Reconstructions of the Mediterranean Outflow Water during the quaternary based on the study of changes in buried mounded drift stacking pattern in the Gulf of Cadiz     

Estefania Llave  Francisco J. Hernández-Molina  Dorrik A. V. Stow  Mari Carmen Fernández-Puga  Margarita García  Juan T. Vázquez  Adolfo Maestro  Luis Somoza  Victor Díaz del Río 《Marine Geophysical Researches》2007,28(4):379-394

Contourite deposits in the central sector of the middle slope of the Gulf of Cadiz have been studied using a comprehensive acoustic, seismic and core database. Buried, mounded, elongated and separated drifts developed under the influence of the lower core of the Mediterranean Outflow Water are preserved in the sedimentary record. These are characterised by depositional features in an area where strong tectonic and erosive processes are now dominant. The general stacking pattern of the depositional system is mainly influenced by climatic changes through the Quaternary, whereas changes in the depositional style observed in two, buried, mounded drifts, the Guadalquivir and Huelva Drifts, are evidence of a tectonic control. In the western Guadalquivir Drift, the onset of the sheeted drift construction (aggrading QII unit) above a mounded drift (prograding QI unit) resulted from a new Lower Mediterranean Core Water hydrodynamic regime. This change is correlated with a tectonic event coeval with the Mid Pleistocene Revolution (MPR) discontinuity that produced new irregularities of the seafloor during the Mid- to Late-Pleistocene. Changes in the Huelva Drift from a mounded to a sheeted drift geometry during the Late-Pleistocene, and from a prograding drift (QI and most part of QII) to an aggrading one (upper seismic unit of QII), highlight a new change in oceanographic conditions. This depositional and then oceanographic change is associated with a tectonic event, coeval with the Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 6 discontinuity, in which a redistribution of the diapiric ridges led to the development of new local gateways, three principal branches of the Mediterranean Lower Core Water, and associated contourite channels. As a result, these buried contourite drifts hold a key palaeoceanographic record of the evolution of Mediterranean Lower Core Water, influenced by both neotectonic activity and climatic changes during the Quaternary. This study is an example of how contourite deposits and erosive elements in the marine environment can provide evidence for the reconstruction of palaeoceanographic and recent tectonic changes.  相似文献   

Late Pleistocene: Holocene record of environmental changes in Lake Zirahuen,Central Mexico     

Beatriz Ortega  Gabriel Vázquez  Margarita Caballero  Isabel Israde  Socorro Lozano-García  Peter Schaaf  Esperanza Torres 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2010,44(3):745-760

Geochemical data obtained from X-ray fluorescence, physical properties, total organic and inorganic carbon content (TOC/TIC), and diatom analysis from a 6.61-m-long sedimentary sequence near the modern northern shore of Lake Zirahuen (101° 44′ W, 19° 26′ N, 2000 m asl) provide a reconstruction of lacustrine sedimentation during the last approximately 17 cal kyr BP. A time scale is based on ten AMS ¹⁴C dates and by tephra layers from Jorullo (AD 1759-1764) and Paricutin (AD 1943-1952) volcanoes. The multiproxy analyses presented in this study reveal abrupt changes in environmental and climatic conditions. The results are compared to the paleo-record from nearby Lake Patzcuaro. Dry conditions and low lake level are inferred in the late Pleistocene until ca. 15 cal kyr BP, followed by a slight but sustained increase in lake level, as well as a higher productivity, peaking at ca. 12.1 cal kyr BP. This interpretation is consistent with several regional climatic reconstructions in central Mexico, but it is in opposition to record from Lake Patzcuaro. A sediment hiatus bracketed between 12.1 and 7.2 cal kyr BP suggests a drop in lake level in response to a dry early Holocene. A deeper, more eutrophic and turbid lake is recorded after 7.2 cal kyr BP. Lake level at the coring site during the mid Holocene is considered the highest for the past 17 cal kyr BP. The emplacement of the La Magueyera lava flows (LMLF), dated by thermoluminiscence at 6560 ± 950 year, may have reduced basin volume and contributed to the relative deepening of the lake after 7.2 cal kyr BP. The late Holocene (after 3.9 cal kyr BP) climate is characterized by high instability. Extensive erosion, lower lake levels, dry conditions and pulses of high sediment influx due to high rainfall are inferred for this time. Further decrease in lake level and increased erosion are recorded after ca. AD 1050, at the peak of Purepechas occupation (AD 1300–1521), and until the eighteenth century. Few lacustrine records extend back to the late Pleistocene—early Holocene in central Mexico; this paper contributes to the understanding of late Pleistocene-Holocene paleoclimates in this region.  相似文献   

