The relationship between seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) decline and sulfide porewater concentration in carbonate sediments   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Maria Ll. Calleja  Núria Marb  Carlos M. Duarte 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》2007,73(3-4):583-588

In this study we test the hypothesized negative relationship between seagrass status and porewater hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) levels, through a comparative analysis within a range of seven Posidonia oceanica meadows growing over carbonate sediments in the NW Mediterranean Sea around Mallorca Island. The studied meadows range from meadows growing on sediments with very low sulfide porewater concentrations (4.6 μM) to those growing over higher sulfide conditions (33.5 μM). Organic matter content, sulfate reduction rates and sulfide porewater concentrations in the sediments were determined concurrently with the assessment of demographic plant dynamics (specific mortality and net population growth rates). Sulfide porewater concentration increased with increasing organic matter content in the sediment, while net population growth decreased significantly with low increases of sulfide concentrations. Our results confirm the previously suspected vulnerability of seagrass meadows growing on carbonate sediments to increased sulfide levels. An excess of 10 μmols H₂S L⁻¹ porewater is identified to already conduce P. oceanica meadows to decline, which this study identifies, particularly, as strongly sensitive to sulfides. The results reported here suggest that even moderate increases in organic carbon inputs may lead to enhancement of dissolved sulfides and may be an important factor for seagrass status in these iron-depleted carbonate sediments from the Mediterranean Sea.  相似文献   

Mats of Beggiatoa bacteria reveal that organic pollution from lumber mills inhibits growth of Zostera marina     

Joel K. Elliott  Erin Spear  & Sandy Wyllie-Echeverria 《Marine Ecology》2006,27(4):372-380

The objectives of this study were to determine the distribution and abundance of Zostera marina (eelgrass) in relation to the distribution of the mat forming bacteria Beggiatoa spp., and the levels of sulfide and organic material (wood waste) in the sediment. Underwater videography and intertidal surveys were used to map the distribution and abundance of Z. marina beds and Beggiatoa in the nearshore area of Commencement Bay, WA (USA), a location that has a long history of sawmill activity. Zostera marina occurred from the intertidal to ?6 m mean lower low water (MLLW) on sandy substrates in areas with low levels of sulfide (<50 μm ) and organic material (<5 % total volatile solids). Areas with high sulfide levels (>200 μm ) occurred where there were significant amounts of organic material in the sediments, which was found to be wood waste that had been discarded from sawmills. Zostera marina was absent from the intertidal and occurred at lower densities in areas with high sulfide levels. In contrast, mats of Beggiatoa were only found in areas where the sulfide levels were >1000 μm and there were significant deposits of wood. Thus, the negative correlation between the distribution and abundance of Z. marina and Beggiatoa suggests that the presence of Beggiatoa mats could be used as a biological indicator of inhibiting levels of hydrogen sulfide in the marine environment.  相似文献   

长江口的台风浪及其对崇明东滩的冲淤作用   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

茅志昌 《海洋学研究》1993,11(4):8-16

本文分析了多年的台风和波浪资料得到如下的结果:对崇明东滩有较大影响的台风路径主要有两类:即在浙江中部至长江口登陆的台风和在长江口外侧海域转向北上的台风;佘山岛海洋站百年一遇的最大波高为5.6m;台风期间偏北、东北、东南的强风向均能引起长江口较大的增水现象。 本文还以8310号台风为例,阐明了台风前后的冲淤变化及台风浪塑造的滩地地貌形态。指出东旺沙和北八效高潮滩冲淤甚微,中低潮滩冲刷严重,奚东沙高潮滩冲刷严重,中低潮滩呈微淤状态。波浪对东滩塑造的主要地貌形态有冲刷坑和浪蚀泥坎。  相似文献   

Flux of Reduced Sulfur Gases Along a Salinity Gradient in Louisiana Coastal Marshes   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

