Application of a Biological Tool for Estimating Current Annual Rates of Erosion and Deposition in Modern Coastal Environments: A Case Study in the Bay of Bengal Coast     

Chirananda De 《Marine Georesources & Geotechnology》2013,31(3):209-220

The marine polychaete Diopatra cuprea (Bosc) produces tubes that protrude above the sediment surface. To the part above the sediment surface the worm attaches foreign particles. A sharp boundary separates the parts above and below the sediment surface. With subsequent erosion, part of the tube without attached particles becomes exposed and this exposed part indicates the amount of erosion. With subsequent sedimentation, the tubes are enlarged upward and the sharp boundary is found below the sediment surface indicating the amount of subsequent sedimentation. This mode of construction of tubes during an average life span of two years renders tubes as simple but excellent natural tools for precise and easy measurement of the latest annual rates of erosion and deposition in coastal areas, data that are essential for the solving of coastal engineering and geoenvironmental problems. Comparison of this tool with expensive long-term coastal profiling data in four areas in the Bay of Bengal coast indicates its correctness and high applicational value. This revised model can be applied to modern coastal environments only for calculating latest annual rates of both erosion and deposition as correctly as latest physical techniques. Being based on the similar organosedimentary principle, it distinctively contrasts with the earlier model of Myers which provides information on the amount of sediment accumulation only without any time connotation and, it may generate erroneous results if applied to the geologic past unless some limitations evolved in the processes of dewatering, compaction, lithification and diagenesis are removed.  相似文献   

Ferromanganese Nodules and Crusts from the Christmas Island Region,Indian Ocean     

N. F. Exon  M. D. Raven  E. H. De Carlo 《Marine Georesources & Geotechnology》2013,31(4):275-297

A sampling expedition has shown that largely hydrogenetic marine ferromanganese deposits occur in the Christmas Island region south of Java (~10°S), as small nodules on seamount slopes and abyssal plains (red clay), and as thick crusts on volcanic ridges and seamounts. Vernadite is dominant, with birnessite, jacobsite and todorokite common. Nodules were recovered in 25% of free-fall grab stations in water 4600-5900 m deep, and are not abundant where present. The nodules average 9.6% Fe, 19.7% Mn, 0.51% Ni, 0.49% Cu, and 0.12% Co. Crusts are common in water 1450-3700 m deep, with average deposition rates of 1-1.5 mm / m.y. The crusts average 13.9% Fe, 16.2% Mn, 0.35% Ni, 0.11% Cu, and 0.44% Co. Cobalt grades are higher (~0.8%) in shallower water ( < 2500 m), so future exploration should concentrate on depths of 500-1500 m near the oxygen minimum zone.  相似文献   

SwSt 1: an O-rich planetary nebula around a C-rich central star     

Orsola De Marco  P.A. Crowther  M.J. Barlow  Geoffrey C. Clayton  A. de Koter 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,328(2):527-554

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森林沼泽泥炭不同演化阶段气体碳氢同位素演化特征          下载免费PDF全文

段毅  吴应忠  姚泾利  刘显阳  孙涛  何金先  徐丽  夏嘉  张晓丽 《地球科学》2013,38(1):87-93

煤层气的成因是石油地质学研究的热点.煤层气聚集存在着"累积聚气"和"阶段聚气"两种形式, 对于"阶段聚气" 的煤层气成因判识的地球化学研究还很薄弱.通过森林沼泽泥炭在不同温度下制备的样品进行热模拟实验, 首次获得了不同演化阶段甲烷、乙烷和二氧化碳的碳、氢同位素组成和演化规律.发现随着原始样品演化程度越高, 生成的甲烷和乙烷的碳、氢同位素组成具有变重的趋势; 同时, 甲烷和乙烷碳同位素组成明显地受原始样品演化程度的影响, 而氢同位素组成主要与成熟度密切相关.确定了成煤有机质在不同演化阶段生成的气体碳、氢同位素组成.首次获得了成煤有机质不同演化阶段热解气体碳、氢同位素组成与R_o之间的关系式.建立了甲烷与乙烷的碳、氢同位素之间的关系式, 形成了甲烷碳、氢同位素组成相关图.根据这些为研究不同成熟度区间生成的煤层气成因提供了科学数据, 为"阶段聚气"的煤层气地球化学特征认识及其成因判识提供了科学依据.并且, 将这些研究结果应用到我国沁水盆地南部煤层气研究, 认为该地区煤层气是在中侏罗世以后聚集而成, 具有"阶段聚气"的特征, 证明了热模拟研究成果对自然界煤层气成因的判识具有重要的科学意义.   相似文献   

