A receiver function perspective of the Dharwar craton (India) crustal structure   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Dipankar Sarkar  M. Ravi Kumar  Joachim Saul  Rainer Kind  P. S. Raju  R. K. Chadha  A. K. Shukla 《Geophysical Journal International》2003,154(1):205-211

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An approach for GIS-based statistical landslide susceptibility zonation—with a case study in the Himalayas   总被引：14，自引：1，他引：14  

Ashis K. Saha  Ravi P. Gupta  Irene Sarkar  Manoj K. Arora  Elmar Csaplovics 《Landslides》2005,2(1):61-69

Landslide susceptibility zonation (LSZ) is necessary for disaster management and planning development activities in mountainous regions. A number of methods, viz. landslide distribution, qualitative, statistical and distribution-free analyses have been used for the LSZ studies and they are again briefly reviewed here. In this work, two methods, the Information Value (InfoVal) and the Landslide Nominal Susceptibility Factor (LNSF) methods that are based on bivariate statistical analysis have been applied for LSZ mapping in a part of the Himalayas. Relevant thematic maps representing various factors (e.g., slope, aspect, relative relief, lithology, buffer zones along thrusts, faults and lineaments, drainage density and landcover) that are related to landslide activity, have been generated using remote sensing and GIS techniques. The LSZ derived from the LNSF method, has been compared with that produced from the InfoVal method and the result shows a more realistic LSZ map from the LNSF method which appears to conform to the heterogeneity of the terrain.  相似文献   

Chaffers Park redevelopment in Wellington – An analysis     

Ravi Mistry 《New Zealand geographer》2005,61(1):54-60

Abstract: This article discusses the redevelopment of a significant area of Wellington city's waterfront, centred on the Chaffers Park district between the national museum, Te Papa Tongarewa, and Oriental Bay. This site is now being transformed into Waitangi Park. The analysis seeks to determine whether or not the redevelopment will be successful, by assessing the wider context of the issue and evaluating the perspectives of stakeholders.  相似文献   

Reply to Comments by S. Mishra and S. N. Rajaguru on “New Geochemical Evidence for the Youngest Toba Tuff in India”     

Phil Shane  John Westgate  Martin Williams  Ravi Korisettar 《Quaternary Research》1996,46(3):342-343

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Eclogite xenoliths from Wajrakarur kimberlites, southern India     

S. C. Patel  S. Ravi  S. S. Thakur  T. K. Rao  K. V. Subbarao 《Mineralogy and Petrology》2006,88(1-2):363-380

Summary Mineralogical characteristics of eclogite xenoliths from three kimberlite pipes (KL2, P2 and P10) of the Proterozoic Wajrakarur kimberlite field of southern India have been studied. In a rare sample of enstatite eclogite from the KL2 pipe garnet contains microscopic triangular arrays of needles or blebs of omphacite, enstatite and rutile consistent with an origin by exsolution parallel to the isometric form {111}. Discrete omphacite grains in the sample contain exsolved needles or blebs of enstatite and garnet. Kyanite eclogites are abundant in the KL2 pipe which occasionally show a secondary ring of pure celsian around kyanite grains. Omphacite Na₂O contents in the eclogites of the KL2 and P2 pipes are typically between 3 and 6 wt%, and garnet has widely variable composition with end member ranges of Prp22-81Grs0-47Alm10-30Sps0-1Adr0-5Uv0-3. Eclogites of the P10 pipe comprise chromian omphacite and garnet. Phase relations in the ACF projection exhibit systematic increase of the Ca-Tschermak’s component in omphacite from enstatite eclogite through biminerallic eclogite to kyanite eclogite. Garnet-clinopyroxene Fe–Mg geothermometry yields temperatures mostly in the range of 900–1100 °C. A formerly supersilicic nature of garnet in enstatite eclogite as inferred from exsolution mineralogy indicates minimum peak pressure of 5 GPa.  相似文献   

Megacities – megarisks     

Friedemann Wenzel  Fouad Bendimerad  Ravi Sinha 《Natural Hazards》2007,42(3):481-491

We review the definitions, population trends, and characteristics of megacities. Characteristics of megacities are, apart from their size, their complexity in terms of administration, infrastructure, traffic, etc., and at the same time the speed of change. Vulnerabilities and risk potential are discussed using the examples of Mexico City and Mumbai. We present the experience accumulated in the 6 years work of the Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative (EMI, ) with more than 20 large cities around the world, mostly located in the developing world. On this background we analyze obstacles that keep megacities from developing an efficient approach towards disaster mitigation and define a strategy that might overcome these problems. The key element of this strategy is the development of a Disaster Risk Management Master Plan (DRMMP) for cities. Currently the Istanbul Earthquake Master Plan (IEMP) serves as best example for an appropriate strategy for disaster reduction in megacities.  相似文献   

Reduction of TcO₄ by sediment-associated biogenic Fe(II)     

James K Fredrickson  John M Zachara  Ravi K Kukkadapu  Steve M Heald  Chongxuan Liu 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2004,68(15):3171-3187

