Social networks in spatial data infrastructures

Data sharing over the internet is increasingly efficient and increasingly anonymous. This growing anonymity makes it difficult for data users to exchange feedback: interesting ideas, innovations, ancillary data, concerns about data quality, etcetera. For data producers not knowing the end-users makes it more difficult to collect end-user feedback and tailor the production process to users needs. Feedback can be exchanged through social networks, in other words contacts with other users. Very little is known about such social networks in the case of data sharing. In this paper we present an analysis of the social networks associated with two land cover datasets. We found that most users have zero to two links to other users and virtually no links to users in other her organisations. Without these links, it seems almost impossible to identify users of a particular dataset. Internet technology can help but is currently not used to enhance exchange of feedback within the user community.     

"黑色"非晶形三价铁羟基氧化物及其对有害物质的吸附

利用硝酸铁与氨水之间的水解反应,生成了一种新的"黑色"非晶形三价铁羟基氧化物 (FeOOH).该物质在室温下稳定,有较高的硬度,其比表面积约为 300 m2/g,零电荷点 (PZC)在 pH 7～ 8之间.根据 M(o)ssbauer谱的鉴定,它具有四方纤铁矿(β-FeOOH)的结构特征. FeOOH和它与各溶质的表面配合物的 X射线光电光谱结果表明, FeOOH与 Pb、 Zn和GrO(4/2-)之间的反应是物理吸附,而与PO(4/3-)和AsO(4/3-)之间的反应是化学吸附. 3个阴离子及 2个阳离子的吸附等温式结果表明,该三价铁羟基氧化物的吸附能力比常见的铁羟基氧化物强 3倍.磷酸盐与砷酸盐之间的竞争反应结果表明,磷酸盐与 FeOOH的反应比砷酸盐强烈.     

Physically based dynamic run-out modelling for quantitative debris flow risk assessment: a case study in Tresenda,northern Italy

Quantitative landslide risk assessment requires information about the temporal, spatial and intensity probability of hazardous processes both regarding their initiation as well as their run-out. This is followed by an estimation of the physical consequences inflicted by the hazard, preferentially quantified in monetary values. For that purpose, deterministic hazard modelling has to be coupled with information about the value of the elements at risk and their vulnerability. Dynamic run-out models for debris flows are able to determine physical outputs (extension, depths, velocities, impact pressures) and to determine the zones where the elements at risk can suffer an impact. These results can then be applied for vulnerability and risk calculations. Debris flow risk has been assessed in the area of Tresenda in the Valtellina Valley (Lombardy Region, northern Italy). Three quantitative hazard scenarios for different return periods were prepared using available rainfall and geotechnical data. The numerical model FLO-2D was applied for the simulation of the debris flow propagation. The modelled hazard scenarios were consequently overlaid with the elements at risk, represented as building footprints. The expected physical damage to the buildings was estimated using vulnerability functions based on flow depth and impact pressure. A qualitative correlation between physical vulnerability and human losses was also proposed. To assess the uncertainties inherent in the analysis, six risk curves were obtained based on the maximum, average and minimum values and direct economic losses to the buildings were estimated, in the range of 0.25–7.7 million €, depending on the hazard scenario and vulnerability curve used.     

Structure and genesis of the Cubango Megafan in northern Namibia: implications for its hydrogeology

An exploration strategy for groundwater was established and followed in the northern Namibian Cuvelai-Etosha Basin (CEB). The data derived from transient electromagnetics, rotary-drilling, coring and sample investigation were used to refine stratigraphy and hydrostratigraphy, and to develop a 3D map of aquifers within the Cubango Megafan. The results have delineated three major aquifers. The newly found, deep-seated Ohangwena II Aquifer (KOH-2) has the potential of providing significant additional water to the water supply of northern Namibia and Angola. While near-surface aquifers carry predominantly brackish water, freshwater in the deep-seated aquifer is further extended and features good hydraulic properties. To date, only a small part of the hydrogeological potential of arid CEB has been explored and an extension of exploration is needed, including southern Angola. The combination of structural, sedimentological and hydrogeological approaches greatly advanced both the geological and hydrogeological understanding. With regard to the deep-seated aquifer, strict measures need to be applied to ensure that the water in the KOH-2 reservoir is exploited sustainably. Water control areas need to be established to ensure long-term preservation of this newly explored aquifer.     

