The presence of PAHs, n-alkanes, pristane, and phytanes in core sediment from the Vossoroca reservoir (Parana, southern Brazil) was investigated. The total concentration of the 16 PAHs varied from 15.5 to 1646 μg kg−1. Naphthalene was present in all layers (3.34–74.0 μg kg−1). The most abundant and dominant n-alkanes were n-C15 and n-C36, with average concentrations of 198.1 ± 46.8 and 522.9 ± 167.7 μg kg−1, respectively. Lighter n-alkanes were distributed more evenly through the layers and showed less variation, specially n-C9, n-C12, and n-C18, with average concentrations of 14.6 ± 3.0, 31.6 ± 1.9, and 95.0 ± 5.2 μg kg−1, respectively; heavier n-alkanes were more unevenly distributed. 相似文献
The Italian Strong Motion Network is a permanent monitoring system run by the Italian national emergency management department
(Dipartimento della Protezione Civile, DPC). The network is known as RAN (Rete Accelerometrica Nazionale). An extensive project
for updating and improving the technology of RAN instruments as well as the number of recording points was performed in the
last 10 years. A wide site selection survey was carried out from eastern Sicily along the Italian peninsula, covering high
seismic risk areas. The recording station density and the choice of high-quality digital strong motion instruments ensure
reliability of the RAN network in the long-term. At the end of 2008, the free field sites selection and instruments installation,
planned in the project, were quite completed. In planning and drawing the new RAN, special attention has been devoted to the
robustness of the transmission systems, and to the distribution of new stations in order to ensure plenty of data during a
seismic emergency. We spent special care both in the estimation of the RAN site responses and in the diffusion of the strong
motion data. In order to better identify damaged earthquake areas, improved ground motion parameters need to be set. Such
parameters will also assist future progress for engineering seismic design techniques as well as disaster mitigation. 相似文献
Modeling studies of future changes in coastal hydrodynamics, in terms of storm surges and wave climate, need appropriate wind
and atmospheric forcings, a necessary requirement for the realistic reproduction of the statistics and the resolution of small
scale features. This work compares meteorological results from different climate models in the Mediterranean area, with a
focus on the Adriatic Sea, in order to assess their capability to reproduce coastal meteorological features and their possibility
to be used as forcings for hydrodynamic simulations. Five meteorological datasets are considered. They are obtained from two
regional climate models, implemented with different spatial resolutions and setups and are downscaled from two different global
climate models. Wind and atmospheric pressure fields are compared with measurements at four stations along the Italian Adriatic
coast. The analysis is carried out both on simulations of the control period 1960–1990 and on the A1B Intergovernmental Panel
for Climate Change scenario projections (2070–2100), highlighting the ability of each model in reproducing the statistical
coastal meteorological behavior and possible changes. The importance of simulated global- and regional-scale meteorological
processes, in terms of correct spatial resolution of the phenomena, is also discussed. Within the Adriatic Sea, the meteorological
climate is influenced by the local orography that controls the strengthening of north-eastern katabatic winds like Bora. Results
show indeed that the increase in spatial resolution provides a more realistic wind forcing for the hydrodynamic simulations.
Moreover, the chosen setup and the global climate models that drive the regional downscalings appear to play an important
role in reproducing correct atmospheric pressure fields. The comparison between scenario and control simulations shows a small
increase in the mean atmospheric pressure values, while a decrease in mean wind speed and in extreme wind events is observed,
particularly for the datasets with higher spatial resolution. Finally, results suggest that an ensemble of downscaled climate
models is likely to provide the most suitable climatic forcings (wind and atmospheric pressure fields) for coastal hydrodynamic
modeling. 相似文献
The aim of this work is to analyze the mineralogy of the Eos family, which exhibits considerable taxonomic diversity. Its biggest fragment, (221) Eos has previously been associated, through direct spectral comparisons, with such diverse mineralogies as CV/CO and achondrite meteorites [Burbine, T.H., Binzel, R.P., Bus, S.J., Clark, B.E., 2001. Meteorit. Planet. Sci. 36, 245-253; Mothé-Diniz, T., Carvano, J.M., 2005. Astron. Astrophys. 174, 54-80]. In order to perform such analysis we obtained spectra of 30 family members in the 0.8-2.5 μm range, and used three different methods of mineralogical inference: direct spectral comparison with meteorites, intimate mixing using Hapke's theory, and fitting absorption features with the MGM. Although the direct comparison failed to yield good matches—the best candidates being R-chondrites—both mixing model and MGM analysis suggest that the bulk of the family is dominated by forsteritic (Fa∼20) olivine, with a minor component of orthopyroxene. This composition can be compatible with what would be expected from the partial differentiation of a parent-body with an original composition similar to ordinary chondrites, which probably formed and differentiated closer to the Sun than the present location of the family. A CK-like composition is also possible, from the inferred mineralogy, as well as from the similarities of the spectra in the NIR. 相似文献
Major, trace element, Sr isotopic and mineral chemical data are reported for mafic volcanic rocks (Mg-value 65) from the northern-central sector of the potassic volcanic belt of Central Italy. The rocks investigated range from potassic series (KS) and high-K series (HKS) to lamproitic (LMP) and kamafugitic (KAM) through a transitional series (TRANS), thus covering the entire compositional spectrum of potassic and ultrapotassic magmas. KAM rocks are strongly silica undersaturated and, compared with the other rock series, have low SiO2, Al2O3, Na2O, Sc and V and high CaO, K/Na, (Na + K)/Al. KS and HKS have high Al2O3, CaO and variable enrichment in K2O and incompatible elements. LMP rocks are saturated in silica and have high SiO2, K2O, K2O/Na2, MgO, Ni and Cr and low Al2O3, CaO, Na2O, Sc and V. TRANS rocks display intermediate compositional characteristics between LMP and KS.
