Magnetic classification of stony meteorites: 1. Ordinary chondrites     

Pierre ROCHETTE  Leonardo SAGNOTTI  Michle BOUROT‐DENISE  Guy CONSOLMAGNO  Luigi FOLCO  Jrme GATTACCECA  Maria Luisa OSETE  Lauri PESONEN 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2003,38(2):251-268

Abstract— We present a database of magnetic susceptibility measurements on 971 ordinary chondrites. It demonstrates that this parameter can be successfully used to characterize and classify ordinary chondrite meteorites. In ordinary chondrites, this rapid and non‐destructive measurement essentially determines the amount of metal in the sample, which occurs in a very narrow range for each chondrite class (though terrestrial weathering can result in a variable decrease in susceptibility, especially in finds). This technique is particularly useful not only for a rapid classification of new meteorites, but also as a check against curation errors in large collections (i.e., unweathered meteorites, the measured susceptibility of which lies outside the expected range, may well be misclassified or misidentified samples). Magnetic remanence, related to magnetic field measurements around asteroids, is also discussed.  相似文献   

The life and death of planet Earth: How the new science of astrobiology charts the ultimate fate of our world. Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee     

Guy Consolmagno SJ 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2003,38(7):1131-1132

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Meteoritical evidence and constraints on asteroid impacts and disruption     

Guy Consolmagno S.J. 《Planetary and Space Science》2004,52(12):1119-1128

Impact events have played a central role in the life of meteorites. They compacted and lithified the dust from which meteorites are made; produced shock minerals, shock melting, and shock blackening of meteoritic minerals on their parent bodies; turned their parent bodies into rubble; and dispersed at least some pieces of this rubble, sending them to Earth as meteorites. Thus, as well as owing their very existence to the occurrence of catastrophic disruptions, meteorites contain physical ground truth concerning the impact and disruption environment of the solar system. Reviewing these aspects of the impact-meteorite connection, we conclude that impacts severe enough to disrupt asteroids were rare in the earliest stages of the solar nebula, when meteorite parent bodies accreted and were lithified. Likewise, though catastrophic disruptions clearly have occurred over the past several billion years, the small number of exposure events seen in the meteoritic cosmic ray age record indicates that such disruptions at these times also were rare. However, catastrophic disruptions must have been very prevalent during the first billion years of the solar system, resulting in the widespread asteroid macroporosity inferred from the comparison of asteroid bulk densities to meteorite grain densities.  相似文献   

Gas‐melt interactions and their bearing on chondrule formation     

Laurent Tissandeer  Guy Libourel  Franois Robert 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2002,37(10):1377-1389

Abstract— Interactions between nebular gas and molten silicates or oxides could have played a major role in the formation and differentiation of the first solids formed in the solar system. In order to simulate such interactions, we set up a new experimental device in which isothermal condensation experiments have been conducted. Partially molten chondrule‐like samples have been exposed to high SiO(g) partial pressures, for intervals between 80 and 300 s and at temperatures ranging from 1600 to 1750 K. Results show that silica entering from the gas phase could be responsible for several textural and mineralogical features observed in natural chondrules. For instance, these experiments reproduce not only the mineralogical zonation of porphyritic olivine‐pyroxene chondrules with the peripheral location of pyroxenes, but also olivine resorption textures and the common poikilitical enclosure of olivines in pyroxenes. In the light of these similarities, we advocate that gas‐melt interactions through condensation are viable mechanisms for chondrule formation and hence may place severe constraints on the history of these primitive objects. In the nebula, high SiO(_g) partial pressures could have been established by the volatilization of regions with high dust/gas ratio. A possible scenario for this stochastic thermal activity is the intense activity of the protosun in its young stellar object phase.  相似文献   

Reconstructing 4000 years of mass movement and tsunami history in a deep peri‐Alpine lake (Lake Geneva,France‐Switzerland)          下载免费PDF全文

Katrina Kremer  Michael Hilbe  Guy Simpson  Laurent Decrouy  Walter Wildi  Stephanie Girardclos 《Sedimentology》2015,62(5):1305-1327

The study of mass movements in lake sediments provides insights into past natural hazards at historic and prehistoric timescales. Sediments from the deep basin of Lake Geneva reveal a succession of six large‐scale (volumes of 22 × 10⁶ to 250 × 10⁶ m³) mass‐transport deposits, associated with five mass‐movement events within 2600 years (4000 cal bp to 563 ad ). The mass‐transport deposits result from: (i) lateral slope failures (mass‐transport deposit B at 3895 ± 225 cal bp and mass‐transport deposits A and C at 3683 ± 128 cal bp ); and (ii) Rhône delta collapses (mass‐transport deposits D to G dated at 2650 ± 150 cal bp , 2185 ± 85 cal bp , 1920 ± 120 cal bp and 563 ad , respectively). Mass‐transport deposits A and C were most probably triggered by an earthquake, whereas the Rhône delta collapses were likely to be due to sediment overload with a rockfall as the external trigger (mass‐transport deposit G, the Tauredunum event in 563 ad known from historical records), an earthquake (mass‐transport deposit E) or unknown external triggers (mass‐transport deposits D and F). Independent of their origin and trigger mechanisms, numerical simulations show that all of these recorded mass‐transport deposits are large enough to have generated at least metre‐scale tsunamis during mass movement initiation. Since the Tauredunum event in 563 ad , two small‐scale (volumes of 1 to 2 × 10⁶ m³) mass‐transport deposits (H and I) are present in the seismic record, both of which are associated with small lateral slope failures. Mass‐transport deposits H and I might be related to earthquakes in Lausanne/Geneva (possibly) 1322 ad and Aigle 1584 ad , respectively. The sedimentary record of the deep basin of Lake Geneva, in combination with the historical record, show that during the past 3695 years, at least six tsunamis were generated by mass movements, indicating that the tsunami hazard in the Lake Geneva region should not be neglected, although such events are not frequent with a recurrence time of 0·0016 yr^?1.  相似文献   

