Malham Cove: splendour and enigma          下载免费PDF全文

Tony Waltham 《Geology Today》2017,33(1):32-40

A dry waterfall that recently came to life, a landform that is not karstic in the middle of a great karst terrain, underground drainage that is not as simple as it seems, and on‐going debate about how it was formed: Malham Cove is more than just a spectacular sight.  相似文献   

Records of palaeo‐sea level and eruption duration in a coastal tuff ring,Jeju Island,Korea          下载免费PDF全文

Woo Seok Yoon  Seok Hoon Yoon  Chanwoo Sohn  Young Kwan Sohn 《地学学报》2017,29(1):52-60

Phreatomagmatic volcanoes and their sedimentary products can preserve high‐resolution records of earth surface processes because of their high deposition rate. Songaksan, Jeju Island, Korea, is a phreatomagmatic volcano, which erupted c. 3.7 ka BP in a coastal setting. Its tuff ring preserves a record of intertidal to supratidal facies transition in the basal part, which reveals the position of palaeo‐high‐tide level for at least 13 high‐tide events, and a record of a storm‐surge event in the middle part of the tuff ring, which lasted approximately three tidal cycles. Based on these features, the phreatomagmatic eruption of Songaksan is estimated to have taken place over a month. The sea level at the time was almost identical to that at present. This study shows that coastal phreatomagmatic volcanoes can preserve high‐resolution records of eruption duration and palaeo‐sea level, and can provide accurately levelled and dated data points to the Quaternary sea‐level curve.  相似文献   

Lötschberg–geology for tunnellers     

Tony Waltham 《Geology Today》2007,23(3):101-107

Switzerland's Lötschberg tunnels present a long story of both failure and success. Tunnelling that began 100 years ago ended in a massive disaster–which is a classic of engineering geology–but subsequent works were very much more successful.  相似文献   

UV bright globular clusters in M87: more evidence for super-He-rich stellar populations?     

S. Kaviraj  S. T. Sohn  R. W. O'Connell  S.-J. Yoon  Y. W. Lee  S. K. Yi 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,377(3):987-996

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Millennial-scale sea-level control on avulsion events on the Amazon Fan     

Mark Maslin  Paul C. Knutz  Tony Ramsay 《Quaternary Science Reviews》2006,25(23-24):3338

The Late Quaternary Amazon deep-sea fan provides a modern analogue to ancient fan systems containing coarse-grained hydrocarbon reservoirs. Sand lenses deposited within the Amazon Fan, due to abrupt shifts in channel pathways called avulsion events, were drilled as part of ODP Leg 155. The hemipelagic sediment directly on top of the avulsion sands was dated using primarily AMS radio carbon dating. This dating shows that these large sand lobes (1 km³) are triggered by relatively small, millennial scale changes in marine transgression and regression (±5–10 m). Relative sea level also controls the architecture of the Channel–levee distributive systems within the Amazon Fan. For example prior to 22 k calendar years BP there is a tripartite channel system. After 22 ka there is only one active Channel–levee system. Transitions between the multi-channel and single channel configurations are related to variations in the volume of sediment supply resulting in aggradation or erosion of channel floor and levee growth in the canyon-channel transition area. The sensitivity of the Amazon deep-sea Fan sedimentation to relatively small changes in sea level supports one of the central assumptions of the theory of Sequence Stratigraphy. In addition this study demonstrates how traps for hydrocarbons may have been formed in ancient fan systems.  相似文献   

Old stellar population synthesis: new age and mass estimates for Mayall Ⅱ = G1     

Jun Ma  Richard de Grijs  Zhou Fan  Soo-Chang Rey  Zhen-Yu Wu  Xu Zhou  Jiang-Hua Wu  Zhao-Ji Jiang  Jian-Sheng Chen  Kyungsook Lee  Sangmo Tony Sohn 《中国天文和天体物理学报》2009,9(6)

