Proglacial sediment dynamics from daily to seasonal scales in a glaciated Alpine catchment (Bossons glacier,Mont Blanc massif,France)          下载免费PDF全文

Hervé Guillon  Jean‐Louis Mugnier  Jean‐François Buoncristiani 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2018,43(7):1478-1495

The sediment yields of Alpine catchments are commonly determined from streamload measurements made some distance downstream from glaciers. However, this approach indiscriminately integrates erosion processes occurring in both the glacial and proglacial areas. A specific method is required to ascertain the respective inputs from (i) subglacial and supraglacial sediments, (ii) proglacial hillslopes and (iii) proglacial alluvial areas or sandurs. This issue is addressed here by combining high‐resolution monitoring (2 min) of suspended sediment concentrations at different locations within a catchment with discharge gauging and precipitation data. This methodological framework is applied to two proglacial streams draining the Bossons glacier (Mont Blanc massif, France): the Bossons and Crosette streams. For the Bossons stream, discharge and suspended load data were acquired from June to October 2013 at 1.15 and 1.5 km from the glacial terminus, respectively upstream and downstream from a small valley sandur. These hydro‐sedimentary data are compared with the Crosette stream dataset acquired at the outlet of the Bossons glacier subglacial drainage system. A fourfold analysis focusing on seasonal changes in streamload and discharge, multilinear regression modelling, evaluation of the sandur flux balance and probabilistic uncertainty assessment is used to determine the catchment sediment budget and to explain the proglacial sediment dynamics. The seasonal fluctuation of the sediment signal observed is related to the gradual closing of the subglacial drainage network and to the role of the proglacial area in the sediment cascade: the proglacial hillslopes appear to be disconnected from the main channel and the valley sandur acts as a hydrodynamic sediment buffer both daily and seasonally. Our findings show that an understanding of proglacial sediment dynamics can help in evaluating paraglacial adjustment and subglacial erosion processes. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Monitoring fluid substitution in rock samples from noise correlation          下载免费PDF全文

Sandra Barbouteau  Patrick Rasolofosaon  Noalwenn Dubos‐Sallée  Virginie Vassil  Jean‐François Nauroy 《Geophysical Prospecting》2017,65(1):240-250

An alternative laboratory technique to measure the elastic constants of solid samples, based on the analysis of the cross‐correlation spectra of the vibratory response of randomly excited short solid cylinders, has been recently proposed. The aim of this paper is to check the ability of the technique called passive ultrasonic interferometry to monitor fluid substitution in different rock samples. Velocity variations due to fluid substitution are easily measured if the wave attenuation in the fluid‐saturated rock is not too large (typically in rocks with few cracks or microfractures). The experimental results are in agreement with the predictions of Biot–Gassmann poroelastic theory. The effect of substituting water with a stiffer saturating fluid, such as ethylene glycol, is to increase the overall bulk modulus of the rock, without any substantial effect on shear modulus. Furthermore, the experimental results compare well with those obtained independently with conventional pulse‐transmission technique using ultrasonic transducers. However, the measured pulse‐transmission bulk moduli are slightly larger than the corresponding measured ultrasonic interferometry moduli, with the deviation increasing with increasing fluid viscosity. This can be explained by dispersion due to wave‐induced flow of the viscous fluid since pulse‐transmission experiments involve higher frequencies than ultrasonic interferometry experiments.  相似文献   

Impacts of Holocene and modern sea-level changes on estuarine mangroves from northeastern Brazil     

Marcelo C.L. Cohen  Beatriz L. Figueiredo  Nedra N. Oliveira  Neuza A. Fontes  Marlon Carlos França  Luiz C.R. Pessenda  Adriana V. de Souza  Kita Macario  Paulo C.F. Giannini  José A. Bendassolli  Paula Lima 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2020,45(2):375-392

