Imposex levels and concentrations of organotin compounds (TBT and its metabolites) in Nassarius nitidus from the Lagoon of Venice   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Pavoni B  Centanni E  Valcanover S  Fasolato M  Ceccato S  Tagliapietra D 《Marine pollution bulletin》2007,55(10-12):505-511

Specimens of Nassarius nitidus were collected in seven stations of the Venice Lagoon to assess the levels of tributyltin (TBT) and its metabolites monobutyltin and dibutyltin in the tissues and monitor their effect on organisms, in particular the phenomenon of imposex (superimposition of male sexual characteristics on females). The following values of population indices were found: vas deferens sequence: 1.2+/-0.7-4.0+/-0.5; relative penis length: 6-47%. The least impacted station was situated in the northern part of the Lagoon, where females without imposex were found and Butyltin (BuTs) concentrations in the organisms (average sum of BuTs=43+/-14 ngSng(-1)w.) were significantly lower than in the other stations (range of average sum of BuTs: 101+/-22-217+/-27 ngSng(-1)d.w.). Population indices were found to be related to the TBT content in the tissues. In particular VDSI had a significant logarithmic correlation: r=0.95, n=8, p<0.05.  相似文献   

Measure of the exponential splitting of the homoclinic tangle in four-dimensional symplectic mappings     

Elena Lega  Massimiliano Guzzo  Claude Froeschlé 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》2009,104(1-2):191-204

Using four-dimensional symplectic maps as a model problem, we numerically compute the unstable manifolds of the hyperbolic manifolds of the phase space related to the single resonances. We measure an exponential dependence of the size of the lobes of these manifolds through many orders of magnitude of the perturbing parameter. This is an indirect numerical verification of the exponential decay of the normal form, as predicted by the Nekhoroshev theorem. The variation of the size of the lobes turns out to be correlated to the diffusion coefficient.  相似文献   

Kimberlitic sources of super-deep diamonds in the Juina area,Mato Grosso State,Brazil     

Felix V. Kaminsky  Sergei M. Sablukov  Elena A. Belousova  Paulo Andreazza  Mousseau Tremblay  William L. Griffin 《Lithos》2010,114(1-2):16-29

The Juina diamond field, in the 1970–80s, was producing up to 5–6 million carats per year from rich placer deposits, but no economic primary deposits had been found in the area. In 2006–2007, Diagem Inc. discovered a group of diamondiferous kimberlitic pipes within the Chapadão Plateau (Chapadão, or Pandrea cluster), at the head of a drainage system which has produced most of the alluvial diamonds mined in the Juina area. Diamonds from placer deposits and newly discovered kimberlites are identical; they have super-deep origins from the upper-mantle and transition zone. Field observations and petrographic studies have identified crater-facies kimberlitic material at seven separate localities. Kimberlitic material is represented by tuffs, tuffisites and various epiclastic sediments containing chrome spinel, picroilmenite, manganoan ilmenite, zircon and diamond. The diamond grade varies from 0.2–1.8 ct/m³. Chrome spinel has 30–61 wt.% Cr₂O₃. Picroilmenite contains 6–14 wt.% MgO and 0.2–4 wt.% Cr₂O₃. Manganoan ilmenite has less than 3 wt.% MgO and 0.38–1.41 wt.% MnO. The ¹⁷⁶Hf/¹⁷⁷Hf ratio in kimberlitic zircons is 0.028288–0.28295 with ε_Hf = 5.9–8.3, and lies on the average kimberlite trend between depleted mantle and CHUR. The previously known barren and weakly diamondiferous kimberlites in the Juina area have ages of 79–80 Ma. In contrast, zircons from the newly discovered Chapadão kimberlites have a mean ²⁰⁶Pb/²³⁸U age of 93.6 ± 0.4 Ma, corresponding to a time of magmatic activity related to the opening of the southern part of the Atlantic Ocean. The most likely mechanism of the origin of kimberlitic magma is super-deep subduction process that initiated partial melting of zones in lower mantle with subsequent ascent of proto-kimberlitic magma.  相似文献   

Novae ejecta as colliding shells     

Robert Williams  Elena Mason 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2010,327(2):207-217

Following on our initial absorption-line analysis of fifteen novae spectra we present additional evidence for the existence of two distinct components of novae ejecta having different origins. As argued in Paper I one component is the rapidly expanding gas ejected from the outer layers of the white dwarf by the outburst. The second component is pre-existing outer, more slowly expanding circumbinary gas that represents ejecta from the secondary star or accretion disk. We present measurements of the emission-line widths that show them to be significantly narrower than the broad P Cygni profiles that immediately precede them. The emission profiles of novae in the nebular phase are distinctly rectangular, i.e., strongly suggestive of emission from a relatively thin, roughly spherical shell. We thus interpret novae spectral evolution in terms of the collision between the two components of ejecta, which converts the early absorption spectrum to an emission-line spectrum within weeks of the outburst. The narrow emission widths require the outer circumbinary gas to be much more massive than the white dwarf ejecta, thereby slowing the latter’s expansion upon collision. The presence of a large reservoir of circumbinary gas at the time of outburst is suggestive that novae outbursts may sometime be triggered by collapse of gas onto the white dwarf, as occurs for dwarf novae, rather than steady mass transfer through the inner Lagrangian point.  相似文献   

