Reply to discussion of Gabrielsen et al. (2010) by Nielsen et al. (this volume): Latest Caledonian to present tectonomorphological development of southern Norway     

Roy H. Gabrielsen  Jan Inge Faleide  Christophe Pascal  Alvar Braathen  Johan Petter Nystuen  Bernd Etzelmuller  Sejal O'Donnell 《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2010

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Oxygen and organic carbon fluxes in sediments of the Bay of Biscay     

Aurélia Mouret  Pierre Anschutz  Bruno Deflandre  Gwénaëlle Chaillou  Christelle Hyacinthe  Jonathan Deborde  Henri Etcheber  Jean-Marie Jouanneau  Antoine Grémare  Pascal Lecroart 《Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers》2010,57(4):528-540

The relationship between particulate organic carbon (POC) concentrations measured in modern sediment and fluxes of exported POC to the sediment surface needs to be understood in order to use POC content as a proxy of paleo-environmental conditions. The objective of our study was to compare POC concentrations, POC mineralization rates calculated from O₂ consumption and POC burial rates. Benthic O₂ distributions were determined in 58 fine-grained sediment cores collected at different periods at 14 stations in the southeastern part of the Bay of Biscay with depths ranging from 140 to 2800 m. Depth-dependent volume-specific oxygen consumption rates were used to assess rates of aerobic oxidation of organic matter (OM), assuming that O₂ consumption solely was related to heterotrophic activity at the sediment–water interface. Heterogeneity of benthic O₂ fluxes denoted changes in time and space of fresh organic material sedimentation. The most labile fraction of exported POC engendered a steep decrease in concentration in the upper 5 mm of vertical O₂ profiles. The rupture in the gradient of O₂ microprofile may be related to the bioturbation-induced mixing depth of fast-decaying carbon. Average diffusive O₂ fluxes showed that this fast-decaying OM flux was much higher than buried POC, although diffusive O₂ fluxes underestimated the total sediment oxygen demand, and thus the fast-decaying OM flux to the sediment surface. Sedimentary POC burial was calculated from sediment mass accumulation rate and the organic carbon content measured at the top of the sediment. The proportion of buried POC relative to total exported POC ranged at the most between 50% and 10%, depending on station location. Therefore, for a narrow geographic area like the Bay of Biscay, burial efficiency of POC was variable. A fraction of buried POC consisted of slow-decaying OM that was mineralized within the upper decimetres of sediment through oxic and anoxic processes. This fraction was deduced from the decrease with depth in POC concentration. At sites located below 500 m water depth, where the fast-decaying carbon did not reach the anoxic sediment, the slow-decaying pool may control the O₂ penetration depth. Only refractory organic material was fossilized in sedimentary records at locations where labile OM did not reach the anoxic portion of the sediment.  相似文献   

An empirical approach to estimating population parameters from censored fracture-length distributions   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Pascal de Caprariis 《Mathematical Geology》1988,20(7):803-814

Most fracture data sets are length-censored because of incomplete exposure at the surface, so estimating values of parameters of the sampled populations is difficult. Unless the form of the distribution function of the population is known, or one which is analytically tractable is assumed, length-censoring presents formidable problems in determining population parameters. Tests conducted on experimental fracture patterns developed in clay samples subjected to simple shear loading are the basis of a distribution-free way to estimate population parameters. Comparison of random samples of censored and uncensored fracture lengths shows that a useful, homogeneous data set consists of those cracks which lie entirely within the sampling area (two-ended cracks). The properties of this data set can be used to estimate the mean and variance of uncensored data. Estimates of the maximum fracture length of uncensored data, using the variance and maximum length of these two-ended cracks, show good agreement with measured values. Knowledge of the mean, variance, and maximum value of fracture-length populations are of interest in engineering and hydraulic studies, as well as in remote sensing studies of the Earth and other planets. Application of these results to data on rock masses are subject to the caveat that different crack-growth mechanisms in clay and rock may affect the accuracy of the calculations.  相似文献   

Quasi-hydrostatic compression of ruby to 500 Kbar     

Pascal Richet  Ji-An Xu  Ho-Kwang Mao 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》1988,16(3):207-211

