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Stephanie Glendinning Paul Hughes Peter Helm Jonathan Chambers Joao Mendes David Gunn Paul Wilkinson Sebastien Uhlemann 《Acta Geotechnica》2014,9(5):799-816
Understanding the age and construction quality of embankments used for road and rail infrastructure is critical in the effective management and maintenance of our transport networks, worth £billions to the UK economy. This paper presents for the first time results from full-scale, carefully controlled experiments on a unique model embankment conducted over the 4-year period between 2008 and 2011. It combines point location and spatially distributed measurements of pore water pressures and water content with outputs from hydrological modelling to draw conclusions of significance to both ongoing research in this field and to the asset management practices of infrastructure owners. For researchers, the paper highlights the crucial importance of transient permeability and soil water retention behaviour of fill materials in controlling the magnitude and distribution of pore water pressure in response to climate and weather events. For practitioners, the work demonstrates that there are significant differences in pore water pressure behaviour across the embankment, which is influenced by construction-related issues such as compaction level, aspect and presence of a granular capping material. Permeability was also observed to vary across the embankment both spatially and with depth, being dependent on degree of saturation and macroscale effects, particularly within a ‘near surface zone’. It is proposed that this ‘near surface zone’ has a critical effect on embankment stability and should be the focus of both ongoing scientific research and inspection and monitoring as encompassed by asset management regimes. 相似文献
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Solving Speed and Memory Issues in Multiple-Point Statistics Simulation Program SNESIM 总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0
In the last 10 years, Multiple-Point Statistics (MPS) modeling has emerged in Geostatistics as a valuable alternative to traditional variogram-based and object-based modeling. In contrast to variogram-based simulation, which is limited to two-point correlation reproduction, MPS simulation extracts and reproduces multiple-point statistics moments from training images; this allows modeling geologically realistic features, such as channels that control reservoir connectivity and flow behavior. In addition, MPS simulation works on individual pixels or small groups of pixels (patterns), thus does not suffer from the same data conditioning limitations as object-based simulation. The Single Normal Equation Simulation program SNESIM was the first implementation of MPS simulation to propose, through the introduction of search trees, an efficient solution to the extraction and storage of multiple-point statistics moments from training images. SNESIM is able to simulate three-dimensional models; however, memory and speed issues can occur when applying it to multimillion cell grids. Several other implementations of MPS simulation were proposed after SNESIM, but most of them manage to reduce memory demand or simulation time only at the expense of data conditioning exactitude and/or training pattern reproduction quality. In this paper, the original SNESIM program is revisited, and solutions are presented to eliminate both memory demand and simulation time limitations. First, we demonstrate that the time needed to simulate a grid node is a direct function of the number of uninformed locations in the conditioning data search neighborhood. Thus, two improvements are proposed to maximize the ratio of informed to uniformed locations in search neighborhoods: a new multiple-grid approach introducing additional intermediary subgrids; and a new search neighborhood designing process to preferentially include previously simulated node locations. Finally, because SNESIM memory demand and simulation time increase with the size of the data template used to extract multiple-point statistics moments from the training image and build the search tree, a simple method is described to minimize data template sizes while preserving training pattern reproduction quality. 相似文献
