Regional geomorphology and history of Titan’s Xanadu province     

J. Radebaugh  R.D. Lorenz  R.L. Kirk  J.I. Lunine  R.M.C. Lopes  T.G. Farr  B. Stiles  H. Zebker  L. Wye  K.L. Mitchell  R.D. West  The Cassini Radar Team 《Icarus》2011,211(1):672-685

Titan’s enigmatic Xanadu province has been seen in some detail with instruments from the Cassini spacecraft. The region contains some of the most rugged, mountainous terrain on Titan, with relief over 2000 m. Xanadu contains evolved and integrated river channels, impact craters, and dry basins filled with smooth, radar-dark material, perhaps sediments from past lake beds. Arcuate and aligned mountain chains give evidence of compressional tectonism, yet the overall elevation of Xanadu is puzzlingly low compared to surrounding sand seas. Lineations associated with mountain fronts and valley floors give evidence of extension that probably contributed to this regional lowering. Several locations on Xanadu’s western and southern margins contain flow-like features that may be cryovolcanic in origin, perhaps ascended from lithospheric faults related to regional downdropping late in its history. Radiometry and scatterometry observations are consistent with a water-ice or water-ammonia-ice composition to its exposed, eroded, fractured bedrock; both microwave and visible to near-infrared (v-nIR) data indicate a thin overcoating of organics, likely derived from the atmosphere. We suggest Xanadu is one of the oldest terrains on Titan and that its origin and evolution have been controlled and shaped by compressional and then extensional tectonism in the icy crust and ongoing erosion by methane rainfall.  相似文献   

Antioxidant responses to variations in dissolved oxygen of Scapharca inaequivalvis and Tapes philippinarum, two bivalve species from the lagoon of Venice     

Irato P  Piccinni E  Cassini A  Santovito G 《Marine pollution bulletin》2007,54(7):1020-1030

The aim of the present work was to determine the activities of selected antioxidant enzymes (SOD, Se-GPX, CAT) in two species of bivalves, Scapharca inaequivalvis and Tapes philippinarum, from two sites of the lagoon of Venice that are characterized by different pO(2) (Marghera and Chioggia). The specimens were collected at four times during a 1-year period. In the two species studied, enzyme activities were found to be present in both digestive glands and gills, but with some species-specific differences that may also represent a different adaptation to seasonal variations. The presence of high SOD activities in the gills of both species may be related to their physiological role in respiration. Scapharca inaequivalvis is less sensitive than T. philippinarum to environmental changes, perhaps due to the presence of hemoglobins in this species. Moreover, in the digestive gland of T. philippinarum we found a significant negative correlation between the activities of SOD and GPX that may indicate the presence of oxidative stress. Some correlations between temperature/dissolved oxygen and antioxidant enzyme activity were present in specimens sampled in Marghera. Only GPX adequately responded to changes in dissolved oxygen and temperature, while the decrease in the activity of SOD and CAT in winter may be directly responsible for an enhanced susceptibility of mussels to oxidative stress during this period. We can conclude that the observed differences between Chioggia and Marghera are due to different concentrations of dissolved oxygen. Marghera is an appropriate location to study seasonal variations in water temperature. In fact, in this site, the differences between hot and cold months are quite evident.  相似文献   

张北地震前地壳形变异常及力学分析   总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0  

陈绍绪  张跃刚  丁瑞同  吴晓岚 《大地测量与地球动力学》2003,23(4):5-8

1998年 1月河北省张北 6 .2级地震前 ,在震中区西部存在一个幅度为 2 0mm的隆起异常区 ,震后异常恢复。根据张北地区 1984～ 1991年的水准测量资料 ,反演地震孕育期间的力学参数 ,结果显示震源区受力增加了32× 10 14 N ;力系中心位置为 4 0 .99°N ,113.99°E ,力系的方位角α =2 8.6 5°,力系的倾角 β =- 17.19° ,与后来实际发生地震的震中及震源机制十分接近 ,与华北地区区域应力场也基本一致。理论形变图与实测图大体相似。  相似文献   

Mountains on Titan observed by Cassini Radar     

Jani Radebaugh  Ralph D. Lorenz  Randolph L. Kirk  Ellen R. Stofan  Stephen D. Wall  the Cassini Radar Team 《Icarus》2007,192(1):77-91

The Cassini Titan Radar mapper has observed elevated blocks and ridge-forming block chains on Saturn's moon Titan demonstrating high topography we term “mountains.” Summit flanks measured from the T3 (February 2005) and T8 (October 2005) flybys have a mean maximum slope of 37° and total elevations up to 1930 m as derived from a shape-from-shading model corrected for the probable effects of image resolution. Mountain peak morphologies and surrounding, diffuse blankets give evidence that erosion has acted upon these features, perhaps in the form of fluvial runoff. Possible formation mechanisms for these mountains include crustal compressional tectonism and upthrusting of blocks, extensional tectonism and formation of horst-and-graben, deposition as blocks of impact ejecta, or dissection and erosion of a preexisting layer of material. All above processes may be at work, given the diversity of geology evident across Titan's surface. Comparisons of mountain and blanket volumes and erosion rate estimates for Titan provide a typical mountain age as young as 20-100 million years.  相似文献   

