The dynamical and liquid water structure of the small cumulus as determined from its environment

This paper examines the evidence for the model of a small cumulus cloud represented as a quasi static but turbulent entity, growing on the upshear side and decaying on the downshear side. While the air just outside the cloudy outline is, on average, stationary relative to the embedding airmass, there is a slight flow, upwards and forward as though the updraft has induced upward motion in the clear air outside the cloud, on the growing side. On the decaying side the motion is downwards and away from the cloud.This is a flow pattern which is not consistent with the air flowing around the cloud as it moves forward but it agrees well with the picture given. Decayed remnants of cloud are found throughout the air previously occupied by the cloud. The cloud outline moves through the embedding air at a velocity which is almost as large as the relative motion of the subcloud feeding airflow (which is almost free from internal wind shear in strong convection).The mixing of dry air from above the inversion yields the observed diluted liquid water content in small cumuli, if such mixing is allowed to proceed until the cloud density equals that of the surrounding air. Quantitative conditions relating the liquid water to inversion temperature and moisture changes, and to the stability of the environment are presented. The strong vertical mixing from the top of the cloud downwards is important to microphysical processes.     

Central place preference by social geographic groups with reference to the tributary area of Shibuya,Southwest Tokyo

Conclusions Central place preference by social geographic groups is in the Tokyo area less determined by social status than by age and life cycles differentiated by sex.In case of the tributary area of Shibuya a simple classification into young people (male and female bachelors) and married people (husbands and housewives) indicates essential differences in central place preferences between these groups.The bachelors, particularly the young men, are most important for central place orientations in that they show distinctive spatial behavioural patterns in terms of complexity, mobility and intensity of distance-movements. The young people being employed — today joculously called dokushin kizoku (bachelors' aristocracy) because of their salary raised remarkably as well as of their extensive concumer demands and high buying power — are representative for the present-day economically independent young generation. The bachelors judge urban center attractiveness on the basis of shopping facilities and also in terms of atmosphere — meeting friends, strolling through town and amusing themselves. The young people are very much courted by commercial enterprises and are regarded as special trend setters having great influence on the image and vitality of Tokyo's inner urban centers.Most attractive for the young people are the ring centers. In the southwestern suburban areas Shibuya predominates; however generally speaking it is Shinjuku, the western and leading (ring)-center, which draws the young people most strongly. Special centers such as Harajuku, Aoyama and Roppongi are also preferred by this group, often in combination with a ring-center visit. Towards the inner city core (Ginza-Nihonbashi) central place preferences chiefly of the young male bachelors are declining gradually.Compared with young people the married people prefer the ring centers only slightly before the Ginza area, which for shopping is primarily visited by housewives, for going out mainly by husbands. Particularly in the inner city core near the main office districts a typical feature for Tokyo of central place preference is evident. For the salaryman — the most representative business type in the Tokyo area — going out is identical with not going home. This phenomenon depends on the place of work in two aspects. First, spatially in terms of a close connection between office and inner city amusement/shopping centers and additionally distance-movements towards a ring center nearest of the place of work or residence. Second, socially — social activities after working hours mainly carried out with colleagues result in a behavioural pattern, in which a clear differentiation between company and private life appears to be difficult. For not going home there are many reasons — among others the constricted living conditions of Japanese homes as Westerners believe — however, other factors play a much more important role: (i) Mainly the extremely long commuting distances, which allow the salaryman a real leaving home to go out only on Sundays or holidays. Other reasons for this typically Japanese feature closely related to inner city tavern and bar visits, may be seen in (ii) the traditionally very limited participation of Japanese housewives to their husbands' out-door social activities; (iii) a system of charging and crediting expenses to one's personal bank account or the company account; (iv) the personal atmosphere of taverns and bars providing the best chances for communication/relaxation and for overcoming stress and frustrations experienced in the office.Shopping is particularly for housewives the most important motivation for visiting urban centers, in this respect two Japanese characteristics should be mentioned: First, fashion and being well-groomed are, as far as the mass of people particularly the young women is concerned, more highly esteemed than in other urban societies. As a consequence good clothes are much in demand. Purchases of these kinds of articles are most often made in department stores and cause the longest distance-movements. Second, in rank of central goods next to fashion and quality clothes follow standard gifts such as seibo and chugen. The purchase of these articles is apart from the unique custom of giving gifts twice a year typically Japanese also in so far as it contradicts the least-effort criterion in central place theory. Though these patterns mostly bought by housewives or middle-aged and older people are substantially more of daily or periodical than episodical demand, they are related to surprisingly long distance-movements because of usually being bought for image reasons in leading department stores located in higher-ranking more distant urban centers.Typical behaviour for all groups visiting higher-order urban centers is an often used combination of shopping and taking part in out-door activities such as meeting friends/acquaintances, strolling around, going to the cinema or other show performances, eating, drinking and chatting together. This is due to the outstanding facilities available not only in retail-trade but also in the gastronomic, entertainment and amusement sectors.Taken all together, complexity and intensity of central place preferences in Tokyo reflect the higher and different attractiveness of Japanese urban centers compared with that of other urban societies. The urban centers are highly esteemed because of their excellent facilities as well as of their vitality, crowds and activity. These latter characteristics are summarized by the word nigiyaka meaning vivacity, which is most typical for Japanese urban centers. The inner city centers of Tokyo can be regarded in the true sense of this term as urban foci compensating for diverse problems such as environmental pollution or lack of inner urban green areas, making life in the most densely populated area of the world worthwhile.     

