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Parson Lindsay Sauter Daniel Mendel Véronique Patriat Philippe Searle Roger 《Marine Geophysical Researches》1997,19(6):535-552
Geophysical data from 900 km of the Southwest Indian Ridge are used todescribe the pattern of evolution of the plate boundary between 61° Eand 70° E over the past 20 million years. The SWIR is anobliquely-opening, ultra slow-spreading axis, and east of61° E comprises a series of ridge sections, each about 100–120 kmin length. The orientation of these sections varies fromsub-orthogonal to oblique to the approximately N–S spreadingdirection. In general, the suborthogonal sections are shallower, commonlysubdivided into an array of discrete axial segments, and carry recognisablecentral magnetic anomalies. The majority of the oblique sections are single,continuous rifts without continuous axial magnetic signatures.Morphotectonics of the Southwest Indian Ridge crust have not previously beenwell constrained off-axis, and we here present sidescan sonar andswath bathymetric data up to 100 km from the ridge to demonstrate the complexities of its spatial and temporal evolution.A model is proposed that the segmentation style correlates with analong-axis variation between: (a) relatively thick crustal sections which overlie mantle sections with higher magmatic supply created in orthogonally-spreading segments and (b) those oblique sections associated with cooler, magmatically-starved mantle and thinner crust. These latter sections are formed at broad offset zones in theplate boundary, more precisely defined on faster-spreading ridges asnontransform discontinuities. The nonsystematic pattern of crustalconstruction, extensional basin formation and the absence of extension-parallel traces of discontinuities off-axis suggest that the oblique spreading sections are not fixed in space or time. 相似文献
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Edward A. Parson Robert W. Corell Eric J. Barron Virginia Burkett Anthony Janetos Linda Joyce Thomas R. Karl Michael C. MacCracken Jerry Melillo M. Granger Morgan David S. Schimel Thomas Wilbanks 《Climatic change》2003,57(1-2):9-42
Based on the experience of the U.S. National Assessment, we propose a program of research and analysis to advance capability for assessment of climate impacts, vulnerabilities, and adaptation options. We identify specific priorities for scientific research on the responses of ecological and socioeconomic systems to climate and other stresses; for improvement in the climatic inputs to impact assessments; and for further development of assessment methods to improve their practical utility to decision-makers. Finally, we propose a new institutional model for assessment, based principally on regional efforts that integrate observations, research, data, applications, and assessment on climate and linked environmental-change issues. The proposed program will require effective collaboration between scientists, resource managers, and other stakeholders, all of whose expertise is needed to define and prioritize key regional issues, characterize relevant uncertainties, and assess potential responses. While both scientifically and organizationally challenging, such an integrated program holds the best promise of advancing our capacity to manage resources and the economy adaptively under a changing climate. 相似文献
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Chemical weathering is commonly assumed to be negligible in the denudation of alpine landscapes. Spot samples of dissolved ions from alpine streams on the Blanca Massif had minimum average concentrations in 1978 of 35.53 ppm (range: 14.9–75.6 ppm) and in 1979, 20.23 ppm (range: 7.35–35.0 ppm). Correlations between the variation in the concentration of dissolved ions (silica, pH, and minimum ion concentration) and the elevations and drainage-basin areas of sample sites were significant at the 0.05 level. 相似文献
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C.R. German S.A. Bennett D.P. Connelly A.J. Evans B.J. Murton L.M. Parson R.D. Prien E. Ramirez-Llodra M. Jakuba T.M. Shank D.R. Yoerger E.T. Baker S.L. Walker K. Nakamura 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》2008,273(3-4):332-344
We report results from an investigation of the geologic processes controlling hydrothermal activity along the previously-unstudied southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge (3–7°S). Our study employed the NOC (UK) deep-tow sidescan sonar instrument, TOBI, in concert with the WHOI (USA) autonomous underwater vehicle, ABE, to collect information concerning hydrothermal plume distributions in the water column co-registered with geologic investigations of the underlying seafloor. Two areas of high-temperature hydrothermal venting were identified. The first was situated in a non-transform discontinuity (NTD) between two adjacent second-order ridge-segments near 4°02′S, distant from any neovolcanic activity. This geologic setting is very similar to that of the ultramafic-hosted and tectonically-controlled Rainbow vent-site on the northern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The