Recently Ratified and Proposed Cambrian Global Standard Stratotype-section and Points     

PENG Shanchi  ZHU Xuejian  ZUO Jinxun  LIN Huanling  CHEN Yong’an  WANG Longwu 《《地质学报》英文版》2011,85(2):296-308

This paper briefly summarizes an officially ratified Global Standard Stratotype-section and Point (GSSP) and a proposed GSSP for global stages of the Cambrian System. The Luoyixi section near Luoyixi town, Guzhang, northwestern Hunan is ratified as the boundary stratotype for the base of the global Guzhangian Stage, which is the upmost stage of an unnamed series termed provisionally as Cambrian Series 3. The GSSP position lies 121.3 m above the base of the Huaqiao Formation in the section, coinciding with the first appearance of the cosmopolitan agnostoid trilobite Lejopyge leavigata. The Duibian B section at Duibian village, Jiangshan, western Zhejiang, is proposed as the boundary stratotype for the base of the proposed global Jiangshanian Stage that is the second stage of the Furongian Series. The proposed GSSP position lies 108.12 m above the base of the Huayansi Formation in the section, coinciding with the first appearance of the cosmopolitan agnostoid trilobite Agnostotes orientalius. This horizon is also with the first appearance of the cosmopolitan polymerid trilobite Irvingella angustilimbata.  相似文献   

Northern Eurasia earth science partnership initiative (NEESPI), science plan overview     

Pavel Ya. Groisman  Sergey A. Bartalev  The NEESPI Science Plan Development Team 《Global and Planetary Change》2007,56(3-4):215

Northern Eurasia Earth System Partnership Initiative, NEESPI, was established to address the global change processes associated with and/or originated within Northern Eurasia as well as to study the major socially-important processes within the region. NEESPI began as a US–Russian initiative but has quickly broadened into a fully international program. Scientists from 11 countries participated in preparing the NEESPI Science Plan. Current version of the Science Plan was released for public review on the World Wide Web in summer 2004 and finalized in December 2004. This paper provides an Overview of the Plan and is based, mainly, on its Executive Summary. The Overview describes the Plan's science themes and key science questions, provides a justification of the urgency studying Northern Eurasia from the global change prospective, and outlines research strategy and tools to address NEESPI science questions, as well as projected deliverables of the Initiative.  相似文献   

营口—宽甸地区重力场特征及地质解释     

曹恩久 《国土资源》1991,(4)

营口—宽甸地区重力场自北而南有逐渐增高的总趋势。中部区重力低与重力高呈带状相间出现。结合该区已知的地质构造特征综合分析,重力负值带是早元古宙拗拉槽边界深断裂和构造—岩浆岩带的反映。隐伏、半隐伏花岗岩体的解释和推断,为逃一步寻找金、硼、铅锌等矿产提供了信息。  相似文献   

Remote sensing of mesospheric winds with the high-resolution doppler imager     

Paul B. Hays  HRDI Science Team 《Planetary and Space Science》1992,40(12):1599-1606

Observations of the winds in the upper atmosphere obtained with the High-Resolution Doppler Imager (HRDI) on the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) are discussed. This instrument is a very stable high-resolution triple-etalon Fabry-Perot interferometer, which is used to observe the slight Doppler shifts of absorption and emission lines in the O₂ Atmospheric bands induced by atmospheric motions. Preliminary observations indicate that the winds in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere are a mixture of migrating and non-migrating tides, and planetary-scale waves. The mean meridional winds are dominated by the 1,1 diurnal tide which is easily extracted from the daily zonal means of the satellite observations. The daily mean zonal winds are a mixture of the diurnal tide and a zonal flow which is consistent with theoretical expectations.  相似文献   

青海德尔尼硫化物矿床成因的新认识   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

阿延寿 《青海国土经略》2001,(1)

通过对青海德尔尼硫化物矿床的产出部位、成矿环境、矿石矿物的组合、主要化学元素的成份及同位素测试数据等分析研究,认为该矿床具有裂谷成矿机制的特征,成因类型应属裂谷型层控矿床。  相似文献   

滩间山金矿矿床成因初步探讨     

党兴彦  付宝侠 《青海国土经略》1996,(2)

本文通过对滩间山矿区地层、构造及岩浆岩与成矿关系的研究,认为中元古界万洞沟群是金的矿源层;成矿构造具有多期次、多阶段活动的特点,矿体受单一及复合型式的构造控制;华力西期侵入体对成矿作用仅体现于为矿床的形成与再造提供热源。矿质在弱酸—中偏碱性溶液中,主要呈硫络合物的形式搬运、并在还原条件下成矿。特别指出,含磷质物地层是区内重要的岩金找矿标志之一。  相似文献