The interpretation of fluvial styles from the rock record is based for a significant part on the identification of different types of fluvial bars, characterized by the geometric relationship between structures indicative of palaeocurrent and surfaces interpreted as indicative of bar form and bar accretion direction. These surfaces of bar accretion are the boundaries of flood‐related bar increment elements, which are typically less abundant in outcrops than what would be desirable, particularly in large river deposits in which each flood mobilizes large volumes of sediment, causing flood‐increment boundary surfaces to be widely spaced. Cross‐strata set boundaries, on the other hand, are abundant and indirectly reflect the process of unit bar accretion, inclined due to the combined effect of the unit bar surface inclination and the individual bedform climbing angle, in turn controlled by changes in flow structure caused by local bar‐scale morphology. This work presents a new method to deduce the geometry of unit bar surfaces from measured pairs of cross‐strata and cross‐strata set boundaries. The method can be used in the absence of abundant flood‐increment bounding surfaces; the study of real cases shows that, for both downstream and laterally accreting bars, the reconstructed planes are very similar to measured bar increment surfaces. 相似文献
The equations of state for degenerate electron and neutron gases are studied in the presence of magnetic fields. After including quantum effects in the investigation of the structural properties of these systems, it is found that some hypermagnetized stars can be unstable according to the criterion of stability of pressures. Highly magnetized white dwarfs should collapse producing a supernova type Ia, while superstrong magnetized neutron stars cannot stand their own magnetic field and must implode, too. A comparison of our results with a set of the available observational data of some compact stars is also presented, and the agreement between this theory and observations is verified. 相似文献
Potential changes in future climate in the Texas Plains region were investigated in the context of agriculture by analyzing three climate model projections under the A2 climate scenario (medium–high emission scenario). Spatially downscaled historic (1971–2000) and future (2041–2070) climate datasets (rainfall and temperature) were downloaded from the North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP). Climate variables predicted by three regional climate models (RCMs) namely the Regional Climate Model Version3–Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (RCM3-GFDL), Regional Climate Model Version3–Third Generation Coupled Global Climate Model (RCM3-CGCM3), and Canadian Regional Climate Model–Community Climate System Model (CRCM-CCSM) were evaluated in this study. Gaussian and Gamma distribution mapping techniques were employed to remove the bias in temperature and rainfall data, respectively. Both the minimum and maximum temperatures across the study region in the future showed an upward trend, with the temperatures increasing in the range of 1.9 to 2.9 °C and 2.0 to 3.2 °C, respectively. All three climate models predicted a decline in rainfall within a range of 30 to 127 mm in majority of counties across the study region. In addition, they predicted an increase in the intensity of extreme rainfall events in the future. The frost-free season as predicted by the three models showed an increase by 2.6–3.4 weeks across the region, and the number of frost days declined by 17.9 to 30 %. Overall, these projections indicate considerable changes to the climate in the Texas Plains region in the future, and these changes could potentially impact agriculture in this region.
This paper describes the development of a computational model to predict the response of synthetic-fiber ropes under both monotonic and cyclic loads. The model addresses the issue of damage to a rope cross-section and its effect on rope response. Isotropic damage is assumed and is therefore characterized by a scalar quantity known as the damage index. The damage index is used to quantify the amount of deterioration that takes place in a damaged rope throughout its loading history. For the current study, data obtained from static tension tests are used to determine the evolution relationship for the damage index. This relationship is based on the stiffness ratio between experimental data and simulation of rope response without any source of damage and is assumed to be described by an exponential equation. Numerical simulations of damaged rope behavior compare well with experimental results. 相似文献
Coal‐forming environments require humid to perhumid conditions. Tectonics governs the size, location and availability of coal seams developed in such environments. While large Pennsylvanian paralic basins generated thick and continuous coal seams, many other small coeval basins, which were tectonically active, developed a puzzling succession, with carbonaceous deposits that varied in size, thickness and the nature of the coal‐forming flora. This study, conducted in the Peñarroya‐Belmez‐Espiel coalfield, a Variscan strike‐slip basin in the south of Spain, provides insights into this subject. The coal seams analysed, generated in different depositional environments, have quantitatively different palynological assemblages. Lacustrine coals are dominated by lycopsids; distal alluvial plain/marginal lacustrine coals are dominated by sphenophytes and tree ferns, and middle alluvial fan coals are dominated by sphenophytes, tree ferns and lycopsids. This means that when conditions were favourable for peat accumulation, peat accumulated regardless of the nature of the available flora. 相似文献
