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Andr Jasper Dieter Uhl Margot Guerra-Sommer Volker Mosbrugger 《Journal of South American Earth Sciences》2008,26(4):435-444
Fossil charcoal, as direct evidence of palaeowildfires, has repeatedly been reported from several plant-bearing deposits from the Late Palaeozoic of the Northern Hemisphere. In contrast charcoal reports from the Late Palaeozoic deposits of the Southern Hemisphere are relatively rare in comparison to the Northern Hemisphere. Although the presence of pyrogenic coal macerals has repeatedly been reported from Late Palaeozoic coals from South America, no detailed anatomical investigations of such material have been published so far. Here is presented an anatomical analysis of charcoal originating from Early Permian sediments of the Quitéria Outcrop, Rio Bonito Formation, Paraná Basin, located in the central-eastern portion of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. This charcoal comes from two different coaly facies, and it was possible to scrutinize between three types, based on anatomical characters of the charcoal. Two of these charcoal types can be correlated to gymnosperm woods, and the other type corresponds to strongly permineralized bark with characteristic features of lycopsids. The presence of charcoal in different facies, ranging from parautochtonous to allochtonous origin, indicates that different vegetation types, i.e. plants which grew under wet conditions in the lowland as well as in the more dry hinterland, have experienced wildfires. Taking into account previous petrographic and lithological analyses from the facies in which the charcoal occurs and from the conditions of the wood and bark fragments, it was possible to speculate that the intensity of such wildfires most probably corresponds to forest-crown fires. Moreover, it is possible to state that wildfires have been a more or less common element in distinct Late Palaeozoic terrestrial ecosystems in the South American part of Gondwana. The data support previous assumptions on the occurrence of wildfires in the Early Permian of the Paraná Basin which were based solely on coal-petrographic data. 相似文献
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Uhl VW 《Ground water》2006,44(5):626-627
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Ekaterina Vasyukova Wolfgang Uhl Fuad Braga Claudia Simões Tânia Baylão Klaus Neder 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2012,65(5):1587-1599
Drinking water production at three waterworks was evaluated with respect to variable weather conditions in the Brasília Distrito
Federal. Results of the investigation revealed that seasonal variations in rainfall play an important role in influencing
the quality of the surface water sources used for drinking water production in the district. In most surface sources, particles
and apparent colour are likely to originate from erosion during rain events. This represents the primary challenge facing
waterworks, notably when the raw water qualities of the sources to be treated at one facility differ by one order of magnitude,
as well significantly varying from one season to the next. Treatment efficiencies in terms of turbidity, apparent colour and
dissolved organic carbon (DOC) removal were evaluated. Drinking water quality was found to be significantly influenced by
raw water quality at all considered treatment plants. With regard to DOC removal, treatment was most efficient in waterworks
which treated raw water with high percentages of biopolymers and humics. Most dissolved organics were removed by coagulation.
Finally, conclusions are drawn on how to better cope with challenges facing drinking water production in a tropical climate.
The first of these recommendations is the introduction of online turbidity and dissolved organic matter monitoring in order
to optimise the coagulation process for the removal of these two parameters. A combination of different coagulants could also
be considered for this process. Additional more sophisticated improvements to process stability, such as determination of
floc characteristics, introduction of artificial neural networks or the eventual upgrade of the treatment train using membrane
filtration, are also suggested. 相似文献
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The palynological contents as well as macroscopic charcoal fragments from a calcareous sandstone pebble from Quaternary glacial deposits of the North Sea (80 km SW of the Dogger Bank) are described. The taxonomic composition of the palynoflora points to a Late Jurassic (or Late Jurassic/Early Cretaceous) age of the sandstone. The charcoal is interpreted as direct evidence of palaeo‐wildfire occurring during this period in the source area of the sediments of this particular sandstone. This finding, together with already published data on Mesozoic deposits, allows to conclude that wildfires were obviously widespread during this period in the area of the modern day North Sea and adjacent areas. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献
