Dendritic cordierite in argillaceous hornfels from the Toki area,Gifu Prefecture,central Japan

Dendritic cordierite occurs in argillaceous hornfels from the Toki area, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The cordierite crystal consists of c-arms elongated parallel to the c-axes and a-arms perpendicular to the c-axis. The latter arms could be divided into six kinds of untwinned a-arms with different growth directions elongated parallel to the respective a-axis and twinned a-arms elongated parallel to the (110) twin plane. A-arms branch out from c-arms or other a-arms with different growth directions and c-arms sometimes branch out from a-arms, leading to a tree-like structure. Each of the c-arms contains three kinds of domains related by a three-fold axis about the c-axis. These domains are irregularly distributed without any relation to the shape of the c-arm and the domain boundaries are of zigzag shape. This domain arrangement suggests that c-arms grew as hexagonal cordierite and were later transformed into orthorhombic cordierite. The fact that each untwinned a-arm has a fixed growth direction to its orientation suggests that the a-arms grew as an orthorhombic cordierite. From the growth directions of c- and a-arms, orthorhombic and hexagonal phases are considered to grow preferentially along the c- and a-axes, respectively. The branching of a new arm is explained by nucleation on an old arm with a different preferred growth direction. The preferential growth is discussed in terms of a significant chemical potential gradient of the cordierite component. This has been preserved in the mineral zoning observed in the matrix around the cordierite porphyroblast.     

Social differentiation and the long-term origin of disasters

To explain both origin and outcome of disasters (natural, technical, and war-borne), as well as social action during disasters proper, a macrosociological model of internal causation is introduced (PERDUE). It consists of six stages of possible, and of most likely paths of social change between these six (Peace is founded, Everyday routine, Rising class struggle, Disasters strike, Unconditional surrender of collective defence, and Evaporation of common values). The stages are developed by making use of three dimensions of social change (rapidity, radicality, and rituality), and described.     

NOAA Weather Radio (NWR) – A Coastal Solution to Tsunami Alert and Notification

The Washington State/Local Tsunami Work Group adopted the NOAA Weather Radio All-Hazards Warning System to warn citizens quickly and effectively of not only tsunami hazards but also other natural or man-made hazards. In concert with an array of deep ocean tsunami detectors, land-based seismic sensors, and warning messages issued by the tsunami warning centers, NWR provides a means to expeditiously get critical decision-making information to emergency managers, elected officials, and first responders. To implement the NWR strategy effectively, a partnership was developed to add a repeater to the NWR system to provide complete coverage to the coast of Washington and to shipping lanes off the coast. The Work Group also recognized the need to disseminate time critical hazard information on tsunamis to the public on beaches and in high traffic areas, so it developed a new notification system, with the first prototype installed on 2 July 2003 in Ocean Shores, Washington. A public education program also was developed to improve the impacted communities understanding of the tsunami hazard, the warning system, and actions they should take if a tsunami occurs.     

Using numerical modelling to evaluate tsunami hazard near the Kuril Island

A sequence of computer experiments is used to study questions concerning the tsunami problem as a quantitative estimate of tsunami danger, detailed geographical tsunami classification, determination of the parameters of critical tsunami waves, and the conditions of their development. We call a wave critical, if its impact on the coast is most hazardous.Using the Middle Kuril Island as an example, we present the results of a computer experiment which includes determining the wavefields on the shelf and estimating the effects connected with the deep-water Bussol and Diana Straits.Numerical simulation of tsunami waves of different sources permits the assessment of the extent of tsunami danger in different areas of the coastal zone of Simushir Island, depending on the location of the focus zone and their geometry.The major singularities of the wavefield arise in the zones of the deep-water straits. The distribution of the amplification factors is determined by both the global parameters of the wavefields and the local properties of individual harbours. The results obtained for a particular harbour in the northern part of Simushir Island, formed the basis for the quantitative estimate of tsunami danger for this area.     

Weathering at high latitudes on the Carboniferous Old Red Sandstone, petrographic and geotechnical investigations, Jedburgh Abbey Church, Scotland, a case study

