Survey of garnets for fossil fission tracks     

Udo K. Haack  Malte Gramse 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1972,34(3):258-260

Andradites and spessartines contain enough uranium to make these minerals interesting for fission track dating. Almandines and pyropes usually are not favourable.  相似文献   

Bayesian approach to daily rainfall modelling to estimate monthly net infiltration using the Thornthwaite water budget and Curve Number methods     

E. Zimmermann 《Hydrogeology Journal》2006,14(5):648-656

The Thornthwaite and Mather water budget is a simple and frequently applicable tool to estimate surpluses of water, which are not stored in the soil profile. Combining it with the empiric CN-method of the US Soil Conservation Service (US-SCS), which is applied to daily rainfall records, it is possible to estimate the runoff, and this way, from the difference between surpluses and runoff, to estimate the net infiltration that would recharge a phreatic aquifer. In order to apply both methods during a sequence of years, it is necessary to predict the number of rain events per month, and the rainfall depth for each event. In this work, the author proposes a methodology based on the theorem of Bayes to estimate the number of occurrences of rainy events in a considered month conditioning the forecast to the monthly rainfall. In addition, an exponential distribution to generate rainfall depth knowing the monthly rainfall was done. Both algorithms were applied in four stations of the southern region of Santa Fe province (Argentina). More than 7,600 forecasts of rain occurrences and rainfall depths were compared with the observed records. Moreover, the runoff values estimated by means of the US-SCS method, using the observed rainfall and using rainfalls predicted with the algorithms were also compared. In both cases, the obtained results were also very satisfactory. The proposed methodologies allow the correct application of the balance of Thornthwaite and Mather together with the US-SCS method and a good forecast of monthly runoff and net infiltration.  相似文献   

Variability of dissolved reactive phosphate flux rates in nearshore estuarine sediments: Effects of groundwater flow   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Carl F. Zimmermann  John R. Montgomery  Paul R. Carlson 《Estuaries and Coasts》1985,8(2):228-236

Theoretical diffusive flux rates for dissolved reactive phosphate (DRP) were determined for sediments in a small area of the Indian River, Florida for the period March–May 1982. Flux rates from the sediment varied from 29 to 70 × 10^?6g per m² per day in seagrass associated sediments to 3–25 × 10^?6g per m² per day for an area devoid of seagrass. Simultaneous measurements of groundwater seepage velocities indicated greater velocities in seagrass associated sediments (1.03 × 10^?6m per sec) than an area devoid of grass (0.77 × 10^?6m per sec). Measured seepage flux accounted for more than 99% of the combined estimated diffusive and seepage flux of DRP for nearshore seagrass sediments. Also noted was an apparent direct relationship between tidal height, DRP and seepage velocity in nearshore sediments (25 m from shore) which further demonstrates the importance of hydrogeologic variables to these areas.  相似文献   

Ephesite,Na(LiAl2) [Al2Si2O10] (OH)2: II. Thermodynamic analysis of its stability and compatibility relations,and its geological occurrences     

Niranjan D. Chatterjee  Udo Warhus 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1984,85(1):80-84

The trioctahedral mica ephesite, Na(LiAl₂) [Al₂Si₂O₁₀] (OH)₂, has a large -T stability field in the quaternary system NaAlSiO₄-LiAlSiO₄-Al₂O₃-H₂O. At temperatures below 400–500° C it coexists with diaspore, while at higher temperatures it occurs with corundum, until it decomposes to nepheline +eucryptite+corundum+H₂O at 600–800° C (Fig. 1). Nature faithfully reflects these phase relations; ephesite is found to coexist with diaspore or corundum in silicadeficient metamorphosed rocks or in hydrothermally altered nepheline-syenite pegmatite.Thermodynamic analysis of phase relations of ephesite in the silica saturated portion of the quinary system NaAlSiO₄-LiAlSiO₄-Al₂O₃-SiO₂-H₂O shows that the assemblage quartz+ephesite is always metastable with respect to paragonite+spodumene or paragonite+petalite at temperatures down to approximately 300° C (Fig. 3). At lower temperatures, a number of other phases like bikitaite, cookeite, Na-montmorillonite, and analcime are stabilized. Stability and compatibility relations involving these phases are presently not amenable to thermodynamic treatment due to lack of suitable data. Nevertheless, the absence of the assemblage quartz+ephesite in nature seems to vindicate our conclusion that it is metastable down to at least 300° C.The frequently encountered assemblage quartzspodumene (or petalite)-microcline-albite of some lithium pegmatites contains muscovite (±lepidolite), rather than paragonite. The absence of paragonite in such rocks is best explained by the inherent metastability of the phase-pair paragonite+microcline with respect to muscovite+albite. The pegmatite bulk compositions plot in the four-phase field spodumene (petalite)-microcline-muscovite-albite, cutting out paragonite from the observed assemblage Thus, absence of paragonite-spodumene or paragonitepetalite in nature reflects lack of suitable bulk compositions in rocks.  相似文献   

