The Chassigny meteorite: a cumulate dunite with hydrous amphibole-bearing melt inclusions

The Chassigny meteorite is a moderately shocked olivine achondrite or chassignite with features indicative of a cumulate origin with some subsolidus annealing. Chassigny is an iron-rich dunite (Fo₆₈) with minor amounts of Ca-rich and Ca-poor pyroxene, alkalic feldspar, chromite, and melt inclusions in olivine. Accessory phases include chlorapatite, troilite, marcasite, kaersutite amphibole, pentlandite, ilmenite, rutile and baddeleyite. The meteorite experienced shock pressures of ~150–200 kbar as evidenced by planar and irregular fractures in olivine, local recrystallization in pyroxene and reduced birefringence and rare deformation lamallae in feldspar. Kaersutitic amphibole (K_0.05 Na_0.45)_0.50 (Ca_1.71 Na_0.29)_2.00 (Mg_2.73 ‘Fe’_1.19 Ti_0.73 A1_0.23 Cr_0.08 Mn_0.03)_4.99 (Si_6.05Al_1.95)_8.00 O₂₂ (OH, F)₂ containing hydrogen and lesser amounts of fluorine represents the first extraterrestrial occurrence of hydrous amphibole and the first meteoritic amphibole type other than fluorichterite. Kaersutite is found only in melt inclusions.Melt inclusion bulk compositional data suggest crystallization from a low-Ca melt that may have been similar in major element abundances to the silicate portion of LL group chondrites. However, Chassigny has a fractionated pattern for REE and the lack of metallic iron, possible presence of minor Ni in the olivine and Fe³⁺ in the chromites indicates that Chassigny formed under relatively more oxidizing conditions than most other achondrites. Therefore its parental melt could not have been directly derived from a chondritic composition in a simple single-stage process. The iron-rich bulk composition, cumulate texture and abundance as well as alkalic nature of the interstitial feldspar indicate that Chassigny could not have generated eucritic magmas. This places further constraints on its relationship to other meteorites and the parent body from which it is derived. The Brachina meteorite is similar to Chassigny except that it is finer grained, more feldspathic and is unshocked. It extends the fractionation range of this group which now represents two unusual meteorites.     

Der Einfluß des Windes auf die Wasserbewegungen durch die Straße von Dover

Zusammenfassung Es werden die Beziehungen zwischen den über der südlichen Nordsee herrschenden Winden und den durch die Straße von Dover stattfindenden Wasserbewegungen abgeleitet. Diese werden einerseits durch den unmittelbaren Windeinfluß und andererseits durch das im wesentlichen auch windbedingte Gefälle vom Kanal zur Nordsee bestimmt. Der Jahresgang und im Zusammenhang damit das Vorrücken salzreichen Wassers im Kanal werden untersucht. Die bei Feuerschiff Varne auftretenden Richtungsänderungen des mittleren jährlichen Reststromes werden durch Schwankungen der Windgeschwindigkeit erklärt. An Hand von Salzgehaltskarten aufeinanderfolgender Monate werden Bewegungen von Wasserkörpern und Fronten im Kanal unter dem Einfluß des Windes verfolgt. Auf die Bedeutung solcher Untersuchungen synoptischer Art zum Studium der Wasserbewegungen wird hingewiesen.

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The wind's influence on the flow of water through the Straits of Dover

Summary The relations between the winds blowing over the southern North Sea and the flow of water through the Straits of Dover are derived; this flow of water depends on both the immediate influence of the wind and the slope of the sea surface between the Channel and the North Sea which, too, is mainly produced by the wind. The annual variation and, in connection with it, the advance of Atlantic water into the Channel are investigated. The changes of directions the mean annual residual current is subjected to according to the observations made near the light vessel Varne are found to be due to variations in the wind velocity. The shifting of water bodies and fronts in the Channel as dependent on the wind is studied by means of salinity charts over consecutive months. Finally, attention is drawn to the significance of such synoptical investigations for the study of water movements.

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L'influence du vent sur les mouvements de l'eau dans le Pas de Calais

Résumé Les relations entre les vents dominant au sud de la mer du Nord et les mouvements de l'aeu dans le Pas de Calais sont dérivées. Ces mouvements sont causés par l'action immédiate du vent ainsi que par la pente de la surface entre la Manche et la mer du Nord; celle-ci, de sa part, est de même essentiellement causée par le vent. La marche annuelle et, en conséquence, la progression de l'eau atlantique dans la Manche sont étudiées. Les changements de direction du courant résiduel moyen par an dérivés des observations du bateau feu Varne sont expliqués en fonction des changements de vitesse du vent. À l'aide des cartes de salinité sur des mois consécutifs les mouvements des masses d'eau et des fronts dans la Manche sont étudiés par rapport à leur dépendance du vent. En résumé, l'attention est attirée sur l'importance de telles investigations synoptiques pourl'étude des mouvements de l'eau.

     

2002年和2003年夏季波弗特海海冰叶绿素a和小型生物的研究

海冰在极地海洋中是个较为独特的生境,海冰卤道系统中的光照强度、温度、盐度和生存空间随着季节更替发生显著变化[1].春天,在北极新冰和多年冰的底部冰藻旺发,随后浮游植物生产力上升[2,3].     

An Unusual Bluegreen Alga Symbiotic with Two New Species of Ulosa (Porifera: Hymeniacidonidae) from Carrie Bow Cay,Belize*

Abstract. Two new species of the sponge genus Ulosa were found living in symbiosis with a chroococcacean cyanophyte (cyanobacterium) in shallow Caribbean coral reefs off Belize (Central America). Ulosa funicularis is a stringy green sponge (styles: 157 × 2.5 μm, mean dimensions); U. arenosa is a thickly encrusting, shaggy, brownish-greenish mottled species with sandy ectosome (styles: 175 × 3.6 μm). The endosymbiotic algae make up 50% of the cellular sponge tissue. The algal cells are light green, spherical, 5–9 μm in diameter, and divide by median constriction. Electron microscopy shows that cell walls are fully developed but that thylakoids are unusual for their inflated sacs, which are in communication with the nucleoplasmic regions. Although the pigment composition is typical for the Cyanophyta, the phycobiliproteins occur in considerably     

激光剥蚀-等离子体质谱技术及其在地球化学宇宙化学和环境研究中的应用

激光剥蚀-等离子体质谱(LA-ICPMS)已成为地球化学、宇宙化学和环境研究领域元素和同位素原位分析最重要的技术之一。文章介绍了多种类型的质谱仪及其使用的激光器。用途最广的LA-ICPMS仪器之一是单接收器扇形磁场质谱仪,配有Nd:YAG激光剥蚀系统(激光波长分为193 nm和213 nm两种),MPI Mainz实验室使用的就是这套系统,文章对此作一详细介绍。文中阐述了数据优化技术及其多种校正过程;介绍LA-ICPMS在痕量元素和同位素分析领域的一些应用,包括参考物质的研制,Hawaiian玄武岩、Martian陨石、生物骨针和珊瑚虫中痕量元素分析及熔融包裹体和富钙-铝碳质球粒陨石中的铅和锶同位素测量。