Zur geodynamischen Entwicklung des Iran,ein Beispiel intrakratonischer struktureller Vorgänge

Zusammenfassung Die einzelnen tektonischen Einheiten des Iran werden in ihrer faziellen und strukturellen Entwicklungsgeschichte dargestellt. Fazies und Paläogeographie sprechen dafür, daß vom Infrakambrium bis in die Trias der gesamte Raum zwischen dem Persischen Golf und dem Elburs-Gebirge eine einheitliche Entwicklung genommen hat. Eine zusammenhängende Plattformsedimentation in Schelffazies kennzeichnet dieses Gebiet während des gesamten Zeitraums. Es ist ein Teil Gondwanas. Paläomagnetische Befunde stützen diese Aussage. Ozeanische Kruste und damit Hinweise auf die Tethys als eine strukturelle Einheit fehlen während dieser Zeit in diesem Gebiet. Lediglich als Faunenprovinz in Flachmeerfazies ist sie wirksam. Das offene Meer lag vom Infrakambrium bis zur oberen Trias im Norden. In der Trias tritt mit einer Heraushebung, die mit tiefgreifender Lateritisierung verbunden ist, und einer anschließenden Transgression ein grundlegender Wechsel des geodynamischen Regimes ein. Von jetzt an erfolgen die Ingressionen in den Iran von Süden. Eine engräumige fazielle Differenzierung setzt ein. Kontinental beeinflußte Sedimente im Jura zeigen, daß im Iran ein Hochgebiet entstanden ist. Gleichzeitig tretenwahrscheinlich in Anlehnung an langlebige Geosuturen — Ophiolith-Radiolarit-Zonen auf, die als das Ergebnis intrakratonischer Zerbrechung gedeutet werden. Die Ingressionen gehen wahrscheinlich von Tiefseerinnen aus, in denen auch die Ophiolithe konzentriert sind. Der Aufstieg des ophiolithischen Materials an die Oberfläche erfolgte entlang von Linien, an denen sich flach geneigte Unterschiebungen von Kruste unter Kruste ereigneten. Dabei kam es zu erheblichen Krustenverkürzungen. Möglicherweise fällt der Umbruch des tektonischen Regimes in der Obertrias mit der Plattenkollision Arabia-Iran/ Eurasia zusammen. Die Grenze zwischen Arabia-Iran und Eurasia liegt aber nicht im Gebiet des Persischen Golfes und der Zagros-Ketten, sondern muß nördlich des Elburs-Gebirges gesucht werden.

