Post‐Younger Dryas deglaciation of the Greenland western margin as revealed by spatial analysis of lakes     

Yuri Gorokhovich  Vincent Rinterknecht  Jessica Rogers 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2009,34(6):801-809

Lake shapes and their spatial distribution are important geomorphological indicators in previously glaciated areas. Their shapes are influenced by the underlying geological structure and processes of glacial sediment deposition or erosion. Since these processes act on large areas, distribution of lakes can reflect the intensity of glacial erosional/depositional processes and their spatial extent. Landsat imagery was used to extract lake outlines from a selected pilot‐study area on the widest ice‐free coastal margin of the south‐western Greenland north of Kangerlussuaq. Analysis included image classification and spatial analysis of lakes with elevation data using geographic information system (GIS) tools. A morphometric index was applied to extract kettle lakes as indicators of a specific glacial process – ice stagnation. Analysis of their spatial distribution helped in the reconstruction of glacial dynamics in formerly glaciated terrain. Our results show that spatial lake distribution combined with elevation analysis can be used to identify zones of glacial erosion and deposition. The highest concentrations of lakes within the study area occupy the elevation range between 164 and 361 m above sea level (a.s.l.). This zone can be identified as an area where intensive glacial erosion took place in the past. The widespread distribution of modeled kettle lake features within the same elevation range and across the study area suggests that the last deglaciation process was accompanied by abandonment of blocks of stagnant ice. This conclusion is supported by surface exposure ages obtained in the same study area and published elsewhere. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

The Evolution of Matter: From the Big Bang to the Present-Day Earth by Igor N. Tolstikhin and Jan D. Kramers     

Yuri Taran 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》2009,166(12):2109-2110

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Carbon dioxide emissions from Specchio di Venere,Pantelleria, Italy     

Mariana P. Jácome Paz  Salvatore Inguaggiato  Yuri Taran  Fabio Vita  Giovanella Pecoraino 《Bulletin of Volcanology》2016,78(4):29

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Transient electromagnetic modelling of an isolated wire loop over a conductive medium     

Marina G. Persova  Yuri G. Soloveichik  Georgy M. Trigubovich  Denis V. Vagin  Petr A. Domnikov 《Geophysical Prospecting》2014,62(5):1193-1201

A large closed wire loop is generally used in field experiments for testing airborne electrical exploration equipment. Thus, methods are required for the precise calculation of an electromagnetic response in the presence of a closed wire loop. We develop a fast and precise scheme for calculating the transient response for such a closed loop laid out at the surface of a horizontally layered conductive ground. Our scheme is based on the relationship between the magnetic flux flowing through a closed loop and the current induced in it. The developed scheme is compared with 2D and 3D finite‐element modelling for several positions of an airborne electromagnetic system flying over a closed loop. We also study the coupling effect between the current flowing in the closed loop and the current flowing in the horizontally layered conductive medium. The result shows that for the central position of the transmitter, the difference between axisymmetrical finite‐element modelling and our scheme is less than 1%. Moreover, for the non‐coaxial transmitter–receiver–loop system, the solution obtained by our scheme is in good agreement with full 3D finite‐element modelling, and our total simulation time is substantially lower: 1 minute versus 120 hours.  相似文献   

Homogeneity assessment of a station climate series (1933–2005) in the Metropolitan Area of S?o Paulo: instruments change and urbanization effects     

Shigetoshi Sugahara  Rosmeri Porfirio da Rocha  Rita Yuri Ynoue  Reinaldo Bomfim da Silveira 《Theoretical and Applied Climatology》2012,107(3-4):361-374

