Avulsion regimes in southeast Texas rivers     

Jonathan D. Phillips 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2009,34(1):75-87

Avulsions – relatively sudden changes in course, or establishment of new anabranches – are an important process in alluvial rivers. Their key role in floodplain construction and alluvial architecture, and the general conditions favouring avulsions, are well known. However, avulsion processes and evolution, and the factors controlling avulsion regimes, are poorly understood. In the southeast Texas coastal plain, where avulsions are common features of the river valleys, avulsions were studied on the lower Brazos, Navasota, Trinity, Neches and Sabine rivers using a combination of aerial imagery, digital elevation models and field surveys. Avulsions have important influences on the surface morphology and contemporary processes in all five rivers. Features associated with avulsions are active and distinct throughout the study area, and all the rivers have experienced geologically (if not historically) recent avulsions. However, no two of the study rivers have the same contemporary avulsion regime. First‐order differences in avulsion style are controlled by the stage of valley filling, and within the three rivers characterized by an unfilled incised valley, antecedent morphology associated with late Quaternary and Holocene coastal and fluvial‐deltaic processes accounts for the major differences. In the Navasota (27 avulsions in 185 km) and Neches (21 in 340 km) rivers, subchannels associated with avulsions exist in all stages of development from active to infilled, and some have occurred in recent decades. The other rivers have fewer avulsions, but both the Sabine and Trinity have experienced historic channel shifts. Only the Brazos River has experienced no avulsions within the past c. 300 years. Results show that even within a region of similar environmental controls and geological history local variations in inherited morphology can result in different avulsion regimes. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

First record of contourites from Lower Devonian Liptrap Formation in southeast Australia   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

YuanSheng Du  G. R. Shi  YiMing Gong 《中国科学D辑(英文版)》2008,51(7):939-946

Typical contourite deposits associated with submarine turbidite fan deposits are recognized for the first time from the Lower Devonian Liptrap Formation at Cape Liatrap, Victoria in southeast Australia. The contourites are well integrated within the turbidite fan deposits and are characterized by thin (5-8 cm), lenticular, well-sorted coarse-grained siltstones to fine-grained sandstones with current-ripples and cross beddings. The palaeocurrent directions of the turbidite fan and contourites are perpendicular to each other, with the former directed generally westward while the latter varying from 165° to 190° southward. In view of the facies types and architecture, we suggest that the turbidite fan was developed at the base of a westward inclined palaeo-slope, at the front of which the contourites were deposited as a result of southward flowing deep-sea contour (geostrophic) currents. The depositional setting inter- preted for the Liptrap Formation thus may provide a provisional model for the Lower Devonian conti- nental slope and abyssal basin environment in the southeastern part of the Melbourne Trough.  相似文献   

Newly-generated Daliangshan Fault Zone—Shortcutting on the central section of Xianshuihe-Xiaojiang fault system   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

HongLin He  Yasutaka Ikeda  YuLin He  Masayoshi Togo  Jie Chen  ChangYun Chen  Masayoshi Tajikara  Tomoo Echigo  Shinsuke Okada 《中国科学D辑(英文版)》2008,51(9):1248-1258

The Daliangshan fault zone is the eastern branch in the central section of Xianshuihe-Xiaojiang fault system. It has been neglected for a long time, partly because of no destructive earthquake records along this fault zone. On the other hand, it is located on the remote and inaccessible plateau. So far it was excluded as part of the Xianshuihe-Xiaojiang fault system. Based on the interpretation of aerophotographs and field investigations, we document this fault zone in detail, and give an estimation of strike-slip rate about 3 mm/a in Late Quaternary together with age dating data. The results suggest that the Daliangshan fault zone is a newly-generated fault zone resulted from shortcutting in the central section of Xianshuihe-Xiaojiang fault system because of the clockwise rotation of the Southeastern Tibetan Crustal Block, which is bounded by the Xianshuihe-Xiaojiang fault system. Moreover, the shortcutting may make the Daliangshan fault zone replace the Anninghe and Zemuhe fault zones gradually, and finally, the later two fault zones will probably die out with the continuous clockwise rotation.  相似文献   

East-Central Europe's changing energy landscapes: a place for geography     

Stefan Bouzarovski 《Area》2009,41(4):452-463

Energy developments in the post-Communist states of Eastern and Central Europe (ECE) have a major impact on global energy security and sustainability, thanks to this region's key geographical position between the energy-exporting states of the former Soviet Union, on the one hand, and the energy-importing states of Western and Southern Europe, on the other. At the same time, post-socialist reforms of energy industries in this region provide unique insights into the complex relations of power, economic transformation and spatial inequality that govern energy production and consumption. This paper therefore aims to provide an initial look at some of the theoretical and policy issues that underpin the emergent 'geographies' of energy reform in ECE, as well as their embeddedness in relations of power stemming from organisational, infrastructural and economic inequalities in the region. It employs an analysis of local news reports, policy papers and statistical data to examine the intricate institutional networks and spatial formations that have governed the energy transformation process. In broader terms, the paper aims to emphasise the important role that human geography can play in making sense of the territorial differences and frictions that have emerged during the post-socialist reform process, while challenging the idea of a 'neat' neoliberal transition from a centrally planned to a market-based mode of energy regulation .  相似文献   

