Joint analysis of Rayleigh- and Love-wave dispersion: Issues, criteria and improvements

Joint analysis of Rayleigh- and Love-wave dispersion is performed with the aim of evaluating how their joint use can improve retrieved vertical V_S profiles. In fact, non-uniqueness of the solution and complex energy distribution among different modes represent problems which, if not properly considered, can eventually lead to ambiguous or erroneous subsurface models.Some tests performed on synthetic datasets show that for the deepest layers the improvements obtained by the joint inversion cannot be considered as fully decisive in terms of ultimate solution of non-uniqueness. Nevertheless joint analysis of dispersive properties of Rayleigh and Love waves reveals as a highly valuable tool able to clarify possible interpretation issues of the single components. Under some stratigraphical circumstances, velocity spectra of Rayleigh waves can in fact be extremely complex in terms of energy distribution among different modes and erroneous interpretations of dispersion curves can thus occur. Beneficial aspects of the joint analysis is shown in the light of possible inconsistencies of the Pareto front, since major interpretative errors can be revealed in the outcomes of the proposed inversion procedure. Two field datasets are analysed also suggesting some improvements in the field acquisition procedures aimed at the acquisition of both Rayleigh and Love waves.     

BD+36 3317: An algol type eclipsing binary in Delta Lyrae cluster

In this paper, we present standard Johnson UBV photometry of the eclipsing binary BD+36 3317 which is known as a member of Delta Lyrae (Stephenson 1) cluster. We determined colors and brightness of the system, calculated E(B − V) color excess. We discovered that the system shows total eclipse in secondary minimum. Using this advantage, we found that the primary component of the system has B9 − A0 spectral type. Although there is no published orbital solution, we tried to estimate the physical properties of the system from simultaneous analysis of UBV light curves with 2003 version of Wilson-Devinney code. Then we considered photometric solution results together with evolutionary models and estimated the masses of the components as M₁ = 2.5 M_⊙ and M₂ = 1.6 M_⊙. Those estimations gave the distance of the system as 353 pc. Considering the uncertainties in distance estimation, resulting distance is in agreement with the distance of Delta Lyrae cluster.     

陕西老牛山印支期高Ba-Sr花岗岩成因及其构造指示意义

老牛山复式花岗岩基位于华北克拉通南缘小秦岭地区,锆石LA-ICP-MS U-Pb 定年结果表明,该岩基早期花岗岩--
康坪岩体形成于晚三叠世［（207.9±0.72）］Ma,是早中生代岩浆作用的产物。该岩体具有高硅、富碱、准铝的地球化学特征,
铁镁比值较高,富集LILE（尤其是Sr 和Ba）和LREE,Eu 无明显异常,相对亏损HREE 和Y,可归属为高Ba-Sr 花岗岩。但
与典型埃达克岩相比,康坪岩体Cr,Ni 等相容元素含量较低,而K2O 含量明显偏高,属高钾钙碱性系列,重稀土元素分馏
不显著。在成岩过程中,康坪岩体的地球化学行为主要受角闪石（单斜辉石）、斜长石（钾长石）以及极少量石榴子石的分
离结晶控制。元素和同位素地球化学研究表明,老牛山复式花岗岩基康坪岩体成岩物质主要来自含远洋沉积物俯冲板片析
出流体/ 熔体交代的富集地幔以及古老太华群基底物质所组成的混合源区,是大陆碰撞造山晚期后碰撞“松弛”阶段,俯冲
板片断离后下地壳底部物质发生部分熔融形成的岩浆产物。     

X-ray single-crystal study of spinels: in situ heating

 Two MgAl₂O₄ stoichiometric spinel crystals, one natural and one synthetic, were heated from 25 to 950 °C and studied in situ by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The natural crystal, quenched from 850 °C, was further heated and cooled. Thermal expansion was characterized, and cation partitioning at the various temperatures was determined according to a model purposely constructed for high-temperature bond lengths. It was found that the structural evolution of the samples with temperature depended on order–disorder at room temperature. At the temperatures lower than the beginning of cation exchange, thermal expansion was completely reversible and the oxygen coordinate remained stable in spite of varying temperatures. At the temperature at which cation exchange starts, the disordered samples first tend to order and then to disorder at higher temperatures, at variance with the ordered sample, which tends to disorder steadily. In general, the evolution of the spinel structural state on cooling and heating over the same temperature range and the same time intervals does not follow the same path. In particular, in the 600–950 °C range, only partially reversible order–disorder processes occurred in the time span used for the experiments. Received: 16 July 2001 / Accepted: 8 January 2002     