On the role of subducting oceanic plateaus in the development of shallow flat subduction

Oceanic plateaus, aseismic ridges or seamount chains all have a thickened crust and their subduction has been proposed as a possible mechanism to explain the occurrence of flat subduction and related absence of arc magmatism below Peru, Central Chile and at the Nankai Trough (Japan). Their extra compositional buoyancy could prohibit the slab from sinking into the mantle. With a numerical thermochemical convection model, we simulated the subduction of an oceanic lithosphere that contains an oceanic crustal plateau of 18-km thickness. With a systematic variation, we examined the required physical parameters to obtain shallow flat subduction. Metastability of the basaltic crust in the eclogite stability field is of crucial importance for the slab to remain buoyant throughout the subduction process. In a 44-Ma-old subducting plate, basalt must be able to survive a temperature of 600–700 °C to keep the plate buoyant sufficiently long to cause a flat-slab segment. We found that the maximum yield stress in the slab must be limited to about 600 MPa to allow for the necessary bending to the horizontal. Young slabs show flat subduction for larger parameter ranges than old slabs, since they are less gravitationally unstable and show less resistance against bending. Hydrous weakening of the mantle wedge area and lowermost continent are required to allow for the necessary deformation of a change in subduction style from steep to flat. The maximum flat slab extent is about 300 km, which is sufficient to explain the observed shallow flat subduction near the Nankai Trough (Japan). However, additional mechanisms, such as active overthrusting by an overriding continental plate, need to be invoked to explain the flat-slab segments up to 500 km long below Peru and Central Chile.     

Accuracy assessment of InSAR derived input maps for landslide susceptibility analysis: a case study from the Swiss Alps

In recent years SAR interferometry has become a widely used technique for measuring altitude and displacement of the surface of the earth. Both these capabilities are highly relevant for landslide susceptibility studies. Although there are many problems that make the use of SAR interferometry less suitable for landslide inventory mapping, it’s use in landslide monitoring and in the generation of input maps for landslide susceptibility assessment looks very promising. The present work attempts to evaluate the usefulness and limitations of this technique based on a case study in the Swiss Alps. Input maps were generated from ERS repeat pass data using SAR interferometry. A land cover map has been generated by image classification of multi-temporal SAR intensity images. An InSAR DEM was generated and a number of maps were derived from it, such as slope-, aspect, altitude- and slope form classes. These maps were used to generate landslide and rockfall susceptibility maps, which give fairly well acceptable results. However, a comparison of the InSAR DEM with the conventional Swisstopo DEM, indicated significant errors in the absolute height and slope angles derived from InSAR, especially along the ridges and in the valleys. These errors are caused by low coherence mostly due to layover and shadow effects. Visual comparison of stereo images created from hillshading maps and corresponding DEMs demonstrate that a considerable amount of topographic details have been lost in the InSAR-derived DEM. It is concluded that InSAR derived input maps are not ideal for landslide susceptibility assessment, but could be used if more accurate data is lacking.     

Cause and prevention of well bore clogging by particles

Well bore clogging is caused by accumulation of particles on the well bore. However, all abstracted groundwaters contain particles, but not all wells clog. Apparently, clogging is not caused by the mere presence of particles, but other factors are also involved. Results from on-line well-head readings demonstrate that the clogging rate is not constant: the specific capacity decreases during long abstraction periods and remains constant during intermittent abstraction. Results of particle counts reveal that the particle concentration in the abstracted groundwater shows a peak immediately after switching on the well. This concentration peak is caused by the removal of particles from the well bore that accumulated during the preceding abstraction period. As long as all accumulated particles are removed, no clogging will occur; if not, clogging will occur. Consequently, well bore clogging can be prevented by switching the pump on and off with sufficient frequency to remove the particles accumulated on the well bore during the preceding abstraction period. Moreover, this explanation leads to additional recommendations for well operation, well construction and well design to prevent well bore clogging.     