青藏高原乌丽冻土区二氧化碳成因探讨     

杨德寿  龚建明  贺行良  王慧东  陈俊文  杨志承  蒋玉波 《现代地质》2013,27(6):1392

为了查明青藏高原乌丽冻土区天然气的组分与成因,对采集自乌丽水合物试验孔ZK1井及其周边钻孔的岩心顶空气、岩心解析气以及湖水气进行了组分和碳同位素测试分析,同时对ZK1井及其周边钻孔岩心中的碳酸盐岩碳同位素进行了测试分析。测试结果显示:该区天然气主要成分为二氧化碳,其含量在98%以上,烃类气体(主要为甲烷)含量很少;二氧化碳碳同位素主频在-4‰～-6‰(VPDB)之间,少量富烃样品的甲烷碳同位素主频介于-3238‰～-2782‰（VPDB）之间,碳酸盐岩的碳同位素平均值为-387‰（VPDB）。综合分析认为,研究区二氧化碳主要为幔源成因,可能与该区强烈的构造运动和岩浆活动有关。  相似文献   

新型热压WC-Fe基金刚石钻头胎体性能研究   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

金鑫  方小红  段隆臣 《煤田地质与勘探》2013,41(3):84-86

为了提高钻头在坚硬致密岩层中的钻进效果并降低钻头成本,将传统的热压碳化钨（WC）基金刚石钻头胎体中一部分WC用Fe代替。用粉末冶金的方法烧制胎体试块并测试其性能。通过对比性能测试,分析了碳化钨和铁的含量变化对胎体性能的影响规律。应用回归分析和规划求解,分别建立了硬度和耐磨性的回归方程,确定了最优的胎体硬度和耐磨性以及对应的胎体配方。   相似文献   

Population genetics of Sargassum horneri (Fucales, Phaeophyta) in China revealed by ISSR and SRAP markers     

于深辉  崇卓  赵凤娟  姚建亭  段德麟 《中国海洋湖沼学报》2013,31(3):609-616

Sargassum horneri is a common brown macro-alga that is found in the inter-tidal ecosystems of China. To investigate the current status of seaweed resources and provide basic data for its sustainable development, ISSR (inter simple sequence repeat) and SRAP (sequence related amplified polymorphism) markers were used to analyze the population genetics among nine natural populations of S. horneri. The nine studied populations were distributed over 2 000 km from northeast to south China. The percentage of polymorphic loci P% (ISSR, 99.44%; SRAP, 100.00%), Nei’s genetic diversity H (ISSR, 0.107-0.199; SRAP, 0.100-0.153), and Shannon’s information index I (ISSR, 0.157-0.291; SRAP, 0.148-0.219) indicated a fair amount of genetic variability among the nine populations. Moreover, the high degree of gene differentiation G st (ISSR, 0.654; SRAP, 0.718) and low gene flow N m (ISSR, 0.265; SRAP, 0.196) implied that there was significant among-population differentiation, possibly as a result of habitat fragmentation. The matrices of genetic distances and fixation indices (F st ) among the populations correlated well with their geographical distribution (Mantel test R=0.541 5, 0.541 8; P=0.005 0, 0.002 0 and R=0.728 6, 0.641 2; P=0.001 0, 0.001 0, respectively); the Rongcheng population in the Shandong peninsula was the only exception. Overall, the genetic differentiation agreed with the geographic isolation. The fair amount of genetic diversity that was revealed in the S. horneri populations in China indicated that the seaweed resources had not been seriously affected by external factors.  相似文献   

Fluorescence discrimination and determination technique for phytoplankton composition by Coif2 wavelet packet     

