Thallium isotope composition of the upper continental crust and rivers—An investigation of the continental sources of dissolved marine thallium     

Sune G. Nielsen  Mark Rehkämper  Per Andersson  Peter W. Swarzenski  Detlef Günther 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2005,69(8):2007-2019

The thallium (Tl) concentrations and isotope compositions of various river and estuarine waters, suspended riverine particulates and loess have been determined. These data are used to evaluate whether weathering reactions are associated with significant Tl isotope fractionation and to estimate the average Tl isotope composition of the upper continental crust as well as the mean Tl concentration and isotope composition of river water. Such parameters provide key constraints on the dissolved Tl fluxes to the oceans from rivers and mineral aerosols.The Tl isotope data for loess and suspended riverine detritus are relatively uniform with a mean of ε²⁰⁵Tl = −2.0 ± 0.3 (ε²⁰⁵Tl represents the deviation of the ²⁰⁵Tl/²⁰³Tl isotope ratio of a sample from NIST SRM 997 Tl in parts per 10⁴). For waters from four major and eight smaller rivers, the majority were found to have Tl concentrations between 1 and 7 ng/kg. Most have Tl isotope compositions very similar (within ±1.5 ε²⁰⁵Tl) to that deduced for the upper continental crust, which indicates that no significant Tl isotope fractionation occurs during weathering. Based on these results, it is estimated that rivers have a mean natural Tl concentration and isotope composition of 6 ± 4 ng/kg and ε²⁰⁵Tl = −2.5 ± 1.0, respectively.In the Amazon estuary, both additions and losses of Tl were observed, and these correlate with variations in Fe and Mn contents. The changes in Tl concentrations have much lower amplitudes, however, and are not associated with significant Tl isotope effects. In the Kalix estuary, the Tl concentrations and isotope compositions can be explained by two-component mixing between river water and a high-salinity end member that is enriched in Tl relative to seawater. These results indicate that Tl can display variable behavior in estuarine systems but large additions and losses of Tl were not observed in the present study.  相似文献   

Carbon Capture and Storage From Fossil Fuels and Biomass – Costs and Potential Role in Stabilizing the Atmosphere     

Christian Azar  Kristian Lindgren  Eric Larson  Kenneth Möllersten 《Climatic change》2006,74(1-3):47-79

The capture and storage of CO₂ from combustion of fossil fuels is gaining attraction as a means to deal with climate change. CO₂ emissions from biomass conversion processes can also be captured. If that is done, biomass energy with CO₂ capture and storage (BECS) would become a technology that removes CO₂ from the atmosphere and at the same time deliver CO₂-neutral energy carriers (heat, electricity or hydrogen) to society. Here we present estimates of the costs and conversion efficiency of electricity, hydrogen and heat generation from fossil fuels and biomass with CO₂ capture and storage. We then insert these technology characteristics into a global energy and transportation model (GET 5.0), and calculate costs of stabilizing atmospheric CO₂ concentration at 350 and 450 ppm. We find that carbon capture and storage technologies applied to fossil fuels have the potential to reduce the cost of meeting the 350 ppm stabilisation targets by 50% compared to a case where these technologies are not available and by 80% when BECS is allowed. For the 450 ppm scenario, the reduction in costs is 40 and 42%, respectively. Thus, the difference in costs between cases where BECS technologies are allowed and where they are not is marginal for the 450 ppm stabilization target. It is for very low stabilization targets that negative emissions become warranted, and this makes BECS more valuable than in cases with higher stabilization targets. Systematic and stochastic sensitivity analysis is performed. Finally, BECS opens up the possibility to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere. But this option should not be seen as an argument in favour of doing nothing about the climate problem now and then switching on this technology if climate change turns out to be a significant problem. It is not likely that BECS can be initiated sufficiently rapidly at a sufficient scale to follow this path to avoiding abrupt and serious climate changes if that would happen.  相似文献   

Paleolimnology of Lake Winnipeg     

Brian J. Todd  C. F. Michael Lewis  L. Harvey Thorleifson  Erik Nielsen  William M. Last 《Journal of Paleolimnology》1998,19(3):211-213