The hydrology of glacier-bed overdeepenings: Sediment transport mechanics,drainage system morphology,and geomorphological implications     

Darrel A. Swift  Guy D. Tallentire  Daniel Farinotti  Simon J. Cook  William J. Higson  Robert G. Bryant 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2021,46(11):2264-2278

Evacuation of basal sediment by subglacial drainage is an important mediator of rates of glacial erosion and glacier flow. Glacial erosion patterns can produce closed basins (i.e., overdeepenings) in glacier beds, thereby introducing adverse bed gradients that are hypothesized to reduce drainage system efficiency and thus favour basal sediment accumulation. To establish how the presence of a terminal overdeepening might mediate seasonal drainage system evolution and glacial sediment export, we measured suspended sediment transport from Findelengletscher, Switzerland during late August and early September 2016. Analyses of these data demonstrate poor hydraulic efficiency of drainage pathways in the terminus region but high sediment availability. Specifically, the rate of increase of sediment concentration with discharge was found to be significantly lower than that anticipated if channelized flow paths were present. Sediment availability to these flow paths was also higher than would be anticipated for discrete bedrock-floored subglacial channels. Our findings indicate that subglacial drainage in the terminal region of Findelengletscher is dominated by distributed flow where entrainment capacity increases only marginally with discharge, but flow has extensive access to an abundant sediment store. This high availability maintains sediment connectivity between the glacial and proglacial realm and means daily sediment yield is unusually high relative to yields exhibited by similar Alpine glaciers. We present a conceptual model illustrating the potential influence of ice-bed morphology on subglacial drainage evolution and sediment evacuation mechanics, patterns and yields, and recommend that bed morphology should be an explicit consideration when monitoring and evaluating glaciated basin sediment export rates.  相似文献   

Hydraulic stimulation of geothermal reservoirs: fluid flow, electric potential and microseismicity relationships     

Mathieu Darnet  Guy Marquis  Pascal Sailhac 《Geophysical Journal International》2006,166(1):438-444

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Integrated modelling of population,employment and land-use change with a multiple activity-based variable grid cellular automaton     

Roger White  Inge Uljee  Guy Engelen 《International journal of geographical information science》2013,27(7):1251-1280

A constrained cellular automaton (CA) framework is used to model both land use and, at the same resolution, densities of population and economic activity. The multi-scale processes determining the location of population, economic activity and land use are captured in a variable grid CA, in which the neighbourhood of each cell includes the entire modelled area. The transition rules generating the spatial dynamics incorporate both the land use and the activities, and because they cover the entire modelled area, they represent interaction effects at all spatial scales; effectively, they are distance decay functions. In general, any particular cell hosts a number of activities (population, employment in various sectors) regardless of its land use, so in effect multiple land uses are modelled as multiple activities, although activity levels are normally highest on cells of the corresponding land use. The model is applied to both the urban-centred Greater Dublin Region and the country of Belgium, which consists of the entire polycentric urban system and its rural matrix. Results for both applications are good, as measured by the errors of both predicted populations and fractal dimensions, and the model outperforms the best existing models by these measures.  相似文献   

Meeting the needs for geographers     

Guy‐Harold Smith 《The Professional geographer》2013,65(1):5-9

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打造过硬品牌 以彰显地质公园在UNESCO世界级名录中的特殊地位——PPF理念(“过去—现在—将来”理念)     

盖伊-马提尼  张志光  顾琰菲  李薇 《地球学报》2013,34(2):229-232

目前世界地质公园网络(GGN)共有90个成员, 分布在27个国家和地区, 尽管在这个网络建立过程中, 联合国教科文组织起着关键作用, 但在过去十多年里, 其与地质公园的关系只能被定义为“特别支持”, 眼下两者的关系应该在一个国际倡议或计划下被正式化, 这将有利于进一步提高地质公园的管理、交流合作和资源利用。实现该目标, 就要清晰地阐明地质公园核心的独有特色, 使地质公园与联合国教科文组织已实施的计划形成互补, 不会产生冲突或重叠。本文介绍的PPF理念将会是一个有效的方法, 以此创建一个过硬的品牌, 彰显地质公园在UNESCO世界级名录中的特殊地位。  相似文献