Projections of the impacts of modern Relative Sea Level (RSL) rise on estuarine mangroves should be supported by coastal topographic data and records of mangrove dynamics under past RSL change. This work identified inland and seaward mangrove migrations along the Jucuruçu River (Bahia, Northeastern Brazil), during the Holocene based on sedimentary features, palynological and geochemical (δ¹³C, δ¹⁵N, C/N) data integrated with digital elevation models. During the Middle Holocene, in response to RSL rise, the estuary saw mangrove forest establish up to ~37 km inland. RSL stood between -1.4 (+0.36/-2.2 m) and +1 (2.19/0.2 m) around 7400 cal yr BP, and rose to a highest position of +3.25 (4.22/2.45 m) reached around 5350 cal yr BP. That marine incursion caused the inland replacement of freshwater vegetation by mangroves on tidal flats. Since then, the estuary experienced RSL fall, reducing inland tidal water salinity towards the Late Holocene, making that the mangroves were replaced by freshwater floodplain vegetation. Today, in the seaward part of the estuary near its mouth, mangroves occupy an area of ~10 km² along tidal channels. Considering a RSL rise of 98 cm up to the end of the 21^st century, at a rate significantly higher than that of Middle Holocene RSL rise (1.5 mm/yr) and fall (0.6 mm/yr), the current mangrove substrates are expected to drown and/or eroded near the coast, while new mangroves may establish inland, at topographically higher tidal flats in nowadays freshwater-tidal zones. Mangrove area could expand over 13 km² of coastal and flood plain. Following the same interaction between RSL/climate changes and Holocene mangrove dynamics, such upstream mangrove migration may be attenuated or intensified by changes in fluvial discharge. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Linking uplift,erosion, and sedimentation using landscape evolution models: Madagascar since the Late Cretaceous     

Ruohong Jiao  Jean Braun  Antoine Delaunay  Cécile Robin  François Guillocheau 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2023,48(1):215-229

We present a study to estimate the large-scale landscape history of a continental margin, by establishing a source-to-sink volume balance between the eroding onshore areas and the offshore basins. Assuming erosion as the primary process for sediment production, we strive to constrain a numerical model of landscape evolution that balances the volumes of eroded materials from the continent and that deposited in the corresponding basins, with a ratio imposed for loss of erosion products. We use this approach to investigate the landscape history of Madagascar since the Late Cretaceous. The uplift history prescribed in the model is inferred from elevations of planation surfaces formed at various ages. By fitting the volumes of terrigenous sediments in the Morondava Basin along the west coast and the current elevation of the island, the landscape evolution model is optimized by constraining the erosion law parameters and ratios of sediment loss. The results include a best-fit landscape evolution model, which features two major periods of uplift and erosion during the Late Cretaceous and the middle to late Cenozoic. The model supports suggestions from previous studies that most of the high topography of the island was constructed since the middle to late Miocene, and on the central plateau the erosion has not reached an equilibrium with the high uplift rates in the late Cenozoic. Our models also indicate that over the geological time scale a significant portion of materials eroded from Madagascar was not archived in the offshore basin, possibly consumed by chemical weathering, the intensity of which might have varied with climate.  相似文献   

Quality Assessment of the French OpenStreetMap Dataset   总被引：9，自引：1，他引：8  

Jean‐François Girres  Guillaume Touya 《Transactions in GIS》2010,14(4):435-459

The concept of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has recently emerged from the new Web 2.0 technologies. The OpenStreetMap project is currently the most significant example of a system based on VGI. It aims at producing free vector geographic databases using contributions from Internet users. Spatial data quality becomes a key consideration in this context of freely downloadable geographic databases. This article studies the quality of French OpenStreetMap data. It extends the work of Haklay to France, provides a larger set of spatial data quality element assessments (i.e. geometric, attribute, semantic and temporal accuracy, logical consistency, completeness, lineage, and usage), and uses different methods of quality control. The outcome of the study raises questions such as the heterogeneity of processes, scales of production, and the compliance to standardized and accepted specifications. In order to improve data quality, a balance has to be struck between the contributors' freedom and their respect of specifications. The development of appropriate solutions to provide this balance is an important research issue in the domain of user‐generated content.  相似文献   

Towards a consistent mantle carbon flux estimate: Insights from volatile systematics (H2O/Ce, δD,CO2/Nb) in the North Atlantic mantle (14° N and 34° N)     

Pierre Cartigny  Françoise Pineau  Cyril Aubaud  Marc Javoy 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》2008,265(3-4):672-685

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A pilot study of genetic differentiation between two phenotypes of a Mediterranean population of the bivalve Cerastoderma glaucum and genetic discrimination with other Cerastoderma glaucum and Cerastoderma edule populations outside the Mediterranean     

Rim Ladhar‐Chaabouni  Amel Hamza‐Chaffai  Yann Hardivillier  Benoît Chénais  Françoise Denis 《Marine Ecology》2010,31(2):355-363

The internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1) region of 29 individuals of Cerastoderma glaucum (from the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic and the North Sea) and 18 individuals of Cerastoderma edule (from the Atlantic and the North Sea) and the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) region of 43 individuals of C. glaucum (from the Mediterranean Sea, the Atlantic and the North Sea) and 9 individuals of C. edule (from the Atlantic and the North Sea) were PCR amplified and sequenced. The ITS1 sequences led us to describe 27 genetic haplotypes, while 21 genetic haplotypes were determined via the COI sequences. The ITS1 and the COI sequences revealed an important genetic variability within the Mediterranean population of C. glaucum, which contained two different phenotypes: orange foot and yellow foot. A genetic differentiation between the two phenotypes was revealed by the nucleotide diversity index (π) and is strengthened by the AMOVA analysis. This result leads us to suspect the presence of two different groups in the same population of C. glaucum. Nevertheless to be confirmed this hypothesis requires further studies using more locations and a larger number of sample sizes.  相似文献   

Ocean expansion: The role of detachment faults     

Françoise Chalot-Prat  Rémi Magott  Carole Berthod 《地学学报》2023,35(1):15-22

Detachment faulting at slow spreading ocean ridge axes is recognized as a major surface creation mechanism, yet the structural relationships of these faults with feeder-dykes of on-axis volcanoes remained unresolved. This summary study shows that surface creation leading to ocean widening is exclusively controlled by detachment faults, shallow tracers of tectonic stresses induced by the westward drift of plates. Volcanoes are fed by feeder-dykes following on-axis rotational detachment faults. Once formed volcanoes are dragged along the detachment whose footwall is made of mantle material sometimes hosting gabbro sills. Due to the faster drift of the uppermost lithospheric layer, the feeder-dykes are then intersected by active deeper low-angle detachments, become inactive and are replaced by new ones on-axis. Rooted vertically on either side of the plate boundary, the detachment flexing is all the earlier and more progressive as the faults are far from the axis, positioning gabbro as sills at shallow level within a deformed mantle interspersed with cataclasite horizons. Correlations between shallow and deep lithospheric processes are then clarified.  相似文献   

Acceleration of thermodynamic computations in fluid flow applications     

Sheth  Soham  Heidari  Mohammad Reza  Neylon  Kieran  Bennett  James  McKee  François 《Computational Geosciences》2022,26(1):1-11

Reservoir simulators model the highly nonlinear partial differential equations that represent flows in heterogeneous porous media. The system is made up of conservation equations for each thermodynamic species, flash equilibrium equations and some constraints. With advances in Field Development Planning (FDP) strategies, clients need to model highly complex Improved Oil Recovery processes such as gas re-injection and CO2 injection, which requires multi-component simulation models. The operating range of these simulation models is usually around the mixture critical point and this can be very difficult to simulate due to phase mislabeling and poor nonlinear convergence. We present a Machine Learning (ML) based approach that significantly accelerates such simulation models. One of the most important physical parameters required in order to simulate complex fluids in the subsurface is the critical temperature (T_crit). There are advanced iterative methods to compute the critical point such as the algorithm proposed by Heidemann and Khalil (AIChE J 26,769–799, 1980) but, because these methods are too expensive, they are usually replaced by cheaper and less accurate methods such as the Li-correlation (Reid and Sherwood 1966). In this work we use a ML workflow that is based on two interacting fully connected neural networks, one a classifier and the other a regressor, that are used to replace physical algorithms for single phase labelling and improve the convergence of the simulator. We generate real time compositional training data using a linear mixing rule between the injected and the in-situ fluid compositions that can exhibit temporal evolution. In many complicated scenarios, a physical critical temperature does not exist and the iterative sequence fails to converge. We train the classifier to identify, a-priori, if a sequence of iterations will diverge. The regressor is then trained to predict an accurate value of T_crit. A framework is developed inside the simulator based on TensorFlow that aids real time machine learning applications. The training data is generated within the simulator at the beginning of the simulation run and the ML models are trained on this data while the simulator is running. All the run-times presented in this paper include the time taken to generate the training data and train the models. Applying this ML workflow to real field gas re-injection cases suffering from severe convergence issues has resulted in a 10-fold reduction of the nonlinear iterations in the examples shown in this paper, with the overall run time reduced 2- to 10-fold, thus making complex FDP workflows several times faster. Such models are usually run many times in history matching and optimization workflows, which results in compounded computational savings. The workflow also results in more accurate prediction of the oil in place due to better single phase labelling.

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