Three-dimensional ray tracing through a numerical weather model has been applied to a global precise point positioning (PPP)
campaign for modeling both the elevation angle- and azimuth-dependence of the tropospheric delay. Rather than applying the
ray-traced slant delays directly, the delay has been parameterized in terms of slant factors, which are applied in a similar
manner to traditional mapping functions, but which can account for the azimuthal asymmetry of the delay. Five strategies are
considered: (1) Vienna Mapping Functions 1 (VMF1) and estimation of a residual zenith delay parameter; (2) VMF1, estimation
of a residual zenith delay and estimation of two tropospheric gradient parameters; (3) three-dimensional ray-traced slant
factors and estimation of a residual zenith delay; (4) using only ray-traced slant factors and no estimation of any tropospheric
parameters and; (5) using both ray-traced slant factors and estimating a residual zenith delay and two tropospheric gradient
parameters. The use of the ray-traced slant factors (solution 3) showed a 3.8% improvement in the repeatability of the up
component when compared to the assumption of a symmetric atmosphere (solution 1), while the estimation of two tropospheric
gradient parameters gave the best results showing an 7.6% improvement over solution 1 in the up component. Solution 4 performed
well in the horizontal domain, allowing for sub-centimeter repeatability but the up component was degraded due to deficiencies
in the modeling of the zenith delay, particularly for stations located at equatorial latitudes. The magnitude of the differences
in the mean coordinates between solution 2 and solution 3, and the strong correlation with the differences between the north
component and the ray-traced gradients (coefficient of correlation of 0.83), as well as the impact of observation geometry
on the gradient solution indicate that the use of the ray-traced slant factors could have an implication on the realization
of reference frames. The estimated tropospheric products from the PPP solutions were compared to those derived from ray tracing.
For the zenith delay, a root mean square (RMS) of 5.4 mm was found, while for the gradient terms, a correlation coefficient
of 0.46 for the N–S and 0.42 for the E–W was found for the north–south and east–west components, suggesting that there are
still important differences in the gradient parameters which could be due to either errors in the NWM or to non-tropospheric
error sources leaking into the PPP-estimated gradients. 相似文献
We investigated controls on the water chemistry of a South Ecuadorian cloud forest catchment which is partly pristine, and
partly converted to extensive pasture. From April 2007 to May 2008 water samples were taken weekly to biweekly at nine different
subcatchments, and were screened for differences in electric conductivity, pH, anion, as well as element composition. A principal
component analysis was conducted to reduce dimensionality of the data set and define major factors explaining variation in
the data. Three main factors were isolated by a subset of 10 elements (Ca2+, Ce, Gd, K+, Mg2+, Na+, Nd, Rb, Sr, Y), explaining around 90% of the data variation. Land-use was the major factor controlling and changing water
chemistry of the subcatchments. A second factor was associated with the concentration of rare earth elements in water, presumably
highlighting other anthropogenic influences such as gravel excavation or road construction. Around 12% of the variation was
explained by the third component, which was defined by the occurrence of Rb and K and represents the influence of vegetation
dynamics on element accumulation and wash-out. Comparison of base- and fast flow concentrations led to the assumption that
a significant portion of soil water from around 30 cm depth contributes to storm flow, as revealed by increased rare earth
element concentrations in fast flow samples. Our findings demonstrate the utility of multi-tracer principal component analysis
to study tropical headwater streams, and emphasize the need for effective land management in cloud forest catchments. 相似文献
Physical, chemical and biological data from a sedimentary profile of Rocha lagoon (Uruguay) are presented. Analyses of silica remains showed that opal phytoliths, diatoms, sponge spicules and chrysophyte cysts were the most important contributors to biogenic silica. Organic matter, total nitrogen and total phosphorus were used to infer past trophic development. Physical analysis of sediments allowed us to identify five lithological units related to sea level variation and climatic events. 相似文献
ABSTRACTThe city of São Carlos, state of São Paulo, Brazil, has a historical coexistence between society and floods. Unplanned urbanization in this area is a representative feature of how Brazilian cities have developed, undermining the impact of natural hazards. The Gregório Creek catchment is an enigma of complex dynamics concerning the relationship between humans and water in Brazilian cities. Our hypothesis is that social memory of floods can improve future resilience. In this paper we analyse flood risk dynamics in a small urban catchment, identify the impacts of social memory on building resilience and propose measures to reduce the risk of floods. We applied a socio-hydrological model using data collected from newspapers from 1940 to 2018. The model was able to elucidate human–water processes in the catchment and the historical source data proved to be a useful tool to fill gaps in the data in small urban basins. 相似文献