Sulphate incorporation in monazite lattice and dating the cycle of sulphur in metamorphic belts     

Antonin T. Laurent  Anne-Magali Seydoux-Guillaume  Stéphanie Duchene  Bernard Bingen  Valérie Bosse  Lucien Datas 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2016,171(11):94

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The mechanical state of the lithosphere in the Altiplano-Puna segment of the Andes     

Claude Froidevaux  Bryan L. Isacks 《Earth and Planetary Science Letters》1984,71(2):305-314

Information about topography, the shape of the geoid, seismicity, Neogene deformation and volcanism in the region of Altiplano-Puna of western South America is used to analyse the state of stress across the convergent plate margin in terms of the effects of topography and simple models of its compensation. An average elevation near 4 km is consistent with compensation by a yet unresolved combination of crustal root and hot uppermost mantle producing a geoid high of 22–27 meters, average horizontal compressive stress (in excess of a reference sea level lithostatic value) of 390 bars in a 150 km thick lithosphere, and an average shear stress of 170 bars along a 30° dipping interplate boundary. The basis for these estimates is evidence for a neutral to extensional stress regime within the high plateau contrasted with a compressional regime on the eastern slopes and along the interplate boundary itself. Comparison with other plateaus in a convergent plate tectonic setting suggests an evolutionary sequence from compressional to extensional tectonics as elevation of the plateau increases.  相似文献   

Practical method for drawing a VGP path     

Maxime Le Goff  Bernard Henry  Lucien Daly 《Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors》1992,70(3-4):201-204

A statistical method is proposed for the smoothing of polar wander paths and for giving their confidence limits by the mean of successive ellipses. The method is fully parametrical and is based on the relations between the inertia matrix and the parameters of the Fisher distribution, from which a bivariate form is deduced. An elementary tensorial calculation gives the parameters of the confidence ellipse around a vectorial weighted mean, for any unimodal set of vectors. This model can also be used for other statistical tests, wherever the rotational symmetry hypothesis is not consistent (i.e. the fold test).  相似文献   

Shear deformation zones along major transform faults and subducting slabs   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

D. A. Yuen  L. Fleitout  G. Schubert  C. Froidevaux 《Geophysical Journal International》1978,54(1):93-119

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Comparison of automatic classification methods applied to lake geochemical samples   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

J. -M. Jaquet  R. Froidevaux  J. -P. Vernet 《Mathematical Geology》1975,7(3):237-266

Geochemical samples from part of Lake Geneva were analyzed for 29oxides and trace elements. The variables and samples were subjected to R- and Q-mode analyses. The following techniques were applied in sequence: data transformation (normalization and standardization), data reduction (principal component and factor analysis), and automatic classification (dendrograph). The data were treated using various combinations of these techniques, and the resulting classifications evaluated by means of several criteria. The best classification of the samples is given by a cluster analysis performed on four principal components computed from standardized variables. The discriminatory power of the variables also was measured and determined to depend on their degree of intercorrelation. As a final result, the 29original variables were reduced to four components and the sediment samples classified into four facies, leading to easily interpretable geochemical maps.  相似文献   

Transient and steady-state creep of pure forsterite at low stress     

W.B. Durham  C. Froidevaux  O. Jaoul 《Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors》1979,19(3):263-274

Thirty-one single crystals of synthetic forsterite, Fo₁₀₀, were deformed in 69 compressional creep tests in a 0.1-MPa confining atmosphere of H₂ + Ar. Temperature ranged from 1753 to 2023 K and stress σ (= σ₁ - σ₃) from 1.5 to 37.8 MPa. Steady-state creep under these conditions follows an empirical law of the form: strain rate $\text{?}\text{?}\text{= A}{}_{\mathrm{zigma;}}{}^{\mathrm{n}}\text{exp}\text{(}\text{?Q}\text{RT}\text{)}$ where A, n, and Q are constants. General characteristics of Fo₁₀₀ creep — uniformity of strain, shape change as a function of orientation of σ, relative deformation resistance of different orientations — match those of natural olivine single crystals of composition Fo₉₂. Specific constants in the flow law, however, are distinctly new: for σ oriented along [111]_c (equidistant from the three principal crystallographic axes), values for Fo₁₀₀ are n = 2.9 ± 0.2 and Q = 0.67 ± 0.03 MJ/mol (160 ± 7 kcal/mol). A single law covers the range 3 < σ < 30 MPa and 1753 < T < 1953 K. Steady-state deformation is preceded by a transient period of strain softening. High strain rates at σ ? 10 MPa render the transient barely resolvable; it apparently displaces the steady-state flow law by approximately ?0.5% in strain. At σ ? 7.8 MPa, the amount of strain imparted to a sample of the [101]_c orientation is typically <0.1% after one hour.  相似文献   

Deep seismic reflection and refraction profiling along the Aquitaine shelf (Bay of Biscay)   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Bertrand Pinet  Lucien Montadert  ECORS Scientific Party 《Geophysical Journal International》1987,89(1):305-312

