Mantle xenoliths,edited by Peter H. Nixon. John Wiley & Sons,Chichester, New York,Brisbane, Toronto,Singapore, 1987. No of pages: 844. Price: £99.00 (hardback).     

W. S. McKenzie 《Geological Journal》1989,24(2):163-164

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Crustaceans     

K.G. McKenzie 《地学学报》1989,1(6):512-523

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Gravity studies of the Rockall and Exmouth Plateaux using SEASAT altimetry   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

SUE Fowler  DAN McKenzie 《Basin Research》1989,2(1):27-34

Abstract SEASAT altimetric measurements are used to determine the gravity anomalies across two passive continental margins: the western margin of the Rockall Plateau, UK, and the Exmouth Plateau off north-west Australia. The small gravity anomalies observed over the starved western margin of the Rockall Plateau require the existence of a major density contrast within the crust, as well as the Moho, and show that the elastic thickness is less than 5 km at the time of rifting. The gravity anomaly over the Exmouth Plateau is compared with the gravity anomaly calculated from the sediment loading of a thin elastic plate, taking account of the variation in crustal thickness. This comparison shows that the Exmouth Plateau also has a small effective elastic thickness of 5 km, even for loads emplaced between 60 and 120 Myr after rifting. Elastic thicknesses of about 5 km have also been reported for other sedimentary basins, and are to be expected if the rheological properties of the crust and mantle depend on the ratio of the present temperature to the melting temperature. Flexural effects are therefore likely to be of minor importance in sedimentary basins.  相似文献   

Models of crustal flow in the India–Asia collision zone     

Alex Copley  Dan McKenzie 《Geophysical Journal International》2007,169(2):683-698

Surface velocities in parts of the India–Asia collision zone are compared to velocities calculated from equations describing fluid flow driven by topographically produced pressure gradients. A good agreement is found if the viscosity of the crust is ∼10²⁰ Pa s in southern Tibet and ∼10²² Pa s in the area between the Eastern Syntaxis and the Szechwan Basin. The lower boundary condition of the flow changes between these two areas, with a stress-free lower boundary in the area between the Szechwan basin and the Eastern Syntaxis, and a horizontally rigid but vertically deformable boundary where strong Indian lithospheric material underlies southern Tibet. Deformation maps for olivine, diopside and anorthite show our findings to be consistent with laboratory measurements of the rheology of minerals. Gravitationally driven flow is also suggested to be taking place in the Indo–Burman Ranges, with a viscosity of ∼10¹⁹–10²⁰ Pa s. Flow in both southern Tibet and the Indo–Burman Ranges provides an explanation for the formation of the geometry of the Eastern Himalayan Syntaxis. The majority of the normal faulting earthquakes in the Tibetan Plateau occur in the area of southern Tibet which we model as gravitationally spreading over the Indian shield.  相似文献   

Mapping Paleo‐Fire Boundaries from Binary Point Data: Comparing Interpolation Methods     

Amy Hessl  Jennifer Miller  James Kernan  David Keenum  Don McKenzie 《The Professional geographer》2007,59(1):87-104

Fire history studies have traditionally emphasized temporal rather than spatial properties of paleo‐fire regimes. In this study we compare four methods of mapping paleo‐fires in central Washington from binary point data: indicator kriging, inverse distance weighting, Thiessen polygons, and an expert approach. We evaluate the results of each mapping method using a test (validation) dataset and receiver operating characteristic plots. Interpolation methods perform well, but results vary with fire size and spatial pattern of points. Though all methods involve some subjectivity, automated interpolation methods perform well, are replicable, and can be applied across varying landscapes.  相似文献   

Crossover from capillary fingering to compact invasion for two-phase drainage with stable viscosity ratios     

