Devil in the detail; The 1150–1000 Ma magmatic and structural evolution of the Ngaanyatjarra Rift,west Musgrave Province,Central Australia     

Paul M. Evins  R. Hugh Smithies  Heather M. Howard  Christopher L. Kirkland  Michael T.D. Wingate  Simon Bodorkos 《Precambrian Research》2010

Mafic and felsic rocks units of the Musgrave Province originally attributed to the c. 1075 Ma Giles Event of the greater Warakurna Large Igneous Province (LIP) are shown to be part of a complex sequence of magmatic and tectonic events punctuated over a span of at least 50 m.y. New geochronology and mapping resolve a sequence of at least 10 magmatic pulses with hiati of up to 10 m.y. consistent with a long-lived intracontinental rift setting. This rift, here named the Ngaanyatjarra Rift, features giant layered mafic-ultramafic Giles intrusions cut by a 10 km wide mafic-felsic magmatic shear zone. The latter is temporally related to the Warakurna LIP, however it is not clear that the Giles intrusions actually form part of the Warakurna LIP. Macroscopic folding and the formation of the large synmagmatic transpressional shear zone attest to synmagmatic basin inversion in the early stages of the rift. The extensive mafic to felsic volcanic rocks of the Tollu Group (traditionally grouped with the Giles Event) were emplaced 25–50 m.y. later than the c. 1075 Ma Warakurna LIP.  相似文献   

Mineralogical and chemical characteristics of some natural jarosites     

George A. Desborough  Heather A. Lowers  Jane M. Hammarstrom  Reinhard W. Leinz 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2010,74(3):1041-108

This paper presents a detailed study of the mineralogical, microscopic, thermal, and spectral characteristics of jarosite and natrojarosite minerals. Systematic mineralogic and chemical examination of a suite of 32 natural stoichiometric jarosite and natrojarosite samples from diverse supergene and hydrothermal environments indicates that there is only limited solid solution between Na and K at low temperatures, which suggests the presence of a solvus in the jarosite-natrojarosite system at temperatures below about 140 °C. The samples examined in this study consist of either end members or coexisting end-member pairs of jarosite and natrojarosite. Quantitative electron-probe microanalysis data for several natural hydrothermal samples show only end-member compositions for individual grains or zones, and no detectable alkali-site deficiencies, which indicates that there is no hydronium substitution within the analytical uncertainty of the method. In addition, there is no evidence of Fe deficiencies in the natural hydrothermal samples. Hydronium-bearing jarosite was detected in only one relatively young supergene sample suggesting that terrestrial hydronium-bearing jarosites generally are unstable over geologic timescales.Unit-cell parameters of the 20 natural stoichiometric jarosites and 12 natural stoichiometric natrojarosites examined in this study have distinct and narrow ranges in the a- and c-cell dimensions. There is no overlap of these parameters at the 1σ level for the two end-member compositions. Several hydrothermal samples consist of fine-scale (2-10 μm) intimate intergrowths of jarosite and natrojarosite, which could have resulted from solid-state diffusion segregation or growth zoning due to variations in the Na/K activity ratio of hydrothermal solutions.  相似文献   

The Reliability of Ancient Eclipse Records     

Michael A. Heather 《Geophysical Journal International》1968,15(5):549-550

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Homogenization of a Darcy–Stokes system modeling vuggy porous media     

Todd Arbogast  Heather L. Lehr 《Computational Geosciences》2006,10(3):291-302

We derive a macroscopic model for single-phase, incompressible, viscous fluid flow in a porous medium with small cavities called vugs. We model the vuggy medium on the microscopic scale using Stokes equations within the vugular inclusions, Darcy's law within the porous rock, and a Beavers–Joseph–Saffman boundary condition on the interface between the two regions. We assume periodicity of the medium and obtain uniform energy estimates independent of the period. Through a two-scale homogenization limit as the period tends to zero, we obtain a macroscopic Darcy's law governing the medium on larger scales. We also develop some needed generalizations of the two-scale convergence theory needed for our bimodal medium, including a two-scale convergence result on the Darcy–Stokes interface. The macroscopic Darcy permeability is computable from the solution of a cell problem. An analytic solution to this problem in a simple geometry suggests that: (1) flow along vug channels is primarily Poiseuille with a small perturbation related to the Beavers–Joseph slip, and (2) flow that alternates from vug to matrix behaves as if the vugs have infinite permeability.  相似文献   