Weathering processes and intensity vary according to the predominant environmental conditions as well as the rocks physical and geotechnical properties in a given area. Jedburgh Abbey Church has been taken as a representative historical building constructed from Carboniferous Old Red Sandstone at humid pre-glacial region. The research aims to examine weathering processes and intensity under the environmental conditions of high relative humidity and low temperature, and to determine the output of weathering through an examination of the rocks petrological and geotechnical properties.Thin section study, scanning electron microscope and X-ray fluorescence techniques have been used to examine the rocks petrography and mineralogy on one hand and to determine weathering products on a microscale on the other hand. It is noted that the Carboniferous Old Red Sandstone has a quartz arenite texture with iron oxide and dolomite within its texture, authigenic clays are also detected. Pitting of quartz grains, exfoliation of silica overgrowth and fragmentation of the rocks feldspar can be noted on a microscale resulting in recession of the rocks components cohesion.The geotechnical results indicated variation in the physical nature of the construction rock from inside to outside the church with recession from the former to the latter due to weathering. The great reduction in mortar and the rocks calcium oxide and high content of both sulphur and chlorine from inside to outside the church is a result of weathering and deposition of air pollutants on the stones surface on the outdoor surfaces. Chemical weathering, e.g. salt hydration and chemical alteration of the rocks carbonate content to sulphate and chloride salts is expected to dominate in the study area at such conditions of low temperature and high relative humidity accompanied with air pollutants.     

Seismic hazard maps for Jordan and vicinity

Probabilistic methods are used to quantify the seismic hazard in Jordan and neighbouring regions. The hazard model incorporates the uncertainties associated with the seismicity parameters and the attenuation equation. Seven seismic sources are identified in the region and the seismicity parameters of these sources are estimated by making use of all the available information. Seismic hazard computations and the selection of peak ground acceleration and modified Mercalli intensity values at the nodes of a 25 × 25 km mesh covering the region under study are carried out by two different computer programs.The results of the study are presented through a set of seismic hazard maps displaying iso-acceleration and iso-intensity contours corresponding to specified return periods. The first set of maps is derived based on the seismicity data assessed in this study and display our best estimate of the seismic hazard for Jordan and the neighbouring areas. The second set of maps which shows the alternative estimate of seismic hazard is based solely on the seismicity parameters reported by other researchers. The third set of maps, called the Bayesian estimate of seismic hazard, reflects the influence of expert opinion involving more conservative assumptions regarding the Red Sea and Araba faults.     

Sulfur isotopes and the origin of stibnite mineralisation in New England,Australia

Stibnite mineralisation in the antimony province of New England can be divided into Central type ores (veins of stibnite + quartz ± berthierite) and Peripheral type ores of stibnite + quartz + native antimony ± berthierite. The Central stibnites have ³⁴S_CDT values of –5±2 (1) which may represent equilibrium precipitation from mantle sulfur at about 200°C. Peripheral stibnites have ³⁴S values between 0 and –25, with a large group at 0±2. They represent precipitation from a limited supply of mantle sulfur and the acquisition of sedimentary sulfur. We consider that the different ore types were produced from distinct ore solutions derived from two immiscible melts. These originated in the deep mantle, were mobilised by tectonic activity and supplied the antimony and most of the sulfur to the ores.     

Defining the urban

In everyday discourse, the term urban causes few problems, but it certainly has for social theory. While the paper accepts the recent consensus that the term no longer serves to refer to a distinct object in capatalist societies, it argues that the familiar arguments have been confused by inadequate approaches to the problem of definition and inadequate concepts of space and ideology. Clarification of such definitions is a prime task of social theory and different methods of definition are discussed. The paper ends with a commentary on what is probably the best attempt at defining the urban — Raymond Williams The Country and the City.     

UNESCO’s role in the rehabilitation of Bamiyan in Afghanistan

This article is complementary to Claudio Margottinis technical article Instability and geotechnical problems of the Buddha niches and surrounding cliff in Bamiyan Valley, central Afghanistan, published in Vol. 1, issue 1 of this journal. The present article provides background information on the framework of UNESCOs strategies for the safeguarding of Afghanistans cultural heritage and, in particular, the Bamiyan site, the mechanisms for the development of operational projects, capacity building of national specialists, UNESCOs partnerships and its fund-raising activities for the successful implementation of projects. The Division of Cultural Heritage is closely involved in ICL, therefore, it was natural to include UNESCOs project for the safeguarding of the Bamiyan site in the framework of IPL. It was approved as IPL project C101-3 titled The geo-morphological instability of the Buddha niches and surroundings cliffs in the Bamiyan Valley.The author is program specialist in charge of Asia at UNESCOs Division of Cultural Heritage and member of ICL     

Local war and its impact on ethnic and religious identification in Southern Ethiopia

After the fall of the Mengistu regime in 1991 the extreme south of Ethiopia first went through a period of relative peace in spite, or because of, the total absence of state institutions. The structures of local societies, among them thegada or generation set system, and the local forms of food production appeared to be sufficient for the needs of the local population. Then a variety of parties and liberation fronts started to compete for the control of state institutions which were expected to reappear. This led to a local war in which group identities were re-drawn to fit the patterns of ethnic movements or micro nationalisms. The paper examines primarily the examples of Oromo and Somali identity in this context.     

