Sand Dunes Fixation in Baiji District,Iraq     

AyadMohammedFadhil 《中国地质大学学报(英文版)》2002,13(1):67-72

This study was carried out at Sand Dunes Stabilization Researches Station in Baiji district (230km north of Baghdad,Iraq) to evaluate the effects of local soil conditioners manufactured from oil derivatives and plant residuals on sand dunes fixation as the first step for sand dunes stabilization.The results indicate that the fuel oil has the first place in improving wind erosion parameters in the study area,such as increasing mean weight diameter,dry aggregates percentage,the needed time for complete disaggregation by dry sieving,and decreasing the disaggregation rates.Bitumen emulsion occupies the second place ,while the plant residuals occupies the third place and has slight effects on the studied pa-rameters.Effects of conditioners on natural vegetation cover are negative in oil derivatives treatments,while positive in plants residuals treatments.  相似文献   

Reconstructing the geomorphic evolution of large coastal dunes along the southeastern shore of Lake Michigan   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Alan F. Arbogast  Edward C. Hansen  Martin D. Van Oort 《Geomorphology》2002,46(3-4)

Coastal dunes are common along the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, with the most common being large (>30 m high), parabolic dunes that mantle lake terraces south of Manistee, MI. Although these dunes are an important resource in Michigan, and thus intensely managed by various state agencies, their geomorphic history is poorly understood. This study examines four sites near Holland, MI, through stratigraphic and radiocarbon analyses and is the most detailed geomorphic reconstruction conducted of coastal parabolic dunes in the region. Results from this study could benefit the environmental agencies in their management of the coastal dune ecosystem.Deposition of Eolian sand apparently began 5500 cal. years BP (i.e., during the Nipissing high stand). Most (75%) dune building occurred between 4000 and 2500 cal. years BP but was punctuated by brief periods of stability that resulted in the development of Entisols (A/C horizonation). Entisol burial occurred because the sand supply apparently increased during both the receding and rising lake levels. Subsequently, each dune stabilized for 2000 years, allowing the formation of Inceptisols (i.e., A/E/Bs/C horizonation). This interval of dune stability correlates with sites south of Holland and occurred while Lake Michigan fluctuated slowly and the beach potentially prograded. These combined variables of slow fluctuation and potential beach progradation hypothetically protected the dunes from wave erosion. Dunes near Holland became active again 1000–500 cal. years BP and grew both vertically and laterally. This activity intensified in the past 500 cal. years BP and hypothetically occurred due to recession of the lake shore such that wave erosion at the modern bluff base resumed. Results from this study indicate that coastal dunes along Lake Michigan are similar to many coastal dunes around the world, including those along the intermediate beaches in SE Australia.  相似文献   

SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF WATER PERCOLATION AND MOVEMENT IN A SYSTEM OF LONGITUDINAL DUNES,WESTERN NEGEV,ISRAEL     

A. YAIR  H. LAVEE  N. GREITSER 《水文研究》1997,11(1):43-58

Subsurface lateral flow has previously been identified in dune areas where the average annual rainfall exceeds 200 mm. Very little is known about subsurface flow in sandy deserts with less than 100 mm of rainfall per year. The present study deals with the water regime in a system of longitudinal dunes in the Negev desert. Sixteen boreholes were dug, down to a depth of 6 m, across a sandy ridge and the adjacent corridor. Soil moisture and water movement were monitored with a neutron probe during two consecutive years. The first year had been relatively wet and in the following year the rainfall was slightly lower than the long-term average. The data obtained show that in an average year water percolation is limited to 60 cm with no lateral water movement. Deeper percolation, in the range 180–400 cm, occurs in response to rainy spells with about 100 mm of cumulative rain within two months. The process involves subsurface lateral flow and water movement by the piston effect. The lateral flow, on the flanks of the dune, is explained by differences in hydraulic conductivities within the sloping layers. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

