Cretaceous length of day perturbation by mantle avalanche     

Philippe Machetel  Emilie Thomassot 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》2002,202(2):379-386

These last 10 years, numerical models of mantle convection have emphasized the role of the 670 km endothermic phase change in generating avalanches that trigger catastrophic mass transfers between upper and lower mantle. On the other hand, scientists have emphasized the concomitance of large-scale worldwide geophysical and tectonic events, which could find their deep thermal roots in the huge mass transfers induced by the avalanches. In particular, the paleontological records show two periods of length of day (l.o.d.) shortening between 420 and 360, and 200 and 80 Myr BP. This last event is synchronous with a strong true polar wander and a global warming of the upper mantle. In order to study the potential effects of the avalanche on the main component of the Earth’s rotation, the Liouville equation has been solved and the l.o.d. evolution has been calculated from the perturbations of the inertia tensor. The results show that the inertia tensor of the Earth’s is mainly sensitive to the global transfers through the 670 km discontinuity. The l.o.d. perturbations will be synchronous with the global thermal effects of the avalanche. These theoretical results allow proposing a self-consistent physical mechanism to explain periods of the Earth’s rotation acceleration. Within this context, the l.o.d. shortening during the Cenozoic and Cretaceous brings one more clue to the possible participation of a mantle avalanche in generating the concomitant large scale events which have occurred during this very particular period of the Earth’s history.  相似文献   

Where did rotational shortening occur in the Himalayas? - Inferences from palaeomagnetic remagnetisations     

E. Schill  C. CrouzetP. Gautam  V.K. SinghE. Appel 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》2002,203(1):45-57

In metacarbonates of the Lesser (LH) and Tethyan (TH) Himalayas of Kumaon/Garhwal (N-India) characteristic remanent magnetisations carried by pyrrhotite (unblocking temperatures: 250-330°C) and magnetite (demagnetising spectra: 15-50 mT) have been identified. Negative fold tests indicate remanence acquisition after the main folding phase, which is of short-wavelength character and occurs during the early orogenese of the Himalayas. A thermal or thermochemical origin of magnetisation is likely and the age of remanence acquisition is indicated to be about 40 Ma by ⁴⁰K/³⁹Ar cooling and ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar crystallisation ages. In the Kumaon LH a long-wavelength tilting is indicated by a distribution of the remanence directions along a small-circle in N-S direction. Steepening of the remanence directions in the TH related to ramping on the Main Central Thrust (MCT) was not observed, in contrast to other related studies. In the Alaknanda valley of LH a 38±8 Ma age of remanence acquisition is supported by comparison of observed inclinations to the apparent polar wander path of India. Clockwise rotation of 20.3±11.7° (LH/Alaknanda valley) and 11.3±8.5° (TH) with respect to the Indian plate is observed, indicating that there is no significant evidence for rotational shortening along the MCT since about 40 Ma. Our results suggest that most of rotational underthrusting and oroclinal bending has not been accommodated by the MCT, but by the main thrusts south of it. The latest Miocene/Pliocene age of the Main Boundary Thrust indicates that oroclinal bending is a late-orogenic process.  相似文献   

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK CORRECTION OF ROUGH ERRORS OF OBSERVATIONS^*          下载免费PDF全文

JIANG Guorong  ZHANG Ren  SHA Wenyu  YAN Junyue  YAO Huadong 《Acta Meteorologica Sinica》2002,16(1):123-132

In the context of tower measured radiation datasets.following the correction principle meeting a diagnostic equation in data quality control and in terms of a technique for model construction on data and ANN (artificial neural network) retrieval for BP correction of radiation measurements with rough errors available,a BP model is presented.Evidence suggests that the developed model works well and is superior to a convenient multivariate linear regression model,indicating its wide applications.  相似文献   