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We present a simple unifying model that can be used to analyze, within a single framework, different dynamic regimes of shear deformation of brittle, plastic, and granular materials. The basic dynamic regimes seen in the response of both solids and granular materials to slowly increasing loading are scale-invariant behavior with power law statistics, quasi-periodicity of system size events, and persisting long term mode switching between the former two types of response. The model provides universal analytical mean field results on the statistics of failure events in the different regimes and distributed versus localized spatial responses. The results are summarized in a phase diagram spanned by three tuning parameters: dynamic strength change (weakening, neutral or strengthening) during slip events, dissipation of stress transfer (related to the void fraction in granular materials and damaged solids), and the ratio of shear rate over healing rate controlling the regaining of cohesion following failures in brittle solids. The mean field scaling predictions agree with experimental, numerical, and observational data on deformation avalanches of solids, granular materials, and earthquake faults. The model provides additional predictions that should be tested with future observation and simulation data. 相似文献
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Womack M. Homich A. Festou M. C. Mangum J. Uhl W. T. Stern S. A. 《Earth, Moon, and Planets》1997,77(3):259-264
On-the-Fly maps of emission from the HCO+ J = 3-2 transition at 267.6 GHz were obtained of C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp) on 1997 Mar 15.6 UT using the NRAO 12-m telescope
with high spatial resolution. Unlike the relatively symmetric and centralized maps of the neutral species CO, HCN and H2CO, the spatial extent of HCO+ emission is very diffuse with a complex structure characterized by at least two physically different regions. The bulk of
the HCO+ emission peaks in intensity ∼175,000 km anti-sunward from the nuclear position. This peak emission does not fall directly
along the anti-sunward direction, but is rotated by ∼10 degrees toward the east from the anti-sunward direction. A substantial
void, or decrease, of HCO+ emission is observed within ∼ 55,000 km of the nucleus. The HCO+ emission in this void is roughly half the intensity of the emission observed 100,000 km away. This decrease of HCO+ emission near the nucleus may indicate that production or excitation of HCO+ is inhibited, or perhaps that HCO+ is easily destroyed in the inner coma, especially within ∼50,000 km of the nucleus. This void roughly coincides with the
approximate location and size of the so-called “diamagnetic cavity” in the coma and may mark a significant transition region
in the inner coma of Hale-Bopp
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Weiwei Duan Yao-Yi Chiang Stefan Leyk Johannes H. Uhl Craig A. Knoblock 《International journal of geographical information science》2020,34(4):824-849
ABSTRACTWith large amounts of digital map archives becoming available, automatically extracting information from scanned historical maps is needed for many domains that require long-term historical geographic data. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are powerful techniques that can be used for extracting locations of geographic features from scanned maps if sufficient representative training data are available. Existing spatial data can provide the approximate locations of corresponding geographic features in historical maps and thus be useful to annotate training data automatically. However, the feature representations, publication date, production scales, and spatial reference systems of contemporary vector data are typically very different from those of historical maps. Hence, such auxiliary data cannot be directly used for annotation of the precise locations of the features of interest in the scanned historical maps. This research introduces an automatic vector-to-raster alignment algorithm based on reinforcement learning to annotate precise locations of geographic features on scanned maps. This paper models the alignment problem using the reinforcement learning framework, which enables informed, efficient searches for matching features without pre-processing steps, such as extracting specific feature signatures (e.g. road intersections). The experimental results show that our algorithm can be applied to various features (roads, water lines, and railroads) and achieve high accuracy. 相似文献
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The present article describes the use of plant bioassays for the detection of genotoxins in the aquatic environment and gives an overview of test methods, their detection spectrum for environmental mutagens and carcinogens and their limitations and pitfalls. The most widely used test systems are micronucleus assays with meiotic cells of Tradescantia and with meristematic root tip cells of Allium and Vicia. In the last years, protocols for single cell gel electrophoresis assays have been developed, which can be conducted with a variety of species. Also various gene mutation test procedures have been developed with plants but they have hardly ever been used in environmental studies. Plants detect a broad variety of environmentally relevant genotoxins, in particular directly acting compounds. Many pesticides and industrial chemicals caused positive results; plant assays are also a unique tool for the detection of DNA‐reactive carcinogenic heavy metals in the environment. In many studies with complex mixtures, positive results were obtained which indicates that plants are sufficiently sensitive to detect effects without concentration of water samples. One of the shortcomings of the use of plants as indicators is their lack of sensitivity towards certain classes of promutagens such as nitrosamines, heterocyclic amines, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). However, the former compounds are hardly encountered in the environment and PAHs can easily be detected chemically and in other mutagenicity tests. Taken together, the currently available data show that plant bioassays are a useful component of test batteries for environmental monitoring. 相似文献