The effects of a gas well blow out on groundwater chemistry     

Walton Ross Kelly  Gerald Matisoff  J. Berton Fisher 《Environmental Geology》1985,7(4):205-213

Water wells were sampled near North Madison, Ohio, following a gas well blow out that injected large amounts of CH₄ into near-surface groundwater Chemical analyses showed elevated levels of Fe⁺², Mn⁺², Ca⁺², sulfide, alkalinity, and pH, and low levels of dissolved oxygen, SO₄ ⁻², and NO₃ ⁻ in CH₄-affected wells compared to unaffected wells. Sulfate reduction is quantitatively the most important vehicle for CH₄ oxidation Equilibrium thermodynamic computer models were used to simulate groundwaters from the North Madison area Model results showed that CH₄ is oxidized to HCO₃ ⁻, SO₄ ⁻² is reduced, iron and manganese oxides are reduced and dissolved, and pH increases These simulations are in excellent agreement with trends observed in the field data A laboratory experiment was designed to simulate CH₄ ⁻ perturbed groundwater in the methane-perturbed system, sulfide increased significantly, providing direct evidence for methane oxidation by sulfate reduction Although suitable anaerobic methane-oxidizing bacteria have not been isolated from groundwater aquifers, the combination of field data, laboratory experiment, and computer simulation form a convincing argument that CH₄ perturbation of aquifers can and does affect groundwater chemistry  相似文献   

Sensitivity Testing of the Newly Developed Elliptical Fitting Method for the Measurement of Convergence in Tunnels and Shafts   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

Danielle Delaloye  Mark S. Diederichs  Gabriel Walton  Jean Hutchinson 《Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering》2015,48(2):651-667

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An early-time infrared and optical study of the Type Ia Supernova 1998bu in M96     

M. Hernandez  W. P. S. Meikle  A. Aparicio  C. R. Benn  M. R. Burleigh  A. C. Chrysostomou  A. J. L. Fernandes  T. R. Geballe  P. L. Hammersley  J. Iglesias-Paramo  D. J. James  P. A. James  S. N. Kemp  T. A. Lister  D. Martinez-Delgado  A. Oscoz  D. L. Pollacco  M. Rozas  S. J. Smartt  P. Sorensen  R. A. Swaters  J. H. Telting  W. D. Vacca  N. A. Walton  M. R. Zapatero-Osorio 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2000,319(1):223-234

We present first-season infrared (IR) and optical photometry and spectroscopy of the Type Ia Supernova 1998bu in M96. We also report optical polarimetry of this event. SN 1998bu is one of the closest type Ia supernovae of modern times, and the distance of its host galaxy is well determined. We find that SN 1998bu is both photometrically and spectroscopically normal. However, the extinction to this event is unusually high, with     We find that SN 1998bu peaked at an intrinsic     Adopting a distance modulus of 30.25 (Tanvir et al.) and using Phillips et al.'s relations for the Hubble constant, we obtain     Combination of our IR photometry with those of Jha et al. provides one of the most complete early-phase IR light curves for a SN Ia published so far. In particular, SN 1998bu is the first normal SN Ia for which good pre- t _{B max} IR coverage has been obtained. It reveals that the J , H and K light curves peak about 5 days earlier than the flux in the B -band curve.  相似文献   

Long-term trends in chloride concentrations in shallow aquifers near Chicago   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Kelly WR 《Ground water》2008,46(5):772-781

The rapid expansion of major cities throughout the world is resulting in the degradation of water quality in local aquifers. Increased use of road deicers since the middle of the 20th century in cities in the northern United States, Canada, and Europe has been linked to degraded ground water quality. In this article, Chicago, Illinois, and its outlying suburban areas are used as an example of the effects of urbanization in a historical context. A statistical study of historical water quality data was undertaken to determine how urbanization activities have affected shallow (<60 m) ground water quality. Chloride (Cl⁻) concentrations have been increasing, particularly in counties west and south of Chicago. In the majority of shallow public supply wells in the western and southern counties, Cl⁻ concentrations have been increasing since the 1960s. About 43% of the wells in these counties have rate increases greater than 1 mg/L/year, and 15% have increases greater than 4 mg/L/year. Approximately 24% of the samples collected from public supply wells in the Chicago area in the 1990s had Cl⁻ concentrations greater than 100 mg/L (35% in the western and southern counties); median values were less than 10 mg/L before 1960. The greater increase in Cl⁻ concentrations in the outer counties is most likely due to both natural and anthropogenic factors, including the presence of more significant and shallower sand and gravel deposits, less curbing of major highways and streets, and less development in some parts of these counties.  相似文献   

Multivariate analyses of water chemistry: surface and ground water interactions   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

