On the geoid–quasigeoid separation in mountain areas     

Jakob Flury  Reiner Rummel 《Journal of Geodesy》2009,83(9):829-847

The separation between the reference surfaces for orthometric heights and normal heights—the geoid and the quasigeoid—is typically in the order of a few decimeters but can reach nearly 3 m in extreme cases. The knowledge of the geoid–quasigeoid separation with centimeter accuracy or better, is essential for the realization of national and international height reference frames, and for precision height determination in geodetic engineering. The largest contribution to the geoid–quasigeoid separation is due to the distribution of topographic masses. We develop a compact formulation for the rigorous treatment of topographic masses and apply it to determine the geoid–quasigeoid separation for two test areas in the Alps with very rough topography, using a very fine grid resolution of 100 m. The magnitude of the geoid–quasigeoid separation and its accuracy, its slopes, roughness, and correlation with height are analyzed. Results show that rigorous treatment of topographic masses leads to a rather small geoid–quasigeoid separation—only 30 cm at the highest summit—while results based on approximations are often larger by several decimeters. The accuracy of the topographic contribution to the geoid–quasigeoid separation is estimated to be 2–3 cm for areas with extreme topography. Analysis of roughness of the geoid–quasigeoid separation shows that a resolution of the modeling grid of 200 m or less is required to achieve these accuracies. Gravity and the vertical gravity gradient inside of topographic masses and the mean gravity along the plumbline are modeled which are important intermediate quantities for the determination of the geoid–quasigeoid separation. We conclude that a consistent determination of the geoid and quasigeoid height reference surfaces within an accuracy of few centimeters is feasible even for areas with extreme topography, and that the concepts of orthometric height and normal height can be consistently realized and used within this level of accuracy.  相似文献   

The interdisciplinary role of space geodesy—Revisited     

Reiner Rummel 《Journal of Geodynamics》2010,49(3-4):112-115

In 1988 the interdisciplinary role of space geodesy has been discussed by a prominent group of leaders in the fields of geodesy and geophysics at an international workshop in Erice (Mueller and Zerbini, 1989). The workshop may be viewed as the starting point of a new era of geodesy as a discipline of Earth sciences. Since then enormous progress has been made in geodesy in terms of satellite and sensor systems, observation techniques, data processing, modelling and interpretation. The establishment of a Global Geodetic Observing System (GGOS) which is currently underway is a milestone in this respect. Wegener served as an important role model for the definition of GGOS. In turn, Wegener will benefit from becoming a regional entity of GGOS.What are the great challenges of the realisation of a 10^?9 global integrated observing system? Geodesy is potentially able to provide – in the narrow sense of the words – “metric and weight” to global studies of geo-processes. It certainly can meet this expectation if a number of fundamental challenges, related to issues such as the international embedding of GGOS, the realisation of further satellite missions and some open scientific questions can be solved. Geodesy is measurement driven. This is an important asset when trying to study the Earth as a system. However its guideline must be: “What are the right and most important observables to deal with the open scientific questions?”.  相似文献   

OH in zoned amphiboles of eclogite from the western Tianshan,NW-China   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Wen Su  Ming Zhang  Simon A. T. Redfern  Jun Gao  Reiner Klemd 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2009,98(6):1299-1309

Chemically-zoned amphibole porphyroblast grains in an eclogite (sample ws24-7) from the western Tianshan (NW-China) have been analyzed by electron microprobe (EMP), micro Fourier-transform infrared (micro-FTIR) and micro-Raman spectroscopy in the OH-stretching region. The EMP data reveal zoned amphibole compositions clustering around two predominant compositions: a glaucophane end-member ( ^B Na₂ ^C M²⁺ ₃ M³⁺ ₂ ^T Si₈(OH)₂) in the cores, whereas the mantle to rim of the samples has an intermediate amphibole composition ( ^A _0.5 ^B Ca_1.5Na_0.5 ^C M ²⁺ _4.5 M _0.5^{3+ T} Si_7.5Al_0.5(OH)₂) (A = Na and/or K; M ²⁺ = Mg and Fe²⁺; M ³⁺ = Fe³⁺ and/or Al) between winchite (and ferro-winchite) and katophorite (and Mg-katophorite). Furthermore, we observed complicated FTIR and Raman spectra with OH-stretching absorption bands varying systematically from core to rim. The FTIR/Raman spectra of the core amphibole show three lower-frequency components (at 3,633, 3,649–3,651 and 3,660–3,663 cm⁻¹) which can be attributed to a local O(3)-H dipole surrounded by ^{M(1) M(3)}Mg₃, ^{M(1) M(3)}Mg₂Fe²⁺ and ^{M(1) M(3)} Fe²⁺ ₃, respectively, an empty A site and ^T Si₈ environments. On the other hand, bands at higher frequencies (3,672–3,673, 3,691–3,697 and 3,708 cm⁻¹) are observable in the rims of the amphiboles, and they indicate the presence of an occupied A site. The FTIR and Raman data from the OH-stretching region allow us to calculate the site occupancy of the A, M(1)–M(3), T sites with confidence when combined with EPM data. By contrast M(2)- and M(4) site occupancies are more difficult to evaluate. We use these samples to highlight on the opportunities and limitations of FTIR OH-stretching spectroscopy applied to natural high pressure amphibole phases. The much more detailed cation site occupancy of the zoned amphibole from the western Tianshan have been obtained by comparing data from micro-chemical and FTIR and/or Raman in the OH-stretching data. We find the following characteristic substitutions Si(T-site) (Mg, Fe)[M(1)–M(3)-site] → Al(T-site) Al[M(1)–M(3)-site] (tschermakite), Ca(M4-site)□ (A-site) → Na(M4-site) Na + K(A-site) (richterite), and Ca(M4-site) (Mg, Fe) [M(1)–M(3)-site] → Na(M4-site) Al[M(1)–M(3)-site] (glaucophane) from the configurations observed during metamorphism.  相似文献   

