Creating Carbon Offsets in Agriculture through No-Till Cultivation: A Meta-Analysis of Costs and Carbon Benefits   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

James Manley  G. Cornelis van Kooten  Klaus Moeltner  Dale W. Johnson 《Climatic change》2005,68(1-2):41-65

Carbon terrestrial sinks are often seen as a low-cost alternative to fuel switching and reduced fossil fuel use for lowering atmospheric CO₂. To determine whether this is true for agriculture, one meta-regression analysis (52 studies, 536 observations) examines the costs of switching from conventional tillage to no-till, while another (51 studies, 374 observations) compares carbon accumulation under the two practices. Costs per ton of carbon uptake are determined by combining the two results. The viability of agricultural carbon sinks is found to vary by region and crop, with no-till representing a low-cost option in some regions (costs of less than $10 per tC), but a high-cost option in others (costs of 100–$400 per tC). A particularly important finding is that no-till cultivation may store no carbon at all if measurements are taken at sufficient depth. In some circumstances no-till cultivation may yield a triple dividend of carbon storage, increased returns and reduced soil erosion, but in many others creating carbon offset credits in agricultural soils is not cost effective because reduced tillage practices store little or no carbon.  相似文献   

Neotectonic evolution of the Central Betic Cordilleras (Southern Spain)   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Klaus R. Reicherter  Gwendolyn Peters   《Tectonophysics》2005,405(1-4):191-212

Paleostress orientations were calculated from fault-slip data of 36 sites located along a traverse through the Central Betic Cordilleras (southern Spain). Heterogeneous fault sets, which are frequent in the area, have been divided into homogeneous subsets by cross-cutting relationships observed in the field and by a paleostress stratigraphy approach applied on each individual fault population. The state of stress was sorted according to main tectonic events and a new chronology is presented of the Miocene to Recent deformation in the central part of the Betic Cordilleras. The deviatoric stress tensors fall into four distinct groups that are regionally consistent and correlate with three Late Oligocene–Aquitanian to Recent major tectonic events in the Betic Cordilleras. The new chronology of the neotectonic evolution includes, from oldest to youngest, the following main tectonic phases:

(1) Late Oligocene–Aquitanian to Early Tortonian: σ₁ subhorizontal N–S, partly E–W directed, σ₃ subvertical; compressional structures (thrusting of nappes, large-scale folding) and strike-slip faulting in the Alborán Domain and the External Zone of the Betic Cordilleras;

(2) Early Tortonian to Pliocene–Pleistocene: σ₁ subvertical, σ₃ subhorizontal NW–SE, partly N–S directed or E–W-directed (radial extension); large-scale normal faulting in the Central Betic Cordilleras and in the oldest Neogene formations of the Granada Basin related to the gravitational collapse of the Betic Cordilleras and the exhumation of the intensely metamorphosed rock series of the Internal Zones, at the same time formation of the Alborán Basin and intramontane basins such as the Granada Basin;

(3) Pleistocene to Recent: (3a) σ₁ subvertical, σ₃ subhorizontal NE–SW with prominent normal faulting, but coevally; (3b) σ₁ subhorizontal NW directed, σ₃ NE–SW subhorizontal with strike-slip faulting. Extensional structures and strike-slip faulting are related to the ongoing convergence of the Eurasian and African Plates and coeval uplift of the Betic Cordilleras. Reactivation of pre-existing fractures and faults was frequently observed. Phase 3 is interpreted as periodic strike-slip and normal faulting events due to a permutation of the principal stress axes, mainly σ₁ and σ₂.

Electronic absorption spectroscopy of natural (Fe2+, Fe3+)-bearing spinels of spinel s.s.-hercynite and gahnite-hercynite solid solutions at different temperatures and high-pressures     

Michail N. Taran  Monika Koch-Müller  Klaus Langer 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》2005,32(3):175-188

Natural Fe²⁺, Fe³⁺-bearing spinel solid solutions from the spinel s.s.-hercynite and gahnite-hercynite series were analyzed and studied by electronic absorption spectroscopy in the spectral range 30000–3500 cm^–1 in the temperature and pressure ranges 77 T_K 600 and 10^–4 P_GPa 11.0. Two crystals were light-violet in color (type I) and six green or bluish-green (type II). The spectra of both types of spinels are dominated by an UV-absorption edge near 28000 to 24000 cm^–1, depending on the iron contents, and a very intense band system in the NIR centered around 5000 cm^–1, which is caused by spin-allowed dd-transition of tetrahedral Fe²⁺, derived from ⁵ E⁵ T₂. The strong band is in all spinels studied, split into four sub-bands, which can only be observed in very thin platelets. Between the UV-edge and the high-energy wing of the NIR-band there occur a number of very weak bands in type I spinels while the green type II spinels show some of these with significantly enhanced intensity. The intensity of the very weak bands is nearly independent from temperature. Such bands are attributed to spin-forbidden electronic transitions of ^IVFe²⁺. Temperature and pressure dependence of the intensity enhanced bands of spinels type II indicate that they are caused by ^IVFe²⁺ and ^VIFe³⁺. They are attributed to spin-forbidden transitions ⁶A_1g⁴A_1g, ⁴E_g, ⁴T_2g and ⁴T_1g of ^VIFe³⁺, the two latter being strongly intensified by exchange-coupling interaction with adjacent ^IVFe²⁺. The pressure dependence of ^IVFe²⁺ dd-band system in the NIR caused by spin-allowed ⁵ E⁵ T₂ transition noticeably differs from that of octahedral Fe²⁺, an effect which is attributed to a dynamic Jahn-Teller effect of ^IVFe²⁺ in the spinel structure.

