Sediment-starved sand ridges on a mixed carbonate/siliciclastic inner shelf off west-central Florida     

S. E. Harrison  S. D. Locker  A. C. Hine  J. H. Edwards  D. F. Naar  D. C. Twichell  D. J. Mallinson 《Marine Geology》2003,200(1-4):171-194

High-resolution side-scan mosaics, sediment analyses, and physical process data have revealed that the mixed carbonate/siliciclastic, inner shelf of west-central Florida supports a highly complex field of active sand ridges mantled by a hierarchy of bedforms. The sand ridges, mostly oriented obliquely to the shoreline trend, extend from 2 km to over 25 km offshore. They show many similarities to their well-known counterparts situated along the US Atlantic margin in that both increase in relief with increasing water depth, both are oriented obliquely to the coast, and both respond to modern shelf dynamics. There are significant differences in that the sand ridges on the west-central Florida shelf are smaller in all dimensions, have a relatively high carbonate content, and are separated by exposed rock surfaces. They are also shoreface-detached and are sediment-starved, thus stunting their development. Morphological details are highly distinctive and apparent in side-scan imagery due to the high acoustic contrast. The seafloor is active and not a relict system as indicated by: (1) relatively young AMS ¹⁴C dates (<1600 yr BP) from forams in the shallow subsurface (1.6 meters below seafloor), (2) apparent shifts in sharply distinctive grayscale boundaries seen in time-series side-scan mosaics, (3) maintenance of these sharp acoustic boundaries and development of small bedforms in an area of constant and extensive bioturbation, (4) sediment textural asymmetry indicative of selective transport across bedform topography, (5) morphological asymmetry of sand ridges and 2D dunes, and (6) current-meter data indicating that the critical threshold velocity for sediment transport is frequently exceeded. Although larger sand ridges are found along other portions of the west-central Florida inner shelf, these smaller sand ridges are best developed seaward of a major coastal headland, suggesting some genetic relationship. The headland may focus and accelerate the N–S reversing currents. An elevated rock terrace extending from the headland supports these ridges in a shallower water environment than the surrounding shelf, allowing them to be more easily influenced by currents and surface gravity waves. Tidal currents, storm-generated flows, and seasonally developed flows are shore-parallel and oriented obliquely to the NW–SE trending ridges, indicating that they have developed as described by the Huthnance model. Although inner shelf sand ridges have been extensively examined elsewhere, this study is the first to describe them in a low-energy, sediment-starved, dominantly mixed siliciclastic/carbonate sedimentary environment situated on a former limestone platform.  相似文献   

水深测量数据采集的抗干扰技术     

张立华  殷晓冬  陈跃 《海洋技术学报》2004,23(1):38-41

在水深测量数据采集中，由于外部环境的影响和数据采集系统自身的限制，使得采集水深测量数据时存在多种干扰和噪声，从而降低了数据的可靠性和准确性。针对实际作业情况，文中对常见的干扰进行了分析，对抑制与削弱干扰的措施进行了一定的研究．给出了可用于水深数据采集的多种抗干扰技术。  相似文献   

半封闭海湾潮间带部分围垦后纳潮量计算的商榷——以胶州湾为例   总被引：14，自引：1，他引：14  

杨世伦  陈启明  朱骏  张经 《海洋科学》2003,27(8):43-47

传统的海湾(泻湖)纳潮量计算方法不能精确地反映潮间带被部分围垦后纳潮量的实际情况,本考虑围堤的影响,将纳潮量分解为堤基以下的“梯形”区和堤基以上的“矩形”区两部分之和,在理论上更加严密。根据改进后方法算出的胶州湾近期纳潮量比传统方法算出的纳潮量大15％左右。可见,半个多世纪以来胶州湾的纳潮量只减少了约15％．而不是传统方法得出的约25％。  相似文献   

