Old high-redshift galaxies and primordial density fluctuation spectra     

Peacock  Jimenez  Dunlop  Waddington  Spinrad  Stern  Dey  & Windhorst 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》1998,296(4):1089-1097

We have discovered a population of extremely red galaxies at z  ≃ 1.5 which have apparent stellar ages of ≳ 3 Gyr, based on detailed spectroscopy in the rest-frame ultraviolet. In order for galaxies to have existed at the high collapse redshifts indicated by these ages, there must be a minimum level of power in the density fluctuation spectrum on galaxy scales. This paper compares the required power with that inferred from other high-redshift populations: damped Lyα absorbers and Lyman-limit galaxies at z  ≃ 3.2. If the collapse redshifts for the old red galaxies are in the range z _c ≃ 6–8, there is general agreement between the various tracers on the required inhomogeneity on 1-Mpc scales. This level of small-scale power requires the Lyman-limit galaxies to be approximately ν ≃ 3.0 fluctuations, implying a very large bias parameter b  ≃ 6. If the collapse redshifts of the red galaxies are indeed in the range z _c = 6–8 required for power spectrum consistency, their implied ages at z  ≃ 1.5 are between 3 and 3.8 Gyr for essentially any model universe of current age 14 Gyr. The age of these objects as deduced from gravitational collapse thus provides independent support for the ages estimated from their stellar populations. Such early-forming galaxies are rare, and their contribution to the cosmological stellar density is consistent with an extrapolation to higher redshifts of the star formation rate measured at z  < 5; there is no evidence for a general era of spheroid formation at extreme redshifts.  相似文献   

Geology,geomorphology and mineral resources of khodana and adjoining areas (Haryana) and their significance in landuse planning     

R. C. Dey 《Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing》1985,13(1):57-68

The area around Khodana, Bhiwani district, Haryana forms a part of the semi-arid region of western India. As vegetation is sparse and mainly xerophytic, photointerpretation technology was effectively utilised in bringing out the broad geology and structural pattern of the mature Precambrian terrain, which were ground-checked and correlated with the results of detailed integrated surveys carried out for base metal sulphide mineralisation in the area. A number of shear/fault zones, sub-parallel to the formational contacts and the regional fold axes, could be recognised in aerial photographs and on ground checking, were found to be intensely limonitised. The possibility of direct application of the pyrite-pyrthotite, encountered in drilling through shear zones, in landuse planning has been discussed. Discrete use of the quartzites as road ballasts, building stone and bund material, use of clay-rich pockets within pasture lands or micro-depressions in the surrounding terrain for locally-constructed brick kilns and ochreous material as pigments are some other uses of finite land resources of Haryana State.  相似文献   

Evaluating the effects of ground motion parameters on response spectra in Uttarakhand Himalayas,India     

Himanshu Mittal  Yih-Min Wu  Ashok Kumar  Arjun Kumar  Babita Sharma 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2016,9(18):712

Uttarakhand, a state of India, is located in seismically active Himalayan region and in the proximity of plate boundaries. The effects of important ground motion parameters like magnitude, distance, and local geology and site conditions on acceleration response spectra are examined in Uttarakhand Himalayas in this work. A total of 447 strong ground motion histories (horizontal and vertical) from 42 earthquakes were selected. The results show that the shape of the acceleration response spectra is influenced by the local site conditions and regional geology. The studies are carried out for two categories of sites, i.e., rock sites and soft soil sites. The maximum average horizontal spectral amplification for rock sites is 2.7 at 0.1 s, while for soft soil sites, it is found to be 3.2 at 0.2 s. In the same way, the maximum average vertical spectral amplification for rock is found to be 2.7 at 0.1 s, while for soft soil, it is found to be 2.95 at 0.1 s. The average spectral amplification in vertical component also shifts from low period (rock) to high period (soft soil). The level of spectra increases with decrease in distance for rock sites as well as soft soil sites. When comparing different magnitude earthquakes in different geological conditions, the response spectra are found to follow each other up to 0.04 s, while for period greater than 0.04 s, the spectra of higher magnitude earthquake is observed on the higher side. For soft soil sites, spectra from different magnitude earthquakes are observed to follow each other up to 0.1 s, beyond which they get separated.  相似文献   

Distribution of suspended sediment concentration in wide sediment‐laden streams: A novel power‐law theory          下载免费PDF全文

Francisco Nicolás Cantero‐Chinchilla  Oscar Castro‐Orgaz  Subhasish Dey 《Sedimentology》2016,63(6):1620-1633

