Angular momentum of Arctic Ocean tides

Oceanic tidal angular momentum (OTAM) is calculated for the four major tides of the Arctic Ocean, based on the tidal elevations and current velocities from a recent two-dimensional numerical hydrodynamic model. The presented OTAM tables are meant to be complementary to other modeling studies that use satellite altimetry (which cannot observe Arctic Ocean tides because of ice cover and limited satellite inclinations). Although the Arctic Ocean's influence on earth rotation is, as may be expected, relatively small, the rapid advancement of the subject now calls for such small contributions to be explicitly accounted for. Received: 22 January 1996; Accepted: 5 December 1996     

Formation pressure testing at the Mount Elbert Gas Hydrate Stratigraphic Test Well, Alaska North Slope: Operational summary, history matching, and interpretations

In February 2007, the U.S. Department of Energy, BP Exploration (Alaska), and the U.S. Geological Survey, collected open-hole pressure-response data, as well as gas and water sample collection, in a gas hydrate reservoir (the BPXA-DOE-USGS Mount Elbert Gas Hydrate Stratigraphic Test Well) using Schlumberger's Modular Dynamics Formation Tester (MDT) wireline tool. Four such MDT tests, ranging from six to twelve hours duration, and including a series of flow, sampling, and shut-in periods of various durations, were conducted. Locations for the testing were selected based on NMR and other log data to assure sufficient isolation from reservoir boundaries and zones of excess free water. Test stages in which pressure was reduced sufficiently to mobilize free water in the formation (yet not cause gas hydrate dissociation) produced readily interpretable pressure build-up profiles. Build-ups following larger drawdowns consistently showed gas-hydrate dissociation and gas release (as confirmed by optical fluid analyzer data), as well as progressive dampening of reservoir pressure build-up during sequential tests at a given MDT test station.History matches of one multi-stage, 12-h test (the C2 test) were accomplished using five different reservoir simulators: CMG-STARS, HydrateResSim, MH21-HYDRES, STOMP-HYD, and TOUGH + HYDRATE. Simulations utilized detailed information collected across the reservoir either obtained or determined from geophysical well logs, including thickness (11.3 m, 37 ft.), porosity (35%), hydrate saturation (65%), both mobile and immobile water saturations, intrinsic permeability (1000 mD), pore water salinity (5 ppt), and formation temperature (3.3-3.9 °C). This paper will present the approach and preliminary results of the history-matching efforts, including estimates of initial formation permeability and analyses of the various unique features exhibited by the MDT results.     

Changes in daily maximum temperature extremes across India over 1951–2014 and their relation with cereal crop productivity

This study used gridded daily maximum temperature data (1°?×?1°) for 1951–2014 period to analyze the trend in monthly extreme warm days (ExWD) and changes in its probability distribution in each grid. It also analyzed the trend in spatial spread of annual ExWD over the study period at four exceedance levels and further related the number of ExWDs with cereal crop productivity of India. Extreme warm days have increased throughout India but were statistically significant in 42% grids. The increase was consistent over all the months in north-eastern region, southern plateau and both the coastal plains. It also increased significantly over north-western and central India during April to June summer period. The probability distribution of ExWD also changed significantly in many grids, especially in southern plateau and both the coastal plains. The changes indicated increased frequency in the existing levels of extremes and new occurrences of higher frequency of extremes. The analysis of land area affected by different levels of extremes indicated significant increase, with the rate being highest for higher extremes. In terms of extreme warm day temperatures, the study identified southern plateau, east and west coast plains, and north-eastern India as highly vulnerable. Using copula probability model, study showed that increase in ExWD from 20 to 60% may increase the probability of 5% or more yield loss from 17 to 53% for Kharif cereals, 11 to 43% for Rabi cereals and 19 to 63% for wheat crop. The results may be used for devising zone specific adaptation strategies.     

Structural evolution of the Simla klippe in the lower Himalayas

The rocks of the Jutogh Series in the Simla area have been involved in folding of three generations and metamorphism in two phases. The earliest structures are isoclinal, recumbent/reclined folds (F₁) with a shallow plunge toward east or west where least reoriented. The axial surfaces of these folds have been folded coaxially into open, upright antiforms and synforms (F₂), which become tight to isoclinal in the northern part, causing local involution. The F₁ and F₂ folds have been affected by conjugate and chevron folding (F₃) with an overall NS strike of axial planes, resulting in axial culminations and depressions of the early folds. Axial plane foliation related to F₁ folding and transposition schistosities parallel to the axial planes of the F₂ and F₃ folds are the planar deformation structures that have developed. Cross stratification at one contact of two rock-units suggests that the structure of the Jutogh Series in the largest scale is a recumbent syncline, the peaks of Taradevi, Jutogh and Prospect Hill representing the inverted limb.The Jutogh rocks are surrounded and structurally underlain by the rocks of the Chail Series. The open, synformal nature of the Jutogh-Chail boundary in contrast with the complex fold-geometry within the Jutogh Series, tearing-off of the largescale early folds and sharp break in the first metamorphism at the Jutogh-Chail contact, and widespread cataclasis all along the border prove that the Jutogh Series has been thrust over the Chail Series forming a klippe in the Simla area. Continuation of the second metamorphism and the third folding across the Jutogh thrust indicates that the thrusting preceded F₃ and was broadly coeval with the F₂ movement.An unrestricted southward transport could generate the F₁ recumbent folds. The F₂ folds point to a flattening in the waning phase of the overthrust movement in broadly the same plan of deformation. The F₃ folds indicate a compression in an EW direction in the last phase of deformation.

