Regolith research in Australia     

M. Thomas  V. N. L. Wong 《Australian Journal of Earth Sciences》2017,64(8):983-985

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Tree-limit rise and recent warming: a geoecological case study from the Swedish Scandes     

《Norsk geografisk tidsskrift. Norwegian journal of geography》2012,66(2):49-59

Twentieth-century elevational tree-limit (TL) and species-limit histories have been reconstructed for Pinus sylvestris, Picea abies and Betula pubescens ssp. tortuosa within a permanent belt transect in the southern Swedish Scandes. Upward TL shifts of 100-130 m between c. 1915 and 1999 appear related to a summer warming of c. 0.7°C, and increased winter temperatures. Rates of tree recruitment and individual growth have increased substantially since 1974, notably during the 1990s, apparently mainly in response to some warm summers and a sequence of exceptionally mild winters. The distributional trend during the 20th century constitutes a fundamental and unexpected break in a monotonic, century-scale TL descent throughout most of the Holocene (exemplified by Pinus sylvestris), which was particularly accentuated during the 'Little Ice Age' of the past several centuries. Assuming that the TL stabilizes at the new, higher level for several decades, its elevation will be higher than at any time during at least the past c. 4000 radiocarbon years. This recent history is relevant as one possible model of the ecological consequences of anthropogenic climate forcing, and the TL may be an appropriate and sensitive system for monitoring the ecological effects of future climate change and variability.  相似文献   

BOOK REVIEWS     

《The Professional geographer》1987,39(1):94-129

Book Reviewed in this article: The Rice Economy of Asia . Randolph Barker and Robert W. Herdt with Beth Rose. Using Microcomputers: A Guidebook for Writers, Teachers, and Researchers in the Social Sciences . Blaine A. Erie—the Lake that Survived . Noel M. Burns. Geology and Society . Donald R. Coates. Caves and Karst of Kentucky . Percy H. Dougherty, ed. Altered Harvest: Agriculture, Genetics, and the Fate of the World's Food Supply . Jack Doyle. The Middle East and North Africa, A Political Geography . Alasdair Drysdale and Gerald H. Blake. Clamor at the Gates. The New American Immigration . Nathan Glazer, ed. Development and the Landowner: An analysis of the British experience . Robin Goodchild and Richard Munton. Discovering Landscape in England and Wales . Andrew Goudie and Rita Gardner. The Modern Plantation in the Third World . Edgar Graham and Ingrid Floering. Social Relations and Spatial Structures . Derek Gregory and John Urry, eds. The World Food Problem 1950–1980 . David Grigg. Costa Rica: A Geographical Interpretation in Historical Perspective . Carolyn Hall. The Urbanization of Capital: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization . David Harvey Consciousness and the Urban Experience: Studies in the History and Theory of Capitalist Urbanization . David Harvey. Reviving Main Street . Deryck Holdsworth, ed. Rural Roads and Poverty Alleviation . John Howe and Peter Richards, eds. Uneven Development in Southern Europe: Studies of Accumulation, Class, Migration and the State . Ray Hudson and Jim Lewis, eds. Karst Geomorphology . J. N. Jennings. The Geomorphology of North-west England . R. H. Johnson, ed. Climate Impact Assessment: Studies of the Interaction of Climate and Society . Robert Kates, Jesse Ausubel, Mimi Berberian, eds. Public Service Provision and Urban Development . Andrew Kirby, Paul Knox, and Steven Pinch, ed. State and Market: The Politics of the Public and the Private . Jan-Erik Lane, ed. Living Cities . Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Urban Preservation Policies. World Climatic Systems . John G. Lockwood. Urban Ethnicity in the United States. New Immigrants and Old Minorities . Lionel Maldonaldo and Joan Moore, eds. Culture and Conservation: The Human Dimension in Environmental Planning . Jeffrey A. McNeely and David Pitt, eds. The Andean Past. Land, Societies, and Conflicts . Magnus Mörner. Gaia: An Atlas of Planet Management . Norman Myers, ed. Progress in Industrial Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Progress in Political Geography . Michael Pacione, ed. Rivers and Landscape . Geoff Petts and Ian Foster. Urbanization and Planning in the 3rd World: Spatial Perceptions and Public Participation . Robert B. Potter. One Island, Two Nations? A Political Geographical Analysis of the National Conflict in Ireland . D. G. Pringle. Circulation in Third World Countries . R. Mansell Prothero and Murray Chapman. The Ozarks Outdoors: A Guide for Fishermen, Hunters, and Tourists . Milton D. Rafferty. Suburban Burglary: A Time and a Place for Everything . George Rengert and John Wasilchick. Geomorphology and Soils . K.S. Richards, R.R. Arnett, and S. Ellis, eds. The Homes and Homeless of Post-War Britain . Frederick Shaw. Indochinese Refugees in America . Paul J. Strand and Woodrow Jones, Jr. Wild Horses and Sacred Cows . Richard Symanski. Forever Wild: Environmental Aesthetics and the Adirondack Forest Preserve . Philip G. Terrie. The Regional Economic Impact of Technological Change . A.T. Thwaites and R.P. Oakey, eds. The Good Life . Yi-Fu Tuan.  相似文献   

松嫩沙地沙漠化的气候因素与沙地发育特征   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

李宝林 《中国沙漠》1996,16(3):250-257

松嫩沙地位于欧亚大陆中纬度巨型沙带的东部边缘，也是我国沙漠化土地的东缘。其独特的气候条件使沙地的形成与发展、风沙地貌形态及风沙活动规律都具有明显的区域特色。通过对气候因素及其控制下沙地发育的分析，可以进一步认识该沙地形成演化及现代沙漠化的若干区域性特征  相似文献   