U-Pb and Pb-Pb zircon dating of the older orthogneiss suite in the Silvretta nappe,eastern Alps: Cadomian magmatism in the upper Austro-Alpine realm

Two orthogneiss suites dominate the Silvretta nappe. Primary crystallization of the larger suite (younger orthogneisses) is assumed to be Ordovician in age. The second, adjacent magmatic suite consists of older, alkaline to calc-alkaline, ultrabasic, basic to intermediate and granitic rocks known as older orthogneisses. U-Pb data of multigrain zircon fractions, as well as single zircon stepwise evaporation ²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁶Pb results suggest a latest Proterozoic to early Cambrian intrusion age for the protoliths of the older orthogneisses as both dating methods yield early Cambrian crystallization ages of 526±7 and 519±7 Ma for an alkaline granite gneiss; similar results were obtained for two neighbouring calc-alkaline orthogneisses (²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁶Pb ages of 533 ± 4 and 568 ± 6 Ma, respectively). The crystal habitus corresponds to P5, S19 and S9 zircons of magmatic origin. Whole-rock initial Sr isotope ratios indicate a primitive source. The igneous protoliths of these older orthogneisses represent a fragment of a Cadomian (Pan-African) crust found in places within the basement of the European Hercynides.     

Outline of the Somalian basement

A sequence of events which has been recognized in the two basement regions of Somalia is outlined on the basis of new field and petrographic data and pre-existing published and unpublished reports. The evolution of the Somalian basement took place during the Pan-African event, However, much detailed work is necessary before the history of the basement can be integrated into the more detailed Pan-African picture recognized in the neighbouring regions.

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Zusammenfassung Eine Folge von Ereignissen, die sich in den zwei Basement-Regionen Somalias erkennen lie\en, wird auf der Basis neuer GelÄnde- und petrographischer Daten und früherer publizierter und nicht publizierter Berichte umrissen. Das Basement von Somalia entwickelte sich wÄhrend des Panafrikanischen Ereignisses.Viel Detailarbeit ist jedoch noch zu leisten, bis die Geschichte des Basements in das detailliertere Bild Panafrikas, wie es aus den Nachbarregionen gewonnen wurde, integriert werden kann.

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Résumé Dans les deux régions de la Somalie ou le socle affleure, on a reconnu une succession d'événements sur la base de nouvelles données géologiques et pétrographiques et de travaux pré-existants, publiés et non publiés. L'évolution du socle de la Somalie se déroula pendant l'événement Pan-Africain. Toutefois, beaucoup de travail doit Être encore fait avant que l'histoire du socle somalien puisse Être intégrée dans un cadre Pan-Africain plus détaillé, tel qu'on le connait dans les régions voisines.

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Trace elements in the Singhbhum granite,India

A study of the trace elements in the Singhbhum granite from its northern borders (Saraikela) and the central mass (Chaibasa) reveals that there are differences not only in the limit of concentration but also in their behaviour. It is found that while correlating with the petrographic and also the major elements behaviour, the trace elements always do not mark an increase or decrease during the various stages of the evolution of the Singhbhum granite. The behaviour of the trace-elements as revealed from the previous studies relating to both igneous and metamorphic rocks, is significant in working out the physico-chemical factors involved in the genesis of rocks. In the magmatic rocks, the trace elements obviously follow a trend and go in accordance withGoldschmidt's principles of camouflage, capture and admission. In the present study such uniformities are not found. The present study reveals firstly, the different nature of chemical gradients formed by these elements during different geological environments; secondly, the mutual relationships and the ratio of certain traceelements in the different associations, indicating the original heterogeneity of these rocks and their formation under different geological as well as physico-chemical conditions. It has been concluded (Roonwal, 1968) that the rocks studied here as representing parts of Singhbhum granite do not form one granite series as referred to byRead. In fact they represent rocks formed from material having originally different lithological composition.The trace elements determined for the present study are Va, Cr, Ga, Y, In, Sc, Co, Ni, Cu, Ba, Sr, Sn, Pb and Zr. Among these Ga, Y, In and Sc do not show the normal behaviour viz., Ga should be more in granites but is found to be more in the basic representatives. Y is also more in the basic parts than in the granites. The present granites are very poor in In. Similarly whilst the granites should not normally be rich in Sc, in the present case the distribution of Sc in basic representatives as well as the true granitic parts is more or less uniform. The behaviour of Cu limits the application ofGoldschmidt's rule to magmatic rocks. The behaviour of other elements is normal. Pb shows an antipathic relationship with K⁺ and Ca⁺² and indicates that it has not changed the position due to granitization. An inverse relationship between Zr⁺⁴ and Si⁺⁴ is observed which indicates the formation of zircon and has been in conformity with mineralogy of the rocks.

