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DOI | 10.1073/PNAS.2101255118 |
Arctic soil patterns analogous to fluid instabilities | |
Glade R.C.; Fratkin M.M.; Pouragha M.; Seiphoori A.; Rowland J.C. | |
发表日期 | 2021 |
ISSN | 0027-8424 |
卷号 | 118期号:21 |
英文摘要 | Slow-moving arctic soils commonly organize into striking large-scale spatial patterns called solifluction terraces and lobes. Although these features impact hillslope stability, carbon storage and release, and landscape response to climate change, no mechanistic explanation exists for their formation. Everyday fluids-such as paint dripping down walls-produce markedly similar fingering patterns resulting from competition between viscous and cohesive forces. Here we use a scaling analysis to show that soil cohesion and hydrostatic effects can lead to similar large-scale patterns in arctic soils. A large dataset of high-resolution solifluction lobe spacing and morphology across Norway supports theoretical predictions and indicates a newly observed climatic control on solifluction dynamics and patterns. Our findings provide a quantitative explanation of a common pattern on Earth and other planets, illuminating the importance of cohesive forces in landscape dynamics. These patterns operate at length and time scales previously unrecognized, with implications toward understanding fluid-solid dynamics in particulate systems with complex rheology. © 2021 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. |
英文关键词 | Climate; Fluid instabilities; Granular fingering; Periglacial; Solifluction |
语种 | 英语 |
scopus关键词 | Arctic; article; astronomy; climate; flow kinetics; Norway; prediction; quantitative analysis; soil |
来源期刊 | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/238549 |
作者单位 | Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, United States; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada; Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Glade R.C.,Fratkin M.M.,Pouragha M.,et al. Arctic soil patterns analogous to fluid instabilities[J],2021,118(21). |
APA | Glade R.C.,Fratkin M.M.,Pouragha M.,Seiphoori A.,&Rowland J.C..(2021).Arctic soil patterns analogous to fluid instabilities.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,118(21). |
MLA | Glade R.C.,et al."Arctic soil patterns analogous to fluid instabilities".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118.21(2021). |
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