金字塔沙丘形成的动力条件分析   总被引：4，自引：3，他引：1  

凌裕泉  刘绍中  吴正  李长治 《中国沙漠》1997,17(2):112-118

金字塔沙丘(或星状沙丘)形成的动力条件主要有三个方面:一是在非沙质床面的气流场辐合区,一般具有三个以上近似均布的主风向,各主风向的风力强度、出现频率及持续时间不尽相同,但年总输沙能力较为接近,而且月输沙能力具有明显的季节变化;二是不太充裕的沙源和高浓度不饱和风沙流;三是不同尺度地形条件的动力作用,和沙漠与戈壁下垫面的热力影响。在沙质床面,往往由于高浓度饱和或过饱和风沙流的作用,导致新月形沙丘或新月形沙丘链的变态,或重新组合成金字塔状的沙丘形态,但不可能发育为典型的金字塔沙丘。  相似文献   

南海北部东沙海域巨型水下沙丘的分布及特征   总被引：3，自引：2，他引：1       下载免费PDF全文

耿明会  宋海斌  关永贤  拜阳  刘胜旋  陈业伟 《地球物理学报》2017,60(2):628-638

本文基于多波束测深和高分辨率多道反射地震数据研究了东沙海域深水巨型水下沙丘的特征.巨型水下沙丘发育在230~830m水深的上陆坡范围内,呈斑块状分布.NW-SE向的近海底流体运动不仅冲蚀地层,形成了三条与水下沙丘间隔分布的冲蚀带,为水下沙丘提供了沉积物来源,同时也为水下沙丘的形成提供了动力源.研究区水下沙丘波长(L)范围55~510m,波高(h)范围1.5~20m,二者呈指数关系分布.沙丘的波长随水深增大而增大,波高则在500~700m水深范围内最大.水下沙丘NE—SW向展布的脊线和几何参数关系是与现今水动力条件相平衡的结果.  相似文献   

Holocene Dune Activity in the Thar Desert,India     

Aayush Srivastava  David S.G. Thomas  Julie A. Durcan 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2019,44(7):1407-1418

The Thar Desert dune system in north-west India and eastern Pakistan provides a rich archive of past environmental, geomorphological and climatic change. Much of the knowledge about the timing of dune accumulation in the Thar stems from scattered and sporadic records, based on older luminescence dating protocols. If the Thar dune record is to be incorporated within a growing multiproxy framework of past climate and environmental dynamics, it is necessary to generate a systematic record of the timing of dunefield accumulation. From this, relationships to climate and other drivers of dune activity may then be better established. To this end, an intensive programme of field sampling and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating was carried out from a dunefield in the east-central Thar Desert. This study presents the first detailed Holocene dune accumulation history from the region, and sheds light on the development of the multi-generational parabolic dune systems. In contrast to previously published work, we identify the importance of the Holocene and the last millennium as periods with a number of preserved accumulation phases. OSL ages suggest that accumulation was persistent during the early and mid-Holocene (within 11.7-5.5 ka), late Holocene (2-1 ka), as well as two major phases in the last millennium (600 – 200 a and within the last 70 a). Potential drivers of dune mobility in the last century include a strong anthropogenic dimension. Rapid net accumulation is recorded in the last 70 years, with rates varying between 2 and 5 m/year, in an environment where agricultural pressures have increased dramatically with the advent of irrigation schemes expanding into dunefield areas. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Decadal behaviour of a washover fan,Skallingen Denmark     

Troels Aagaard  Aart Kroon 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2019,44(9):1755-1768

In this study, the decadal evolution of a washover fan on the west coast of Denmark is examined from its initial generation in 1990 until 2015. Since its inception, the bare and flat washover fan surface has recovered and accreted slowly due to re-activation by overwash during surges and due to aeolian activity and dune formation, stimulated by vegetation growth. The volume of sand on the washover has increased steadily at an average rate of about 23 m³/yr per unit length of shoreline, and a total of 175,000 m³ of sand is now deposited on the fan, while at the same time the shoreline has receded by some 250 m. The evolution can be divided into three stages: 1) An initiation phase when storm surge levels and energetic wave conditions caused a breach in the foredunes and overwash processes formed a washover fan with a relatively low elevation above mean sea level; 2) An initial recovery phase during which waves supplied sand to the fan during frequent overwash activity and winds transported this sand into marginal dunes surrounding the fan; and 3) A later recovery phase when the surface of the fan had accreted to a level where vegetation could survive and trap sediment into new foredune growth across the fan. The rate of accretion has been overall linear but scales with neither annual overwash frequency, nor with aeolian transport potential. Instead, the linear accretion is more closely related to the steady onshore migration of nearshore bars that weld to the beach and provide a sand supply for transfer to the fan. The fan evolution demonstrates the importance of washover fans in preserving barrier resilience during transgressional phases caused by increasing mean sea level. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Morphodynamic interactions of continental shelf,beach and dunes: the Cabopino dune system in southern Mediterranean Spain     

