Level of Lake Lahontan during deposition of the Trego Hot Springs tephra about 23,400 years ago     

Jonathan O. Davis 《Quaternary Research》1983,19(3):312-324

The Trego Hot Springs tephra bed is a silicic tephra about 23,400 yr old, found at several localities in pluvial lake sediments in northern Nevada, southern Oregon, and northeastern California. It has been characterized petrographically, by the major and minor element chemistry of its glass, and by its stratigraphic position with respect to other tephra layers. At a newly described locality on Squaw Creek, northwest of Gerlach, Nevada, at the north end of the Smoke Creek Desert, Trego Hot Springs tephra has been found in sediments of the Sehoo and Indian Lakes formations. The depositional environments of these sediments show that when the tephra fell, pluvial Lake Lahontan stood between 1256 and 1260 m, and that immediately thereafter the lake rose to at least 1275 m. These data corroborate earlier findings by Benson (Quaternary Research9, 300–318) from radiometric dating of calcareous tufa. However, the Lake Lahontan area has been affected by isostatic subsidence and rebound in response to changing water loads, so that caution is required in the use of lakeshore elevations in correlation.  相似文献   

Upriver migration and abundance of naked goby (Gobiosoma bosci) larvae in the Patuxent River estuary,Maryland     

Jonathan M. Shenker  Donald J. Hepner  Phyllis E. Frere  Lorraine E. Currence  Waldo W. Wakefield 《Estuaries and Coasts》1983,6(1):36-42

Larvae of the naked goby,Gobiosoma bosci, were collected during the spring and early summer of 1977 in the upper tidal Patuxent River, Maryland. Larvae first appeared in the collections on May 5. Weekly night sampling at 26 stations covering 28 km of the Patuxent illustrated the upriver movement of larvae, at an estimated rate of about 1 km per day. Larval densities quickly reached high levels, with a maximum density of more than 6,000 larvae per 100 m³ at one station on June 16. By June 23, the mean larval density for the entire 28 km stretch of the river was 1,825 larvae per 100 m³. Length-frequency distributions of the larvae illustrate the growth of the larvae, continual recruitment into the population, and a gradient in mean population length over the sampling transect that was due to the presence of the smallest larvae in the lower stations.  相似文献   

Experimental paleotemperature equation for planktonic foraminifera     

Jonathan Erez  Boaz Luz 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1983,47(6):1025-1031

Small live individuals of Globigerinoides sacculifer which were cultured in the laboratory reached maturity and produced garnets. Fifty to ninety percent of their skeleton weight was deposited under controlled water temperature (14° to 30°C) and water isotopic composition, and a correction was made to account for the isotopic composition of the original skeleton using control groups.Comparison of. the actual growth temperatures with the calculated temperature based on paleotemperature equations for inorganic CaCO₃ indicate that the foraminifera precipitate their CaCO₃ in isotopic equilibrium. Comparison with equations developed for biogenic calcite give a similarly good fit. Linear regression with Craig's (1965) equation yields: $\text{t = ?0.07 + 1.01}\text{t}\text{?}\text{(r= 0.95)}$ where t is the actual growth temperature and $\text{t}\text{?}$ Is the calculated paleotemperature. The intercept and the slope of this linear equation show that the familiar paleotemperature equation developed originally for mollusca carbonate, is equally applicable for the planktonic foraminifer G. sacculifer.Second order regression of the culture temperature and the delta difference (δ¹⁸Oc ? δ¹⁸Ow) yield a correlation coefficient of r = 0.95: $\text{t}\text{?}\text{= 17.0 ? 4.52(δ}{}^{18}\text{Oc ? δ}{}^{18}\text{Ow) + 0.03(δ}{}^{18}\text{Oc ? δ}{}^{18}\text{Ow)}{}^2$$\text{t}\text{?}\text{, δ}{}^{18}\text{Oc}$ and δ¹⁸Ow are the estimated temperature, the isotopic composition of the shell carbonate and the sea water respectively.A possible cause for nonequilibnum isotopic compositions reported earlier for living planktonic foraminifera is the improper combustion of the organic matter.  相似文献   

Hafnium isotope results from mid-ocean ridges and Kerguelen   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