Precise revision of the garnet-muscovite geothermometer     

吴春明  赵英俊 《中国科学D辑(英文版)》2002,45(3):270-279

The garnet-muscovite geothermometer was refined through empirical calibration by using natural rocks metamorphosed under the physical conditions of 238—1306 MPa and 490—700℃. Input temperatures and pressures were determined through simultaneously applying the garnet-biotite geothermometer and the garnet-biotite-plagioclase-quartz barometer, assuming that all FeO in muscovite and garnet be ferrous. Garnet was treated as the asymmetric quaternary solid solution, and muscovite as the symmetric binary solid solution. Input muscovite compositions include Fe atoms between 0.03—0.19 and Mg atoms between 0.04—0.16 on the basis of 11 oxygen atoms, and input garnet compositions include spessartine fractions between 0.01—0.289, grossular fractions between 0.028—0.273, and the Fe/Mg ratio between 3.387-18.986. The resulting garnet-muscovite geothermometer reproduces temperatures within (50℃ compared with the garnet-biotite thermometer. Total random error of ±37℃ of the new thermometer may stem from the pressure uncertainty of ±200 MPa, and uncertainties of ±5% of Fe and Mg components in muscovite, and ±5% of Fe, Mg, Mn and Ca components in garnet, altogether. When there exist 10%, 20%, 30%, 40% and 50% Fe3+ in muscovite, respectively, the computed garnet-muscovite temperatures will be 1—6℃, 2—12℃, 3—16℃, 5—24℃ and 7—29℃, respectively, lower than those obtained when assuming that all FeO be ferrous. The new garnet-muscovite geothermometer can efficiently reflect temperature change of typical prograde sequences and contact aureole rocks, and may be applied to low- to high-grade and low- to high-pressure metamorphic rocks.  相似文献   

Data and model uncertainty estimation for linear inversion   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Kasper van Wijk  John A. Scales  William Navidi  Luis Tenorio 《Geophysical Journal International》2002,149(3):625-632

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Palaeomagnetic and rock-magnetic studies of Cretaceous rocks in the Gongju Basin, Korea: implication of clockwise rotation   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Seong-Jae Doh  Wonnyon Kim  Dongwoo Suk  Yong-Hee Park  Daekyo Cheong 《Geophysical Journal International》2002,150(3):737-752

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GPS在地面沉降监测中的应用探讨   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

徐建芳  张发旺  张进才 《地理与地理信息科学》2003,19(5):43-45

利用GPS进行地面沉降监测能够解决传统测量方法工作量大、周期长的问题。该文结合实例，论述了GPS在地面沉降监测中的应用，分析了GPS测量方法的优点和误差，提出了GPS测量地面沉降的适用条件。  相似文献   

地中蒸渗计水分运移机理及其监测误差分析   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

李金柱  杨晓俊  杜琦 《水文》2003,23(5):10-12,37

对地中蒸渗计与自然潜水水分运移机理存在的差异及误差进行了分析。结果表明：地中蒸渗计与自然潜水在水位动态、水分存储、水分运移等方面存在一定的差异，使得利用地中蒸渗计监测的潜水蒸发量、降雨入渗补给量与自然潜水的实际情况产生了一定的误差，这种误差随着潜水埋深的变化而变化，潜水埋深越浅，误差越大，潜水埋深越深，误差越小。特别对于潜水埋深小于1．5m的地中蒸渗计，使用其资料时一定要作适当的技术处理，如果直接引用，将会给计算成果带来较大的误差。  相似文献   

附有约束条件的最小二乘影像匹配及其在交通事故中的应用     

刘荣  张祖勋  张剑清 《华东地质学院学报》2003,26(3):287-290

影像匹配技术在图像处理与计算机视觉中有着非常重要的作用。最小二乘影像匹配方法是常用的匹配方法之一。本文简单介绍了目前影像匹配的几种方法及其优缺点，探讨了数字相机的检校原理与方法。重点介绍附有约束条件的最小二乘影像匹配的原理及匹配过程，结合交通事故处理的实例，论证了该方法的可行性。与传统方法相比，在测量精度、自动化程度以及数据三维可视化等方面具有明显优势。  相似文献   

机械卡盘设计中的计算误差分析与应用          下载免费PDF全文

陈宝杰  卜长根 《探矿工程》2003,30(3):30-32,34

通过对普通机构二维力因素影响的分析，利用修正公式计算求值，以修正单因素影响最大值计算所产生的误差。利用这一计算方法，对CD—3型钻机卡盘进行了计算，得到了正确的设计结果，说明用修正公式对多因素影响采用单因素影响最大值计算进行修正是可行的。  相似文献