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Middle Paleolithic occupation on a Marine Isotope Stage 5 lakeshore in the Nefud Desert,Saudi Arabia
Michael D. Petraglia Abdullah M. Alsharekh Rémy Crassard Nick A. Drake Huw Groucutt Adrian G. Parker Richard G. Roberts 《Quaternary Science Reviews》2011,30(13-14):1555-1559
Major hydrological variations associated with glacial and interglacial climates in North Africa and the Levant have been related to Middle Paleolithic occupations and dispersals, but suitable archaeological sites to explore such relationships are rare on the Arabian Peninsula. Here we report the discovery of Middle Paleolithic assemblages in the Nefud Desert of northern Arabia associated with stratified deposits dated to 75,000 years ago. The site is located in close proximity to a substantial relict lake and indicates that Middle Paleolithic hominins penetrated deeply into the Arabian Peninsula to inhabit landscapes vegetated by grasses and some trees. Our discovery supports the hypothesis of range expansion by Middle Paleolithic populations into Arabia during the final humid phase of Marine Isotope Stage 5, when environmental conditions were still favorable. 相似文献
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The central equatorial Pacific is interesting for studying clues to upper mantle processes, as the region lacks complicating effects of continental remnants or major volcanic plateaus. In particular, the most recently produced maps of the free-air gravity field from satellite altimetry show in greater detail the previously reported lineaments west of the East Pacific Rise (EPR) that are aligned with plate motion over the mantle and originally suggested to have formed from mantle convection rolls. In contrast, the gravity field 600 km or farther west of the EPR reveals lineaments with varied orientations. Some are also parallel with plate motion over the mantle but others are sub-parallel with fracture zones or have other orientations. This region is covered by pelagic sediments reaching ~?500–600 m thickness so bathymetry is not so useful for seeking evidence for plate deformation across the lineaments. We instead use depth to basement from three seismic reflection cruises. In some segments of these seismic data crossing the lineaments, we find that the co-variation between gravity and basement depth is roughly compatible with typical densities of basement rocks (basalt, gabbro or mantle), as expected for some explanations for the lineaments (e.g., mantle convection rolls, viscous asthenospheric inter-fingering or extensional deformation). However, some other lineaments are associated with major changes in basement depth with only subtle changes in the gravity field, suggesting topography that is locally supported by varied crustal thickness. Overall, the multiple gravity lineament orientations suggest that they have multiple origins. In particular, we propose that a further asthenospheric inter-fingering instability mechanism could occur from pressure variations in the asthenosphere arising from regional topography and such a mechanism may explain some obliquely oriented gravity lineaments that have no other obvious origin. 相似文献
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The very steep decrease in density with heliocentric distance makes imaging of coronal density structures out to a few solar
radii challenging. The radial gradient in brightness can be reduced using numerous image processing techniques, thus quantitative
data are manipulated to provide qualitative images. We introduce a new normalizing-radial-graded filter (NRGF): a simple filter
for removing the radial gradient to reveal coronal structure. Applied to polarized brightness observations of the corona,
the NRGF produces images which are striking in their detail. Total-brightness, white-light images include contributions from
the F corona, stray light, and other instrumental contributions which need to be removed as effectively as possible to properly
reveal the electron corona structure. A new procedure for subtracting this background from LASCO C2 white-light, total-brightness
images is introduced. The background is created from the unpolarized component of total-brightness images and is found to
be remarkably time-invariant, remaining virtually unchanged over the solar cycle. By direct comparison with polarized-brightness
data, we show that the new background-subtracting procedure is superior in depicting coronal structure accurately, particularly
when used in conjunction with the NRGF. The effectiveness of the procedures is demonstrated on a series of LASCO C2 observations
of a coronal mass ejection (CME). 相似文献
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Jane M. Reed Francesc Mesquita-Joanes Huw I. Griffiths 《Journal of Paleolimnology》2012,47(2):251-275
Diatoms (Bacillariophyceae; single-celled algae) and ostracods (Ostracoda; shelled microcrustacea) are known for their sensitivity
to salinity. In palaeolimnology, the potential has yet to be tested for quantifying past salinity, lake level, and by inference,
climate change, by application of multiple-indicator transfer functions. We used weighted averaging techniques to derive diatom
(n = 91; r
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= 0.92) and ostracod (n = 53; r
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= 0.83) conductivity transfer functions from modern diatom, ostracod and water chemistry data collected in lakes of central,
western and northern Turkey. Diatoms were better represented across the full gradient than ostracods, at intermediate levels
of conductivity in particular, but both transfer functions were statistically robust. Because transfer functions are not infallible,
we further tested the strength and simplicity of salinity response and the potential for identifying characteristic associations
of diatom and ostracod taxa in different parts of the salinity gradient, to improve palaeoclimate reconstruction. We identified
a subset of 51 samples that contained both diatoms and ostracods, collected at the same time from the same habitat. We used
Two-Way Indicator Species Analysis of a combined diatom-ostracod data set, transformed to achieve numerical equivalence, to
explore distributions in more detail. A clear ecological threshold was apparent at ~3 g l−1 salinity, rather than at 5 g l−1, the boundary used by some workers, equating to the oligosaline-mesosaline boundary. Other salinity boundaries were poorly
defined, indicating lack of a simple, well-defined salinity response. We did, however, define characteristic associations
of taxa, to facilitate the distinction to be drawn between a hydrologically open, fresh lake and an oligosaline lake, in palaeoenvironmental
reconstruction. Over the rest of the salinity gradient, we highlighted the potential for the multi-proxy approach to strengthen
ostracod-based reconstruction in particular, to overcome the problem of broad apparent tolerance ranges in common halophilic
taxa such as Limnocythere inopinata, which often dominate in low-diversity fossil assemblages. The combination of multi-proxy quantitative reconstruction, complemented
by qualitative understanding of ecological responses generated by the analysis, remains a powerful tool in Quaternary palaeoclimate
research. 相似文献
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Recent growth in long-distance migration by non-Scots to remote parts of the Scottish Highlands is evaluated in relation to key explanatory themes in counter-urbanization literature: rural-urban convergence, expansion of the affluent middle class, and changing residential preferences. A survey of in-migrants' motivations and livelihood adjustments reveals the primacy of quality of life considerations and a ‘satisficing’ approach to work, lifestyle and residential location. It is concluded that peripheral area counter-urbanization could be maintained without the context of societal affluence that spawned the movement in the 1960s. 相似文献
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The quasi-geostrophic response of a stratified stream incident upon isolated finite amplitude topography on a f-plane is examined in the limit of a Boussinesq, incompressible, inviscid fluid. Compact solutions are derived subject to the following stipulations: uniform upstream velocity and stratification, a circular obstacle and an entirely isentropic/isopycnic lower surface.It is shown that for a semi-infinite flow domain the criterion for Taylor cap formation (i.e., a region of closed streamlines) is
. However, for the isentropic lower boundary condition the solutions exist (i.e., have physical validity) only if R0F−1 < 0.5. (Here R0 and F refer to the Rossby and Froude numbers defined respectively in terms of the mountain half-width and height.) Also considered are the modifications both to the flow response and to the foregoing existence criterion that are induced by the introduction of an upstream profile comprising two layers of uniform but different stratification. In addition, the relationship of the derived solutions to the results obtained in previous studies is explored, and in particular an outline is given of the impact of adopting the ‘traditional’ simplified lower boundary condition. 相似文献