O-H stretching vibrations in kaolinite,and related minerals

The grades of ordering as represented by I.R. and X-ray spectra for platy kaolinite, fire clay mineral, ball clay, dickite, nacrite and tubular dehydrated halloysite samples of various origin, are related.Well ordered kaolinite, has four bands 3,693, 3,668, 3,652 and 3,620 cm^–1. In less ordered kaolinite, fire clay mineral and ball clay these bands have shifted a little or of the middle two, which are the weakest, only one band may be left (between brackets): less ordered kaolinite: 3,695, 3,667, 3,652 (3,653) and 3,620 cm^–1; fire clay mineral 3,696, 3,668, 3,653 (3,653) and 3,621 cm^–1; ball clay 3,697, 3,652 and 3,621 cm^–1.Dehydrated halloysite has 3,693–3,698, 3,668, 3,650–3,654 and 3,620–3,626 cm^–1 bands. In the most disordered dehydrated halloysite samples (Martinsberg and Baia Mare) only two bands are left at 3,696 and 3,624 cm^–1.Dickite has four bands: 3,708, 3,656, 3,627 and 3,622 cm^–1. For the lesser ordered Mexico sample it is 3,701, 3,652, 3,627 and 3,621 cm^–1. Nacrite also has four bands i.e.: 3,700, 3,650, 3,627 and 3,620 cm^–1.There is, apart from orientation effects, a wide variation in the absolute and especially in the relative intensities of the I.R. bands and X-ray reflections for each of the mineral groups investigated here, but of various origin. The need of a nomenclature adapted to the level of our knowledge about this matter to day and comprising all these variations included those in morphology is emphasized.Quantitative analyses, the adjective meant in the sense of an accuracy of minimal 5%, constitute a difficult problem which is perhaps even wholly impossible to solve with the conventional methods of today.     

Hydrothermal processes and shifting element association patterns in the W—Sn enriched granite of Regoufe, Portugal

Combined research in geochemistry and mineral chemistry of the hydrothermally altered W-Sn specialized granite of Regoufe and its derivatives in Portugal was undertaken to gain insight in the mineralogical changes associated with hydrothermal processes within a single granite cupola. Over 1000 unpolished rock sections were analyzed by automated X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF). On the basis of the XRF data, a small number of these same sections was selected for investigation by electron probe microanalysis. The study focuses on fourteen elements of interest that are measurable with the chosen techniques. Major pervasive alteration within the Regoufe granite is virtually contemporaneous with mineralization in the form of Sn- or W-bearing quartz veins. Two phases of hydrothermal activity are discerned, characterized by different element associations. Fluids of the first phase were especially rich in Sn, Cs and F, whereas the second phase was marked by a W-Ta-Nb-Rb association and presumably carried less F. Phosphorus probably was an important fluid component in both phases. The fluids are inferred to have fractionated from a related granitic magma at depth.Tin, W, Nb and Ta are mainly found as substitutions or inclusions in biotite in the least altered part of the Regoufe granite. Tantalo-niobian rutile is an important control for the distribution of Nb. Tin occurs in rutile and rarely as cassiterite. Muscovitization caused leaching of Ti and Zr from the granite. Tin, supplied or mobilized by the hydrothermal fluids, behaves differently from W, Nb and Ta. In the most altered rocks, muscovite hosts significant amounts of Sn. Whereas Sn is still related to Cs and Ti, elements that probably represent altered biotite, W, Ta and Nb are related to newly formed Rb-rich muscovite. Columbitetantalite was detected embedded in late muscovite. In contrast to Sn, the fluid-supplied W was predominantly deposited as wolframite in quartz veins and the altered granite is not enriched in W compared to the relatively unaltered rocks. Strontium is preferentially hosted by K-feldspar in the least altered granite; Ca in this rock is still partly contained in albite. With increasing albitization and muscovitization, Sr and Ca were released and are partly bound in newly formed apatite. The primary magmatic apatites have near-ideal formula compositions, but mobilization of P during hydrothermal activity resulted in the formation of Mn-rich apatite in all parts of the granite, and Sr- and probably Li-rich varieties in the most altered rocks. Eosphorite, and scorodite as the oxidation product of arsenopyrite, were also formed as a result of P mobilization. In the least altered rocks, Cs is mainly contained in biotite. In the most altered granite and aplitic rocks, enrichment of Cs and Rb is evenly distributed over K-feldspar and micas. The processes that lead to increased Rb are partly independent of Cs enrichment, and apparently related to the W-Nb-Ta mineralization event, separate from the preceding Sn mineralization.     