The interstellar band at λ 4430 Å and the abundance of interstellar iron,titanium, and molecular hydrogen     

H. Zimmermann 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1982,84(2):505-517

For the direction to a number of stars the depletion of interstellar gaseous iron and titanium as well as the relative abundance of molecular hydrogen and the strength of the interstellar band at 4430 Å were determined by different authors and can be found in the literature. In this paper it is shown that the difference (A _c-A_co) is a more reliable measurement of the column density of 4430 Å absorbers than the usually used central depth,A _c, because the positive valueA _co ofA _c forE(B-V)=0, i.e. the intercept with theA _c axis of a least-squares fit to the observedA _c vsE(B-V) data, is with a high probability not caused by an interstellar effect.There was no correlation found between the interstellar depletion of iron and titanium, respectively, and (A _c-A_co), whereas a tendency exists that with increasing relative molecular hydrogen abundance the number of 4430 Å absorbers per hydrogen atom decreases. If the carriers of the 4430 Å absorbers are interstellar grains, then these grains must be altered during the same process in which molecular hydrogen is built. The found correlation is also compatible with the assumption that the 4430 Å absorber is related to an interstellar gaseous species.  相似文献   

Scale Dependence of Hydraulic and Structural Parameters in the Crystalline Rock of the KTB     

G. Zimmermann  H. Burkhardt  L. Engelhard 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》2003,160(5-6):1067-1085

— Knowledge of rock properties controlling the fluid movement is a basic prerequisite to understand the dynamical processes and the temperature and stress regime of the upper crust. Fracture networks were investigated on different scales to obtain quantitative results of fracture geometry like fracture length, orientation and fracture frequencies. Due to the scale effect, these parameters differ in several orders of magnitude in dependence of the scale of investigation. On the microscopic scale, fluorescent thin sections from cores were analysed and permeability was estimated for 2-D hydraulic networks. On the macroscopic scale, fracture parameters were determined from images of structural borehole measurements. The vicinity of the drill site represents the megascopic scale, where seismic reflectors were assumed as active hydraulic structures for construction of a fracture network. Compiling the fracture densities from all investigated scales and taking into consideration only the networks above the percolation threshold, the fracture length distribution follows a power law with an exponent of ?1.9 ± 0.05. Besides the scale differences of the geometric parameters like fracture density and length and the hydraulic parameters like permeability, the connectivity of the networks seems to be a confining characteristic. This is quantitatively described by the percolation parameter and the mean number of intersections per fracture. When assuming a macroscopic hydraulic system at the percolation threshold for the KTB site, the macroscopic mean fracture length can be estimated to approximately 30 m. This stands in agreement with the hydraulic experiments on site.  相似文献   

Rb-sr dating of epithermal vein mineralization stages in the eastern Harz Mountains (Germany) by paleomixing lines   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Jens Schneider  Udo Haack 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2003,67(10):1803-1819

A method is evaluated that enables the dating of binary isotopic paleomixing in hydrothermal alteration assemblages by iterative reconstruction and regression of corresponding two-component mixing lines from conventional Rb-Sr data. The model has been applied to illite-bearing granulometric fractions of hydrothermally altered sedimentary rocks associated with epithermal vein mineralization in the eastern Harz Mountains, Germany. These veins are characterized by a principal quartz-sulfide stage containing quartz, base metal sulfides, and siderite and a subsequent dominant calcite-fluorite-quartz stage. Rb-Sr analyses were performed on untreated granulometric fractions, HCl-treated residues, corresponding HCl leachates, and cogenetic vein minerals obtained from two silicified rock samples related to the quartz-sulfide and the calcite-fluorite-quartz mineralization, respectively.Neither the untreated nor the HCl-leached fractions of these rock samples yield statistically robust and geochronologically meaningful isochrons. When applying the binary mixing model, however, two well-defined paleomixing lines can be reconstructed for the HCl-treated fractions of the rock samples and associated vein minerals at model ages of 226 ± 1 Ma (quartz-sulfide alteration) and 209 ± 2 Ma (calcite-fluorite-quartz alteration). We examine the significance and reliability of these model ages and the corresponding paleomixing lines by means of statistical and geological criteria and discuss the effects of leaching experiments performed on the granulometric fractions using 1 N HCl as well as the nature and origin of the components dissolved in the acid leachates.Our results suggest that the mixing model provides a successful dating concept for isotopic disequilibrium processes during low-temperature hydrothermal events that produce binary mixtures among newly formed alteration phases.  相似文献   

