Physics in Next Geoneutrino Detectors     

Atsuto Suzuki 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》2006,99(1-4):359-368

The KamLAND liquid scintillator detector demonstrated the detection of antineutrinos produced by natural radioactivities in the Earth, so-called geoneutrinos. Although this first result of geoneutrinos is consistent with current geophysical models, more accurate measurements are essential to provide a new window for exploring the inside of the Earth. In this article I would like to discuss the future prospects of KamLAND geoneutrino detection, and the possibility of directional measurement of incoming geoneutrinos. It is interesting to consider the application of geoneutrino detectors to measurements of other neutrino signals. The possibility of detecting the solar 7Be, pep and CNO neutrinos is discussed. A new type detector concept is proposed not only to explore the precise measurement of reactor neutrino oscillations but also to enable us to realize the neutrino tomography inside the Earth.  相似文献   

Characteristics of bottom dissolved oxygen in Long Island Sound,New York     

Younjoo J. Lee  Kamazima M.M. Lwiza 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》2008

The variability of bottom dissolved oxygen (DO) in Long Island Sound, New York, is examined using water quality monitoring data collected by the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection from 1995 to 2004. Self-organizing map analysis indicates that hypoxia always occurs in the Narrows during summer and less frequently in the Western and the Central Basins. The primary factor controlling the bottom DO, changes spatially and temporally. For non-summer seasons, the levels of bottom DO are strongly associated with water temperature, which means DO availability is primarily driven by solubility. During summer, stratification intensifies under weak wind conditions and bottom DO starts to decrease and deviate from the saturation level except for stations in the Eastern Basin. For the westernmost and shallow (<15 m) stations, bottom DO is correlated with the density stratification (represented by difference between surface and bottom density). In contrast, at deep stations (>20 m), the relationship between oxygen depletion and stratification is not significant. For stations located west of the Central Basin, bottom DO continues to decrease during summer until it reaches its minimum when bottom temperature is around 19–20 °C. In most cases the recovery to saturation levels at the beginning of fall is fast, but not necessarily associated with increased wind mixing. Therefore, we propose that the DO recovery may be a manifestation of either the reduced microbial activity combined with the depletion of organic matter or horizontal exchange. Hypoxic volume is weakly correlated to the summer wind speed, spring total nitrogen, spring chlorophyll a, and maximum river discharge. When all variables are combined in a multiple regression, the coefficient of determination (r²) is 0.92. Surprisingly, the weakest variable is the total nitrogen, because when it is excluded the coefficient r² only drops to 0.84. Spring bloom seems to be an important source of organic carbon pool and biological uptake of oxygen plays a more crucial role in the seasonal evolution of bottom DO than previously thought. Our results indicate that the reassessment phase of the Long Island Sound Total Maximum Daily Load policy on nitrogen loading will most likely fail, because it ignores the contributions of the spring organic carbon pool and river discharge. Also, it is questionable whether the goal of 58.5% anthropogenic nitrogen load reduction is enough.  相似文献   

Organic nitrogen and caloric content of detritus: II. Microbial biomass and activity     

Roger B. Hanson 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》1982,14(3):325-336

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地下水NO -3污染的微生物修复实验研究   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

张胜  张云  张凤娥  荆继红  张明 《水文地质工程地质》2005,32(2):25-30

随着农业的发展,尤其是化肥和农药的超量施用,产生了一系列的环境问题,已危及地下水的质量安全。大量的氮素没有被农作物吸收,经微生物硝化作用后,以硝态氮的形式进入土体和地下水。浅层地下水已普遍受到氮素不同程度的污染。本文以硝态氮污染为例,在实验室探索了硝态氮污染地下水微生物修复的实验方法,通过室内模拟含水层地下水静止条件和流动条件下,利用优选的菌群制剂和少量营养碳源,对试验区高含NO-3地下水的修复试验效果是显著的,去除率可达90%～100%。其作用还是持续的,静止条件下试验进行到256d时,其去除率仍达89 74%;流动条件下试验进行到112d时,试验主孔下游的观测孔3#、4#中的去除率也还有16 22%和27 26%。试验结果为野外现场原位微生物修复提供了技术支撑。  相似文献   