second site was located at 4°48′S at the axial-summit centre of a second-order ridge-segment. There, high-temperature venting is hosted in an 18 km2 area of young lava flows which in some cases are observed to have flowed over and engulfed pre-existing chemosynthetic vent-fauna. In both appearance and extent, these lava flows are directly reminiscent of those emplaced in Winter 2005−06 at the East Pacific Rise, 9°50′N and reference to global seismic catalogues reveals that a swarm of large (M 4.6−5.6) seismic events was centred on the 5°S segment over a 24 h period in late June 2002, perhaps indicating the precise timing of this volcanic eruptive episode. Temperature measurements at one of the vents found directly adjacent to the fresh lava flows at 5°S MAR (Turtle Pits) have subsequently revealed vent-fluids that are actively phase separating under conditions very close to the Critical Point for seawater, at 3000 m depth and 407 °C: the hottest vent-fluids yet reported from anywhere along the global ridge crest. 相似文献
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Edward A. Parson 《Climatic change》1996,34(3-4):315-326
Conclusions These three dilemmas embody the hardest, most important, and most enduring problems of doing assessment well. None admits simple, obvious solutions. Each can be managed better or worse for any particular assessment endeavor, but doing better requires clear understanding of the purpose of the endeavor. What ways of combining different pieces of disciplinary knowledge, of making projections, and of pursuing policy relevance are more or less appropriate will differ, depending on whether a project seeks to characterize uncertainties and gaps in knowledge; to advise a particular policy choice; to support dialog among policy actors; or to facilitate inquiry into relevant values or goals. Evaluation of the relative emphasis, the methods, and the process of an assessment can only be done relative to some such purpose.Of course, some pitfalls may be so serious as to thwart any purpose, as Risbey et al.'s discussion of the global modeling movement reminds us. The global models' most obvious pitfalls — inadequate treatment of uncertainty, neglect of economic adjustment, excessive confidence in predictions — have largely been seen and avoided by the current assessment community (though there may be more to be learned even here). But on the subtler questions of how assessment or modeling can contribute most usefully to policy, little progress has been made since the 1970s. Consequently, though assessment has advanced in many ways since then, IA remains at risk of suffering the same fate as the global models: a cycle of early enthusiasm, followed by a reaction of frustration and excessive, undeserved rejection.Current endeavors in IA have made substantial contributions to identifying and prioritizing knowledge needs, less to informing specific policy choice. Further progress cannot be guided by a single canonical view of what assessment should be and do, but will proceed incrementally down multiple paths. Several paths currently appear promising: analytic approaches to better represent multiple actors, diverse preferences, and multiple valued outcomes; better representation and application of uncertainty, including diverse expert opinion; novel methods to link assessment with policy communities; and broader participation in assessment teams and explicit focus on negotiating and elaborating pragmatic, viable critical standards. Risbey et al.'s call to develop institutions for critical reflection, mutual learning, and self-improvement will be crucial in developing and evaluating the progress made down these paths.Morgan and Dowlatabadi's checklist for desiderata of IA is a good starting point for a conversation about assessment standards, to which I would propose a few extensions and elaborations. First, there should be not just multiple assessments, but multiple assessment projects using diverse collections of methods and approaches. Second, assessment projects should explore novel methods for connecting their work with the policy community. Third, the approach should be iterative not just within each project, but across assessment projects and between them and the policy community. Fourth, assessors should not be embarrassed by, or seek to disguise, results that are merely illustrative, non-authoritative, and suggestive; these should be acknowledged as such, and the vigorous questioning and critique that will come, including partisan critique, accepted. Do not seek to avoid criticism by mumbling. An important limit to this checklist approach is suggested, though, by the way various writers have groped to define assessment standards by analogy to other domains, revealing how limited is our understanding of how to evaluate assessment. Risbey et al. refer to connoisseurship, as if assessment is like fine wine; Clark and Majone (1985) refer to artistic criticism, as if assessment is like opera singing. If these analogies are appropriate, then pursuing a single set of critical standards for assessment is at least premature, possibly erroneous. Rather, there should be a diversity of approaches, perhaps so broad that no single set of criteria for excellence could be defined. The pragmatic middle way between the too-limiting application of a single set of standards, and an anarchic refusal to evaluate, will have to be negotiated, defined, and improved incrementally. 相似文献
