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Amal Saidi Abdelfatah Tahiri Lahcen Ait Brahim Maraim Saidi 《Comptes Rendus Geoscience》2002,334(3):221-226
The fracturing analysis in the Permian basins of Jebilet and Rehamna (Hercynian Morocco) and the underlying terranes allowed us to suggest a model for their opening. Three tectonic episodes are distinguished: a transtensional episode NNE–SSW-trending (Permian I), occurring during the opening along sinistral wrench faults N70–110-trending, associated with synsedimentary normal faults; a transpressive episode ESE–WNW-trending (Permian II), initiating the closure, the normal faults playing back reverse faults and the N70 trending faults dextral wrench faults; a compressional episode NNW–SSE (post-Permian, ante-Triassic), accentuating the closure and the deformation and putting an end to the Tardi-Hercynian compressive movements. To cite this article: A. Saidi et al., C. R. Geoscience 334 (2002) 221–226. 相似文献
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Detecting soil salinity changes and its impact on vegetation cover are necessary to understand the relationships between these changes in vegetation cover. This study aims to determine the changes in soil salinity and vegetation cover in Al Hassa Oasis over the past 28 years and investigates whether the salinity change causing the change in vegetation cover. Landsat time series data of years 1985, 2000 and 2013 were used to generate Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Soil Salinity Index (SI) images, which were then used in image differencing to identify vegetation and salinity change/no-change for two periods. Soil salinity during 2000–2013 exhibits much higher increase compared to 1985–2000, while the vegetation cover declined to 6.31% for the same period. Additionally, highly significant (p < 0.0001) negative relationships found between the NDVI and SI differencing images, confirmed the potential long-term linkage between the changes in soil salinity and vegetation cover. 相似文献
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A study on two closed salt lake basins, Tal Chapar and Parihara in the eastern margin of the Thar Desert, Rajasthan, was carried
out to unravel late Quaternary geomorphic evolution of these saline lakes. Both lakes are elliptical in shape bordered by
stabilised dunes, and are oriented in a NE-SW direction, i.e., in the direction of the prevailing summer monsoon wind. Both
lakes have been formed in the wind-shadow zones of isolated hills of Precambrian quartzite. Our study indicates that the late
Quaternary sediments in the lakes began with the cyclic deposition of laminated fine silt layers (0.5 m thick), rich in organic
matter, alternating with ripple cross-bedded sand layers (each ∼1.5–2 m thick). Sand layers that are moderately sorted are
separated by laminated silt-clay layers with gypsum/calcite and this unit occurs in the upper most 4 m sequence in deeper
sections. The presence of gypsum crystals within the laminated sediments suggests a high concentration of Ca in the inflowing
water.
At Parihara Lake the organic carbon-rich sediments at 95 cm depth was dated to 7,375 + 155/−150 year BP. At Tal Chapar radiocarbon
dates of 7,190 + 155/−150 and 9,903 + 360/−350 was obtained from the sediments rich in organic carbon occurring at a depth
of 1.35 m and 1.80 m, respectively. The study reveals strong hydrologic oscillations during the past ∼14,000 year BP (13,090 + 310/−300 year
BP).
Quaternary geomorphic processes, especially the strong aeolian processes during dry climatic phases, played a major role in
the formation of the lake basins, as well as the fringing linear dunes. Geochemical and mineralogical analyses of the lacustrine
sediments, supported by radiocarbon dates indicate the existence of an ephemeral lake earlier than ∼13,000 year BP as sediments
began to be deposited in a lacustrine environment implying sustained runoff in the catchments. A freshwater lake formed between
9,000 year and 7,000 year BP. The lake dried periodically and this strong fluctuating regime continued until about ∼7,000 year
BP. Mid-Holocene was wet and this was possibly due to higher winter rains A saline lake existed between 6,000 year and 1,300 year
BP and finally present day semi arid conditions set in since 1,200 year BP. Remnants of a habitation site (hearth and charred
bones) on stabilised dune at Devani near Tal Chapar were dated to 240 ± 120 year, while that at Gopalpura was dated to 335 ± 90 year.