P. Jonathan Patchett 《Lithos》1983,16(1):47-51

¹⁷⁶Hf/¹⁷⁷Hf ratios are presented for oceanic volcanics representing both extremes of the range of mantle HfNdSr isotopic variation. Hf from critical mid-ocean ridgebasalts shows that ¹⁷⁶Hf/¹⁷⁷Hf does indeed have a greater variability than ¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd and ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr in the depleted mantle. This extra variation is essentially of a random nature, and can perhaps be understood in terms of known Rb/SrSm/NdLu/Hf fractionation relationships. At the other extreme of mantle isotopic composition, ¹⁷⁶Hf/¹⁷⁷Hf ratios for igneous rocks from the Indian Ocean island of Kerguelen show a closely similar variation to published ¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd ratios for the same samples. Comparison of HfNdSr c relationships for Tristan da Cunha, Kerguelen and Samoa reveals divergences in the mantle array for ocean island magma sources, and perhaps suggests that these irregularities are largely the result of an extra component of ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr variation.  相似文献   

Evidence of stream response to Holocene climatic change in a small Wisconsin watershed     

Patricia F. McDowell 《Quaternary Research》1983,19(1):100-116

During the Holocene, moderate climatic and vegetational changes triggered several episodes of adjustment in the Brush Creek fluvial system. The alluvial chronology includes an episode of erosion at 7800 – 5700 yr B.P. corresponding to the mid-Holocene precipitation minimum and an episode of floodplain construction at 5700 – 5000 yr B.P. corresponding to a rapid increase in precipitation. Holocene climatic changes have influenced the sedimentology of the alluvial deposits and soil development on them. Fluvial adjustment is caused primarily by hydrologic and hydraulic changes related to climatic change, but there is no simple model for fluvial response to climatic change. The relationship between the direction of climatic change and the type of fluvial response is complex.  相似文献   

Evolution of continental crust and mantle heterogeneity: Evidence from Hf isotopes   总被引：14，自引：0，他引：14  

P. Jonathan Patchett  Olavi Kouvo  Carl E. Hedge  Mitsunobu Tatsumoto 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1982,78(3):279-297

We present initial ¹⁷⁶Hf/¹⁷⁷ Hf ratios for many samples of continental crust 3.7-0.3 Gy old. Results are based chiefly on zircons (1% Hf) and whole rocks: zircons are shown to be reliable carriers of essentially the initial Hf itself when properly chosen on the basis of U-Pb studies. Pre-3.0 Gy gneisses were apparently derived from an unfractionated mantle, but both depleted and undepleted mantle are evident as magma sources from 2.9 Gy to present. This mantle was sampled mainly from major crustal growth episodes 2.8, 1.8 and 0.7 Gy ago, all of which show gross heterogeneity of ¹⁷⁶Hf/¹⁷⁷Hf in magma sources from _Hf=0 to +14, or about 60% of the variability of the present mantle.The approximate _Hf=2_Nd relationship in ancient and modern igneous rocks shows that ¹⁷⁶Lu/¹⁷⁷Hf fractionates in general twice as much as ¹⁴⁷Sm/¹⁴⁴Nd in mantle melting processes. This allows an estimation of the relative value of the unknown bulk solid/liquid distribution coefficient for Hf. D_Lu/D_Hf= 2.3 holds for most mantle source regions. For garnet to be an important residual mantle phase, it must hold Hf strongly in order to preserve Hf-Nd isotopic relationships.The ancient Hf initials are consistent with only a small proportion of recycled older cratons in new continental crust, and with quasi-continuous, episodic growth of the continental crust with time. However, recycling of crust less than 150 My old cannot realistically be detected using Hf initials. The mantle shows clearly the general positive _Hf resulting from a residual geochemical state at least back to 2.9 Gy ago, and seems to have repeatedly possessed a similar degree of heterogeneity, rather than a continuously-developing depletion. This is consistent with a complex dynamic disequilibrium model for the creation, maintenance and destruction of heterogeneity in the mantle.  相似文献   

Nd isotopic ages of crust formation and metamorphism in the Precambrian of eastern and southern Mexico     

