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Only a few very young landforms are the result of currently operating geomorphic processes. Because the time scale for landscape evolution is much longer than the time scale for late Cenozoic climate changes, almost all landscapes are palimpsests, written over repeatedly by various combinations of climate-determined processes. Relict glacial and periglacial landforms are widely identified in mid-latitude regions that have been traditionally described as having been shaped by the “normal” processes of fluvial erosion. Less confidently, deeply weathered regolith and associated relict landforms in the middle and high latitudes are attributed to early Tertiary warmth. However, assemblages of geomorphic processes specific to certain climatic regions, like faunal and floral assemblages, cannot be translated across latitude, so in spite of the many books about the geomorphology of specific modern climate regions, there are few sources that discuss former warm high-latitude, or cold low-latitude, low-altitude geomorphic processes that have no modern analogs. Students and teachers alike who attempt to interpret landforms by extrapolating modern climatic conditions to other latitudinal zones will find their outlook broadened, and they become better prepared to consider the geomorphic impacts of global climate change. 相似文献
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We used a reproducible seeded growth technique with a pH-stat to study the kinetics of calcite precipitation at 25°C. We performed different experiments at initial Ca2+ and HCO3? concentrations ranging from 0.7–2 and 4–7 mmol L?1, pH values ranging from 8.25 to 8.70, values ranging from 0.0006 to 0.01 atm, and ionic strengths ranging from 0.015 to 0.10 mol L?1. With this experimental data set, we used initial rate measurements and integral methods to test several precipitation rate equations. Rate equations that possess a disequilibrium functional dependence, such as the BURTON et al. (1951) dislocation model, forms of the Davies and Jones (1955) model, and the model used by Reddy and Nancollas (1973), did not adequately describe the kinetics of calcite precipitation at pH greater than 8 and less than 0.01 atm. Rate equations that describe independent dissolution and precipitation mechanisms with elementary reactions, such as the equation presented by Plummeret al. (1978), and nancollas and Reddy (1971) were more successful. However, Plummer's model did not adequately describe the rate of all experiments due to the presence of an OH? surface term in the precipitation rate equation. The elementary reaction of the Nancollas and Reddy model is written in terms of bulk Ca2+ and CO3? concentrations, and appears to be the most successful model which describes calcite precipitation at pH > 8 and atm. The Nancollas and Reddy model, altered to account for varying ionic strengths, adequately described the rate of all experiments and yielded a precipitation rate constant of dm6 mol?1 m?2 s?1, with an apparent Arrhenius activation energy of 48.1 kJ mol?1. 相似文献
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Ralph A. M. J. Wijers Joshua S. Bloom Jasjeet S. Bagla & Priyamvada Natarajan 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》1998,294(1):L13-L17
A gamma-ray burst (GRB) releases an amount of energy similar to that of a supernova explosion, which combined with its rapid variability suggests an origin related to neutron stars or black holes. Since these compact stellar remnants form from the most massive stars not long after their birth, GRBs should trace the star formation rate in the Universe; we show that the GRB flux distribution is consistent with this. Because of the strong evolution of the star formation rate with redshift, it follows that the dimmest known bursts have z ∼ 6, much above the value usually quoted and beyond the most distant quasars. This explains the absence of bright galaxies in well-studied GRB error boxes. The increased distances imply a peak luminosity of 8.3 × 1051 erg s−1 and a rate density of 0.025 per million years per galaxy. These values are 20 times higher and 150 times lower, respectively, than are implied by fits with non-evolving GRB rates. This means either that GRBs are caused by a much rarer phenomenon than mergers of binary neutron stars, or that their gamma-ray emission is often invisible to us due to beaming. Precise burst locations from optical transients will discriminate between the various models for GRBs from stellar deaths, because the distance between progenitor birth place and burst varies greatly among them. The dimmest GRBs are then the most distant known objects, and may probe the Universe at an age when the first stars were forming. 相似文献
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A.L. Bloom W.S. Broecker J.M.A. Chappell R.K. Matthews K.J. Mesolella 《Quaternary Research》1974,4(2):185-205
Emerged coral reef terraces on the Huon Peninsula in New Guinea were reported in a reconnaissance dating study by Veeh and Chappell 1970. Age definition achieved was not good for several important terraces, and we report here a series of new dates, which further clarify the history of late Quaternary eustatic sea level fluctuations. More than 20 reef complexes are present, ranging well beyond 250,000 yr old: we are concerned with the seven lowest complexes. Major reef-building episodes dated by are reef complex I at 5–9 ka (kilo anno = 1000 yr), r.c. IIIb at 41 ka (four dates), r.c. IV at 61 ka (four dates), r.c. V at 85 ka (two dates), r.c. VI at 107 ka (two dates), and r.c. VII at 118–142 ka. Complex II was previously dated by 14C at 29 ka: this age has not yet been confirmed, and may be only a lower limit. The reef crests were built during or immediately before intervals of sea level maxima, when rates of rising sea level and tectonic uplift briefly coincided. The culmination of each reef-building episode was only a few thousand years in duration, and multiple dates from the same reef complex generally group within the statistical errors of the individual dates.Several methods can be used to estimate the altitude of each sea level maximum relative to present sea level. The least complicated is to calculate mean tectonic uplift rate for each profile of the terraces, and use the mean rate to calculate the tectonic displacement of each dated reef complex on that profile. The difference between the present altitude of a reef complex and its calculated tectonic uplift gives the paleosea level at the time the reef grew. We estimate uplift rates for six surveyed sections by calibrating against published paleosea level estimates from Barbados and elsewhere, viz 125 ka, paleosea at +6 m; 103 ka, ?15 m; 82 ka, ?13 m. For each section the individual uplift rates for reefs V, VI, and VIIb are within 5% of their section means. Using the mean rates. paleosea level estimates for reef crests II, IIIB, and IV are made for each section. Consistency of estimates between sections is good, giving ?28 m for the 60 ka paleosea level, around ?38 m for the 42 ka level and ?41 m for the 28 ka level (if the age is older the paleosea level would be lower. Using the mean uplift rates, the 82 ka and 103 ka paleosea levels are also estimated for each section: all individual estimates are plotted graphically, and a sea level curve drawn. The reef stratigraphy indicates sea level lowerings between each dated reef crest: the crests probably represent the interstadials of the Wisconsin (Würm, Weichsel) Glaciation, and intervening lower levels correspond to stadials. Since the last time of eustatic sea level higher than the present (about 125 ka), five sea level maxima occurred at roughly 20-ka intervals, none being as high as the present. 相似文献
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Reba M. Bandyopadhyay K.S. Wood P. Hertz M.N. Lovellette P.S. Ray M.T. Wolff B. Giebels E.D. Bloom 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2001,276(1):23-24
We present first results from a monitoring campaign of GRS 1915+105 undertaken with the USA X-ray timing experiment on the ARGOS satellite. A variety of behaviour has been observed, ranging from low, steady X-ray emission to rapid quasi-periodic flaring on timescales of approximately 10–120 seconds. 相似文献
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The solubility of natural 7Be from air particulate matter in seawater was determined as a function of time. Adsorption of the thus solubilized 7Be on a variety of substrates was investigated. 7Be appears to be strongly adsorbed on suspended matter and inorganic materials at high suspended loads (> 20 mg 1−1), but at natural levels (1 mg 1−1) is only partially adsorbed. Further, at natural concentrations of suspended matter, adsorption of 7Be appears to be directly proportional to suspended load. Because a non-steady-state flux of 7Be to the bottom could be expected over its 53-day half-life, 7Be may be a poor tracer of sedimentation rates and sediment redistribution processes. 相似文献