon exploration     

RAY PRATT 《Geology Today》1987,3(5):140-142

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Tropical cyclones and floods in Fiji     

RAY KOSTASCHUK  JAMES TERRY  RISHI RAJ 《水文科学杂志》2013,58(3):435-450

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Daily flow records, rainfall data and tropical cyclone maps during 1970–1998 are used to document the impact of tropical cyclones (TCs) on floods in the Rewa River system, Viti Levu, Fiji. Floods are large, brief, isolated events caused by TCs and non-TC tropical rainstorms. More floods are caused by tropical rainstorms than by TCs, but TC floods are larger. The log Pearson Type III distribution consistently provided the best fit to partial duration flood series and the widely-recommended generalized Pareto distribution performed very poorly, underscoring the need to test a variety of distributions for a particular geographic location. Tropical cyclones occur more often in Fiji during negative values of the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) and all TCs that occurred during El Niño conditions caused floods. Peak flood discharges caused by TCs are inversely correlated with the SOI, reflecting possible links with tropical cyclone frequency and precipitation intensity.  相似文献   

Glass and Mineral Chemistry of Northern Central Indian Ridge Basalts:Compositional Diversity and Petrogenetic Significance     

Dwijesh RAY  Ranadip BANERJEE  Sridhar D IYER  Basavaraju BASAVALINGU  Subir MUKHOPADHYAY 《《地质学报》英文版》2009,83(6):1122-1135

Abstract: The glass and mineral chemistry of basalts examined from the northern central Indian ridge (NCIR) provides an insight into magma genesis around the vicinity of two transform faults: Vityaz (VT) and Vema (VM). The studied mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs) from the outer ridge flank (VT area) and a near-ridge seamount (VM area) reveal that they are moderately phyric plagioclase basalts composed of plagioclase (phenocryst [An60–90] and groundmass [An35–79]), olivine (Fo81–88), diopside (Wo45–51, En25–37, Fs14–24), and titanomagnetite (FeOt ~63.75 wt% and TiO2 ~22.69 wt%). The whole-rock composition of these basalts has similar Mg# [mole Mg/mole(Mg+Fe2+)] (VT basalt: ~0.56–0.58; VM basalt: ~0.57), but differ in their total alkali content (VT basalt: ~2.65; VM basalt: ~3.24). The bulk composition of the magma was gradually depleted in MgO and enriched in FeOt, TiO2, P2O5, and Na2O with progressive fractionation, the basalts were gradually enriched in Y and Zr and depleted in Ni and Cr. In addition, the SREE of magma also increased with fractionation, without any change in the (La/Yb)N value. Glass from the VM seamount shows more fractionated characters (Mg#: 0.56–0.57) compared to the outer ridge flank lava of the VT area (Mg#: 0.63–0.65). This study concludes that present basalts experienced low-pressure crystallization at a relatively shallow depth. The geochemical changes in the NCIR magmas resulted from fractional crystallization at a shallow depth. As a consequence, spinel was the first mineral to crystallize at a pressure >10 kbar, followed by Fe-rich olivine at <10 kbar pressure.  相似文献   

Laser argon-40-argon-39 age determinations of Luna 24 mare basalts     

RAY BURGESS  GRENVILLE TURNER 《Meteoritics & planetary science》1998,33(4):921-935

Abstract— The ages of seven rock fragments from the soil fraction of the Luna 24 core have been determined using a laser ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar stepped heating technique. The investigated lithologies include fragments of fine-grained ophitic basalt, coarse-grained basalt, metabasalts and a regolith breccia. Most of the samples contain nonradiogenic Ar components of variable ³⁶Ar/⁴⁰Ar composition. These surface-correlated trapped components are predominantly released at low temperature and can be distinguished from volume-correlated radiogenic and cosmogenic components released at higher temperature during stepped heating. Binary mixtures of radiogenic and cosmogenic Ar components give linear correlations on ³⁶Ar_t/⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar/⁴⁰Ar diagrams from which the age and ³⁶Ar/⁴⁰Ar value of trapped Ar can be determined. The ages obtained span a narrow range between 3.18-3.28 Ga with an average of 3.22 ± 0.04 Ga. This is interpreted as being the age of the basalts at the Luna 24 sampling site. Systematic age differences between lithologies were not detected; however, a single age of 2.93 Ga obtained from a coarse-grained basalt hints at the possibility of younger volcanism. The results of this work effectively triple the chronological information available for Mare Crisium and are within the range of radiometric age measurements of Luna 24 mare basalts obtained previously.  相似文献   

