Sediment supply from landslide-dominated catchments: implications for basin-margin fans   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Philip A. Allen  & Niels Hovius 《Basin Research》1998,10(1):19-35

The sediment flux from a mountainous catchment can be expressed as a function of a landslide rate constant κ which accounts for the vigour of hillslope erosion. Since the incising drainage network flushes all or a portion of the products of hillslope erosion to a range front where fan deposition takes place, a conservation of solid sediment volume allows the fan area and progradation distance to be calculated. These parameters are related primarily to the discharge of sediment from the catchment and to local tectonic subsidence.
A survey of modern alluvial fans in a wide range of climatic and tectonic settings shows that the effects of climate and bedrock lithology cannot be discriminated in the scatter of data of catchment area vs. fan area. However, by focusing on over 100 fans in the arid and semiarid zone of SW USA, the impact of tectonic subsidence rate is unambiguous. Although further quantitative data on local tectonic subsidence rates are urgently required, our preliminary analysis suggests considerable potential for reconstructing palaeocatchments where basin tectonic subsidence rates can be estimated. The progradation distances of fans from the northern and southern margins of the Middle Devonian Hornelen Basin of Norway, and the western and north-eastern margins of the Mio-Pliocene Ridge Basin, California, allow catchment sizes and denudation rates to be approximated. Although unique solution sets are not possible, an iteration of parameter values allows plausible parameter combinations to be calculated which shed light on the tectonic and sedimentary history of the proximal basin and upland source regions. Model results suggest significant asymmetry in basin subsidence rates, catchment slopes and transport mechanics between the two margins.  相似文献   

Estimation of sea surface topography in the Norwegian sea using gravimetry and Geosat altimetry     

Per Knudsen 《Journal of Geodesy》1992,66(1):27-40

An analysis of the quasi-stationary sea surface topography (QSST) is carried out in the Norwegian Sea region (54°<ø<72°, -25°<<20°) using marine gravimetry and one year of Geosat ERM altimetry. As reference models the geopotential model OSU91A and the QSST model OSU89D were used. Two procedures to extract the QSST from mean sea surface heights and gravity anomalies were tested. Spherical FFT techniques were applied in both procedures. The results show that QSST associated with wavelength shorter than 4000 km exists. Relative to the OSU89D model the QSST was found to have a variance of (0.219 m)² and a correlation length of 1.105°. The circulation pattern recovered in this paper agree with results of oceanographic analysis.  相似文献   

On farsidedness of palaeomagnetic poles: Magnetic refraction,sediment compaction and dipole off-set     

Niels Abrahamsen 《Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica》1992,36(1):26-41

Summary Three possible ways to explain the Caenozoically observed farsidedness of paleomagnetic poles (apart from lithospheric plate movements) are discussed: magnetic refraction, sediment compaction and dipole off-set. The dipole off-set, being a possible geomagnetic field property, will be of opposite sign on opposite hemispheres, and hence will not tend to smoothe out by sectorial averaging. Sediment compaction shallows the inclination on both hemispheres, and hence will tend to smoothe out by sectorial averaging, provided that sediment properties, site latitude coverage and number of investigations are equal (fairly unlikely).Magnetic refraction causes systematic directional distortions of the remanent magnetization in rocks of moderate to high magnetic intensity (or apparent susceptibility k_app=k(1+Q)) such as in many volcanics, some metamorphics, as well as in baked clays and slags, etc. A detailed discussion of this effect is given: If the k_app of the material is above 0.001 emu/cm ³ (×4 SI), this effect is likely to cause a significant palaeomagnetic refraction error of the NRM (typically a TRM or a CRM) of the rock. An apparent susceptibility of this order of magnitude is quite common in volcanic rocks; e.g. for oceanic floor basalts the average of k_app is about 0.02 emu/cm ³ corresponding to systematic errors (flattening) of some 3° to 6° in the inclination of a horizontal flow, depending on the latitude.To improve paleomagnetic results in general, a simple refraction correction is therefore suggested to be applied in the case of common two-dimensional (i.e. flat, elongated) geological bodies such as dykes, sills, lava flows and baked clays. Numerical solutions are given for the horizontal case, while a graphical solution is given for the general two-dimensional case.Being of systematic types, the refraction error together with the sediment compaction effect may be responsible for a major part of the observed farsidedness of the Caenozoic palaeomagnetic pole positions, the apparent farsidedness not yet beeing masked by the scatter of pole positions produced by older individual lithospheric plate movements.Presented at 2nd conference on New Trends in Geomagnetism, Castle of Bechyn, Czechoslovakia, September 24–29, 1990.  相似文献   

Dynamics of the Venus ionosphere: A two-dimensional model study     

R.C. Whitten  P.T. McCormick  D. Merritt  K.W. Thompson  R.R. Brynsvold  C.J. Eich  W.C. Knudsen  K.L. Miller 《Icarus》1984,60(2):317-326

