Studies of Ground Conductivity in the Territory of Alaska

The effective ground conductivity of Alaska has been determined by a comparison of experimental and theoretical field strengths. The experimental field strengths have been obtained by use of an airborne receiver, flown along radial paths from a large number of CAA radio ranges and beacons. The surface wave attenuation factor was computed for both a plane and a curved, homogeneous earth by methods presented by Norton. The experimentally determined relative field strengths were plotted as a function of distance and were compared with a family of curves for assumed values of conductivity and dielectric constant. From this comparison, that value of conductivity that best fits the experimental data is taken as the effective conductivity over the path. An investigation of the effect at dielectric constant on the transmitted signal shows that, within the frequency range used, a change of dielectric constant from 1 to 20 has but little effect on the attenuation of the transmitted signal for values of conductivity between 1 and 5 mmho/m. The experimental results indicate that for most sections of Alaska, the effective conductivity falls within this range. In some cases the earth was not homogeneous over the entire flight path as evidenced by changes in the slope of the field strength vs distance curves. In such cases, the data were replotted with an initial point at the discontinuity and new theoretical curves were drawn for each section of the field strength vs distance curves. Investigation of the variation of effective conductivity with change of frequency and at different seasons was made. In addition, wave tilt methods of determining the conductivity were used. A 'Ground Constants Measuring Set' was obtained from the Signal Corps and measurements were made in selected areas in Alaska. Attempts were made to use 1height-gain' and 'mutual coupling of loops' techniques but these were not successful. An investigation of anomolous propagation in the vicinity of Point Barrow was made. It was determined that this anomolous propagation appears to be the result of a layered earth. In addition to the anomolous propagation in the vicinity of Point Barrow, there appears to be similar anomolies in the vicinity of Kotzebue, Galena, Bethel and Port Heiden. From the above investigations a map showing the effective conductivity of Alaska as determined by the attenuation method is presented.Navy Department Bureau of Ships NObsr 72528 NE 120308 Subtask No. 6ABSTRACT -- PART I A. Purpose -- B. General Factual Data -- C. Detail Factual Data -- PART II -- A, Conclusions -- APPENDIX IYe

Arnold Schering, "Die Eroica, eine Homer-Symphonie Beethovens?": Translated with an Introduction and Commentary

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Experimental determination of Pb partitioning between sulfide melt and basalt melt as a function of P, T and X

© The Author(s), 2016. This is the author's version of the work and is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 185 (2016): 9-20, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2016.01.030.We have measured the partition coefficient of Pb (KdPb) between FeS melt and basalt melt at temperatures of 1250–1523 °C, pressures of 1.0–3.5 GPa and oxygen fugacities at iron–wustite and wustite–magnetite. The total observed range of KdPb is 4.0–66.6, with a strong negative dependence on pressure and a strong negative dependence on FeO of the silicate melt (Fe+2 only). The FeO control was constrained over a wide range of FeO (4.2–39.5%). We found that the effect of oxygen fugacity can be subsumed under the FeO control parameter. Prior work has established the lack of a significant effect of temperature (Kiseeva and Wood, 2015; Li and Audétat, 2015). Our data are parameterized as: KdPb = 4.8 + (512 − 119*P in GPa)*(1/FeO − 0.021). We also measured a single value of KdPb between clinopyroxene and basalt melt at 2.0 GPa of 0.020 ± 0.001. This experimental data supports the “natural” partitioning of Pb measured on sulfide globules in MORB (Patten et al., 2013), but not the low KdPb of ∼3 inferred from sulfides in abyssal peridotites by Warren and Shirey (2012). It also quantitatively affirms the modeling of Hart and Gaetani (2006) with respect to using sulfide to buffer the canonical Nd/Pb ratio for MORB and OIB (Hofmann, 2003). For the low FeO and pressure of segregation typical of MORB, KdPb ∼ 45, and the Nd/Pb ratio of erupted basalts will be the same as the Nd/Pb ratio of the mantle source. The remaining puzzle is why MORB and OIB have the same Nd/Pb when they clearly have different FeO and pressure of melt segregation.This work would not have been done without the support of NSF, through Grant EAR-0635530.2017-02-1

An investigation into the effects of axis orientation on the binocular cross cylinder

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