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The individual tectonic units of Iran are represented with respect to the history of the development of their facies and structure. Facies and paleogeography indicate that the entire area between the Persian Gulf and the Elburz Mountains had a uniform development until the Triassic. During the whole period a coherent platform sedimentation remained characteristic of this area, which is part of Gondwana. Paleomagnetic data support this statement. Oceanic crust and thus any indications of the Tethys as a structural unit are absent in this area for that period of time. Its existence is only demonstrated in faunal provinces in shallow-marine facies. From the Infra-Cambrian to the Late Triassic the northern part of the area was open sea. During the Triassic, uplifting processes combined with deep lateritization and subsequent transgression initiated a basic change in the geodynamic regime. From this time on the ingressions into Iran proceeded from the south. At this time differentiation of facies began within small areas. Continental influences in the Jurassic sediments show that an elevated area was formed in Iran. At the same time ophiolite-radiolarite zones occurred, probably along long-lived geosutures. These zones are interpreted to be the result of processes breaking up the craton. Probably, the ingressions started from deep-sea furrows where ophiolite concentrations are found. The ascension of the ophiolitic material to the surface occurred along lines where gently dipping subduction of crust under crust took place. During this process it came to considerable crustal shortening. It is possible that the change in the tectonic regime during the Late Triassic coincided with the collision of the Arabia-Iran and Eurasia plates. The boundary between the Arabia-Iran and Eurasia plates is, however, not to be found in the area of the Persian Gulf and the Zagros mountain ranges, but is assumed to be north of the Elburz Mountains.

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Résumé Chacune des unités tectoniques de l'Iran font l'objet d'un exposé concernant leur développement du point de vue de leur facies et de leur structure. Le facies et la paléogéographie indiquent que, de l'Infracambrien au Trias, tout le territoire compris entre le Golf persique et la chaîne de l'Elbours a eu un développement unitaire. Une sedimentation de plateforme cohérente, à facies de shell, caractérise cette région pendant toute cette période. C'est une partie du Gondwana. Des données paléomagnétiques appuient cette affirmation. Toute croûte océanique et, de ce fait toute indice d'une Téthys en temps qu'unité structurale, sont absent dans cette région à ce moment. Une mer ouverte s'y étend au nord de l'Infracambrien jusqu'au Trias supérieur. Au Trias, un soulèvement, auquel est liée une forte latéritisation, et la trangression qui lui est liée, entraînent un changement radical du régime géodynamique. A partir de ce moment, des ingressions se produisent en Iran à partir du sud introduisant des différences de facies. Des sédiments montrant une influence continentale montrent qu'au Jurassique un fort soulèvement s'est produit en Iran. En même temps, vraisemblablement suivant une géosuture depuis longtemps active, apparurent des zones ophiolothiques à radiolarites, qui indiquent une rupture intracratonique. Les ingressions émanent vraisemblablement d'un sillon océanique profond dans lequel sont également concentrées les ophiolithes. La montée du matériau ophiolithique à la surface s'en suivit le long de lignes suivant lesquelles se sont produits dessous-charriages intracrustaux, d'où sont résultés de notables racourcissements de la crôute. Il est possible que cette rupture du régime tectonique coïncide, au Trias supérieur, avec la collision des plaques de l'Arabie Iran et de l'Ewrasie. La limite entre l'Arabie-Iran et l'Eurasie ne se trouve donc pas dans la région du Golfe persique et des chaînes du Zagros, mais doit être recherchée au nord de la Chaîne de l'Elbours.