Gonzalo Malvárez  Fatima Navas  Emilia Guisado-Pintado  Derek W.T. Jackson 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2019,44(8):1647-1658

The complex morphodynamic interactions between nearshore, shoreface and dune systems are usually simplified by studying these zones and their associated processes in isolation. However, the established relationships between each of them suggests that an integrated approach is required to examine the genesis, evolution and adaptation of the entire morphodynamic system. The Cabopino dune system in the southern Spanish Mediterranean Sea provides a clear example of a linked morphodynamic system in which a relatively large dune system has been generated and grown through the supply of sediments from an adjacent littoral supply environment. Here, we present a conceptual model of how the nearshore has provided suitable conditions for beach and dune development. We purport that synchronization of sediment activation in the marine and aeolian sections of the system have played a major role in this microtidal setting in which temporal aspects are not only tied to storm action, but to large sedimentary features moving alongshore. © 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

植被盖度对沙丘风沙流结构及风蚀量的影响   总被引：4，自引：2，他引：2  

余沛东  陈银萍  李玉强  闫志强  王旭洋  牛亚毅  龚相文 《中国沙漠》2019,39(5):29-36

以科尔沁沙地不同植被盖度沙丘为研究对象,采用野外可移动风洞进行原位测试,开展了沙丘植被盖度对风沙流输沙率影响的研究,探讨了地表风蚀量与风速及植被盖度的关系。结果表明：空气动力学粗糙度随植被盖度增加先平缓后剧烈,与植被盖度相关关系呈三次函数增长。在各植被盖度下各层输沙率均随高度增加而递减,随风速增加而递增。同一植被盖度下风蚀量随风速增加而增大,符合幂函数或二次函数关系,但二次函数相关性更高。同一风速下风蚀量随植被盖度的增加呈阶梯式降低,在盖度小于27%时风蚀量平缓下降,盖度27%~43%时风蚀量急剧下降,盖度43%以上时风蚀量下降重新趋于平缓。相对截留率随风速增大而减小,随植被盖度增加而增大,沙丘草本植被盖度43%以上时具有较好的防风固沙效果,此时平均截留率达88.02%。  相似文献   

Aeolian sand transport at the Lanphere Dunes,Northern California     

Mitchell S. Craig 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2000,25(3):239-253

Aeolian sand transport was studied at the Lanphere Dunes, a coastal dune complex in northern California, by comparing slipface advance rates with transport predicted based on local wind data. The slipfaces of a 2·5 m high transverse ridge and 10 m high parabolic dune were monitored over a period of three months to estimate sand discharge. The study was performed during the dry season, which has the maximum sand‐driving potential. Over the three month study period, average sand discharge was 12·5 m³ per m width per year at the transverse ridge and 8·8 m³ per m width per year at the parabolic dune. A method was developed for modelling slipfaces that are sinuous and where sediment transport rates are not constant across the width of the slipface. Field measurements were used to generate three‐dimensional representations of dune slipfaces. Periodic measurements over the course of three months were used to compute the volume of displaced sediment. Theoretical sand transport was computed from local wind data using the Bagnold model and compared with the observed transport rates. Predicted rates were substantially lower than observed rates. Wind velocities rarely exceeded the threshold velocity. Discrepancies between the observed and predicted values appear to be caused by a combination of wind data recording procedures and differences between wind velocities at the anemometer location and the site where sand transport was measured. Wind data collected by weather bureaux have been utilized in numerous studies for modelling sediment transport. Such data typically have sample intervals of one hour or greater and are often averaged prior to reporting. The effect of averaging was investigated by comparing sand transport estimates based on daily average wind velocities with those based on the original hourly observations. The daily average data were depleted of high velocity winds and sand transport estimates were accordingly much lower than those based on the hourly data. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献