Environmental Characteristics of Lake Tecocomulco, northern basin of Mexico, for the last 50,000 years     

Margarita Caballero  Socorro Lozano  Beatriz Ortega  Jaime Urrutia  Jose Luis Macias 《Journal of Paleolimnology》1999,22(4):399-411

Paleoenvironmental studies have documented the late Pleistocene to Holocene evolution of the lakes in the central and southern parts of the basin of Mexico (Texcoco and Chalco). No information was available, however, for the lakes in the north-eastern part of this basin. The north-eastern and the central and southern areas represent, at present, different environmental conditions: an important gradient exists between the dry north and the moister south. To investigate the late Pleistocene to Holocene characteristics of the north-eastern lakes in the basin of Mexico two parallel cores (TA and TB) were drilled at the SE shore of Lake Tecocomulco. Stratigraphy, magnetic properties, granulometry, diatom and pollen analyses performed on these sediments indicate that the lake experienced a series of changes between ca. > 42,000 yr BP and present. Chronological control is given by five radiocarbon determinations. The base of the record is represented by a thick, rhyolitic air-fall tephra that could be older than ca. 50,000 yr BP. After this Plininan event, and until ca. 42,000 yr BP, Lake Tecocomulco was a moderately deep, freshwater lake surrounded by extended pine forests that suggest the presence of cooler and moister conditions than present. Between ca. 42,000 and 37,000 yr BP, the lake became shallower but with important fluctuations and pollen suggests slightly warmer conditions. Between ca. 37,000 and 30,000 yr BP the lake experienced two relatively deep phases separated by a dry interval. A second Plinian eruption, represented in the sequence by a dacitic an air-fall tephra layer dated at 31,000 yr BP, occurred in the area by the end of this dry episode. Between ca. 30,000 and 25,7000 yr BP Tecocomulco was a fresh to slightly alkaline lake with a trend towards lower level. After ca. 25,700 yr BP very low lake levels are inferred, and after ca. 16,000 yr BP the data indicate the presence of a very dry environment that was persistent until the middle Holocene. After 3,500 yr BP lacustrine conditions were re-established and the vegetation cover shows a change towards higher percentages of herbaceous taxa.  相似文献   

不同森林生态系统对全球气候变化和经济活动响应的比较分析（英文）     

Svetlana Dorzhievna PUNTSUKOVA  Bair Octyabrevich GOMBOEV  Margarita Ramilievna AKHMETZYANOVA  Tsogtbatar JAMSRAN  Tsendesuren DAGDAN  董锁成 《资源与生态学报(英文版)》2015,6(2):106-109

本文对俄罗斯、蒙古和中国范围气候变化对不同生态系统(寒带、热带)空气记录分布的影响进行研究,并将这些生态系统对全球气候变化的响应进行比较分析,其中空气记录来自研究范围的关键区域。研究发现,森林生态系统对气候变化具有一定的响应。伴随着气候变化,社会经济活动对生态系统的影响显著。研究结果表明,气候驱动力和人类直接影响对森林和草原生态系统如何施加影响有待进一步研究。  相似文献   

