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Stress Sensitivity of Seismic and Electric Rock Properties of the Upper Continental Crust at the KTB
We test the hypothesis that the general trend of P-wave and S-wave sonic log velocities and resistivity with depth in the pilot hole of the KTB site Germany, can be explained by the progressive
closure of the compliant porosity with increasingly effective pressure. We introduce a quantity θc characterizing the stress sensitivity of the mentioned properties. An analysis of the downhole measurements showed that estimates
of the quantitiy θc for seismic velocities and electrical formation factor of the in situ formation coincide. Moreover, this quantity is 3.5 to 4.5 times larger than the averaged stress sensitivity obtained from
core samples. We conclude that the hypothesis mentioned above is consistent with both data sets. Moreover, since θc corresponds approximately to the inverse of the effective crack aspect ratio, larger in situ estimates of θc might reflect the influence of fractures and faults on the stress sensitivity of the crystalline formation in contrast to
the stress sensitivity of the nearly intact core samples. Finally, because the stress sensitivity is directly related to the
elastic nonlinearity we conclude that the elastic nonlinearity (i.e., deviation from linear stress-strain relationship i.e.,
Hooke's law) of the KTB rocks is significantly larger in situ than in the laboratory. 相似文献
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Yimnang Golbuu Katharina Fabricius Steven Victor Robert H. Richmond 《Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science》2008
This study analyzed how coral communities change along a gradient of increasing exposure to a mud-discharging river in the Enipein Catchment, Pohnpei, Micronesia. Using video transects, we quantified benthic communities at five sites along a gradient moving away from the river mouth towards the barrier reef. The most river-impacted site was characterized by a high accumulation of mud, low coral cover and low coral diversity. Although coral cover leveled off at ∼400 m from the river mouth to values found at the outer-most sites, coral diversity continued to increase with increasing distance, suggesting that the most distant site was still impacted by the river discharges. Fungiidae, Pavona, Acropora, Pachyseris and Porites rus all significantly increased in cover with distance from the river, while Turbinaria decreased. The combined presence and abundance of these six species groups, together with coral species richness, may help to indicate the effects of terrestrial runoff in similar runoff-exposed settings around Micronesia, whereas coral cover is not a sensitive indicator for river impact. Coral reefs are important resources for the people of Pohnpei. To prevent further degradation of this important resource, an integrated watershed approach is needed to control terrestrial activities. 相似文献
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Katharina Marquardt Elena Petrishcheva Rainer Abart Emmanuel Gardés Richard Wirth Ralf Dohmen Hans-Werner Becker Wilhelm Heinrich 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》2010,37(10):751-760
In this study, we address volume diffusion of ytterbium in yttrium aluminum garnet (YAG) using thin-film single crystal diffusion
couples. We employ analytical transmission electron microscopy (ATEM) as a tool for combined microstructural and microchemical
analysis and compare the results to Rutherford backscattering (RBS) analysis. Given the high spatial resolution of the method,
we focus on microstructural changes of the thin-film diffusant source during the diffusion anneal. We evaluate the potential
influence of the associated changes in its transport properties on the evolution of concentration profiles in the single crystal
substrate. This approach allows us to test the reliability of determination of volume diffusion coefficients from thin-film
diffusion experiments. We found that for the chosen experimental setting, the influence of thin-film re-crystallization is
small when compared with the experimental uncertainty and good estimates for the volume diffusion coefficients of Yb in YAG
can be obtained using standard assumptions. Both Yb-concentration profiles analyzed with ATEM and with RBS give similar results.
