Morphology and Chemistry of Placer Gold from Attappadi Valley, Southern India   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

M. Nakagawa  M. Santosh  C.G. Nambiar  C. Matsubara 《Gondwana Research》2005,8(2):213-222

We report the morphological, textural and chemical characteristics of gold grains in stream gravels from the Siruvani River in Attappadi Valley, southern India. The placer gold deposits contain both primary grains with jagged grain contours and secondary grains with smooth grain margins. The primary and secondary gold grains are also distinguished by marked contrast in microtextures with the latter displaying a range of corrosion textures including striations, etch pits and chemical corrosion cavities that coalesce to form honey-comb patterns. Some of these cavities are filled with fine clay derived from lateritic weathering front. While the primary grains are characterized by high silver content (up to 35.77 wt.%) with marginal overgrowths of high purity gold, the secondary grains show exceedingly high fineness (1000 Au/Au+Ag) levels (up to 984) with no marked compositional variation indicating selective extraction of Ag and/or reprecipitation of Au. From morphological and chemical characteristics, we propose that the high purity gold grains were not derived directly from primary sources, but underwent chemical refinement in the weathering front before they were transferred to the fluvial systems. Our findings have important implications for gold exploration in the Attappadi Valley.  相似文献   

Glacial hazards in the Rolwaling valley of Nepal and numerical approach to predict potential outburst flood from glacial lake   总被引：3，自引：1，他引：2  

Badri Bhakta Shrestha  Hajime Nakagawa  Kenji Kawaike  Yasuyuki Baba  Hao Zhang 《Landslides》2013,10(3):299-313

In recent years, climate change and retreating glaciers constitute a major hazard in the Himalaya of South Asia. Glacial lakes are rapidly developing or increasing due to climate change. The rapid development of the lake may cause outburst of the lake. The outburst discharge from the glacial lake can cause catastrophic flooding and disaster in downstream area. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate the impact of climate change on glacial lakes and to understand the characteristics of the glacial lake outburst. In this study, the field assessment of Tsho Rolpa Glacial Lake in the Himalaya of Nepal has been presented and the impact of climate change on this glacial lake has been discussed. The Tsho Rolpa Glacial Lake is the largest and most potentially dangerous glacial lake in Nepal. In addition, a numerical model has been also developed for computing the characteristics of glacial lake outburst due to moraine dam failure by seepage and water overtopping. The numerical model is tested for the flume experimental cases. The simulated results of the outburst discharge, the dam surface erosion, and the temporal variation of the moisture movement in the dam are compared with those obtained from the hydraulic model experiments. The moisture profile calculated by numerical model was agreeable with the experimental moisture profile. The simulated failure surface of the dam due to seepage by considering the suction in slope stability analysis gave more agreeable results than the Janbu's simplified method. The results of the outburst discharge and dam surface erosion also agreed with the experimental results.  相似文献   

Anaerobic generation and emission of nitrous oxide in waste landfills     

Tomonori Ishigaki  Mikako Nakagawa  Masanao Nagamori  Masato Yamada 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2016,75(9):750

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Groundwater geochemistry of a nitrate-contaminated agricultural site   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Hiroki Amano  Kei Nakagawa  Ronny Berndtsson 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2016,75(15):1145

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High nutrients in the coastal area after heavy rain observed in the central Seto Inland Sea in July 2012     

Kazuo Abe  Norihisa Nakagawa  Katsuyuki Abo  Mutsumi Tsujino 《Journal of Oceanography》2013,69(2):269-275

Temporary enhancement of the nutrient concentrations in the coastal area was observed after heavy rain in the central Seto Inland Sea in July 2012. After passage of a stationary front accompanied by heavy rain, the river outflow was enhanced, and low salinity and high nutrient concentrations were detected near the mouths of rivers. The offshore salinity and nutrients increased and decreased, respectively, which suggested that a snapshot event, such as heavy rain, could influence the short-term variation of the coastal marine environmental conditions, such as the salinity and nutrient distributions.  相似文献   

Numerical model and flume experiments of single- and two-layered hillslope flow related to slope failure   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Raj Hari Sharma  Hajime Nakagawa 《Landslides》2010,7(4):425-432

A hillslope flow model is developed considering 3D saturated and unsaturated flow of water during rainfall events. A finite difference-based numerical model of hillslope flow processes is developed. Four different experiments are done to see the effects of a single- and double-layered soil in pore-water pressure dynamics and slope failure. Results from the numerical model are verified with experimental results. The numerical and experimental values of the pore-water pressure and moisture contents are in good agreement. The results show that the hillslope heterogeneity caused by multiple layers of soil has greater influence on hillslope pore-pressure dynamics and slope failure patterns. The depth of slope failure shows high dependency on layering characteristics of the soil slope and pattern of rainfall. The proposed model provides a perspective on failure mechanism of a single- or double-layered slope under rainfall infiltration.  相似文献   

ASCA Observations of X-ray Emission from Ultra-luminous Infrared Galaxies     

Takao Nakagawa  Tsuneo Kii  Ryuichi Fujimoto  Toshiyuki Miyazaki  Hajime Inoue  Yasushi Ogasaka  Ryohei Kawabe 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1999,266(1-2):43-48

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