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Zusammenfassung Eine Untersuchung der Spurenelemente in Gesteinen aus den nördlichen Randgebieten (Saraikela) und der zentralen Masse (Chaibasa) des Singhbhum-Granites zeigte, daß Unterschiede nicht nur hinsichtlich der Konzentrationsgrenzen, sondern auch im Verhalten der Spurenelemente bestehen. Bei einer Korrelation des petrographischen Verhaltens mit dem der Hauptelemente wurde festgestellt, daß die Spurenelemente im allgemeinen keine Zu- oder Abnahme während der verschiedenen Evolutionsstadien aufweisen. Das Verhalten der Spurenelemente, ersichtlich aus früheren Untersuchungen von Intrusiv- und metamorphen Gesteinen, ist bedeutsam für die Feststellung der physiko-chemischen Faktoren, welche bei der Genese der Gesteine mitwirkten. In magmatischen Gesteinen folgen die Spurenelemente offensichtlich dem Trend vonGoldschmidts Regel der Camouflage, capture and admission. Bei der vorliegenden Untersuchung wurde eine solche Übereinstimmung nicht festgestellt. Die Untersuchung enthüllt erstens eine durch diese Elemente während verschiedener geologischer Umweltverhältnisse hervorgerufene verschiedene Natur der chemischen Gradienten und ließ zweitens ein gegenseitiges Verhältnis und das Verhältnis gewisser Spurenelemente in verschiedenen Gesteinsgesellschaften erkennen, was auf die ursprüngliche Heterogenität dieser Gesteine und deren Bildung unter verschiedenen geologischen sowie physiko-chemischen Bedingungen hinweist. Es wurde daraus geschlossen (Roonwal, 1968), daß die untersuchten Gesteine, welche den typischen Singhbhum-Granit repräsentieren sollen, nicht nachRead eine einzige Granitserie bilden, sondern daß sie Gesteine darstellen, welche ursprünglich aus Material verschiedener lithologischer Zusammensetzung stammen.Für diese Untersuchung wurden die folgenden Spurenelemente bestimmt: Va, Cr, Ga, Y, In, Sc, Co, Ni, Cu, Ba, Sr, Sn, Pb, Zr. Von diesen zeigen Ga, In und Sc nicht das normale Verhalten, da Ga eigentlich in größeren Mengen in Graniten auftreten sollte, was jedoch im vorliegenden Falle für die basischen Gesteinsvertreter zutrifft. Ebenfalls ist Y zahlreicher in den letzteren Vertretern vorhanden. Die vorliegenden Granite sind sehr arm an In, während sie andererseits normalerweise auch nicht reich an Sc sein sollten. Hier ist die Verteilung von Sc in den basischen Vertretern sowie auch in den wirklichen Granitanteilen mehr oder weniger gleichmäßig. Das Verhalten von Cu schränkt die Anwendung vonGoldchmidts Regel in bezug auf magmatische Gesteine ein. Das Verhalten anderer Elemente ist normal; Pb zeigt eine antipathische Beziehung zu K⁺¹ und Ca⁺², was darauf hinweist, daß es als Folge der Granitisation seine Position nicht geändert hat. Es wurde ein umgekehrtes Verhältnis zwischen Zr⁺⁴ und Sr⁺⁴ beobachtet, was auch die Bildung von Zirkon beweist und was durchaus der Mineralogie dieser Gesteine entspricht.