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Coronation Hill is a U?+?Au?+?platinum group elements deposit in the South Alligator Valley (SAV) field in northern Australia, south of the better known unconformity-style U East Alligator Rivers (EAR) field. The SAV field differs from the EAR by having a more complex basin-basement architecture. A volcanically active fault trough (Jawoyn Sub-basin) developed on older basement and then was disrupted by renewed faulting, before being buried beneath regional McArthur Basin sandstones that are also the main hanging wall to the EAR deposits. Primary mineralisation at Coronation Hill formed at 1607?±?26 Ma (rather than 600–900 Ma as previously thought), and so it is likely that the SAV was part of a single west McArthur Basin dilational event. Most ore is hosted in sub-vertical faults and breccias in the competent volcanic cover sequence. This favoured fluid mixing, acid buffering (forming illite) and oxidation of Fe2+ and reduced C-rich assemblages as important uranium depositional mechanisms. However, reduction of U in fractured older pyrite (Pb model age of 1833?±?67 Ma) is an important trap in diorite. Some primary ore was remobilised at 675?±?21 Ma to form coarse uraninite?+?Ni-Co pyrite networks containing radiogenic Pb. Coronation Hill is polymetallic, and in this respect resembles the ‘egress’-style U deposits in the Athabascan Basin (Canada). However, these are all cover-hosted. A hypothesis for further testing is that Coronation Hill is also egress-style, with ores formed by fluids rising through basement-hosted fault networks (U reduction by diorite pyrite and carbonaceous shale), and into veins and breccias in the overlying Jawoyn Sub-basin volcano-sedimentary succession. 相似文献
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Estimating emissions from forest fires in Thailand using MODIS active fire product and country specific data 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Agapol Junpen Savitri Garivait Sebastien Bonnet 《Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences》2013,49(3):389-400
Studies on air pollution and climate change have shown that forest fires constitute one of the major sources of atmospheric trace gases and particulate matter, especially during the dry season. However, these emissions remain difficult to quantify due to uncertainty on the extent of burned areas and deficient knowledge on the forest fire behaviours in each country. This study aims to estimate emissions from forest fires in Thailand by using the combination of the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) for active fire products and country-specific data based on prescribed burning experiments. The results indicate that 27817 fire hotspots (FHS) associated with forest fires were detected by the MODIS during 2005–2009. These FHS mainly occurred in the northern, western, and upper north-eastern parts of Thailand. Each year, the most significant fires were observed during January–May, with a peak in March. The majority of forest FHS were detected in the afternoon. According to the prescribed burning experiments, the average area of forest burned per fire event was found to fall within the range 1.09 to 12.47 ha, depending upon the terrain slope and weather conditions. The total burned area was computed at 159309 ha corresponding to the surface biomass fuel of 541515 tons dry matter. The forest fire emissions were computed at 855593 tons of CO2, 56318 tons of CO, 3682 tons of CH4, 108 tons of N2O, 4928 tons of PM2.5, 4603 tons of PM10, 357 tons of BC and 2816 tons of OC. 相似文献
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Jason W. Barnes Jacob Bow Jacob Schwartz Robert H. Brown Jason M. Soderblom Alexander G. Hayes Graham Vixie Stéphane Le Mouélic Sebastien Rodriguez Christophe Sotin Ralf Jaumann Katrin Stephan Laurence A. Soderblom Roger N. Clark Bonnie J. Buratti Kevin H. Baines Philip D. Nicholson 《Icarus》2011,216(1):136-140
We report the discovery of organic sedimentary deposits at the bottom of dry lakebeds near Titan’s north pole in observations from the Cassini Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS). We show evidence that the deposits are evaporitic, making Titan just the third known planetary body with evaporitic processes after Earth and Mars, and is the first that uses a solvent other than water. 相似文献
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Jeffrey L. Carlin Sebastien Lepine Heidi Jo Newberg Li-Cai Deng Timothy C. Beers Yu-Qin Chen Norbert Christlie Xiao-Ting Fu Shuang Gao Carl J. Grillmair PuragraGuhathakurta Zhan-Wen Han Jin-Liang Hou Hsu-Tai Lee Jing Li Chao Liu Xiao-Wei Liu Kai-Ke Pan J. A. Sellwood Hong-Chi Wang Fan Yang Brian Yanny Yue-Yang Zhan Zheng Zheng Zi Zhu 《天体物理学报》2012,(7):755-771