All the rocks under study have fractionated hygromagmaphile element patterns with high LIL/HFS element values and negative anomalies of Ti, Ta, Nb and Ba. Negative Sr anomalies are observed in the LMP and TRANS rocks. LIL elements show overall positive correlations with K2O, whereas different trends of Sr and HFSE vs. K2O are defined by LMP-TRANS and KS-HKS-KAM. 87Sr/86Sr range from about 0.710 to 0.716. KS, HKS and KAM rocks have similar 87Sr/86Sr values clustering around 0.710. LMP and TRANS rocks have the highest 87Sr/86Sr values.
Geochemical and isotopic data reported for the most primitive Italian potassic and ultrapotassic rocks support the hypothesis that the interaction between crustal and mantle reservoirs was a main process in the genesis of Italian potassic magmatism. Simple mass balance calculations exclude, however, an important role of crustal assimilation during ascent of subcrustal magmas to the surface and indicate that the sources of Central Italy volcanics underwent contamination with fluids and/or melts released by upper crustal material previously brought into the mantle by subduction processes.
Different trends of incompatible elements vs. K2O observed in the studied rocks suggest distinct metasomatic processes for the sources of the investigated magmas. Liquids derived by bulk melting of pelitic sediments are believed to be the most likely contaminants of the source of LMP rocks. Fluids or melts rich in Ca, Sr and with high LILE/HFSE value and Sr isotopic composition around 0.710 are the most likely contaminant of the source region of KS, HKS and KAM volcanics. Variations in CaO, Na2O and ferromagnesian element abundances and ratios suggest that, in some zones, the mantle source of potassic magmas experienced partial melting with extraction of basaltic liquids prior to metasomatism. 相似文献
The authors studied surface sediments from 102 stations in four areas of the three port entrances to the Lagoon of Venice, examining the relationships between textural character, mineralogical composition, and Hg, Pb, Cd, Cu, Ni, Cr, Zn, Co and Fe content. Heavy metal distribution allowed boundaries to be fixed between polluted and nonpolluted zones. While the Cavallino area is not polluted, very high concentrations of Zn, Pb and Hg in the two central areas, facing the Lido and Malamocco port entrances, respectively, suggest that wastes mainly from industrial production of zinc are present. High concentrations of Cr in the southern part of the Chioggia area are probably due to tannery wastes reaching the sea from the Brenta river. 相似文献
Two suites of ultramafic xenoliths have been found in ultrapotassic lavas from the 0.9 Ma old Torre Alfina volcano sited at the northern border of the Vulsinian district (Central Italy). One group of Xenoliths consists of spinel-bearing lherzolites, harzburgites, minor wherlites and dunites with a maximum size of 3–4 cm. Some samples contain discrete laths of phlogopite. A second class consists of phlogopite-rich, glass-bearing peridotites. The first suite displays textural characteristics such as triple points, deformed olivine with well developed kink banding and porphyroclastic textures indicating equilibration at high pressure. Pressure estimates give values in the range 1.3–2.5 GPa, corresponding to mantle depths in the area, where the present-day Moho is about 25 km deep. Equilibration temperatures have been estimated in the range between 950–1000°C. The chemical composition of some phases, such as the very high Fo contents of olivines (up to Fo94 in harzburgites), Mg content of orthopyroxenes and Cr/Cr+Al ratios of clinopyroxenes and spinels, suggest that these xenoliths represent peridotites which suffered different degrees of partial melting before being incorporated into the Torre Alfina magma. On the other hand, the occurrence of phlogopite speaks for metasomatic events. The phlogopite-rich, glass-bearing xenoliths consist of phlogopite, olivine, clinopyroxene, rare orthopyroxene and glass. Apatite is the most common accessory. Olivine is present in both euhedral and strained crystals. A few relics of protogranular textures are also observed. Textural and chemical evidence suggests that these xenoliths represent mica-rich peridotites which have undergone phlogopite breakdown during rapid rise to the surface with the development of a K-rich liquid which reacted with mafic phases producing a rapid growth of olivine and, to a lower extent, pyroxene. Originally, these xenoliths may have represented intensively metasomatized upper mantle. However, a cumulitic origin from previous potassic magmatic events cannot be excluded. The host lavas have compositions intermediate between high-silica lamproite and Roman-type ultrapotassic rock. They have high abundances of incompatible elements and radiogenic Sr, coupled with high Mg content, MgO/CaO, Ni and Cr. These features support a genesis in a residual upper mantle which has suffered partial melting with the extraction of basaltic liquids, followed by metasomatic events which caused an enrichment in incompatible elements and radiogenic Sr. The presence of mantle-derived ultramafic xenoliths in the torre Alfina lavas testifies for a rapid uprise of the magma which reached the surface without suffering fractional crystallization and significant interaction with the upper crust. Accordingly, the Torre Alfina lavas represent an unique example of primitive potassic liquid in Central Italy. 相似文献
Wet deposition due to radiation fog is examined in this paper. The area where the reported measurements were performed, the Po Valley, northern Italy, is characterized by both a high fog occurrence during the fall-winter months and fog water solutions of high ionic concentration and acidity.Estimated wet deposition for NH
4+
, NO
inf3sup-
and SO
inf4sup2-
ions due to fog droplet settling to the ground accounts for 13.2, 12.1 and 5.3 percent with respect to bulk precipitations over the same period: January–March and October–December (fog season).Fog deposition rates show that this process can be an important pathway of trace gases and particles loss from the air. First indicative results of fog removal efficiency with respect to air particulate matter are presented.Dry deposition parameters should be taken into account in evaluating the potential effect of fog droplet deposition on vegetation. 相似文献