Thermal expansion on volcanic tuff rocks used as building stones: examples from Mexico     

Rubén López-Doncel  Wanja Wedekind  Alfredo Aguillón-Robles  Reiner Dohrmann  Sergio Molina-Maldonado  Theresa Leiser  Anna Wittenborn  Siegfried Siegesmund 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2018,77(9):338

Three cities in the center of Mexico, declared as cultural heritage, were erected mainly of volcanic tuffs as main construction element. Many of the historic buildings of these cities show significant damage and deterioration. One of the causes of these damages can be attributed to a phenomenon poorly studied in volcanic tuffs, the thermal expansion. To understand the response of volcanic tuffs to thermal expansion, as well as to know their thermal expansion coefficient, thermal expansion test was performed on 12 representative tuffs of these localities. In the same way and to know which of their petrographic, petrophysical, mineralogical, and geochemical properties influence this phenomenon, several laboratory studies were carried out to determine which of these plays an important role in the expansion. The results of our tests showed that volcanic tuffs rocks have very varied thermal expansion values, ranging from 0.7 mm/m at their maximum expansion to even contraction in the order of ??0.5 mm/m. Equally varied were the thermal expansion coefficient values ranging from 10.1 to ??7.2 10^?6/K. The most dominant behavior type is the “anisotropic no residual strain behavior”. In general, the behavior of the tuffs in practically all the tests carried out showed a very important heterogeneity in the rocks; however, in spite of the non-homogeneous behavior of the tuffs, three main factors could be identified that play an important role in the thermal expansion of the studied rocks, the chemical composition, e.g., acid volcanic tuff rocks (rhyolitic composition) had greater expansions, while the more basic rocks (basaltic composition) expanded less, the textural and fabrics homogeneity, e.g., the most homogeneous rocks texturally have higher expansion values and the degree of crystallinity, and, e.g., the tuff rocks with the largest amount of glass showed smaller thermal expansions than the tuffs composed of microcrystals.  相似文献   

A Highly Circularly Polarized Solar Radio Emission Component Observed at Hectometric Wavelengths     

M. J. Reiner  M. L. Kaiser  J. Fainberg  J. -L. Bougeret 《Solar physics》2006,234(2):301-324

We report here the observation of a rare solar radio event at hectometric wavelengths that was characterized by essentially 100% circularly polarized radiation and that was observed continuously for about six days, from May 17 to 23, 2002. This was the first time that a solar source with significantly polarized radiation was detected by the WAVES experiment on the Wind spacecraft. From May 19 to 22, the intense polarized radio emissions were characterized by quasi-periodic intensity variations with periods from one to two hours and with superposed drifting, narrowband, fine structures. The bandwidth of this radiation extended from about 400 kHz to 7 MHz, and the peak frequency of the frequency spectrum slowly decreased from 2 MHz to about 0.8 MHz over the course of four days. The radio source, at each frequency, was observed to slowly drift from east to west about the Sun, as viewed from the Earth and was estimated to lie between 26 and 82R_⊙ (R_⊙ = 696 000 km). We speculate that this unusual event may represent an interplanetary manifestation of a moving type IV burst and discuss possible radio emission mechanisms. The ISEE-3 spacecraft may possibly have detected a similar event some 26 years ago.  相似文献   

Export Production in the Equatorial and North Pacific Derived from Dissolved Oxygen, Nutrient and Carbon Data     

Reiner Schlitzer 《Journal of Oceanography》2004,60(1):53-62

A global ocean inverse model that includes the 3D ocean circulation as well as the production, sinking and remineralization of biogenic particulate matter is used to estimate the carbon export flux in the Pacific, north of 10°S. The model exploits the existing large datasets for hydrographic parameters, dissolved oxygen, nutrients and carbon, and determines optimal export production rates by fitting the model to the observed water column distributions by means of the “adjoint method”. In the model, the observations can be explained satisfactorily with an integrated carbon export production of about 3 Gt C yr⁻¹ (equivalent to 3⋅10¹⁵ gC yr⁻¹) for the considered zone of the Pacific Ocean. This amounts to about a third of the global ocean carbon export of 9.6 Gt C yr⁻¹ in the model. The highest export fluxes occur in the coastal upwelling region off northwestern America and in the tropical eastern Pacific. Due to the large surface area, the open-ocean, oligotrophic region in the central North Pacific also contributes significantly to the total North Pacific export flux (0.45 Gt C yr⁻¹), despite the rather small average flux densities in this region (13 gC m⁻²yr⁻¹). Model e-ratios (calculated here as ratios of model export production to primary production, as inferred from satellite observations) range from as high a value as 0.4 in the tropical Pacific to 0.17 in the oligotrophic central north Pacific. Model e-ratios in the northeastern Pacific upwelling regions amount to about 0.3 and are lower than previous estimates. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