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Biofacies analysis of Upper Jurassic marginally marine environments of Portugal,I. The carbonate-dominated facies at Cabo Espichel,Estremadura

The Upper Kimmeridgian to Upper Portlandian sequence at Cabo Espichel (Estremadura, Portugal) consists of a succession of neritic carbonates with intercalations of clastic sediments which range from marls to conglomerates. Eight major facies types could be distinguished based on their macrofauna, microfauna, trace fossils, sedimentary structures, and microfacies. They range from generally very shallow subtidal nodular biomicrites, coral biostromes, and intertidal algal laminites to prodelta silts and marls, fluviatile conglomerates and alluvial red beds.These facies are thought to have been deposited on a very protected, but very shallow inner shelf which was separated from the open sea by a series of diapir ridges in the form of swells or island chains. This extensive lagoon was generally subject to minor salinity fluctuations due to, either freshwater influx from the land, or heavy seasonal rainfall. Periodic uplift of the Hercynian basement in the east caused increased erosion of the land mass and short-time progradation of the continental facies towards the west, before marine sedimentation, due to a fairly high rate of subsidence, resumed.

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Zusammenfassung Das das Oberkimmeridge bis Oberportland umfassende Profil des Cabo Espichel (Estremadura, Portugal) besteht aus einer Wechselfolge von neritischen Kalken uncl klastischen, mergeligen bis konglomeratischen Sedimenten. Die Untersuchung der Makrofauna, Mikrofauna, Spurenfossilien, Sedimentstrukturen und Mikrofazies erlaubt die Unterscheidung von acht Hauptfaziestypen. Sie reichen von knolligen Biomikriten des sehr flachen Subtidals über Korallenbiostrome, intertidale Algenlaminite bis zu Silten und Mergeln des Prodeltabereiches, fluviatilen Konglomeraten und alluvialen Red Bed-Sedimenten.Es wird angenommen, daß sich diese Fazies in einem sehr geschützten und gleichzeitig sehr flachen Innenschelf gebildet haben, der vom offenen Meer durch eine Reihe von Diapir-Rücken in Form von Schwellenoder Insel-Ketten abgetrennt war. Diese ausgedehnte Lagune zeigte etwas schwankende Salinität, die entweder durch Süßwasserzufluß vom Festland oder durch jahreszeitlich bedingte starke Niederschläge verursacht wurde. Periodische Hebungen des herzynischen Kristallinsockels im Osten führten zu verstärkter Abtragung von festländischem Material und kurzzeitigen Vorstößen der kontinentalen Fazies nach Westen, die aufgrund relativ hoher Subsidenz bald wieder von mariner Sedimentation abgelöst wurden.

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Résumé Le profil du Cabo Espichel (Estramadure, Portugal) comportant la série allant du Kimmeridgien supérieur au Portlandien supérieur, consiste en une alternance de calcaires néritiques et de sédiments clastiques, marneux à conglomératiques. Des recherches portant sur la microfaune et la macrofaune, les fossiles en traces, les structures sédimentaires et les microfacies ont permis la distinction de 8 facies principaux. Ceux-ci vont depuis des biomicrites nodulaires de régions subtidales très plates, à des silts et marnes prodeltaÏques, conglomerats fluviatiles et sèdiments rouges alluviaux, en passant par des biostromes coralliens et des laminites algaires intertidales. Il en est déduit que ces facies se sont formés dans un shelf interne à la fois très protégé et très plat qui était séparé de la mer ouverte par une série de rides diapiriques sous forme de seuils et de chaÎnes d'Îles. Cette vaste lagune montrait une salinité quelque peu changeante provenant soit de l'apport continental d'eaux douces, soit de fortes chutes pluviométriques saisonnières. Des soulèvements périodiques du socle cristallin hercynien à l'est conduisirent à une érosion renforcée du matériau continental et à une avancée momentanée du facies continental vers l'ouest qui, par suite d'une subsidence relativement forte a fait rapidement place à une sédimentation marine.

