Composition of the Descartes region,lunar highlands     

S.R Taylor  M.P Gorton  P Muir  W.B Nance  R Rudowski  N Ware 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》1973,37(12):2665-2683

Analytical data for 40 elements are reported for Apollo 16 soils 60601, 61181, 61501, 64801, 67701, 68501, 65701 and breccias 60015, 60017, 60018, 60315, 61016, 61175, 65015 and 66055. The soils are uniform except for the North Ray Crater rim sample which is richer in Al₂O₃.The breccia components show great diversity in composition. Low-K Fra Mauro basalt, Highland basalt (anorthositic gabbro) and plagioclase are important constituents. Medium-K Fra Mauro basalt is an important constituent of breccias 65015 and 60315.The breccias contain many meteorite fragments and high nickel contents, evidence of the early highland bombardment.Most of the refractory elements (REE, Th, U, Zr, Hf, Nb, Ba) show strong positive correlations, interpreted as resulting from mixing. The REE patterns of the breccias show extreme variation relative to chondrites. There is a good inverse correlation between REE and the europium anomaly ($\text{Eu}\text{Eu}{}^{\mathrm{x}}$). The $\text{La}\text{Yb}$ ratio is constant at 3.1 except in plagioclase. Eu depletion or enrichment is interpreted as due to addition or removal of plagioclase.The Cayley and Descartes formations cannot be distinguished chemically and the differences in surface expression are not due to chemical distinctions. They are interpreted as structural differences, related to early highland cratering and mare basin formation.The complex soil and breccia compositions are related to mixing of four components. These are Low-K Fra Mauro basalt, Highland basalt (anorthositic gabbro) and subordinate plagioclase and Medium-K Fra Mauro basalt. These compositions have been used in a computer program (PETMIX III) to provide fits for the analytical data in terms of the end-members.An average highland composition is proposed, based on the Apollo 15 and 16 orbital data for Si, Al, Mg and Th. Abundances for most other elements are derived from the interelement relationships and correlations, and checked by the mixing program.The resulting composition consists of 69 per cent Highland basalt (anorthositic gabbro) and 31 per cent Low-K Fra Mauro basalt. There is no significant Eu anomaly. The abundances are: SiO₂: 45.2 per cent; TiO₂: 0.68 per cent; Al₂O₃: 24.9 per cent; FeO: 6.3 per cent; MgO: 8.5 per cent; CaO: 13.8 per cent; Na₂O: 0.4 per cent; K₂O: 0.11 per cent; Cr₂O₃: 0.11 per cent; Ba: 144 ppm; Th: 1.8 ppm; U: 0.46 ppm; Pb: 1.6 ppm; Zr: 156 ppm; Hf: 3.2 ppm; Nb: 10.8 ppm; Y: 32 ppm; ΣREE: 85 ppm.  相似文献   

Two Supervised Neural Networks for Classification of Sedimentary Organic Matter Images from Palynological Preparations     

Andrew F. Weller  Anthony J. Harris  J. Andrew Ware 《Mathematical Geosciences》2007,39(7):657-671

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Laboratory studies on the effect of metals on oxygen uptake by sewage sludge in brackish water     

A.J. Sylvester  G.C. Ware 《Marine pollution bulletin》1977,8(2):45-48

Heavy metals are often regarded as toxic to all forms of life and therefore generally undesirable. However, their presence in industrial wastes dumped into the Bristol Channel stimulates the growth of certain bacteria in the water and may therefore hasten the self purification process and not be wholly undesirable in moderation.  相似文献   

A network-based telemetry architecture developed for the Martha'sVineyard Coastal Observatory     

Austin  T.C. Edson  J.B. McGillis  W.R. Purcell  M. Petitt  R.A.  Jr. McElroy  M.K. Grant  C.W. Ware  J. Hurst  S.K. 《Oceanic Engineering, IEEE Journal of》2002,27(2):228-234

Underwater observatories with real-time data and virtually unlimited power transmission capabilities compared to traditional oceanographic moorings are beginning to provide scientists with continuous access to the coastal and open ocean. However, for any coastal observatory to serve as a cost-effective system for the collection of long-term scientific and environmental data, it must have a simple, upgradeable power and telemetry system and an instrument interface that is compatible with existing standards. It must be designed for extended environmental exposure and ease of service to avoid high maintenance costs. Most importantly, the observatory must be accessible to all potential users, including students, scientists, engineers, and policy makers. This strategy was applied to the design of the Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory on the south shore of the island of Martha's Vineyard. The new facility, and in particular its system architecture, as developed by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution with support from the National Science Foundation, are described  相似文献   

Geospatial Information Integration for Authoritative and Crowd Sourced Road Vector Data   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Heshan Du  Suchith Anand  Natasha Alechina  Jeremy Morley  Glen Hart  Didier Leibovici  Mike Jackson  Mark Ware 《Transactions in GIS》2012,16(4):455-476

This article describes results from a research project undertaken to explore the technical issues associated with integrating unstructured crowd sourced data with authoritative national mapping data. The ultimate objective is to develop methodologies to ensure the feature enrichment of authoritative data, using crowd sourced data. Users increasingly find that they wish to use data from both kinds of geographic data sources. Different techniques and methodologies can be developed to solve this problem. In our previous research, a position map matching algorithm was developed for integrating authoritative and crowd sourced road vector data, and showed promising results ( Anand et al. 2010 ). However, especially when integrating different forms of data at the feature level, these techniques are often time consuming and are more computationally intensive than other techniques available. To tackle these problems, this project aims at developing a methodology for automated conflict resolution, linking and merging of geographical information from disparate authoritative and crowd‐sourced data sources. This article describes research undertaken by the authors on the design, implementation, and evaluation of algorithms and procedures for producing a coherent ontology from disparate geospatial data sources. To integrate road vector data from disparate sources, the method presented in this article first converts input data sets to ontologies, and then merges these ontologies into a new ontology. This new ontology is then checked and modified to ensure that it is consistent. The developed methodology can deal with topological and geometry inconsistency and provide more flexibility for geospatial information merging.  相似文献   