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Zusammenfassung Die Gesteine der Jutogh-Serie im Gebiet von Simla wurden von drei Faltungs- und zwei Metamorphosephasen betroffen. Die ältesten Strukturen sind isoklinale, liegende bis geneigte Falten (F₁) mit flachem Achsentauchen nach E oder W in den am wenigsten überprägten Bereichen. Die Achsenflächen dieser Falten wurden koaxial zu offenen, aufrechten Anti- und Synformen verbogen (F₂). Im nördlichen Teil werden diese eng bis isoklinal, was zu lokaler Involution führt. Die F₂- und F₂-Falten wurden durch paarige Knicksowie Zickzackfalten (F₃) mit generell N-S-streichenden Achsenflächen überprägt, wodurch in den älteren Falten Achsenkulminationen und -depressionen entstanden. An den Achsenflächen von F₁ ausgerichtete Spaltbarkeit und Umformungsschieferang parallel zu den Achsenflächen von F₂ und F₃ haben sich als planare Deformationsstrukturen entwickelt. Aus der Schrägschichtung am Kontakt zweier Gesteinseinheiten ist zu schließen, daß die Jutogh-Serie im ganzen eine liegende Synklinale bildet. Die Gipfel von Taradevi, Jutogh und Prospect Hill liegen in deren überlapptem Schenkel.Gesteine der Chail-Serie umgeben und unterlagern die Jutogh-Gesteine. Die offene, synformale Grenze zwischen Jutogh und Chail im Gegensatz zu der komplexen Faltengeometrie innerhalb der Jutogh-Serie, das Abreißen großmaßstäblicher alter Falten sowie das scharfe Absetzen der ersten Metamorphosephase am Jutogh-Chail-Kontakt und die verbreitete Kataklase überall an der Grenze beweisen, daß die Jutogh-Serie auf die Chail-Serie überschoben wurde und im Gebiet von Simla eine Klippe bildet. Die Auswirkungen der zweiten Metamorphosephase und der dritten Faltung über die Basis des Jutogh hinweg zeigen an, daß die Überschiebung vor F₃ und annähernd gleichzeitig mit den F₂-Bewegungen einzustufen ist.Die liegenden F₁-Falten konnten durch eine unbehinderte Verschiebung nach Süden entstehen. Die F₂-Falten weisen auf eine Pressung in der Spätphase der Überschiebungsbewegungen mit etwa gleichem Deformationsplan hin. Die F₃-Falten zeigen einen ost-westlichen Zusammenschub während der letzten Deformationsphase an.

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Résumé Les roches de la série Jutogh dans la région de Simla ont subi trois phases de plissement et deux phases de métamorphisme. Les plus anciennes structures sont des plis isoclinaux couchés à déversés (F₁), à faible plongement d'axe vers l'E et l'W dans les parties les moins remaniées. Les surfaces axiales de ces plis ont été reployés suivant les mêmes axes en plis antiformes et synformes, droits et ouverts (F₂). Dans la partie N, ces derniers se resserrent jusqu'à devenir isoclinaux, ce qui conduit à des involutions locales. Les plissements F₁ et F₂ sont remaniés par des plis en chevrons ou en zigzag (F₃) à surface axiale de direction Nord-Sud; il naît de la sorte dans les plis anciens des culminations et des dépressions d'axes. Une fissilité suivant les surfaces axiales de F₁ et une schistosité parallèle aux surfaces axiales de F₂ et F₃ se sont développées en tant que structures planaires de déformation. La stratification entrecroisée au contact des unités lithologiques permet de dire que la Série de Jutogh dans son ensemble constitue un synclinal couché. Les sommets Taradevi, Jutogh et Prospect Hill se trouvent sur le flanc renversé.Les roches de la Série de Chail entourent et forment le substratum des roches de Jutogh. L'allure synforme et ouverte dessinée par la limite entre les Séries de Jutogh et de Chail opposée à la géométrie plissée complexe de l'intérieur de la Série de Jutogh, l'étirement à grande échelle des plis anciens comme aussi la diminution nette de la première phase de métamorphisme au contact Jutogh-Chail et la cataclase générale à leur limite, démontrent que la série de Jutogh a été charriée sur la série de Chail et qu'elle forme un lambeau dans la région de Simla. Les effets de la 2ème phase de métamorphisme et du troisième plissement à partir de la base de la série de Jutogh montrent que le charriage est intervenu avant les mouvements F₃ et à peu près en même temps que les mouvements F₂.Les plis couchés F₁ purent se produire grâce à une poussée sans opposition vers le Sud. Les plis F₂ indiquent un écaillage au cours de la phase tardive des mouvements de charriage suivant le même plan de la déformation. Les plis F₃ montrent une compression Est-Ouest pendant la dernière phase de déformation.

