Postglacial chironomid assemblage succession in northernmost Ungava Peninsula,Canada     

Émilie Saulnier‐Talbot  Reinhard Pienitz 《第四纪科学杂志》2010,25(2):203-213

Sediment cores spanning the postglacial period were recovered from two coastal freshwater basins located 300 km apart in northernmost Ungava (Nunavik, Canada). A basal date from the sequence recovered near Wakeham Bay suggests that the region was ice‐free by as early as 9600 cal. a BP. The initial development of both investigated lacustrine ecosystems was characterised by chironomid assemblages strongly dominated by the Subtribe Tanytarsina. These early postglacial assemblages showed greatly reduced diversity but much greater abundance than during subsequent periods of lake evolution. An abrupt and distinct turnover in sedimentary chironomid assemblage composition and productivity, marked by a switch to a dominance of Orthocladiinae, occurred around 6 ka BP. This turnover likely corresponds with a significant disturbance in the regional environment, which could be linked to the final disappearance of the last remnants of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. These findings, based on the first palaeolimnological investigations undertaken in northernmost Ungava, provide new insights into lateglacial and postglacial faunal recolonisation patterns in aquatic ecosystems of the eastern Canadian Arctic. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

European temperature records of the past five centuries based on documentary/instrumental information compared to climate simulations     

Eduardo Zorita  Anders Moberg  Lotta Leijonhufvud  Rob Wilson  Rudolf Brázdil  Petr Dobrovolný  Jürg Luterbacher  Reinhard Böhm  Christian Pfister  Dirk Riemann  Rüdiger Glaser  Johan Söderberg  Fidel González-Rouco 《Climatic change》2010,101(1-2):143-168

Two European temperature reconstructions for the past half-millennium, January-to-April air temperature for Stockholm (Sweden) and seasonal temperature for a Central European region, both derived from the analysis of documentary sources and long instrumental records, are compared with the output of climate simulations with the model ECHO-G. The analysis is complemented by comparisons with the long (early)-instrumental record of Central England Temperature (CET). Both approaches to study past climates (simulations and reconstructions) are burdened with uncertainties. The main objective of this comparative analysis is to identify robust features and weaknesses in each method which may help to improve models and reconstruction methods. The results indicate a general agreement between simulations obtained with temporally changing external forcings and the reconstructed Stockholm and CET records for the multi-centennial temperature trend over the recent centuries, which is not reproduced in a control simulation. This trend is likely due to the long-term change in external forcing. Additionally, the Stockholm reconstruction and the CET record also show a clear multi-decadal warm episode peaking around AD 1730, which is absent in the simulations. Neither the reconstruction uncertainties nor the model internal climate variability can easily explain this difference. Regarding the interannual variability, the Stockholm series displays, in some periods, higher amplitudes than the simulations but these differences are within the statistical uncertainty and further decrease if output from a regional model driven by the global model is used. The long-term trend of the CET series agrees less well with the simulations. The reconstructed temperature displays, for all seasons, a smaller difference between the present climate and past centuries than is seen in the simulations. Possible reasons for these differences may be related to a limitation of the traditional ‘indexing’ technique for converting documentary evidence to temperature values to capture long-term climate changes, because the documents often reflect temperatures relative to the contemporary authors’ own perception of what constituted ‘normal’ conditions. By contrast, the amplitude of the simulated and reconstructed inter-annual variability agrees rather well.  相似文献   

Chronology of the Last Glacial Maximum in the Salzach palaeoglacier area (Eastern Alps)     

Reinhard Starnberger  Helena Rodnight  Christoph Spötl 《第四纪科学杂志》2011,26(5):502-510

A chronostratigraphy based on luminescence data was established at a key loess profile (Duttendorf) in the northern alpine foreland of Austria. The data help to constrain the timing and duration of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in the area of one of the largest east Alpine piedmont glaciers, the Salzach palaeoglacier. Climate deterioration and maximum advance of this glacier were coeval with the beginning of the main loess accumulation phase in the glacier forefield at ～29–30 ka. A late LGM‐outwash gravel layer deposited on top of the loess profile marks the end of the LGM glacier activity at ～20 ka. The geomorphological setting around the loess profile provides evidence of a major glacier oscillation during the course of the LGM, a phenomenon qualitatively known from other alpine palaeoglaciers but never interpreted in terms of palaeoclimate. A LGM glacier oscillation similar to that of the Salzach palaeoglacier was reported recently from the south Alpine Tagliamento palaeoglacier, suggesting a common forcing. The onset of loess deposition at Duttendorf and the tentatively contemporal advance of the Salzach palaeoglacier reflect, as do other data, the drastic cooling in Europe as a result of Heinrich event 3. The first glacier maximum is not well constrained in the study area but a correlation with the better dated Tagliamento amphitheatre suggests a possible response to Heinrich 2. The second re‐advance occurred synchronously (within dating uncertainties) in both palaeoglaciers forefields (at ～21 ka) but the forcing mechanism remains unknown. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Limnological description of the Lakes Zürich, Lucerne, and Cadagno     

