Reply to the comment on “Non-uniqueness and interpretation of the seawater Sr/Sr curve” by John M. McArthur and Paul B. Wignall     

Darren R. Gröcke  David Waltham 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2007,71(13):3387

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Nature and timing of magma interactions before,during, and after the caldera-forming eruption of Volcán Ceboruco,Mexico     

Darren?G.?ChertkoffEmail author  James?E.?Gardner 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2004,146(6):715-735

Volcán Ceboruco, Mexico, erupted ~1,000 years ago, producing the Jala pumice and forming a ~4-km-wide caldera. During that eruption, 2.8 to 3.5 km³ of rhyodacite (~70 wt% SiO₂) magma and 0.2 to 0.5 km³ of mixed dacite (~67 wt% SiO₂) magma were tapped and deposited as the Jala pumice. Subsequently, the caldera was partially filled by extrusion of the Dos Equis dome, a low-silica (~64 wt% SiO₂) dacite dome with a volume of ~1.3 km³. Petrographic evidence indicates that the Jala dacite and Dos Equis dacite originated largely through the mixing of three end-member magmas: (1) rhyodacite magma, (2) dacite magma, and (3) mafic magma. Linear least-squares modeling and detailed modal analysis indicate that the Jala dacite is predominantly a bimodal mixture of rhyodacite and dacite with a small additional mafic component, whereas the Dos Equis dacite is composed of mostly dacite mixed with subordinate amounts of rhyodacite and mafic magma. According to Fe–Ti oxide geothermometry, before the caldera-forming eruption the rhyodacite last equilibrated at ~865 °C, whereas the dacite was originally at ~890 °C but was heated to ~960 °C by intrusion of mafic magma as hot as ~1,030 °C. Zoning profiles in plagioclase and/or magnetite phenocrysts indicate that mixing between mafic and dacite magma occurred ~34–47 days prior to eruption, whereas subsequent mixing between rhyodacite and dacite magmas occurred only 1–4 days prior to eruption. Following the caldera-forming eruption, continued inputs of mafic magma led to effusion of the Dos Equis dome dacite. In this case, timing between mixing and eruption is estimated at ~93–185 days based on the thickness of plagioclase overgrowth rims.Editorial responsibility: T.L. Grove  相似文献   

Bedload sediment transport dynamics in a macrotidal embayment, and implications for export to the southern Great Barrier Reef shelf   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

David A. Ryan  Brendan P. Brooke  Helen C. Bostock  Lynda C. Radke  Paulus J.W. Siwabessy  Nugzar Margvelashvili  Darren Skene   《Marine Geology》2007,240(1-4):197-215

Keppel Bay is a macrotidal embayment on a tectonically stable, tropical coast, which links the Fitzroy River with the Great Barrier Reef continental shelf. Estuaries and deltas act as conduits between catchments and inner shelf environments. Therefore, understanding sediment transport pathways in these complex systems is essential for the management of ecosystems such as coral-reefs that are potentially vulnerable to enhanced river sediment loads. Furthermore, the morphology and sediment dynamics of subtidal sand ridges and dunes are relatively poorly characterised in macrotidal estuaries, particularly in turbid, episodic systems such as the Fitzroy River and Keppel Bay. Our sedimentological analysis of seabed samples, shear-stress modelling and three-dimensional acoustic imaging reveals that Keppel Bay is a mixed wave- and tide-dominated estuarine system. Areas of sediment starvation and shoreward transport characterise the offshore zone, whereas a complex of both active and relict tidal sand ridges, and associated subaqueous dunes, dominate the relatively protected southern Keppel Bay. Transport within this region is highly dynamic and variable, with ebb-dominated sediment transport through tidal channels into the outer bay where there is a switch to wave-dominated shoreward transport. Ultimately, bedload sediments appear to be reworked back inshore and to the north, and are gradually infilling the bedrock-defined embayment. Our characterisation of the Keppel Bay system provides a detailed example of the physiography of the seaward portion of a tide-dominated system, and shows that sediment transport in these areas is influenced by a variable hydrodynamic regime as well as relict channels and bedrock topography.  相似文献   

