Estimates of heat flow and heat production and a thermal model of the São Francisco craton     

Carlos H. Alexandrino  Valiya M. Hamza 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2008,97(2):289-306

An updated analysis of geothermal data from the highland area of eastern Brazil has been carried out and the characteristics of regional variations in geothermal gradients and heat flow examined. The database employed includes results of geothermal measurements at 45 localities. The results indicate that the Salvador craton and the adjacent metamorphic fold belts northeastern parts of the study area are characterized by geothermal gradients in the range of 6–17°C/km. The estimated heat flow values fall in the range of 28–53 mW/m², with low values in the cratonic area relative to the fold belts. On the other hand, the São Francisco craton and the intracratonic São Francisco sedimentary basin in the southwestern parts are characterized by relatively higher gradient values, in the range of 14–42°C/km, with the corresponding heat flow values falling in the range of 36–89 mW/m². Maps of regional variations indicate that high heat flow anomaly in the São Francisco craton is limited to areas of sedimentary cover, to the west of the Espinhaço mountain belt. Crustal thermal models have been developed to examine the implications of the observed intracratonic variations in heat flow. The thermal models take into consideration variation of thermal conductivity with temperature as well as change of radiogenic heat generation with depth. Vertical distributions of seismic velocities were used in obtaining estimates of radiogenic heat production in crustal layers. Crustal temperatures are calculated based on a procedure that makes simultaneous use of the Kirchoff and Generalized Integral Transforms, providing thereby analytical solutions in 2D and 3D geometry. The results point to temperature variations of up to 300°C at the Moho depth, between the northern Salvador and southern São Francisco cratons. There are indications that differences in rheological properties, related to thermal field, are responsible for the contrasting styles of deformation patterns in the adjacent metamorphic fold belts.  相似文献   

杭州湾岸线变迁与城市规划建设     

顾明光  龚日祥  卢成忠  秦祥熙  陈忠大 《上海国土资源》2008,(4):24-29

本文较系统地阐述了杭州湾沿岸平原第四纪地质与地貌特征,扼要分析了钱塘江与杭州湾岸线的变迁历史及其演变趋势。在此基础上,指出海平面持续上升带采的一系列环境问题是未来杭州湾海岸带面临的主要威胁,并对环杭州湾城市化发展规划提出了若干建议。  相似文献   

Densities of Huanghe River estuary and Bohai Bay waters     

陈国华  季荣  谢式南  张力军 《中国海洋湖沼学报》1994,12(2):130-135

The densities of 36 water samples from the Huanghe River estuary and Bohai Bay were determinedby a magnetic float densimcter under three temperatures from 15℃ to 25℃.All the measured densities ofsamples were greater than that of the values calculated from the International Equation of State of Seawater.The differences between the measured and calculated densities increased with the decrease of salinities.The dif-ferences appeared exponentially correlated with[Ca~(2+)]/s,[Mg~(2+)]/s and[SO_4~(2-)]/s,and had"s"type curverelationship with the alkalinity in all salinity range.But in the salinity ranging from 25.72 to 31.57,therelationships were all linear.The density difference can be estimated from the equation △ρ（10~3kg·m~(-3)）=（-2.79+236.5([Ca~(2+)]/s)/(-9.7464×10~（-3）+[Ca~(2+)]/s).It was the high alkalinity and[Ca~(2+)]/s that resulted in the measured densi-ties of seawaters being higher than the calculated densities in the Huanghe estuary and Bohai Bay.  相似文献   

Variability of sulfur along the coastal salt marshes, Quanzhou Bay, China     

《中国地球化学学报》2006,25(B08):11-11

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Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio by Thomas S. Bremer     

Daniel H. Olsen 《The Professional geographer》2006,58(4):503-504

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SOCIAL RELATIONS SPATIALLY FIXED: CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN SAN ANTONIO,TEXAS     