At 1,450°C and 1 bar, we infer log D
Yb (m2/s) values of −19.37 ± 0.07 (TEM) and −19.84 ± 0.02 (RBS). Although the change in thin-film transport properties associated
with successive crystallization during the diffusion anneal does not play a major role for our experimental setup, this effect
cannot generally be ignored. 相似文献
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Katharina?MarquardtEmail author Gregory?S.?Rohrer Luiz?Morales Erik?Rybacki Hauke?Marquardt Brian?Lin 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2015,170(4):40
Rocks consist of crystal grains separated by grain boundaries that impact the bulk rock properties. Recent studies on metals and ceramics showed that the grain boundary plane orientation is more significant for grain boundary properties than other characteristics such as the sigma value or disorientation (in the Earth’s science community more frequently termed misorientation). We determined the grain boundary character distribution (GBCD) of synthetic and natural polycrystalline olivine, the most abundant mineral of Earth’s upper mantle. We show that grain boundaries of olivine preferentially contain low index planes, in agreement with recent findings on other oxides (e.g. MgO, TiO2, Al2O3 etc.). Furthermore, we find evidence for a preferred orientation relationship of 90° disorientations about the [001] direction forming tilt and twist grain boundaries, as well as a preference for the 60° disorientation about the [100] axis. Our data indicate that the GBCD, which is an intrinsic property of any mineral aggregate, is fundamental for understanding and predicting grain boundary related processes. 相似文献
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We studied 14 presolar SiC mainstream grains for C‐, Si‐, and S‐isotopic compositions and S elemental abundances. Ten grains have low levels of S contamination and CI chondrite‐normalized S/Si ratios between 2 × 10?5 and 2 × 10?4. All grains have S‐isotopic compositions compatible within 2σ of solar values. Their mean S isotope composition deviates from solar by at most a few percent, and is consistent with values observed for the carbon star IRC+10216, believed to be a representative source star of the grains, and the interstellar medium. The isotopic data are also consistent with stellar model predictions of low‐mass asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars. In a δ33S versus δ34S plot the data fit along a line with a slope of 1.8 ± 0.7, suggesting imprints from galactic chemical evolution. The observed S abundances are lower than expected from equilibrium condensation of CaS in solid solution with SiC under pressure and temperature conditions inferred from the abundances of more refractory elements in SiC. Calcium to S abundance ratios are generally above unity, contrary to expectations for stoichiometric CaS solution in the grains, possibly due to condensation of CaC2 into SiC. We observed a correlation between Mg and S abundances suggesting solid solution of MgS in SiC. The low abundances of S in mainstream grains support the view that the significantly higher abundances of excess 32S found in some Type AB SiC grains are the result of in situ decay of radioactive 32Si from born‐again AGB stars that condensed into AB grains. 相似文献
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Alfred Ngomanda Katharina Neumann Astrid Schweizer Jean Maley 《Quaternary Research》2009,71(3):307-318
The third millennium BP crisis of the central African rainforest is not sufficiently understood. The low resolution of most pollen profiles and a large plateau of the calibration curve aggravate the exact dating of the event, and its causal climatic parameters are debated. We present a high-resolution pollen profile from the swamp site Nyabessan in the southern Cameroonian rainforest, covering the period 3100-2300 cal yr BP. Between 3100 and 2500 cal yr BP, the climate was favourable for a regional evergreen forest with Caesalpiniaceae and Lophira and a local Raphia swamp forest. Around 2500/2400 cal yr BP, a significant decrease of mature forest and swamp forest taxa and an increase of pioneers indicate that the rain forest was seriously disturbed and replaced by secondary formations. The dominance of Trema orientalis, a pioneer well adapted to seasonal desiccation, points to a much more accentuated seasonality after 2500 cal yr BP, which seems to be linked to a southwards shift of the ITCZ during the northern hemisphere winter months. We propose that the rain forest crisis between 2500 and 2200 cal BP created favourable conditions for farming and paved the way for a major expansion of Bantu speaking populations. 相似文献
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Long-term analyses of vegetation succession after catastrophic events are of high interest for an improved understanding of succession dynamics. However, in many studies such analyses were restricted to plot-based measurements. Contrarily, spatially continuous observations of succession dynamics over extended areas and time-periods are sparse. Here, we applied a change vector analysis (CVA) to investigate vegetation succession dynamics at Mount St. Helens after the great volcanic eruption in 1980 using Landsat. We additionally applied a supervised random forest classification using Sentinel-2 data to map the currently prevailing vegetation types. Change vector analysis was performed with the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) and the urban index (UI) for three subsequent decades after the eruption as well as for the whole observation time between 1984 and 2016. The influence of topography on the current vegetation distribution was examined by comparing altitude, slope angles and aspect values of vegetation classes derived by the random forest classification. Wilcox- Rank-Sum test was applied to test for significant differences between topographic properties of the vegetation classes inside and outside of the areas affected by the eruption. For the full time period, a total area of 516 km2 was identified as re-vegetated, whereas the area and magnitude of re-growing vegetation decreased during the three decades and migrated closer to the volcanic crater. Vegetation losses were mainly observed in regions unaffected by the eruption and related mostly to timber harvesting. The vegetation type classification reached a high overall accuracy of approximately 90%. 