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Nutrient dynamics in the Pomeranian Bay (southern Baltic): Impact of the Oder River outflow     

Marianna?PastuszakEmail author  Klaus?Nagel  Alfred?Grelowski  Volker?Mohrholz  Mariusz?Zalewski 《Estuaries and Coasts》2003,26(5):1238-1254

The Pomeranian Bay is a coastal region fed by the Oder River, one of the seven largest Baltic rivers, whose waters flow through a large and complex estuarine system before entering the bay. Nutrients (NO₃ ⁻, NO₂ ⁻, NH₄ ⁺, Ntot, PO₄ ³⁻, P_tot, DSi), chlorophylla concentrations, oxygen content, salinity, and temperature were measured in the Pomeranian Bay in nine seasonally distributed cruises during 1993–1997. Strong spatial and temporal patterns were observed and they were governed by: the seasonally variable riverine water-nutrient discharges, the seasonally variable uptake of nutrients and their cycling in the river estuary and the Bay, the character of water exchange between the Pomeranian Bay and the Szczecin Lagoon, and the water flow patterns in the Bay that are dominated by wind-driven circulation. Easterly winds resulted in water and nutrient transport along the German coastline, while westerly winds confined the nutrient rich riverine waters to the Polish coast and transported them eastward beyond the study area. Two water masses, coastal and open, characterized by different chemical and physical parameters and chla content were found in the Bay independently of the season. The role of the Oder estuary in nutrient transformation, as well as the role of temperature in transformation processes is stressed in the paper. The DIN:DIP:DSi ratio indicated that phosphorus most probably played a limiting role in phytoplankton production in the Bay in spring, while nitrogen did the same in summer. During the spring bloom, predominated by diatoms, the DSi:DIN ratio dropped to 0.1 in the coastal waters and to 0.6 in the open bay waters, pointing to silicon limitation of diatom growth, similar to what is being observed in other Baltic regions.  相似文献   

Die quantitative Bestimmung pathogener Bakterien mit Hilfe des MPN-Verfahrens     

M. Nagel  W. Stelzer  H. Dannhauer  H.-J. Springer 《洁净——土壤、空气、水》1981,9(1):107-113

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Mineralogy and possible origin of an unusual Cr-rich inclusion in the Los Martinez (L6) chondrite     

Adrian J. Brearley  Ignacio Casanova  Mark L. Miller  Klaus Keil 《Meteoritics & planetary science》1991,26(4):287-300

Abstract— During a petrological study of the previously unclassified ordinary chondrite Los Martínez, we discovered a highly unusual Cr-rich inclusion which we believe is unique in both extraterrestrial and terrestrial mineralogy. The inclusion is highly zoned both compositionally and optically, with a Ca-Al rich, cloudy core and an opaque, Cr-Na-rich rim (up to 24 wt.% Cr₂O₃). Detailed SEM and TEM studies show that the inclusion now consists of a highly zoned, single crystal of plagioclase intergrown with chromium-rich spinel. The spinel has a well-developed crystallographic orientation relationship with the host plagioclase, which indicates that it is the product of exsolution. Although superficially similar to a plagioclase feldspar in composition, in detail the inclusion is Si-deficient and Al-enriched relative to a stoichiometric feldspar. We have not been able to identify a viable precursor mineral phase to the plagioclase-chromite intergrowth and suggest that it may be an unknown metastable phase. The Cr-rich precursors of the inclusion probably have close affinities to the chromite-plagioclase chondrules observed by Ramdohr (1967) in several ordinary chondrites. Based on the zoning in the inclusion, we suggest that it is the product of fractional crystallization from a melt, which may have formed as a liquid condensate, or by melting of solid condensates, in the solar nebula. Subsequent cooling of this melt condensate resulted in crystallization of the, as yet, unidentified phase. After crystallization, the inclusion was probably incorporated into a parent body where it underwent metamorphism and was probably shocked to some degree. During this period of parent body metamorphism, exsolution and decomposition of the unknown precursor occurred to produce the observed intergrowth of plagioclase and chromite. Finally, we have classified Los Martínez as an L6 ordinary chondrite breccia.  相似文献   

Franciscan-type rocks off Monterey Bay,California: Implications for western boundary of Salinian Block     

