D. P. Blair  L. W. Armstrong 《Fragblast: International Journal for Blasting and Fragmentation》2001,5(1):108-129

There is a common belief within the blasting community that increasing the burden will increase the blast vibration. In order to test this belief in a direct sense, it would be desirable to fire single blastholes with various burdens and monitor the vibrations at many locations. A review of past literature indicates that such direct tests are rare and only scant data is available. Nevertheless, a detailed analysis of this and associated past work (on small-scale blocks and choke blasts) shows no convincing evidence of an influence of burden on blast vibration. On the other hand, by considering the role of reflected waves in a simple analytical model, reasoning is given to show that the vibration might well be insensitive to burden. In view of the scant data available, it was decided to conduct trials of a direct nature, in which 13 single blastholes were fired to a free face. The burdens chosen were 2.6 m, 5.2 m and 10.4 m, and the vibration was measured at typically 10 locations over the range 5 m to 50 m from each hole. The results clearly show that the vibration is independent of such burdens. Furthermore, a side-by-side comparison of a choke blast with a free-face blast showed that the vibration from the holes in the choke blast was not higher than the vibration from the holes in the free-face blast. The present work also shows that vibration, although insensitive to burden, is not insensitive to the condition (i.e., the degree of damage) of the surrounding rock mass. In this regard, blastholes in undamaged ground produce a significantly higher vibration than blastholes in damaged ground. This might well be the reason why pre splits and drop-cuts are observed to produce relatively high vibrations, i.e., it is not because such blasts typically involve large burdens, but rather that they are usually initiated in relatively undamaged ground.  相似文献   

    

J. Escuder Viruete  R. Carbonell  M. J. Jurado  D. Martí  A. Prez-Estaún 《Journal of Structural Geology》2001,23(12)

We use a fracture index distribution method of geostatistical modelling and prediction to characterize quantitatively the fracture system in two-dimensions (2D) in the Mina Ratones area, located in the Albalá Granitic Pluton (SW Iberian Massif). The fracture index (FI) is a quantitative estimate of the fracture density in discrete domains. To validate the results of geostatistical modeling a detailed structural map of the area was also made on a scale of 1:1000. The resulting grids, expressed as pixel-maps, describe the continuous value of the FI in 2D for the whole Mina Ratones area. Based on the modelled distribution of the FI and their correlation with mapped faults, we distinguish two structural domains in the studied area: elongated bands of fracture zones with high FI values and romboidal blocks located between them with low FI values. The separation between both domains is gradual. Though a threshold value of the FI that separate both structural domains is not clearly defined, the fracture zones generally present FI>1 and the individualized blocks FI<0.50. As a consequence, the obtained grid of the FI permits the quantitative structural classification of the granitic massif in 2D and understanding fault zone architecture in the Mina Ratones area.  相似文献   

    

S. N. Jamal B. Sc.  M. Sc.  M. Zafar Iqbal B.Sc.  M.Sc  Ph.D.  M. Athar M.Sc  MPhil.  Ph.D.  D.Sc 《International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology》2006,3(1):53-58

The study deals with the effect of metal toxicity (aluminum, chromium and combination of both the metals) on seed germination, root length, shoot length, seedling length and dry biomass of Vigna radiata and V. sinensis. Chromium adversely affected the seedling by significantly reducing the growth whereas aluminum did not show such effect in both the species. Percentage of germination was good in both the species at different concentration of treatment (aluminum, chromium and combined treatment). Shoot length was also not much affected in V. sinensis as it was greatly inhibited in V. radiata. Both the species showed the purpling of stem. Dry biomass of V. radiata showed positive effect than V. sinensis. However, dry biomass decreased to a lesser extent when treated with aluminum, chromium and combined treatment as compared to control.  相似文献   

    

Andrew D. Miall 《GeoJournal》1992,28(2):303-304

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G. A. Cannon  J. R. Holbrook  D. J. Pashinski 《Estuaries and Coasts》1990,13(1):31-42

Puget Sound is a fjord-like estuary and bottom-water intrusions are major circulation features which play a dominant role in the replacement of water below still depth. New observations on the inside and outside of the entrance sill show that, while intrusions occur during neap tides as previously thought, the onset of the intrusions is a results off fluctuations in the horizontal density gradient caused by salinity variations across the sill. Salinity changes outside the sill in the Strait of Juan de Fuca estuary appear to be the result of storms on the Pacific Coast causing reversals of surface flow and variations in deep flow more than 135 km from the coast. Previous observations have shown deep salinity variations midway along the straight, but these are the first to show this effect can penetrate the full length of the Strait causing near-bottom salinity variations of sufficient magnitude to influence flow into Puget Sound. This influence probably occurs from the onset of storms in autumn through subsidence in spring, although occasional large storms occur in summer. Although Puget Sound is more characteristic of a fjord, the simple model calculations here suggest similar processes may occur in lower-layer flow at the mouth of coastal plain estuaries.  相似文献   

