Lithosphere formation in the central Slave Craton (Canada): plume subcretion or lithosphere accretion?     

Sonja Aulbach  William L. Griffin  Norman J. Pearson  Suzanne Y. O’Reilly  Buddy J. Doyle 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2007,154(4):409-427

Major-element compositions of minerals in peridotite xenoliths from the Lac de Gras kimberlites provide constraints on the mode of lithosphere formation beneath the central Slave Craton, Canada. Magnesia contents of reconstructed whole rocks correlate positively with NiO and negatively with CaO contents, consistent with variable partial melt extraction. Alumina and Cr₂O₃ contents are broadly positively correlated, suggestive of melt depletion in the absence of a Cr–Al phase. Garnet modes are high at a given Al₂O₃ content (a proxy for melt depletion), falling about a 7 GPa melt depletion model. These observations, combined with high olivine Mg# and major-element relationships of FeO-poor peridotites (<7.5 wt%) indicative of melt loss at pressures >3 GPa (residual FeO content being a sensitive indicator of melt extraction pressure), and similar high pressures of last equilibration (∼4.2 to 5.8 GPa), provide multiple lines of evidence that the mantle beneath the central Slave Craton has originated as a residue from high-pressure melting, possibly during plume subcretion. Apparent low melt depletion pressures for high-FeO peridotites (>7.5 wt%) could suggest formation in an oceanic setting, followed by subduction to their depth of entrainment. However, these rocks, which are characterised by low SiO₂ contents (<43 wt%), are more likely to be the result of post-melting FeO-addition, leading to spuriously low estimates of melt extraction pressures. They may have reacted with a silica-undersaturated melt that dissolved orthopyroxene, or experienced olivine injection by crystallising melts. A secular FeO-enrichment of parts of the deep mantle lithosphere is supported by lower average Mg# in xenolithic olivine (91.7) compared to olivine inclusions in diamond (92.6).  相似文献   

The impact of hurricanes on sedimenting particulate matter in the semi-arid Bahía de La Paz,Gulf of California     

Norman Silverberg  Evgueni Shumilin  Fernando Aguirre-Bahena  Ana Patricia Rodríguez-Castañeda  Dmitry Sapozhnikov 《Continental Shelf Research》2007

From 2002 through 2004, time-series sediment trap samples were collected from a depth of 410 m in Cuenca Alfonso, Bahía de La Paz, on the SW coast of the Gulf of California. The instrument recorded the impact of the local passage of hurricanes “Ignacio” (24–26 August) and “Marty” (21–23 September) in 2003. These two events accounted for 82% of the total rainfall measured in 2003, equivalent to the annual average precipitation in years without hurricanes. Mean total mass fluxes (TMFs) of 2.88 and 3.58 g m⁻² d⁻¹ were measured during the week of each hurricane as well as the following week. This may have been enough to produce a lamina in the underlying sediment with characteristics peculiar to such events. The terrigenous component was particularly abundant, with notably higher concentrations of Fe, Sc, Co and Cs and REEs. In contrast, TMFs throughout 2002–2004 (excluding the hurricane periods) averaged only 0.73 g m⁻² d⁻¹ and had a larger marine biogenic component. The extraordinary elemental fluxes during the 29 days of hurricane-influenced sedimentation represented a great proportion of the totals over an entire “normal” year: Co (67.8%) >Sc (62.6) >Fe (59.6) >Cs (53.4)>Lu (51.5)>La (51.3)>Yb (51.0)>Ce (49.5) >Tb (48.4) >Sm (44.7)>Cr (36.5) >Ca (31.0)>Eu (25.4%). The terrigenous fraction was calculated using (a) TMF minus the sum of CaCO₃, biogenic silica and organic matter and (b) the ratio of Sc in the trap samples to the average in the Earth's crust. The latter was consistently smaller, but the two methods offered similar results following hurricanes (78% vs. 63%, respectively). For normal sedimentation, however, the difference method yielded values twice as large as the Sc method (58% vs. 30%) This suggests that the mineralogy of the terrigenous fraction may also vary, with unsorted dessert soil being carried to sea by the powerful flash floods associated with hurricanes. Eolian supply of particles, particularly Sc-free quartz grains, possibly from beyond the limited fluvial drainage basin, apparently dominates normal sedimentation.  相似文献   

