Low-velocity structure beneath Africa from forward modeling   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Sidao Ni  Xiaoming Ding  Donald V Helmberger  Michael Gurnis 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1999,170(4):21-507

Seismic waveforms observed in South Africa containing the first arrival crossover of S to SKS (70° to 110°) are analyzed. The data consist of analog records from the World Wide Seismographic Station Network (WWSSN) of deep events beneath South America. The S-waves arrive 2 to 3 s early relative to PREM at ranges from 70° to 95° and then become increasingly delayed, becoming 5 to 6 s late at 110°. The SKS phase is late by 3 to 5 s over the entire range. This pushes crossover between S and SKS, normally observed at about 81°, out about 2° to 3°, which is the most anomalous shift ever reported. To model such features, we modified Grand's tomography model [Grand et al., GSA Today 7 (1997) 1–7], and generated 2D synthetics to match the data. The overall shape and position of the lower mantle low-velocity anomaly proposed by Grand predicts good results if lower mantle anomalies are enhanced to a level of about 4%. This results in a complex tabular structure extending upward from the core–mantle boundary about 1500 km into the mantle. These features appear to be consistent with a large young plume which is erupting off the CMB.  相似文献   

Effect of atmospheric CO₂ and solar activity on wind regime and water column stability in the major global upwelling areas     

B. Patti  C. Guisande  I. Riveiro  P. Thejll  A. Cuttitta  A. Bonanno  G. Basilone  G. Buscaino  S. Mazzola 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》2010

It is not clear whether global warming will favour or reduce global ocean phytoplankton productivity in coastal areas. Moreover, the relative contributions made by natural and/or anthropogenic factors to possible changes in phytoplankton productivity are not clear. As the relationship between primary production and alongshore wind forcing is well established for the Eastern Boundary Current (EBC) ecosystems, our aim is to determine whether the changes experienced over the last five decades (1958–2007) in atmospheric CO₂ and solar activity have been able to affect the wind regime and water column stability in the most biologically productive upwelling areas of California, Canary, Humboldt and Benguela. We approached the work by statistically studying the effect of solar activity and atmospheric CO₂ on surface alongshore wind stress and on water column stability. There was an increasing trend in wind stress and water column stability in all the upwelling areas over the period studied (with the single exception of stability in the California EBC system). The analysis of detrended series evidenced significant relationships between atmospheric CO₂ concentration and wind stress and water column stability in the coastal upwelling areas investigated. In addition, wind stress and stability data were found to be consistent, with negative linear relationships between wind stress and CO₂ in most of the sites in the Benguela, Canary and Humboldt regions associated, as expected, to positive relationships when water column stability is used as regressand. The results of the present study suggest that greenhouse gas forcing, independent of its well known general increasing trend, was able to decrease wind stress intensity and increase water column stability for the period 1958 to present in most of the sites of the four Eastern Boundary Ecosystems studied, with the one exception of the California region. Conversely, the impact of solar activity appeared to be quite low compared to the greenhouse gas forcing.  相似文献   

Spatial and temporal patterns in the hyperbenthic community structure in a warm temperate southern African permanently open estuary     

Elodie Heyns  William Froneman 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》2010

The spatial and temporal patterns in the hyperbenthic community structure (>500 μm) in the warm temperate, permanently open Kariega Estuary situated along the south-eastern coastline of South Africa was investigated monthly over a period of twelve months. Data were collected using a modified hyperbenthic sledge at six stations along the length of the estuary. Physico-chemical data indicate the presence of a constant reverse salinity gradient, with highest salinities measured in the upper reaches and lowest at the mouth of the estuary. Strong seasonal patterns in temperature, dissolved oxygen and total chlorophyll-a (chl-a) concentration were evident. Total average hyperbenthic densities ranged between 0.4 and 166 ind.m⁻³ in the lower net and between 0.2 and 225 ind.m⁻³ in the upper net. Hyperbenthic biomass values ranged between 0.02 and 11.9 mg.dry weight.m⁻³ in the lower net and between 0.02 and 17.4 mg.dry weight.m⁻³ in the upper net. Both the lower and upper nets were numerically dominated by decapods (mainly brachyuran crab zoea) with the exception of June and July 2008 when mysids (mainly Mesopodopsis wooldridgei) dominated, comprising up to 72.4 ± 58.14% of the total abundance in the lower net. A redundancy analysis (RDA) indicated that 99.2% of the variance in the hyperbenthic community structure could be explained by the first two canonical axes. Axis one, which accounted for 96.8% of the total variation detected in the ordination plot was highly correlated with sedimentary organic content and to a lesser extent the chl-a concentration within the Kariega Estuary. The correlations with the second canonical axis (2.4%) were less obvious, however, salinity and seston concentration were weakly correlated with this axis.  相似文献   

Flat boundaries and their effect on sand testing     

G. Marketos  Malcolm D. Bolton 《国际地质力学数值与分析法杂志》2010,34(8):821-837

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On the hydraulic intake shape factor for a circular opening located at an impervious boundary: Influence of inclined stratification     

A. P. S. Selvadurai 《国际地质力学数值与分析法杂志》2011,35(6):639-651

In this paper, we develop an exact closed form solution for a circular entry point located at the interface between an impermeable material and a stratified porous medium, where the principal plane of hydraulic isotropy is inclined to the interface. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Fracture mechanics analysis of multiple cracks in anisotropic media     

