Grain‐size distributions on high‐energy sandy beaches and their relation to wave dissipation          下载免费PDF全文

Sam Prodger  Paul Russell  Mark Davidson 《Sedimentology》2017,64(5):1289-1302

Grain size and sorting represent two key parameters when characterizing sediments or modelling beach morphology and sediment transport. Traditionally, an average value for grain size or sorting is often assumed for the entire area, determined from only a few sediment samples, ignoring any spatial (or temporal) variability in sediment characteristics. This contribution uses a data set of physical surface sediment samples from 53 beach locations around the south‐west peninsula of the United Kingdom, in addition to bi‐monthly, high spatial resolution (mean 240 samples) digital grain‐size surveys from a high‐energy, oceanic, sandy beach (Perranporth, North Cornwall). Systematic spatial variations in grain size and sorting were consistently observed in the seaward direction across the intertidal zone of sandy beaches, with grain‐sizes coarsening and sorting improving by up to 51·7% and 64·3%, respectively. This variability was deterministically related to the time‐averaged, antecedent‐adjusted energy dissipated by breaking waves, with the observed maximum grain‐size and sorting values correlating with the location of peak wave energy dissipation (r² = 0·998, P < 0·01).  相似文献   

Tephra dispersal during the Campanian Ignimbrite (Italy) eruption: implications for ultra-distal ash transport during the large caldera-forming eruption     

Victoria C. Smith  Roberto Isaia  Sam L. Engwell  Paul. G. Albert 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2016,78(6):45

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Role of Subsurface Brines in Salt Balance: The Case Study of the Caspian Sea and Kara Bogaz Bay     

Norbert Clauer  Marie-Claire Pierret  Sam Chaudhuri 《Aquatic Geochemistry》2009,15(1-2):237-261

The water level of the Caspian Sea fluctuated significantly during recent history, without consensus for the cause. The varied chemistry of the Caspian, Kara Bogaz and sediment a interstitial waters provides a further insight. Element concentrations and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratios of the interstitial waters were compared to those of Caspian and Kara Bogaz open waters, and of acid-leached extractable components. The ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratios of the interstitial waters are explained by addition of subterranean waters similar to nearby spring waters. These subterranean waters yield chemical characteristics such as a Cl/SO₄, ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr, Ca/Sr and K/Rb ratios of respectively 80, 0.7086, 250 and 1,800. However, their addition does not explain the large difference in the K/Rb ratio of the Caspian and Kara Bogaz waters, respectively at 7,630 and 17,550, which implies also a leaching of salt deposits by the upward migrating subterranean waters. The sediments of the southern Caspian basin, with low Na, Cl and SO₄ in their interstitial waters, deposited apparently in an anoxic environment. The related chemical changes in the waters are also indicative of a recent change in the hydrologic regime, possibly induced by a changing morphology of the drainage basin.  相似文献   

TWO ELECTRIC POTENTIAL SIGNATURES OF SERIAL DIURNAL FROST     

Sam I. Outcalt  Donald H. Gray 《自然地理学》2013,34(4):354-360

During a 96-hour period in mid-March 1987, a series of four serial frost-thaw events occurred in a research field at the University of Michigan Matthaei Botanical Gardens. Soil temperature and electric potential were recorded at two near surface probe arrays (0, 3, 6 & 9 cm) and (0, 5, 10 & 15 cm) with a horizontal separation of approximately 1 m beneath the organic-mineral soil interface at hourly intervals. These time series revealed strong repetitive serial patterns. When the electric potential measurements were converted to a surrogate measure of electrolyte concentration, the C-index, strong coupled flow effects appeared to be present in the time series owing to the effects of surface freeze-thaw, evaporation-distillation and soil water advection.

The data set shows the low frequency effects of upward soil water advection increasing the soil temperature and modulating the electrolyte concentration. These observations also demonstrate that soil freezing processes have two distinct regimes dominated by (1) early soil water advection toward the frost front from below and (2) downward expulsion of electrolyte-rich water as ice fills the pore space. These two processes of soil water advection and expulsion augmented by local evaporation produce two distinct near surface C-index signatures of serial diurnal frost. The signature depends on the direction of the vertical electrolyte gradient near the surface. [Key words: soil, frost-thaw, soil water, soil temperature.]  相似文献   

Implementation of intuitionistic fuzzy logic to assess the predictability of severe thunderstorms   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Sutapa Chaudhuri 《Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences》2011,47(5):477-483