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Zur Bildung migmatitischer Schollenamphibolite aus dem Altkristallin des Aarmassivs (Haslital,Schweiz)

Zusammenfassung Im Gebiet des Gruben- und des Aerlengletschers im Oberhasli (Zentrales Aarmassiv, Schweiz) ist ein präherzynischer Altkristallinkeil aufgeschlossen, der im N und S vom herzynischen Mittagfluhbzw. Zentralen Aaregranit begrenzt wird. Die Gesteine des zur Nördlichen Schieferhülle zu zählenden Altkristallins umfassen weitgehend Biotit-Plagioklas-Gneise meist migmatitischer Natur mit Amphibolit-Einlagerungen und jüngeren Aplitstöcken, die aber noch prä-aaregranitisches Alter haben. Die Amphibolite sind stark in Schollen zerlegt und von pegmatitischem Substrat umgeben, welches als Produkt von unter Stress mobilisierten Gneisanteilen angesehen wird, die in Zonen niedrigeren Druckes wieder rekristallisierten. Dabei reagierten Amphibolite und Mobilisate, was zur Biotitisierung der Amphibole führte. Der Chemismus der neu entstandenen Biotite widerspiegelt den Chemismus der umgewandelten Amphibole und unterscheidet sich von demjenigen der Biotite aus den umliegenden Gneisen. Die Plagioklase des pegmatitischen Neosoms sind durch die Zufuhr des bei der Biotitisierung der Amphibole freigewordenen Calciums etwas An-reicher geworden als diejenigen aus den Biotit-Plagioklas-Gneisen.Das Alter der Schollen- und Pegmatitbildung ist zumindest frühherzynisch.

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In the Gruben- and Aerlengletscher area in the Oberhasli region (Aar massif, Switzerland) a wedge-shaped zone of prehercynian rocks exists, bordered by the hercynian Mittagfluh granite in the N and the hercynian Aar granite in the S. The rocks of this zone consist of migmatitic biotite-plagioclase-gneisses with amphibolitic inclusions and younger aplitic intrusions of pre-granitic age. The amphibolites are broken, having an agmatite structure, and are surrounded by coarse-grained plagioclase-quartz material. From petrographic and geochemical evidences it is assumed that these pegmatites consist of material that has been solved under stress in the gneisses and has recrystallized in zones of lower pressure. By reaction between pegmatitic neosome and amphibolites the amphiboles were transformed into biotites, whose compositions depend on the composition of the amphiboles. These newly-formed biotites are also of a different composition than the biotites from the gneisses. By assimilation of the calcium that was released from the amphiboles by the biotitization, the neosome plagioclases are slightly richer in anorthite than the plagioclases in the gneisses.The migmatitization, e. g. the formation of pegmatitic neosome, is at least of early hercynian age.

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Résumé Dans la région du Grubengletscher et de l'Aerlengletscher dans la vallée de l'Oberhasli (massif de l'Aar, Suisse) un coin de cristallin ancien pré-hercynien est bordé par le granite du Mittagfluh au N et par le granite de l'Aar au S. Cette zone consiste surtout en gneiss à biotite-plagioclase de nature migmatitique avec des inclusions amphibolitiques et de petites intrusions aplitiques d'âge pré-granitique. Les amphibolites ont une structure agmatitique et sont entourées de néosome pegmatitique. Ces pegmatites sont probablement le produit du matériel mobilisé dans les gneiss sous pression et recristallisé dans des zones à pression réduite. Ce matériel a réagi avec les inclusions amphibolitiques dont les amphiboles ont été biotitisées. D'après les nombreuses analyses effectuées à la microsonde, la composition des biotites formées de cette manière reflète celle des amphiboles originelles et se différencie de celle des biotites des gneiss environnants. Ayant assimilé du calcium libéré par la biotitisation des amphiboles, les plagioclases des néosomes pegmatitiques ont une composition un peu plus basique que ceux provenant des gneiss. La formation des structures agmatitiques et des pegmatites date au moins du début de la métamorphose hercynienne.