36 years after the eruption, coniferous and deciduous trees have established at formerly devastated areas dominating with a proportion of 66%, whereas shrubs are more abundant in riparian zones. Sparse vegetation dominates at regions very close to the crater. Elevation was found to have a great influence on the reestablishment and distribution of the vegetation classes within the devastated areas showing in almost all cases significant differences in altitude distribution. Slope was less important for the different classes - only representing significantly higher values for meadows, whereas aspect seems to have no notable influence on the reestablishment of vegetation at Mount St. Helens. We conclude that major vegetation succession dynamics after catastrophic events can be assessed and characterized over large areas from freely available remote sensing data and hence contribute to an improved understanding of succession dynamics. 相似文献
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Grain boundaries influence many physical and chemical properties of crystalline materials. Here, we perform molecular dynamics simulations to study the structure of a series of [100] symmetric tilt grain boundaries in Mg2SiO4 forsterite. The present results show that grain boundary energies depend significantly on misorientation angle. For small misorientation angles (up to 22°), grain boundary structures consist of an array of partial edge dislocations with Burgers vector $\frac{1}{2}[001]$ associated with stacking faults and their energies can be readily fit with a model which adds the Peach-Koehler equation to the Read-Shockley dislocation model for grain boundaries. The core radius of partial dislocations and the spacing between the partials derived from grain boundary energies show that the transition from low- to high-angle grain boundaries occurs for a misorientation angle between 22° and 32°. For high misorientation angles (32.1° and 60.8°), the cores of dislocations overlap and form repeated structural units. Finally, we use a low energy atomic configuration obtained by molecular dynamics for the misorientation of 12.18° as input to simulate a high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) image. The simulated image is in good agreement with an observed HRTEM image, which indicates the power of the present approach to predict realistic atomic structures of grain boundaries in complex silicates. 相似文献
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Simulation of DNAPL infiltration and spreading behaviour in the saturated zone at varying flow velocities and alternating subsurface geometries 总被引：3，自引：1，他引：2
Katharina Erning Sibylle Grandel Andreas Dahmke Dirk Schäfer 《Environmental Earth Sciences》2012,65(4):1119-1131
The influence of varying groundwater flow velocities on DNAPL infiltration and spreading behaviour was investigated by multiphase
modelling using TMVOC and PetraSim. The multiphase models were calibrated by results of previously conducted laboratory experiments
for the complete spatio-temporal range of the experiments. The small scale 2D scenario modelling was applied to qualify and
quantify changes in position, architecture, geometry and dissolution of a TCE body in a fully saturated homogeneous sandy
medium. The applied flow velocities ranging from 0.05 up to 40.00 m/day exhibited that the DNAPL TCE is affected even at the
lowest flow velocity in its position, its size and its architecture. Additionally, several impermeable lenses with simple
geometry were assumed in the model, to investigate the influence of stratified subsoil. In the experimental set-ups, the DNAPL
body reacts more sensitive to the applied groundwater flow velocities than to the geometrical set-up of the scenarios. A possible
consequence can be the transportation and displacement of a DNAPL pool due to natural or anthropogenic induced high groundwater
flow velocities, as by Pump and Treat facilities, complicating site investigation process and planning of remediation activities. 相似文献
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Katharina?Marquardt Elena?Petrishcheva Emmanuel?Gardés Richard?Wirth Rainer?Abart Wilhelm?Heinrich 《Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology》2011,162(4):739-749
Yb-Y inter-diffusion along a single grain boundary of a synthetic yttrium aluminium garnet (YAG) bicrystal has been studied
using analytical transmission electron microscopy (ATEM). To investigate the diffusion, a thin-film containing Yb as the diffusant
was deposited perpendicular to the bicrystal grain boundary by pulsed laser deposition (PLD). Structural properties and their
change with time in both the diffusant source and the grain boundary are reported. The diffusion profiles are incorporated
in a numerical diffusion model, which is applied to determine the grain boundary diffusion coefficient, D
gb
, at 1.723 K it is equal to 3 × 10−15 m2/s. We find that grain boundary diffusion is 4.85 orders of magnitude faster than volume diffusion, which was determined from
the same diffusion experiment. This result is discussed in the context of special versus general grain boundaries. Finally,
we successfully tested the capability of synchrotron-based nano-X-ray fluorescence analysis to map micro-chemical patterns
in two dimensions with sub-micrometre resolution. 相似文献