Thunderstorms are responsible for remarkable devastation when accompanied with lightning flashes, high wind gusts, torrential rain, hail and tornadoes. Weather hazards due to thunderstorms of such severe measure take place every year over Kolkata (22°32′N, 88°20′E), India during the pre-monsoon season (April–May). Prediction of severe thunderstorms is extremely important to cope with the devastations. However, forecasting severe thunderstorms is very difficult because the weather system is confined within a very small spatial-temporal scale. The network of observation systems is not adequate to detect such high frequency small scale weather. The purpose of the present study is to bring in the concept of Intuitionistic fuzzy logic as a decision — making technique to assess the predictability of severe thunderstorms over Kolkata in the premonsoon season. Different measures of entropies are used to extract the route of fuzziness. The intuitionistic fuzzy logic is implemented with ten years (1997–2006) observation of the occurrence/nonoccurrence of severe thunderstorms to assess the predictability. The result reveals that two consecutive severe thunderstorm days are highly probable after two consecutive non-thunderstorm days whereas the probability of severe thunderstorm is very less after three consecutive non-thunderstorm days during the pre-monsoon season over Kolkata. The result is compared with the box-and-whisker plot and validated with four years (2007–2010) observations of India Meteorological Department (IMD).  相似文献   

The effect of methanogenesis on the geochemistry of low temperature water–Fe0–basalt reactions     

Lisa E. Mayhew  Graham E. Lau  Tom M. McCollom  Sam Webb  Alexis S. Templeton 《Applied Geochemistry》2011

Hydrogen gas produced in the subsurface from the hydration of mafic rocks is known to be a major energy source for chemolithotrophic life in extreme environments such as hydrothermal vents. The possibility that in situ anaerobic microorganisms present in the deep subsurface are sustained by low temperature H₂-generating water–rock reactions taking place around them is being investigated. Whether the growth and activity of H₂-utilizing microbes directly influences aqueous geochemistry, rates of mineral dissolution, and the chemical composition of the alteration products is also being quantitatively evaluated.To explore how microorganisms are affected by water–rock reactions, and how their activity may in turn affect reaction progress, laboratory experiments have been conducted to monitor the growth of a methanogenic Archaea in the presence of H_2(g) produced from low temperature water–Fe⁰–basalt reactions. In these systems, the conversion of Fe(II) to Fe(III) and subsequent hydrolysis of water is responsible for the production of H_2(g). To characterize key components of the geochemical system, time series measurements of H₂ and CH₄ gas concentrations, Fe and Si aqueous concentrations, and spatially resolved synchrotron-based analyses of microscale Fe distribution and speciation were conducted. Culture experiments were compared with an abiotic control to document changes in the geochemistry both in the presence and absence of the methanogen.In the control abiotic batch experiment, H₂ was continuously produced, until the headspace became saturated, while in the biotic experiments, microbial consumption of H₂ for methanogenesis draws H₂ down and produces CH₄. Purging the headspace gas reinitiates H₂ and CH₄ production in abiotic and culture experiments, respectively. Mass balance analysis of the amount of CH₄ produced suggests that the total H₂ production in microbial experiments does not exceed the abiotic experiment. Soluble Si concentrations, while buffered to relatively constant values, were higher in culture experiments than the abiotic control.Iron_(aq) concentrations appear to respond to perturbations of H₂ and CH₄ gas concentrations in both culture experiments and the abiotic control. A pulse of Fe preceded the rise in either H₂ or CH₄ production, and as the gas concentrations increased the Fe_(aq) decreased. Iron-bearing mineral assemblages change with increasing reaction time and mineral assemblages vary between culture experiments and the abiotic control. These geochemical trends suggest that there are different reaction paths between the culture experiments and the abiotic control.The hydration of mafic rocks is a common geologic reaction and one that has taken place on Earth for the majority of its history and is postulated to occur on Mars. These reactions are important because of their effect on the rheology and geochemistry of the ocean crust. While most often studied at temperatures of ～250 °C, this work suggests that at lower temperatures microorganisms may have a profound effect on what has long been thought to be solely an abiotic reaction, and may produce diagnostic mineral assemblages that will be preserved in the geological record.  相似文献   

Nowcasting Bordoichila with a composite stability index     

Sutapa Chaudhuri  Jayanti Pal  Anirban Middey  Sayantika Goswami 《Natural Hazards》2013,66(2):591-607