Petrology, geochemistry of hornblende gabbro and associated dolerite dyke of Paharpur, Puruliya, West Bengal: Implication for petrogenetic process and tectonic setting   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

ADITI MANDAL  ARIJIT RAY  MAYUKHEE DEBNATH  SANKAR PRASAD PAUL 《Journal of Earth System Science》2012,121(3):793-812

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Nocturnal carbon efflux: reconciliation of eddy covariance and chamber measurements using an alternative to the u_*-threshold filtering technique     

EVA VAN GORSEL  RAY LEUNING  HELEN A. CLEUGH  HEATHER KEITH  TANJA SUNI 《Tellus. Series B, Chemical and physical meteorology》2007,59(3):397-403

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Microtextural and mineral chemical analyses of andesite–dacite from Barren and Narcondam islands: Evidences for magma mixing and petrological implications     

DWIJESH RAY  S RAJAN  RASIK RAVINDRA  ASHIM JANA 《Journal of Earth System Science》2011,120(1):145-155

Andesite and dacite from Barren and Narcondam volcanic islands of Andaman subduction zone are composed of plagioclase, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene, olivine, titanomagnetite, magnesio-hornblende and rare quartz grains. In this study, we use the results of mineral chemical analyses of the calc-alkaline rock suite of rocks as proxies for magma mixing and mingling processes. Plagioclase, the most dominant mineral, shows zoning which includes oscillatory, patchy, multiple and repetitive zonation and ‘fritted’ or ‘sieve’ textures. Zoning patterns in plagioclase phenocrysts and abrupt fluctuations in An content record different melt conditions in a dynamic magma chamber. ‘Fritted’ zones (An₅₅) are frequently overgrown by thin calcic (An₇₂) plagioclase rims over well-developed dissolution surfaces. These features have probably resulted from mixing of a more silicic magma with the host andesite. Olivine and orthopyroxene with reaction and overgrowth rims (corona) suggest magma mixing processes. We conclude that hybrid magma formed from the mixing of mafic and felsic magma by two-stage processes – initial intrusion of hotter mafic melt (andesitic) followed by cooler acidic melt at later stage.  相似文献   

Fine-scale relief related to Late Holocene channel shifting within the floor of the upper Redondo Fan, offshore Southern California     

WILLIAM R. NORMARK†  CHARLES K. PAULL‡  DAVID W. CARESS‡  WILLIAM USSLER III‡  RAY SLITER 《Sedimentology》2009,56(6):1690-1704

Erosional and depositional bedforms have been imaged at outcrop scale in the upper Redondo Fan, in the San Pedro Basin of offshore Southern California in ≥600 m water depths, using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle developed by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. The Autonomous Underwater Vehicle is equipped with multibeam and chirp sub-bottom sonars. Sampling and photographic images using the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Remotely Operated Vehicle Tiburon provide groundtruth for the Autonomous Underwater Vehicle survey. The 0·3 m vertical and 1·5 m lateral bathymetric resolution and 0·1 m sub-bottom profile resolution provide unprecedented detail of bedform morphology and structure. Multiple channels within the Redondo Fan have been active at different times during the Late Holocene (0 to 3000 yr bp ). The currently active channel extending from Redondo Canyon makes an abrupt 90° turn at the canyon mouth before resuming a south-easterly course along the east side of the Redondo Fan. This channel is floored by sand and characterized by small steps generally <1 m in relief, spaced 10 to 80 m in the down-channel direction. A broader channel complex lies along the western side of the fan valley that was last active more than 850 years ago. Two distinct trains of large scours, with widths ranging from tens to a few hundred metres and depths of 20 m, occur on the floor of the western channel complex, which has a thin mud drape. If observed in cross-section only, these large scours would probably be misidentified as the thalweg of an active channel.  相似文献