Effect of the development of notches and tension cracks on instability of limestone coastal cliffs in the Ryukyus, Japan   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Tetsuya Kogure  Hisashi Aoki  Akira Maekado  Takashi Hirose  Yukinori Matsukura 《Geomorphology》2006,80(3-4):236-244

Notches cut by waves are currently developing at the base of vertical coastal limestone cliffs in Okinawa, Japan. The cliff height varies from 3.0–22.1 m, and the maximum notch depth is 8.8 m. Many rectangular or cubic blocks, which appear to have originated from cliff failures, are found on platforms in front of the cliffs. On the flat top surface of the cliff, tension cracks often run parallel to the cliff face. The vertical face of the cliffs displays small undulations but no sliding striation, suggesting that cliff failures have been caused by toppling rather than by shearing or sliding. We use slope stability analysis to determine the critical condition for toppling failure. Physical and mechanical properties of the cliff material were first obtained from laboratory tests. The results indicate that the strength of limestone shows a scale effect, such that the strength decreases with increasing size of the test specimens. Based on this result, we estimated the strength of a rock mass corresponding to the size of the coastal cliff. Cliff stability was then analyzed using a cantilever beam model. Comparison of the stability analysis and the dimension of fallen blocks indicates that toppling failure is strongly associated with the development of notches and tension cracks.  相似文献   

Magma mixing in a squeezed conduit     

Takehiro Koyaguchi 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1987,84(2-3)

The mixing of mafic and silicic magmas in a squeezed conduit is simulated by fluid dynamics experiments using glue and dilute glycerin in a squeezed vinyl tube. Lighter and more viscous glue initially stably overlies dilute glycerin in a tube. As the tube is squeezed downward by a roller, the glue and dilute glycerin axisymmetrically circulate in the tube. The stable density stratification overturns due to the circulative motion. Because of viscosity contrast between the two liquids, the convective motion becomes unsteady and chaotic, which leads to efficient mixing of two liquids, even when the tube is squeezed very slowly. It is suggested that magma mixing in a squeezed conduit may explain some occurrences of natural mixed lavas with nearly homogeneous groundmass.  相似文献   

Development of a new operational system for monitoring and forecasting coastal and open-ocean states around Japan     

Hirose  Nariaki  Usui  Norihisa  Sakamoto  Kei  Tsujino  Hiroyuki  Yamanaka  Goro  Nakano  Hideyuki  Urakawa  Shogo  Toyoda  Takahiro  Fujii  Yosuke  Kohno  Nadao 《Ocean Dynamics》2019,69(11):1333-1357

We developed a new system to monitor and forecast coastal and open-ocean states around Japan for operational use by the Japan Meteorological Agency. The system consists of an eddy-resolving analysis model based on four-dimensional variational assimilation and a high (2-km) resolution forecast model covering Japanese coastal areas that incorporates an initialization scheme with temporal and spatial filtering. Assimilation and forecast experiments were performed for 2008 to 2017, and the results were validated against various observation datasets. The assimilation results captured well the observed variability in sea surface temperature, coastal sea level, volume transport, and sea ice. Furthermore, the volume budget for the Japan Sea was significantly improved by the use of the 2-km resolution forecast model compared with the 10-km resolution analysis model. The forecast results indicate that this system has a predictive limit longer than 1 month in many areas, including in the Kuroshio current area south of Japan and the southern Japan Sea. In the forecast results of case studies, the 2017 Kuroshio large meander was well predicted, and warm water intrusions accompanying Kuroshio path variations south of Japan were also successfully reproduced. Sea ice forecasts for the Sea of Okhotsk largely captured the evolution of sea ice in late winter, but sea ice in early winter included relatively large errors. This system has high potential to meet operational requirements for monitoring and forecasting ocean phenomena at both meso- and coastal scales.

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