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Keeton J. A. Searle R. C. Peirce C. Parsons B. White R. S. Sinha M. C. Murton B. J. Parson L. M. 《Marine Geophysical Researches》1997,19(1):55-64
We present a series of 1:200,000 scale maps of the bathymetry of the Reykjanes Ridge. The data are divided into four maps, extending 630 km along the ridge axis and between 30 and 100 km off-axis. This compilation of bathymetry data is extremely detailed, gridded at approximately 100 m resolution, and with almost no gaps. The Reykjanes Ridge is one of the best examples of a hotspot-dominated ridge, whose characteristics are influenced by its proximity to the Iceland plume. Many fundamental questions may be addressed at the Reykjanes Ridge, which is why the BRIDGE programme identified it as one of its four regional projects. These maps represent a BRIDGE contribution to the general scientific community. 相似文献
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GLORIA imagery of the Lau Basin north of 17°S shows several morphotectonic terrains: a basement ridge and sedimented inter-ridge area in the SE; a nascent triple junction in the NE; a deeply sedimented basinal terrain in the central area; a linear neovolcanic zone striking NNESSW in the NW; and the northern flank of a leaky transform, the Peggy Ridge. Extension is now being accommodated at two main areas of spreading, but as no site of persistent long-term backarc crustal accretion is evident in this 250-km-wide portion of the basin, we conclude that past extension was largely by formation of pull-apart basins and local magmatism. 相似文献
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The junction between oceanic crust generated, within the Antarctic plate, at the Southeast Indian Ridge and the Southwest Indian Ridge has been studied using a SEABEAM swathe bathymetry mapping system and other geophysical techniques between the Indian Ocean Triple Junction (approximately 25°S, 70° E), and a point some 500 km to the southwest (at 28°25 S, 66°35 E). The morphotectonic boundary which marks this trace of the ridge-ridge-ridge triple junction is complex and varies with age. Recent theories proposing a cyclicity of volcanic and tectonic processes at this mode of triple junctions appear to be supported by a series of regularly spaced, en echelon escarpments facing the slowly spreading (0.6 to 0.8 cm a-1, half rate) Southwest Indian Ridge axis. The en echelon escarpments intersect at approximately right angles with the regularly spaced oceanic spreading fabric formed on the Antarctic plate at the Southeast Indian Ridge and together locally flank uplifted northward-pointing corner sections of ocean floor. The origins for the localised elevations are unclear, but may relate to intermittent and/or alternating rifting and volcanic episodes. Variations of degree of asymmetry and/or obliquity in spreading on the Central Indian Ridge and the Southwest Indian Ridge are suggested to explain detailed structural changes along the triple junction trace. It is suggested that discontinuities of the trace may be related to an intermittent development of new spreading centres beneath the most easterly part of the Southwest Indian Ridge, coupled with a more continuous process beneath the faster spreading Central Indian Ridge (2 to 2.5 cm a-1) and the Southeast Indian Ridge (2.5 to 3 cm a-1). A detailed history of triple junction evolution may be thus inferred from basic morphological and structural mapping along the three triple junction traces. 相似文献
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The northwest Hatton Bank margin is an ideal locality to demonstrate the interaction between bottom currents and slope configuration in controlling the distribution and morphology of bottom current deposits. The slope area investigated is isolated from any major terrigenous sediment supply and at present is influenced by the Deep Northern Boundary Current (DNBC). Swath bathymetry and high resolution acoustic data allow us to evaluate both local and regional controls on slope sedimentation and the possible mechanisms for bottom-current velocity variability across a slope setting within the NW European continental margin. The slope exhibits sculpting by bottom currents that flow in a predominantly southwest to northeast direction, and is only locally modified by slope failures. Positive relief features such as the Endymion Spur play an important role in constraining and accelerating bottom-current flow and, consequently, in redistributing sediment along the margin. We demonstrate that the size, morphology and distribution of bottom-current deposits along the slope vary as a function of the interaction between bottom currents, regional slope orientation and local seafloor topography. 相似文献
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