Extension tectonics in the Afar Triangle     

Tony Waltham 《Geology Today》2005,21(3):101-107

On the Red Sea coast of Africa, the triangular wedge of land named after its Afar people has been created by excess basalt production at a triple junction of divergent plate boundaries. Its harsh desert terrain is a remote wilderness that receives few visitors, yet is a spectacular suite of extension tectonics dominated by sinking grabens, salt basins below sea level, active faults and effusive volcanoes.  相似文献   

Physical characteristics of Comet Nucleus C/2001 OG₁₀₈ (LONEOS)     

Paul A. Abell  Yanga R. Fernández  Petr Pravec  Tony L. Farnham  Paul S. Hardersen  Peter Kušnirák  Scott S. Sheppard 《Icarus》2005,179(1):174-194

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New Developments in Water Efficiency     

Tony T. Gregg Amanda Dewees Drema Gross Bill Hoffman Dan Strub Matt Watson 《中国海洋大学学报(英文版)》2006,5(4):375-380

1Water LossInitiativesUnaccounted-for water(or unbilled water)has beenreceiving newscrutiny at both the state and nationallevels.For years,water conservationeffortsin Europehave emphasized reduction in water loss to a muchgreater extent thaninthe United S…  相似文献   

Shear strength characterization of municipal solid waste at the Suzhou landfill, China   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

Tony L.T. Zhan  Y.M. Chen  W.A. Ling 《Engineering Geology》2008,97(3-4):97-111

The current practice of slope stability analysis for a municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill usually overlooks the dependence of waste properties on the fill age or embedment depth. Changes in shear strength of MSW as a function of fill age were investigated by performing field and laboratory studies on the Suzhou landfill in China. The field study included sampling from five boreholes advanced to the bottom of the landfill, cone penetration tests and monitoring of pore fluid pressures. Twenty-six borehole samples representative of different fill ages (0 to 13 years) were used to perform drained triaxial compression tests. The field and laboratory study showed that the waste body in the landfill can be sub-divided into several strata corresponding to different ranges of fill age. Each of the waste strata has individual composition and shear strength characteristics. The triaxial test results showed that the MSW samples exhibited a strain-hardening and contractive behavior. As the fill age of the waste increased from 1.7 years to 11 years, the cohesion mobilized at a strain level of 10% was found to decrease from 23.3 kPa to 0 kPa, and the mobilized friction angle at the same strain level increasing from 9.9° to 26°. For a confinement stress level greater than 50 kPa, the shear strength of the recently-placed MSW seemed to be lower than that of the older MSW. This behavior was consistent with the cone penetration test results. The field measurement of pore pressures revealed a perched leachate mound above an intermediate cover of soils and a substantial leachate mound near the bottom of the landfill. The measurements of shear strength properties and pore pressures were utilized to assess the slope stability of the Suzhou landfill.  相似文献   

Letter to the editor     

Peter G. Wells 《Marine environmental research》1980,3(4):315-318

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Interactive computer graphics method for the combined interpretation of gravity and magnetic data     

Richard T. Haworth  Ian Wells 《Marine Geophysical Researches》1980,4(3):277-290

A program for computation of the gravity and magnetic anomalies associated with two-dimensional structures has been adapted for use in an interactive mode using a storage-screen CRT linked to a remote computer via standard telephone lines. This new program aids the user in developing a structural model that satisfies both magnetic and gravity observations. Examples are included to demonstrate the increased efficiency of interpretation using this low-cost graphics approach and to illustrate the detail of the model resulting from the compromise necessary to satisfy both potential-field data sets.  相似文献   

An improved Ewing heat probe frame   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Tony F. Clark  Frank J. Malcolm  Ben J. Korgen 《Marine Geophysical Researches》1972,1(4):451-455

The standard Ewing heat probe frame has been improved through the design of a new takedown model whose parts are held together by lynch pins. When a 600 lb (272 kg) unit of this type is taken apart, the heaviest single piece of the dismantled unit weighs only 75 lb (34 kg).This makes it feasible for one person to handle, transport, and assemble the new unit. A central, main support member of a heat probe using this frame can be suspended over the side of a research vessel while the heavier temperature recorder and ballast weights are attached by means of the quickaction lynch pins. This makes it possible to use this device on relatively small vessels which are not designed for coring work, having a minimum of free deck space and without launching platforms or hydraulic A-frame booms.  相似文献   

Nodules and Scandinavia — mining opportunities     

Tony Marjoram 《Marine Policy》1979,3(4):313-315

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Pity the poor herring     

Tony Loftas  Editor 《Marine Policy》1977,1(4):274

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Automated Kerogen Classification in Microscope Images of Dispersed Kerogen Preparation     

L. I. Kuncheva  J. J. Charles  N. Miles  A. Collins  B. Wells  I. S. Lim 《Mathematical Geosciences》2008,40(6):639-652

We develop the classification part of a system that analyses transmitted light microscope images of dispersed kerogen preparation. The system automatically extracts kerogen pieces from the image and labels each piece as either inertinite or vitrinite. The image pre-processing analysis consists of background removal, identification of kerogen material, object segmentation, object extraction (individual images of pieces of kerogen) and feature calculation for each object. An expert palynologist was asked to label the objects into categories inertinite and vitrinite, which provided the ground truth for the classification experiment. Ten state-of-the-art classifiers and classifier ensembles were compared: Naïve Bayes, decision tree, nearest neighbour, the logistic classifier, multilayered perceptron (MLP), support vector machines (SVM), AdaBoost, Bagging, LogitBoost and Random Forest. The logistic classifier was singled out as the most accurate classifier, with an accuracy greater than 90. Using a 10 times 10-fold cross-validation provided within the Weka software, we found that the logistic classifier was significantly better than five classifiers (p<0.05) and indistinguishable from the other four classifiers. The initial set of 32 features was subsequently reduced to 6 features without compromising the classification accuracy. A further evaluation of the system alerted us to the possible sensitivity of the classification to the ground truth that might vary from one human expert to another. The analysis also revealed that the logistic classifier made most of the correct classifications with a high certainty.  相似文献