A comparative allometric study of the morphometry of the gills of an alkalinity adapted cichlid fish,Oreochromis alcalicus grahami,of Lake Magadi,Kenya     

J. N. Maina  S. M. Kisia  C. M. Wood  A. B. Narahara  H. L. Bergman  P. Laurent  P. J. Walsh 《International Journal of Salt Lake Research》1996,5(2):131-156

A morphometric analysis of the gills ofOreochromis alcalicus grahami has been carried out on specimens from ecologically distinct lagoons and a water-holding tank of Lake Magadi, a highly alkaline salt lake situated in a volcanically active region of the southern part of the Great Rift Valley in Kenya. The data were compared with those fromOreochromis niloticus, a close relative that lives in fresh water and with data from other fresh water and marine fish. Our primary goal was to identify the possible adaptive features which enable the fish to survive in an environment characterized by severely fluctuating levels of oxygen, a condition exacerbated by factors such as high temperature, alkalinity and osmolarity. The specimens ofO. a. grahami from the south-western lagoons of the lake had gills better adapted for gas exchange with a body mass specific diffusing capacity for oxygen which was about 2 times greater than that of the gills of the specimens from the fish spring lagoons and 2.5 times that of those from the water-holding tanks. Some parameters of the gills ofO. a. grahami, e.g. the gill filament length and number of gill filaments are significantly greater than those ofO. niloticus but the number of secondary lamellae, area of secondary lamellae and the diffusing capacity of the gills are similar in the two species. Compared with most other fish, the gills ofO. a. grahami appear to be particularly well adapted for gas exchange especially by having a thin water-blood barrier. Perhaps in no other extant fish have the gills had to be so exquisitely designed to meet environmental extremes and regulate complex and at times conflicting functions such as gas exchange, iono-regulation, acid-base balance and nitrogenous waste excretion as inO. a. grahami  相似文献   

L'élimination des déchets solides aux Etats-Unis d'Amérique     

R. D. Vaughan 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》1969,31(2):294-308

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P total,P_{H_2 O} and the occurrence of cummingtonite in volcanic rocks     

B. J. Wood  I. S. E. Carmichael 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》1973,40(2):149-158

The phenocryst assemblage of cummingtonite, orthopyroxene, quartz, titanomagnetite and ilmenite in rhyolites of New Zealand has been used to calculate P _total and . The values of P _total and depend strongly upon whether an ideal mixing, or an ordered, model is used for the solid-solutions, but in both cases P _total.The rhyolite magma contained over 9 per cent water (by weight) when the cummingtonite phenocrysts precipitated, and possibly as much as 12 per cent, so that it is surprising that one of these rhyolites is a coherent lava. The calculated values of P _total and are very sensitive to uncertainty in both the composition of the solid-solutions and temperature. Calculations show that >0.7–0.8 P _total for cummingtonite to precipitate in rhyolites, and that iron-rich olivine and cummingtonite could only exist in rhyolites over a small temperature range at a pressure near 5 kilobars. Hornblende phenocrysts co-existing with fayalitic olivine in rhyolites accordingly have a very low activity of Mg₇Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂.  相似文献   

Toxins in the red Whelk     

P.A. Ayres  P.C. Wood 《Marine pollution bulletin》1973,4(10):157-159

A case of poisoning following consumption of Neptunea occurred in Scotland in 1970. The organism is caught in traps with the Edible Whelk where it constitutes less than 0·5% of the catch. Toxin in the salivary gland demonstrated by mouse bioassay could be distinguished from PSP toxin. It is concluded that the public health risk from consumption of the Edible Whelk is negligible.  相似文献   

The economic analysis of raft foundations     

L. A. Wood 《国际地质力学数值与分析法杂志》1977,1(4):397-405

An approximate method, using a simplified soil model, for predicting the behaviour of raft foundations subjected to applied vertical forces and moments will be outlined. Results obtained for circular rafts of finite rigidity are compared with those obtained, from more rigorous solutions, by other authors. Satisfactory agreement is obtained for the surface settlements and raft bending moments over a wide range of soil inhomogeneity. Finally, the versatility of the method of analysis is illustrated for an unusual asymmetrical structure. Computed total and differential settlements are shown to be in reasonable agreement with measured values and those predicted by an independent plane strain finite element analysis.  相似文献   

The effect of H₂O on crystal-melt partitioning of trace elements     

Bernard J Wood  Jonathan D Blundy 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2002,66(20):3647-3656

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Laser Remote Sensing     

G. Vaughan 《The Photogrammetric Record》2006,21(116):415-417

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A reevaluation of the flow data for olivine     

Peter J. Vaughan   《Tectonophysics》1981,72(1-2)

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Cation stacking faults in magnesium germanate spinel     

P. J. Vaughan  D. L. Kohlstedt 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》1981,7(6):241-245

Widely extended, cation stacking faults in experimentally deformed Mg₂GeO₄ spinel have been studied using transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The faults lie on {110} planes. The displacement vector is of the form \(\frac{1}{4}\left\langle {1\bar 10} \right\rangle \) and is normal to the fault plane. The partial dislocations which bound the stacking fault have colinear Burgers vectors of the form \(\frac{1}{4}\left\langle {1\bar 10} \right\rangle \) which are normal to the fault plane.  相似文献   

Pu and¹³⁷Cs in coastal sediments     

Hugh D. Livingston  Vaughan T. Bowen 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1979,43(1):29-45

Analyses are presented of¹³⁷Cs,²³⁸Pu, and^239,240Pu, in relation to depth in sediment, in 21 gravity cores. These cores span the ranges of times 1964–1975, and of water depths 12–2000 m; they come from three distinct sedimentation areas off the northeast coast of the United States. Although the ranges of total sediment inventories of^239,240Pu and of¹³⁷Cs from the various areas hardly overlap, the range of ratios of the inventories of these two nuclides is probably the same in all the areas. In the shallow-water cores the^239,240Pu/¹³⁷Cs ratio regularly diminishes with depth in the core, and a tendency is seen for curves of this function to have similar slopes in each area; ratios of²³⁸Pu/^239,240Pu show no change with depth in these shallow-water cores. In the deeper-water cores, the^239,240Pu/¹³⁷Cs ratio shows no systematic change with depth, but sometimes the²³⁸Pu/^239,240Pu ratio shows a minimum at the sediment surface, and is much higher deeper in the cores. We believe that these phenomena can be explained in terms of a complicated bioturbational process moving the nuclides, together, down into the sediments, of chemical resolubilization, at depth, of plutonium only, and of its subsequent upward translocation in the interstitial solution. Some re-immobilization of plutonium near the sediment surface is implied, and a mechanism is suggested for this, based on displacement of plutonium from organic complexes by the increasing concentrations, in upper layers of the sediment, of re-oxidized dissolved iron.  相似文献