Geoarchaeological investigations at the upper Paleolithic site of Kamihoronai‐Moi,Hokkaido, Japan     

Masami Izuho  Yuichi Nakazawa  Fumito Akai  Tsutomu Soda  Hirotaka Oda 《Geoarchaeology》2009,24(4):492-517

In order to better understand modern human behavioral variability in Hokkaido, Japan, we consider the geoarchaeology of the Kamihoronai‐Moi site in terms of its geochronology, stratigraphy, depositional environments, and post‐depositional disturbances. A Paleolithic component is stratigraphically situated between the Eniwa‐a (15,000–17,000 ¹⁴C yr B.P.) and the Tarumae‐d (8000–9000 ¹⁴C yr B.P.) tephras. Moreover, six AMS ¹⁴C ages on charcoal from a Pleistocene‐aged hearth feature are between 14,400 and 14,800 ¹⁴C yr B.P. Quantitative examinations of patterns in artifact distributions show a low degree of vertical and horizontal displacement of chipped‐stone artifacts, suggesting that post‐depositional movement of the cultural material was insufficient to disrupt the original pattern of artifact distribution. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.  相似文献   

Effect of salt of various concentrations on liquid limit,and hydraulic conductivity of different soil-bentonite mixtures   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Anil Kumar Mishra  Masami Ohtsubo  Loretta Y. Li  Takahiro Higashi  Junboum Park 《Environmental Geology》2009,57(5):1145-1153

Effect of the various concentrations of NaCl and CaCl₂ on the four different soil-bentonite mixtures has been evaluated. The results show that the liquid limit of the mixtures decreases with an increase in the salt concentration. Liquid limit decreased significantly with an increase in CaCl₂ concentration from 0 to 0.1 N. However, a further increase in the concentration did not produce any significant decrease in liquid limit. A quite opposite trend was observed for the NaCl solution. An increase in NaCl concentration from 0 to 0.1 N did not produce any major decrease in the liquid limit, but a further increase in concentration from 0.1 to 1 N decreased the liquid limit significantly. Consolidation tests were carried out on the mixtures to evaluate the effect of mineralogical composition of the bentonite on the hydraulic conductivity (k) of the mixture in the presence of various salts concentrations. The k for any mixtures was found to be decreasing with decrease in the salt concentration. At relatively low concentration, Ca²⁺ had more effect on the k in comparison to the same concentration of Na⁺. However, at 1 N of NaCl and CaCl₂ almost an equal value of k was observed. A comparison of the performance of four bentonites showed that the mixture with bentonite having highest exchangeable sodium percentage (ESP) exhibited the lowest k when permeated with de-ionized (DI) water, however, k increased with an increase in the salt concentration. Similarly, mixture with a bentonite of lower ESP exhibited a higher k with DI water but with the increase in the salt concentration alteration in the k, compared to all other mixtures, was relatively less.  相似文献   

3D modelling of the colliding winds in η Carinae – evidence for radiative inhibition     

E. R. Parkin  J. M. Pittard  M. F. Corcoran  K. Hamaguchi  I. R. Stevens 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2009,394(4):1758-1774

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Determination of the second critical end point in silicate-H₂O systems using high-pressure and high-temperature X-ray radiography     

Kenji Mibe  Masami Kanzaki  Kyoko N. Matsukage  Shigeaki Ono 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2004,68(24):5189-5195