Synsedimentäre Gleitschollen großen Ausmaßes im terrestrischen Jungtertiär der Karawanken

Zusammenfassung Während der Sedimentation der Rosenbacher Kohleschichten (W.Klaus 1956, Untersarmat) spielten die Karawanken als Liefergebiet der Sedimente kaum eine Rolle. Wie aus der Verbreitung dieser Sedimente im Bereich des Karawankenkörpers zu erkennen ist, wurden zumindest seine nördlichen Teile damit bedeckt. Im Hangenden dieser, aus gut gerollten, tonig sandigen Kiesen (mit hohem Quarzanteil) gebildeten Rosenbacher Kohleschichten treten dann die ersten deutlichen Einschüttungen aus den Karawanken auf. Diese deuten auf eine beginnende Heraushebung hin. Ihre Geröllzusammensetzung zeigt an, daß am Beginn dieser Entwicklung noch ein deutlicher Gerölltransport aus dem Bereich der Periadriatischen Naht über den Nordstamm der Karawanken stattfand.Die fortschreitende Heraushebung unterbrach diese Transportwege und führte zum Lösen großer Schollen von Wettersteinkalk, die nach Norden abglitten. Begünstigt wurde dieser Vorgang durch die Unterlagerung des Wettersteinkalkes durch mächtige Raibler Schiefer, die als Gleitmittel dienten.Die abgeglittenen Schollen (Tafeln bis zu 100–150 m Mächtigkeit und Längserstreckungen bis 2000 m) wurden dann in die grobklastischen Sedimente des Vorlandes konkordant eingelagert. Beide Vorgänge, Lösen und Abgleiten ins Vorland dieser Tafeln deuten auf eine rasche Hebung des Karawankenkörpers hin.Die weitere Hebung brachte dann nur noch sehr grobe Karbonatkiese, die die hangenden Anteile des grobklastischen Jungtertiärs (Bärental Konglomerat) bilden.In der weiteren Folge wurden diese Sedimente noch vom Karawankenkörper über eine kurze Strecke überschoben und auch in die fortschreitende Hebung (Ostteile) miteinbezogen.

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During the sedimentation of the Rosenbacher Kohleschichten (W.Klaus 1956, Untersarmat) the Karawanken were not so important for yielding sediments. As to be seen by the distribution of these sediments in the Karawanken area, at least its northern parts were covered by them. The top layers of the Rosenbacher Kohleschichten, consisting of clayey, sandy, well shaped gravels (with a high percentage of quartz) show first strong embankments from the Karawanken indicating a beginning uplift. Their gravel composition assigns that at the beginning of this development there was yet a transport northward from the area of the Periadriatische Naht through the Nordstamm of the Karawanken on many places.The proceeding uplift interrupted some of these spillways and lead to a discharge of large plates of Wettersteinkalk which glided northward. This procedure was favored by the thick Raibler Schiefer underlying the Wettersteinkalk and working as a lubricant.The down-glided plates (to 100–200 m thickness and a width up to 2000 m) were then embedded concordantly in the coarse clastic sediments of the forelands. Both, discharge and gliding of the plates point to a quick uplift of the Karawanken during Obersarmat.The further uplift yielded only very coarse carbonate gravels forming the top layers of the coarse clastic Young Tertiary (Bärental Konglomerat).Henceforth these sediments were overthrust by the Karawankenbody over a short distance and included in the advancing uplift (Eastern parts).

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Résumé Pendant la sédimentation des Rosenbacher Kohleschichten (W. Klaus 1956, Sarmatien inférieur) les Karawanken ne jouaient pas un grand rôle dans l'apport de sédiments. Tout au moins les sédiments couvraient-ils les pentes nord des Karawanken. Le toit des Rosenbacher Kohleschichten (formées par les graviers sableux et argileux, bien roulés, avec quartz abondant) montrent les premiers remblaiements provenant des Karawanken. Ceuxci indiquent le commencement du soulèvement des Karawanken. La composition des galets indiquent que, au commencement de ce développement, il y avait encore un transport bien marqué de galets depuis la suture périadriatique par dessus le rameau septentrional des Karawanken. Le soulèvement progressif interrompit cette voie de transport et conduisit à la séparation des grands blocaux du Wettersteinkalk, qui glissèrent vers le Nord. Ce processus était favorisé par la présence d'une puissante couche de Schistes de Raibler en-dessous du Wettersteinkalk, agissant comme lubrifiant.Puis les blocaux entraînés (des plaques de 100 à 200 m. d'épaisseur, jusqu'à 2000 m. de long), venaient s'intercaler en concordance dans les sédiments clastiques grossiers de l'avant-pays. Les deux phénomènes, séparation et glissement de ces plaques dans l'avantpays, indiquent un soulèvement rapide des Karawanken. Le soulèvement ultérieur ne délivra que de gros cailloux carbonatiques qui forment la partie supérieure du Miocène clastique (Bärentalkonglomerat).Dans la suite, ces sédiments furent chevauchés sur une courte distance par les Karawanken et impliqués aussi dans le soulèvement encore en cours (partie orientale).

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