Middle and Late Devonian microbial carbonates,reefs and mounds in Guilin,South China and their sequence stratigraphic,paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic significance   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Pedoja Kevin 《中国科学D辑(英文版)》2005,48(11):1900-1912

The importance of calcimicrobes and microbialite in carbonate platform and reefal environments has been stressed in recent literature. Burne and Moore[1] introduced the term microbialite to describe the clotted, laminated and undifferentiated fabrics formed by mi-crobial communities. Microbialites are organosedi-mentary deposits that have accreted as a result of ben-thic (prokaryotic or eukaryotic) communities, trapping and binding detrital sediment[1]. Microbial organisms and microbialite are…  相似文献   

开垦对内蒙古温带草地土壤不同有机碳组分的影响(英文)   总被引：3，自引：2，他引：1  

齐玉春  董云社  彭琴  肖胜生  何亚婷  刘欣超  孙良杰  贾军强  杨智杰 《地理学报(英文版)》2012,22(2):315-328

Cultivation is one of the most important human activities affecting the grassland ecosystem besides grazing, but its impacts on soil total organic carbon (C), especially on the liable organic C fractions have not been fully understood yet. In this paper, the role of cropping in soil organic C pool of different fractions was investigated in a meadow steppe region in Inner Mongolia of China, and the relationships between different C fractions were also discussed. The results indicated that the concentrations of different C fractions at steppe and cultivated land all decreased progressively with soil depth. After the conversion from steppe to spring wheat field for 36 years, total organic carbon (TOC) concentration at the 0 to 100 cm soil depth has decreased by 12.3% to 28.2%, and TOC of the surface soil horizon, especially those of 0-30 cm decreased more significantly (p<0.01). The dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and microbial biomass carbon (MBC) at the depth of 0-40 cm were found to have decreased by 66.7% to 77.1% and 36.5% to 42.4%, respectively. In the S.baicalensis steppe, the ratios of soil DOC to TOC varied between 0.52% and 0.60%, and those in the spring wheat field were only in the range of 0.18%-0.20%. The microbial quotients (qMBs) in the spring wheat field, varying from 1.11% to 1.40%, were also lower than those in the S. baicalensis steppe, which were in the range of 1.50%-1.63%. The change of DOC was much more sensitive to cultivation disturbance. Soil TOC, DOC, and MBC were significantly positive correlated with each other in the S. baicalensis steppe, but in the spring wheat field, the correlativity between DOC and TOC and that between DOC and MBC did not reach the significance level of 0.05.  相似文献   

石油污染湿地土壤生物修复研究进展   总被引：3，自引：1，他引：2  

阚兴艳  于君宝  王雪宏  谢文军  韩广轩  马向明  陈景春  林乾欣 《湿地科学》2012,10(2):250-256

从石油污染湿地土壤生物修复的植物修复、微生物修复和植物—微生物联合修复3方面综合阐述了国内外该领域的研究现状。在采用植物进行石油污染湿地修复时,选择湿地环境下典型植物或者能适应湿地特殊环境的植物品种是常用的也是有效的方法之一。在采用微生物进行石油污染湿地修复时,主要通过投加外源微生物和改变环境因素或施加营养元素刺激土著微生物等方式。植物—微生物联合修复石油污染湿地的方法,则是利用微生物自身作用促进植物生长,从而增加植物吸收、降解污染物的能力。由于植物或微生物的生长对污染物浓度有一个耐受极限,植物和微生物修复的效果主要取决于石油污染物浓度。为此,将湿地的石油污染浓度降到植物—微生物可降解范围内,并提高联合修复的降解效率,将是今后石油污染湿地土壤生物修复研究的重点。  相似文献   