Origin and history of waters associated with coalbed methane: I, Cl, and stable isotope results from the Fruitland Formation, CO and NM     

Glen T. Snyder  Walter C.“Rusty” Riese  Udo Fehn  Anthony W. Gorody 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2003,67(23):4529-4544

The Fruitland Formation of the San Juan Basin was deposited during the late Cretaceous and is associated with significant reservoirs of coalbed methane (CBM). The purpose of this study is to determine the origin and history of waters associated with the formation, using long-lived cosmogenic and stable isotope systems. Ratios of ¹²⁹I/I and stable isotope values (δD and δ¹⁸O) were determined in waters from close to 100 wells, ³⁶Cl/Cl ratios for a subset of these samples. A significant group of samples has ¹²⁹I/I ratios between 100 × 10⁻¹⁵ and 200 × 10⁻¹⁵, indicating minimum iodine ages close to 60 Ma. If these ages are corrected for the addition of fissiogenic ¹²⁹I, they are compatible with the depositional age of the Fruitland Formation (Late Cretaceous).Several sets of waters are clearly present within the data. A group dominated by infiltration of recent surface waters is restricted to the uplifted basin margins, with a lateral extent of less than 5 km from outcrop, and is characterized by ¹²⁹I/I ratios in excess of 1500 × 10⁻¹⁵ and meteoric δD, δ¹⁸O, and ³⁶Cl/Cl signatures. The rest of the basin is characterized by several subsets of formation waters which have undergone variable degrees of iodine enrichment through diagenesis as well as variable degrees of dilution. The first subgroup is found in coals of relatively low vitrinite reflectance and moderate enrichment of iodine. This subgroup predominantly consists of entrapped pore fluids, although it may also contain waters which infiltrated the coals at the time of the Laramide uplift, between 25 and 30 Ma. A second subgroup consists of formation waters associated with coals of high vitrinite reflectance. Despite subsequent uplift, the high iodine concentrations and low ¹²⁹I/I ratios of this subgroup, as well as a moderate depletion of deuterium relative to ¹⁸O, suggest that these waters were not significantly altered since the time when diagenetic reactions occurred in the deepest portion of the basin. A third subgroup, with higher δD and δ¹⁸O values as well as higher ¹²⁹I/I ratios, extends roughly west to east at the New Mexico-Colorado state line and corresponds to a region of extensive fracturing of the coalbeds. In this case, the higher ¹²⁹I/I ratios are probably due to contributions of fissiogenic ¹²⁹I through fracture flow, perhaps from deeper formation waters. Our results do not support models of subsequent basin-wide groundwater migration in the Fruitland Formation. The combined use of ¹²⁹I and ³⁶Cl with stable isotope studies provides valuable information as to the hydrologic history of coalbed methane deposits, as well as their potential for commercial exploitation.  相似文献   

橄榄石-尖晶石相转变流变学的实验研究   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

赵永红  J.D.Lawlis  S.Karato  M.Zimmermann 《地球物理学报》2002,45(Z1):225-230

对(Mgx,Ni1-x)2GeO4系统中橄榄石-尖晶石两相混合物的流变性进行了实验研究.利用不同温压条件对混合物进行热压,得到的橄榄石和尖晶石的比例不同.温度为1 573K,试件的化学组成从x=0.95-0.70时,得到的两相材料从100%橄榄石到100%尖晶石.三轴压缩试件为圆柱状,直径8mm,两相混合物的平均颗粒尺寸为2.21-9.43μm.流变学试验在气体介质试验机中进行,围压为300MPa,温度为1 073-1 573K.试验分为常应力和常位移率两种,差应力σ1-σ3为45-320MPa,应变率在2.8×10-6-2.8×10-5s-1之间,将实验测得的混合物力学性质与两端材料的强度进行对比,发现两相多晶介质的强度介于两端材料的强度之间.当橄榄石到尖晶石的相变发生在变形过程中时,尖晶石比率的增加使得多晶材料的总体强度上升.  相似文献   

Influence of subduction zone settings on the origin of forearc fluids: Halogen concentrations and I/I ratios in waters from Kyushu,Japan     

Hitoshi Tomaru  Shinji Ohsawa  Kazuhiro Amita  Zunli Lu  Udo Fehn 《Applied Geochemistry》2007

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