Seismic images of a collision zone offshore NW Sabah/Borneo   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Dieter Franke  Udo Barckhausen  Ingo Heyde  Mark Tingay  Nordin Ramli 《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2008,25(7):606-624

Multichannel reflection seismic data from the southern South China Sea, refraction and gravity modelling were used to investigate the compressional sedimentary structures of the collision-prone continental margin off NW Borneo. An elongated imbricate deepwater fan, the toe Thrust Zone bounds the Northwest Borneo Trough to the southeast. The faults separating the individual imbricates cut through post-Early Miocene sediments and curve down to a carbonate platform at the top of the subsiding continental Dangerous Grounds platform that forms the major detachment surface. The age of deformation migrates outward toward the front of the wedge. We propose crustal shortening mechanisms as the main reason for the formation of the imbricate fan. At the location of the in the past defined Lower Tertiary Thrust Sheet tectonostratigraphic province a high velocity body was found but with a much smaller extend than the previously defined structure. The high velocity structure may be interpreted either as carbonates that limit the transfer of seismic energy into the sedimentary layers beneath or as Paleogene Crocker sediments dissected by remnants of a proto-South China Sea oceanic crust that were overthrust onto a southward migrating attenuated continental block of the Dangerous Grounds during plate convergence.  相似文献   

The effect of terrace geology on ground‐water movement and on the interaction of ground water and surface water on a mountainside near Mirror Lake,New Hampshire,USA     

Thomas C. Winter  Donald C. Buso  Patricia C. Shattuck  Phillip T. Harte  Donald A. Vroblesky  Daniel J. Goode 《水文研究》2008,22(1):21-32

The west watershed of Mirror Lake in the White Mountains of New Hampshire contains several terraces that are at different altitudes and have different geologic compositions. The lowest terrace (FSE) has 5 m of sand overlying 9 m of till. The two next successively higher terraces (FS2 and FS1) consist entirely of sand and have maximum thicknesses of about 7 m. A fourth, and highest, terrace (FS3) lies in the north‐west watershed directly adjacent to the west watershed. This highest terrace has 2 m of sand overlying 8 m of till. All terraces overlie fractured crystalline bedrock. Numerical models of hypothetical settings simulating ground‐water flow in a mountainside indicated that the presence of a terrace can cause local ground‐water flow cells to develop, and that the flow patterns differ based on the geologic composition of the terrace. For example, more ground water moves from the bedrock to the glacial deposits beneath terraces consisting completely of sand than beneath terraces that have sand underlain by till. Field data from Mirror Lake watersheds corroborate the numerical experiments. The geology of the terraces also affects how the stream draining the west watershed interacts with ground water. The stream turns part way down the mountainside and passes between the two sand terraces, essentially transecting the movement of ground water down the valley side. Transects of water‐table wells were installed across the stream's riparian zone above, between, and below the sand terraces. Head data from these wells indicated that the stream gains ground water on both sides above and below the sand terraces. However, where it flows between the sand terraces the stream gains ground water on its uphill side and loses water on its downhill side. Biogeochemical processes in the riparian zone of the flow‐through reach have resulted in anoxic ground water beneath the lower sand terrace. Results of this study indicate that it is useful to understand patterns of ground‐water flow in order to fully understand the flow and chemical characteristics of both ground water and surface water in mountainous terrain. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

On the acceleration of solar-flare charged particles in a collapsing magnetic trap with an electric potential     

V. A. Kovalev  B. V. Somov 《Astronomy Letters》2002,28(7):488-493

We consider the kinetic problem of charged-particle acceleration in a magnetic trap with converging magnetic mirrors. We show that for a positive electrostatic potential of the trap plasma relative to the mirrors, the efficiency of confinement and acceleration increases for electrons and decreases for ions.  相似文献   

