Intrabasin variability of the carbon-isotope record across the Permian–Triassic transition, Sverdrup Basin, Arctic Canada     

Stephen E. Grasby  Benoit Beauchamp   《Chemical Geology》2008,253(3-4):141-150

A major late Paleozoic depocentre, the Sverdrup Basin, Canadian High Arctic, has been largely left out of the latest Permian extinction debate, as early workers presumed Middle to Late Permian strata were absent. Basin-scale sequence-stratigraphic and chemostratigraphic correlations indicate Late Permian strata are only missing on the basin margins, where they were removed by sub-Triassic erosion, whereas continuous deposition is recorded in the basin centre. The varying degree of sub-Triassic erosion has significant impact on the carbon-isotope record across the Latest Permian Extinction event, where both the apparent rate and magnitude of carbon-isotope shift vary as a function of basin position. The intrabasin variability in apparent δ¹³C_org shift across the event is equivalent to that observed globally. In contrast to the abrupt isotope shifts recorded on the basin margin, similar to many records reported globally, the basin centre section shows a systematic shift associated with the Latest Permian Extinction. The Earth likely underwent a prolonged period of increasing environmental stress leading up to the event.  相似文献   

Facies model of a fine‐grained,tide‐dominated delta: Lower Dir Abu Lifa Member (Eocene), Western Desert,Egypt     

Berit Legler  Howard D. Johnson  Gary J. Hampson  Benoit Y.G. Massart  Chris A‐L. Jackson  Matthew D. Jackson  Ahmed El‐Barkooky  Rodmar Ravnas 《Sedimentology》2013,60(5):1313-1356

Existing facies models of tide‐dominated deltas largely omit fine‐grained, mud‐rich successions. Sedimentary facies and sequence stratigraphic analysis of the exceptionally well‐preserved Late Eocene Dir Abu Lifa Member (Western Desert, Egypt) aims to bridge this gap. The succession was deposited in a structurally controlled, shallow, macrotidal embayment and deposition was supplemented by fluvial processes but lacked wave influence. The succession contains two stacked, progradational parasequence sets bounded by regionally extensive flooding surfaces. Within this succession two main genetic elements are identified: non‐channelized tidal bars and tidal channels. Non‐channelized tidal bars comprise coarsening‐upward sandbodies, including large, downcurrent‐dipping accretion surfaces, sometimes capped by palaeosols indicating emergence. Tidal channels are preserved as single‐storey and multilateral bodies filled by: (i) laterally migrating, elongate tidal bars (inclined heterolithic strata, 5 to 25 m thick); (ii) forward‐facing lobate bars (sigmoidal heterolithic strata, up to 10 m thick); (iii) side bars displaying oblique to vertical accretion (4 to 7 m thick); or (iv) vertically‐accreting mud (1 to 4 m thick). Palaeocurrent data show that channels were swept by bidirectional tidal currents and typically were mutually evasive. Along‐strike variability defines a similar large‐scale architecture in both parasequence sets: a deeply scoured channel belt characterized by widespread inclined heterolithic strata is eroded from the parasequence‐set top, and flanked by stacked, non‐channelized tidal bars and smaller channelized bodies. The tide‐dominated delta is characterized by: (i) the regressive stratigraphic context; (ii) net‐progradational stratigraphic architecture within the succession; (iii) the absence of upward deepening trends and tidal ravinement surfaces; and (iv) architectural relations that demonstrate contemporaneous tidal distributary channel infill and tidal bar accretion at the delta front. The detailed facies analysis of this fine‐grained, tide‐dominated deltaic succession expands the range of depositional models available for the evaluation of ancient tidal successions, which are currently biased towards transgressive, valley‐confined estuarine and coarser grained deltaic depositional systems.  相似文献   

Two chondrule groups each with distinctive rims in Murchison recognized by cathodoluminescence     

Derek W. G. Sears  Paul H. Benoit  Lu Jie 《Meteoritics & planetary science》1993,28(5):669-675

Abstract— Two groups of chondrules in the Murchison CM chondrite, which have previously been identified on the basis of FeO in the chondrule grains, are readily identified from cathodoluminescence (CL) and belong to those of the ordinary chondrite group A and B chondrules of Sears et al. (1992a). All chondrules are surrounded by fine-grained rims containing forsterite with bright red CL, but on group A chondrules an outer thin rim grades into a much thicker rim, with a lower density of forsterite grains, which in turn grades into the central chondrule. Group B chondrules have only the thin outer rim with a high density of small forsterite grains. This is the first time an unequivocal correlation has been observed between chondrule rim thickness and the composition of the object on which the rim is located. We suggest that while all objects in the meteorite (group B chondrules, refractory inclusions, mineral and chondrule fragments, clasts) acquired a very thin rim during processing in a wet regolith, the thick rims on group A chondrules were formed by aqueous alteration of precursor metal- and sulfide-rich rims which are a characteristic of group A chondrules in ordinary chondrites.  相似文献   