Peter Bossard  Sonja Gammeter  Christine Lehmann  Ferdinand Schanz  Reinhard Bachofen  Hans-Rudolf Bürgi  Daniel Steiner  Ulrich Zimmermann 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》2001,63(3):225-249

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Monohydrocalcite,hydromagnesite, nesquehonite,dolomite, aragonite,and calcite in speleothems of the Fränkische Schweiz,Western Germany     

Reinhard Fischbeck  German Müller 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1971,33(2):87-92

The formation of calcite, aragonite, dolomite, hydromagnesite, and nesquehonite in speleothems of a small cave within dolostone may be compared with the formation of these carbonate minerals in much larger environments in which evaporation exceeds precipitation (salt lakes, tropical lagoons, sebkhas etc...). In all cases the formation and diagenetic alteration is mainly governed by the Mg/Ca-ratio of the solutions, from which precipitation (or transformation) takes place.The certain occurrence of monohydrocalcite in the speleothems and in technical incrustations lead to the conclusion, that this very rare mineral precipitates from solutions which are transported as aerosols.  相似文献   

Gas hydrates (clathrates) causing pore-water freshening and oxygen isotope fractionation in deep-water sedimentary sections of terrigenous continental margins     

Reinhard Hesse  William E. Harrison 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1981,55(3):453-462

The occurrence of gas hydrates in deep-water sections of the continental margins predicted from anomalous acoustic reflectors on seismic profiles has been confirmed by recent deep-sea drilling results. On the Pacific continental slope off Guatemala gas hydrates were brought up for the first time from two holes (497, 498A) drilled during Leg 67 of the DSDP in water depths of 2360 and 5500 m, respectively. The hydrates occur in organic matter-rich Pleistocene to Miocene terrigenous sediments. In the hydrate-bearing zone a marked decrease in interstitial water chlorinities was observed starting at about 10–20 m subbottom depth. Pore waters at the bottom of the holes (near 400 m subbottom) have as little as half the chlorinity of seawater (i.e. 9‰). Similar, but less pronounced, trends were observed during previous legs of the DSDP in other hydrate-prone segments of the continental margins where recharge of fresh water from the continent can be excluded (e.g. Leg 11). The crystallization of hydrates, like ice, excludes salt ions from the crystal structure. During burial the dissolved salts are separated from the solids. Subsidence results in a downward motion of the solids (including hydrates) relative to the pore fluids. Thawing of hydrates during recovery releases fresh water which is remixed with the pore fluid not involved in hydrate formation. The volume of the latter decreases downhole thus causing downward decreasing salinity (chlorinity). Hydrate formation is responsible for oxygen isotope fractionation with¹⁸O-enrichment in the hydrate explaining increasingly more positive δ¹⁸O values in the pore fluids recovered (after hydrate dissociation) with depth.  相似文献   

Geologische Probleme bei der Anlage von Naturschutzgebieten     

Dr. Reinhard Greiling 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1977,66(1):814-820

Zusammenfassung Der gestaltende Naturschutz bezweckt eine Verbesserung bzw. Regeneration gefährdeter oder zerstörter Biotope, besonders der Feuchtbiotope.Die Schaffung solcher Biotope, die im allgemeinen mit der Anlage einer Wasserfläche eingeleitet wird, erfordert vor allem eine geologische Beurteilung des Baugrundes und der Wasserführung. Für eine möglichst effektive Erstellung müssen darüber hinaus schon bei der Planung die regionalgeologischen Gegebenheiten berücksichtigt werden.Als besonders kostengünstig erweist sich die Verwendung bereits vorhandener Hohlformen vor allem aufgelassener Tagebaubetriebe. Diese können, besonders bei schwierigen geotechnischen Verhältnissen, als Naturschutzgebiete weitaus effektiver und kostengünstiger rekultiviert werden als nach den herkömmlichen Zielsetzungen.Auf Grund dieser Erfahrungen werden geowissenschaftliche Kriterien für die Auswahl von Naturschutzflächen zusammengestellt. Es wird vorgeschlagen, potentielle Naturschutzgebiete in Zusammenarbeit mit Rohstoffsicherung und Landschaftsplanung systematisch zu erfassen und vergleichend zu bewerten.