Resolving the chronology of recent lake sediments: an example from Devils Lake,North Dakota     

Heather A. Jacobson  Daniel R. Engstrom 《Journal of Paleolimnology》1989,2(2):81-97

Devils Lake is a closed, saline lake in North Dakota; it is typical of lake basins in the Great Plains Region, where windy conditions and fluctuating water-levels disturb sediment and confound chronostratigraphy. Pollen analysis and ²¹⁰Pb dating of two cores collected from bathymetrically contrasting embayments demonstrate (1) how certain agriculture-related pollen types differ in their value as chronostratigraphic markers, (2) how pollen and ²¹⁰Pb stratigraphies can be reconciled to determine the approximate depth of sediment mixing, and (3) the importance of coring-site selection, especially in lakes with unstable sedimentary conditions.  相似文献   

Editorial     

Heather A> Viles 《Area》2001,33(3):227-227

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Diffusion of Au, Pd, Re, and P in FeNi alloys at High Pressure     

Heather C. Watson  E. Bruce Watson 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2008,72(14):3550-3561

Multi-anvil and piston cylinder experiments were performed to determine the effect of both pressure and temperature on the diffusivities of several siderophile elements in a Fe₉₀Ni₁₀ core-analog alloy. Activation energies were calculated to be between 244 and 257 kJ/mol for Re, Pd, and Au at 10 GPa, and 264 kJ/mol for P at 1 GPa. It was found that pressure has a marked negative effect on the diffusivities of Au, Re, and Pd, and activation volumes for these elements were calculated to be between 3 and 6 cm³/mol at 10 GPa. The effect of both temperature and pressure on P diffusion is noticeably less, and the absolute diffusivity of phosphorus is consistently higher than that of the other elements. It is inferred that the reason for this difference is because P is diffusing via an interstitial mechanism as opposed to Re, Pd, and Au which occupy regular lattice sites in the crystal. The effect of pressure and temperature together with depth in the Earth suggests that these elements may continue to exhibit different behavior at more extreme conditions. The significance of these new results lies in the ability to place constraints on many time-dependent processes that pertain to the formation and evolution of planetary cores, as well as the formation and cooling histories of other metal-rich bodies in the solar system, such as meteorites.  相似文献   

Editors' report 2002     

Mike BradshawEditor  Heather VilesCo-Editor 《Area》2003,35(1):3-4

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Calibration of GOCE SGG data using high–low SST, terrestrial gravity data and global gravity field models     

J. Bouman  R. Koop  C. C. Tscherning  P. Visser 《Journal of Geodesy》2004,78(1-2):124-137

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Mapping vulnerability to multiple stressors: climate change and globalization in India   总被引：7，自引：0，他引：7  

Karen O&#x;Brien  Robin Leichenko  Ulka Kelkar  Henry Venema  Guro Aandahl  Heather Tompkins  Akram Javed  Suruchi Bhadwal  Stephan Barg  Lynn Nygaard  Jennifer West 《Global Environmental Change》2004,14(4):627

There is growing recognition in the human dimensions research community that climate change impact studies must take into account the effects of other ongoing global changes. Yet there has been no systematic methodology to study climate change vulnerability in the context of multiple stressors. Using the example of Indian agriculture, this paper presents a methodology for investigating regional vulnerability to climate change in combination with other global stressors. This method, which relies on both vulnerability mapping and local-level case studies, may be used to assess differential vulnerability for any particular sector within a nation or region, and it can serve as a basis for targeting policy interventions.  相似文献