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Résumé L'étude des éléments mineurs (traces) des roches de la région septentrionale aux environs de Saraikela et des massifs centraux de Chaibasa révèle une différence, non seulement dans le mode de concentration des éléments, mais également dans leurs caractères. Il apparaît, d'après la corrélation des études pétrographiques et les éléments principaux (major), que les éléments mineurs n'ont subit aucune augmentation ou diminution pendant les différentes phases de l'évolution.Le comportement des éléments mineurs, selon des études antérieurs de roches éruptives et de roches métamorphiques, est significatif dans la détermination des facteurs physico-chimiques qui contribuèrent à la génèse de ces gisements. Quant aux roches d'origine magmatique, les éléments mineurs suivent apparemment la tendance au principe deGoldschmidt « camouflage, envahissement et admission ». Mais l'étude actuelle n'a pas permis d'établir une telle conformité.L'étude de ces éléments révèle: premièrement, les différents caractères d'ordre chimique pendant les époques géologiques; deuxièmement les relations mutuelles et les rapports de certains éléments mineurs dans différentes associations; ceci indique l'hétérogénéité primordiale de ces roches et leur formation sous diverses conditions d'ordre géologique et physico-chimique.En conclusion (Roonwal, 1968), les roches étudiées figurant le granite-type de Singhbhum, ne forment pas la moindre série de granite — comme le ditRead — mais constituent des roches engendrées par les matériaux de différentes compositions lithologiques.De par ces études, il a été déterminé les éléments suivants: Va, Cr, Ga, Y, In, Sc, Co, Ni, Cu, Ba, Sr, Sn, Pb et Zr. Parmi ces éléments, Ga, In et Sc ne se rencontrent pas de façon normale puisque Ga devrait en réalité être plus répandu dans les roches granitiques ce qui pourtant s'avère dans le cas du substitut basique. De même, y se trouve en plus grande quantité dans les derniers substituts. Les granites de la région sont pauvres en In et riches en Sc — bien que le contraire soit attendu en ce qui concerne le Sc. Ici, la distribution de Sc, aussi bien dans les substituts basiques que dans les roches granitiques est plus ou moins régulière. Le comportement du Cu suit l'application de la loi deGoldschmidt sur les roches magnétiques; celui des autres éléments est normal; le plomb montre de l'antipathie pour les ions K⁺ et Ca⁺², ceci indique qu'il n'a pas changé sa position par suite de la granitisation du magma. On observe une relation inverse entre Zr⁺⁴ et Sr⁺⁴, relation indiquant la formation de zircon en concordance avec la minéralogie de ces roches.

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For a preliminary account, seeRoonwal (1968). The details of petrology and the major elements are being published elsewhere.     

Some aspects of cast blasting techniques for dam construction

Summary A proposal is under consideration to construct a dam on an experimental basis by a cast (or directional) blasting technique, DBT. The dam site is located at Bharari Khad, a tributary of the Sutlaz river in Himachal Pradesh. Site investigations have been completed and a large scale blast has been designed for construction of the experimental dam.The paper describes the basic design concept of DBT and application of throw and caving methods for construction of dams. The preliminary tests required to design the blasting pattern are detailed. The technique has a great potential because it reduces construction cost and time particularly in inaccessible mountain regions.     

Seismic hazard assessments for two test areas — ‘Southern Italy’ and ‘Belgium—The Netherlands—Germany’

Within the activity of the ESC Subcommission 8 Engineering Seismology, Project TERESA, seismic hazard calculations have been performed for two areas of a different earthquake activity. Fundamental seismological data (earthquake catalogues, macroseismic observations and maps) and some additional geological information were analyzed and processed to prepare inputs for hazard computations. Great attention has been paid to verifying the reliability of the input data. Seismic hazards obtained for five sites of the region of high seismic activity (Sannio-Matese, southern Italy) and six sites of the region of low seismic activity (Brabant Massif and northern Rhine, Belgium—The Netherlands—Germany) are presented and discussed.     

The ševĚtín astrobleme,southern Bohemia,Czechoslovakia

The geological, geomorphological, petrological, and geophysical data for the 46 km circular structure evtín (4905N, 1435E), southern Bohemia, are consistent with characteristic of moderately eroded structures that have originated by hypervelocity meteorite impact. The astrobleme, dated as late Cretaceous (probably Coniac-Santon, 85-75 m.y.), is dissected into radial fault segments, which exhibit a variable level of erosion. The classification of the evtín astrobleme as a probable impact structure is based on the geological and geophysical evidence of central »scar« about 8 km in diameter, shock metamorphism in the centre of the structure, and relics of silicified impact breccia including globular and suevite types with structural indications of molten material. Shatter coning and shock metamorphism are documented for several formations and lithologies ranging in age from the hercynian granite of the crystalline basement, through Stephanian-Permian, to the Upper Cretaceous-Lower Klikov Formation. The morphological expression of the crater rim is preserved in the less eroded segments. The central uplift (d=21 km, approximately 0.5 of the total diameter), still preserved in part as a positive morphological feature, is partly burried under the post-impact Upper Klikov Formation. The impact event provided the major tectonic, geomorphological, and paleogeographic resetting, which was known for some time in the evolution of the continental Upper Cretaceous of this area and expressed in the splitting of the Klikov Formation into two divisions.

