Temporal variability of throughfall as a function of the canopy development stage: from seasonal to intra-event scale

ABSTRACT

The interception process impacts rainfall magnitude and intensity under the canopy. In this study, the effect of plant interception on throughfall characteristics was assessed in the deciduous Caatinga vegetation, at different canopy development stages and for temporal scales ranging from seasonal to the intra-event scale. Throughfall and stemflow percentages were slightly higher at the onset of the rainy season, when leaf area density is low, with resulting lower interception losses. However, there was no statistical difference among the variables at the seasonal scale. At the intra-event scale, average and maximum throughfall intensity at different time intervals showed statistical difference between the stages of canopy development. Regardless of leaf area density and rainfall depth, vegetation is able to retain all the water up to 2 min in the beginning of each rainfall event with accumulated rainfall smaller than 0.6 mm. Furthermore, the Caatinga vegetation attenuates the rainfall intensity by 30–40%.     

Die Tiefenwasserableitung,ein Weg zur Sanierung von Seen

This study shows that it is possible to restore a highly eutrophic lake by the mean of bottom water siphoning. The main effects of the hypolimnion drainage, such as, erosion of the hypolimnion and increase of the nutrient export out of the lake are discussed. From mass balance calculations it is deduced that in eutrophic shallow lakes the nutrient supply to the trophogenic layer by the sediments can exceed temporarily the external loading by more than a hundredfold. The process of a lakes selfmaintaining auteutrophication is described. An extended summary in English is given at the end of the paper.      

Paleocurrents and the problem of continental drift

The hypothesis of continental drift is examined on the light of paleocurrent analysis. A peripherical radial transportation pattern was obtained in South America and Africa from marine sandstones deposited during Ordovician to Devonian times. This pattern is suggestive of a former adjacent position between both continents, being the source area located somewhere in eastern Brazil and western Africa (Figs. 8 and 9). The paleocurrents in both continents flowed away from this common area. Evidences of Ordovician and/or Silurian glaciation indicated a radial movement for the ice-sheets, away from the same source area. The Caradocian ice movement in Sahara was to the north, while the ice-flow in the Gape Province was to the south, and in Northeastern Brazil it was possibly to the west.The Carboniferous paleocurrent and ice-movement trends are suggestive of a territorial contiguity between Africa and South America. However, several data must be revised for stratigraphic control.The Permian formations in the Paraná and Karroo basins had independent development without any direct connection as suggested by cross-bedding analysis. The occurrence ofMesosaurus in both basins is a strong argument of their close position at the time of sedimentation.Mesozoic wind laid deposits occur in both continents from Upper Triassic to Lower Cretaceous time. The Triassic eolian sandstones were deposited by westerly paleowinds in middle latitude region at the time of continental contiguity. The Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous eolian sandstones were deposited after the separation between the continents had started. The paleowind pattern includes westerlies, trade-,and return tradewinds. This pattern is suggestive for the presence of the Southern Atlantic Ocean in Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous time.

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Zusammenfassung Die Hypothese der Kontinentaldrift der Südkontinente Afrika und Südamerika wird mit Hilfe der Analyse von PalÄoströmungen untersucht.Marine Sandsteinablagerungen vom Ordoviz bis zum Devon zeigen in Südamerika und auch in Afrika peripher-radiales Transportnetz.Dies weist auf eine früher zusammenhÄngende Position zwischen beiden Kontinenten hin, deren Ursprung in Ost-Brasilien und West-Afrika gelegen haben mu\, da die Strömungsrichtungen in beiden Kontinenten von diesem Gebiet ausgehen (Fig. 8 und 9).Die Vereisung im Ordoviz und/oder Silur zeigt eine sternförmige Bewegungsrichtung des Eises vom gleichen Ursprungsgebiet aus. Die Strömungsrichtung zur Caradoc-Zeit war in der Sahara nach N gerichtet, wÄhrend sich das Eis in der Kap-Provinz nach S und in NE-Brasilien möglicherweise nach W bewegte.Die Strömungsrichtungen und Eisbewegungen im Karbon deuten auf einen territorialen Zusammenhang zwischen Afrika und Südamerika hin, jedoch bedürfen einige Daten einer stratigraphischen überprüfung.Das Perm im Paraná- und Karroo-Becken zeigt eine unabhÄngige Entwicklung ohne direkten Zusammenhang, wie er aus SchrÄgschichtungsmessungen angedeutet wurde. Das Vorkommen vonMesosaurus in beiden Becken ist ein gewichtiges Argument für ihre benachbarte Lage wÄhrend der Sedimentation.Im Mesozoikum finden wir von Obertrias bis Unterkreide in beiden Kontinenten Äolische Ablagerungen. Die der Trias wurden durch westliche Winde in mittleren geographischen Breiten sedimentiert, zu einer Zeit, als die beiden Kontinente noch zusammenhingen. Die Sandsteine des Oberen Juras und der Unteren Kreide wurden abgelagert, nachdem die Trennung der Kontinente begonnen hatte.Das PalÄowindsystem zeigt westliche und Passatwinde. Dieses System spricht bereits für das Vorhandensein des Südatlantiks wÄhrend dem Oberen Jura und der Unteren Kreide.