To determine the second critical end point in silicate-H₂O systems, a new method for the direct observations of immiscible fluids has been developed using a synchrotron X-ray radiography technique. High-pressure and high-temperature experiments were carried out with a Kawai-type, double-stage, multi-anvil high-pressure apparatus (SPEED-1500) installed at BL04B1, SPring-8, Japan. The Sr-plagioclase (SrAl₂Si₂O₈)-H₂O system was used as an illustrative example. A new sample container composed of a metal (Pt) tube with a pair of lids, made of single crystal diamonds, was used under pressures between 3.0 and 4.3 GPa, and temperatures up to ∼1600°C. The sample in the container could be directly observed through the diamond lids with X-ray radiography. At around 980 to 1060°C and pressures between 3.0 and 4.0 GPa, light gray spherical bubbles moving upward through the dark gray matrix were observed. The light gray spheres that absorb less X-rays represent an aqueous fluid, whereas the dark gray matrix represents a silicate melt. These two immiscible phases (aqueous fluid and silicate melt) were observed up to 4.0 GPa. At 4.3 GPa, no bubbles were observed. These observations suggest that the second critical end point in the Sr-plagioclase-H₂O system occurs at around 4.2 ± 0.2 GPa and 1020 ± 50°C. Our new technique can be applied to the direct observations of various systems with two coexisting fluids under deep mantle conditions.  相似文献   

Origin of the giant eruption cloud of Pinatubo, June 15, 1991     

Takehiro Koyaguchi  Masami Tokuno 《Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research》1993,55(1-2)

The series of eruptions of June 15, 1991 at Mt. Pinatubo, Philippines were observed hourly by satellite. A giant discshaped cloud covering an area of 60,000 km² appeared in the satellite images at 14:40, Philippine time. The cloud expanded radially against wind of 20 m/s and spread to an area of more than 120,000 km² within an hour. According to eyewitness accounts there was heavy fine-ash fall after 14:00, intermittent lapilli fall started at about 14:20, and heavy and continuous lapilli fall widely started at about 15:00. The occurrence of the giant cloud roughly corresponded to the initiation of the intermittent lapilli fall.The air-fall deposits of the major eruption are widely distributed, including upwind from the vent. They are composed of 3 units; a silt-size fine-ash layer (Layer B), a lapilli layer commonly including pumice grains of > 1 cm in diameter (Layer C), a lapilli bearing volcanic sand layer (Layer D). Judging from its wide distribution and depletion of coarse, grains, most of the fine ash of Layer B is not distal deposits of a small eruption, but is originated from a large co-ignimbrite cloud. It is suggested that the major eruption started with the generation of a pyroclastic flow, which was subsequently followed by a plinian eruption resulting in the formation of the giant cloud and the lapilli fall.The results of calculations on the dynamics of eruption cloud indicate that the dimension and dynamics of the giant eruption cloud is accounted for by a plinian eruption with a magma discharge rate of the order of 10⁹ kg/s.  相似文献   

A 29Si MAS NMR study of sub-Tg amorphization of stishovite at ambient pressure     

Xianyu Xue  Jonathan F. Stebbins  Masami Kanzaki 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》1993,19(7):480-485

Stishovite, a high-pressure SiO₂ polymorph in which each Si is coordinated by six O atoms, transforms to an amorphous phase when undergoing heat treatment below the glass transition temperature at ambient pressure. We have applied ²⁹Si magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MAS NMR) to study this amorphization process. We found that the amorphous phase generated after heating stishovite for up to 3 days at around 600 ° C consisted exclusively of four-coordinate Si, similar to glasses quenched from melts at ambient pressure. Furthermore, our data suggest that there are subtle structural differences between the amorphous phase transformed from stishovite at 600 ° C and glasses quenched from melts at ambient pressure: the amorphous phase from stishovite had a smaller mean Si-O-Si angle initially, and it gradually relaxed toward the latter with increasing heating time. There was no detectable change in the stishovite structure even after about 80% of it had been converted to the amorphous phase. The mechanism of the amorphization of stishovite is discussed in light of these results.  相似文献   

Origin of waters responsible for serpentinization of the Izu-Ogasawara-Mariana forearc seamounts in view of hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios     

Ryutaro Sakai  Minoru Kusakabe  Masami Noto  Teruaki Ishii   《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1990,100(1-3)

