Modelling detrital cooling-age populations: insights from two Himalayan catchments   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

I. D. Brewer  D. W. Burbank†  K. V. Hodges‡ 《Basin Research》2003,15(3):305-320

The distribution of detrital mineral cooling ages in river sediment provides a proxy record for the erosional history of mountain ranges. We have developed a numerical model that predicts detrital mineral age distributions for individual catchments in which particle paths move vertically toward the surface. Despite a restrictive set of assumptions, the model permits theoretical exploration of the effects of thermal structure, erosion rate, and topography on cooling ages. Hypsometry of the source‐area catchment is shown to exert a fundamental control on the frequency distribution of bedrock and detrital ages. We illustrate this approach by generating synthetic ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar muscovite age distributions for two catchments with contrasting erosion rates in central Nepal and then by comparing actual measured cooling‐age distributions with the synthetic ones. Monte Carlo sampling is used to assess the mismatch between observed and synthetic age distributions and to explore the dependence of that mismatch on the complexity of the synthetic age signal and on the number of grains analysed. Observed detrital cooling ages are well matched by predicted ages for a more slowly eroding Himalayan catchment. A poorer match for a rapidly eroding catchment may result from some combination of large analytical uncertainties in the detrital ages and inhomogeneous erosion rates within the basin. Such mismatches emphasize the need for more accurate thermal and kinematic models and for sampling strategies that are adapted to catchment‐specific geologic and geomorphic conditions.  相似文献   

Maximum earthquake magnitudes in the Aegean area constrained by tectonic moment release rates   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

G. Ch. Koravos  I. G. Main  T. M. Tsapanos  R. M. W. Musson 《Geophysical Journal International》2003,152(1):94-112

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Source parameters of large historical (1917–1961) earthquakes, North Island, New Zealand     

Diane I. Doser  Terry H. Webb 《Geophysical Journal International》2003,152(3):795-832

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Geodetic versus geophysical perspectives of the 'gravity anomaly'   总被引：8，自引：0，他引：8  

R. I. Hackney  W. E. Featherstone 《Geophysical Journal International》2003,154(1):35-43

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(Re)surveying the uses of Geographical Information Systems in Health Authorities 1991–2001     

Darren P Smith  Myles I Gould  Gary Higgs† 《Area》2003,35(1):74-83

This paper provides a comparative analysis of two separate national surveys of the uptake and use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) by Health Authorities (HAs) in England and Wales. The surveys were undertaken at two different time points (1991 and 2001), and the intervening period has been characterized by major (and continuing) health sector restructuring. The substantial number of HA mergers between 1991 and 2001 provide a methodological challenge in attempting to make comparisons. A pragmatic approach is adopted and the presentation of results has to be restricted solely to English and Welsh HA data. Our findings show that there has been a considerable increase in the use of GIS since the early 1990s, and there is some evidence of more sophisticated uses for a wider range of policy-related and application tasks. However, we conclude that there is still considerable scope for the wider uptake and use of GIS within the NHS. In addition, our findings provide a baseline with which to monitor the impacts of future organizational restructuring on the uses of GIS within the NHS. We suggest that this is important given the replacement of 95 English HAs with 28 new Strategic HAs (StHAs) from April 2002, and the repercussions of the anticipated shift in GIS responsibility to Primary Care Trusts.  相似文献   

Population and environment in Australia: issues in the next half century     

I. H. Burnley 《The Australian geographer》2003,34(3):267-280

This paper considers the likely future population in Australia to 2050 and is cast within the context of environmental limitations, to which Griffith Taylor alerted the nation in the 1920s and 1930s, and for which he was vilified in several quarters. While acknowledging the relative accuracy of his long-range forecasts, the arguments here depart from environmental determinism, although varying sets of environmental ethics and values are considered in relation to Australia's global responsibilities and international commitments. It is argued that an increase in population to 26 million by 2050 will not place severe stresses on the physical environment, provided environmental and resource management strategies are put firmly in place, and if consumption and resource use practices are significantly modified. An ideological linkage exists between a resurgent Australian nationalism and a number of environmental perspectives, but one which rejects growth and biological diversity among humans while embracing environmentalism. This inward-looking nationalism–environmentalism is seen as harmful both to Australia's moral integrity as a nation, and in local and world citizenship.  相似文献   

泥盆纪最早期牙形刺带化石在蒙古南戈壁幕使盖(Mushgai)地区"尕屋(Gavuu)"段的首次发现     

王成源  Ziegler W  Minjin Ch  Sersmaa G  Munchtsetseg J  Gereltsetseg L  Nadya I 《世界地质》2003,22(1):15-20

在蒙古南戈壁的Bayan—Khoshuu Ruins剖面原归入到志留系Mandalovoo组尕屋(Gavuu)段的地层中发现了牙形刺Caudicriodus woschimidti woschmidti，这是泥盆纪最早期牙形刺带化石在蒙古的首次发现。尕屋(Gavuu)段的下部属志留系，但其上部，即采集牙形刺样品M-9～M-12的层位肯定属下泥盆统(下洛霍考夫阶)，而不是下志留统。Mandalovoo组应当改为Mandalovoo群，它的三个段应提升为三个组。  相似文献   

Water Quality of Small Rivers in the Zone of Influence of Gold-Mining Facilities in Krasnoyarsk Region     

Shchur  L. A.  Bazhina  L. V.  Volkova  N. I.  Trofimova  M. A. 《Water Resources》2003,30(1):72-80

Environmental and sanitary estimation of small-river water quality is made in the zone of influence of gold-mining facilities in Krasnoyarsk Region. The estimates are based on data on the hydrochemical regime and the characteristics of phytoplankton, microphyto-periphyton, macrozoobenthos, and ichthyofauna collected during the vegetation period of 2000.  相似文献   

The Effect of Alongshore Protection Structures on Shore Dynamics     

Makarov  K. N.  Makarova  I. L.  Abakumov  O. L. 《Water Resources》2003,30(1):47-52

A mathematical model of the seashore dynamics is considered. The model describes the seashore protection against destruction by alongshore through structures, underwater trenches, and artificial islands. The results of model calculations are presented and correlated with the data of measurements made on hydraulic models.  相似文献   

Effect of Sliding Rate on the Activity of Acoustic Emission During Stable Sliding     

Y. Yabe  N. Kato  K. Yamamoto  T. Hirasawa 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》2003,160(7):1163-1189

--The mechanical and statistical characteristics of acoustic emission (AE) events during stable sliding are investigated through a laboratory experiment using a granite specimen with a pre-cut fault. Numerous AE events are found to be generated on the pre-cut fault, indicating that microscopically unstable fracture occurs during macroscopically stable sliding. The composite focal mechanism solution of AE events is determined from the first motion directions of P-waves. The determined mechanism is consistent with the double-couple one expected for the slip on the pre-cut fault. The source radii of large AE events are estimated to be about 10 mm from the widths of the first P-wave pulses. These indicate that the AE events are generated by shear fracture whose faulting area is a part of the pre-cut fault plane. The occurrence of AE events as a stochastic process approximately obeys the Poisson process, if the effect of mutually dependent events consti tuting clusters is corrected. The observed amplitude-frequency relation of AE events approximately follows a power law for a limited amplitude range. As the macroscopic sliding rate increases, the number of AE events per unit sliding distance decreases. This rate dependence of the AE activity is qualitatively consistent with the observation that the real area of contact between sliding surfaces decreases with an increase in the sliding rate as reported in the literature.  相似文献