Book Review: Regression Analysis of Count Data. By A. Colin Cameron and Pravin K. Trivedi Cambridge University Press,Cambridge, UK, 1998, 411 p., US$64.95/US$24.95, ISBN 0-521-63201-3 (hardbound), ISBN 0-521-63567-5 (paperbound)     

Jones  Thomas A. 《Mathematical Geosciences》2000,32(8):1001-1003

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Late quaternary sediment sources, storage and transfers within mountain basins using clast lithological analysis: Pineta Basin, central Pyrenees, Spain     

Dr. A. P. Jones 《Geomorphology》2000,34(3-4)

Understanding basin-wide sediment dynamics, both spatially and temporally, is an important antecedent to eventual quantitative interpretation of sediment transfer within mountain fluvial systems. This paper describes an attempt to trace sediment transfer modes and pathways using clast lithological analysis in a small mountain basin strongly influenced by glaciation: the Pineta Basin in the central Pyrenees of Spain. The paper interprets slope–channel interaction by encompassing the whole basin, enabling staged sedimentary pathways to be revealed. Additionally, bed-material textures of the modern rivers and youngest La Sarra Terrace were investigated to provide further information on the geomorphic coupling of the system. Relatively few studies have taken this approach. Glacial and later, fluvial systems transferred the sediments creating laterally extensive, polylithological sediment stores. Local depositional systems overprint this inherited signature. To what extent depends on the size and energy of the local system. Significant impacts are made by conduits, such as large-scale fluvially dominated fans and waterfalls, which deliver local lithologies to the main river. Conduits may be part of the main river system or part of the tributary system. Conduits are the most important elements when considering provenance studies and theoretical modelling.  相似文献   

Controls on the evolution and demise of Lower Carboniferous carbonate platforms,northern margin of the Dublin Basin,Ireland     

Neil A. H. Pickard  John G. Rees  Peter Strogen  Ian D. Somerville  Gareth L. I. Jones 《Geological Journal》1994,29(2):93-117

Shallow water platform limestones of the Chadian–Asbian Milverton Group are restricted to the north-eastern part of the Lower Carboniferous (Dinantian) Dublin Basin. Here, they are confined to two granite-cored fault blocks, the Kentstown and Balbriggan Blocks, known to have been active during the late Dinantian. Three areas of platform sedimentation are delimited (the Kentstown, Drogheda and Milverton areas), although in reality they probably formed part of a single carbonate platform. Resedimented submarine breccias and calciturbidites (Fingal Group) composed of shallow water allochems and intraclasts sourced from the platform accumulated, along with terrigenous muds, in the surrounding basinal areas. Sedimentological evidence suggests that the Kentstown and Balbriggan Blocks possessed tilt-block geometries and developed during an episode of basin-wide extensional faulting in late Chadian time. Rotation of the blocks during extension resulted in the erosion of previously deposited sequences in footwall areas and concomitant drowning of distal hangingwall sequences. Antithetic faults on the northern part of the Balbriggan Block aided the preferential subsidence of the Drogheda area and accounts for the anomously thick sequence of late Chadian platform sediments present there. Continued subsidence and/or sea-level rise in the late Chadian–early Arundian resulted in transgression of the Kentstown and Balbriggan Blocks; carbonate ramps developed on the hangingwall dip slopes and transgressed southward with time. Subsequent progradation and aggradation of shallow water sediments throughout the Arundian to Asbian led to the development of carbonate shelves. Several coarse conglomeratic intervals within the contemporaneous basinal sequences of the Fingal Group attest to periodic increases of sediment influx associated with the development of the shelves. Sedimentological processes controlled the development of the carbonate platforms on the hangingwall dip slopes of the Kentstown and Balbriggan Blocks, though periodic increases of sediment flux into the basinal areas may have been triggered by eustatic falls in sea level. In contrast, differential subsidence along the bounding faults of these blocks exerted a strong control on the margins of the late Dinantian shelves, maintaining relatively steep slopes and inhibiting the progradation of the shelves into the adjacent basins. Tectonically induced collapse and retreat of the platform margins occurred in the late Asbian–early Brigantian. Platform sediments are overlain by coarse-grained proximal basinal facies which fine upwards before passing into a thick shale sequence, indicating that by the late Brigantian carbonate production had almost stopped as the platforms were drowned.  相似文献   