Storing Carbon in Agricultural Soils to Help Head-Off a Global Warming   总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4  

Norman J. Rosenberg  Roberto C. Izaurralde 《Climatic change》2001,51(1):1-10

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Is Iceland underlain by a plume in the lower mantle? Seismology and helium isotopes     

G. R. Foulger  D. G. Pearson 《Geophysical Journal International》2001,145(3):F1-F5

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A technical comment: Analysis of ‘examination of “global atmospheric temperature monitoring with satellite microwave measurements”’     

Roy W. Spencer  John R. Christy  Norman C. Grody 《Climatic change》1996,33(4):477-489

The potential for residual hydrometeor contamination effects in the global temperature time series produced by Spencer and Christy from MSU channel 2 (MSU2) data has been addressed by Prabhakara et al. (1995, 1996). They use tropical oceanic MSU channel l (MSU1) data to estimate the hydrometeor effects on MSU2. We present several lines of evidence to show that their technique greatly overestimates the hydrometeor effects on MSU2. This overestimation is due to the faulty assumption that the hydrometeors that cause MSU1 warming are the same as (or always exist with) the hydrometeors that cause cooling in MSU2. Instead, the hydrometeors responsible for MSU1 warming are liquid phase, while those responsible for MSU2 cooling are large ice particles. Because liquid phase clouds are much more widespread than the large-ice portions of deep convective systems, their method greatly overestimates the areal coverage of contaminated tropical MSU2 data. In addition, we show that the convective screening procedure of Spencer and Christy removes the negative correlation between MSU1 and MSU2 their conclusions rest upon. Radiosonde validation of monthly tropical MSU2 anomalies over the tropical West Pacific also support these conclusions.  相似文献   

Etats-Unis: American Geophysical Union: Annual Meeting of 1959 the Evening Session, the Section of Geodesy and the General Assembly     

Norman F. Braaten 《Journal of Geodesy》1959,33(4):67-74

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Gradual entrainment of a chemical layer at the base of the mantle by overlying convection     

Norman H. Sleep 《Geophysical Journal International》1988,95(3):437-447

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Thermal Contraction and Flexure of Mid-Continent and Atlantic Marginal Basins   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Norman H. Sleep  N. Stephen Snell 《Geophysical Journal International》1976,45(1):125-154

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A useful tool for image enhancement     

Norman A. Andresen 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2003,30(4):461-464

Image enhancement provides a means to facilitate information transfer without altering the image information. A plug-in for the commonly used image capture and manipulation program Photoshop is discussed as one useful tool.  相似文献   

Pathogenicity of vibrios in fish: An overview   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Norman Y.S.Woo 《中国海洋大学学报(英文版)》2003,2(2):117-128

Bacteria of the genus Vibrio are ubiquitously distributed in the marine environment. Due to the rapid expansion of intensive mariculture and the consequent deterioration of culture conditions, more and more Vibrio spp. have been recognized as pathogenic agents in outbreaks of vibriosis, a serious epizootic disease affecting most wild and farmed fish species worldwide, which has become the most important limiting factor for the development of intensive mariculture industry. Attempts have been made to understand the pathogenicity of vibrios in host fish with the ultimate aim of elucidating the best means for disease control. After an extensive literature survey of the recent advances in the field of fish vibriosis, the pathological changes, virulence factors and associated potential pathogenic mechanisms, transmission routes and related environmental factors involved in outbreak of vibriosis, as well as the controlling strategies are reviewed in the present paper.  相似文献