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Colin Frank Wilson Eric Chassefière Emmanuel Hinglais Kevin H. Baines Tibor S. Balint Jean-Jacques Berthelier Jacques Blamont Georges Durry Csaba S. Ferencz Robert E. Grimm Takeshi Imamura Jean-Luc Josset Fran?ois Leblanc Sebastien Lebonnois Johannes J. Leitner Sanjay S. Limaye Bernard Marty Ernesto Palomba Sergei V. Pogrebenko Scot C. R. Rafkin Dean L. Talboys Rainer Wieler Liudmila V. Zasova Cyrill Szopa 《Experimental Astronomy》2012,33(2-3):305-335
The European Venus Explorer (EVE) mission described in this paper was proposed in December 2010 to ESA as an ‘M-class’ mission under the Cosmic Vision programme. It consists of a single balloon platform floating in the middle of the main convective cloud layer of Venus at an altitude of 55?km, where temperatures and pressures are benign (～25°C and ～0.5 bar). The balloon float lifetime would be at least 10 Earth days, long enough to guarantee at least one full circumnavigation of the planet. This offers an ideal platform for the two main science goals of the mission: study of the current climate through detailed characterization of cloud-level atmosphere, and investigation of the formation and evolution of Venus, through careful measurement of noble gas isotopic abundances. These investigations would provide key data for comparative planetology of terrestrial planets in our solar system and beyond. 相似文献
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Nguo Sylvestre KANOUO Khin ZAW Rose Fouateu YONGUE Frederick Lin SUTHERLAND Sebastien MEFFRE Emmanuel NJONFANG Changqian MA Milan Stafford TCHOUATCHA 《Resource Geology》2012,62(3):316-324
Zircons and other heavy minerals (corundum, rutile, ilmenite, magnetite, sillimanite) are identified in the Nsanaragati gem corundum placer deposit, in the western part of the Mamfe sedimentary basin, SW Cameroon. These alluvial minerals have different morphological characteristics and zircons, in particular, vary mostly in colour and shape. They are reddish, brownish, yellowish, pink or colourless. These minerals form rounded and sub‐rounded alluvial grains, prismatic, pyramidal or dipyramidal crystals. Reddish zircons retain their original crystallographic shape. Trace element and U–Pb isotopic geochemical analyses of these reddish zircons, using the LA‐ICP‐MS method give significant Hf (4576–6334 ppm), Th (46–1565 ppm) and U (66–687 ppm) contents, with Th/U ratio ranging from 0.6 to 3.0. The 206Pb/238U corrected mean age gave 12.39 ± 0.55 Ma, which characterizes an Upper Cenozoic (Serravallian) magmatic event. The zircons are probably sourced from a magmatic field in the South eastern boundary of the Cross River Formation. The Cameroon Volcanic Line of basaltic and alkaline lavas and intrusions which lie east of the Mamfe Basin mostly range in age from 37 Ma to <1 Ma. The zircons may also relate to the Mount Bambouto plateau lavas which lie northeast of the Mamfe sedimentary basin and have an eruptive age range of 21–14 Ma. The oldest Nsanaragati reddish zircon ages overlap within error with the end stages of the Bambouto eruptions. This eruptive or a related episode provides a potential source for megacrystic reddish zircons within the Nsanagarati placer deposit. 相似文献
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Evolution of calc-alkaline to alkaline magmatism through Carboniferous convergence to Permian transcurrent tectonics,western Chinese Tianshan 总被引：7，自引：0，他引：7
Bo Wang Dominique Cluzel Liangshu Shu Michel Faure Jacques Charvet Yan Chen Sebastien Meffre Koen de Jong 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》2009,98(6):1275-1298
Continuous magmatic activity occurred in the western Chinese Tianshan, Central Asia, from the Carboniferous to the Permian,
i.e. before and after the Late Carboniferous amalgamation of Junggar and the Yili Blocks. Zircon U–Pb LA-ICPMS and Ar–Ar data
reveal a coincidence in time between regional wrench faulting and granitoid emplacement. Permian post-collisional granitoids
crop out within or at the margins of large-scale dextral strike-slip shear zones, some of them show synkinematic fabrics.
The whole rock geochemical features of the Early-Middle Permian granitoids indicate an evolution from high-K calc-alkaline
towards alkaline series. In other places of the North Tianshan, alkaline magmatism occurred together with deep marine sedimentation
within elongated troughs controlled by wrench faults. Therefore, in contrast with previous interpretations that forwarded
continental rift or mantle plume hypotheses, the coexistence of diverse magmatic sources during the same tectonic episode
suggests that post-collisional lithosphere-scale transcurrent shearing tightly controlled the magmatic activity during the
transition from convergent margin to intraplate anorogenic processes. 相似文献