Changes in timber haul emissions in the context of shifting forest management and infrastructure     

Sean P Healey  Jock A Blackard  Todd A Morgan  Dan Loeffler  Greg Jones  Jon Songster  Jason P Brandt  Gretchen G Moisen  Larry T DeBlander 《Carbon balance and management》2009,4(1):1-11

The issues surrounding 'Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation' (REDD) have become a major component of continuing negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This paper aims to address two key requirements of any potential REDD mechanism: first, the generation of measurable, reportable and verifiable (MRV) REDD credits; and secondly, the sustainable and efficient provision of emission reductions under a robust financing regime. To ensure the supply of MRV credits, we advocate the establishment of an 'International Emission Reference Scenario Coordination Centre' (IERSCC). The IERSCC would act as a global clearing house for harmonized data to be used in implementing reference level methodologies. It would be tasked with the collection, reporting and subsequent processing of earth observation, deforestation- and degradation driver information in a globally consistent manner. The IERSCC would also assist, coordinate and supervise the computation of national reference scenarios according to rules negotiated under the UNFCCC. To overcome the threats of "market flooding" on the one hand and insufficient economic incentives for REDD on the other hand, we suggest an 'International Investment Reserve' (IIR) as REDD financing framework. In order to distribute the resources of the IIR we propose adopting an auctioning mechanism. Auctioning not only reveals the true emission reduction costs, but might also allow for incentivizing the protection of biodiversity and socio-economic values. The introduced concepts will be vital to ensure robustness, environmental integrity and economic efficiency of the future REDD mechanism.  相似文献   

Sandy beach ecosystems: key features, sampling issues, management challenges and climate change impacts   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

Thomas A. Schlacher  Dave S. Schoeman  Jenifer Dugan  Mariano Lastra  Alan Jones  Felicita Scapini  & Anton McLachlan 《Marine Ecology》2008,29(S1):70-90

Escalating pressures caused by the combined effects of population growth, demographic shifts, economic development and global climate change pose unprecedented threats to sandy beach ecosystems worldwide. Conservation of beaches as functional ecosystems and protection of their unique biodiversity requires management interventions that not only mitigate threats to physical properties of sandy shores, but also include ecological dimensions. Yet, beach management remains overwhelmingly focused on engineering interventions. Here we summarise the key outcomes of several workshops, held during the 2006 Sandy Beach Ecology Symposium in Vigo, Spain, that addressed issues of climate change, beach management and sampling methodology. Because efficient communication between managers and ecologists is critical, we summarise the salient features of sandy beaches as functional ecosystems in 50 'key statements'; these provide a succinct synopsis of the main structural and functional characteristics of these highly dynamic systems. Key outcomes of the workshops include a set of recommendations on designs and methods for sampling the benthic infaunal communities of beaches, the identification of the main ecological effects caused by direct and indirect human interventions, the predicted consequence of climate change for beach ecosystems, and priority areas for future research.  相似文献   

The Marsdenian (Namurian R2) succession west of Blackburn: Implications for the evolution of Pennine Delta Systems     

J. D. Collinson  C. M. Jones  A. A. Wilson 《Geological Journal》1977,12(1):59-76

A recently driven sewer tunnel west of Blackburn has shown the presence of a thick turbidite sequence between the R. gracile and R. bilingue Goniatite Bands. Above the R. bilingue Band, turbidites pass up through delta slope deposits into delta top fluviatile sandstones, derived from the northeast. The section provides evidence for the westward limit of advance of the pre-R. gracile Kinderscoutian delta slope and also enables a more accurate R₂ isopachyte map to bc drawn.  相似文献   