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Performance of the In Situ Microcosm Technique for Measuring the Degradation of Organic Chemicals in Aquifers     

Per H. Nielsen  Thomas H. Christensen  Hans-Jørgen Albrechtsen  Robert W. Gillham 《Ground Water Monitoring & Remediation》1996,16(1):130-140

An in situ microcosm (ISM) consists of a stainless steel cylinder isolating about 2 L of the aquifer and is equipped with valves allowing for loading and sampling from the ground surface. During the last five years, this technique has been used frequently to study the degradation of organic chemicals in polluted and pristine aquifers representing different redox environments. The ISM technique has great potential for providing field-relevant degradation potentials and rate constants, but care must be taken in using the equipment and interpreting the results. This paper provides details concerning the installation and operation of an ISM and presents experiences concerning data interpretation and monitoring of redox conditions.  相似文献   

Response of ionospheric electric fields to variations in the interplanetary magnetic field     

S. P. Mishra  E. Nielsen 《Annales Geophysicae》1996,14(8):794-802

The STARE system (Scandinavian Twin Auroral Radar Experiment) provides estimates of electron drift velocities, and hence also of the electric field in the high-latitude E-region ionosphere between 65 and 70 degrees latitude. The occurrence of drift velocities larger than about 400 m/s (equivalent to an electric field of 20 mV/m) have been correlated with the magnitude of the Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) components B_z and B_y at all local times. Observation days have been considered during which both southward (B_z<0) and northward (B_z>0) IMF occurred. The occurrence of electric fields larger than 20 mV/m increases with increases in B_z magnitudes when B_z<0. It is found that the effects of southward IMF continue for some time following the northward turnings of the IMF. In order to eliminate such residual effects for B_z<0, we have, in the second part of the study, considered those days which were characterized by a pure northward IMF. The occurrence is considerably lower during times when B_z>0, than during those when B_z is negative. These results are related to the expansion and contraction of the auroral oval. The different percentage occurrences of large electric field for B_y>0 and B_y<0 components of the IMF during times when B_z>0, clearly display a dawn-dusk asymmetry of plasma flow in the ionosphere. The effects of the time-varying solar-wind speed, density, IMF fluctuations, and magnetospheric substorms on the occurrence of auroral-backscatter observations are also discussed.  相似文献   

An experimental study of a midbroken 2-bay, 6-storey reinforced concrete frame subject to earthquakes     

P.S. Skjærbæk  B. Ta?kin  P.H. Kirkegaard  S.R.K. Nielsen 《Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering》1997,16(6):373-384

A 2-bay, 6-storey model test reinforced concrete frame (scale l:5) subjected to sequential earthquakes of increasing magnitude is considered in this paper. The frame was designed with a weak storey, in which the columns are weakened by using thinner and weaker reinforcement bars. The aim of the work is to study the global response to a damaging strong motion earthquake event of such buildings. Special emphasis is put on examining to what extent damage in the weak storey can be identified from global response measurements during an earthquake where the structure survives, and what level of excitation is necessary in order to identify the weak storey. Furthermore, emphasis is put on examining how and where damage develops in the structure and especially how the weak storey accumulates damage. Besides the damage in each storey the structure is identified by a static load at the top storey while measuring the horizontal displacement of the stories and also visual inspection is performed. From the investigations it is found that the reason for failure in the weak storey is that the absolute value of the stiffness deteriorates to a critical value where large plastic deformations occur and the storey is not capable of transferring the shear forces from the storeys above so failure is unavoidable.  相似文献   

A method for the elimination of the compositional dependence of trace element distribution coefficients     

Roger L. Nielsen 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1985,49(8):1775-1779

