Petrography of Late Cambrian to Middle Ordovician radiolarian chert in Kazakhstan with special reference to the emergence of benthic animals in the pelagic realm     

Yoshitaka Kakuwa  Olga I. Nikitina 《Sedimentology》2020,67(5):2764-2776

Upper Cambrian to Middle Ordovician radiolarian chert successions from Kazakhstan were studied to clarify the history of the emergence of benthic animals in ocean floor sediments. Radiolarian tests and clay were deposited for a period of 30 Myr without experiencing an influx of continent-derived coarse clastic materials. Red, grey and black cherts of the Upper Cambrian to the upper mid-Darriwilian are thinly laminated, and no trace of benthic animal activity is recognized in that time interval. Bioturbation structures and burrow traces in mid-Darriwilian stage red chert in Kazakhstan suggest that benthic animals colonized the location where radiolarian chert formed, but that there was a significant delay in colonization when compared with similar reported occurrences in Australia and Canada.  相似文献   

Salt-induced crestal faults control the formation of Quaternary tunnel valleys in the southern North Sea     

Stefan Wenau  Tiago M. Alves 《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》2020,49(4):799-812

Tunnel valleys are major features of glaciated margins and they enable meltwater expulsion from underneath a thick ice cover. Their formation is related to the erosion of subglacial sediments by overpressured meltwater and direct glacial erosion. Yet, the impact of pre-existing structures on their formation and morphology remains poorly known. High-quality 3D seismic data allowed the mapping of a large tunnel valley that eroded underlying preglacial delta deposits in the southern North Sea. The valley follows the N–S strike of crestal faults related to a Zechstein salt wall. A change in downstream tunnel valley orientation towards the SE accompanies a change in the strike direction of salt-induced faults. Fault offsets indicate important activity of crestal faults during the deposition of preglacial deltaic sediments. We propose that crestal faults facilitated tunnel valley erosion by acting as high-permeability pathways and allowing subglacial meltwater to reach low-permeability sediments in the underlying Neogene deltaic sequences, ultimately resulting in meltwater overpressure build-up and tunnel valley excavation. Active faults probably also weakened the near-surface sediment to allow a more efficient erosion of the glacial substrate. This control of substrate structures on tunnel valley morphology is considered as a primary factor in subglacial drainage pattern development in the study area.  相似文献   

On Kinematic Generation of the Magnetic Modes of Bloch Type     

Zheligovsky  V. A.  Chertovskih  R. A. 《Izvestiya Physics of the Solid Earth》2020,56(1):103-116

Izvestiya, Physics of the Solid Earth - Kinematic generation of electrically conductive fluid by space-periodic flow is considered. The generated magnetic modes have a form of a product of...  相似文献   

Throat aurora observed by DMSP/SSUSI in a global view     

Zhou  Su  Han  Desheng  Gokani  Sneha A.  Selvakumaran  Ravindran  Zhang  Yongliang 《中国科学:地球科学(英文版)》2020,63(6):891-898

Throat aurora was defined based on the ground observations near local noon and has been suggested to be the ground signature of an indentation on the subsolar magnetopause. A global view of the auroral oval with throat aurora will be critical for inferring global processes at the magnetopause, but it has never been achieved. Using imaging spectrograph observations from Defense Meteorological Satellite Program satellites, for the first time, here we show typical throat auroras in a global view and reveal some important observational facts as follows.(1) The throat auroras can be as long as ～8 degrees in latitudinal direction,which is hardly to be fully seen in the ground-based camera.(2) The plasma flows and field aligned currents associated with throat aurora show consistences with previous radar observations, which have been suggested to be the observational evidence of magnetopause reconnection.(3) Most importantly, we confirmed that the electron and ion precipitations associated with throat aurora are always spatially separated, i.e., electrons in the east and ions in the west. The observational results not only establish a new picture of the aurora oval near local noon, but also provide important support to a conceptual model of throat aurora.  相似文献   

New Circulation Features in the Okhotsk Sea from a Numerical Model     

Fayman  P. A.  Prants  S. V.  Budyansky  M. V.  Uleysky  M. Yu. 《Izvestiya Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics》2020,56(6):618-631

Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics - Using the eddy-permitting model, circulation in the Okhotsk Sea and in an adjacent area of the Pacific Ocean is retrospectively simulated from 1991 to...  相似文献   

Algorithm for the Atmospheric Correction of Shortwave Channels of the MSU-MR Radiometer of the Meteor-M No. 2 Satellite     

Kuchma  M. O.  Bloshchinskiy  V. D. 《Izvestiya Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics》2020,56(9):909-915

Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics - The problem of atmospheric correction for shortwave channels of a multispectral low-resolution scanning radiometer onboard the Meteor-M No. 2 satellite...  相似文献   

Traces of Seismic Activity in Architectural Monuments in Derbent,Dagestan     

Korzhenkov  A. M.  Gadzhiev  M. S.  Ovsyuchenko  A. N.  Lar’kov  A. S.  Rogozhin  E. A. 《Izvestiya Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics》2020,56(7):633-656

Izvestiya, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics - As a result of studies conducted in the city of Derbent, it is established that its monumental fortification structures erected at the end of the 560s...  相似文献   

Features of Winter Thunderstorms in Kamchatka     

Smirnov  S. E.  Mikhailov  Yu. M.  Mikhailova  G. A.  Kapustina  O. V. 《Geomagnetism and Aeronomy》2019,59(6):696-703

Geomagnetism and Aeronomy - Winter thunderstorms in Kamchatka are a rare meteorological phenomenon. Temporal variations of the quasi-static electric field and meteorological values at the Paratunka...  相似文献   

Earth’s Climate Does Not Depend on Variations in Cosmic Rays and Cloud Coverage     

Abdussamatov  H. I. 《Geomagnetism and Aeronomy》2019,59(7):935-941

Geomagnetism and Aeronomy - The hypothesis put forward by Svensmark and Friis-Christensen (1997), Svensmark (2007), Svensmark et al. (2017), and Stozhkov et al. (2017) assumes while completely...  相似文献   

Cycles on the Solar-type Stars and Cooler Dwarfs     

Bondar’  N. I.  Katsova  M. M.  Livshits  M. A. 《Geomagnetism and Aeronomy》2019,59(7):832-837

Geomagnetism and Aeronomy - Features of the development of activity cycles in the solar-type stars and fast-rotating cool dwarfs have been considered for 65 stars observed in some decades. Cycles...  相似文献