Woocay A  Walton J 《Ground water》2008,46(3):437-449

Multivariate statistical methods (MSMs) applied to ground water chemistry provide valuable insight into the main hydrochemical species, hydrochemical processes, and water flowpaths important to ground water evolution. The MSMs of principal component factor analysis (FA) and k-means cluster analysis (CA) were sequentially applied to major ion chemistry from 211 different ground water-sampling locations in the Amargosa Desert. The FA reduces the number of variables describing the system and finds relationships between major ions. The CA of the reduced system produced objective hydrochemical facies, which are independent of, but in good agreement with, lithological data. The derived factors and hydrochemical facies are innovatively presented on biplots, revealing composition of hydrochemical processes and facies, and overlaid on a digital elevation model, displaying flowpaths and interactions with geologic and topographic features in the region. In particular, a distinct ground water chemical signature is observed beneath and surrounding the extended flowpath of Fortymile Wash, presenting some contradiction to contemporary water levels along with potential interaction with a fault line. The signature surrounding the ephemeral Fortymile Wash is believed to represent the relic of water that infiltrated during past pluvial periods when the amount of runoff in the wash was significantly larger than during the current drier period. This hypothesis and aforementioned analyses are supported by the examination of available chloride, oxygen-18, hydrogen-2, and carbon-14 data from the region.  相似文献   

Separation of shoreline change signal from random noise     

Todd L. Walton Jr 《Ocean Engineering》2000,27(1):1811

Investigation of shoreline change signals in the presence of possible non-stationarity is attempted via Karhunen–Loeve filtering to separate the actual shoreline signal change from that of random noise. Interpretation is made of the signal and noise normalized covariance and spectra to help in delineating natural change versus man-made change patterns for a section of shoreline where a navigation channel existed over a portion of the shoreline history.  相似文献   

Longshore sediment transport via littoral drift rose     

Todd L. Walton  Robert G. Dean 《Ocean Engineering》2010,37(2-3):228-235

The littoral drift rose (LDR) concept is presented herein for improvement in understanding of longshore sediment transport and consequent shoreline processes in areas with smooth (gradually varying) offshore bathymetry extending over a coastal region where the deep water wave climate is reasonably uniform. The concept of the littoral drift rose (LDR) is presented and LDRs are shown to provide insight into coastal evolution and shoreline stability (or instability) for a given region having uniform wave climate. This paper reviews earlier documented applications and work using LDRs and provides an interpretation of earlier findings of shoreline stability using LDRs. Previously known but undocumented findings are also discussed herein which show that the wave climate and hence the LDR can be synthesized into an equivalent LDR developed from one wave component of given magnitude and direction. Practical applications using LDRs are presented, which show that the magnitude and direction of littoral drift throughout a region can be interpreted from limited measured, calculated, or observed data on littoral drift at two locations in the region.  相似文献   

Mechanisms of ringwoodite formation in shocked meteorites: Evidence from L5 chondrite Dhofar 1970          下载免费PDF全文

Erin L. Walton  Sabrina McCarthy 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2017,52(4):762-776

The formation of the high‐pressure compositional equivalents of olivine and pyroxene has been well‐documented within and surrounding shock‐induced veins in chondritic meteorites, formed by crystallization from a liquid‐ or solid‐state phase transformation. Typically polycrystalline ringwoodite grains have a narrow range of compositions that overlap with those of their olivine precursors, whereas the formation of iron‐enriched ringwoodite has been documented from only a handful of meteorites. Here, we report backscattered electron images, quantitative wavelength‐dispersive spectrometry (WDS) analyses, qualitative WDS elemental X‐ray maps, and micro‐Raman spectra that reveal the presence of Fe‐rich ringwoodite (Fa_44‐63) as fine‐grained (500 nm), polycrystalline rims on olivine (Fa_24‐25) wall rock and as clasts engulfed by shock melt in a previously unstudied L5 chondrite, Dhofar 1970. Crystallization of majorite + magnesiowüstite in the vein interior and metastable mineral assemblages within 35 μm of the vein margin attest to rapid crystallization of a superheated shock melt (>2300 K) from 20─25 GPa to ambient pressure and temperature. The texture and composition of bright polycrystalline ringwoodite rims (Fa_44‐63; MnO 0.01─0.08 wt%) surrounding dark polycrystalline olivine (Fa_8‐14; MnO 0.56─0.65 wt%) implies a solid‐state transformation mechanism in which Fe was preferentially partitioned to ringwoodite. The spatial association between ringwoodite and shock melt suggests that the rapidly fluctuating thermal regimes experienced by chondritic minerals in contact with shock melt are necessary to both drive phase transformation but also to prevent back‐transformation.  相似文献   

Martian regolith in Elephant Moraine 79001 shock melts? Evidence from major element composition and sulfur speciation     

E.L. Walton  P.J. Jugo  M. Wilke 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2010,74(16):4829-4843