Summary. The 300 km ECORS - Bay of Biscay profile was carried out along the Aquitaine shelf and comprised a complete set of experiments including zero-offset and 7.5 km constant offset vertical seismic reflection and six expanding spread profiles. Large offset recordings were fundamental for the definition of the layered lower crust and the Moho, while ESPs provided decisive complementary information for the geological interpretation. These data show a strong variation in crustal thickness from about 20 km beneath the rifted Parentis basin, a failed arm of the oceanic Bay of Biscay, up to 35 km to the north below the Armorican shelf, in the Hercynian domain, and to the south below the Cantabria shelf, in the vicinity of the Pyrenean deformation front. The results have important implications for the behaviour of the crust during the formation of rifted sedimentary basins and during continental collision.  相似文献   

Speciation of naturally-accumulated uranium in an organic-rich soil of an alpine region (Switzerland)     

Simona Regenspurg  Camille Margot-Roquier  Pascal Froidevaux  Pilar Junier 《Geochimica et cosmochimica acta》2010,74(7):2082-2098

Very high concentrations of uranium (up to 4000 ppm) were found in a natural soil in the Dischma valley, an alpine region in the Grisons canton in Switzerland. The goal of this study was to examine the redox state and the nature of uranium binding in the soil matrix in order to understand the accumulation mechanism. Pore water profiles collected from Dischma soil revealed the establishment of anoxic conditions with increasing soil depth. A combination of chemical extraction methods and spectroscopy was applied to characterize the redox state and binding environment of uranium in the soil. Bicarbonate extraction under anoxic conditions released most of the uranium indicating that uranium occurs predominantly in the hexavalent form. Surprisingly, the uranium redox state did not vary greatly as a function of depth. X-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy (XANES), confirmed that uranium was present as a mixture of U(VI) and U(IV) with U(VI) dominating. Sequential extractions of soil samples showed that the dissolution of solid organic matter resulted in the simultaneous release of the majority of the soil uranium content (>95%). Extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy also revealed that soil-associated uranium in the soil matrix was mainly octahedrally coordinated, with an average of 1.7 axial (at about 1.76 Å) and 4.6 to 5.3 equatorial oxygen atoms (at about 2.36 Å) indicating the dominance of a uranyl-like (UO₂²⁺) structure presumably mixed with some U(IV). An additional EXAFS signal (at about 3.2 Å) identified in some spectra suggested that uranium was also bound (via an oxygen atom) to a light element such as carbon, phosphorus or silicon. Gamma spectrometric measurements of soil profiles failed to identify uranium long-life daughter products in the soil which is an indication that uranium originates elsewhere and was transported to its current location by water. Finally, it was found that the release of uranium from the soil was significantly promoted at very low pH values (pH 2) and increased with increasing pH values (between pH 5 and 9).  相似文献   

Sedimentological and stratigraphic evolution of northern Lebanon since the Late Cretaceous: implications for the Levant margin and basin     

Nicolas Hawie  Remy Deschamps  Fadi H. Nader  Christian Gorini  Carla Müller  Delphine Desmares  Ahmed Hoteit  Didier Granjeon  Lucien Montadert  François Baudin 《Arabian Journal of Geosciences》2014,7(4):1323-1349

This paper presents an updated review of the Upper Mesozoic and Cenozoic sedimentological and stratigraphic evolution of the Levant margin with a focus on the northern Lebanon. Facies and microfacies analysis of outcrop sections and onshore well cores (i.e., Kousba and Chekka) supported by nannofossil and planktonic foraminifers biostratigraphy, allowed to constrain the depositional environments prevailing in the Turonian to Late Miocene. The “Senonian” (a historical term used to define the Coniacian to Maastrichtian) source rock interval was subdivided into four sub-units with related outer-shelfal facies: (1) Upper Santonian, (2) Lower, (3) Upper Campanian, and (4) Lower Maastrichtian. This Upper Cretaceous rock unit marks the major drowning of the former Turonian rudist platform. This paper confirms the Late Lutetian to Late Burdigalian hiatus, which appears to be a direct consequence of major geodynamic events affecting the Levant region (i.e., the continued collision of Afro-Arabia with Eurasia), potentially enhanced by regressional cycles (e.g., Rupelian lowstand). The distribution of Late Burdigalian–Serravallian rhodalgal banks identified in northern Lebanon was controlled by pre-existing structures inherited from the pulsating onshore deformation. Reef barriers facies occur around the Qalhat anticline, separating an eastern, restricted back-reef setting from a western, coastal to open marine one. The acme of Mount Lebanon’s uplift and exposure is dated back to the Middle–Late Miocene; it led to important erosion of carbonates that were subsequently deposited in paleo-topographic lows. The Late Cretaceous to Cenozoic facies variations and hiatuses show that the northern Lebanon was in a higher structural position compared to the south since at least the Late Cretaceous.  相似文献   

New phase-coherent measurements of pulsar braking indices     

Margaret A. Livingstone  Victoria M. Kaspi  Fotis P. Gavriil  Richard N. Manchester  E. V. G. Gotthelf  Lucien Kuiper 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2007,308(1-4):317-323

Pulsar braking indices offer insight into the physics that underlies pulsar spin-down. Only five braking indices have been measured via phase-coherent timing; all measured values are less than 3, the value expected from magnetic dipole radiation. Here we present new measurements for three of the five pulsar braking indices, obtained with phase-coherent timing for PSRs J1846-0258 (n=2.65±0.01), B1509-58 (n=2.839±0.001) and B0540-69 (n=2.140±0.009). We discuss the implications of these results and possible physical explanations for them.   相似文献