Many serpentinite seamounts occur over a region 20–120 km west of the trench axis in the Izu-Ogasawara-Mariana forearc regions. The hydrogen and oxygen isotopic compositions of serpentine from these regions indicate that there are at least two kinds of waters responsible for serpentinization: seawater and water derived from dehydration of the descending slab. Serpentine from two Mariana and two Torishima samples with microscopically ductile and sheared texture (sheared-type) have lowerδD(−63to−52‰) and slightly higherδ18O values (+6.1 to +8.2‰) than that of other nine Ogasawara samples with mesh texture (mesh-type) (δD= −43to−49‰ andδ¹⁸O= +5.8to+6.7‰). This suggests that the sheared-type serpentine with lowerδD and slightly higherδ¹⁸O values was formed within the wedge mantle by interaction with water derived from a descending slab. The sheared texture is likely to have been produced during diapiric uplift. The unaltered portion of the ultramafic bodies later interacted with seawater after emplacement at or near the seafloor, resulting in formation of the mesh-type serpentine with higherδD values.  相似文献   

Using isotopes to determine the contribution of volcanic ash to Sr and Ca in stream waters and plants in a granite watershed,Mt. Tsukuba,central Japan     

Masami Kanao Koshikawa  Mirai Watanabe  Ki-Cheol Shin  Tatsuhiro Nishikiori  Takejiro Takamatsu  Seiji Hayashi  Takanori Nakano 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2016,75(6):501

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Interannual variations of the Hawaiian Lee Countercurrent induced by potential vorticity variability in the subsurface     

Hideharu Sasaki  Shang-Ping Xie  Bunmei Taguchi  Masami Nonaka  Shigeki Hosoda  Yukio Masumoto 《Journal of Oceanography》2012,68(1):93-111

Interannual variations of the Hawaiian Lee Countercurrent (HLCC) in the 2000s were investigated using satellite and Argo profiling float observations. The satellite-observed sea surface height shows that the geostrophic eastward current was anomalously strong to the west away from Hawaii in 2003 and 2005. However, the trade winds and the orographic wind curl dipole in the lee of Hawaii that drives the climatological mean HLCC were not particularly strong in these years, suggesting that the accelerations of the HLCC were not caused by the wind stress curl forcing around Hawaii and subsequent Rossby wave propagation. Using Argo observations, we found negative potential vorticity (PV) anomalies in the subsurface north of the HLCC in these 2 years. The pycnocline is lifted northward as low PV waters of different densities stack up in the vertical, and the HLCC is then accelerated via the thermal wind. The intensification and/or southward intrusion of the eastern subtropical mode water and subtropical mode water seem to have induced negative PV anomalies in 2003 and 2005, respectively. Using high-resolution ocean simulations, we confirmed the migrations of PV anomalies and their contributions to the HLCC accelerations. Although the HLCC is located away from the cores of major mode waters, our results suggest that interannual variations of the HLCC are affected by those of mode waters.  相似文献   

Decadal variability of the Kuroshio Extension: mesoscale eddies and recirculations   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Bunmei Taguchi  Bo Qiu  Masami Nonaka  Hideharu Sasaki  Shang-Ping Xie  Niklas Schneider 《Ocean Dynamics》2010,60(3):673-691

An eddy-resolving multidecadal ocean model hindcast simulation is analyzed to investigate time-varying signals of the two recirculation gyres present respectively to the north and south of the Kuroshio Extension (KE) jet. The northern recirculation gyre (NRG), which has been detected at middepth recently by profiling float and moored current meter observations, is a major focus of the present study. Low-frequency variations in the intensity of the recirculation gyres are overall highly correlated with decadal variations of the KE jet induced by the basin-wide wind change. Modulation of the simulated mesoscale eddies and its relationship with the time-varying recirculation gyres are also evaluated. The simulated eddy kinetic energy in the upstream KE region is inversely correlated with the intensity of the NRG, consistent with previous observational studies. Eddy influence on the low-frequency modulation of the NRG intensity at middepth is further examined by a composite analysis of turbulent Sverdrup balance, assuming a potential vorticity balance between the mean advection and the convergent eddy fluxes during the different states of the recirculation gyre. The change in the NRG intensity is adequately explained by that inferred by the turbulent Sverdrup balance, suggesting that the eddy feedback triggers the low-frequency modulation of the NRG intensity at middepth.  相似文献