Equilibrium Chemistry in a Brown Dwarf's Atmosphere: Cesium in Gliese 229B

We investigate the effect of hydrostatic scale heights lambda(T) in coronal loops on the determination of the vertical temperature structure T&parl0;h&parr0; of the solar corona. Every method that determines an average temperature at a particular line of sight from optically thin emission (e.g., in EUV or soft X-ray wavelengths) of a mutlitemperature plasma is subject to the emission measure-weighted contributions dEM&parl0;T&parr0;&solm0;dT from different temperatures. Because most of the coronal structures (along open or closed field lines) are close to hydrostatic equilibrium, the hydrostatic temperature scale height introduces a height-dependent weighting function that causes a systematic bias in the determination of the temperature structure T&parl0;h&parr0; as function of altitude h. The net effect is that the averaged temperature seems to increase with altitude, dT&parl0;h&parr0;&solm0;dh>0, even if every coronal loop (of a multitemperature ensemble) is isothermal in itself. We simulate this effect with differential emission measure distributions observed by SERTS for an instrument with a broadband temperature filter such as Yohkoh/Soft X-Ray Telescope and find that the apparent temperature increase due to hydrostatic weighting is of order DeltaT approximately T0h&solm0;r middle dot in circle. We suggest that this effect largely explains the systematic temperature increase in the upper corona reported in recent studies (e.g., by Sturrock et al., Wheatland et al., or Priest et al.), rather than being an intrinsic signature of a coronal heating mechanism.     

极浅海水区浅地层剖面浅层失真及校正

浅地层剖面调查是进行大陆架第四纪地质研究，浅海灾害地质研究和工程地的南调查的重要手段，剖面的质量与解释精度将对研究成果的可靠性造成直接影响。由于浅地层剖面系统的震源与水听器有一定的距离，因此它只是近似的垂直发射垂直的接收单道地震系统，当水深地了浅时造成了剖面浅层的失真，导致各层位的反射时间延迟，层与层之间双程走时缩短，计算出的层速度偏高，在地形起伏较大的区域，将造成地形失真，在潮差大的区域，计算出     

Organic carbon flow in the Ob, Yenisey Rivers and Kara Sea of the Arctic region

Stable carbon isotope and elemental C/N ratios of the organic fraction of a set of samples along a transect in the Ob and Yenisey Rivers into the Kara Sea in the Arctic were measured. Previously, the concentrations of 239,240Pu and 137Cs in these same samples had been determined. The coupled measurements were carried out to assess possible connectivity between organic carbon flow into the Kara Sea and transport of radioactive nuclides in this marine environment. Organic carbon flow into the Kara Sea is influenced significantly by terrigenous sources carried by the Ob and Yenisey Rivers. The carbon isotope-organic carbon relationship provides evidence that a rich source of terrigenous carbon exists in the riverine system. A weak, but significant relationship between stable carbon isotope ratio and 137Cs suggests that most of the 137Cs is derived from riverine particles, as compared to Pu which is also derived from in situ scavenging within the water column.     

Pigmenting agents in Martian soils: inferences from spectral, Mossbauer, and magnetic properties of nanophase and other iron oxides in Hawaiian palagonitic soil PN-9

We have examined a Hawaiian palagonitic tephra sample (PN-9) that has spectroscopic similarities to Martian bright regions using a number of analytical techniques, including Mossbauer and reflectance spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, instrumental neutron activation analysis, electron probe microanalysis, transmission electron microscopy, and dithionite-citrate-bicarbonate extraction. Chemically, PN-9 has a Hawaiitic composition with alkali (and presumably silica) loss resulting from leaching by meteoric water during palagonitization; no Ce anomaly is present in the REE pattern. Mineralogically, our results show that nanophase ferric oxide (np-Ox) particles (either nanophase hematite (np-Hm) or a mixture of ferrihydrite and np-Hm) are responsible for the distinctive ferric doublet and visible-wavelength ferric absorption edge observed in Mossbauer and reflectivity spectra, respectively, for this and other spectrally similar palagonitic samples. The np-Ox particles appear to be imbedded in a hydrated aluminosilicate matrix material; no evidence was found for phyllosilicates. Other iron-bearing phases observed are titanomagnetite, which accounts for the magnetic nature of the sample; olivine; pyroxene; and glass. By analogy, np-Ox is likely the primary pigmenting agent of the bright soils and dust of Mars.     

Impact-induced devolatilization and hydrogen isotopic fractionation of serpentine: implications for planetary accretion

The degree of impact-induced devolatilization of nonporous serpentine, porous serpentine, and deuterium-enriched serpentine was investigated using two independent experimental methods, the gas recovery method and the solid recovery method, yielding consistent results. The gas recovery method enables determination of the chemical and hydrogen isotopic composition of the recovered gases. Experiments on deuterium-enriched serpentine unambiguously identify the samples as the source of the recovered gases, as opposed to other possible contaminants. For shock pressures near incipient devolatilization (Pinitial = 5.0 GPa), the hydrogen isotopic composition of the evolved gas is similar to that of the starting material. For higher shock pressures the bulk evolved gas is significantly lower in deuterium than the starting material. There is also significant reduction of H2O to H2 in gases recovered at higher shock pressures, probably caused by reaction of evolved H2O with the metal gas recovery fixture. The hydrogen isotopic fractionation between the evolved gas and the residual solid indicates nonequilibrium, kinetic control of gas-solid isotopic ratios. In contrast, gaseous H2O-H2 isotopic fractionation suggests high temperature (800-1300 K) isotopic equilibrium between the gaseous species, indicating initiation of devolatilization at sites of greater than average energy deposition (i.e., shear bands). Impact-induced hydrogen isotopic fractionation of hydrous silicates during accretion can affect the distribution of hydrogen isotopes of planetary bodies during accretion, leaving the interiors enriched in deuterium. The significance of this process for planetary development depends on the models used for extrapolation of the observed isotopic fractionation to devolatilizations greater than those investigated experimentally and assumptions about timing and rates of protoatmosphere loss, frequency of multiple impacts, and rates of gas-solid or gas-melt isotopic re-equilibration. A simple model indicates that substantial planetary interior enrichments of D/H relative to that of the incident material can result from impact-induced hydrogen fractionation during accretion.     

子波零相位化、反褶积与地震记录分辨率的关系

讨论了地震记录分辨率的概念及影响地震记录分辨率的几个关键处理环节和它们之间的关系 ,指出了目前常规处理方法的有效使用范围和局限性 ,提出了需进一步改进的问题。     

秘鲁大陆边缘BSR的成因及纵向构造作用

１引言在会聚型大陆边缘的海洋地震记录中 ,ＢＳＲ的存在与否常常难以解释。例如 ,沿哥斯达黎加近海的中美汇聚大陆边缘 ,穿过尼科亚半岛东南部和邻近边缘 ,ＢＳＲ在地震记录中十分普遍 ,相反 ,在尼科亚半岛中部近海的西北边缘许多地震记录难觅ＢＳＲ的踪影。其它几个实例也表明 ,在秘鲁大陆边缘ＢＳＲ的出现与否与水合物是不相一致的 ,这就是本文的研究主题。在秘鲁大陆边缘 ,强反射ＢＳＲ出现在南纬９°的Ｙａｑｕｉｎａ增生柱地区 ,但在南纬１２°的Ｌｉｍａ增生柱地区却不见踪影。相反 ,强反射ＢＳＲ出现在Ｌｉｍａ的下部斜坡阶地 ,而在…