In operational forecast, the stability indices either individually or in combination are utilized to assess the predictability of local severe storms over a region. The objective of the present study is to identify such stability indices to assess the predictability of Bordoichila of Guwahati, India, during the pre-monsoon season (April–May) aiming to formulate a composite stability index using the most pertinent indices for nowcasting Bordoichila with considerable precision. Bordoichila, meaning the angry daughter of Assam, represents local severe storms of Guwahati during the pre-monsoon season. Precise forecast of Bordoichila is essential to mitigate the associated catastrophe over Guwahati. The forecast quality detection parameters are computed with the available indices during the period from 1997 to 2006 to select the most relevant stability indices for the prevalence of Bordoichila. The method of normal probability distribution is implemented to identify the threshold ranges of the selected indices. The stability indices that are selected with appropriate ranges are lifted index, Showalter index (SI), cross total index (CTI), vertical total index, totals total, convective available potential energy, convective inhibition energy, SWEAT and bulk Richardson number. The forecast skill scores are estimated with the selected indices. The best predictor indices identified for the prevalence of Bordoichila are the cross total index (CTI) and Showalter index (SI). A composite stability index, Bordoichila prediction index, is formulated with CTI and SI with proper weightages. The forecast with BPI is validated with the observations of India Meteorological Department for the year 2007 and is implemented for real-time forecast for the years 2009 and 2011.  相似文献   

The imprinting of aridity upon a lateritic landscape: an illustration from southwestern Australia     

Bob Gilkes  Sam Lee  Balbir Singh 《Comptes Rendus Geoscience》2003,335(16):1207-1218

The southwestern region of Australia contains the Yilgarn Craton that has been exposed to subaerial weathering since mid-Proterozoic. The gently undulating landscape experienced lateritic weathering so that today variably dissected, deep in situ isovolumetrically weathered regolith is widespread. Imposition of a more arid climate since the Miocene with the cessation of effective external drainage has resulted in substantial geochemical modification of the highly porous regolith. This vast pore volume acts as a reservoir for complex solutions that may be highly saline, extremely acid to alkaline and reducing. Diverse precipitates have formed in the regolith including widespread occurrence of silcrete, calcrete, dolocrete, ferricrete and gypcrete together with localised occurrences of pyrite, alunite, jarosite, barite, halite and other salts. Clearing of bush land for agriculture in the 20th century increased recharge so that rising chemically active groundwaters are damaging farmland and infrastructure throughout the region. To cite this article: B. Gilkes et al., C. R. Geoscience 335 (2003).  相似文献   

Tectonic influences on ground water quality: insight from complementary methods   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Earman S  McPherson BJ  Phillips FM  Ralser S  Herrin JM  Broska J 《Ground water》2008,46(3):354-371

A study using multiple techniques provided insight into tectonic influences on ground water systems; the results can help to understand ground water systems in the tectonically active western United States and other parts of the world. Ground water in the San Bernardino Valley (Arizona, United States and Sonora, Mexico) is the main source of water for domestic use, cattle ranching (the primary industry), and the preservation of threatened and endangered species. To improve the understanding of ground water occurrence, movement, and sustainability, an investigation was conducted using a number of complementary methods, including major ion geochemistry, isotope hydrology, analysis of gases dissolved in ground water, aquifer testing, geophysics, and an examination of surface and subsurface geology. By combining information from multiple lines of investigation, a more complete picture of the basin hydrogeology was assembled than would have been possible using fewer methods. The results show that the hydrogeology of the San Bernardino Valley is markedly different than that of its four neighboring basins in the United States. The differences include water quality, chemical evolution, storage, and residence time. The differences result from the locally unique geology of the San Bernardino Valley, which is due to the presence of a magmatically active accommodation zone (a zone separating two regions of normal faults with opposite dips). The geological differences and the resultant hydrological differences between the San Bernardino Valley and its neighboring basins may serve as a model for the distinctive nature of chemical evolution of ground water in other basins with locally distinct tectonic histories.  相似文献   

Modeling fluvial response to in‐stream woody vegetation: implications for stream corridor restoration     

Sean J. Bennett  Weiming Wu  Carlos V. Alonso  Sam S. Y. Wang 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2008,33(6):890-909

River restoration and bank stabilization programs often use vegetation for improving stream corridor habitat, aesthetic and function. Yet no study has examined the use of managed vegetation plantings to transform a straight, degraded stream corridor into an ecologically functional meandering channel. Experimental data collected using a distorted Froude‐scaled flume analysis show that channel expansion and widening, thalweg meandering and riffle and pool development are possible using discrete plantings of rigid, emergent vegetation, and the magnitudes of these adjustments depend on the shape of the vegetation zone and the density of the vegetation. These experimental results were verified and validated using a recently developed numerical model, and model output was then used to discuss mechanistically how rivers respond to the introduction of in‐stream woody vegetation. Finally, a hybrid method of meander design is proposed herein where managed vegetation plantings are used to trigger or force the desired morphologic response, transforming a straight, degraded reach into a more functional meandering corridor. It is envisioned that such numerical models could become the primary tool for designing future stream restoration programs involving vegetation and assessing the long‐term stability of such activities. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献