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Risø 1978: Further investigations into the effects of local terrain irregularities on tower-measured wind profiles

Observations of flow over complex terrain taken at Risø during June–July 1978 and numerical studies confirm earlier findings that small variations in surface elevation have significant effects on mean wind profiles. Measured shear stresses in the nonequilibrium region of the flow are consistent with theory but quite different from those obtained assuming simple flux-profile relationships. These findings imply that flux-profile relationships can be quite complicated over other than simple homogeneous terrain.     

Soil water residence times and solute uptake on a dolomite bedrock—preliminary results

Calcium and magnesium levels have been monitored in slope foot drainage waters on a dolomite bedrock. Both calcium and magnesium rich pulses occur. Short term dissolution experiments demonstrate high calcium levels in solution while other authors have suggested that long residence time groundwater has relatively high levels of magnesium due to calcite precipitation. Patterns of field fluctuations in Ca: Mg ratios can thus be tentatively interpreted in terms of short residence time water of high calcium content mixing with long residence time water of high magnesium content. Fluorometric dye tracing has been used to indicate the orders of magnitude of soil water residence times, suggesting that quickflow components are resident in the system for a few hours to a few days. Further work is in progress.     

Origin of nodular chert in the carbonate rocks of the Kaladgi group (younger precambrian), Karnataka,India

Lensoid, irregular nodules and laminations of chert appear along the bedding planes and laminations of the Vidyanagar Dolomite Member of the Kaladgi Group, Karnataka, India. The field relations of the chert nodules with the host dolomite and evidence on polished hand-specimens clearly demonstrate that the cherts are secondary after dolomite. This contention finds extensive support from thin-sections which reveal floating relict dolomite fragments on a microcrystalline quartz mat, dolomite rhombs in various stages of progressive replacement, polycrystalline quartz rhombs apparently after dolomite. Chertification has also resulted in an aggrading neomorphic recrystallization of dolomicrite into dolomicrospar which rims the dislodged floating fragments of dolomite.Scanning electron microscopic studies revealed three distinct types of surfaces of chert; the polyhedral surface characteristic of microcrystalline quartz, the spongy surface characteristic of chalcedonic quartz (documented in thin-sections as semi-radiating to radiating aggregates of elongated crystals growing on the rhombic surfaces of dolomite, and the intermediate type showing both. The microcrystalline quartz seems to have originated through multinucleation at equally spaced centres on the dolomite mat, whereas the chalcedonic quartz originated by slow but direct and unhindered precipitation into cavities and residual pore-spaces, following dolomitisation. The silica invasion seems to have been accomplished by alkaline interstitial waters charged with silica.The occurrence and relation of chert-nodules with the host dolomite not only helps in unravelling their own origin, but also aids in drawing the dolomitisation curtain and in turn the post-dolomitisation diagenetic modifications of the host carbonates. It may be added, however, that the Kaladgi Carbonates have undergone mineralogical/textural modifications during diagenesis with superimposition of changes affected later, i.e. during tectonism which folded and cross-folded these sediments.     

Evolution of sedimentary basins from the standpoint of petroleum origin and accumulation—an approach for a quantitative basin study

Generation, migration and accumulation of petroleum in a sedimentary basin is a function of geologic, hydrodynamic and thermodynamic development of the basin and the type and amount of organic matter. Temperature history not only determines rate of hydrocarbon generation, but also affects paleohydrodynamics and physical and thermal properties vs depth relationships. Therefore, paleotemperature is the most important parameter. Paleohydrodynamics together with geologic history of the basin is important in shaping secondary migration patterns and accumulation of hydrocarbons.Quantification of all the above processes is complicated. Steps in constructing a deterministic dynamic model for calculation of petroleum potential during a sedimentary basin development are stated and analyzed in this paper. The effect of paleotemperature variations on petroleum generation and on physical properties of sedimentary sequences are illustrated by numerical examples. Computer models will enable exploration geologists to make quantitative exploration predictions in sedimentary basins.