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Sumário No presente trabalho o problema da deriva continental é examinada do ponto de vista da análise das paleocorrentes. MediÇÕes de estratos cruzados em arenitos marinhos do Ordoviciano ao Devoniano, realizadas na áfrica e na América do Sul indicaram urn padrÃo de transporte periférico-radial. Êste padrÃo é sugestivo de uma justaposiÇÃo pretérita entre ambos continentes. A área fonte estaria localizada na regiÃo oriental da América do Sul e Ocidental da áfrica (figs. 8 e 9). Em ambos continentes as paleocorrentes fluiram a partir desta área comum. EvidÊncias de glaciaÇÃo Ordoviciana e/ou Siluriana indicam um movimento radial das massas de gÊlo a partir da mesma área fonte. No Sahara, o movimento do gÊlo no Caradociano fazia-se para o norte, enquanto que, na Provincia do Cabo era para o Sul, e no Nordeste do Brasil Êle provàvelmente dirigia-se para o oeste.No Carbonifero, as paleocorrentes e tendÊncia do movimento das geleiras sÃo sugestivas de uma contiguidade territorial entre a América do Sul e áfrica. Contudo, várlos dados devem ser revisados para controle estratigráfico.As formaÇÕes Permianas nas bacias do Paraná e do Karroo apresentam desenvolvimento independente. O estudo das paleocorrentes nÃo sugere qualquer ligaÇÃo direta. Entretanto, a ocorrÊncia deMesosaurus em ambas bacias, constitui forte argumenta a favor de maior proximidade entre elas na época de sedimentaÇÃo.Os depósitos eólicos mesozóicos ocorrem em ambos continentes desde o Triássico Superior até o Cretáceo Inferior. Os arenitos eólicos Triássicos foram depositados em regiÃo de latitude média pelos paleoventos de oeste. Nésta época, ambos os continentes encontravam-se unidos. Os arenitos eólicos do Jurássico Superior-Cretáceo Inferior foram depositados após o início da separaÇÃo. O sistema de paleoventos inclui ventos de oeste, aliseos e aliseos de retÔrno. Êste padrÃo de circulaÇÃo aérea é sugestivo da presenÇa do Atlântico sul durante o Jurássico Superior — Cretáceo Inferior.

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Under the auspices of the Conselho Nacional de Pesquisas (Brasil), Geological Survey of South Africa, and Institute Algerien du Pétrole.     

Some major concepts of metallogeny

These notes, which summarize part of over ten years of laboratory work, aim to clarify and inter-relate three fundamental concepts of current Metallogeny: consanguinity, heritage, province. — 1. The concept of consanguinity: its criteria, limits and graduations, are first presented; 2. They are illustrated by the analysis of a complex example: the lead-zinc mineralisations in Trias around the Cévennes (South of the French Massif Central); 3. The likelihood of consanguinity for various strata-bound mineralisations, particularly misappreciated and misinterpreted, is then shown: — tungsten in the Cévennes — gold at Passagem (Brazil), about which microstructural and geochemical arguments are especially employed — cobalt at Bou Azzer (Marocco); 4. From consanguinity in a sedimentary environment, the authors turn to the crustal phenomena cycle, during which the heritages of the cations succeed one another. Examples of heritages, linked with sedimentation-volcanism: Sierra de Carthagena (Spain) — metamorphism — granitisation, are rapidly examined or referred to in literature. Particular attention has been paid to heritage by secretion, illustrated by the antimony lodes of the French Massif Central. Consequently, it may be understood how the successive heritages involve geochemical permanences and determine the geochemical provinces going back to ancient times in which the mineral provinces were built up. 5. In a last section the transformist guide line is compared with other concepts and tools of Metallogeny: lineaments and isotopic ratios. — In conclusion, the intra-crustal heritages still remain under-estimated and badly deciphered and are not sufficiently taken into consideration in mineral exploration.

