Multiscale Terrain Analysis of Multibeam Bathymetry Data for Habitat Mapping on the Continental Slope   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Margaret F. J. Wilson  Brian O'Connell  Colin Brown  Janine C. Guinan  Anthony J. Grehan 《Marine Geodesy》2007,30(1):3-35

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Overbreak and underbreak in underground openings Part 2: causes and implications   总被引：7，自引：0，他引：7  

J. A. Ibarra  N. H. Maerz  J. A. Franklin 《Geotechnical and Geological Engineering》1996,14(4):325-340

Summary The newly developed light sectioning method has been used to investigate some of the causes and costs of overbreak and underbreak. Investigations at the Aquamilpa Hydroelectric Project in Mexico have shown decreased overbreak and increased underbreak as a result of increased rock quality and decreased explosive energy. A new measure of explosive energy, the perimeter powder factor (PPF), has been defined and shown to be useful in the context of tunnel-wall rock damage. Tentative results indicate that explosive energy (PPF) may be a more important factor in producing underbreak, whereas rock quality may be a greater factor in producing overbreak. A site-specific equation is given for predicting overbreak or underbreak as a function of rock quality and explosive energy, with an evaluation of the cost of underbreak and overbreak.  相似文献   

Optimal placement of dampers and actuators based on stochastic approach     

Franklin Y. Cheng  Hongping Jiang  Xiaozhe Zhang Ph.D. Candidate 《地震工程与工程振动(英文版)》2002,1(2):237-249

A general method is developed for optimal application of dampers and actuators by installing them at optimal location on seismic-resistant structures. The study includes development of a statistical criterion, formulation of a general optimization problem and establishment of a solution procedure. Numerical analysis of the seismic response in time-history of controlled structures is used to verify the proposed method for optimal device application and to demonstrate the effectiveness of seismic response control with optimal device location. This study shows that the proposed method for the optimal device application is simple and general, and that the optimally applied dampers and actuators are very efficient for seismic response reduction.  相似文献   

The influence of floodplain geohydrology on the distribution of Sarcocornia pillansii in the Olifants Estuary on the West Coast, South Africa     

Thomas G. Bornman  Janine B. Adams  Guy C. Bate 《Journal of Arid Environments》2004,56(4):603

The distribution of Sarcocornia pillansii (Moss) A.J. Scott was determined by water-table depth and electrical conductivity (EC) of the groundwater. Where the groundwater was accessible (<1.5 m) and had a low EC (<80 mS cm⁻¹), S. pillansii extended its roots down to the water-table where a suitable water potential gradient was shown to exist between the soil and roots. In areas where the groundwater was too deep and/or hypersaline, the plants grew on hummocks. The unconfined aquifer below the floodplain is linked to the estuary and although diurnal tidal waves were dampened, water-table level fluctuations were recorded between tidal events. The complex geomorphology of the floodplain influences groundwater flow, in turn affecting the distribution of the salt marsh vegetation.  相似文献   

The age of glacier peak tephra in west-central Montana     

Peter J. Mehringer  John C. Sheppard  Franklin F. Foit 《Quaternary Research》1984,21(1):36-41

At Sheep Mountain Bog, near Missoula, Montana, a late-glacial tephra, that probably fell in late summer, is preserved as an 8-mm-thick graded bed overlain by another 8 mm of redeposited ash mixed with lake deposits. Sediment surrounding the ash was ¹⁴C dated to about 11,200 yr B.P. Electron-microprobe analyses of the volcanic glass and hornblende phenocrysts from this ash layer indicate that they are similar in major-element chemistry to those of Glacier Peak layer G previously considered to be about 12,000 yr old or older.  相似文献   

Laboratory tests as a basis for the control of sewage sludge dumping at sea     

Frances L Franklin 《Marine pollution bulletin》1983,14(6):217-223

Toxicity and bioaccumulation studies were carried out on a number of UK sewage sludges to determine whether laboratory experiments could be used to regulate sludge dumping at sea. Whilst the acute toxicity of sewage sludges to adult marine organisms was generally low, shrimp larvae were found to be up to 500 times more sensitive than adults of the same species. No significant bioaccumulation of mercury or cadmium could be detected following up to 60 days exposure of fish, shrimps and mussels to the most heavily contaminated sludges available, although there was some uptake of lead, zinc and copper.  相似文献   

Landscapes of voluntarism: New spaces of health, welfare and governance     

Janine Wiles 《New Zealand geographer》2007,63(3):228-229

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The Use of Invertebrates in Ground Water Monitoring: A Rising Research Field   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Florian Malard  Sandrine Plenet  Janine Gibert 《Ground Water Monitoring & Remediation》1996,16(2):103-113

The use of invertebrates as biomonitors of ground water quality is a relatively new approach that has come of age with the development of ground water ecology. The benefits of such an approach are illustrated by four examples of field biomonitoring from several sites in various hydrogeological settings. Contamination of the interstitial zone by heavy metals in some sectors of the Rhóne River (France) was shown by the scarcity of insect species; sewage pollution in the saturated zone of a karstic aquifer was indicated by the low relative abundances of stygobites as compared with those of stygophiles and stygoxenes; and enrichment with organic matter of an underflow was clearly demonstrated by the extremely high density of ground water invertebrates such as oligochaetes, ostracods, and isopods. Examination of the spatial changes in the composition and abundance of invertebrate assemblages was also useful in determining the direction and intensity of water fluxes between a river and its underflow, as well as in delineating the reduced or oxidized zones in a manganese-polluted aquifer. Finally, the selected case studies emphasized the variety of methodological approaches that could be developed in ground water contamination biomonitoring, as well as the complementary and sometimes new information provided by this innovative method in comparison with that obtained by conventional pollution monitoring techniques.  相似文献   

Secular resonance,solar spin down,and the orbit of Mercury     

William R. Ward  G. Colombo  F.A. Franklin 《Icarus》1976,28(4):441-452

A mechanism capable of accounting for the large mean eccentricity (0.175) and inclination (7°.2) of Mercury is discussed. Provided the gravitational field of the rapidly rotating primordial Sun had a sufficiently large second degree harmonic (i.e., J₂ ? order 10^?3), subsequent solar spin down would drive the orbit of Mercury through two secular resonances with Venus, one involving the precession of the line of apsides, the other one involving the regression of the nodal line. Resonance passage generates contributions to the eccentricity and inclination that are proportional to the square root of the characteristic solar spin down time. We find that an initial solar rotation l period of $\text{P ? 5}\text{1}\text{2}\text{hr}$ guarantees passage through resonance and that a spin down time of $\text{τ = Ω|dΩ/dt|}{}^{\mathrm{?1}}$ of order 10⁶ years could have produced the observed eccentricity and inclination. Such a primordial rotation rate is comparable to the measured rotations of very young stars and the spin down time appears consistent with the time scale derived for magnetic braking of the Sun's rotation by an intense solar wind during a T-Tauri stage of solar evolution.  相似文献   

DISCUSSION Plan-view curvature of foreland basins and its implications for the palaeostrength of the lithosphere underlying the Western Alps     

Janine Zweigel  & Peter Zweigel 《Basin Research》1998,10(2):271-278

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