Origin and stratigraphy of phreatomagmatic deposits at the Pleistocene Sinker Butte Volcano, Western Snake River Plain, Idaho   总被引：1，自引：3，他引：1  

Brittany D. Brand  Craig M. White   《Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research》2007,160(3-4):319-339

Sinker Butte is the erosional remnant of a very large basaltic tuff cone of middle Pleistocene age located at the southern edge of the western Snake River Plain. Phreatomagmatic tephras are exposed in complete sections up to 100 m thick in the walls of the Snake River Canyon, creating an unusual opportunity to study the deposits produced by this volcano through its entire sequence of explosive eruptions. The main objectives of the study were to determine the overall evolution of the Sinker Butte volcano while focusing particularly on the tephras produced by its phreatomagmatic eruptions. Toward this end, twenty-three detailed stratigraphic sections ranging from 20 to 100 m thick were examined and measured in canyon walls exposing tephras deposited around 180° of the circumference of the volcano.Three main rock units are recognized in canyon walls at Sinker Butte: a lower sequence composed of numerous thin basaltic lava flows, an intermediate sequence of phreatomagmatic tephras, and a capping sequence of welded basaltic spatter and more lava flows. We subdivide the phreatomagmatic deposits into two main parts, a series of reworked, mostly subaqueously deposited tephras and a more voluminous sequence of overlying subaerial surge and fall deposits. Most of the reworked deposits are gray in color and exhibit features such as channel scour and fill, planar-stratification, high and low angle cross-stratification, trough cross-stratification, and Bouma-turbidite sequences consistent with their being deposited in shallow standing water or in braided streams. The overlying subaerial deposits are commonly brown or orange in color due to palagonitization. They display a wide variety of bedding types and sedimentary structures consistent with deposition by base surges, wet to dry pyroclastic fall events, and water saturated debris flows.Proximal sections through the subaerial tephras exhibit large regressive cross-strata, planar bedding, and bomb sags suggesting deposition by wet base surges and tephra fallout. Medial and distal deposits consist of a thick sequence of well-bedded tephras; however, the cross-stratified base-surge deposits are thinner and interbedded within the fallout deposits. The average wavelength and amplitude of the cross strata continue to decrease with distance from the vent. These bedded surge and fall deposits grade upward into dominantly fall deposits containing 75–95% juvenile vesiculated clasts and localized layers of welded spatter, indicating a greatly reduced water-melt ratio. Overlying these “dryer” deposits are massive tuff breccias that were probably deposited as water saturated debris flows (lahars). The first appearance of rounded river gravels in these massive tuff breccias indicates downward coring of the diatreme and entrainment of country rock from lower in the stratigraphic section. The “wetter” nature of these deposits suggests a renewed source of external water. The massive deposits grade upward into wet fallout tephras and the phreatomagmatic sequence ends with a dry scoria fall deposit overlain by welded spatter and lava flows.Field observations and two new ⁴⁰Ar–³⁹Ar incremental heating dates suggest the succession of lavas and tephra deposits exposed in this part of the Snake River canyon may all have been erupted from a closely related complex of vents at Sinker Butte. We propose that initial eruptions of lava flows built a small shield edifice that dammed or disrupted the flow of the ancestral Snake River. The shift from effusive to explosive eruptions occurred when the surface water or rising ground water gained access to the vent. As the river cut a new channel around the lava dam, water levels dropped and the volcano returned to an effusive style of eruption.  相似文献   

Performance of a base isolator with shape memory alloy bars   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：1  

Fabio Casciati  Lucia Faravelli  Karim Hamdaoui 《地震工程与工程振动(英文版)》2007,6(4):401-408

A new and innovative base isolation device is introduced in this paper based on extensive research carried out by the authors and their co-workers. A prototype of the device was built and experimentally tested on the shaking table. The new base isolation device consists of two disks, one vertical cylinder with an upper enlargement sustained by three horizontal cantilevers, and at least three inclined shape memory alloy (SMA) bars. The role of the SMA bars is to limit the relative motion between the base and the superstructure, to dissipate energy by their super-elastic constitutive law and to guarantee the re-centring of the device. To verify the expected performance, a prototype was built and tested under sinusoidal waves of displacement of increasing frequency with different amplitudes. It is shown that the main feature of the proposed base isolation device is that for cyclic loading, the super-elastic behavior of the alloy results in wide load-displacement loops, where a large amount of energy is dissipated.  相似文献   

基础隔震层钢螺旋弹簧软碰撞限位实验研究     

韩淼  李仙华  杜红凯 《世界地震工程》2007,23(4):39-43

设计制作了基础隔震软碰撞限位实验模型与3种类型的钢螺旋弹簧限位器，给出了实测的限位器力学特性参数。进行9种工况的振动台模型实验，分析实验数据得出了软碰撞限位器参数对结构反应的影响规律，优选出了适用于本隔震实验模型的软碰撞限位工况。  相似文献   