A numerical study of the hyperbolic manifolds in a priori unstable systems. A comparison with Melnikov approximations     

Elena Lega  Massimiliano Guzzo  Claude Froeschlé 《Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy》2010,107(1-2):115-127

Using numerical methods we study the hyperbolic manifolds in a model of a priori unstable dynamical system. We compare the numerically computed manifolds with their analytic expression obtained with the Melnikov approximation. We find that, at small values of the perturbing parameter, the topology of the numerically computed stable and unstable manifolds is the same as in their Melnikov approximation. Increasing the value of the perturbing parameter, we find that the stable and unstable manifolds have a peculiar topological transition. We find that this transition occurs near those values of the perturbing parameter for which the error terms of Melnikov approximations have a sharp increment. The transition value is also correlated with a change in the behaviour of dynamical quantities, such as the largest Lyapunov exponent and the diffusion coefficient.  相似文献   

Marine electrical resistivity imaging of submarine groundwater discharge: sensitivity analysis and application in Waquoit Bay, Massachusetts, USA   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Rory D. Henderson  Frederick D. Day-Lewis  Elena Abarca  Charles F. Harvey  Hanan N. Karam  Lanbo Liu  John W. Lane Jr. 《Hydrogeology Journal》2010,18(1):173-185

Electrical resistivity imaging has been used in coastal settings to characterize fresh submarine groundwater discharge and the position of the freshwater/salt-water interface because of the relation of bulk electrical conductivity to pore-fluid conductivity, which in turn is a function of salinity. Interpretation of tomograms for hydrologic processes is complicated by inversion artifacts, uncertainty associated with survey geometry limitations, measurement errors, and choice of regularization method. Variation of seawater over tidal cycles poses unique challenges for inversion. The capabilities and limitations of resistivity imaging are presented for characterizing the distribution of freshwater and saltwater beneath a beach. The experimental results provide new insight into fresh submarine groundwater discharge at Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, East Falmouth, Massachusetts (USA). Tomograms from the experimental data indicate that fresh submarine groundwater discharge may shut down at high tide, whereas temperature data indicate that the discharge continues throughout the tidal cycle. Sensitivity analysis and synthetic modeling provide insight into resolving power in the presence of a time-varying saline water layer. In general, vertical electrodes and cross-hole measurements improve the inversion results regardless of the tidal level, whereas the resolution of surface arrays is more sensitive to time-varying saline water layer.  相似文献   

Galactic X-ray binary jets     

Elena Gallo 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2007,311(1-3):161-165

With their relatively fast variability time-scales, Galactic X-ray binaries provide an excellent laboratory to explore the physics of accretion and related phenomena, most notably outflows, over different regimes. After comparing the phenomenology of jets in black hole systems to that of neutron stars, here I discuss the role of the jet at very low Eddington ratios, and present preliminary results obtained by fitting the broadband spectral energy distribution of a quiescent black hole binary with a ‘maximally jet-dominated’ model. Chandra Fellow  相似文献   

Changing hillslope and fluvial Holocene sediment dynamics in a Belgian loess catchment     

Bastiaan Notebaert  Gert Verstraeten  Dimitri Vandenberghe  Elena Marinova  Jean Poesen  Gerard Govers 《第四纪科学杂志》2011,26(1):44-58

Floodplain deposition is an essential part of the Holocene sediment dynamics of many catchments and a thorough dating control of these floodplain deposits is therefore essential to understand the driving forces of these sediment dynamics. In this paper we date floodplain and colluvial deposition in the Belgian Dijle catchment using accelerator mass spectrometric radiocarbon and optical stimulated luminescence dating. Relative mass accumulation curves for the Holocene were constructed for three colluvial sites and 12 alluvial sites. A database was constructed of all available radiocarbon ages of the catchment and this database was analysed using relative sediment mass accumulation rates and cumulative probability functions of ages and site‐specific sedimentation curves. Cumulative probability functions of ages were split into different depositional environments representing stable phases and phases of accelerated clastic deposition. The results indicate that there is an important variation between the different dated sites. After an initial stable early and middle Holocene phase with mainly peat growth in the floodplains, clastic sedimentation rates increased from 4000 BC on. This first phase was more pronounced and started somewhat earlier for colluvial deposits then for alluvial deposits. The main part of the Holocene deposits, both in colluvial and alluvial valleys, was deposited during the last 1 ka. The sedimentation pattern of the individual dated sites and the catchment‐wide pattern indicate that land use changes are responsible for the main variations in the Holocene sediment dynamics of this catchment, while the field data do not provide indications for a climatological influence on the sediment dynamics. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Kinematics of gas and stars in the circumnuclear star-forming ring of NGC 3351     

Guillermo F. Hägele †  Ángeles I. Díaz ‡  Mónica V. Cardaci †  Elena Terlevich §  Roberto Terlevich § 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,378(1):163-178

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Palaeomagnetism of the Ferrar dolerite in the northern Prince Albert Mountains (Victoria Land, Antarctica)     

Roberto Lanza  Elena Zanella 《Geophysical Journal International》1993,114(3):501-511

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