One-dimensional numerical models of higher-order Boussinesq equations with high dispersion accuracy   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Zou Zhili  Wang Tao  Zhang Xiaoli  Darren Spratt 《海洋学报(英文版)》2003,22(2):287-299

Abstract-Nonlinear water wave propagation passing a submerged shelf is studied experimentally andnumerically. The applicability of the wave propagation model of higher-order Boussinesq equations de-rived by Zou(2000, Ocean Engneering, 27, 557～575) is investigated. Physical experiments areconducted; three different front slopes (1:10, 1:5 and 1:2) of the shelf are set-up in the experimentand their effects on the wave propagation are investigated. Comparisons of the numerical results withtest data are made and the higher-order Boussinesq equations agree well with the measurements since thedispersion of the model is of high accuracy. The numerical results show that the good results can also beobtained for the steep-slope cases although the mild-slope assumption is employed in the derivation of thehigher-order terms in the higher-order Boussinesq equations.  相似文献   

Single-crystal X-ray diffraction study of synthetic sodium–hydronium jarosite     

Jens Najorka  James M. T. Lewis  John Spratt  Mark A. Sephton 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》2016,43(5):377-386

Na–H₃O jarosite was synthesized hydrothermally at 413 K for 8 days and investigated using single-crystal X-ray diffraction (XRD) and electron microprobe analysis (EMPA). The chemical composition of the studied crystal is [Na_0.57(3) (H₃O)_0.36 (H₂O)_0.07]^A Fe_2.93(3) (SO₄)₂ (OH)_5.70 (H₂O)_0.30, and Fe deficiency was confirmed by both EMPA and XRD analysis. The single-crystal XRD data were collected at 298 and 102 K, and crystal structures were refined in space group \( R\overline{3}m\). The room-temperature data match structural trends of the jarosite group, which vary linearly with the c axis. The low-temperature structure at 102 K shows an anisotropic decrease in the unit cell parameters, with c and a decreasing by 0.45 and 0.03 %, respectively. Structural changes are mainly confined to the A site environment. Only minor changes occur in FeO₆ and SO₄ polyhedra. The structure responds upon cooling by increasing bond length distortion and by decreasing quadratic elongation of the large AO₁₂ polyhedra. The structural parameters at low temperature follow very similar patterns to structural changes that correspond to compositional variation in the jarosite group, which is characterised by the flexibility of AO₁₂ polyhedra and rigidity of Fe(OH)₄O₂–SO₄ layers. The most flexible areas in the jarosite structure are localized at AO₁₂ edges that are not shared with neighbouring FeO₆ octahedra. Importantly, for the application of XRD in planetary settings, the temperature-related changes in jarosite can mimic compositional change.  相似文献   

Geostatistical space–time mapping of house prices using Bayesian maximum entropy     

Darren K. Hayunga 《International journal of geographical information science》2016,30(12):2339-2354

Mapping spatial processes at a small scale is a challenge when observed data are not abundant. The article examines the residential housing market in Fort Worth, Texas, and builds price indices at the inter- and intra-neighborhood levels. To accomplish our objectives, we initially model price variability in the joint space–time continuum. We then use geostatistics to predict and map monthly housing prices across the area of interest over a period of 4 years. For this analysis, we introduce the Bayesian maximum entropy (BME) method into real estate research. We use BME because it rigorously integrates uncertain or secondary soft data, which are needed to build the price indices. The soft data in our analysis are property tax values, which are plentiful, publicly available, and highly correlated with transaction prices. The results demonstrate how the use of the soft data provides the ability to map house prices within a small areal unit such as a subdivision or neighborhood.  相似文献   

Estimating the sustainable lobster (Panulirus ornatus) catch in Torres Strait,Australia, using an age-structured stock assessment model     