Measurements of the cell parameters of ruby to 500 Kbar under quasi-hydrostatic conditions in a diamond-anvil cell show a practically isotropic compression, the ratio c/a of the hexagonal cell parameters remaining constant. These results are consistent with previous single-crystal measurements below 100 Kbar as well as with ultrasonic elastic-constant measurements. There is no evidence for significant differences between the bulk moduli of ruby and corundum, and a review of compression and ultrasonic data yield Ko = 2.53±0.01 Mbar and Ko = 5.0 ± 0.4. Good agreement with the experimental values is found for compressions calculated from empirically or theoretically determined elastic properties.  相似文献   

The December 4, 1983 to February 18, 1984 eruption of Piton de la Fournaise (La Reunion, Indian Ocean): Description and interpretation     

Jean-Franois Lnat  Patrick Bachlery  Alain Bonneville  Pascal Tarits  Jean-Louis Chemine  Hugues Delorme 《Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research》1989,36(1-3)

On December 4, 1983 an eruption started at vents located 1.5 km southwest of the summit of Piton de la Fournaise at the base of the central cone. After 31 months of quiescence this was one of the longest repose period in the last fifty years. The eruption had two phases: December 4 to January 18 and January 18 to February 18. Phase 1 produced about 8 × 10⁶ m³ of lava and Phase II about 9 × 10⁶ m³. The erupted lava is an aphyric basalt whose mineralogical and geochemical composition is close to that of other lavas emitted since 1977.The precursors of the December 4 outbreak were limited to two-week shallow (1.5–3 km) seismic crisis of fewer than 50 events. No long-term increase was noted in the local seismicity which is very quiet during repose periods and no long-term ground inflation preceded the eruption. Outbreaks of Phases I and II were preceded by short (2.5 hours and 1.5 hours) seismic swarms corresponding to the rise of magma toward the surface from a shallow reservoir. Large ground deformation explained by the emplacement of the shallow intrusions, was recorded during the seismic swarms. A summit inflation was observed in early January, before the phase II outbreak, while the phase I eruption was still continuing.Piton de la Fournaise volcanological observatory was installed in 1980. Seismic and ground deformation data now available for a period of 4 years including the 1981 and the 1983–1984 eruptions, allow us to describe the physical behavior of the volcano during this period. These observations lead us to propose that the magma transfer from deep levels to the shallow magma reservoir is not a continuous process but a periodic one and that the shallow magma reservoir was not resupplied before the 1981 and 1983–1984 eruptions. Considerations on the eruptive history and the composition of recent lavas indicate that the reservoir was refilled in 1977.  相似文献   

Bayesian statistics of non-linear inverse problems: example of the magnetotelluric 1-D inverse problem   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Pascal Tarits  Virginie Jouanne  Michel Menvielle  Michel Roussignol 《Geophysical Journal International》1994,119(2):353-368

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Attenuation in the uppermost inner core from broad-band GEOSCOPE PKP data   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Annie Souriau  Pascal Roudil 《Geophysical Journal International》1995,123(2):572-587

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The ocean-continent boundary in the Gulf of Lion from analysis of expanding spread profiles and gravity modelling     

G. P. Pascal  A. Mauffret  P. Patriat 《Geophysical Journal International》1993,113(3):701-726

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IAG Newsletter     

Pascal Willis 《Journal of Geodesy》1994,68(1):39-70

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Viscosity and configurational entropy of silicate melts     

Pascal Richet 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1984,48(3):471-483

With the configurational entropy theory of relaxation processes of Adam and Gibbs (1965), one predicts that the viscosity depends on temperature according to log $\text{η = A}{}_{\mathrm{e}}\text{+}\text{B}{}_{\mathrm{e}}\text{TS}{}_{\mathrm{<mtext>conf</mtext>}}$, where S_conf is the configurational entropy of the liquid. Thermochemical calculations of S_conf performed for some mineral compositions show the importance of non-configurational contributions to the entropy differences between amorphous and crystalline phases. Except for the case of SiO₂, the available thermodynamic data indicate that the above equation for viscosity accounts quantitatively for the experimentally determined temperature dependence of the viscosity of silicate melts. The Adam and Gibbs theory also provides a simple rationale for the non linear variation of the logarithmic viscosity with composition in mixed alkali silicate liquids at low temperatures, the minimum of viscosity resulting from the contribution of the entropy of mixing to S_conf.  相似文献