Henry T. Mullins  David K. Nagel 《Geo-Marine Letters》1981,1(2):135-139

Serpentinites and spilitic basalts recovered at depths of 1000 m from Ascension Submarine Canyon northwest of Monterey Bay, California indicate that Franciscan basement is present immediately to the west of the San Gregorio Fault. This new information, together with published geological/geophysical data, support previous suggestions that the offshore western boundary of the Salinian block (Sur-Nacimiento Fault) has been tectonically truncated by the San Gregorio Fault and has been displaced by as much as 90 km to the northwest since the mid-late Miocene.  相似文献   

Forsterite‐rich accretionary rims around calcium‐aluminum‐rich inclusions from the reduced CV3 chondrite Efremovka     

Alexander N. KROT  Alexander A. ULYANOV  Anders MEIBOM  Klaus KEIL 《Meteoritics & planetary science》2001,36(5):611-628

Abstract— It was suggested that multilayered accretionary rims composed of ferrous olivine, andradite, wollastonite, salite‐hedenbergitic pyroxenes, nepheline, and Ni‐rich sulfides around Allende calcium‐aluminum‐rich inclusions (CAIs) are aggregates of gas‐solid condensates which reflect significant fluctuations in physico‐chemical conditions in the slowly cooling solar nebula and grain/gas separation processes. In order to test this model, we studied the mineralogy of accretionary rims around one type A CAI (E104) and one type B CAI (E48) from the reduced CV3 chondrite Efremovka, which is less altered than Allende. In contrast to the Allende accretionary rims, those in Efremovka consist of coarse‐grained (20–40 μm), anhedral forsterite (Fa_1–8), Fe, Ni‐metal nodules, amoeboid olivine aggregates (AOAs) and fine‐grained CAIs composed of Al‐diopside, anorthite, and spinel, ± forsterite. Although the fine‐grained CAIs, AOAs and host CAIs are virtually unaltered, a hibonite‐spinel‐perovskite CAI in the E48 accretionary rim experienced extensive alteration, which resulted in the formation of Fe‐rich, Zn‐bearing spinel, and a Ca, Al, Si‐hydrous mineral. Forsterites in the accretionary rims typically show an aggregational nature and consist of small olivine grains with numerous pores and tiny inclusions of Al‐rich minerals. No evidence for the replacement of forsterite by enstatite was found; no chondrule fragments were identified in the accretionary rims. We infer that accretionary rims in Efremovka are more primitive than those in Allende and formed by aggregation of high‐temperature condensates around host CAIs in the CAI‐forming regions. The rimmed CAIs were removed from these regions prior to condensation of enstatite and alkalies. The absence of andradite, wollastonite, and hedenbergite from the Efremovka rims may indicate that these rims sampled different nebular regions than the Allende rims. Alternatively, the Ca, Fe‐rich silicates rimming Allende CAIs may have resulted from late‐stage metasomatic alteration, under oxidizing conditions, of original Efremovka‐like accretionary rims. The observed differences in O‐isotope composition between forsterite and Ca, Fe‐rich minerals in the Allende accretionary rims (Hiyagon, 1998) suggest that the oxidizing fluid had an ¹⁶O‐poor oxygen isotopic composition.  相似文献   

Plasma dynamics in the tail of Comet Kohoutek 1973 XII     

Klaus Jockers 《Icarus》1981,47(3):397-411

Photographs of Comet Kohoutek 1973 XII from the period 1974, Jan. 19, 0 UT to Jan. 21, 3 UT, collected from many different observatories and assembled in a unified format, are studied. During this time a large-scale tail disturbance was observed which coincides with the passage of a high-speed solar wind stream and an interplanetary sector boundary. Superimposed on a regular outward motion of tail condensations of a speed less than or about 100 km/sec, a kink moves down the tail with almost solar wind velocity. From the shape of the kink the direction of the solar wind adjacent to the tail is deduced. Of particular interest are tail segments where the solar wind flows across the tail. A waviness on the windward side of the tail is explained by differential acceleration, i.e., dense tail clouds are more massive and therefore less accelerated by the solar wind. On the leeward side tail rays point into the down-wind direction. During the large-scale disturbance the overall plasma density seems to be enhanced. While a tail disconnection does not occur in the event studied it is proposed that the tail disconnection observed in other, more dramatic events is caused by the differential acceleration mechanism combined with changes in the ion source. These are possibly due to enhanced charge exchange of cometary neutrals in the compression region in front of the high speed stream. The problem of tail ray formation near tail condensations is discussed but no solution is offered.  相似文献   

THE CORREO AND SUWANEE SPRING METEORITES: TWO NEW ORDINARY CHONDRITE FINDS     

Alan E. Rubin  G. Jeffrey Taylor  Klaus Keil  Gordon Nelson 《Meteoritics & planetary science》1981,16(1):9-12

Two new ordinary chondrites were found about 40 km west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Correo is an H4 chondrite with distinct chondrules and major olivine (Fo_81.4), orthopyroxene (En_82.3) and plagioclase (An₁₂). Suwanee Spring is an L5 chondrite with few distinct chondrules and a highly recrystallized matrix. Major minerals are olivine (Fo_75.4), orthopyroxene (En_77.7) and plagioclase (An₉). The metallic Ni-Fe phases of both meteorites are typical of slowly-cooled ordinary chondrites.  相似文献