DUAN Yali  SU Rongguo  SHI Xiaoyong  WANG Xiulin  ZHU Chenjian  SUN Yan 《中国海洋大学学报(英文版)》2013,12(1):53-62

An in vivo fluorescence discrimination technique for phytoplankton population was developed by using Wavelet packet transform, cluster analysis and non-negative least squares. The technique was used to analyze water samples from different sea regions. For simulative mixtures, when dominant species account for 60%, 70%, 80%, 90% at the division level, the correct discrimination ratios (CDRs) are 83.0%, 99.1%, 99.7% and 99.9% with the relative contents of 58.5%, 68.4%, 77.7% and 86.3%, respectively; when the algae dominance are 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%, 100% at the genus level, the CDRs are 86.1%, 94.9%, 95.2%, 96.8% and 96.7%, respectively. For laboratory mixtures, the CDRs are 88.1% and 78.4% at the division and genus level, respectively. For field samples, the CDRs were 91.7% and 80% at the division and genus level, respectively (mesocosm experiments), and the CDRs were 100% and 66.7% at the division and genus level, respectively (Jiaozhou Bay). The fluorometric technique was used to estimate the phytoplankton community composition and relative abundance of different classes for the April 2010 cruise in the Yellow Sea with the results agreeing with those in published papers by other authors.  相似文献   

基于参考线圈和变步长自适应的磁共振信号噪声压制方法   总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0       下载免费PDF全文

田宝凤  林君  段清明  蒋川东 《地球物理学报》2012,55(7):2462-2472

核磁共振地下水探测仪的灵敏度高,接收到的纳伏级磁共振探测信号极易受到强工频谐波噪声的干扰,导致信号特征参数提取的准确度降低,影响反演解释的水文地质参数结果.为了解决这一难题,基于相关抵消的原理,针对全波磁共振信号,设计带有参考线圈的90°移相自适应噪声抵消系统,理论计算了参考线圈相对于探测线圈的距离,提出变步长LMS算法进行噪声压制.仿真结果表明,在不同的信号强度及不同的信噪比下,当信号与工频谐波干扰频谱不重合时,采用设计的自适应噪声抵消系统和变步长算法,信噪比可以提高到5.94 dB以上,初始振幅、弛豫时间特征参数的拟合误差在2.8%以内;当信号与工频谐波干扰频谱重合时,采用双向自适应滤波算法,信噪比可以达到5dB以上,初始振幅、弛豫时间特征参数的拟合误差在10%以内,可以满足实际应用的要求;实测数据处理进一步证明了方法的有效性.  相似文献   

Cladoceran community composition in tropical semi-arid highland reservoirs in Tigray (Northern Ethiopia): A metacommunity perspective applied to young reservoirs     

Tadesse Dejenie  Steven A.J. Declerck  Tsehaye AsmelashSarah Risch  Joachim Mergeay  Tom De BieLuc De Meester 《Limnologica》2012,42(2):137-143

A field survey of zooplankton communities was carried out in 32 recently established tropical semi-arid reservoirs in the highlands of Northern Ethiopia with the aim to identify to what extent environmental factors determine species composition of the cladoceran community in such isolated and young reservoirs. To address seasonal variation, the survey was carried out both at the beginning and the end of the dry season. A total of 15 species of cladocerans were identified. Daphnia was the most abundant cladoceran genus, and was present in all reservoirs. Using presence-absence data, no association between cladoceran community composition and geographic distance was found. RDA results indicate that the set of environmental variables that explained cladoceran community composition differed among seasons. Depth, altitude and fish biomass showed a significant association with cladoceran community composition during the wet season, whereas variation in cladoceran community structure was associated with phytoplankton biomass in the dry season. The relative abundance of Daphnia was much higher in the pelagic than in the littoral zone of our study systems. Two key groups of pelagic filter-feeding cladocerans, Diaphanosoma and Daphnia, showed a clear pattern, in which one or the other tended to strongly dominate the community. In addition, we observed a negative association between dominance of Daphnia in the zooplankton community and dominance of cyanobacteria in the phytoplankton community.  相似文献