Mayall Ⅱ = G1 is one of the most luminous globular clusters (GCs) in M31. Here, we determine its age and mass by comparing multicolor photometry with theo-retical stellar population synthesis models. Based on far- and near-ultraviolet GALEX photometry, broad-band UBV RI, and infrared JHK8 2MASS data, we construct the most extensive spectral energy distribution of G1 to date, spanning the wavelength range from 1538 to 20000A. A quantitative comparison with a variety of simple stellar pop-ulation (SSP) models yields a mean age which is consistent with G1 being among the oldest building blocks of M31 and having formed within ～1.7Gyr after the Big Bang. Irrespective of the SSP model or stellar initial mass function adopted, the resulting mass estimates (of order 107M⊙) indicate that G1 is one of the most massive GCs in the Local Group. However, we speculate that the cluster's exceptionally high mass suggests that it may not be a genuine GC. Our results also suggest that G1 may contain, on average, (1.65±0.63) × 102L⊙ far-ultraviolet-bright, hot, extreme horizontal-branch stars, depend-ing on the adopted SSP model. In addition, we demonstrate that extensive multi-passband photometry coupled with SSP analysis enables one to obtain age estimates for old SSPs that have similar accuracies as those from integrated spectroscopy or resolved stellar pho-tometry, provided that some of the free parameters can be constrained independently.  相似文献   

Diurnal variation of outgoing longwave radiation associated with high cloud and UTH changes from Meteosat-5 measurements     

Eui-Seok Chung  Byung-Ju Sohn  Johannes Schmetz 《Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics》2009,105(3-4):109-119

Diurnal variations of outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) are examined in conjunction with diurnal variations of high cloud and upper tropospheric humidity (UTH) over the Indian Ocean and surrounding land areas using Meteosat-5 measurements. Most land areas exhibit a significant diurnal variation of OLR with the largest amplitude over the Arabian Peninsula, whereas the diurnal variation of OLR is much weaker over the Indian Ocean. While diurnal maxima of OLR are found in the early afternoon over many regions of the analysis domain following the diurnal cycle of solar heating, convectively active regions of both land and ocean where high cloud and UTH exhibit distinct diurnal variations show OLR maxima before local noon. These results indicate that high cloud development in the afternoon induces a shift in local time of OLR maxima over convective regions. In agreement with earlier studies it is shown that UTH diurnal variations are less important in regard to their impact on the OLR variations.  相似文献   

An introduction to the South China Sea throughflow: Its dynamics, variability, and application for climate   总被引：9，自引：0，他引：9  

Tangdong Qu  Y. Tony Song  Toshio Yamagata 《Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans》2009,47(1-3):3

The South China Sea throughflow (SCSTF) involves the inflow through the Luzon strait and the outflow through the Karimata, Mindoro, and Taiwan straits. Recent studies have suggested that the SCSTF act as a heat and freshwater conveyor, playing a potentially important role in regulating the sea surface temperature pattern in the South China Sea and its adjoining tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans. In this introductory paper, we attempt to convey the progress that has recently been made in understanding the SCSTF. We first provide an overview of existing observations, theories, and simulations of the SCSTF. Then, we discuss its interaction with the Pacific western boundary current and Indonesian throughflow. Finally, we summarize issues and questions that remain to be addressed, with special reference to the SCSTF's dynamics, variability, and implication for climate.  相似文献   

Metal ion complex formation constants of some sedimentary humic acids with Zn(II), Cu(II) and Cd(II)     

Mary L Sohn  Michael C Hughes 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1981,45(12):2393-2399

Metal ion complex formation constants were determined for several sedimentary humic acids (SHA) derived from a fresh water lake and several coastal marine environments, using a method based on size exclusion chromatography. Only one type of binding site was observed in all cases, and conditional log K_f values of between 5 and 7 (at pH 8, I = 0.01 M) were found. Elemental composition of the SHA was similar to soil HA, except that nitrogen content was significantly higher in the SHA. Other chemical properties of the SHA were consistent with those reported by other workers. While spectroscopic measurements indicated that the SHA may have contained significant amounts of polysaccharide compounds which were not removed by conventional separation and purification procedures, analysis indicated only very low levels of polysaccharides were present in the SHA.  相似文献   

Mathematical modelling of historical reconnaissance CORONA KH-4B Imagery   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Hong-Gyoo Sohn  Gi-Hong Kim  Jae-Hong Yom 《The Photogrammetric Record》2004,19(105):51-66

This paper describes three mathematical modelling methods for high-resolution declassified CORONA KH-4B images. Since CORONA images are collected with a panoramic camera, several types of geometric distortions are involved. Two methods use the modified collinearity equations, and the third involves the terrain-dependent rational function model (RFM) which is considered to be a generic sensor model. Comparative analysis of the three mathematical modelling methods is undertaken. The results show that a ± 1·5 pixels level of horizontal and vertical accuracy can be obtained. A digital elevation model (DEM) of a test site is also created.  相似文献