Redox processes in subducting oceanic crust recorded by sulfide-bearing high-pressure rocks and veins (SW Tianshan,China)     

Ji-Lei Li  Jun Gao  Reiner Klemd  Timm John  Xin-Shui Wang 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2016,171(8-9):72

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Strain localization and large-scale block rotation in the lower continental crust, Kataragama area, Sri Lanka     

Reiner Kleinschrodt 《地学学报》1996,8(3):236-244

In Sri Lanka a suite of rocks is regionally exposed which once formed a part of the middle to lower crust of a collisional orogen with about doubled crustal thickness. A subhorizontal to gently west-dipping major thrust zone (Highland Basal Thrust) crosses Sri Lanka from NNE to SSW. It separates a granulite facies upper unit, the Highland Complex from an amphibolite facies lower unit, the Vijayan Complex with a displacement of more than 300 km. The basal Highland Complex was migmatized during thrusting. Rheological contrasts between dry granulites and migmatites were high in the presence of partial melts. Granulite facies fragments within the migmatites vary from the decimetre to kilometre scale. Granulites in the area of Kataragama, formerly interpreted as the Kataragama Klippe, are now identified as a large-scale raft within the migmatites, which is completely separated from the overriding Highland Complex. During thrusting strain was concentrated in the migmatized basal parts of the Highland Complex. After crystallization of the migmatites thrusting continued, and strain was still localized within the migmatites. Therefore, granulite facies parageneses, structures and textures are preserved in the granulite rafts. The deviation of the granulite facies structures in the Kataragama raft from the general trend in the Highland Complex is interpreted to indicate counterclockwise rotation of the whole raft by about 90° around a subvertical rotation axis.  相似文献   

那拉提山北缘寒武纪玄武岩的元素地球化学特征及构造意义   总被引：3，自引：2，他引：3  

钱青徐守礼  何国琦Reiner KLEMD熊贤明  龙灵利高俊 《岩石学报》2007,23(7):1708-1720

我国西南天山地区那拉提北缘断裂北侧出露寒武纪（516.3±7.4Ma）橄榄拉斑玄武岩，其Al2O3（120.71％-14.14％）、P2O5（0.09％-0．21％）含量较低，TiO2（1.39％-2．35％）、MgO（5.35％-8.14％）含量中等，全Fe2O3（11.74％-16．03％）含量较高，球粒陨石标准化稀土分布型式平坦，（La／Sm）.和（Y／Nb）.比值接近1，为过渡型洋脊玄武岩（T-MORB）；并且Th／Ta比值（0．8—1.5）低，高场强元素（Nb，Ta，Zr，Hf，P）没有明显亏损，缺乏陆壳混染或俯冲带流体活动的印迹.部分T-MORB的Fe、Ti含量较高（FeO^T〉12％，TiO2〉2％，FeO^T／MgO〉1．75），Mg^#值（0．40—0.49）和Cr（53×10^-6-110×10^-6）含量较低，属于Fe-Ti玄武岩（ferrobasalt），应为岩浆依Fenner趋势发生较高程度结晶分离演化的产物，很可能形成于洋中脊的扩展型裂谷环境.我们认为，那拉提北缘寒武纪T-MORB和Fe-n玄武岩可能与境外吉尔吉斯斯坦境内北天山南缘的旱古生代Terskey蛇绿岩带相连，为Terskey蛇绿岩的残片；寒武纪我国境内发育Terskey洋.那拉提北缘断裂可能与尼古拉耶夫线相连，代表西南天山地区Terskey洋闭合形成的一条早古生代缝合带.  相似文献   

南天山：晚古生代还是三叠纪碰撞造山带？   总被引：56，自引：42，他引：56  

高俊 龙灵利钱青  黄德志苏文 Reiner KLEMD 《岩石学报》2006,22(5):1049-1061

伊犁-哈萨克斯坦板块和塔里木-卡拉库姆板块之间的南天山造山带是‘中亚型造山带’的典型代表之一，经历了复杂的构造演化与地壳增生过程。传统上，它被视为华力西期褶皱带或晚古生代碰撞造山带。但近年来，部分学者提出它可能为三叠纪碰撞造山带。本文在综述南天山造山带的蛇绿岩、高压变质岩、花岗岩类等方面研究成果的基础上，讨论了其碰撞造山的时限。我国境内南天山西段碰撞造山可能开始于早石炭世（345Ma），结束于晚石炭世末（300Ma左右）。二叠纪时期，南天山至整个中亚地区进入后碰撞演化阶段。现有资料证实南天山为一晚古生代碰撞造山带，并非一三叠纪碰撞造山带。  相似文献