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Zusammenfassung Diese Veröffentlichung, die einen Teil der während eines Jahrzehnts in einem Laboratorium ausgeführten Arbeiten kurz behandelt, hat die Aufgabe, drei Grundbegriffe der gegenwärtigen Metallogenese klarzustellen und miteinander zu verknüpfen: Familiarität (Verwandtschaft), Vererbung und Provinz. — 1. Der Begriff der Verwandtschaft sowie seine Kriterien, Grenzen und Nuancen werden zuerst auseinandergesetzt. 2. Dann wird dieser Begriff anhand der Analyse eines komplizierten Beispiels veranschaulicht, und zwar der Blei-Zink-Mineralisationen in der Trias am Rand der Cevennen, im Süden des französischen Zentralmassivs gelegen; 3. Anschließend wird die Wahrscheinlichkeit der Verwandtschaft für verschiedene schichtgebundene, besonders verkannte und falsch interpretierte Mineralisationen aufgezeigt. Es handelt sich einerseits um das Wolfram der Cevennen sowie das Kobalt von Bou Azzer (Marokko) und andererseits um das Gold von Passagem (Brasilien), zu dessen Erklärung insbesonders mikrostrukturelle und geochemische Argumente herangezogen werden; 4. So gelangt man in den Kreislauf der Krustalerscheinungen, währenddessen Vererbungen von Kationen aufeinanderfolgen. Beispiele von Vererbungen, die an Sedimentation, Vulkanismus (Sierra von Cartagena, Spanien), Metamorphose und Granitisierung gebunden sind, werden kurz untersucht oder anhand von Literaturangaben erwähnt. Besondere Erwähnung verdient die Sekretionsvererbung, die am Beispiel der Antimonerzgänge des französischen Zentralmassivs veranschaulicht wird. Somit wird verständlich, wie die aufeinanderfolgenden Vererbungen geochemische Beständigkeiten bedingen. Sie bestimmen ebenfalls geochemische, auf das hohe Altertum zurückgehende Provinzen, auf denen sich die Mineralprovinzen aufbauen; 5. Zum Schluss wird diese transformistische Leitrichtung mit anderen Konzepten und Arbeitsmitteln der Metallogenese verglichen: den Lineamenten und Isotopenverhältnissen. — Es wird der Schluß gefolgert, daß die intrakrustalen Vererbungen immer noch unterschätzt, schlecht entziffert und bei der Lagerstättenforschung ungenügend in Betracht gezogen werden.

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Laboratory associated with the C.N.R.S. (n^o 65). Contributors to this paper: P. Routhier (former Director of the Laboratory at present Director in the B.R.G.M.) and P. Brouder, R. Fleischer, (at present in the Penarroya C⁰), J. C. Macquar, Melle M. J. Pavillon, G. Roger and H. Rouvier.     

Increasing organic pollution in Kingston Harbour,Jamaica

Kingston Harbour is a multi-purpose resource with more than half a million people and a variety of industries on its shores. Primary treated domestic sewage, raw industrial waste and run-off from agricultural land discharge into the bay. Successive surveys since 1968 show a progressive deterioration and the urgent need for a reduction of organic pollution if the benthic fauna is not to be destroyed.     

Recherche des variations isotopiques naturelles du potassium: Résultats,perspectives et interprétation

Résumé Après mise au point d'une technique permettant la comparaison des rapports isotopiques de potassium extrait de roches variées, à mieux que 0,2% près, on a recherché les variations possibles de l'abondance des isotopes 39 et 41. Certains résultats obtenus sur des roches volcaniques semblent indiquer des variations réelles. Une hypothèse est proposée pour l'interprétation de ces résultats, basée sur des phénomènes de différenciation crustale.

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The relative abundance of 41 and 39 isotopes of potassium has been determined in various rocks. A brief account of experimental technique is given; the reproducibility of measurement is about 0.2%. Most samples do not show significant variations, except some volcanic rocks. A tentative interpretation of these results, based upon crustal differentiation, is given.

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Zusammenfassung Dieser Bericht gibt die Ergebnisse der Isotopenanalysen des Kaliums, die an etwa vierzig verschiedenen Felsen-Probenstücken ausgeführt wurden. Die experimentelle Technik wird hier kurz beschrieben. Die meisten Felsarten, bis auf einige vulkanische Felsen, zeigen keine bedeutenden Veränderungen. Es wird eine Interpretation der Ergebnisse vorgeschlagen, die auf der Theorie der chemischen Differenzierung der Erdkruste beruht.

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Considerations generales sur la distribution de l'uranium dans les roches granitoides

Using definite examples the authors show that it is possible to find, in a given granite, relations between uranium and the other elements, but these relations cannot be generalized. They cannot depend on the petrographical and mineralogical properties rather than on the chemical composition. One finds with the essential minerals some apparent relations but they are valid only for a given rock. The nature of a granite depends, mainly, on its formation and consequently on the original material from which it derived. The present data on radioactivity of granites cannot be generalized.     

La sédimentation vaseuse dans les estuaires de Bretagne occidentale

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Cosmological Models with ‘Some’ Variable Constants

Various models are considered with metric type flat FRW i.e. with k = 0 whose energy-momentum tensor is described by a perfect fluid whose generic equation of state is p = ωρ and taking into account the conservation principle div(T _i ^j ) = 0, but considering some of the‘constants’ as variable. A set of solutions through dimensional analysis is trivially found. The numeric calculations carried out show that the results obtained are not discordant with those presently observed for cosmological parameters together with the electromagnetic and quantum quantities. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.