R. D. Delaune  I. Devai  C. W. Lindau 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》2002,54(6):1003

Seasonal and diurnal reduced sulfur gas emissions were measured along a salinity gradient in Louisiana Gulf Coast salt, brackish and freshwater marshes. Reduced sulfur gas emission was strongly associated with habitat and salinity gradient. The dominant emission component was dimethyl sulfide (average: 57·3 μg S m⁻² h⁻¹) in saltmarsh with considerable seasonal (max: 144·03 μg S m⁻² h⁻¹; min: 1·47 μg S m⁻² h⁻¹) and diurnal (max: 83·58 μg S m⁻² h⁻¹; min: 69·59 μg S m⁻² h⁻¹) changes in flux rates. Hydrogen sulfide was dominant (average: 21·2 μg S m⁻² h⁻¹, max: 79·2 μg S m⁻² h⁻¹; min: 5·29 μg S m⁻² h⁻¹) form in brackishmarsh and carbonyl sulfide (average: 1·09 μg S m⁻² h⁻¹; max: 3·42 μg S m⁻² h⁻¹; min: 0·32 μg S m⁻² h⁻¹) was dominant form in freshwater marsh. A greater amount of H₂S was evolved from brackishmarsh (21·22 μg S m⁻² h⁻¹) as compared to the saltmarsh (2·46 μg S m⁻² h⁻¹) and freshwater marsh (0·30 μg S m⁻² h⁻¹). Emission of total reduced sulfur gases decreased with decrease in salinity and distance inland from the coast. Emission of total reduced sulfur gases over the study averaged 73·3 μg S m⁻² h⁻¹ for the saltmarsh, 32·1 μg S m⁻² h⁻¹ for brackishmarsh and 2·76 μg S m⁻² h⁻¹ for the freshwater marsh.  相似文献   

Neogene-Quaternary contourite and related deposition on the West Shetland Slope and Faeroe-Shetland Channel revealed by high-resolution seismic studies     

Damuth  John E.  Olson  Hilary Clement 《Marine Geophysical Researches》2001,22(5-6):369-398

The Neogene and Quaternary sediments of the Faeroe-Shetland Channel and West Shetland shelf and slope rest upon a major regional unconformity, the Latest Oligocene Unconformity (LOU), and have been deposited through the interaction of downslope and parallel-to-slope depositional processes. The upper to middle continental slope is dominated by mass-transport deposits (debris flows), which progressively diminish downslope, and were largely generated and deposited during glacial cycles when ice sheets supplied large quantities of terrigeneous sediment to the upper slope and icebergs scoured sea-floor sediments on the outer shelf and uppermost slope. Large-scale sediment failures have also occurred on the upper slope and resulted in deposition of thick, regionally extensive mass-transport deposits on portions of the lower slope and channel floor. In contrast, large fields of migrating sediment waves and drift deposits dominate most of the middle to lower slope below 700 m water depth and represent deposition by strong contour currents of the various water masses moving northeastward and southwestward through the channel. These migrating sediment waves indicate strong northeastward current flow at water depths shallower than 700 m and strong southwestward current flow at water depths from 700 to >1,400 m. These flow directions are consistent with present-day water-mass flow through the Faeroe-Shetland Channel. The Faeroe-Shetland Channel floor is underlain by thin conformable sediments that appear to be predominantly glacial marine and hemipelagic with less common turbidites and debris flows. No evidence is observed in seismic or core data that indicates strong contour-current erosion or redistribution of sediments along the channel floor.  相似文献   

Tackling the Sulfide Gradient: A Novel Strategy Involving Marine Nematodes and Chemoautotrophic Ectosymbionts   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

J. A. Ott    R. Novak    F. Schiemer    U .Hentschel    M. Nebelsick  M. Polz 《Marine Ecology》1991,12(3):261-279

Abstract. The Stilbonemutinue (marine free-living nematodes) arc remarkable for cctosymbiotic bacteria, which cover the greatest part of their body in a highly ordered and species specific pattern. Using SEM we describe the main types of symbiotic cover and give evidence for the role of the bacteria in the nutrition of their host on the basis of stable carbon isotope ratios. In experimental systems the worms migrated repeatedly across a sulfide gradient during 12 h when sulfide concentrations were low, but stayed above the sulfide maximum at high concentrations. The migration across the chemocline exposes the symbionts alternately to reduced sulfur compounds and oxygen; this constitutes an alternative strategy to the ventilation/circulation systems in symbiotic macrofauna from sulfidic habitats.  相似文献   