    

H. C. Humphreys  D. H. Cornell 《Lithos》1989,22(4):287-303

Granulite- and amphibolite-facies metabasites occur within the Archaean Marydale Group (3.0 Ga) along the western edge of the mid-Proterozoic Kheis Tectonic Subprovince (1.8–1.3 Ga) of South Africa. At the northern end of the exposed Marydale Group, the metabasites are infolded with overlying quartzites from which they are separated by a low-angle fault contact. They contain two pyroxenes, hornblende and bytownite, but show widespread retrogression to coronas of almandine and hornblende. Geothermometric data for these assemblages indicate peak equilibration of the two-pyroxene assemblage at 690–760°C, and retrograde equilibration of garnet-hornblende pairs at 600–650°C. Barometric data are more uncertain though an estimate of 3–5 kbar is made from a consideration of hornblende chemistry. Using previously published data, a near-isobaric retrograde P-T path is inferred.

Rb---Sr ages of whole-rock hypersthene tonalites and mylonitized granites yield ages of 1353 ± 33 and 1355 ± 20 Ma, respectively, interpreted as the age of isotopic resetting during granulite-facies metamorphism. K---Ar hornblende ages of 1228 ± 61 and 1070 ± 48 Ma are recorded from fresh and sheared granulite-facies metabasites, respectively. These ages data the P-T path and show that the granulite-facies metamorphism predates the adjacent Namaqua orogeny that reset Rb---Sr systematics at ±1210 Ma.  相似文献   

    

A. Manceau  D. Bonnin  W. E. E. Stone  J. Sanz 《Physics and Chemistry of Minerals》1990,17(4):363-370

The distribution of Fe atoms within the octahedral sheet of a series of trioctahedral micas has been investigated by polarized Fe K-edge EXAFS spectroscopy. Single crystals have been oriented in the X-ray beam with the layer plane at 35° with respect to the electric field vector. At this “magic angle”, contributions to the EXAFS spectrum of nearest cation shells are equal to those recorded on a completely disoriented powder. The average number of Fe and Mg cations surrounding each Fe atom has been determined and compared with those deduced from NMR spectra. It is shown that the distribution of Fe atoms is not random, the deviation from this distribution depending on the fluorine content. The agreement between these independent results proves the reliability of the structural information deduced from EXAFS and NMR spectra as well as the usefulness of these two methods in analyzing the local distribution of cations in minerals.  相似文献   

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PAUL D. KOMAR  PAUL A. CARLING 《Sedimentology》1991,38(3):489-502

Flow-competence assessments of floods have been based on the largest particle sizes transported, and yield either the mean flow stress, mean velocity, or discharge per unit flow width. The use of extreme particle sizes has potential problems in that they may have been transported by debris flows rather than by the flood, it may be difficult to locate the largest particles within the flood deposits, and there are questions concerning how representative one or a few large particles might be of the transported sediments and therefore of the flood hydraulics. Such problems would be eliminated for the most part if competence evaluations are based on median grain sizes of transported sediments, or perhaps on some coarse percentile that is established by a reasonable number of grains. In order to examine such issues, the gravel-transport data of Milhous from Oak Creek, Oregon, and of Carling from Great Eggleshope Beck, England, have been analysed in terms of changing grain-size percentiles with varying flow stresses. A comparison between these two data sets is of added interest because the bed material in Oak Creek is segregated into well-developed pavement and subpavement layers, while such a layering of bed materials is largely absent in Great Eggleshope Beck. The analyses show that the trend of increasing sizes of the largest particles in the bedload samples (diameter D_m) with increasing flow stresses is consistent with similar dependencies based on sieve percentiles ranging from the medians (D₅₀) to the 95th percentiles (D₉₅). This indicates that the largest particles are an integral part of the overall distributions of bedload grain sizes, and respond to changing flow hydraulics along with the rest of the size distribution. In Oak Creek, the median grain size shows the largest change with increasing flow stresses, followed by D₆₀, and so on to D₉₅ which shows the smallest change. The variations in D_m continue this trend, and are similar to those for D₉₅. This systematic variation of grain-size percentiles in Oak Creek is consistent with changes in the overall distributions which tend to be symmetrical and Gaussian for low discharges, but become skewed Rosin distributions for high discharges. In contrast, in Great Eggleshope Beck the several percentiles and D_m show the same rate of shift to coarser sizes as flow stresses increase. This results in part from differences in sampling techniques wherein the bedload samples from Great Eggleshope Beck represent a complete flood event, while shorterterm samples at a specific flow stage were obtained in Oak Creek. As a result of the integrated sampling in Great Eggleshope Beck, the bedload grain-size distributions are more complex, commonly with a bimodal pattern. However, after accounting for differences in sampling schemes in the two streams, contrasting patterns in changing grain-size distributions remain, and these are concluded to reflect grain sorting differences as the bedload grain-size distributions approach the distributions of the bed materials. It is surprising that if criteria commonly employed to demonstrate the equal mobility of different grain sizes are used in the comparison, then Great Eggleshope Beck is far closer to this condition in spite of its minimal development of a pavement. It is concluded that the respective shapes of the bed-material grain-size distributions, in particular their degrees of skewness, are more important to the observed sorting patterns than are the effects of a pavement layer regulating grain entrapment to produce an equal mobility of different grain sizes. Therefore, the comparison has established that flow-competence relationships will differ from one stream to another, depending on the pattern of grain sorting which is a function of the bedmaterial grain-size distribution.  相似文献   