路面基层压实度现场测试中的非理想因素分析--以广东西部沿海高速公路新会段为例     

史玉金  蔡鹤生 《地质科技情报》2002,21(1):110-112

通过对广东西部沿海高速公路路面基层现场压实度检测过程的详细观察，并在不同的条件下反复进行试验、分析比较，找出了影响压实度现场检测精度的主要非理想因素，即标准砂密度、试样含水量和路面基层平整度，并提出了解决方法。  相似文献   

管网测绘数据的GIS建库     

高树江  朱宝兰 《测绘与空间地理信息》2001,24(1):29-30

文章阐述了管网测绘数据的GIS建库的基本方法 ,以及计算机监理查错程序对勘测成果的检测。  相似文献   

环洞庭湖区城镇体系发展研究   总被引：6，自引：1，他引：6  

刘明  谢光辉  谢炳庚  罗为检 《地域研究与开发》2001,20(1):32-37

通过对环洞庭湖区城镇体系发展的历史背景以及现状特征分析，指出其发展过程存在着城市空间格局发展不平衡，产业结构重复严重等问题，在此基础上，提出了相应的对策与发展措施，确保环湖区内城镇体系的持续，快速发展，并最终实现带动区域经济发展的目的。  相似文献   

知识库系统的原理   总被引：14，自引：0，他引：14  

杨勇  邹时林  蔡源 《华东地质学院学报》2001,24(4):334-337

在分析了知识的定义、知识的类型、知识的分级、知识原理的基础上，详细说明了知识库系统的原理。  相似文献   

某住宅楼的地基加固与纠偏     

刘善国  殷友东 《化工矿产地质》2001,23(2):125-127

面对连云港市新浦区软土地基上施工的某住宅楼 ,施工时由于对北楼部分桩出现的缩颈及断裂未能妥善处理 ,造成楼房北倾的问题。经协商 ,及时采取了旋喷桩加固法加固北楼基础 :采用沉降法(切桩 )、纠偏 (使各承台均匀、协调、沉降 )、接桩、固封等措施 ,效果良好。  相似文献   

基坑支护结构破坏原因综述及实例分析     

刘善国  殷友东  彭新宣 《化工矿产地质》2001,23(3):181-184

高层建筑基坑支护结构破坏原因主要有 :支护结构整体失稳、基坑土体隆起、管涌及流沙的出现、支撑强度不足或压屈、墙体破坏、支护结构平面变形超过限度。某大厦施工中由于桩身强度不足、桩尖达到的深度不够及桩间距过大等原因 ,致使管涌发生 ,造成塌方。通过对事故针对性的处理 ,取得了良好的效果  相似文献   

Storm deposits and storm-generated coarse carbonate breccias on a pelagic outer shelf (South-East Basin, France)   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Michel Seguret  Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine  Guilherme Raja Gabaglia  & Frederic Bouchette 《Sedimentology》2001,48(2):231-254

Uppermost Jurassic limestones of the South‐East Basin (France) are organized into four facies associations that were deposited in four distinct zones: (1) peritidal lagoonal limestones; (2) bioclastic and reefal limestones; (3) pelagic lime mudstones; (4) lime mudstones/calcarenites/coarse breccias. Calcarenite deposits of zone 4 exhibit sedimentary structures that are diagnostic of deposition under wave‐induced combined flow. In subzone 4a, both vertical and lateral transitions from lime mudstone/calcarenite to breccia indicate in situ brecciation under wave‐cyclic loading. Breccias were produced by heterogeneous liquefaction of material previously deposited on the sea floor. Deposits in subzone 4a record relatively long periods (>400 kyr) of sedimentation below wave base, alternating with periods of deposition under wave‐induced currents and periods of in situ deformation. In this zone, storm waves were attenuated by wave–sediment interaction, and wave energy was absorbed by the deformation of soft sediment. With reference to present‐day wave attenuation, water depths in this zone ranged between 50 and 80 m. Landwards of the attenuation zone, in zone 3, storm waves were reduced to fair‐weather wave heights. Storm wave base was not horizontal and became shallower landwards. As a consequence, water depth and wave energy were not linearly related. On a small area of the seaward edge of subzone 4a, cobbles were removed by traction currents and redeposited in subzone 4b. There, they formed a 100‐m‐thick wedge, which prograded over 3 km and was built up by the stacking of 5‐ to 20‐m‐thick cross‐stratified sets of coarse breccia. This wedge records the transport and redeposition of cobbles by a high‐velocity unidirectional component of a combined flow. The increase in flow velocity in a restricted area is proposed to result from flow concentration in a channel‐like structure of the downwelling in the gulf formed by the basin. In more distal subzone 4c, the hydrodynamic effect of wave‐induced currents was quasi‐permanent, and brecciation by wave–sediment interaction occurred only episodically. This indicates that, seawards of the attenuation zone, hydrodynamic storm wave base was deeper than mechanical storm wave base. Uppermost Jurassic carbonates were deposited and soft‐sediment deformed on a hurricane‐dominated ramp of very gentle slope and characterized by a zone of storm wave degeneration, located seawards of a zone of sedimentation below wave base.  相似文献