P. Jonathan Patchett  Joaquin Ruiz 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1987,96(4):523-528

Sm-Nd ages for garnets in the three Precambrian exposures of eastern and southern Mexico demonstrate that they belong to the Grenville tectonothermal event. The Sm-Nd garnet ages of 0.95 Ga for the Oaxacan Complex and 0.90 Ga for the Huiznopala Gneiss, Molango and the Novillo Gneiss, Ciudad Victoria, are postdated 75 Ma by Rb-Sr ages on biotites. Both sets of data document a cooling history following Grenville metamorphism at or before 1.0 Ga ago. Our garnet data are consistent with a blocking temperature for Sm-Nd in that mineral around 600° C suggested by Humphries and Cliff (1982).The three Precambrian occurrences have Nd chemical ages of separation from depleted mantle (T_DM) grouped in the range 1.40–1.60 Ga. This may result from derivation of the rocks from actual crustal protoliths which had been separated from the mantle 0.5 Ga before the Grenville Orogeny. It is much more likely, however, that crustal materials of 1.7 Ga or older age were mixed with mantle-derived products during Grenville events to produce intermediate T_DM ages and _Nd values around zero 1.0 Ga ago.  相似文献   

Origin of continental crust of 1.9-1.7 Ga age defined by Nd isotopes in the Ketilidian terrain of South Greenland     

P. Jonathan Patchett  David Bridgwater 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1984,87(4):311-318

Initial Nd isotope ratios are determined for components of 1.9-1.7 Ga age continental crust in the Ketilidian terrain of South Greenland. The Ketilidian has well-documented ages of migmatization/metamorphism (1.80 Ga) and post-tectonic granitoid intrusion (1.76-1.74 Ga) from U-Pb zircon studies. The Nd results show that: (1) metatholeiites with chondritic ¹⁴⁷Sm/¹⁴⁴Nd have _Nd=+4 to +5 at 1.8 Ga; (2) migmatites, paragneisses and an early granitoid have _Nd close to zero; (3) post-tectonic norites have _Nd +1.5, while spatially associated more-abundant granitoids have _Nd=0 to +1. The metatholeiites show that a normal depleted mantle (_Nd=+4 to +5) was present beneath this 1.9-1.7 Ga orogenic zone, as is the case in such environments today. However, metatholeiites are an insignificant part of the Ketilidian crust, and the bulk initial ratio of the whole terrain lies close to _Nd=0. Rather than invoking depleted and undepleted mantle sources whose products did not mix, we infer the _Nd=0 value to be caused by mixing of a component derived from depleted mantle (_Nd=+ 4 to +5) with Archean crustal material (_Nd=-9 to -13). As there are no proven relics of Archean crust beyond the border zone of the Ketilidian, and the _Nd= 0 value appears to be a wellhomogenized feature, we propose that the Archean material was added in the form of sediments transported to the orogenic zone on oceanic crust. The Archean component comprised between 5 and 17% of the Ketilidian, and the most reasonable estimate is 10%. Thus this 1.9-1.7 Ga terrain consisted of 90% new mantle-derived crust.  相似文献   

Comments on “Tectonic implications of the age, composition, and orientation of lamprophyre dikes, Navajo volcanic field, Arizona”, by A.W. Laughlin, M.J. Aldrich, Jr., M. Shafiqullah and J. Husler     

F.W. McDowell  M.F. Roden  D. Smith 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1986,80(3-4):415-417

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The utilization of an intertidal salt marsh creek by larval and juvenile fishes: Abundance,diversity and temporal variation     

Jonathan M. Shenker  John M. Dean 《Estuaries and Coasts》1979,2(3):154-163

The utilization of an intertidal salt marsh creek in South Carolina during January 1977 was determined by sampling every third ebb tide for 13 days. All fishes leaving the creek during that period were captured in a channel net. This procedure produced a time-series of samples which permitted analysis of the fish community occupying the intertidal creek at all times of day and night. A total of 14,730 larval, juvenile, and adult fishes comprising at least 22 species in 16 families were collected. The most common larval and juvenile fishes wereLeiostomus xanthurus, Mugil spp.,Myrophis punctatus leptocephali,Lagodon rhomboides, Paralichthys spp., andMicropogon undulatus. Catch sizes for all species varied widely between samples. No diurnal-nocturnal pattern in catches was evident forL. xanthurus, Mugil spp.,L. rhomboides andM. undulatus. M. punctatus was taken in large numbers only when the flood tide occurred during the day, while moreParalichthys spp. larvae were taken in late afternoon-evening flood tide samples. The most common invertebrate,Palaemonetes pugio, was taken in large quantities only in late afternoon-night flood tide samples. Three diversity indices were computed for each sample. Values for all indices varied widely between successive samples. The results emphasize a high degree of utilization of the intertidal creek habitat by larval and juvenile fishes. The diurnal-nocturnal activity patterns of some species, and the wide variation in catch size of the other species can permit use of the intertidal salt marsh habitat with reduced competition for available space and energy.  相似文献