The diffusion equation of suspended sediment concentration in a wide sediment‐laden stream flow is dependent on the vertical gradient of streamwise velocity and the sediment diffusivity. This study aims at investigating the influence of the streamwise velocity laws on the suspended sediment concentration distributions, resulting from the solution of the diffusion equation. Firstly, the sediment concentration distributions are obtained numerically from the solution of the diffusion equation using different velocity laws and compared with the experimental data. It is found that the power‐law approximation produces good computational results for the concentration distributions. The accuracy of using a power‐law velocity model is comparable with the results obtained from other classical velocity laws, namely log‐law, log wake‐law and stratified log‐law. Secondly, a novel analytical solution is proposed for the determination of sediment concentration distribution, where a power‐law, wall‐concentration profile is coupled with a concentration wake function. The power‐law model (for velocity and concentration) is calibrated using the experimental data, and then a generalized wake function is obtained by choosing a suitable law. The developed power‐law model involving the wake function adjusted by an exponent predicts the sediment concentration distributions quite satisfactorily. Finally, a new explicit formula for the suspended‐load transport rate is derived from the proposed theory, where numerical computation of integrals, as needed in the Einstein theory, is avoided.  相似文献   

Time series effects of dissolved oxygen and nitrogen on Long Island Sound lobster harvest     

Zinnia Mukherjee  Dipak K. Dey  Rangan Gupta 《Natural Hazards》2016,84(3):1849-1858

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Quantifying hillslope erosion rates and processes for a coastal California landscape over varying timescales   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Colin R. O'Farrell  Arjun M. Heimsath  James M. Kaste 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2007,32(4):544-560

The Earth's surface erodes by processes that occur over different spatial and temporal scales. Both continuous, low‐magnitude processes as well as infrequent, high‐magnitude events drive erosion of hilly soil‐mantled landscapes. To determine the potential variability of erosion rates we applied three independent, field‐based methods to a well‐studied catchment in the Marin Headlands of northern California. We present short‐term, basin‐wide erosion rates determined by measuring pond sediment volume (40 years) and measured activities of the fallout nuclides ¹³⁷Cs and ²¹⁰Pb (40–50 years) for comparison with long‐term (>10 ka) rates previously determined from in situ‐produced cosmogenic ¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al analyses. In addition to determining basin‐averaged rates, ¹³⁷Cs and ²¹⁰Pb enable us to calculate point‐specific erosion rates and use these rates to infer dominant erosion processes across the landscape. When examined in the context of established geomorphic transport laws, the correlations between point rates of soil loss from ¹³⁷Cs and ²¹⁰Pb inventories and landscape morphometry (i.e. topographic curvature and upslope drainage area) demonstrate that slope‐driven processes dominate on convex areas while overland flow processes dominate in concave hollows and channels. We show a good agreement in erosion rates determined by three independent methods: equivalent denudation rates of 143 ± 41 m Ma^?1 from pond sediment volume, 136 ± 36 m Ma^?1 from the combination of ¹³⁷Cs and ²¹⁰Pb, and 102 ± 25 m Ma^?1 from ¹⁰Be and ²⁶Al. Such agreement suggests that erosion of this landscape is not dominated by extreme events; rather, the rates and processes observed today are indicative of those operating for at least the past 10 000 years. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Implications of urban expansion on land use and land cover: towards sustainable development of Mega Manila,Philippines     

Mishra  Binaya Kumar  Mebeelo  Kafungwa  Chakraborty  Shamik  Kumar  Pankaj  Gautam  Arjun 《GeoJournal》2021,86(2):927-942

GeoJournal - Planning of land use and infrastructure in advance for a population that is projected to grow rapidly is highly important for its sustainable development. A correlative approach of...  相似文献   

Hillslope response to tectonic forcing in threshold landscapes     

Roman A. DiBiase  Arjun M. Heimsath  Kelin X. Whipple 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2012,37(8):855-865

