Benthic indicators: analysis of the threshold values of ecological quality classifications for transitional waters     

Ruellet T  Dauvin JC 《Marine pollution bulletin》2007,54(11):1707-1714

The effect of the modifications of the threshold values generally adopted for the five EcoQ (Ecological Quality) classes recognized by the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) for the most used benthic indicators and diversity indicators (AMBI, BENTIX, BOPA, BQI, H', ITI and M-AMBI) were studied to test whether it is possible to obtain the same or similar ecological classifications for transitional waters using these different indicators, and determine whether the current classifications can be improved. The analysis included: (i) the use of indicator equations, (ii) the use of reference indicators, and (iii) the use of indicator distribution laws. These investigations demonstrated that it was impossible to obtain an exact intercalibration of the ecological classifications with the selected indicators. However, some propositions to improve the actual classification were suggested.  相似文献   

Undrained Monotonic Response and Instability of Medium-Dense Sandy Soil     

Noureddine Della  Mostefa Belkhatir  Ahmed Arab  Jean Canou  Jean-Claude Dupla 《Marine Georesources & Geotechnology》2013,31(6):487-495

A series of undrained monotonic triaxial compression tests were performed on natural, medium-dense (relative density (RD) = 50%) Chlef sand containing 0.5% of non-plastic fines, under different confining pressures of 50 kPa, 100 kPa, and 200 kPa. This article focuses on distinctive states of the monotonic undrained response of sands, namely the critical state, the phase transformation state, the quasi-steady state, and the state of undrained instability (onset of flow liquefaction). Specimens were prepared using dry funnel pluviation and wet deposition to investigate the effect of the initial sand fabric on these states. The present data suggest that the initial fabric of the sand appears to have a significant effect on the undrained behavior in the early stages of shearing, with its influence vanishing at large strains. Wet deposition specimens demonstrate considerably larger undrained instability state strength than their dry funnel pluviation counterparts, and a unique critical state locus is reached by both dry funnel pluviation and wet deposition.  相似文献   

Isostasy of the Northern Bay of Biscay Continental Margin     

Michel Diament  Jean-Claude Sibuet  Ahmed Hadaoui 《Geophysical Journal International》1986,86(3):893-907

Summary. Spectral analysis of eight marine gravity profiles and seven SEASAT profiles, combined with corresponding bathymetric data over the Northern Bay of Biscay origin, yield identical admittance functions for wavelengths greater than 120 km. the resulting admittance function has been interpreted in terms of an Airy model of compensation for wavelengths greater than 250 km and in terms of an elastic plate model of compensation for shorter wavelengths. the Airy model corresponds to a crustal thickness variation across the margin. the plate model with an elastic thickness of 8 km is associated with the regional compensation of a sedimentary load which was probably emplaced during and just after rifting.  相似文献   

Caractérisation des variations lithologiques saisonnières des sédiments de la baie de Seine orientale ; impact des crues de la Seine (France)Characterisation of seasonal lithological variations of the superficial sediment in the eastern part of the Bay of Seine: impact of floods Seine River (France)     

Sébastien Garnaud  Patrick Lesueur  Sandric Lesourd  Nicole Poupinet  Jean-Claude Brun-Cottan 《Comptes Rendus Geoscience》2002,334(5):323-330

This paper presents the first results obtained during cruises since 1995 in the southeastern part of the Bay of Seine. New sedimentological data concerning sediment samples, box cores and water column measurements have been obtained recently in the framework of the Research Programme PNEC (French National Coastal Environment Programme). Fine sediments are deposited on form of temporary veneers of fluid-to-soft mud formed during high floods episodes. In the subtidal area (<10 m water depth), mobility of fine sediments is important and temporary mud deposited during high discharge period composes part of the distal estuarine system of the Seine River. To cite this article: S. Garnaud et al., C. R. Geoscience 334 (2002) 323–330.  相似文献   

Les ensembles fluviatiles néogènes du bassin subandin d'Équateur et implications dynamiquesThe Neogene fluvial systems of the Ecuadorian foreland basin and dynamic inferences     

Frédéric Christophoul  Patrice Baby  Jean-Claude Soula  Michel Rosero  José Burgos 《Comptes Rendus Geoscience》2002,334(14):1029-1037