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Zusammenfassung Geologische, geomorphologische, petrologische und geophysikalische Daten, die über die 46 km im Durchmesser aufweisende Rundstruktur von evtín in Südböhmen (4905N, 1435E) ermittelt wurden, entsprechen der Charakteristik mittelmä\ig erodierten Strukturen, die infolge des Einschlags eines gro\en Meteoriten von Hypergeschwindigkeit entstanden sind. Das Astroblem wird als oberkretazisch (wahrscheinlich von Coniac- bis Santonalter, 85-75 Mill. Jahre) geologisch datiert. Es ist durch Brüche in Radialsegmente aufgegliedert, die verschieden intensiv erodiert sind. Geologische und geophysikalische Belege einer zentralen »Narbe« von 8 km im Durchmesser, eine Sto\wellenmetamorphose im Zentrum der Struktur sowie Relikte silizifierter Impaktbreccien, die globulare und suevitähnliche Typen mit Strukturanzeichen von aufgeschmolzenem Material umfassen, stellen Hauptangaben zur Klassifizierung des Astroblems von evtín als einer wahrscheinlichen Impaktstruktur dar. Die »shatter cones« und die Sto\wellenmetamorphose wurden in mehreren Formationen und verschiedenen Gesteinstypen von dem herzynischen Granit im kristallinen Untergrund, über die stefanischen und permischen Gesteine bis zu der oberkretazischen Klikov-Schichtenfolge (ihrem unteren Teil) ermittelt. Die Morphologie des Kraterrandes ist in weniger erodierten Segmenten durch die Erosion ausgeprägt. Die Zentralerhebung (Durchmesser von 21 km, d.h. ungefähr von einer Hälfte des Kratergesamtdurchmessers) ist morphologisch noch zum Teil erhalten, aber ihr östl. Teil ist von der oberen Abteilung der Klikov-Schichtenfolge überdeckt. In Zusammenhang mit dem Impaktereignis werden bedeutsame tektonische, geomorphologische und paläogeographische änderungen gestellt, die in der Entwicklung der kontmentalen Oberkreide dieses Gebietes bereits früher erkannt wurden und zur Aufgliederung der Klikov-Schichtenfolge in zwei Abteilungen führten.

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Résumé La structure circulaire de evtin (4905N - 1435E, 46 km de diamètre), examinée à la lumière des données géologiques, géomorphologiques, pétrologiques et géophysiques, présente les caractères d'une structure provoquée par l'impact d'une météorite de très grande vitesse, et modérément érodée. Cet astroblème est daté du Crétacé supérieur, probablement du Coniacien-Santonien (environ 85-75 Ma). Il est subdivisé par des cassures radiales en segments qui présentent divers degrés d'érosion. L'assimilation de l'astroblème de evtin à une structure d'impact se base sur les arguments suivants: cicatrice centrale de 8 km de diamètre, métamorphisme de choc dans la partie centrale, restes de brèche d'impact silicifiée comportant des types globulaires et de suévite avec indices de matériaux fondus. Les »shatter cones« et le métamorphisme de choc s'observent dans plusieurs formations, de lithologies diverses, qui s'échelonnent entre le granite hercynien du socle cristallin, le Stéphano-permien, et le Crétacé supérieur (partie inférieure de la formation de Klikov). La morphologie du rempart du cratère est préservée dans les segments les moins érodés. La zone surélevée centrale (21 km de diamètre, soit la moitié du diamètre total) est partiellement préservée et cachée pour le reste sous la partie supérieure de la formation de Klikov. Le phénomène d'impact a été accompagné de modifications tectoniques, géomorphologiques et paléogéographiques marquantes. Ces modifications étaient connues antérieurement dans l'évolution du Crétacé supérieur de cette région et avaient justifié la subdivision en deux parties de la formation de Klikov.

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A robust-symmetric mean: A new way of mean calculation for environmental data

Environmental data seldom follow normal distributions, so how to calculate their means is a very important problem. Commonly used methods for mean calculation, such as arithmetic mean, geometric mean, and median, were evaluated. Arithmetic means should only be used when datasets follow normal distributions. Geometric means are suitable for datasets which follow log-normal distributions. Medians are a kind of robust treatment. However, their efficiency is very low. Based on the methods described, two new ideas are developed: robust and symmetric, for calculating means. As far as the symmetric feature is concerned, Box-Cox power transformation is better than logarithmic transformation. Robust statistics and Box-Cox transformation are combined to produce the robust-symmetric mean. As environmental data often follow log-normal or skewed distributions, this method is better than the previous ones and also is appropriate.     

The plutonism in the North Chilean Coast-Range and its geodynamic significance

Extended deep plutons of the Chilean Coast-Range can, according to their composition, age and spatial distribution, be assigned to the following three Superunits, each of which represents a closed magmatic cycle. Albayay-Superunit approximately 300-200 m. a. Cifuncho-Superunit approximately 190-130 m. a. Esmeralda-Superunit less than 130 m. a.Structurally we distinguished five large batholithic complexes, which are tectonically displaced along vertical fault-planes. The petrographie composition ranges from gabbronoritic through dioritic up to granitic rocks with predominance of granitoids.Methodical investigation led beyond the explanation of the origin of the magma, and opened the way for new geogynamic interpretations. We postulate a model of repeated crustal thickening caused by continental collision, which is opposed to the schematic plate-tectonics model.