The namurian succession between Tenby and Waterwynch,Pembrokeshire     

D. G. Jones  R. M. C. Eagar 《Geological Journal》1969,6(2):267-278

Namurian cliff sections are described in detail. A minimum thickness of about 76 m is ascribed to Namurian A and 198 m and 104 m respectively to Namurian B and C. Faunal marker bands enable the Chokierian, Marsdenian and Yeadonian Stages to be recognised and the detailed structure to be worked out and this confirms the structural interpretation of Dixon. The succession is correlated and compared with adjacent areas in Pembrokeshire and South Wales. The Marsdenian includes a fauna of highly variable Sanguinolites. S. ovalis Hind is redescribed and a lectotype chosen.  相似文献   

A geomorphic analysis of Hale crater, Mars: The effects of impact into ice-rich crust     

A.P. Jones  A.S. McEwen  V.R. Baker  D.C. Berman 《Icarus》2011,211(1):259-272

Hale crater, a 125 × 150 km impact crater located near the intersection of Uzboi Vallis and the northern rim of Argyre basin at 35.7°S, 323.6°E, is surrounded by channels that radiate from, incise, and transport material within Hale’s ejecta. The spatial and temporal relationship between the channels and Hale’s ejecta strongly suggests the impact event created or modified the channels and emplaced fluidized debris flow lobes over an extensive area (>200,000 km²). We estimate ∼10¹⁰ m³ of liquid water was required to form some of Hale’s smaller channels, a volume we propose was supplied by subsurface ice melted and mobilized by the Hale-forming impact. If 10% of the subsurface volume was ice, based on a conservative porosity estimate for the upper martian crust, 10¹² m³ of liquid water could have been present in the ejecta. We determine a crater-retention age of 1 Ga inside the primary cavity, providing a minimum age for Hale and a time at which we propose the subsurface was volatile-rich. Hale crater demonstrates the important role impacts may play in supplying liquid water to the martian surface: they are capable of producing fluvially-modified terrains that may be analogous to some landforms of Noachian Mars.  相似文献   

New Notodelphyidae (Copepoda: Cyclopoida) from solitary ascidians     

J. B. Jones 《新西兰海洋与淡水研究杂志》2013,47(2):255-273

Samples of simple ascidians of the genera Asterocarpa, Cnemidocarpa, Corella, and Pyura were collected from Wellington Harbour, New Zealand (41°16'S, 174° 51'E) and three species of the crustacean family Notodelphyidae were recovered, all from the branchial baskets of the ascidians.

Pygodelphys novaeseelandiae (Schellenberg), and two new species of Doropygus, are described and illustrated.  相似文献   

Enzyme variation in marine and estuarine populations of a mud crab,Macrophthalmus hirtipes (Ocypodidae)     

F.Y.T. Sin  M.B. Jones 《新西兰海洋与淡水研究杂志》2013,47(4):367-372

Protein and enzyme variation in 2 populations of the mud crab Macrophthalmus hirtipes (Jacquinot, 1853) (Ocypodidae) from 1 marine and 1 estuarine habitat were investigated by poly‐acrylamide gel electrophoresis. A survey of 24 loci revealed that 22 were common to both populations; 20 were monomorphic and 2 were highly polymorphic. Two alleles were detected for each of the polymorphic loci, esterase‐2 (EST‐2) and ester‐ase‐3 (EST‐3). The frequencies of the EST‐3 alleles were similar in the 2 populations. However, the frequencies of the 2 EST‐2 alleles in the estuarine population were significantly different from those for the marine population. Expression of 1 locus, esterase‐4 (EST‐4) was confined to the estuarine population. Two alkaline phosphatase loci (AKPH‐1 and AKPH‐2) were detected in the estuarine population, but only AKPH‐1 was found in the marine population. EST‐4 and AKPH‐2 were neither sex nor age specific. These interpopulational genetic differences may reflect differences in environmental conditions measured between the 2 habitats.  相似文献