古代中西方成矿理论之比较     

刘昭民  王根元 《地质论评》1992,38(3):245-249

古代中国和西方对矿物成因之解释都很早。西方早在公元前4世纪,有希腊的亚里斯多德(Aristotle)认为地下矿物是干气和湿气所造成的。中国早在先秦时代,也有《周礼·考工记》认为是“地气”使然。本文详细说明中国和西方16世纪以前的成矿理论,比较其差异,并详细说明两者的优点和缺点,探讨它们之间是否发生相互影响,最后以现代矿床学思想和理论批判中国和西方古代之成矿理论。  相似文献   

Measurements of atmospheric dimethyl sulfide and carbon disulfide in the western Atlantic boundary layer     

David J. Cooper  Eric S. Saltzman 《Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry》1991,12(2):153-168

Shipboard measurements of atmospheric dimethyl sulfide were made during two transects along the east coast of the United States and at several stations in the Gulf of Maine. Limited measurements of carbon disulfide and hydrogen sulfide are also reported. The mean DMS mixing ratio was 29 pptv (=25, n=84, median 19 pptv) during the Atlantic transects, and 101 pptv (=67, n=77, median 79 pptv) in the Gulf of Maine. Distinct diurnal variations were found in the DMS data from the transects. The meteorology of the study area appears to control day-to-day differences in the magnitude of these diurnal variations, although rapid daytime oxidation is suggested in some cases. Diurnal variations were also evident in near-shore stations in the Gulf of Maine due to nocturnal boundary-layer inversion. Diurnal variation was not evident at other sites in the Gulf due to large scale changes in the atmospheric circulation pattern, which effectively masked any effects due to oxidation processes. Model simulations confirm that the DMS levels and diurnal variation found during the transects are not consistent with atmospheric oxidation processes alone. Atmospheric CS₂ and H₂S mixing ratios were less than 3 pptv during the transects, except for a single period of higher CS₂ mixing ratios (reaching 11 pptv) during advection of continental air. Calculations of the flux of oceanic sulfur to the eastern United States show that the contribution of natural sulfur to the North American sulfur budget is small compared to anthropogenic sources.  相似文献   

山东省铍矿典型矿床特征及找矿远景区划分          下载免费PDF全文

汪子杰 《山东国土资源》2020,36(2):36-40

山东省铍矿以荣成大疃刘家铍矿较典型,为一小型蚀变岩型铍矿床。该文在充分收集山东省铍矿相关资料的基础上,选取荣成大疃刘家铍矿作为典型矿床进行了综合分析,研究了成矿地质条件、成矿机制,总结了找矿标志。通过详细的矿床解剖和试验测试工作,研究了山东省铍矿的分布规律,总结了区域成矿要素,划分了找矿远景区4处,并对远景区进行了找矿远景评价,提出了下一步勘查工作的建议。  相似文献   

Geodynamically indicated targeting strategy for shale‐hosted massive sulfide Pb–Zn–Ag mineralisation in the Western Fold Belt,Mt Isa terrane     

P. G. Betts  G. S. Lister 《Australian Journal of Earth Sciences》2013,60(6):985-1010

There is ongoing debate with respect to the genetic models for shale‐hosted massive sulfide Pb–Zn–Ag deposits contained in the Palaeoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic intracontinental Isa Superbasin in the Western Fold Belt, Mt Isa terrane. Favourable sites of mineralisation can be predicted based on understanding the tectonic setting of the Isa Superbasin, the structural controls of mineralisation and the chemically favourable environments for ore deposition. Shale‐hosted massive sulfide Pb–Zn–Ag deposits are hosted in successions deposited during the dominant sag‐phase of the Isa Superbasin. These deposits are localised at the intersections of major basin‐scale extensional faults and are hosted in both shallow‐marine and deeper water carbonaceous shales that are characteristically anoxic and located near or at maximum flooding surfaces. All major shale‐hosted massive sulfide Pb–Zn–Ag deposits are located to the west of the Mt Isa Rift (ca 1710–1670 Ma). This spatial association is explained by an asymmetrical lithosphere extension model for the evolution of the Isa Superbasin. Elevated geothermal gradients at the location of maximum subcrustal lithospheric thinning to the west of the Mt Isa Rift may have driven the migration of basinal brines. Increased subsidence at this location produced favourable anoxic sedimentary horizons for metal precipitation during orebody formation.  相似文献