Source-to-sink research: economy of the Earth's surface and its strata
Source-to-sink research: economy of the Earth's surface and its strata
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DOI：
10.1016/j.earscirev.2015.11.010
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发表时间：
2016-02
影响因子：
12.1
通讯作者：
J. Walsh;P. Wiberg;R. Aalto;C. Nittrouer;S. Kuehl
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作者：
J. Walsh;P. Wiberg;R. Aalto;C. Nittrouer;S. Kuehl
地球有46亿年的历史，在这段时间里，它的面貌发生了戏剧性的变化。地球科学家利用古代岩石和沉积沉积物的残留物信息来揭开地球的历史。古代山脉的高度是多少？是什么事件造成了山坡下或埋藏在河谷中的地层？什么样的风暴影响了海岸线和海洋？赫顿(1785年)和其他人说服我们，现在是过去的钥匙，认为在海洋中积累的沉积物(即沉淀池)最终成为我们生活的土地(来源)：“因为它不是在人类记录中，而是在自然历史中，我们要寻找确定已经存在的东西的方法，这里建议检查地球的外观，以便了解过去已经处理过的操作。因此，从自然哲学的原理中，我们可以对这个世界经济中的秩序和系统有一些认识，并可以对自然的进程或及时发生的事件形成一种理性的看法。
The Earth is 4.6 billion years old, and over this time, its complexion has changed dramatically. Geoscientists use remnant information from ancient rocks and sedimentary deposits to unravel the history of the planet. What were the heights of ancient mountains? What events created the stratigraphy seen underneath hillsides or within buried river valleys? What kinds of storms impacted shorelines and oceans? Hutton (1785) and others convinced us that the present is the key to the past, arguing that sediments accumulating in the sea (ie, the sedimentary sink) eventually become the land upon which we live (the source):“As it is not in human record, but in natural history, that we are to look for the means of ascertaining what has already been, it is here proposed to examine the appearances of the earth, in order to be informed of operations which have been transacted in time past. It is thus that, from principles of natural philosophy, we may arrive at some knowledge of order and system in the economy of this globe, and may form a rational opinion with regard to the course of nature, or to events which are in time to happen.”