Christine M. Drennon 《Geographical review》2006,96(4):567-593

ABSTRACT. More than 140 court cases filed in the United States between 1970 and 2003 argued that unacceptable and unconstitutional funding disparities exist among school districts in most states. In those arguments, stories, statistics, and maps are used to compare various school districts to prove that conditions are indeed unequal. Both sides—plaintiff and defendant—use such information to disprove each other's contentions. In so doing, each assumes that the political spaces of the school districts are absolute, timeless, and independent. Failure to recognize that these spaces—the school districts—are not objective but, in fact, constitutive of the class and race relations actually being argued and debated in court further legitimates local geographies of privilege and deprivation. I examine the formation of the school districts around San Antonio, Texas to illustrate that these districts are far from independent of one another and were formed to isolate privileged communities from the rest of the city. A relational view of space‐time allows such spaces as school districts to assume a political role, as opposed to the absolute, independent spaces they now represent.  相似文献   

渤海湾西部声纳探测发现全新世埋藏槽谷     

赵根模  李振海  杨港生  王大宏 《地质通报》2005,24(6):520-523

声波探测具有很高的分辨率和信号发射频度，可以获得高品质浅地层剖面，显示出沉积地层的结构与构造细节、斜层理等三角洲沉积标志特征。展示了渤海湾西部浅地层声纳探测原始记录。探测发现，在大沽口以东27km处存在一个以前不为人知的埋藏槽谷，涉及地层的时代为晚更新世末期与全新世中期。宽达几百米到1km，深约30m，走向北北西，形成时代距今约5000-6000a，可能代表了某种重大地质事件，其成因有溺谷充填和构造断陷2种可能。  相似文献   

应用遥感技术分析廉州湾悬沙的动态特征     

梁文  黎广钊 《地理与地理信息科学》2002,18(2):49-51,84

该文依据美国陆地卫星 (Landsat)接收的MSS、TM资料 ,得到廉州湾海区表层悬沙分布的解译图 ,分析廉州湾及湾外海区水流流场特征、悬沙的分布及输移扩散特征 ,并就潮流、径流等水动力对湾内悬沙运动、滩槽冲淤的作用和影响进行了讨论  相似文献   

Tracking recent recovery from eutrophication in a high arctic lake (Meretta Lake, Cornwallis Island, Nunavut, Canada) using fossil diatom assemblages   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

Neal Michelutti  Marianne S.V. Douglas  John P. Smol 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2002,28(3):377-381

Meretta Lake (Resolute Bay, Cornwallis Island, Nunavut, Canada) is a high arctic lake that received raw sewage for almost 50 years from the Canadian Department of Transport Base. The lake was sampled from 1968–72 during the International Biological Programme, as part of the Char Lake Project. As the number of users at the Transport Base declined throughout the 1990s, so too did the lake's nutrient levels, and Meretta Lake is now classified as oligotrophic. A previous diatom-based paleolimnological study revealed marked species assemblage shifts coincident with sewage inputs beginning in the late 1940s; however, because the core was taken at a time when nutrient levels were still relatively high (i.e., 1993), the diatom record did not yet track any signs of recovery. In this present study, we examined fossil diatom assemblages from a sediment core taken in 2001. Our results indicate a shift to the pre-impact diatom assemblages in the most recent sediments, indicating that the paleolimnological record is tracking the decreased nutrient inputs to this high arctic lake, and confirms that no significant lags exist in these largely ice-covered lakes.  相似文献   

The paleogeographic implications of loess mounds: Laizhou Bay plain     

ZHANG Zu-lu  LIU En-feng  NIE Xiao-hong  WANG Lin 《地理学报》2002,12(2):196-201

The loess mounds are a newly discovered type of landforms on the Laizhou Bay plain south of the Bohai Sea. Research shows that they were formed in the late period of the late Pleistocene when the Bohai Sea was exposed in the period of late Wümu glacial age and changed into plain. As the exposed area is not protected by vegetation, the sediments at the sea bottom are blown and transported southward by strong north winds, and deposit on the coastal plains. As thick loess is accumulated, the loess mound landforms are formed in the direction of down wind.  相似文献