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Zusammenfassung In der Küstenkordillere Nordchiles lassen sich ausgedehnte Tiefengesteinskörper nach Stoffbestand, Alter und rÄumlicher Verteilung folgenden drei Superunits zuordnen, die jeweils einem abgeschlossenen magmatischen Zyklus entsprechen. Albayay-Superunit ca. 300-200 m. a. Cifuncho-Superunit ca. 190-130 m. a. Esmeralda-Superunit jünger als 130 m. a.Strukturell haben wir fünf grö\ere, durch Tektonik entlang vertikaler Brüche zerlegte Baholith-Komplexe ausgeschieden. Die petrologische Zusammensetzung reicht von gabbro-noritischen über dioritische bis zu granitischen Gesteinen, wobei der Schwerpunkt bei den Granitoiden liegt.Die methodische Untersuchung führte über die KlÄrung der Magmengenese hinaus und eröffnete den Zugang zu neuen geodynamischen Vorstellungen. Wir postulieren ein Modell einer mehrphasigen Krustenverdickung durch kontinentale Kollision, das im Gegensatz zu dem schematischen Modell der Plattentektonik steht.

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Resumen En la Cordillera de la Costa del Norte de Chile existen extensos cuerpos intrusivos que se queden asignar, sobre la base de su composición, edad y distribución espacial, a las tres Superunidades siguientes, las que a su vez corresponden a ciclos magmáticos completos. Superunidad-Albayay approximadamente 300-200 m.a. Superunidad-Cifuncho approximadamente 190-130 m.a. Superunidad-Esmeralda más jóvenque 130 m.a.Estructuralmente hemos distinguido cinco complejos batoliticos mayores recortados por una tectónica de fallas verticales. La compositión petrográfica va desde rocas gabronoríticas hasta graníticas pasando por las dioríticas, con predominio de granitoides.El análisis metódico de los datos obtenidos orientado a la petrogénesis de estos cuerpos dió lugar a nuevas interpretaciones geodinámicas. Postulamos un modelo de fases sucesivas de acumulación cortical mediante colisión continental, el cual se opone al esquemático modelo de la Tectónica de Placas.

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Grundwasservorkommen Mitteleuropas — Grundlagen und Möglichkeiten ihrer Erschließung und Bewirtschaftung

Zusammenfassung Bei einer pauschalen Betrachtung ist das Grundwasserdargebot der Bundesrepublik Deutschland eine durch die Durchlässigkeit der Gesteine und die Grundwasserneubildung begrenzte Größe. In Verbindung mit Uferfiltratgewinnung und künstlicher Grundwasseranreicherung kann auch der künftige Bedarf an qualitativ hochwertigem Grundwasser gedeckt werden. Schwierigkeiten ergeben sich jedoch aus dem Auseinanderfallen von Bedarfs- und Gewinnungsschwerpunkten, aus der Notwendigkeit, bisher wenig genutzte, schwierig zu erschließende Grundwasservorkommen in Festgesteinen zu erschließen, aus dem qualitativen und quantitativen Grundwasserschutz und aus der Konkurrenzsituation der Grundwassernutzung mit der Nutzung anderer Rohstoffe. Die Geowissenschaftler sind aufgerufen, zur Lösung dieser Probleme in interdisziplinärer Zusammenarbeit mit den Ingenieuren, Wasserchemikern und anderen Wasserfachleuten durch ihre speziellen Kenntnisse und Arbeitsmethoden beizutragen.

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In a general survey the groundwater supply of the Federal Republic of Germany is a quantity defined by rock permeability and groundwater recharge. Taking into account bank filtered river water and artificial groundwater recharge the future demand of high quality groundwater will be available. Difficulties arise from areal distances between centres of demand and of supply, from the necessity to explore groundwater in hard rocks which have been rarely used up to this time due to its difficult exploration, from the quantitative and qualitative groundwater protection and from competition of groundwater use with the exploitation of other natural resources. Geoscientists are challenged to contribute to the solution of these problems in interdisciplinary cooperation together with engineers, water chemists and other water experts by using their special knowledges and scientific techniques.