Intracrystalline relationships in olivine,orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene and spinel from a suite of spinel lherzolite xenoliths from Mt. Noorat,Victoria, Australia

A detailed crystal chemical study of coexisting olivine, orthopyroxene, clinopyroxene and spinel from selected Victorian (Australia) lherzolite suites was carried out by means of single crystal x-ray diffraction and electron probe microanalysis to obtain actual site occupancies. The aim of this study was primarily to characterise the intracrystalline configurations and related cation ordering on sites in major mantle constituents. The results demonstrate that cation ordering on sites is subject to distinctive crystallographic controls which depend on the petrological evolution of the suite. Mg-Fe²⁺ ordering in M1–M2 pyroxene sites depends on variations of the smaller cations, mainly Al^vi, Ti⁴⁺, Fe³⁺, and related configurations of M 1. Pressuresensitive Al^vi is crucial to Fe²⁺, the more ordered clinopyroxene showing high Al^vi configurations which tend to exclude the larger bivalent cations and yield small polyhedral volumes for M 1, M 2, T sites and the unit cell. Conversely, the coexisting orthopyroxene, characterised by lower Al^vi configuration and higher M 1 and unit cell volumes, is relatively more disordered. Olivine is consistent with the coexisting clinopyroxene, the more disordered crystals coexisting with more disordered clinopyroxene, while Al-Mg order in the coexisting spinel shows the reverse relationship. Estimated temperatures of apparent equilibration based on current geothermometers are not considered realistic. Assumptions of ideal cation mixing on sites in pyroxene and spinel are not supported.     

Influence of magma composition and oxygen fugacity on the crystal structure of C2/c clinopyroxenes from a basalt-pantellerite suite

The crystallochemical variations of clinopyroxene in response to changes in f_{O 2} and melt composition have been determined for a basalt-pantellerite suite (Boseti Complex, Main Ethiopian Rift) by crystal structure refinement and microprobe analysis. The pyroxene evolutionary trend has both a “Ca-minimum” and late iron enrichment. During crystallization from basalts to trachytes, clinopyroxene geometry depends mainly on the relationships between T and M2 sites; for example, high SiO₂ activity in the magma causes high Si occupancy in T site, which in turn requires low Ca occupancy in M2 site in order to fulfill the local charge balance requirements. In contrast, clinopyroxene crystallized from acid melts is characterized by high Fe²⁺ (M1) content and therefore by a very large M1 site. Longer 〈M1-O1〉 and M1-O2 bond lengths require shorter T-O1 and T-O2 bond lengths and high Si occupancy in T site. It is concluded that the “Ca-minimum” in the clinopyroxene structure is regarded as the lowest value at which the charge balance requirements are satisfied in a C2/c clinopyroxene structure.     

An Integrated Approach for Realtime Floodmap Forecasting on the Belgian Meuse River

The last important floods of the Meuse river have shown the need to design powerful and real-time forecasting tools. With the support of CESAME and the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UCL, the Service of Hydrologic Studies (SETHY) of the Walloon Ministry of Equipment and Transport developed two models. Hydromax and Hydroaxe. These two complementary and user-friendly applications work with the data provided by the measurement network of SETHY (raingauges, water levels, discharge measurements, weir-gate positions). Hydromax produces local river flow forecasting for the main natural tributaries of the Meuse. These predictions are used by Hydroaxe to compute discharge propagation and water levels all along the Meuse. In Hydromax, the predictions are produced by a grey box model which involves two main parts. A nonlinear production function computes the effective rainfall from the mean areal rainfall. This part is based on a conceptual approach, the river basin being modelled as a reservoir. In the second part, a linear ARX (AutoRegressive model with eXtra input) transfer function (black box), describes the superficial runoff of the effective rainfall towards the watershed outlet. This transfer function is used to compute short term river flow predictions. Hydroaxe uses a Preissmann finite difference scheme to solve the Saint-Venant equations of shallow-water, completed with the Exchange Discharge Model describing the momentum exchanges between the main channel and the floodplains. The optimisation of the computation time requires a one-dimensional approach, based on a dense (1 point/m2) and accurate (15 cm in x, y, z) topography provided by SETHY and carried out through an original combination of technologies: swath bathymetry and airborne laser (Lidar). With the help of a GIS (Geographic Information System) and the DTM (Digital Terrain Model), the water levels calculated by Hydroaxe are transformed in flooded areas, fitted for an easy and fast overview of the extent of the flood event.