The potential for reduction of ⁹⁹TcO₄⁻_(aq) to poorly soluble ⁹⁹TcO₂ · nH₂O_(s) by biogenic sediment-associated Fe(II) was investigated with three Fe(III)-oxide containing subsurface materials and the dissimilatory metal-reducing subsurface bacterium Shewanella putrefaciens CN32. Two of the subsurface materials from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford and Oak Ridge sites contained significant amounts of Mn(III,IV) oxides and net bioreduction of Fe(III) to Fe(II) was not observed until essentially all of the hydroxylamine HCl-extractable Mn was reduced. In anoxic, unreduced sediment or where Mn oxide bioreduction was incomplete, exogenous biogenic TcO₂ · nH₂O_(s) was slowly oxidized over a period of weeks. Subsurface materials that were bioreduced to varying degrees and then pasteurized to eliminate biological activity, reduced TcO₄⁻_(aq) at rates that generally increased with increasing concentrations of 0.5 N HCl-extractable Fe(II). Two of the sediments showed a common relationship between extractable Fe(II) concentration (in mM) and the first-order reduction rate (in h⁻¹), whereas the third demonstrated a markedly different trend. A combination of chemical extractions and ⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer spectroscopy were used to characterize the Fe(III) and Fe(II) phases. There was little evidence of the formation of secondary Fe(II) biominerals as a result of bioreduction, suggesting that the reactive forms of Fe(II) were predominantly surface complexes of different forms. The reduction rates of Tc(VII)O₄⁻ were slowest in the sediment that contained plentiful layer silicates (illite, vermiculite, and smectite), suggesting that Fe(II) sorption complexes on these phases were least reactive toward pertechnetate. These results suggest that the in situ microbial reduction of sediment-associated Fe(III), either naturally or via redox manipulation, may be effective at immobilizing TcO₄⁻_(aq) associated with groundwater contaminant plumes.  相似文献   

Rice-acreage estimation for Orrisa using remotely sensed data     

S. Panigrahy  J. S. Parihar  N. K. Patel  V. K. Dadhwal  T. T. Medhavy  B. K. Ghose  N. Ravi  K. C. Pani  B. K. Panigrahy  V. N. Sridhar  R. R. Mohanty  S. K. Nanda  D. P. Tripathy  P. K. Mishra  H. P. Bhatt  S. R. Oza  S. Sudhakar  K. S. Sudha  P. Kumar  N. K. Das 《Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing》1991,19(1):17-26

Rice is one of the most important foodgrains grown in India. Attempts have been made to estimate kharif rice acreage of Orissa state since 1986 using digital remote sensing data from Landsat MSS/TM and/or IRS-1A. Accuracies of the estimates obtained have been evaluated against BES (Bureau of Economics and Statistics) estimate. This paper describes the methodology adopted for rice acreage estimation of Orissa state, the results obtained for three years, i.e. 1986–87, 1988–89 and 1989–90, and their accuracy.  相似文献   

Delineation of active faulting and some tectonic interpretations in the Munich-Milan section of the eastern Alps — use of LANDSAT-1 and 2 imagery     

Ravi P. Gupta 《Tectonophysics》1977,38(3-4)

Based on studies of images obtained from LANDSAT-1 and 2, several seemingly active movement zones have been delineated in a section of the eastern Alps and are being reported in the present paper for the first time. These zones, trending W—E to NW—SE, cut across all earlier Alpine boundaries and contacts and on either side along their length, are marked with drag effects, indicating their post-Alpine neotectonic nature. Their relation with the present-day central European stress field, as determined from fault-plane studies and in-situ stress measurements, has been sought. In conjunction with the evidence from neighbouring areas, a dextral shear tendency of the present-day Mediterranean is indicated. Further, a number of extensive lineaments have been observed in the Alpine section. Statistically, there are three major lineation sets trending N45°, N15°, N345°. They appear to have developed cogenetically as a result of shear and tensile failures due to a stress field with maximum principal stress oriented averagely at N15°. This direction of the maximum principal stress, deduced from the above lineation analysis of the eastern Alps, is in striking conformity with the one believed to have been in existence for the development of the Rhinegraben (N20°). It appears that the Rhinegraben and the Alpide belt have evolved cogenetically and concurrently under the same dominant stress field (P₁ = N—NNE, P₂ = vertical and P₃ = E—ESE) and hence the two geotectonic features are really not antagonistic and mutually incompatible as usually believed on the grounds that one involves tension (taphrogenesis — Rhinegraben) and the other compression (orogenesis — Alpide belt) but are different manifestations of the same stress field. Besides, some additional light has been thrown on the possible controls of development of the Giudicaria Line and cause of predominance of NE—SW trending sinistral faults.  相似文献   

Estimation of Solute Concentrations Using the Pathline Counting Method   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Jeffrey A. Johnson  Varadhan Ravi  J. Kevin Rumery 《Ground water》1994,32(5):719-726

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