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Résumé D'après une estimation globale, la disponibilité en eau souterraine de la République Fédérale Allemande représente une quantité limité par la perméabilité des roches et par la réalimentation en eau de la nappe. En tenant compte de l'apport à la nappe aquifère par suite de l'infiltration d'eau de rivière et de son enrichessement artificiel, la demande future en eau souterraine de haute qualité peut être couverte. Les difficultés qui se produiront, vont être provoquées par les distancees entre les points de consommation et les points d'alimentation, par l'exploration difficile des eaux souterraines en roches fissurées, et karstifiées, par la protection quantitative et qualitative des eaux souterraines et par la compétition entre l'usage des eaux souterraines et l'exploitation des autres ressources naturelles. Les chercheurs sont appelés, pour resoudre ces problèmes dans un cadre interdisciplinaire, à collaborer avec les ingénieurs, les chimistes et autres éxperts en eaux, chacun avec leurs connaissances spéciales et leurs méthodes de travail.

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Examples of structural control of hydrothermal mineralization: Fault zones in epicontinental sedimentary basins — A review

By compiling data available from progressive geoscientific research and by complementary studies it seems possible for an increasing number of mineral districts to find indications of the regional structural control of hydrothermal ore deposits. The relationship between hydrothermal mineralization, faulting or fault reactivation and related processes can, of course, best be examined at the less deformed sedimentary record of ancient epicontinental sedimentary basins. There is increasing evidence that the sediment-hosted submarine-hydrothermal Zn-Pb-Ba mineralizations such as Meggen, Rammelsberg, Howards Pass and McArthur River are spatially and genetically related to deep synsedimentarily active fault systems of intracontinental basins or stretched passive continental margins. For long periods of basin development the faults provided favorable conduits for episodically released basin-dewatering brines, which precipitated the leached metals into third-order basins situated next to these faults. There are many similarities to epigenetic mineralizations, which formed either pre-, syn- or postorogenetically from brines leaching the (meta)sediments and associated magmatites and migrating along fault zones to their near-surface trap structures.

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Zusammenfassung Für viele Erzprovinzen bietet sich durch Kompilation der in den letzten Jahrzehnten rasch angewachsenen Zahl geowissenschaftlicher Daten und durch gezielte ergänzende Untersuchungen die Möglichkeit, Anhaltspunkte oder Belege für die regionale Strukturbindung von hydrothermalen Vererzungen zu finden. Naturgemäß lassen sich die Zusammenhänge zwischen hydrothermaler Mineralisation, Störungstektonik und begleitenden Prozessen am besten an nur gering orogen überprägten ehemaligen Sedimentbecken untersuchen. So gibt es vermehrt Belege dafür, daß die sediment-gebundenen, submarin-hydrothermalen Zn-Pb-Ba Vererzungen wie Meggen, Rammeisberg, Howards Pass, McArthur River etc. räumlich und genetisch an tiefreichende Störungssysteme gebunden sind, die während der Sedimentation in intrakontinentalen Riftbecken oder auf ausgedünnten passiven Kontinentalrändern aktiv waren. Diese Störungssysteme bündelten die salinaren Beckenentwässerungsströme und ermöglichten über lange Zeiträume ihren episodischen Aufstieg zum Meeresboden, wo die aus den Sedimenten aufgenommenen Metalle als Sulfide in Spezialbecken abgesetzt wurden. Es bestehen prinzipielle Ähnlichkeiten mit vielen epigenetischen prä-, syn- oder postorogenen Mineralisationen; auch hier migrierten die salinaren Lösungen, die ihren Metallgehalt aus den (Meta)Sedimenten und eingelagerten Magmatiten bezogen, entlang von Störungssystemen bis zu den oberflächennahen Fallenstrukturen.

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Résumé La compilation des données géologiques qui se sont largement multipliées au cours des dernières décennies, complétée par des rechercùhes complémentaires particulières, nous offre pour beaucoup de régions la possibilité de trouver des indices ou même des preuves d'un contrôle structural des minéralisations hydrothermales. Il va de soi que les relations entre la minéralisation hydrothermale, la formation et la réactivation des failles ainsi que les processus associés sont les plus faciles à étudier dans les couches sédimentaires les moins touchées par une orogenèse postérieure. Ainsi, il existe des preuves que les gisements stratiformes et sédimentaires de Zn-Pb-Ba du type Howards Pass, McArthur River et Meggen sont liés à des systèmes de failles synsédimentaires profondes, en relation avec des bassins intracontinentaux du genre rift et avec des marges continentales passives en extension. Ces systèmes de failles synsédimentaires ont drainé des eaux salines intersticielles et ont rendu possible leur mouvement ascendant vers les fonds marins où leur contenu métallifère s'est déposé dans des bassins locaux. Des nombreuses recherches récentes mettent en évidence la ressemblance avec les minéralisations épigénétiques formées avant, pendant et après l'orogenèse; là aussi, les eaux interstitielles, après avoir reçu leur contenu métallifère des (meta)sédiments et des magmatites associées ont migré le long de systèmes de failles jusqu'aux pièges structuraux proches de la surface.

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