M. Ferer  Grant S. BromhalDuane H. Smith 《Advances in water resources》2007

Motivated by a wide range of applications from enhanced oil recovery to carbon dioxide sequestration, we have developed a two-dimensional, pore-level model of immiscible drainage, incorporating viscous, capillary, and gravitational effects. This model has been validated quantitatively, in the very different limits of zero viscosity ratio and zero capillary number; flow patterns from modeling agree well with experiment. For a range of stable viscosity ratios (μ_injected/μ_displaced ? 1), we have increased the capillary number, N_c, and studied the way in which the flows deviate from capillary fingering (the fractal flow of invasion percolation) and become compact for realistic capillary numbers. Results exhibiting this crossover from capillary fingering to compact invasion are presented for the average position of the injected fluid, the fluid–fluid interface, the saturation and fractional flow profiles, and the relative permeabilities. The agreement between our results and earlier theoretical predictions [Blunt M, King MJ, Scher H. Simulation and theory of two-phase flow in porous media. Phys Rev A 1992;46:7680–99; Lenormand R. Flow through porous media: limits of fractal patterns. Proc Roy Soc A 1989;423:159–68; Wilkinson D. Percolation effects in immiscible displacement. Phys Rev A 1986;34:1380–90; Xu B, Yortsos YC, Salin D. Invasion Percolation with viscous forces. Phys Rev E 1998;57:739–51] supports the validity of these general theoretical arguments, which were independent of the details of the porous media in both two and three dimensions.  相似文献   

The effects of climatic variability on estimates of recharge from temperature profiles   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Ferguson G  Woodbury AD 《Ground water》2005,43(6):837-842

Using heat as a tracer allows for estimation of ground water recharge rates based on subsurface temperature measurements. While possible in theory, it may be difficult in practice to discriminate the effects of climate from the effects of ground water advection. This study uses synthetic simulations to determine the influence of variability of ground surface temperature (GST) on the ability to estimate vertical specific discharge from temperature profiles. Results suggest that in cases where temperature measurements are sufficiently deep and specific discharge is sufficiently high, estimates of specific discharges will be reasonably accurate. Increasing the number of times temperatures are measured, or producing models that incorporate variations in GST, will increase the reliability of any studies using temperatures to estimate specific discharge. Furthermore, inversions of temperature measurements should be combined with other methods of estimating recharge rates to improve the reliability of recharge estimates.  相似文献   

Full-glacial paleosols in perennially frozen loess sequences, Klondike goldfields, Yukon Territory, Canada   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Paul T. Sanborn  C.A. Scott Smith  Grant D. Zazula 《Quaternary Research》2006,66(1):147-157

Perennially frozen loess deposits in the Klondike goldfields include paleosols formed in full-glacial environments, correlated by Alaskan distal tephra with Marine Isotope Stages (MIS) 2 and 4. Patterns of organic and inorganic carbon and clay distribution, microstructures, and profile morphologies indicate that soil formation occurred in a base-rich environment in which organic matter accreted predominantly as root detritus. At sites approximately 20 km apart, the expression of cryoturbation and ice wedge development decreases in strength upward in loess-paleosol sequences correlated with MIS 4, suggesting increasing aridity. Configurations of cryoturbation features and ice-wedge thaw unconformities, the presence of numerous ground squirrel burrows, and an absence of peat accumulation suggest that these substrates were predominantly well-drained, with active layers of equal or greater thickness than in modern soils on similar sites in the west-central Yukon. Some characteristics of these paleosols are similar to those of modern steppe and tundra soils, consistent with plant macrofossil evidence for local ecological diversity during full-glacial conditions in eastern Beringia.  相似文献   

Active tectonics of the north and central Aegean Sea   总被引：20，自引：0，他引：20  

Tuncay Taymaz  James Jackson  Dan McKenzie 《Geophysical Journal International》1991,106(2):433-490

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Preliminary isotopic and palaeomagnetic evidence for Younger Dryas and Holocene climate evolution in NE Asia     

S. M. Bernasconi  J. Dobson  J. A. McKenzie  D. Ariztegui  F. Niessen  K. J. Hsü  Y. Chen  Q. Yang 《地学学报》1997,9(5-6):246-250

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