The host galaxies of strong Ca ii quasar absorption systems at z < 0.5     

Berkeley J. Zych  Michael T. Murphy  Max Pettini  Paul C. Hewett  Emma V. Ryan-Weber  Sara L. Ellison 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,379(4):1409-1422

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Modelling mineral size reduction in the closed-circuit ball mill at the Pine Point Mines concentrator     

J.A. Finch  J. Ramirez-Castro 《International Journal of Mineral Processing》1981,8(1):61-78

Using plug flow material transport and a cumulative-basis rate-of-breakage parameter, overall size reduction through the closed-circuit ball mills at the Pine Point and Gibraltar concentrators was simulated over a wide range of operating conditions. The rate-of-brakage parameter was related to particle size by a power law, the exponent (n) being: Pine Point, n = 1.043 ± 0.026, and Gibraltar, n = 0.747 ± 0.020. The success of this approach probably stems from the high (> 1.5) circulating load ratios encountered.By analogy individual mineral size reduction at Pine Point was examined. A similar rate-of-breakage parameter versus size relationship was found. Pyrite was the hardest mineral, but fine galena was equally resistant. However, the approximation that mineral and overall rates of breakage were the same gave an adequate fit to the mineral size reduction. This was emphasized by combining with a cyclone model to simulate cyclone overflow mineral size distribution. A more accurate cyclone model is shown to be more important in simulating mineral deportment at Pine Point.Complementary laboratory batch grinding tests were conducted on rod mill discharge and ball mill feed samples. Sufficient agreement with the first-order hypothesis was observed to analyse the rate-of-breakage parameter. The kinetics was similar for both samples and in turn similar to the plant-derived kinetics in terms of relative mineral rates-of-breakage and the relationship of the rate-of-breakage parameter with particle size.  相似文献   

Elastic properties from acoustic and volume compression experiments     

Jay D. Bass  Robert C. Liebermann  Donald J. Weidner  Stephen J. Finch 《Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors》1981,25(2):140-158

Hydrostatic compression data for a number of high-pressure phases of oxides and silicates, which have been studied independently by acoustic techniques, have been analyzed by least-squares fitting of the Birch-Murnaghan equation of state to determine the zero-pressure bulk modulus K₀ and its pressure derivative K′₀ for each material. The standard deviations of K₀ and K′₀ so determined are generally underestimated unless the experimental errors in the measurements of volume and pressure are explicitly included. When the values of K₀ determined from the acoustic and compression techniques are consistent, test results for quartz and rutile demonstrate that constraining K₀ to be equal to the acoustic value significantly improves both the accuracy and the precision of K′₀ obtained from the compression data. Similar analyses for high-pressure phases (e.g., pyrope garnet and silicate spinels) indicate that by combining the acoustic and P-V data, the standard deviation of K′₀ is typically reduced by a factor of three. Thus, we conclude that this approach does allow precise determinations of K′₀ even when neither technique alone is able to resolve this parameter. For some materials, however, the P-V and acoustic experiments do not define mutually consistent values of K₀, invalidating any combination of these data. The compression data for stishovite clearly exhibit run to run effects, and we infer that systematic errors are present in some of the P-V data which are responsible for many of the interlaboratory inconsistencies. Such systematic biases in the P-V data can at least be partially compensated for by performing several duplicate experimental runs.  相似文献   

Stratigraphic expression of the lateral propagation and growth of isolated fault-related uplifts     

Asdrúbal Bernal  Stuart Hardy†  Rob Gawthorpe‡  Emma Finch‡ 《Basin Research》2004,16(2):219-233

The lateral propagation of faults and folds is known to be an important process during the development of mountain belts, but little is known about the manner in which along‐strike fault–fold growth is expressed in pre‐ and syntectonic (growth) strata. We use a coupled tectonic and stratigraphic model to investigate the along‐strike stratigraphic expression of fault‐related folds/uplifts that grow in both the transport and strike directions. We consider faults that propagate following a quadratic (nonself‐similar evolution) or linear (self‐similar evolution) scaling law, using different slip distributions per episode of fault propagation, under general background sedimentation. We find that the long‐strike geometry of pre‐ and syntectonic strata and the geometry of growth axial surfaces reflect the mode of fault propagation. The geometry of strata observed in the model is similar to that observed in natural contractional structures when: (1) the evolution of the fault is nonself‐similar, or (2) the fault grows as a result of thrust faulting events with similar displacements along strike that are terminated abruptly at the fault tips.  相似文献   

'Muddy glee': rounding out the picture of women and physical geography fieldwork     

Louise Bracken  Emma Mawdsley 《Area》2004,36(3):280-286

Fieldwork in geography has come under close scrutiny from feminist and postcolonial scholars in recent years. In relation to physical geography, commentators have pointed to a range of practices and images (notably the 'heroic', masculinist 'ideal') that have acted to deter and exclude women, from undergraduates to senior academics. For some, fieldwork is one of the key sites of gender discrimination for women in physical geography. This paper starts from a position of agreement with many of these critiques, but also seeks to 'reclaim' some more positive accounts and perspectives on the subject. In doing so, it aims to critique and disrupt the dominant image of physical geography fieldwork as essentially a masculinist endeavour, and encourage a wider view of the challenges and pleasures of fieldwork for women in physical geography.  相似文献   

Toxicity and compositional analysis of aromatic hydrocarbon fractions of two pairs of undegraded and biodegraded crude oils from the Santa Maria (California) and Vienna basins     

Verena Reineke  Jürgen Rullktter  Emma L. Smith  Steven J. Rowland 《Organic Geochemistry》2006,37(12):1885