Yimin Ye  Darren DennisTim Skewes 《Continental Shelf Research》2008

The ornate rock lobster (Panulirus ornatus) is distributed across Torres Strait between Australia and Papua New Guinea and supports the most important commercial fishery to Islanders in the region. The long-term sustainability of the fishery is of importance not only to local island communities but also to the bilateral relationship between the two countries. In this paper, we developed an age-structured fishery model to assess the current stock status and estimate the long-term sustainable catch. The model was fitted to catch statistics and survey-based population estimates through a weighted maximum likelihood approach. Natural mortality was estimated at 0.732 yr⁻¹, and fishing mortality ranged from 0.19 to 0.65 yr⁻¹ from 1989 to 2005. The maximum sustainable yield was estimated at about 640 tonnes whole weight with a corresponding fishing mortality of 0.5 yr⁻¹. A stock–recruitment model was established based on outputs of the stock assessment model. To obtain the maximum sustainable yield, spawning stock should be maintained at 120×10⁴ lobsters. The lobster spawning stock has been fished down below this level twice since 1989, in 1999 and 2002, and was higher than this level in 2004 and 2005. These results suggest that the Torres Strait lobster stock is not over-fished and that the current harvest strategy is likely to maintain the stock at or above the level that would support the maximum sustainable yield if the current cap on fishing effort remains in place.  相似文献   

A simple model to link the properties of quasars to the properties of dark matter haloes out to high redshift     

Darren J. Croton 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,394(2):1109-1119

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The defining characteristics of intermediate polars – the case of three-candidate systems     

Gavin Ramsay  Peter J. Wheatley  A. J. Norton  Pasi Hakala  Darren Baskill 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2008,387(3):1157-1162

Intermediate polars (IPs) are a group of cataclysmic variables (CVs) which are thought to contain white dwarfs which have a magnetic field strength in the range ∼0.1–10 MG. A significant fraction of the X-ray sources detected in recent deep surveys has been postulated to consist of IPs. Until now two of the defining characteristics of IPs have been the presence of high (and complex) absorption in their X-ray spectra and the presence of a stable modulation in the X-ray light curve which is a signature of the spin period, or the beat period, of the accreting white dwarf. Three CVs, V426 Oph, EI UMa and LS Peg, have characteristics which are similar to IPs. However, there has been only tentative evidence for a coherent period in their X-ray light curve. We present the results of a search for coherent periods in XMM–Newton data of these sources using an autoregressive analysis which models the effects of red noise. We confirm the detection of a ∼760 s period in the soft X-ray light curve of EI UMa reported by Reimer et al. and agree that this represents the spin period. We also find evidence for peaks in the power spectrum of each source in the range 100–200 s which are just above the 3σ confidence level. We do not believe that they represent genuine coherent modulations. However, their X-ray spectra are very similar to those of known IPs. We believe that all three CVs are bona fide IPs. We speculate that V426 Oph and LS Peg do not show evidence for a spin period since they have closely aligned magnetic and spin axes. We discuss the implications that this has for the defining characteristics of IPs.  相似文献   

Dry separation of respirable lunar dust: Providing samples for the lunar airborne dust toxicity advisory group     

Yang Liu  Darren W. Schnare  Benjamin C. Eimer  Lawrence A. Taylor 《Planetary and Space Science》2008,56(11):1517-1523

In order to study the toxicity of lunar dust, the respirable size fraction of lunar soil needed to be separated with an apparatus that possesses the following capabilities: no use of liquid; fully recoverable sample; and use of only small sample quantities (<1 gm). We report the design of a simple apparatus that meets these requirements and implements an inertial-impaction mechanism established in aerosol science. Lunar soil was agitated at a frequency of 100 Hz using a vibration table with a containment chamber under a constant air flow. The air flow carried the lofted lunar dust particles past four impactors (four T-junction connectors), upon which a fraction of large particles were captured during the impaction. The fine particles in the air flow were then collected by an end-of-the line membrane filter. Detailed examination of particles on the filter showed that the majority (∼80-90 wt%) are <3 μm (geometric diameter), suggesting a high level of effectiveness for the apparatus.  相似文献