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This paper represents an approach to discerning the kind of climatic signal that land snails might record. The study uses previous analyses of the Achenheim molluscs, whose time series can be compared with ice-core records or marine records. Terrestrial molluscs are characteristic of the environment in which they live, mainly mirroring prevailing climate and vegetation. As a result of this relatively close connection between biotope and mollusc assemblages, reconstructions of past environments can be made that agree generally with results from pollen analyses. In this way, malacofaunas in loess sections permit determination of environmental variability and climatic change. Loess deposits, however, correspond to a particular environment. Decreasing or increasing dust deposition affects the molluscan assemblages by altering the environmental conditions for better or for worse. The variation in the mollusc diversity index in Achenheim shows a striking correspondence with dust-flux variation. There is only a low correlation between diversity index and temperature, precipitation or moisture estimates. 相似文献
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Johannes Bruining Diederik van Batenburg Larry W. Lake An Ping Yang 《Mathematical Geology》1997,29(6):823-848
Random field generators serve as a tool to model heterogeneous media for applications in hydrocarbon recovery and groundwater
flow. Random fields with a power-law variogram structure, also termed fractional Brownian motion (fBm) fields, are of interest
to study scale dependent heterogeneity effects on one-phase and two-phase flow. We show that such fields generated by the
spectral method and the Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) have an incorrect variogram structure and variance. To illustrate
this we derive the prefactor of the fBm spectral density function, which is required to generate the fBm fields. We propose
a new method to generate fBm fields that introduces weighting functions into the spectral method. It leads to a flexible and
efficient algorithm. The flexibility permits an optimal choice of summation points (that is points in frequency space at which
the weighting function is calculated) specific for the autocovariance structure of the field. As an illustration of the method,
comparisons between estimated and expected statistics of fields with an exponential variogram and of fBm fields are presented.
For power-law semivariograms, the proposed spectral method with a cylindrical distribution of the summation points gives optimal
results. 相似文献
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The analytical data received in an inter-laboratory study of four Canadian reference samples were treated by two different methods in order to arrive at "usable values" for the concentration of each constituent. The first method ("Select Laboratories"), proposed by S. Abbey (S.A.), is based on the fact that some laboratories consistently produce better results than others. S.A. suggests an approach which permits isolation of results from such laboratories, calculation of a mean or a median of such results and use of one or the other as the concentration of a constituent. That approach involves a degree of subjectivity and S.A. attempts to demonstrate the validity of his approach by means of several tests applied to the results obtained for the four samples. 相似文献
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In marine gravity interpretation, the density required for the Bouguer correction is not easily measured, and, therefore, one often uses either standard values or extrapolates density from a station or a profile to an entire survey. If the real density varies, this leads to inconsistencies. In this paper a method is proposed to eliminate as much as possible the gravimetrical effects of real density variations. The principle is to apply Nettleton's method to the whole space, but also to use a continuously variable density in the Bouguer gravity computation. It is possible to avoid affecting real gravity anomalies by using stations situated on suitable area elements the optimal size of which is determined by the program. The density that is obtained is called “processing density’ because it is not a real one, but rather the resultant of the densities affect on each station. Use of the method is demonstrated on an example from the southeastern part of Bay of Biscay. 相似文献
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DENIS-DIDIER ROUSSEAU JEAN-JACQUES PUISSÉGUR 《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》1990,19(3):203-216
Up to now the best Quaternary climatic sequences come from oceanic isotope studies, but terrestrial sequences are also well known, usually for pollen or ice core data. A new sequence providing climatic information for the last 500,000 years has been studied in the loess series of Achenheim (Alsace), using the mollusc record in relation to other stratigraphical data. Mollusc assemblages are analysed using a multivariate method. The correspondence analysis used here allows us to explain, in ecological terms, the general variability of the Achenheim set. Most Pleistocene mollusc species have the advantage that modem individuals live in the same assemhlages. So, the known ecology and distribution of the modern molluscs allow us to conclude that the first two factors explain variations in temperature and moisture. Each loading, on a factor, of each association in its stratigraphical level contributes to characterizing the evolution of each climatic parameter through time. For the last five climatic cycles, these evolutions are expressed as a function of the depth within the series. As they are well preserved, the last three glacial cycles are studied in detail. They correspond to the last 350,000 years, are compared with SPECMAP data and particularly show correlations between continental and marine climatic indicators. The mollusc assemblages of the loess sequence also provide information on temperature and moisture conditions. The evolutions of each parameter are not identical during the last three cycles, indicating that the climatic history of one cycle cannot be transferred to the others. The mollusc assemblages also record the occurrence of an oscillatory system, especially during the Weichselian Upper Pleniglacial (isotopic stage 2) when it announces the Late Glacial variations. Similar oscillating excursions seem to have occurred during the older glacial stages. 相似文献
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DENIS-DIDIER ROUSSEAU DAVID HENRY KEEN 《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》1989,18(1):61-66
New sampling of Mollusca from Portelet, Jersey, Channel Islands, has allowed characterization of local conditions during deposition of the pre-Kesselt Weichselian loess. The Portelet fauna also allows a reassessment of the distribution of the Columella fauna in western Europe. Comparison of the Portelet fauna with those of eastern France and central Europe shows a decrease of the number of species present in this far-western locality which appears to be either a result of the operation of a typical 'peninsula' effect comparable to that seen in other zoological groups or a consequence of their occurrence in a marginal part of the European loess belt. 相似文献
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NICOLE LIMONDIN DENIS–DIDIER ROUSSEAU 《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》1991,20(3):207-229
Though numerous analyses have been made of Holocene pollen sequences, they come from similar environmental contexts, mainly peat deposits. Land snails can provide good palaeoecological and palaeoclimatical data in different drier environmental settings. The Verrières deposits, located in the Seine Valley, southeast of Paris, provide rich and abundant malacofaunas. We compare the well–defined local biostratigraphy with other mollusc stratigraphies from Burgundy, the closet site to the studied region. Multivariate analysis of the malacofaunas indicates that temperature and moisture did not always vary in parallel during the Holocene. On the other hand, Verrières malacofaunas reflect the main Holocene changes, as observed in the classical pollen series, confirming the reliability of the local biostratigraphy. The younger Dryas in Verrières was cold and cry. This was followed by the Preboreal phase, which is not well preserved at Verrières, but shows cool and humid conditions. The Boreal and Subboreal both show a cold and moist event bounded by two temperature phases. The Atlantic is also divided into two temperate phases by a cool and moist event. The Subatlantic shows temperature oscillations with cool peaks, but moisture shows a continuous trend to dryness. 相似文献
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DENIS-DIDIER ROUSSEAU NICOLE LIMONDIN FRÉDÉRIC MAGNIN JEAN-JACQUES PUISSEGUR 《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》1994,23(1):66-73
Snail assemblages are used to estimate February and August temperatures during the past 10,000 years in western Europe. We find that a strong warming occurred after the Younger Dryas event, followed by several rapid cooling and warming events. These observations are in agreement with insect and pollen proxy data from the European continent and with estimates of sea-surface temperature from the North Atlantic Ocean as well as with fluctuations of glaciers in western Norway. This study also confirms that terrestrial molluscs can provide reliable climatic data in conjunction with other proxy data. 相似文献