Geochemistry of the waste isolation pilot plant (WIPP) site, southestern New Mexico, U.S.A.     

Steven J. Lambert 《Applied Geochemistry》1992,7(6)

An extensive geochemical data base, including analyses of major and minor solutes, mineralogical studies of core samples, and isotopic studies of waters, carbonates and sulfates, has been assembled for evaporites and related rocks in the northern Delaware Basin of southeastern New Mexico. These data were compiled for the geological and hydrological characterization of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), which is excavated in the evaporites of the Salado Formation. These data were evaluated in order: (1) to determine the stability of the evaporite mineralogy over geological time; (2) to compare the aqueous geochemistry with host rock mineralogy; (3) to delineate the nature and timing of water-rock interactions, such as dissolution and recrystallization; (4) to determine the geological and climatic conditions that have governed groundwater recharge. The resulting synthesis of data and current hypotheses concerning the origin, composition and history of waters in the evaporite rocks and related units of the Delaware Basin provides a tentative conceptual model for the behavior of the water-rock system since the deposition of the evaporites in the Permian. Essential components of this model include: (1) widespread Late Triassic/Early Jurassic evaporite recrystallization; (2) accumulation of deep-basin brines isolated from meteoric recharge; (3) evaporite dissolution by meteoric waters flowing in carbonates and sulfates interbedded in the uppermost Permian section and at the basin margin; (4) lateral rather than vertical infiltration of pre-Holocene meteoric waters in the uppermost Permian section; and (5) climatic conditions presently less conducive to recharge than in the Late Pleistocene.  相似文献   

When the bough breaks … our children, our environment: by Lloyd Timberlake and Laura Thomas (poem on p iv by Andrew Motion) Earthscan Publications, London, 1990, v + 262 pp, $6.95     

Hilary Lambert Renwick 《Global Environmental Change》1991,1(5)

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Stable-isotopes of groundwaters from the Albuquerque, New Mexico, basin: one decade later     

S. J. Lambert  S. D. Balsley 《Environmental Geology》1997,31(3-4):199-204

In the spring of 1995, 24 samples were collected from a widely distributed system of municipal water wells in Albuquerque, N.M., and analyzed for hydrogen (δD) and oxygen (δ¹⁸O) isotopic compositions. δD values for 15 of these samples are largely similar to those reported by Yapp in 1985, but have locally become more negative by as much as 5 per mil (ö). δD–δ¹⁸O data define two endmembers that are well aligned along the familiar meteoric water line (MWL): (1) the eastern domain (mountain precipitation runoff), having δD>–86ö (similar to the criteria of Yapp) and δ¹⁸O>–12.1ö (this work); and (2) a central basin domain, which may be in part derived from water seepage from the Rio Grande, having δD<–95ö and δ¹⁸O<–13.2ö. Only a few wells across the basin have δD values near the "baseline" value of the Rio Grande, defined by Yapp as –92ö. The proximity of these wells to the Rio Grande is consistent with recharge by seepage from the river bed under baseline conditions. Extensive pumping in the eastern domain and West Mesa areas may be partly responsible for an apparent expansion of the central-basin regime of water more depleted in δD, much as a plume migrating in response to transient perturbations in original hydraulic gradients. Vertically stacked groundwater occurrences having limited interconnection are inferred from the significant differences in isotopic compositions of samples from two wells screened at multiple depths. The central and western parts of the basin are little influenced by contributions from the eastern domain. Some groundwaters from the western part of the basin plot below the MWL and clearly cannot be mixtures solely of the eastern domain and central basin endmembers. The origins of these western groundwaters and the most depleted central basin groundwaters are as yet unknown, but we speculate they may have received recharge under climatic conditions different from the present.  相似文献   

Yttrium geochemistry applied to petrogenesis utilizing calcium-yttrium relationships in minerals and rocks     

Richard St John Lambert  James Grenville Holland 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1974,38(9):1393-1414

A survey of Y data from all sources shows that Y behaves systematically in igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rock series, due to its incorporation in a predictable and uniform manner in Ca minerals. Compared with average calc-alkali basalt melts, plagioclase, kaersutite, augitic clinopyroxene and calcite have low Y for their CaO contents; whereas hornblende, garnet, orthopyroxene, apatite, sphene, zircon and most K, Na rich minerals other than plagioclase have high Y for their Ca contents. In sedimentary processes, Ca/Y becomes lower in shales and sandstones, but higher in limestones than their source. In metamorphic processes Y appears to be inert. In all igneous series for which Y data has been assembled Ca/Y falls as Ca falls. These series can be classified into three categories: (i) a standard calc-alkali trend, used as a reference (ii) J-type trends which become progressively impoverished in Y as Ca falls when compared with the standard trend, and (iii) L-trends which become progressively enriched in Y as Ca falls when compared with the standard trend. Despite little knowledge of partition coefficients, the J-type trends appear to have a significant component of hornblende control in their fractionation processes, whereas plagioclase and augitic clinopyroxene dominate the L-type trend. Alternative names for these series might therefore be the standard series, the hornblendic and the pyroxenic series respectively. Modern ocean floor basalts appear to be significantly richer in Y than modern calc-alkali basalts, and these in turn may be richer in Y than their Archaean counterparts.  相似文献   

The international geodetic association (die internationale erdmessung) and its predecessors     

Walter D. Lambert 《Journal of Geodesy》1950,24(3):299-324

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Seabed geotechnical parameters from electrical conductivity measurements     

Matthew H. Hulbert  Richard H. Bennett  Douglas N. Lambert 《Geo-Marine Letters》1982,2(3-4):219-222

Electrical conductivity measurements provide useful geotechnical information, particularly porosity data, and are well suited for use in conjunction with acoustic profiling techniques. A proposed conductivity measurement system for surveying the seabed is characterized by a towed inductive multifrequency probe operating underwater. It is integrated with a shipboard data acquisition and processing system.  相似文献   

Two inclinometers for the direct measurement of seafloor gradient from a submersible     

Douglas N. Lambert  Peter A. Rona  Richard H. Bennett  John W. Kofoed 《Geo-Marine Letters》1981,1(1):69-72

Two pendulum-type inclinometers, providing accurate direct measurements of seafloor gradient from a submersible, were developed and field tested. A manipulator-held inclinometer was used in Great Abaco Canyon to measure the angle of repose of taluslike carbonate deposits on the canyon wall. A submersiblemounted inclinometer continuously measured, and a camera recorded, variations in seafloor gradient on the lower continental slope off Cape Hatteras. This area has been previously identified seismically as containing rotational slump blocks. Slump deposits were found to have slopes of up to 10° while their associated slump scarps had gradients between 30 and 50°.  相似文献   

Spatial and temporal trends in the benthos and sediments in relation to sewage sludge disposal off the northeast coast of England     

Rees  H. L.; Rowlatt  S. M.; Lambert  M. A.; Lees  R. G.; Limpenny  D. S. 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》1992,49(1):55-64

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Improvements in a plastic-barrel sediment corer     

Douglas N. Lambert  George F. Merrill 《Applied Ocean Research》1979,1(1):61-62

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The effect of population structure on recruitment in herring     

Lambert  Timothy C. 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》1990,47(2):249-255

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