A sedimentological study of the Neogene continental infill of the Subandean foreland basin of Ecuador led us to define an evolution of the fluvial system from an alluvial plain to an alluvial fan with an increasing slope in the same time as the drainage changed from mostly longitudinal to transverse. Combined with the data presently available on palaeotopography, exhumation, tectonic evolution and geomorphology, these results enable us to infer that, in contrast with the other Subandean foreland basins of Bolivia and Peru, the progradation of the Neogene alluvial fans proceeded by an overall expansion, associated with a relatively small tectonic shortening and not as a result of the development of successive thrust-related depocentres. This also indicates that the surrection of the Cordillera progressed in Ecuador throughout the Neogene. To cite this article: F. Christophoul et al., C. R. Geoscience 334 (2002) 1029–1037.  相似文献   

East Asia plate tectonics since 15 Ma: constraints from the Taiwan region   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

Jean-Claude Sibuet  Shu-Kun Hsu  Xavier Le Pichon  Jean-Pierre Le Formal  Donald Reed  Greg Moore  Char-Shine Liu   《Tectonophysics》2002,344(1-2)

15 Ma ago, a major plate reorganization occurred in East Asia. Seafloor spreading ceased in the South China Sea, Japan Sea, Taiwan Sea, Sulu Sea, and Shikoku and Parece Vela basins. Simultaneously, shear motions also ceased along the Taiwan–Sinzi zone, the Gagua ridge and the Luzon–Ryukyu transform plate boundary. The complex system of thirteen plates suddenly evolved in a simple three-plate system (EU, PH and PA). Beneath the Manila accretionary prism and in the Huatung basin, we have determined magnetic lineation patterns as well as spreading rates deduced from the identification of magnetic lineations. These two patterns are rotated by 15°. They were formed by seafloor spreading before 15 Ma and belonged to the same ocean named the Taiwan Sea. Half-spreading rate in the Taiwan Sea was 2 cm/year from chron 23 to 20 (51 to 43 Ma) and 1 cm/year from chron 20 (43 Ma) to 5b (15 Ma). Five-plate kinematic reconstructions spanning from 15 Ma to Present show implications concerning the geodynamic evolution of East Asia. Amongst them, the 1000-km-long linear Gagua ridge was a major plate boundary which accommodated the northwestward shear motion of the PH Sea plate; the formation of Taiwan was driven by two simple lithospheric motions: (i) the subduction of the PH Sea plate beneath Eurasia with a relative westward motion of the western end (A) of the Ryukyu subduction zone; (ii) the subduction of Eurasia beneath the Philippine Sea plate with a relative southwestward motion of the northern end (B) of the Manila subduction zone. The Luzon arc only formed south of B. The collision of the Luzon arc with Eurasia occurred between A and B. East of A, the Luzon arc probably accreted against the Ryukyu forearc.  相似文献   

A classification of rhizogenic (root-formed) calcretes, with examples from the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous of Spain and Upper Cretaceous of southern France — Discussion     

Pierre Freytet  Jean-Claude Plaziat  Eric P. Verrecchia   《Sedimentary Geology》1997,110(3-4):299-303

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Preliminary results on a high east–west gradient in the macrozoobenthic community structure of the macrotidal Mont Saint-Michel bay     

Sbastien Thorin  Alain Radureau  Eric Feunteun  Jean-Claude Lefeuvre 《Continental Shelf Research》2001,21(18-19)

Environmental conditions in terms of river inputs, salt marsh development, shellfish cultures, hydrodynamics and sediment characteristics are very different from the western and the eastern part of the Mont Saint-Michel bay. A large scale study on the spatial structure of the intertidal macrozoobenthic community was then performed at the bay scale in order to determinate how these various conditions may modify the community composition and species density. In terms of density, the community was globally dominated by suspension/deposit filter-feeding bivalves, as well as amphipods in the eastern high levels of the intertidal zone. Several biocoenotic assemblage of the Macoma balthica community were described and large differences in the species composition and density were observed between the eastern and the western sectors of the bay. Total density for all species and recruitment were much higher in the eastern sector than in the west. We discussed about these east–west variations in terms of hydrodynamics, sedimentation processes and trophic conditions. Indeed, the large salt marsh extension and river inputs, as well as the lack of shellfish cultures in the east, may favour high food availability for benthic invertebrates of the area whereas the low river inputs and salt marsh development, the high sedimentation process and the intensification of mussel and oyster cultures in the west may create less favourable environments.  相似文献   

Editorial to announce online submission for Climate Dynamics     

Jean-Claude Duplessy  Elisa Manzini  Edwin K. Schneider 《Climate Dynamics》2007,28(1):1

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Strange interlude at Virgohamna, Danskøya, Svalbard, 1906: the merkelig mann, the engineer and the spy     

P. J. Capelotti  Herman Van Dyk  & Jean-Claude Cailliez 《Polar research》2007,26(1):64-75

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