Shock veins and melt pockets in Lithology A of Martian meteorite Elephant Moraine (EETA) 79001 have been investigated using electron microprobe (EM) analysis, petrography and X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure (XANES) spectroscopy to determine elemental abundances and sulfur speciation (S²⁻ versus S⁶⁺). The results constrain the materials that melted to form the shock glasses and identify the source of their high sulfur abundances. The XANES spectra for EETA79001 glasses show a sharp peak at 2.471 keV characteristic of crystalline sulfides and a broad peak centered at 2.477 keV similar to that obtained for sulfide-saturated glass standards analyzed in this study. Sulfate peaks at 2.482 keV were not observed. Bulk compositions of EETA79001 shock melts were estimated by averaging defocused EM analyses. Vein and melt pocket glasses are enriched in Al, Ca, Na and S, and depleted in Fe, Mg and Cr compared to the whole rock. Petrographic observations show preferential melting and mobilization of plagioclase and pyrrhotite associated with melt pocket and vein margins, contributing to the enrichments. Estimates of shock melt bulk compositions obtained from glass analyses are biased towards Fe- and Mg- depletions because, in general, basaltic melts produced from groundmass minerals (plagioclase and clinopyroxene) will quench to a glass, whereas ultramafic melts produced from olivine and low-Ca pyroxene megacrysts crystallize during the quench. We also note that the bulk composition of the shock melt pocket cannot be determined from the average composition of the glass but must also include the crystals that grew from the melt - pyroxene (En_72-75Fs_20-21Wo_5-7) and olivine (Fo_75-80). Reconstruction of glass + crystal analyses gives a bulk composition for the melt pocket that approaches that of lithology A of the meteorite, reflecting bulk melting of everything except xenolith chromite.Our results show that EETA79001 shock veins and melt pockets represent local mineral melts formed by shock impedance contrasts, which can account for the observed compositional anomalies compared to the whole rock sample. The observation that melts produced during shock commonly deviate from the bulk composition of the host rock has been well documented from chondrites, rocks from terrestrial impact structures and other Martian meteorites. The bulk composition of shock melts reflects the proportions of minerals melted; large melt pockets encompass more minerals and approach the whole rock whereas small melt pockets and thin veins reflect local mineralogy. In the latter, the modal abundance of sulfide globules may reach up to 15 vol%. We conclude the shock melt pockets in EETA79001 lithology A contain no significant proportion of Martian regolith.  相似文献   

Crystallization, melt inclusion, and redox history of a Martian meteorite: Olivine-phyric shergottite Larkman Nunatak 06319     

A.H. Peslier  D. Hnatyshin  E.L. Walton  T.J. Lapen 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2010,74(15):4543-6820

The Larkman Nunatak (LAR) 06319 olivine-phyric shergottite is composed of zoned megacrysts of olivine (Fo_76-55 from core to rim), pyroxene (from core to rim En₇₀Fs₂₅Wo₅, En₅₀Fs₂₅Wo₂₅, and En₄₅Fs₄₅Wo₁₀), and Cr-rich spinel in a matrix of maskelynite (An₅₂Ab₄₅), pyroxene (En_30-40Fs_40-55Wo_10-25,), olivine (Fo₅₀), Fe-Ti oxides, sulfides, phosphates, Si-rich glass, and baddeleyite. LAR 06319 experienced equilibration shock pressures of 30-35 GPa based on the presence of localized shock melts, mechanical deformation of olivine and pyroxene, and complete transformation of plagioclase to maskelynite with no relict birefringence. The various phases and textures of this picritic basalt can be explained by closed system differentiation of a shergottitic melt. Recalculated parent melt compositions obtained from melt inclusions located in the core of the olivine megacrysts (Fo_>72) resemble those of other shergottite parent melts and whole-rock compositions, albeit with a lower Ca content. These compositions were used in the MELTS software to reproduce the crystallization sequence. Four types of spinel and two types of ilmenite reflect changes in oxygen fugacity during igneous differentiation. Detailed oxybarometry using olivine-pyroxene-spinel and ilmenite-titanomagnetite assemblages indicates initial crystallization of the megacrysts at 2 log units below the Fayalite-Magnetite-Quartz buffer (FMQ - 2), followed by crystallization of the groundmass over a range of FMQ - 1 to FMQ + 0.3. Variation is nearly continuous throughout the differentiation sequence.LAR 06319 is the first member of the enriched shergottite subgroup whose bulk composition, and that of melt inclusions in its most primitive olivines, approximates that of the parental melt. The study of this picritic basalt indicates that oxidation of more than two log units of FMQ can occur during magmatic fractional crystallization and ascent. Some part of the wide range of oxygen fugacities recorded in shergottites may consequently be due to this process. The relatively reduced conditions at the beginning of the crystallization sequence of LAR 06319 may imply that the enriched shergottite mantle reservoir is slightly more reduced than previously thought. As a result, the total range of Martian mantle oxygen fugacities is probably limited to FMQ − 4 to − 2. This narrow range could have been generated during the slow crystallization of a magma ocean, a process favored to explain the origin of shergottite mantle reservoirs.  相似文献