Textured organic surfaces associated with the Ediacara biota in South Australia   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

James G. Gehling  Mary L. Droser   《Earth》2009,96(3):196-128

The Ediacaran Period takes its name from the fossils of the Ediacara biota, which represent the first appearance of large and diverse assemblages of organisms in the fossil record. Although the global record of these distinctive body fossils is now well known, a previously unrecognized megascopic organic record of textured organic surfaces (TOS) occurs in the Ediacara biota. However, TOS is also a feature over a wider range of paleoenvironmental settings, where body fossils are unknown, in Ediacaran siliciclastic successions that have been studied in Australia, Namibia and western North America.Paleoecological analysis of successive bedding planes of strata from the late Ediacaran Rawnsley Quartzite in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia, reveals that TOS represent the most common organic features in bedding-surface assemblages of the Ediacara biota. The TOS consist of preserved, patterned assemblages of textured organic mats, fibers and simple tubular body fossils. Complex Ediacara body fossils while striking for their distinctive body plans, and dominating some of the beds, are relatively minor components of combined overall surface area. Many elements of TOS have previously been miss-diagnosed as trace fossils, which are in practice limited to two or at most three morphotypes that indicate the presence of Bilateria. Although TOS represent a simpler grade of organismic construction than discrete and more complex Ediacara body fossils, they were preserved in a similar manner. Marked variability in all components of the biota between successive surfaces suggests that Ediacara ecologies fluctuated at short intervals despite an apparently consistent sedimentary regime.  相似文献   

Evidence for microbiological manganese oxidation in the river Tamar Estuary, South West England     

Peter W. L. Vojak  Clive Edwards  Martin V. Jones 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》1985,20(6):661-671

Water samples from the Tamar Estuary oxidized manganese when supplemented with Mn²⁺ (2 mgl⁻¹). The rates of oxidation were depressed in the presence of various metabolic inhibitors. The effect of Mn²⁺ and temperature on the rate of manganese oxidation suggested that a biological process was largely responsible for converting Mn²⁺ to Mn⁴⁺. Rates of manganese oxidation were much higher in freshwater (3·32 μgl⁻¹ h⁻¹ in water containing 30 mgl⁻¹ of suspended matter) than in saline water (0·7 μgl⁻¹ h⁻¹ in water of salinity 32‰) containing the same amount of particulate matter. The rate of manganese oxidation was proportional to the particulate load (up to 100 mgl⁻¹ particulates).  相似文献   

四川盆地震旦系灯影组白云岩成因   总被引：3，自引：1，他引：2  

金民东  谭秀成  李毕松  朱祥  曾伟  连承波 《沉积学报》2019,37(3):443-454

基于岩芯观察、薄片鉴定、地球化学分析,结合区域地质背景,系统研究了四川盆地震旦系灯影组白云岩成因。岩石学特征分析发现,灯影组白云岩可分为泥粉晶云岩、粒屑云岩、微生物云岩、岩溶角砾云岩4类,其结构类型一般为泥晶—粉晶,说明白云岩化时间较早,为准同生期。地球化学分析表明,灯影组白云岩δ^13C平均值与震旦纪原始海水较为接近,δ^18O值呈现中—高负偏的特征,有序度和Fe、Mn含量相对偏低,Na含量相对较高,稀土元素配分模式则与海水配分曲线类似,表明白云岩化主要受到海源流体的影响。盆地周缘的古陆和水下隆起使盆内海水极易封隔浓缩,盆内发育的富Ca^2+菌藻类可间接提高海水的Mg^2+/Ca^2+比值,加之灯影期干旱炎热的古气候让盆内蒸发作用强烈,可伴生石膏等蒸发性矿物,促进白云石化。综合上述特征,四川盆地灯影组白云岩成因为微生物参与的蒸发海水回流渗透白云石化。  相似文献