Pair emission from bare magnetized strange stars     

D. B. Melrose  R. Fok †  D. P. Menezes ‡ 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,371(1):204-210

The dominant emission from bare strange stars is thought to be electron–positron pairs, produced through spontaneous pair creation (SPC) in a surface layer of electrons tied to the star by a superstrong electric field. The positrons escape freely, but the electrons are directed towards the star and quickly fill all available states, such that their degeneracy suppresses further SPC. An electron must be reflected and gain energy in order to escape, along with the positron. Each escaping electron leaves a hole that is immediately filled by another electron through SPC. We discuss the collisional processes that produce escaping electrons. When the Landau quantization of the motion perpendicular to the magnetic field is taken into account, electron–electron collisions can lead to an escaping electron only through a multistage process involving higher Landau levels. Although the available estimates of the collision rate are deficient in several ways, it appears that the rate is too low for electron–electron collisions to be effective. A simple kinetic model for electron–quark collisions leads to an estimate of the rate of pair production that is analogous to thermionic emission, but the work function is poorly determined.  相似文献   

The Influence of Ion-Acoustic Turbulence on the Electron Acceleration in the Reconnecting Current Sheet     

Gui-Ping Wu  Guang-Li Huang  Yu-Hua TangDepartment of Physics  Southeast University  Nanjing  Purple Mountain Observatory  Chinese Academy of Sciences  Nanjing Department of Astronomy  Nanjing University  Nanjing 《中国天文和天体物理学报》2005,5(1):99-109

Through solving the single electron equation of motion and the Fokker-Planck equation including the terms of electric field strength and ion-acoustic turbulence, we study the influence of the ion-acoustic wave on the electron acceleration in turbulent reconnecting current sheets. It is shown that the ion-acoustic turbulence which causes plasma heating rather than particle acceleration should be considered. With typical parameter values, the acceleration time scale is around the order of 10^-6 s, the accelerated electrons may have approximately a power-law distribution in the energy range 20 ～100 keV and the spectral index is about 3～10, which is basically consistent with the observed hard X-ray spectra in solar flares.  相似文献   

Magnetic jets from swirling discs     

D. Lynden-Bell 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,369(3):1167-1188

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Relativistic Fermi acceleration with shock compressed turbulence     

Martin Lemoine  Benoît Revenu 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,366(2):635-644

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A local control system for the test masses of the Virgo gravitational wave detector     

《Astroparticle Physics》2004,20(6):617-628

The mirrors of interferometric detectors of gravitational waves (GW) are suspended in order to be isolated from external disturbances. A local control system able to keep them correctly aligned and to damp the angular modes of the suspension is necessary. In this paper we present the solution adopted for Virgo based on a CCD camera sensor and on digital controls. With this solution the mirrors are kept aligned at the level of less than 1 μrad rms, enough to lock the interferometer and start the automatic alignment system.  相似文献   

浅谈桂林市新解放桥工程地质勘察及桥基处理     

牟春梅 《南方国土资源》2001,14(4):79-82

随着桂林市经济和旅游业的发展 ,交通量大幅度的增加 ,原解放桥所能承受的荷载已远远超过它的设计标准 ,加上桥基和桥面已有不同程度的破损 ,建设新的解放桥已势在必行。文章就新解放桥场地的工程地质条件、存在的工程地质问题及所进行的工程地质评价和桥基处理情况作简要介绍。  相似文献   

论新时期地下水经营管理新使命     

李佩成 《地球科学与环境学报》2001,23(2):1-5

在1994年发表的试论地下水研究面临的历史转变的基础上，面对新世纪创造新辉煌的期盼，论述了新的历史时期地下水开发与经管面临的转变和任务有8项即地下水开发与经管的指导思想要从比较放任，转变到高效利用与永续经营；在三水统观统管联合运用中要把地下水作为珍贵后备资源和抗旱的救命水资源加以利用；要把保护水质不受污染作为地下水管理的重大方面，要对含水层进行脆弱性分区管理；要建立和完善包括水位、水质动态观测在内的水环境综合观测网站，加强对地下水的全面观测；要认真总结前50年的地下水开发利用及管理工作，制定未来30年的地下水事业发展规划；要完善地下水开发利用保护法规；理顺地下水专业人才的培养渠道，认真培养地下水领域的高级专门人才；加强讯息网建设，在不断提高地下水科技水平的同时，重视科普宣传工作。  相似文献