The monoaromatic and total aromatic hydrocarbon fractions of two pairs of undegraded and moderately biodegraded crude oils from the Santa Maria basin (California) and the Vienna basin (Austria), all dominated by unresolved complex mixtures, were studied regarding their composition and toxicity towards the feeding rate of the marine mussel Mytilus edulis. Total aromatic and monoaromatic hydrocarbon fractions from sulphur-rich Monterey Formation crude oils were slightly more toxic than the fractions isolated from sulphur-lean Vienna basin oils. The ecotoxicity tests did not show any significant differences in toxicity of aromatic compounds from undegraded or in-reservoir biodegraded crude oils from the same oilfield although some differences in composition were observed. Organic sulphur compounds are suspected to cause the slightly higher toxicity of the aromatic hydrocarbon fractions from the Monterey oils.  相似文献   

Comparative aeronomy in the solar system     

Ingo Mueller-Wodarg  Emma Bunce 《Astronomy& Geophysics》2003,44(2):2.33-2.33

The coupled upper atmospheres, ionospheres and magnetospheres of the planets were the subject of a joint RAS–G/MIST discussion meeting hosted by the RAS on 10 January 2003, organized by Ingo Mueller-Wodarg and Emma Bunce . The scientific programme consisted of 10 presentations by speakers from the UK, France, USA and Australia.  相似文献   

Frequency Content Evolution of Snow Avalanche Seismic Signals     

Berta Biescas  François Dufour  Glória Furdada  Giorgi Khazaradze  Emma Suriñach 《Surveys in Geophysics》2003,24(5-6):447-464

Seismic signals generated by avalanches have been recorded by theavalanche team of the Universitat de Barcelona at theVallée de la Sionne experimental site (Switzerland) since 1998. During these years avalanches of varying size and flowwere recorded by two sensors located at different positions.In the present paper we show the general features of the running spectra of the seismicsignals for the different type of recorded avalanches. Using this method we are able not only to detect avalanches with low amplitude signals but also to distinguishbetween avalanches and other seismic sources (i.e., local earthquakes) which have thesame frequency content but a different frequency evolution.  相似文献   

The Tornquist Sea and Baltica–Avalonia docking     

Trond H. Torsvik  Emma F. Rehnstrm 《Tectonophysics》2003,362(1-4):67-82

Early Ordovician (Late Arenig) limestones from the SW margin of Baltica (Scania–Bornholm) have multicomponent magnetic signatures, but high unblocking components predating folding, and the corresponding palaeomagnetic pole (latitude=19°N, LONGITUDE=051°E) compares well with Arenig reference poles from Baltica. Collectively, the Arenig poles demonstrate a midsoutherly latitudinal position for Baltica, then separated from Avalonia by the Tornquist Sea.Tornquist Sea closure and the Baltica–Avalonia convergence history are evidenced from faunal mixing and increased resemblance in palaeomagnetically determined palaeolatitudes for Avalonia and Baltica during the Mid-Late Ordovician. By the Caradoc, Avalonia had drifted to palaeolatitudes compatible with those of SW Baltica, and subduction beneath Eastern Avalonia was taking place. We propose that explosive vents associated with this subduction and related to Andean-type magmatism in Avalonia were the source for the gigantic Mid-Caradoc (c. 455 Ma) ash fall in Baltica (i.e. the Kinnekulle bentonite). Avalonia was located south of the subtropical high during most of the Ordovician, and this would have provided an optimum palaeoposition to supply Baltica with large ash falls governed by westerly winds.In Scania, we observe a persistent palaeomagnetic overprint of Late Ordovician (Ashgill) age (pole: LATITUDE=4°S, LONGITUDE=012°E). The remagnetisation was probably spurred by tectonic-derived fluids since burial alone is inadequate to explain this remagnetisation event. This is the first record of a Late Ordovician event in Scania, but it is comparable with the Shelveian event in Avalonia, low-grade metamorphism in the North Sea basement of NE Germany (440–450 Ma), and sheds new light on the Baltica–Avalonia docking.  相似文献   

The transition from an active to a passive margin (SW end of the South Shetland Trench, Antarctic Peninsula)     

Antonio Jabaloy  Jun-Carlos Balany  Antonio Barnolas  Jesús Galindo-Zaldívar  F. Javier Hernndez-Molina  Andrs Maldonado  Jos-Miguel Martínez-Martínez  Jos Rodríguez-Fernndez  Carlos Sanz de Galdeano  Luis Somoza  Emma Suriach  Jun Toms Vzquez 《Tectonophysics》2003,366(1-2):55-81

The lateral ending of the South Shetland Trench is analysed on the basis of swath bathymetry and multichannel seismic profiles in order to establish the tectonic and stratigraphic features of the transition from an northeastward active to a southwestward passive margin style. This trench is associated with a lithospheric-scale thrust accommodating the internal deformation in the Antarctic Plate and its lateral end represents the tip-line of this thrust. The evolutionary model deduced from the structures and the stratigraphic record includes a first stage with a compressional deformation, predating the end of the subduction in the southwestern part of the study area that produced reverse faults in the oceanic crust during the Tortonian. The second stage occurred during the Messinian and includes distributed compressional deformation around the tip-line of the basal detachment, originating a high at the base of the slope and the collapse of the now inactive accretionary prism of the passive margin. The initial subduction of the high at the base of the slope induced the deformation of the accretionary prism and the formation of another high in the shelf—the Shelf Transition High. The third stage, from the Early Pliocene to the present-day, includes the active compressional deformation of the shelf and the base-of-slope around the tip-line of the basal detachment, while extensional deformations are active in the outer swell of the trench.  相似文献