The Grayling Fingers region of Michigan: soils, sedimentology, stratigraphy and geomorphic development     

Randall J. Schaetzl  Beth N. Weisenborn 《Geomorphology》2004,61(3-4):251-274

This paper provides data on the landforms, soils, and sediments within a unique northern Michigan landscape known as the Grayling Fingers, and evaluates these data to develop various scenarios for the geomorphic development of this region. Composed of several large, flat-topped ridges that trend N–S, the physiography of the “Fingers” resembles a hand. Previously interpreted as “remnant moraines”, the Grayling Fingers are actually a Pleistocene constructional landscape that was later deeply incised by glacial meltwater. The sediments that comprise the Fingers form a generally planar assemblage, with thick (>100 m), sandy glacial outwash forming the lowest unit. Above the outwash are several meters of till that is remarkably similar in texture to the outwash below; thus, the region is best described as an incised ground moraine. Finally, a thin silty “cap” is preserved on the flattest, most stable uplands. This sediment package and the physiography of the Fingers are suggestive of geomorphic processes not previously envisioned for Michigan.Although precise dates are lacking, we nonetheless present possible sequences of geomorphic/sedimentologic processes for the Fingers. This area was probably a topographic high prior to the advance of marine isotope stage 2 (Woodfordian) ice. Much of the glacial outwash in the Fingers is probably associated with a stagnant, early Woodfordian ice margin, implying that this interlobate area remained ice-free and ice-marginal for long periods during stage 2. Woodfordian ice eventually covered the region and deposited 5–10 m of sandy basal till over the proglacial outwash plain. Small stream valleys on the outwash surface were palimpsested onto the till surface as the ice retreated, as kettle chains and as dry, upland valleys. The larger of these valleys were so deeply incised by meltwater that they formed the large, through-flowing Finger valleys. The silt cap that occupies stable uplands was probably imported into the region, while still glaciated. The Fingers region, a col on the ice surface, could have acted as a collection basin for silts brought in as loess or in superglacial meltwater. This sediment was let down as the ice melted and preserved only on certain geomorphically stable and fluvially isolated locations. This study demonstrates that the impact of Woodfordian ice in this region was mostly erosional, and suggests that Mississippi Valley loess may have indirectly impacted this region.  相似文献   

Slip-Rate on the Middle Altyn Tagh Fault since the Holocene Period     

Wang Feng 《中国地震研究》2005,19(1):64-73

INTRODUCTIONTheAltynTaghfault,whichliesonthenorthboundaryoftheQinghai Xizang(Tibet)plateau ,runsmorethan 1 50 0kmfromLazhulonginnorthTibettotheKuantanMountainsinGansuprovince ,China.ItiscloselyconnectedtotheformationandevolutionoftheQinghai Xizang(Tibet)p…  相似文献   

河西走廊城镇地貌特征分析与开发评价   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

梁治寇 《干旱区地理》1993,(3)

本文阐述了河西走廊城镇的地貌特征,从建设开发的角度分析评价城镇地貌特征并提出了今后合理发展的方向与对策。  相似文献   

南极东部拉斯曼丘陵区的地貌   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

李栓科 《地理学报》1995,50(4):368-376

拉斯曼丘陵地处极地永久冻土带，风力作用频繁。各种冰缘过程主宰了现代地貌特征的形成，无冰区历史短暂及南极东部古老结晶地盾的相对稳定性，使风化微弱，并以寒冻风化为主，风力地貌、冰缘地貌、冰川地貌、湖泊地貌、海岸地貌和构造地貌组成本区主要的地貌类型，各种堆积地貌形态均不发育，西部地区地貌形态相对年轻，残存的冰碛物地表分丰特征指标冰盖后退依东北到西南方向进行，海岛、半岛及冰陆过渡带构成该丘陵三个差异明显的  相似文献   

东南极拉斯曼丘陵区的风力地貌   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1       下载免费PDF全文

李栓科 《极地研究》1994,6(4):26-34

拉斯曼丘陵区风力强度大、频数高，各月平均风速均可起动粗砂级以上碎屑。高速气流的极不饱和挟砂（雪晶）状态限制了风力堆积作用和磨蚀作用，而风力吹蚀作用和雪粒（晶）堆积作用则构成本区风力地貌发育的主体。风积方式包括遇阻堆积和停滞堆积，其地貌形态主要有雪被（雪坝）、砂堆（砂地）和砾堤（砾滩）。风积物的沉积地球化学参数与本区母岩有极高的相似性，说明风积碎屑是近源堆积  相似文献   

鲜水河断裂带的断错地貌及其地震学意义   总被引：3，自引：3，他引：3       下载免费PDF全文

钱洪 《地震地质》1989,11(4):43-49

断层的近代位错必将在地貌形态上留下深刻的印记,因而凭借断错地貌现象有可能得到关于活断层上地震活动性的重要信息。鲜水河断裂带上的断错地貌现象表明,断层以间歇性的地震滑动为特征,而且服从于大小相当的地震在原地重复发生的特征地震模式。断错水系的演化图象则进一步提供了在一定时段内,同一地点滑动速率基本稳定的线索。于是,可以把断错地貌的研究作为地震活动性研究的重要手段  相似文献