Tertiary Andean volcanism in a caldera-graben setting     

R. Thiele  I. Beccar  B. Levi  J. O. Nyström  M. Vergara 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1991,80(1):179-186

The Miocene Farellones Formation in central Chile (32°-35°S) is one of several up to 3000 mthick Tertiary volcanic sequences in the Central Andes with ash flows and intercalations of lacustrine sediments in their lower part, and intermediate to basic lavas and rhyolitic domes in their upper part. The Farellones rocks were probably deposited in a volcano-tectonic graben formed through a series of caldera collapses. This is suggested by (a) the fact that the formation frequently is delimited by normal faults towards which the subhorizontal strata pinch out and become upraised, indicating deposition during subsidence, (b) the huge volume of erupted acid magma and (c) a high paleothermal gradient of geothermal field type. Similar Tertiary volcanic sequences in northern Chile and central Peru probably also formed by eruptions in a caldera-graben setting. This setting and the geothermal field type of alteration make these sequences good prospecting targets for epithermal preciousmetal deposits.

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Zusammenfassung Die miozäne Farellones-Formation im zentralen Chile (32°–35°S) ist eine von mehreren bis zu 3000 m mächtigen, tertiären vulkanischen Abfolgen der zentralen Anden, mit Ignimbriten und Zwischenlagerungen von lakustrinen Sedimenten im unteren, und mit intermediären bis basischen Laven und rhyolitischen Staukuppen im oberen Teil der Abfolgen. Die Gesteine der Farellones-Formation wurden wahrscheinlich in einem vulkano-tektonischen, durch eine Reihe von Caldera-Absenkungen entstandenen Graben abgelagert. Für diese Tatsache sprechen (a) häufige Begrenzung der Formation durch Normalverwerfungen gegen welche die subhorizontalen Schichten ausdünnen und aufgebogen werden, was Ablagerung während der Absenkung andeutet, (b) das große Volumen der sauren Vulkanite und (c) der hohe paläothermale Gradient von geothermalem Charakter. Ähnlich ausgebildete, tertiäre vulkanische Abfolgen im nördlichen Chile und zentralen Peru sind vermutlich ebenfalls durch Eruptionen in Caldera-Gräben gebildet worden. Aufgrund der tektonischen Ausbildung und des geothermalen Umwandlungstyp dürften diese Abfolgen für die Prospektion nach epithermalen Vorkommen von Edelmetallen von besonderem Interesse sein.

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Resumen La Formación Farellones de Chile central (32°–35°S), deedadmiocena, es una de las muchas secuencias terciarias de más de 3000 m de espesor que existen en la alta cordillera de los Andes Centrales que contiene depósitos de flujos piroclásticos e intercalaciones de sedimentos lacustres en su parte inferior, y lavas intermedias a básicas y domos riolíticos en su parte superior. Las rocas de la Formación Farellones se depositaron, probablemente, en un graben volcano-tectónico formado a través de una serie de colapsos de calderas. Esta interpretación se basa en: (a) la frecuente delimitación de la formación por fallas normales contra las cuales los estratos subhorizontales se adelgazany se levantan, indicando depositación durante subsidencia, (b) el gran volumen de magma ácido extruido y (c) un gradiente paleotermal alto de tipo campo geotérmico. En el norte de Chile y en Perú central existen secuencias terciarias similares depositadas probablemente también en depresiones volcano — tectónicas tipo caldera — graben. Este marco tectónico y la alteración de tipo campo geotérmico, hace que éstas secuencias sean buenos blancos de prospección para depósitos epitermales de metales preciosos.

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The European 7th Framework Programme project Extreme Weather impacts on European Networks of Transport devised a holistic analysis of extreme weather risks for the transport system. The analysis provided an overview of extreme weather risks, or a risk panorama. The risk panorama was built on a probabilistic approach to extreme weather phenomena occurrences and on vulnerability analysis based on selected macro-level economic and transport system indicators of the member states of EU-27. The panorama covers all transport modes and views infrastructure-related risks, time delay risks, and accidents risks. In addition to climatic circumstances, the devised risk indicator is also dependent on regional circumstances, such as population and transport density and income level. This paper describes the construct and application of an extreme weather risk indicator (EWRI). EWRIs are counted for each country and each transport mode separately. Furthermore, this paper also presents the most significant extreme weather events in different parts of Europe and on the transport modes they affect the most.  相似文献   

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Bacterial pathogens in coastal sediments may pose a health risk to users of beaches. Although recent work shows that beach sands harbor both indicator bacteria and potential pathogens, it is neither known how deep within beach sands the organisms may persist nor if they may be exposed during natural physical processes. In this study, sand cores of approximately 100 cm depth were collected at three sites across the beach face in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, before, during, and after large waves from an offshore hurricane. The presence of DNA from the fecal indicator bacterium Enterococci was detected in subsamples at different depths within the cores by PCR amplification. Erosion and accretion of beach sand at the three sites were also determined for each sampling day. The results indicate that ocean beach sands with persisting enterococci signals could be exposed and redistributed when wind, waves, and currents cause beach erosion or accretion.  相似文献   

