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Jérôme OLLIER

Sediment from Himalayas may have made 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake more severe - @Orego... - 0 views

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    Sediment that eroded from the Himalayas and Tibetan plateau over millions of years was transported thousands of kilometers by rivers and in the Indian Ocean - and became sufficiently thick over time to generate temperatures warm enough to strengthen the sediment and increase the severity of the catastrophic 2004 Sumatra earthquake.
Jérôme OLLIER

Microplate discovery dates birth of Himalayas - @Sydney_Uni - 0 views

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    An international team has discovered the first microplate in a remote section of the Indian Ocean.
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    An international team has discovered the first microplate in a remote section of the Indian Ocean.
Jérôme OLLIER

Sediment provenances shift driven by sea level and Indian monsoon in the southern Bay o... - 0 views

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    The Tibetan Plateau uplift has induced the formation of the largest sediment source-sink system in the northeast Indian Ocean, which has become an ideal region for investigating land-sea interaction processes. However, many questions regarding sediment transport patterns and their controlling factors at different time scales remain unanswered. Therefore, in the present study, a gravity core named BoB-79, based on the southern Bay of Bengal (BoB) was selected to investigate sediment provenance shift and its corresponding mechanism to sedimentary environment change since the last glacial maximum (LGM). The clay mineral compositions are analyzed and the whole core sediments reveal a feature dominated by illite (~55%), followed by chlorite (~24%) and kaolinite (~17%), and the content of smectite (~4%) is the lowest. A trigonometric analysis of provenance discrimination of clay minerals showed that the Himalayas, together with the Indian Peninsula, represent the main sources of southern BoB sediments, and the last glacial period might have been controlled by the dominant Himalayan provenance, with an average contribution of approximately 90%. However, as a secondary source, the influence of the Indian Peninsula increased significantly during the Holocene, and its mean contribution was 24%, thus, indicating that it had a crucial effect on the evolution process of BoB. The sediment transportation pattern changed significantly from the LGM to the Holocene: in the last glacial period, the low sea level exposed the shelf area that caused the Ganges River connected with the largest submarine canyon in BoB named Swatch of No Ground (SoNG), and the Himalayan materials could be transported to the BoB directly under a strong turbidity current, thereby forming the deep sea deposition center with a sedimentation rate of 4.5 cm/kyr. Following Holocene, the sea level increased significantly, and the materials from multiple rivers around the BoB were directly imported into the continen
Jérôme OLLIER

The Bangladesh shrimp farmers facing life on the edge - @guardianeco - 0 views

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    The Bangladesh shrimp farmers facing life on the edge.
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