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Jutogh Simla 3 2 . —, , (F₁) E, W . (F₂). , , . F₁ F₂ , (F₃), N-S , . , F₁ F₂ F₃, . , Jutogh . Taradevi, Jutogh Prospect Hill . Chail Jutogh. Jutogh Chail Jutogh, Jutogh/Chail , Jutogh Chail Simla Klippe. Jutogh , , F₃, , F₂. F₁ . F₂ . F₃ , - .

     

Characterizing the phosphorus forms extracted from soil by the Mehlich III soil test

Phosphorus (P) can limit crop production in many soils, and soil testing is used to guide fertilizer recommendations. The Mehlich III (M3) soil test is widely used in North America, followed by colorimetric analysis for P, or by inductively coupled plasma-based spectrometry (ICP) for P and cations. However, differences have been observed in M3 P concentrations measured by these methods. Using ³¹P nuclear magnetic resonance (P-NMR) and mass spectrometry (MS), we characterized P forms in M3 extracts. In addition to the orthophosphate that would be detected during colorimetric analysis, several organic P forms were present in M3 extracts that would be unreactive colorimetrically but measured by ICP (molybdate unreactive P, MUP). Extraction of these P forms by M3 was confirmed by P-NMR and MS in NaOH-ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid extracts of whole soils and residues after M3 extraction. The most abundant P form in M3 extracts was myo-inositol hexaphosphate (myo-IHP, phytate), a compound that may not contribute to plant-available P if tightly sorbed in soil. Concentrations of myo-IHP and other organic P forms varied among soils, and even among treatment plots on the same soil. Extraction of myo-IHP in M3 appeared to be linked to cations, with substantially more myo-IHP extracted from soils fertilized with alum-treated poultry litter than untreated litter. These results suggest that ICP analysis may substantially over-estimate plant-available P in samples with high MUP concentrations, but there is no way at present to determine MUP concentrations without analysis by both colorimetry and ICP. This study also tested procedures that will improve future soil P-NMR studies, such as treatment of acid extracts, and demonstrated that techniques such as P-NMR and MS are complimentary, each yielding additional information that analysis by a single technique may not provide.

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Age of the last major scabland flood of the Columbia Plateau in eastern Washington

Pumice layers of set S from Mount St. Helens can be correlated with certain ash beds associated with young flood deposits of the channeled scabland. The correlation points to an age of about 13,000 ¹⁴C yr B.P. for the last major flood to have crossed the scabland. Until recently, the last major episode of flooding was thought to be closer to 20,000 yr B.P., an age inferred chiefly from the relation of the flood to glacial events of the northern Rocky Mountains. Several investigations within the last few years have suggested that the last major flood occurred well after 20,000 yr B.P. Tentative correlations of ash beds of the scabland with set S pumice layers, the relations of flood and glacial events along the northwestern margin of the Columbia Plateau, and a radiocarbon date from the Snake River drainage southeast of the plateau all indicate an age much younger than 20,000 yr. The postulated age of about 13,000 yr B.P. is further supported by a radiocarbon date in the Columbia River valley downstream from the scabland tract. Basal peat from a bog on the Portland delta of Bretz, which is a downvalley deposit of the last major scabland flood, has been dated as 13,080 ± 300 yr B.P. (W-3404).     

Propagation of plane relativistic shock waves

Similarity solutions for propagation of plane shock waves in a relativistic gas, where the nucleon number density varies linearly as distance from its edge at near vacuum is obtained. The shock front moves with constant speed and the solutions are applicable only to an isothermal medium or cold gas.     

Improving National Park Service and Nonprofit Partnerships—Lessons from the National Trail System

Federal land management agencies are increasingly relying on collaborative partnerships for managing national trails, heritage areas, scenic rivers, and recreation areas. For agencies such as the National Park Service, these joint approaches are significantly different from traditional management approaches. This article uses a case study of the Juan Bautista De Anza National Historic Trail to identify partnership lessons for this case and other protected areas that rely on public–private partnerships. The research highlights partnership issues with nonprofit capacity and mission alignment, project momentum, and leadership dilemmas. We suggest that agencies such as the National Park Service need to assess the mission and capacity of community and nonprofit groups to determine their partnership approach. This is a significant shift, from agencies simply needing to find organizations willing to partner on collaborative management efforts, to a role in assessing, forming, and developing nonprofit partners.