Morphotectonic and Morphodynamic investigations revealed by isobase surfaces analysis and derived differential mapping using GIS,Teboursouk area,northern Tunisia     

Tarek Slama  Benoit Deffontaines  Mohamed Moncef Turki 《Earth Science Informatics》2015,8(4):759-773

  相似文献   

Formation and growth of multiple,distinct ice lenses in frost heave     

Hao Gao  Seyed Ali Ghoreishian Amiri  Signe Kjelstrup  Gustav Grimstad  Benoit Loranger  Elena Scibilia 《国际地质力学数值与分析法杂志》2023,47(1):82-105

This paper presents a fully coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) model which simulates frost heave in fully saturated soils. The model is able to simulate the formation and growth of multiple distinct ice lenses. The basic equations of the system were derived using the continuum theory of mixtures, nonequilibrium thermodynamics, and fracture mechanics, considering skeleton deformation, water flow and heat transport. Central to this model is the coupled transport of mass due to the temperature gradient across the frozen fringe, which acts as the main driving force of the phenomenon. The model is formulated in terms of measurable physical properties and thus no ad hoc parametrization is required. In an ice-lens-free state, the system is solved as a continuum using the finite element method (FEM). It is then locally treated as a discontinuous system upon the formation of ice lens, by enriching the elements carrying the embedded ice lens(es) using the extended finite element method (X-FEM). The accuracy and efficiency of the proposed model has been verified using several laboratory tests on Devon silt samples at different overburden pressures and thermal boundary conditions. Shut-off pressures have been also estimated and compared with the experimental results.  相似文献   

Influence of Amazonian deforestation on the future evolution of regional surface fluxes,circulation, surface temperature and precipitation   总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1  

Quentin Lejeune  Edouard L. Davin  Benoit P. Guillod  Sonia I. Seneviratne 《Climate Dynamics》2015,44(9-10):2769-2786

  相似文献   

Consortium study of the unusual H chondrite regolith breccia,Noblesville     

Michael E. Lipschutz  Stephen F. Wolf  Stephan Vogt  Edward Michlovich  Marilyn M. Lindstrom  Michael E. Zolensky  David W. Mittlefehldt  Cecilia Satterwhite  Ludolf Schultz  Thomas Loeken  Peter Scherer  Robert T. Dodd  Derek W. G. Sears  Paul H. Benoit  John F. Wacker  Roger G. Burns  Duncan S. Fisher 《Meteoritics & planetary science》1993,28(4):528-537

Abstract— The Noblesville meteorite is a genomict, regolith breccia (H6 clasts in H4 matrix). Mössbauer analysis confirms that Noblesville is unusually fresh, not surprising in view of its recovery immediately after its fall. It resembles “normal” H4–6 chondrites in its chemical composition and induced thermoluminescence (TL) levels. Thus, at least in its contents of volatile trace elements, Noblesville differs from other H chondrite, class A regolith breccias. Noblesville's small pre-atmospheric mass and fall near Solar maximum and/or its peculiar orbit (with perihelion <0.8 AU as shown by natural TL intensity) may partly explain its levels of cosmogenic radionuclides. Its cosmic ray exposure age of ～ 44 Ma, is long, is equalled or exceeded by <3% of all H chondrites, and also differs from the 33 ± 3 Ma mean exposure age peak of other H chondrite regolith breccias. One whole-rock aliquot has a high, but not unmatched, ¹²⁹Xe/¹³²Xe of 1.88. While Noblesville is now among the chondritic regolithic breccias richest in solar gases, elemental ratios indicate some loss, especially of He, perhaps b; impacts in the regolith that heated individual grains. While general shock-loading levels in Noblesville did not exceed 4 GPa, individual clasts record shock levels of 5–10 GPa, doubtless acquired prior to lithification of the whole-rock meteoroid.  相似文献   

Late Aptian long‐lived glacio‐eustatic lowstand recorded on the Arabian Plate     

Florian Maurer  Frans S.P. van Buchem  Gregor P. Eberli  Bernard J. Pierson  Madeleine J. Raven  Poul‐Henrik Larsen  Moujahed I. Al‐Husseini  Benoit Vincent 《地学学报》2013,25(2):87-94

  相似文献   

The clay-with-flints of the western Paris Basin: a potential aggregate resource     

Benoit Laignel  Christopher H. Spencer  Robert Meyer 《Environmental Geology》2002,41(5):525-536

  相似文献   

Note on the definition and the stationarity of fractional Gaussian noise     

Benoit B. Mandelbrot 《Journal of Hydrology》1976,30(4):407-409

  相似文献