祁连山东南段加里东造山期构造变形年代的精确限定及其意义   总被引：8，自引：0，他引：8  

樊光明  雷东宁 《地球科学》2007,32(1):39-44

祁连山东南段呈北西-南东向展布着加里东期中祁连造山带和拉脊山造山带, 其基底为前加里东变质岩系, 在该变质结晶基底岩系中发育着菱形网格状韧性剪切带, 共轭韧性剪切带面对缩短方向的夹角为104°~114°, 其最大主应力方位为SW210°左右.在中祁连地块金沙峡和化隆地块科却两处韧性剪切带中的糜棱岩化岩石, 获取变质矿物白云母40Ar-39Ar坪年龄分别为(405.1±2.4) Ma和(418.3±2.8) Ma.这一年代学结果不仅确定了加里东基底变质岩系中韧性剪切带是加里东造山作用过程中形成, 更重要的是通过对基底韧性剪切带中变质变形岩石的年代学研究, 精确地限定了祁连山东南段的早古生代火山盆地(或岛弧盆地)、拉脊山小洋盆关闭的构造年代.这为造山带构造演化过程中盆地关闭时间的确定开辟了新的途径.   相似文献   

假等称笔石(Pseudisograptus)在桂东南的发现     

倪寓南 《地层学杂志》2000,24(4):290-290,305

1996— 1 997年间笔者曾多次鉴定广西区域调查研究院送来的化石标本 ,其中有些化石采自广西东南边陲的博白县龙潭镇以东的六角田 ,产出于曾被归属志留系的一套轻变质的灰黑色泥岩中 ,因受加里东期花岗岩体侵入的影响 ,所送标本受到轻度变质的作用 ,保存极差 ,且数量不足。化石丰度不高 ,其中主要是一些对笔石类断枝 ,能作确切鉴定的只有一种假等称笔石即剑柄假等称笔石哈氏亚种( Pseudisograptus mamubriatus harris Cooper &Ni)。假等称笔石属地质历程短 ,在澳大利亚相当发育 ,产出层位为 Castlemainian阶上部至 Yapeenian阶 ,大致可与英…  相似文献   

Western migrants in central Europe: Isolated individuals or members of transnational communities?     

Hans-Joachim Bürkner 《GeoJournal》2000,50(2-3):105-108

Migration flows from western Europe, the United States and Canada to east central Europe have received little attention so far. But numbers are now considerable and in the context of globalisation it seems appropriate to conceptualise communities of Westerners in terms of transnational social spaces as defined by Glick Schiller et al. Study of Americans in Prague reveals three main groups: enterprise managers, lifestyle migrants and entrepreneurs in small and medium-sized enterprises. All are engaged in a variety of different processes of community-building, often with clear trends towards a new transnationalism. Yet, the individual attempt to live in two societies is limited by the marked boundaries of the communities and by the degree of social exclusion which they experience from the majority population. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

桂东南荔枝生长营养元素农业地球化学研究   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

叶荣  李蔚萍 《地学前缘》2006,13(1):119-127

桂东南是中国重要的荔枝产区,以梧州地区为例,重点对沙头和古凤两处荔枝种植园进行了生态地球化学调查,采集了荔枝园施肥圈内、外土壤,出露的代表性基岩,以及荔枝叶、青果和熟果样品,实测了大量和微量矿质元素、稀土元素,以及土壤营养元素有效态的含量。通过计算荔枝对土壤营养元素的吸收率及荔枝生长与结果期对营养元素的需求,查明本区荔枝生长的特征营养元素为Ca、K、Mg、Mn、P、Zn、Cu、B、Fe和REE。荔枝结果期的特需营养元素为P、Mg、Mo、Cu、Zn、Ko荔枝结果早和晚期特需元素分别为Ca、Si、B和Cu、Fe、K。在岩石-土壤-荔枝株生态循环系统中,本区营养元素在土壤中保持一定的积累,提供荔枝生长的需求,因此为荔枝宜种区;但全区土壤B缺乏,Zn、Mo局部不足。Ca、K、Zn在两区岩石土壤中分布不同,可能是造成沙头荔枝比古凤荔枝迟熟的主要农业地球化学因素。研究区有害元素Pb、Cd在土壤中积累是值得关注的土壤环境问题。  相似文献   

我国东南象限冬、春季雨带的相关分析   总被引：3，自引：3，他引：0  

汤懋苍  张拥军  李栋梁 《高原气象》2006,25(2):352-355

通过对我国东南象限冬、春季雨带的相关分析,发现当冬、春季之间地气形势稳定时,约有68%的春雨带位于冬雨带南方50~300 km的范围内,此统计结果可作为预报春雨的指标;当冬季地气形势出现“双跳型”时,冬、春季之间的雨带可相距500 km以上,此时冬、春季的地震时空变化有可能作为春雨位置的预报指标。  相似文献   

吉林省重大暴雨过程评估方法研究   总被引：8，自引：0，他引：8  

袭祝香 《气象科技》2008,36(1):78-81

应用Barnes滤波原理,构建合适的带通滤波器,获取了中尺度信息,对2005年7月21～24日台风"海棠"登陆后与中纬度系统相互作用给河南省造成的暴雨过程进行了分析.结果表明:在台风外围大尺度气旋性环流中,中尺度低压、中尺度辐合线和辐合区是此次暴雨的直接影响系统;台风低压移近后,与西太平洋副高之间气压梯度加大,可以在副高西南侧形成东南风低空急流,东南急流的形成促使中尺度系统加强和发展;干冷空气自对流层中层向低层伸展,与低层的暖湿气流交汇,使对流和暴雨加强.  相似文献