Experimental results are reported concerning the nature of reflected flows generated when density currents are incident upon ramp‐type flow obstructions. The reflected flows are bores (moving hydraulic jumps that transport mass) with flow characteristics in common with either a group of solitary waves (weak Type A bores) or the original density current (strong Type C bores). Alternatively, the bore may have attributes in common with both of these end‐member forms (intermediate Type B bores). Bore strength is positively correlated with the ratio of reverse flow thickness to that of the residual tail of the forward flow. The largest values of this ratio occur when ‘proximal’reflections arrive at the steeper ramps. Measured particle paths in the bores indicate that natural examples will have the potential to transport and deposit sediment. Strong bores have velocity characteristics very similar to the original current and thus in nature the generated sequence of sedimentary structures will resemble those of the original depositing current. The train of solitary waves that make up a weak bore sequence exhibits a pulsating velocity profile at a point. Such flows may thus generate repeated sequences of structures separated by fine ‘drapes’that are distinguishable from the deposits of the original turbidity current. These conclusions are applied to examples of reflected turbidites described from the Palaeozoic to Quaternary sedimentary record.
The unidirectional maternofetal clearance (Kmf) of 45Ca was measured across the rat placenta over the last one-third of gestation. Kmf for 45Ca normalized to its diffusion coefficient in water (Kmf/Dw) increased 72-fold between days 15 and 22 of gestation from 3.5 +/- 0.3 to 253.1 +/- 22.0 cm/g placenta, respectively. At 15 and 18 days of gestation, Kmf/Dw for 45Ca was similar to Kmf/Dw for the paracellular marker [14C]mannitol, but at 21 and 22 days of gestation, Kmf/Dw for 45Ca was significantly higher than Kmf/Dw for [14C]mannitol, indicating that an additional route of transfer, other than diffusion, becomes available to calcium during this period. Northern hybridization analysis demonstrated that rat placental calbindin9K-to-beta-actin mRNA ratio increased 135-fold between 15 and 22 days of gestation and was temporally associated with the gestational increase in Kmf/Dw for 45Ca. In contrast, rat placental Ca(2+)-ATPase-to-beta-actin mRNA ratio increased only two- to threefold over the same gestational period and did not mirror the gestational changes in calcium clearance. These trends suggest that the expression of placental calbindin9K, but not Ca(2+)-ATPase, may be rate limiting to placental calcium transport in the rat.
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