In an investigation of Sm, Sc, Sr, and Ti partitioning between diopside and silicate melt, Rayet al. (1983) showed that the compositional dependence of multicomponent exchange equilibria can not be eliminated by the application of the melt model of Bottinga and Weill (1972), and that the propagation of analytical error is an important contributor in the observed internal error in the calculated equilibria for those exchange reactions. We can demonstrate that the compositional dependence of single component distribution coefficients can be reduced below analytical error by the application of the two-lattice melt model first reported by Nielsenand Drake (1979) in a study of major element partitioning between pyroxene and melt. This model was later used for the calculation of major, minor and trace element partitioning by Nielsen and Dungan (1983). The two-lattice model is a modified version of the Bottinga-Weill model used by Drake (1976) for plagioclase-melt equilibria, and differs from that model in the assumed role of Al. The Nielsen and Dungan (1983) model has been modified here to assume Ti to mix in silicate melts as a network former. Single component distribution coefficients were used in place of multicomponent reactions in order to reduce the propagated analytical and experimental error.  相似文献   

Transient heat flow in a stratified medium     

Søren B. Nielsen  Niels Balling 《Tectonophysics》1985,121(1):1-10

The equation of heat conduction is solved for a horizontally stratified medium initially at constant temperature and subject to a step-function surface temperature change. The problem is solved by Laplace transformation and by applying a concept of further stratifications of the medium into unitary layers of constant ratio of thickness to the square root of thermal diffusivity. The solution takes the form of an infinite sum of complementary error functions, with coefficients given by recursion relations, is suitable for numerical applications and offers an attractive alternative to harmonic and quasi transient approaches in calculating the penetration of transient surface temperature variations into a layered medium. Use of the theorem of superposition yields a general expression for an arbitrary surface temperature function. The utility of the theory is illustrated by modelling examples of palaeoclimatically induced subsurface temperature and heat flow perturbations.  相似文献   

Is natrocarbonatite a cognate fluid condensate?     

Troels F. Nielsen  Ilya V. Veksler 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2002,142(4):425-435

Natrocarbonatite flows in the crater of the volcano Oldoinyo Lengai (Tanzania) are the only carbonatite magmas observed to erupt and have provided strong arguments in favor of a magmatic origin for carbonatite. The currently favored explanation for the genesis of these carbonatites by liquid immiscibility between a silicate and a carbonatite melt is questioned based on the extremely low eruption temperatures of 544-593 °C and compositional and mineralogical characteristics not in agreement with experimental constraints. Experimental investigations of the relationship between Oldoinyo Lengai natrocarbonatite and related silicate rock compositions do indicate that alkali-bearing peralkaline carbonatite with liquidus calcite can form by liquid immiscibility. At the same time, these experiments result in evidence which speaks against a liquid immiscibility origin for the highly alkaline and peralkaline Oldoinyo Lengai natrocarbonatite. On the carbonatite side of the miscibility gap, fractional crystallization cannot account for a liquid evolution from alkali-bearing peralkaline carbonatite to highly alkaline natrocarbonatite. Such an evolution does not seem to be compatible with the liquidus mineral assemblages and the chemistry of Oldoinyo Lengai natrocarbonatite. No natural silicate magma is known to produce natrocarbonatite compositions by liquid immiscibility. The best interpretation of the Oldoinyo Lengai natrocarbonatite flows involves expulsion of a cognate, mobile, alkaline, and CO₂-rich fluid condensate. This conclusion is supported by recent studies of silicate and carbonatite melt inclusions in minerals of ultramafic alkaline complexes, trace element partitioning, isotopic constraints, and by experimental data on major element partitioning between coexisting H₂O-CO₂-rich fluid and carbonatitic melt. In contrast to all other suggested modes of formation, an origin of Oldoinyo Lengai natrocarbonatite from cognate fluid appears best to be in agreement with the field observations, the petrography, mineralogy, and geochemistry of Oldoinyo Lengai natrocarbonatite and the dynamics of the Oldoinyo Lengai natrocarbonatite extrusion.  相似文献   

Origin of upper-mantle seismic scattering – evidence from Russian peaceful nuclear explosion data     

Lars Nielsen  Hans Thybo  Alan Levander  Leonid N. Solodilov 《Geophysical Journal International》2003,154(1):196-204

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