A two-dimensional model of the ionosphere of Venus which simulates ionospheric dynamics by self-consistently solving the plasma equations of motion, including the inertial term, in finite difference form has been constructed. The model, which is applied over the solar zenith angle range extending from 60 to 140° and the altitude range 100 to 480 km, simulates the measured horizontal velocity field quite satisfactorily. The ion density field is somewhat overestimated on the dayside because of the choice model neutral atmosphere and underestimated on the nightside because of setting the ionopause height at too low an altitude. It is concluded that solar photoionization on the dayside and ion recombination on the nightside are the processes mainly responsible for accelerating the plasma to the observed velocities. The plasma flow appears to be sufficient to maintain the nightside ionosphere at or near the observed median level of ion densities.  相似文献   

Weighting and smoothing of stomach content data as input for MSVPA with particular reference to the Barents Sea     

Bulgakova  Tatiana; Vasilyev  Dmitri; Daan  Niels 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》2001,58(6):1208-1218

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Long-term trends in ten non-target North Sea fish species   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：1  

Heessen  Henk J. L.; Daan  Niels 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》1996,53(6):1063-1078

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Multi-satellite ocean tide modelling—the K₁ constituent     

Ole Baltazar Andersen  Per Knudsen 《Progress in Oceanography》1997,40(1-4)

All major ocean tide constituents are aliased into signals with periods less than 90 days from TOPEX/POSEIDON altimetry, except the K₁ constituent. The aliased K₁ has a period of 173 days. Consequently, it might be confounded with height variations caused by the semiannual cycle having a period of 183 days.The correlation between K₁ and the semiannual signal has been investigated both locally and globally using combinations of T/P, ERS-1 and GEOSAT observations. Subsequently, two empirical methods have been investigated to improve the mapping of K₁ from multiple satellites.At high latitudes, where the presence of crossing tracks cannot separate K₁ from the semiannual signal from TOPEX/POSEIDON, the importance of including ERS-1 and GEOSAT observations was demonstrated. A comparison with 29 pelagic and coastal tide gauges in the Southern Ocean south of 50°S gave 5.59 (M₂), 2.27 (S₂) and 5.04 (K₁) cm RMS agreement for FES95.1 ocean tide model. The same comparison for the best empirical estimated constituents based on TOPEX/POSEIDON + ERS-1 + GEOSAT gave 4.32, 2.21, and 4.29 cm for M₂, S₂ and K₁, respectively.  相似文献   

Changes in the North Sea fish community: evidence of indirect effects of fishing?   总被引：7，自引：4，他引：7  

Daan  Niels; Gislason  Henrik; G. Pope  John; C. Rice  Jake 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》2005,62(2):177-188

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Electromagnetic Subsurface Imaging. A Case for an Adaptive Born Approximation     

Niels B. Christensen 《Surveys in Geophysics》1997,18(5):477-510

The process of interpretation of electromagnetic data has many facets of which fast approximate interpretation techniques is an intriguing one. A new variant of the Born approximation – the Adaptive Born approximation – is presented and exemplified through 1D and 2D imaging techniques for transient electromagnetic data. The Adaptive Born approximation is generally applicable in approximate inversion schemes for inductive electromagnetic data as a one-pass imaging algorithm. Though it is as simple to use as the ordinary Born approximation, it offers a more accurate inverse mapping.In the first part of this paper an attempt will be made to give an overview of fundamental concepts in electromagnetic subsurface imaging relevant for approximate inverse mappings and to outline major trends in present day modeling and inversion of electromagnetic data. This is of course an impossible task – certainly for this author – and much important work will not be mentioned in the limited space of the following. My apologies to the people who are not mentioned and whose research is not given credit here though it should have been. Naturally, my choice of references reflects the schools and circles I have been subjected to, but I hope that the list of references to developments in electromagnetic methods will point to papers of importance and thereby to other references for the interested reader.  相似文献   

TAC management in North Sea flatfish fisheries     

Niels Daan 《Journal of Sea Research》1997,37(3-4)

The Common Fisheries Policy of the European Union adopted in 1983 is primarily focused on a science-based TAC management system with fixed national quota shares. The quality of the assessments of plaice and sole, the consistency of the scientific advice, the congruency of the management decisions, and the enforcement of the regulations are reviewed over a 15-year period. The conclusion is that there have been problems at each level, with the ultimate effect that the policy has not been able to restrict fishing mortality and that the level of overexploitation has only increased. It is argued that the present TAC system has created more problems than it has resolved. Attention is drawn to the autonomic economic developments within the fishery and to the potential for managing the fishery more effectively from the cost side rather than the profit side.  相似文献