Chia‐Huei Tu  C.‐S. Chen  T.‐T. Yu 《国际地质力学数值与分析法杂志》2011,35(11):1226-1242

This paper presents a single‐domain boundary element method (BEM) for linear elastic fracture mechanics analysis in the two‐dimensional anisotropic material. In this formulation, the displacement integral equation is collocated on the un‐cracked boundary only, and the traction integral equation is collocated on one side of the crack surface only. A special crack‐tip element was introduced to capture exactly the crack‐tip behavior. A computer program with the FORTRAN language has been developed to effectively calculate the stress intensity factors of an anisotropic material. This BEM program has been verified having a good accuracy with the previous researches. Furthermore, by analyzing the different anisotropic degree cracks in a finite plate, we found that the stress intensity factors of crack tips had apparent influence by the geometry forms of cracks and media with different anisotropic degrees. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

基于正演模拟的复合曲流带砂体内部构型解剖研究及应用          下载免费PDF全文

何康  胡勇  甘立琴  来又春  苏进昌 《地质找矿论丛》2019,34(1):84-91

Q油田是渤海大型河流相沉积的稠油油田,其北区NmⅣ1主力含油砂体为复合曲流带沉积,经过16年的注水开发,油水关系复杂,平面注水受效不均的问题日益严重,如何优化注釆结构来改善开发效果已成为急需解决的问题。优化现有注釆井网的关键是认识复合曲流带砂体内部不同单河道砂体的切叠关系及展布特征,即对目标砂体开展内部不同单河道的构型单元分布特征研究。首先,依据岩电标定的测井曲线特征、局部发育的薄夹层以及曲流河纵向下切模式,对复合砂体内部不同单河道砂进行划分与对比;然后基于单井沉积微相划分结果,开展井间剖面相对比分析,表明复合砂体内部存在5种不同单河道砂体切叠模式;建立5种正演概念模型,利用地震正演模拟合成地震记录,总结了不同单河道砂体间顶面高程差异、点坝边界、废弃河道等曲流河砂体构型边界的波形特征;利用地震属性提取及多种地质构型方法,综合分析,最终实现了海上大井距条件下复合曲流带砂体内部不同单一曲流河砂体构型边界的精细识别;最后由注采动态资料的响应关系评估不同的切叠模式对注水效果的侧向遮挡程度,并以此为依据,优化现有的注釆井网并取得了非常好的生产效果。  相似文献   

移动状态边界面法在黏性土不排水蠕变孔压分析中的应用     

高彦斌 《岩土力学》2018,39(11):4176-4182

在黏性土的各种流变现象的数学模拟研究中,不排水蠕变孔压方程几乎是空白。基于临界状态土力学理论,采用与时间相关的移动状态边界面法,给出了适用于正常固结黏性土的不依赖状态边界面具体形态的不排水蠕变孔压公式。正常固结黏性土的不排水蠕变孔压可以看作是体积蠕变势和剪应力水平增大造成的剪缩这两种作用的结果,前者与参数 有关（ 为次压缩指数, 为压缩指数）,后者则与状态边界面的具体形态有关。在此基础上进一步给出了可方便用于试验数据分析的双对数和单对数形式的两个公式。以修正剑桥模型椭圆形状态边界面为例,分析了双对数和单对数坐标系下蠕变孔压曲线的斜率m和m′与土的流变参数 的关系。采用提出的方法,很好地预测了Walkers给出的Leda clay黏土的蠕变孔压系数,并基于以上两种作用解释了Leda clay黏土的蠕变孔压形成的机制。  相似文献   

四川盆地陆相侏罗系白垩系界线问题探讨   总被引：1，自引：1，他引：0  

刘刚  董树文 《地质力学学报》2018,24(5):645-660

侏罗系/白垩系界线是国际地层年表中少有几个未定全球界线层型（GSSP）之一。传统上依据菊石类生物将Berriasian阶底界定义为白垩系的底界。国际上西北太平洋Shatsky Rise的Berriasian阶最底部玄武岩岩床的同位素年代学年龄为145 Ma,从而为侏罗系/白垩系界线提供了最接近的年龄估计值。在国际上,地层对比划分大都根据海相地层,中国广泛发育的陆相侏罗系/白垩系,难以与国际标准地层对比。中国四川盆地以陆相生物为标志的界线划分与国际年代地层对比困难,导致对四川盆地陆相侏罗系/白垩系界线问题的认识长期未有更新。根据陆相生物对比结果的同时,结合考虑同位素测年、磁性地层和旋回地层,有望获得良好的效果。基于同位素测年数据和陆相生物对比分析,在遂宁组中发现了最年轻的~120 Ma的碎屑锆石U-Pb年龄,而且该套地层与国际对比的核心证据介形类的研究也有新的发现,表明遂宁组有可能属于白垩系而非原认为的侏罗系。将沙溪庙组和遂宁组作为侏罗系/白垩系过渡地层系统研究,有可能在该套地层内部发现界线标志。   相似文献   

农牧交错带边界判定方法的研究进展   总被引：3，自引：1，他引：2  

肖鲁湘  张增祥 《地理科学进展》2008,27(2):104-111

农牧交错带是我国传统农业区域与牧业区域相交汇的地带, 是我国生态环境的一条过渡带和生态安全的 重要屏障, 为此国内外学者对农牧交错带做了大量的研究, 但是迄今为止对于农牧交错带边界的认识尚未达成共 识。不同学者划分方法不一, 划分标准和指标不一致, 导致划分的农牧交错带在空间上差异很大, 因此有必要对农 牧交错带的边界做进一步的研究。农牧交错带的分布主要受降水等自然因素的限制, 但也与人类对土地利用的方 式密切相关, 因此它更是作为一种土地利用/土地覆被现状存在的。本文在总结以前农牧交错带边界判定研究中主 要用到的方法及存在不足的基础上, 建议从土地利用的角度考虑农牧交错带, 并就边界确定的研究方法做了探讨。  相似文献