大型海藻对富营养化海湾生物修复的研究进展   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

林贞贤  汝少国  杨宇峰 《海洋湖沼通报》2006,(4):128-134

近年来,我国诸多海湾富营养化严重,海湾赤潮和大规模的养殖生物病害频繁发生,海湾生态系统严重失衡。海带、裙带菜、紫菜、龙须菜等大型经济海藻,生物量大、生产力高,在生长过程中能大量吸收C、N、P等营养物质,栽培大型海藻是吸收、利用营养物质,防治富营养化的有效措施之一。本文综述了规模化栽培大型海藻对富营养化海湾生物修复的研究进展。  相似文献   

钦州湾内湾贝类养殖海区水环境特征及营养状况初探     

韦蔓新  童万平  赖廷和  何本茂 《海洋科学进展》2001,19(4):51-55

根据 1 998年 1 0月和 1 999年 5月的调查资料 ,阐述了钦州湾内湾水环境特征及 N/P的变化 ,以 DIN、DIP、COD和 Chl- a为富营养化指标 ,用营养状态质量指数 (NQI )分析探讨了该湾的营养状态 ,并从富营养角度讨论了该湾的污染程度  相似文献   

广西主要港湾余流特征及其对物质输运的影响   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

陈波  侍茂崇  邱绍芳 《海洋湖沼通报》2003,(1):13-21

广西5个主要海湾各有自己的环流特征：铁山湾存在一个反气旋涡，廉州湾存在一个海湾尺度的气旋环流，钦州湾青菜头南端存在一个气旋式环流，防城湾口有一个气旋环流。珍珠湾余流，在深水航道内自湾内指向湾外。冬季，受北风影响，各湾从湾内流向湾外的余流分量加强。由于反气旋或气旋环流存在，形成和环流相应的泥沙输运。  相似文献   

Numerical Simulation of Residual Circulation due to Bottom Rouglmess Variability Under Tidal Flows in A Semi-Enclosed Bay     

槐文信  T.  Komatsu  曾小辉 《中国海洋工程》2005,19(4):601-612

Nowadays there are some chronic serious environmental problems, such as eutrophication, blue tide and so on, in a complicated coastal zone or a semi-enclosed bay, because the water exchanges between an inner bay and an outer sea is weak compared with the supply of contaminant. Under this situation, a method to improve the water quality by 3-dimensional small unsymmetrical structures has been proposed by Komatsu et al. In this paper, several numerical simulations of the tidal current and concentration for various arrangements of bottom roughness in a semi-enclosed model bay are carfled out with a depth-averaged 2-D numerical model. The model is solved by the hybrid finite analytic method with nonstaggered grid. And the SIMPLES algorithm with Rhie and Chow＇ s momentum interpolation technique is used for the simulation. The effect of Komatsu＇ s method for water purification is examined by numerical simulation. The result of numerical experiment indicates that it is possible to generate a new tidal residual current and to activate a tidal exchange by bottom roughness arrangement only.  相似文献   

Biological characteristics of a resident population of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua L.) in southern Labrador     

Morris  Corey J.; Green  John M. 《ICES Journal of Marine Science》2002,59(4):666-678

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海岸带空间要素分析查询系统构建研究——以山东莱州湾为例     

黄卫民  王瑞富  张培文  张杰 《海洋科学进展》2001,19(4):81-85

海岸带开发与保护是我国保持海岸带可持续发展所急需解决的问题。以莱州湾为示范区 ,利用 GIS技术建立海岸带空间要素分析查询系统 ,旨在为实施海岸带的综合管理构建一个高技术支撑的信息分析系统  相似文献   

波浪作用下渤海湾近岸海域污染物的输移扩散规律   总被引：10，自引：3，他引：10  

孙涛  陶建华 《海洋与湖沼》2004,35(2):110-119

用物理模型实验和数学模型计算相结合的方法，研究了均匀缓坡岸滩上，规则波及不规则波浪作用下形成的沿岸流及其对岸边排放污染物输移扩散的影响。针对渤海湾的地形和主要波浪方向，研究了渤海湾主要排污口附近单纯波浪以及波浪、潮流共同作用下近岸海域内流动速度分布与相应污染物输移扩散规律。结果表明，在渤海湾近岸海域(一定范围内)，污染物输移扩散受到波浪作用的影响，表现为平行岸线方向。波浪作用使得远离污染物排放口的滩涂受污染的影响增大。  相似文献