This work assessed homogeneity of the Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences (IAG) weather station climate series, using various statistical techniques. The record from this target station is one of the longest in Brazil, having commenced in 1933 with observations of precipitation, and temperatures and other variables later in 1936. Thus, it is one of the few stations in Brazil with enough data for long-term climate variability and climate change studies. There is, however, a possibility that its data may have been contaminated by some artifacts over time. Admittedly, there was an intervention on the observations in 1958, with the replacement of instruments, for which the size of impact has not been yet evaluated. The station transformed in the course of time from rural to urban, and this may also have influenced homogeneity of the observations and makes the station less representative for climate studies over larger spatial scales. Homogeneity of the target station was assessed applying both absolute, or single station tests, and tests relatively to regional climate, in annual scale, regarding daily precipitation, relative humidity, maximum (TMax), minimum (TMin), and wet bulb temperatures. Among these quantities, only precipitation does not exhibit any inhomogeneity. A clear signal of change of instruments in 1958 was detected in the TMax and relative humidity data, the latter certainly because of its strong dependence on temperature. This signal is not very clear in TMin, but it presents non-climatic discontinuities around 1953 and around 1970. A significant homogeneity break is found around 1990 for TMax and wet bulb temperature. The discontinuities detected after 1958 may have been caused by urbanization, as the observed warming trend in the station is considerably greater than that corresponding to regional climate.  相似文献   

Evidence for a hypogene paleohydrogeological event at the prospective nuclear waste disposal site Yucca Mountain,Nevada, USA,revealed by the isotope composition of fluid-inclusion water     

Yuri V. Dublyansky  Christoph Spötl 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》2010,289(3-4):583-594

Secondary calcite residing in open cavities in the unsaturated zone of Yucca Mountain has long been interpreted as the result of downward infiltration of meteoric water through open fractures. In order to obtain information on the isotopic composition (δD and δ¹⁸O) of the mineral-forming water we studied fluid inclusions from this calcite. Water was extracted from inclusions by heated crushing and the δD values were measured using a continuous-flow isotope-ratio mass spectrometry method. The δ¹⁸O values were calculated from the δ¹⁸O values of the host calcite assuming isotopic equilibrium at the temperature of formation determined by fluid-inclusion microthermometry.The δD values measured in all samples range between ? 110 and ? 90‰, similar to Holocene meteoric water. Coupled δ¹⁸O–δD values plot significantly, 2 to 8‰, to the right of the meteoric water line. Among the various processes operating at the topographic surface and/or in the unsaturated zone only two processes, evaporation and water–rock exchange, could alter the isotope composition of percolating water. Our analysis indicates, however, that none of these processes could produce the observed large positive δ¹⁸O-shifts. The latter require isotopic interaction between mineral-forming fluid and host rock at elevated temperature (>100 °C), which is only possible in the deep-seated hydrothermal environment. The stable isotope data are difficult to reconcile with a meteoric origin of the water from which the secondary minerals at Yucca Mountain precipitated; instead they point to the deep-seated provenance of the mineral-forming waters and their introduction into the unsaturated zone from below, i.e. a hypogene origin.  相似文献   

Introduction     

Nemesio M. Pérez  Sergio Gurrieri  Chi-Yu King  Yuri Taran 《Pure and Applied Geophysics》2008,165(1):1-3

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Propagating PZ 90 to WGS 84 Transformation Parameters     

Yuri A. Bazlov  Viktor F. Galazin  Boris L. Kaplan  Valery G. Maksimov  Vladimir P. Rogozin 《GPS Solutions》1999,3(1):13-16

The 29^th Research Institute recently published its latest transformation parameters for WGS and PZ 90. Because these tranformation parameter estimates were derived from stations located within Russia, variance-covariance propagation was carried out to study the benefits of a better global distribution of stations. An example that includes two stations in North America is presented. The transformation improves significantly. ? 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.  相似文献   

Limits on dust and metallicity evolution of Lyα forest clouds from COBE     

Andrea Ferrara  Biman Nath  Shiv K. Sethi  Yuri Shchekinov 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》1999,303(2):301-308

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New extended thin-sheet approximation for geodynamic applications—II. Two-dimensional examples     

Sergei E. Medvedev  & Yuri Yu. Podladchikov 《Geophysical Journal International》1999,136(3):586-608

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