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Cladocerans are valuable indicators of environmental change in lakes. Their fossils provide information on past changes in lake environments. However, few studies have quantitatively examined the relationships between contemporary and sub-fossil cladoceran assemblages and no investigations are available from Mediterranean lakes where salinity, eutrophication and top-down control of large-bodied cladocerans are known to be important. Here we compared contemporary Cladocera assemblages, sampled in summer, from both littoral and pelagic zones, with their sub-fossil remains from surface sediment samples from 40 Turkish, mainly shallow, lakes. A total of 20 and 27 taxa were recorded in the contemporary and surface sediment samples, respectively. Procrustes rotation was applied to both the principal components analysis (PCA) and redundancy analysis (RDA) ordinations in order to explore the relationship between the cladoceran community and the environmental variables. Procrustes rotation analysis based on PCA showed a significant accord between both littoral and combined pelagic–littoral contemporary and sedimentary assemblages. RDA ordinations indicated that a similar proportion of variance was explained by environmental variation for the contemporary and fossil Cladocera data. Total phosphorus and salinity were significant explanatory variables for the contemporary assemblage, whereas salinity emerged as the only significant variable for the sedimentary assemblage. The residuals from the Procrustes rotation identified a number of lakes with a high degree of dissimilarity between modern and sub-fossil assemblages. Analysis showed that high salinity, deep water and high macrophyte abundance were linked to a lower accord between contemporary and sedimentary assemblages. This low accord was, generally the result of poor representation of some salinity tolerant, pelagic and macrophyte-associated taxa in the contemporary samples. This study provides further confirmation that there is a robust relationship between samples of modern cladoceran assemblages and their sedimentary remains. Thus, sub-fossil cladoceran assemblages from sediment cores can be used with confidence to track long-term changes in this environmentally sensitive group and in Mediterranean lakes, subjected to large inter-annual variation in water level, salinity and nutrients.  相似文献   

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The effect of cultivation method on erosion in agricultural catchments: integrating AHP in GIS environments   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1       下载免费PDF全文

Tal Svoray  Roei Levi  Rami Zaidenberg  Beny Yaacoby 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2015,40(6):711-725

The cultivation method used in agricultural catchments can have a great effect on erosion processes; as such, determining the effects on form and degree is crucial. One commonly held hypothesis is that a shift to minimum tillage methods should reduce the rate of erosion. Here, we examine the effect of cultivation methods and environmental conditions on soil erosion risks in field crops and orchards in an agricultural catchment in northern Israel. The examination was conducted using AHP (analytic hierarchy process) and GIS (geographic information system)‐based computer simulations. Field validation of the simulations was conducted during the 2009–2010 winter season. The spatially explicit data on cultivation method, combined with environmental and climatic data, yielded an explanation of most of the variation in erosion risks in the catchment (kappa =0·93). Of the 10 criteria examined, the cultivation method and slope were the two variables with the greatest effect on increased soil erosion. Furthermore, soil loss risks were reduced substantially as a result of substituting conventional tillage with reduced tillage; substituting reduced tillage with conservation tillage; and changing the tillage direction to perpendicular to the direction of the slope. These results are reasonable in light of the modifications that mechanical tools cause in the soil structure, as observed in the penetration depth and the aggregate stability measurements used in this study. Despite the difficulty in collecting spatially explicit data on cultivation methods, we believe that it is of utmost importance to use such data to study erosion risks in agricultural catchments. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

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A new map of the recent geodynamics of Asia is presented along with the principles and methods of its compilation and a characterization of the used factual material. For the first time, a map is based on the three parameters that determine recent geodynamics: the thickness of the lithosphere, the stress state, and the vectors of recent movements in the brittle upper portion of the lithosphere. In addition, active volcanoes and epicenters of earthquakes with M ≥ 6.0 are shown.  相似文献   

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Gillichthys mirabilis population static measurements (abundance, age, and size class structures) and vital rates (growth, mortality, recruitment) were monitored on an annual basis from 2002 to 2007. Population-level metrics were used to gauge habitat quality at two study sites (a contaminated site and a reference site) in two large northern California estuaries (San Francisco and Tomales Bays). San Francisco Bay populations exhibited slower growth and higher mortality rates and contained higher amounts of contaminants than Tomales Bay. Recruitment rates were highest at contaminated sites (Stege Marsh and Walker Creek) in 3 years out of 5 years, suggesting low adult survival. This study suggests that population-level effects on a residential fish may be attributed to estuarine contamination on the US Pacific coast.  相似文献   

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Eldon J. Levi 《Estuaries and Coasts》1981,4(4):385-387

A small purse seine, 250 ft. long and 23 ft. deep, and two 14 ft. purse boats to fish it in shallow estuaries for menhaden (Brevoortia) are described. The seine is made of No. 6 nylon in the two wings and heavier No. 15 nylon in the center bunt. Mesh is 1 3/8 in. bar. Purse boats have a 7 ft. beam and 2 ft. of freeboard, and are built of 1/4 in. marine plywood and seasoned oak ribs. A 40 hp outboard motor mounted in a center well powers each boat. Boats and seine are portable (on trailers) and can be used any place where launching sites are available. Over 40,000 menhaden were caught and marked with internal ferro-magnetic tags over a 3-year period. Boats and seine also could be used to capture other schooling species.  相似文献