The state of water resources in major Mediterranean islands     

Francesco Viola  Manuel Sapiano  Michael Schembri  Clive Brincat  Antonio Lopez  Attilio Toscano  Evan Diamadopoulos  Bambos Charalambous  Bruno Molle  Michael Zoumadakis  Antonina Torrens Armengol  Margarita Gallinas Vich  Maria Teresa Noto 《Water Resources》2014,41(6):639-648

This work analyses the state of water resources in six Mediterranean islands: Corsica, Crete, Cyprus, Mallorca, Malta and Sicily. The analysis is focused on the prevailing social, economic and hydroclimatological characteristics of these islands in order to identify the main common features affecting water availability, demand and use. A detailed analysis of the state of water resources in all the considered islands has been carried out. A background of current conditions relating to freshwater availability, quality and use has been established. Different strategies to face water scarcity and enhance water quality in theislands have been assessed in a context of climate change which is a common threat. The identification of similar problems for all the islands highlights the importance of strengthening inter-islands co-operation in the field of sustainable water resources management.  相似文献   

Y/Ho Ratios in the Late Cenozoic Basalts from the Eastern Tuva, Russia: An ICP-MS Study with Enhanced Data Quality   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Alexei V. Ivanov  Sergei V. Rasskazov  Evgeny P. Chebykin  Margarita E. Markova  Elena V. Saranina 《Geostandards and Geoanalytical Research》2000,24(2):197-204

A set of forty seven Late Cenozoic basaltic rocks from the Eastern Tuva (southern Siberia, Russia) have been studied by ICP-MS using In as an internal standard. Yttrium and Ho concentrations, determined along with other trace elements, varied systematically from one analytical run to another and covered the entire charge-and-radius-controlled field within the range 24 < Y/Ho < 34, so obscuring any geochemical interpretation. A correction procedure was therefore developed in which the Y/Ho ratios were recalculated using concentrations of these elements determined in international and in-house reference materials (BHVO-1, AGV-1, BIR-1 and U-94-5). Statistical analysis of the recalculated data set revealed two groups of samples not related by their genesis but rather by their respective analytical runs. Fourteen samples originally analysed in five different runs were then re-measured by the same instrument in peak-hopping mode using only specific mass peaks (m/z = 89, 115 and 165). All of these samples yielded Y/Ho ratios in a narrow range between 29 and 31, thus illustrating how analytical problems in the determination of Y and Ho by routine ICP-MS procedures can be overcome. Finally, a mean value of Y/Ho = 30.3 ± 1.1 (1s) was derived for the basaltic rocks of the Eastern Tuva. This is close to the value of 28.8 accepted for chondrites and for ocean island basalts. Despite the uniform Y/Ho ratio, the element concentrations in basaltic rocks from the Eastern Tuva show systematic enrichment in heavy rare earth elements and yttrium from the Miocene to the Quaternary.  相似文献   

Land Degradation in the Test Areas of China and Argentina：Observed P   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

高前兆 《中国沙漠》2000,20(2):118-123

叙述中国西北地区的黑河流域、塔里木盆地南缘和阿根迁西北的门多萨、圣地亚哥德埃斯特罗省等检验区的退化土地的类型、分布特征、影响因素及其相互关系。结合近百年来平原区气候变化有明显暖化和旱化,阿根廷半干旱区的降水波,和人口增长对土地利用压力的加大趋势,可以预测在人工绿洲外围和河流下游,尽管人类在优化绿洲建设和合理利用水资源等方面可以取得很大进步,但土地退化的趋势还会继续,因此必须加强对这些生态脆弱边缘土  相似文献   

Compact non-singular expansions in the exterior space of a reference ellipsoid for the gravitational gradients in the local north-oriented ellipsoidal and spherical reference frames     

Margarita S. Petrovskaya  Andrey N. Vershkov 《Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica》2016,60(1):1-16