These historical sites on stabilised dunes were, according to the local accounts, settlements of people who used the lake
brine for manufacturing salt. 相似文献
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The Niger River is the third largest river in the African continent. Nine riparian countries share its basin, which rank all among the world’s thirty poorest. Existing challenges in West Africa, including endemic poverty, inadequate infrastructure and weak adaptive capacity to climate variability, make the region vulnerable to climate change. In this study, a risk-based methodology is introduced and demonstrated for the analysis of climate change impacts on planned infrastructure investments in water resources systems in the Upper and Middle Niger River Basin. The methodology focuses on identifying the vulnerability of the Basin’s socio-economic system to climate change, and subsequently assessing the likelihood of climate risks by using climate information from a multi-run, multi-GCM ensemble of climate projections. System vulnerabilities are analyzed in terms of performance metrics of hydroelectricity production, navigation, dry and rainy season irrigated agriculture, flooding in the Inner Delta of the Niger and the sustenance of environmental flows. The study reveals low to moderate risks in terms of stakeholder-defined threshold levels for most metrics in the 21st Century. The highest risk levels were observed for environmental flow targets. The findings indicate that the range of projected changes in an ensemble of CMIP3 GCM projections imply only relatively low risks of unacceptable climate change impacts on the present large-scale infrastructure investment plan for the Basin. 相似文献
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The aeolian sedimentation record of the Thar desert 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
A review of the aeolian sedimentary record of the Thar desert is presented. This includes a regional survey of the major dune
forms, their genesis and their relationship to climate and other regional landforms. A key aspect of this work is the chronometry
of the dunes using luminescence methods. Luminescence dating of sand has enabled quantification of the duration of the phases
of sand aggradation and quiescence, time scales of dune migration and the dating of pedogenic carbonates. We demonstrate that
the conventional wisdom of synchronicity of dune aggradation with glacial epoch is not true in the context of Thar sands and
here only a short durationwindow of opportunity existed for dune aggradation. Luminescence ages further suggest that this window occurred during a transitional climatic
regime from glacial to interglacial about 4–10 ka after the glacial epoch. Other inferences included are that:
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– | • the aeolian activity in the Thar began over > 150 ka, resolving that Thar is not of anthropogenic origin as suggested previously; |
– | • the present spatial extent of the aeolian activity in the Thar is in a contracted stage compared to that in the geological past, which refutes the arguments on its rapid north-eastward expansion; |
– | • the current dune migration rates in areas of significant human-induced disturbances are much higher than during the geological past; |
– | • the monsoon activity in the Thar varied significantly, from being minimal during the isotopic marine stages 4 and 2 to being close to the present during stage 3; |
– | • on shorter time scales the dune activities correlated with the lacustrine records of the region with a phase difference of a few centuries and a periodicity of ∼ 1500 years; |
– | • the sand aggradation climate in the southern margin in Gujarat gradually shrank northwards such that in general dunes older than 10 ka are seen in the extreme southern margin and dunes younger than 2ka ages occur mostly in the western part of Rajasthan. |
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Understanding deformation mechanisms in Himalayan rocks is a challenging proposition due to the complex nature of the deformed
rocks and their genesis. Crustal deformation in the Himalayan thrust belt typically occurs in elastico-frictional (EF) or
quasi-plastic (QP) regimes at depths controlled mainly by regional strain-rate and geothermal gradient. However, material
property, grain-size and their progressive changes during deformation are also important controlling factors. We present evidence
of EF deformation from Gondwana rocks developed during the emplacement of one of the frontal horses (Jorthang horse) in the
Lesser Himalayan Duplex (LHD) structure associated with Lesser Himalayan rocks in the footwall of the Ramgarh thrust in the
Rangit window near Jorthang in the Sikkim Himalaya. The rocks in the horse exhibit systematic changes in microand meso-structures
from an undeformed protolith to cataclasite suggesting that it was emplaced under elastico-frictional conditions. Meso- to
micro-scale shear fractures are seen developed in Gondwana sandstone and slate while intercalated fine-grained shale-coal-carbonates
are deformed by cataclastic flow suggesting that material property and grain-size have played an important role in the deformation
of the Jorthang horse. In contrast, the hanging wall schists and quartzites of the Ramgarh thrust exhibit quasi-plastic deformation
structures. This suggests that the Jorthang horse was emplaced under shallower crustal conditions than the antiformally folded
Ramgarh thrust sheet even though the Ramgarh sheet presently overlies the Jorthang horse. 相似文献
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Summary The summer monsoon circulation shows various spatial and temporal oscillations and often a combination of systems produces
an integrated effect. In this study phases of the southwest (SW) monsoon have been identified in an objective manner with
the help of T-mode principal component analysis (PCA) of weekly rainfall anomalies. Mean composite charts have been prepared
utilising all available upper air data (1977–1986) for each category of the SW monsoon epochs identified by the PCA. These
sets of charts have been constructed for both the strong and weak phases associated with the first four significant principal
components (PCs).
A well defined east-west oriented trough system, extending from about 28° N Latitude/65° E Longitude to 20° N Latitude/90° E
Longitude, in the lower levels, has been the main feature associated with the strong phase of the monsoon corresponding to
PC I. The trough in the lower levels is more marked in the eastern half compared to the western half in both the sets of charts
associated with strong phases of the monsoon related to the PC II and PC III. With PC II, the position of the troughs in the
lower levels is further north of its location in PC III. The east-west trough system associated with the strong phase of PC
IV has a large southward tilt with height. The charts corresponding to the weak phases of these PCs have synoptic features,
such as the position of the trough close to the foothills of the Himalayas, and the shifting of middle and upper tropospheric
anticyclones to the south.
The study suggests an objective method of interpretation of principal components by utilising synoptic data. In addition,
synoptic models and data sets corresponding to different phases of the monsoon can also be prepared in an objective manner
by such PCA.
Received July 18, 1997 Revised April 30, 1999 相似文献
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Tapas R. Martha Priyom Roy Ritwik Mazumdar K. Babu Govindharaj K. Vinod Kumar 《Landslides》2017,14(2):697-704
High magnitude earthquakes trigger numerous landslides and their occurrences are mainly controlled by terrain parameters. We created an inventory of 15,551 landslides with a total area of 90.2 km2 triggered by the 2015 Mw 7.8 (Gorkha) and Mw 7.3 (Dolakha) earthquakes in Nepal, through interpretation of very high resolution satellite images (e.g. WorldView, Pleiades, Cartosat-1 and 2, Resourcesat-2). Our spatial analysis of landslide occurrences with ground acceleration, slope, lithology and surface defomation indicated ubiquitous control of steep slope on landslides with ground acceleration as the trigger. Spatial distribution of landslides shows increasing frequency away from the Gorkha earthquake epicentre up to 130 km towards east, dropping sharply thereafter, which is an abnormal phenomenon of coseismic landslides. Landslides are laterally concentrated in three zones which matches well with the seismic rupture evolution of Gorkha earthquake, as reported through teleseismic measurements. 相似文献