Visibility Analysis with the Multiscale Implicit TIN   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

David B. Kidner  rew J. Sparkes  Mark I. Dorey  J. Mark Ware  & Christopher B. Jones 《Transactions in GIS》2001,5(1):19-37

Visibility analysis is now a key function of many geographical information systems. It is also one of the most contentious tools, as it is notoriously prone to error. The paper will demonstrate the versatility of the Multiscale Implicit Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) for the application of intervisibility analysis at multiple resolutions. This approach allows for the integration of three-dimensional (3D) topographic features with the terrain surface. The multiscale TINs are derived from generalising digital contours at a variety of lateral tolerances. The models' performances are evaluated from an extensive field study undertaken in the South Wales valleys. Results suggest that the accuracy of intervisibility analysis is very dependent upon the availability of good quality 3D topographic data. In our study, such data were shown to improve visibility performance by more than 44% over its bare-earth TIN equivalent. Interestingly, generalisation of the TINs had very little effect on visibility performance. In addition, a Monte Carlo approach to sensitivity analysis was found to be detrimental to the accuracy of visibility prediction in the full terrain and topographic models. However, this probable approach can improve intervisibility performance by up to 18% on a bare-earth TIN. The range of these visibility modelling scenarios demonstrate the flexibility of the Multiscale Implicit TIN for digital surface modelling.  相似文献   

The Millstone Grit of Carmarthenshire     

W.D. Ware 《Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. Geologists' Association》1939,50(2):168-204

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Carbon dioxide flux techniques performed during GasEx-98   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Wade R. McGillis  James B. Edson  Jonathan D. Ware  John W. H. Dacey  Jeffrey E. Hare  Christopher W. Fairall  Rik Wanninkhof 《Marine Chemistry》2001,75(4):851

A comprehensive study of air–sea interactions focused on improving the quantification of CO₂ fluxes and gas transfer velocities was performed within a large open ocean CO₂ sink region in the North Atlantic. This study, GasEx-98, included shipboard measurements of direct covariance CO₂ fluxes, atmospheric CO₂ profiles, atmospheric DMS profiles, water column mass balances of CO₂, and measurements of deliberate SF₆–³He tracers, along with air–sea momentum, heat, and water vapor fluxes. The large air–sea differences in partial pressure of CO₂ caused by a springtime algal bloom provided high signals for accurate CO₂ flux measurements. Measurements were performed over a wind speed range of 1–16 m s⁻¹ during the three-week process study. This first comparison between the novel air-side and more conventional water column measurements of air–sea gas transfer show a general agreement between independent air–sea gas flux techniques. These new advances in open ocean air–sea gas flux measurements demonstrate the progress in the ability to quantify air–sea CO₂ fluxes on short time scales. This capability will help improve the understanding of processes controlling the air–sea fluxes, which in turn will improve our ability to make regional and global CO₂ flux estimates.  相似文献   

Long-term benthic responses to sustained disturbance by aggregate extraction in an area off the east coast of the United Kingdom     

Christopher R.S. Barrio Froján  Siân E. BoydKeith M. Cooper  Jacqueline D. EggletonSuzanne Ware 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》2008

The temporal variability of benthic assemblages inhabiting offshore gravel deposits in the North Sea is poorly known, as purpose-collected long-term data sets have until recently been non-existent. It has therefore proved difficult to understand the stability and resilience of these benthic ecosystems after disturbance caused by the extraction of aggregates on an industrial scale. The present investigation examines an 8-year time series of data collected in and around an active commercial aggregate extraction site off the east coast of the United Kingdom. Both physical and biological data sets suggest a distinct yet localised effect after sustained gravel extraction, with impacted sediments generally appearing more physically homogeneous and faunistically impoverished than undisturbed sediments. Although inter-annual variability of selected assemblage metrics was reduced in disturbed sediments, differences in some assemblage metrics became significant between years. Despite such observations, significant impacts to the benthos in any given year were not sustained for long. However, the magnitude of impact in almost every year would be enough to merit remedial intervention based on an existing model of measuring acceptable levels of disturbance as a result of organic enrichment. Caution must be exercised in making any such recommendations, especially as there are presently no models specifically designed to assess the degree of acceptable disturbance from aggregate extraction. This study not only highlights the importance of and need for long-term data sets in order to better understand the difference between natural and human-induced variability in benthic assemblages, but also emphasises the need to develop more relevant monitoring tools to better manage the activities of the marine aggregate extraction industry.  相似文献   

THE IJOPEGA CHONDRITE: A NEW H6 FALL     

A.L. Jaques  P.L. Lowenstein  D.H. Green  E. Kiss  W.B. Nance  S.R. Taylor  N.G. Ware 《Meteoritics & planetary science》1975,10(4):289-301

The Ijopega (Papua New Guinea) meteorite is a new H6 group chondrite fall which contains olivine (Fa 19.9 mole %), bronzite (Fs 17.8 mole %), plagioclase (An 12.1 Or 6.3 Ab 81.6 mole %), diopside, kamacite, taenite, troilite, chromite and whitlockite. The meteorite is extensively recrystallized and brecciated, and shows evidence of moderate shock deformation. Examination of Fe²⁺ and Mg partitioning between ortho- and clinopyroxene indicates a high equilibration temperature (940° or 880 °C). Chemical analysis shows the meteorite to be rich in S, containing about twice the average H-group abundance. Trace elements, including REE, are in accord with established H-group chondrite abundances.  相似文献