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Formative natural protection aims at a melioration or a regeneration of endangered or destructed biotopes, especially humid biotopes.Establishing those biotopes generally begins with laying-out a surface of water. This requires a geological examination of soil and groundwater conditions. For a most effective management the regional geological context must be considered as early as during planning.The use of already existent excavations, particularly abandoned open pits, proves most favourable economically. Especially in cases of difficult geotechnical conditions open pits can be recultivated far more effectively and less expensively as for tradional purposes.Based on this experiences geoscientific criteria for the choice of areas for natural protection are listed. It is proposed to systematically register and comparatively value areas for natural protection with respect to securing of resources and regional planning.

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Résumé La protection organisée de la nature a pour but une amélioration, voire une régénération de biotopes en danger ou bien détruits, en particulier des biotopes humides.La création de tels biotopes, débutant en général par la mise en place d'une surface d'eau, nécessite avant tout une analyse géologique du terrain d'installation et de l'alimentation en eau. Pour un aménagement aussi effectif que possible il faut en plus, déjà pendant la planification, tenir compte des données géologiques régionales.L'utilisation d'excavations déjà existantes, et surtout d'exploitations à ciel ouvert non comblées, s'avère particulièrement économiques. Celles-ci peuvent, surtout dans des conditions géotechniques difficiles, être récultivées beaucoup plus effectivement et à meilleur marché en en faisant des réserves naturelles plutôt qu'en visant les buts traditionnels.A partir de ces expériences, des critères géoscientifiques sont rassemblés en vue du choix d'emplacements de réserves naturelles. Il est proposé de faire le recensement systématique et de donner appréciation comparative des réserves naturelles en puissance en liaison avec l'approvisionnement en matériaux et une planification régionale.

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Facies differentiation caused by wrench deformation along a deep-seated fault system (León line, Cantabrian Mountains, North Spain)     

Jürgen Kullmann  Reinhard Schnenberg 《Tectonophysics》1978,48(1-2)

The “León line” is a deep-seated fault system in the Variscan orogen of the Canta-brian Mountains. This fault system appears to have been active at least from the early Devonian to the end of the Carboniferous. Vertical as well as horizontal movements resulted in a strikingly different development of facies conditions to the north and south of the Leon line.  相似文献   

Hydraulics of recirculating well pairs for ground water remediation   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Cunningham JA  Hoelen TP  Hopkins GD  Lebrón CA  Reinhard M 《Ground water》2004,42(6-7):880-889

Recirculating well pairs are a proven means of implementing bioremediation and may also be useful for applying other in situ ground water remediation technologies. A bromide tracer test was performed to characterize the hydraulic performance of a recirculating well pair installed at Moffett Field, California. In particular, we estimate two important properties of the recirculating well pair: (1) the fraction of captured water that is recycled between the wells, and (2) the travel-time distribution of ground water in the induced zone of recirculation. We also develop theoretical estimates of these two properties and demonstrate they depend upon a dimensionless pumping rate, denoted xi. The bromide breakthrough curve predicted from theory agrees well with that determined experimentally at Moffett Field. The minimum travel time between the wells is denoted t(min). In theory, t(min) depends inversely on Q, the pumping rate in the recirculating wells, and is proportional to a2, the square of the distance between the wells. Both the experimental and theoretical travel-time distributions indicate that at least half the recirculating water travels between the wells along fast flowpaths (travel time < 2*t(min)). Therefore, when designing recirculating well pairs, engineers should ensure that t(min) will be sufficiently high to allow biologically mediated reactions (or other in situ remediation processes) sufficient time to proceed.  相似文献   

A geophysical interpretation of the secular displacement and gravity rates observed at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard in the Arctic—effects of post-glacial rebound and present-day ice melting     

Tadahiro Sato  Jun'ichi Okuno  Jacques Hinderer  Daniel S. MacMillan  Hans-Peter Plag †  Olivier Francis ‡  Reinhard Falk  Yoichi Fukuda 《Geophysical Journal International》2006,165(3):729-743

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