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D. I. Groves 《Mineralium Deposita》1993,28(6):366-374

Most Archaean gold ores belong to a coherent genetic group of structurally controlled lode-deposits that are characteristically enriched in Au with variable enrichments in Ag, As, W, Sb, Bi, Te, B and Pb, but rarely Cu or Zn, and are surrounded by wallrock alteration haloes enriched in K, LILE and CO₂, with variable Na and/or Ca addition. Evidence from the Yilgarn Block of Western Australia, combined with similar evidence from Canada and elsewhere, indicates that such deposits represent a crustal continuum that formed under a variety of crustal régimes over at least a 15 km crustal profile at PT conditions ranging from 180°C at <1 kb to 700°C at 5 kb. Individual deposits, separated by tens to hundreds of kilometres, collectively show transitional variations in structural style of mineralisation, vein textures, and mineralogy of wallrock alteration that relate to the PT conditions of their formation at varying crustal depths. Specific transitions within the total spectrum may be shown also by deposits within gold camps, although nowhere is the entire continuum of deposits recorded from a single gold camp or even greenstone belt. Recognition of the crustal continuum of deposits implicates the existence of giant late-Archaean hydrothermal systems with a deep source for the primary ore fluid. A number of deep fluid and solute reservoirs are possible, including the basal segments of greenstone belts, deep-level intrusive granitoids, mid-to lower-crustal granitoidgneisses, mantle lithosphere, or even subducted oceanic lithosphere, given the probable convergent-margin setting of the host greenstone terranes. Individual stable and radiogenic isotope ratios of fluid and solute components implicate fluid evolution from, or equilibrium with, a number of these reservoirs, stressing the potential complexity of pathways for fluid advection to depositional sites. Lead and strontium isotope ratios of ore-associated minerals provide the most persuasive evidence for fluid advection through deep-level intrusive granitoids or granitoid-gneiss crust, whereas preliminary oxygen isotope data show that mixing of deeply sourced fluid and surface waters only occurred at the highest crustal levels recorded by the lode gold deposits.  相似文献   

    

W. E. Schaaf  D. S. Peters  L. Coston-Clements  D. S. Vaughan  C. W. Krouse 《Estuaries and Coasts》1993,16(4):697-702

Pollution effects on fish populations were estimated with a simulation model, using Leslie matrices. Results from changing only first-year survival rate (S_o) have already been published (Schaaf et al. 1987). This paper explores the effects of perturbing both S_o and the adult survival rate (S_i) for 12 spatial-temporal stocks. Most stocks examined are more sensitive to permanent change in S_i than to changes in S_o. The relative importance of these two rates in determining the population growth rate (λ) depends upon the age distribution of the expected lifetime egg production of age i females (V_i). In turn, the vector V_i, as measured by its mean and standard deviation, is shown to vary among geographic or temporal stocks of a single species. Hence, we quantify the impact on population size of destroying a fixed percentage of habitat, relative to where and when it occurs (i.e., relative impact on S_i and S_o). For example, destroying 1% of the Atlantic menhaden habitat would reduce λ by 0.8% and the population by 8.0% in 10 yr, if the impact affected only adults (e.g., offshore in winter). If the 1% habitat destruction all occurred in the estuaries, affecting juveniles as well, λ would be reduced by almost 5%, and in 10 yr drive the population down to 58% of its former equilibrium. We show that knowledge of the mean and variance of the age distribution of V_i permits prediction of relative sensitivity among species to pollution. Within species, this knowledge of V_i permits comparison of the effects of impacting different life stages and at different times and places.  相似文献