Hillslopes are thought to poorly record tectonic signals in threshold landscapes. Numerous previous studies of steep landscapes suggest that large changes in long‐term erosion rate lead to little change in mean hillslope angle, measured at coarse resolution. New LiDAR‐derived topography data enables a finer examination of threshold hillslopes. Here we quantify hillslope response to tectonic forcing in a threshold landscape. To do so, we use an extensive cosmogenic beryllium‐10 (¹⁰Be)‐based dataset of catchment‐averaged erosion rates combined with a 500 km² LiDAR‐derived 1 m digital elevation model to exploit a gradient of tectonic forcing and topographic relief in the San Gabriel Mountains, California. We also calibrate a new method of quantifying rock exposure from LiDAR‐derived slope measurements using high‐resolution panoramic photographs. Two distinct trends in hillslope behavior emerge: below catchment‐mean slopes of 30°, modal slopes increase with mean slopes, slope distribution skewness decreases with increasing mean slope, and bedrock exposure is limited; above mean slopes of 30°, our rock exposure index increases strongly with mean slope, and the prevalence of angle‐of‐repose debris wedges keeps modal slopes near 37°, resulting in a positive relationship between slope distribution skewness and mean slope. We find that both mean slopes and rock exposure increase with erosion rate up to 1 mm/a, in contrast to previous work based on coarser topographic data. We also find that as erosion rates increase, the extent of the fluvial network decreases, while colluvial channels extend downstream, keeping the total drainage density similar across the range. Our results reveal important textural details lost in 10 or 30 m resolution digital elevation models of steep landscapes, and highlight the need for process‐based studies of threshold hillslopes and colluvial channels. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Quantifying periglacial erosion: insights on a glacial sediment budget,Matanuska Glacier,Alaska     

Colin R. O'Farrell  Arjun M. Heimsath  Daniel E. Lawson  Laura M. Jorgensen  Edward B. Evenson  Grahame Larson  Jon Denner 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2009,34(15):2008-2022

Glacial erosion rates are estimated to be among the highest in the world. Few studies have attempted, however, to quantify the flux of sediment from the periglacial landscape to a glacier. Here, erosion rates from the nonglacial landscape above the Matanuska Glacier, Alaska are presented and compare with an 8‐yr record of proglacial suspended sediment yield. Non‐glacial lowering rates range from 1·8 ± 0·5 mm yr^?1 to 8·5 ± 3·4 mm yr^?1 from estimates of rock fall and debris‐flow fan volumes. An average erosion rate of 0·08 ± 0·04 mm yr^?1 from eight convex‐up ridge crests was determined using in situ produced cosmogenic ¹⁰Be. Extrapolating these rates, based on landscape morphometry, to the Matanuska basin (58% ice‐cover), it was found that nonglacial processes account for an annual sediment flux of 2·3 ± 1·0 × 10⁶ t. Suspended sediment data for 8 years and an assumed bedload to estimate the annual sediment yield at the Matanuska terminus to be 2·9 ± 1·0 × 10⁶ t, corresponding to an erosion rate of 1·8 ± 0·6 mm yr^?1: nonglacial sources therefore account for 80 ± 45% of the proglacial yield. A similar set of analyses were used for a small tributary sub‐basin (32% ice‐cover) to determine an erosion rate of 12·1 ± 6·9 mm yr^?1, based on proglacial sediment yield, with the nonglacial sediment flux equal to 10 ± 7% of the proglacial yield. It is suggested that erosion rates by nonglacial processes are similar to inferred subglacial rates, such that the ice‐free regions of a glaciated landscape contribute significantly to the glacial sediment budget. The similar magnitude of nonglacial and glacial rates implies that partially glaciated landscapes will respond rapidly to changes in climate and base level through a rapid nonglacial response to glacially driven incision. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Estimating threshold-exceeding probability maps of environmental variables with Markov chain random fields   总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0  

Weidong Li  Chuanrong Zhang  Dipak K. Dey  Shanqin Wang 《Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment (SERRA)》2010,24(8):1113-1126

Estimating and mapping spatial uncertainty of environmental variables is crucial for environmental evaluation and decision making. For a continuous spatial variable, estimation of spatial uncertainty may be conducted in the form of estimating the probability of (not) exceeding a threshold value. In this paper, we introduced a Markov chain geostatistical approach for estimating threshold-exceeding probabilities. The differences of this approach compared to the conventional indicator approach lie with its nonlinear estimators—Markov chain random field models and its incorporation of interclass dependencies through transiograms. We estimated threshold-exceeding probability maps of clay layer thickness through simulation (i.e., using a number of realizations simulated by Markov chain sequential simulation) and interpolation (i.e., direct conditional probability estimation using only the indicator values of sample data), respectively. To evaluate the approach, we also estimated those probability maps using sequential indicator simulation and indicator kriging interpolation. Our results show that (i) the Markov chain approach provides an effective alternative for spatial uncertainty assessment of environmental spatial variables and the probability maps from this approach are more reasonable than those from conventional indicator geostatistics, and (ii) the probability maps estimated through sequential simulation are more realistic than those through interpolation because the latter display some uneven transitions caused by spatial structures of the sample data.  相似文献