Due to the complicated structure of their expressions, the ellipsoidal harmonic series for the derivatives of the Earth’s gravitational potential are commonly applied only on a reference ellipsoid. They depend on the first- and second-order derivatives of the associated Legendre functions of both kinds and contain a few singular terms. We construct ellipsoidal harmonic expansions in the exterior space for the first and second potential derivatives, which are similar to the series on the reference ellipsoid enveloping the Earth. We take a point P at an arbitrary altitude above the reference ellipsoid and construct the ellipsoid of revolution confocal to it, which passes through this point. The conventional complicated singular expressions for the first and second potential derivatives in the local north-oriented ellipsoidal reference frame, with the origin at the point P, are transformed into non-singular ellipsoidal harmonic series, which do not contain the first- and second-order derivatives of the associated Legendre functions. The resulting series have an accuracy of the squared eccentricity. These series can be applied for constructing a geopotential model, which is based, simultaneously, on the surface gravity data and the data of satellite missions, which provide measurements of the accelerations and/or the gravitational gradients. When the eccentricity of the considered external ellipsoid is equated to zero, the ellipsoid becomes an external sphere passing through the point P and the constructed ellipsoidal harmonic expansions are converted into non-singular spherical harmonic series for the first and second potential derivatives in the local north-oriented spherical reference frame.  相似文献   

Developing configuration of WRF model for long-term high-resolution wind wave hindcast over the North Atlantic with WAVEWATCH III     

Margarita Markina  Alexander Gavrikov  Sergey Gulev  Bernard Barnier 《Ocean Dynamics》2018,68(11):1593-1604

The spatial resolution of wind forcing fields is critical for modeling ocean surface waves. We analyze here the performance of the non-hydrostatic numerical weather prediction system WRF-ARW (Weather Research and Forecasting) run with a 14-km resolution for hindcasting wind waves in the North Atlantic. The regional atmospheric model was run in the domain from 20° N to 70° N in the North Atlantic and was forced with ERA-Interim reanalysis as initial and boundary conditions in a spectral nudging mode. Here, we present the analysis of the impact of spectral nudging formulation (cutoff wavelengths and depth through which full weighting from reanalysis data is applied) onto the performance of the modeled 10-m wind speed and wind wave fields for 1 year (2010). For modeling waves, we use the third-generation spectral wave model WAVEWATCH III. The sensitivity of the atmospheric and wave models to the spectral nudging formulation is investigated via the comparison with reanalysis and observational data. The results reveal strong and persistent agreement with reanalysis data during all seasons within the year with well-simulated annual cycle and regional patterns independently of the nudging parameters that were tested. Thus, the proposed formulation of the nudging provides a reliable framework for future long-term experiments aiming at hindcasting climate variability in the North Atlantic wave field. At the same time, dynamical downscaling allows for simulation of higher waves in coastal regions, specifically near the Greenland east coast likely due to a better representation of the mesoscale atmospheric dynamics in this area.  相似文献   

Supporting multi-resolution out-of-core rendering of massive LiDAR point clouds through non-redundant data structures     

David Deibe  Margarita Amor  Ramón Doallo 《International journal of geographical information science》2019,33(3):593-617

In recent years, the evolution and improvement of LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) hardware has increased the quality and quantity of the gathered data, making the storage, processing and management thereof particularly challenging. In this work we present a novel, multi-resolution, out-of-core technique, used for web-based visualization and implemented through a non-redundant, data point organization method, which we call Hierarchically Layered Tiles (HLT), and a tree-like structure called Tile Grid Partitioning Tree (TGPT). The design of these elements is mainly focused on attaining very low levels of memory consumption, disk storage usage and network traffic on both, client and server-side, while delivering high-performance interactive visualization of massive LiDAR point clouds (up to 28 billion points) on multiplatform environments (mobile devices or desktop computers). HLT and TGPT were incorporated and tested in ViLMA (Visualization for LiDAR data using a Multi-resolution Approach), our own web-based visualization software specially designed to work with massive LiDAR point clouds.  相似文献