Continental size,eustasy and sediment yield     

A. R. Wyatt 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1993,82(2):185-188

Sediment yield from modern continental blocks is a function of the area (dissolved load) and hypsometry (mechanical load) of the blocks. Hypsographic curves for modern continental blocks show that the change in the percentage area flooded for any change in eustatic sea level depends on the size of the block and the absolute sea level. This allows predictions of changes in sediment yield around different sized blocks for any given eustatic change. The range in size of continental blocks is such that, for any given sea level change, the blocks will show different percentage changes in yield. Data from modern continental blocks are compared with theoretical results. Assuming that the rules governing modern hypsometries applied in the past, and a constant volume of continental crust, it is possible to estimate the hypsographic curves of former continental blocks. The implications of suggested past continental configurations and sea levels for sediment yield are discussed.  相似文献   

A garnet population in Yellowknife schist, Canada   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

R. KRETZ 《Journal of Metamorphic Geology》1993,11(1):101-120

Abstract Data are presented on a garnet population in a specimen of garnet-biotite-plagioclase-quartz schist from the cordierite zone of an Archaean thermal dome in the Southern Slave Province of the Canadian Shield. Garnet crystals are bounded by planar dodecahedral faces and by trapezohedral faces which on the 10-μm scale are corrugated. Crystal distribution, as revealed by dissection of a small cubic volume of rock, is random. The size distribution is normal, with a mean diameter of 0.81 mm and a standard deviation of 0.32 mm. In the largest crystal of the population (mean radius 0.83 mm), [Mn] = 100 Mn/(Fe + Mg + Mn + Ca) decreases from 14.5 at the centre to 7.5 and then increases in the outer margin to 8.5; [Fe] increases continuously from 67 at the centre to 77 at the surface; [Mg] increases from 12.5 to 13.5 and then falls sharply to 11; [Ca] remains unchanged at 4.0 and then drops to 3.3. Progressively smaller crystals have progressively lower [Mn] and higher [Fe] concentrations at their centres, while all crystals have the same margin composition. Growth vectors extending from given concentration contours to crystal surfaces are of equal length regardless of the size of the crystal in which the vector is located. A garnet-forming model is presented in which reaction was initiated by a rise in temperature. Nucleation sites were randomly selected. The nucleation rate increased with time and then declined. Crystal faces advanced at a constant linear rate, which implies an increase in volume proportional to surface area. Initially, the composition of garnet deposited on crystal surfaces was determined by van Laar equations of equilibrium, which demanded the withdrawal of Mn and Fe from within chlorite crystals. This transfer reaction was then accompanied by an ion exchange reaction which moved Mn and Fe to garnet surfaces from biotite, in exchange for Mg. The exchange reaction provides an explanation for the high overall concentration of Mn and Fe in garnet and for the observed Mn and Mg reversals in the margins of crystals. The increase of garnet volume in the garnet population is found to be parabolic, i.e. Vαα⁵.  相似文献   

Suspended particulate grain size dynamics and their implications for trace metal sorption in the Don River     

Lesley A. Warren  Ann P. Zimmermann 《Aquatic Sciences - Research Across Boundaries》1994,56(4):348-362

We examined particle size distributions of suspended particulate matter (SPM); physical and environmental influences on the observed distributions; and relationships between particle size and geochemical partitioning of metals, over the fall and winter period in a small urban river (Don River, Toronto, Ontario, Canada). For this dataset, the majority of particles (80%) in suspension were less than 10 µm in size. In addition, while total SPM concentrations showed a positive trend with increasing discharge (Q); the proportions of particles found within given size classes were independent of both SPM concentration and Q. Temperature was the only measured environmental variable related to the particle concentrations within size classes. As water temperature increased, the concentration of particles in the smallest size class (1–4 µm) decreased, while the concentration of silt and/or algae sized particles (10–50 µm) increased. Increasing water temperatures may promote bacterial attachment to particles and their subsequent flocculation into larger sized particles. Decreasing concentrations of leachable (most labile) Cd, Zn and Mn were associated with increasing concentrations of the largest particles (70–150 µm) in suspension. In contrast, higher reducible (oxides) associated concentrations of Cd, Zn and Mn occurred with increasing concentrations of smaller particles (1–10 µm) in suspension. Both of these trends are speculated to reflect the importance of particle surface area for metal sorption reactions.  相似文献   

反循环中心取样雾化钻探应用于砾岩型金矿取样地质效果及其编录方法     

刘宝成  袁力 《吉林地质》1994,13(2):75-81

中心取样钻探是一种全新的钻探方法，具有效率快、取样准确、岩样采取率高的特点。可用于砾岩型金矿勘探评价，获取的矿层深度、品位、厚度、岩心采取率等均能满足地质要求，利用回返物质能够进行正常地质编录。  相似文献   

盐卤硼酸盐化学Ⅹ　Ⅹ　Ⅴ　Ⅱ盐湖卤水酸化过程中硼酸生长速率          下载免费PDF全文

李武  杨存道  高世扬  夏树屏  赵云惠 《盐湖研究》1995,(3)

本文提出了一种用激光散射跟踪溶液中粒子粒度在不同时间的分布，求取粒子生长速率的简便而可行的方法，得到了大柴旦盐湖卤水在硫酸酸化过程中硼酸晶体的生长速率，并提出解决酸法提础工艺中所得硼酸晶体粒度太小的方法。  相似文献   

A ‘mathematical’ spider living on gravel plains of the Namib Desert     

G. Costa  A. Petralia  E. Conti  C. Hnel 《Journal of Arid Environments》1995,29(4)

In certain areas of the Namib gravel plains a new Ariadna sp. was discovered. It rims its vertical burrow with a stone circle, made on average of seven quartz stones. Some mathematical relationships between hole diameter, stone sizes and weight, and animal size were studied. A correlation was found, and stone selection by this spider postulated. Different hypotheses on the adaptive value of stone circle are suggested.  相似文献   

离子质谱计测定地质样品中镁同位素组成方法学研究     

周瑶琪  柴之芳 《岩矿测试》1995,14(1):7-14

应用信通公司研制的离子质谱计（ＳＴ－ＩＭＳ），建立了地质样品镁同位素分析的实验流程和误差分析方法，为进一步分析微量地质样品中镁同位素组成和分布奠定了基础。  相似文献   

新疆萨尔布拉克金矿找矿矿物学标型特征研究   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：2  

吕瑞英 《地球科学》1990,15(6):657-665

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The variogram sill and the sample variance   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Randal J. Barnes 《Mathematical Geology》1991,23(4):673-678

The relationship between the sill of the variogram and the sample variance is explored. The common practice of using the sample variance as an estimate of the variogram sill is questioned, and a conceptual framework for determining the appropriateness of this heuristic is constructed.  相似文献   

Test of Hack's slope to bed material relationship in the Southern Eifel Uplands,Germany     

Rolf Schruder 《地球表面变化过程与地形》1991,16(8):731-736

The local reach gradient of small gravel bed rivers (drainage area 0-8-110 km²) in the Eifel, West Germany, is adjusted to transport the river bed sediments. Transport of gravel becomes possible under high flow conditions (Shields entrainment factor ≈-03). Mean bed material size for riffle sections increases with distance downstream. For small drainage areas channel slope is a negative exponential function of drainage area, while for the larger region the additional influence of bedload size has to be considered. Good agreement with Hack's data (1957) for Virginia and Maryland, U.S.A., is achieved (S = 0.0066 (D₅₀/A)^{- 40.}, r = 0.67).  相似文献