Synthesis and some properties of iron- and vanadium-bearing kyanites, (Al,Fe3+)2SiO5and (Al,V3+)2SiO5

Iron- and vanadium-bearing kyanites have been synthesized at 900 and 1100° C/20 kb in a piston-cylinder apparatus using Mn₂O₃/Mn₃O₄- and MnO/Mn-mixtures, respectively, as oxygen buffers. Solid solubility on the pseudobinary section Al₂SiO₅-Fe₂SiO₅(-V₂SiO₅) of the system Al₂O₃-Fe₂O₃(V₂O₃)-SiO₂ extends up to 6.5 mole% (14mole %) of the theoretical end member FeSiO₅(V₂SiO₅) at 900°C/20 kb. For bulk compositions with higher Fe₂SiO₅ (V₂SiO₅) contents the corundum type phases M₂O₃(M = Fe³⁺, V³⁺) are found to coexist with the Fe³⁺(V³⁺)-saturated kyanite solid solution plus quartz. The extent of solid solubility on the join Al₂SiO₅-Fe₂SiO₅ at 1 100°C was not found to be significantly higher than at 900° C. Microprobe analyses of iron bearing kyanites gave no significant indication of ternary solid solubility in these mixed crystals. Lattice constants a ₀, b ₀, c ₀, and V₀ of the kyanite solid solutions increase with increasing Fe₂SiO₅- and V₂SiO₅-contents proportionally to the ionic radii of Fe³⁺ and V³⁺, respectively, the triclinic angles ,, remain constant. Iron kyanites are light yellowish-green, vanadium kyanites are light green. Iron kyanites, (Al_1.87 Fe _0.13 ³⁺ )SiO₅, were obtained as crystals up to 700 m in length.     

Non-recognition of continental tholeiites using the Ti-Y-Zr diagram

Continental tholeiites cannot be identified using the Ti-Y-Zr diagram. Two-hundred and thirteen analyses from 16 localities representing 7 continental tholeiitic provinces all plot outside the within-plate basalt field of this diagram.Analyses representing about 50% of the population plot in the ocean-floor basalt field, the rest plots in the calc-alkali basalt field. Therefore problems might arise when attempts are made to classify ancient tectonomagmatic environments using the Ti-Y-Zr diagram.     

The unity of geography in the USA and the USSR

Summary The discipline of geography, both ancient and new, is periodically subject to centrifugal tendencies, threatening its integrity and cohesion as a subject. From very different traditions, this question of philosophical unity has lain at the heart of many controversies and re-examinations of the value and place of geography in the Soviet Union and the United States in recent years, both as an academic subject and with respect to its practical applicability. This article attempts a comparative and personal view of what has happened to geography, mainly over the last quarter of a century, in these two countries, focussed on this unity question.     

Space in geography

The concept of space is one of the most fundamental of geographical concepts. There is no work in geography that does not certain it. Nevertheless, geography has not as yet formulated an explicit and unambiguous definition of geographical space. This fact has had negative consequences for geographical theory, methodology and application. In the effort of contributing to its elimination we will try to outline the basic connotations of the concept.The concept of geographical space is a relational one. It acquires meaning and sense only when related to other concepts. The concept of space may be conceived as a supplement to things, i.e. substantively conceived objects. Space conceived in this way is the synonym of emptiness. The concept of space may be also conceived in relation ti individual landscape elements as their environments. Space conceived in this way has the character of a field of force. And, finally, space may be conceived also with respect to the totality of landscape elements, i.e. the system expressed by the term synergic. It is only this third variant of space which should be understood as the geographical space in the full menaing of the term. It is only this conception of geographical space as the space filled with qualities in relations and proportions that is considered as one of the basic prerequisites for the formulation of the theory of geography as science capable of prediction and thus also of practical utilization.     

The metamorphic evolution of Tromöy (arendal area-South Norway)

Summary A conspicuous feature of arendalites is an unusually low content of K, which can be contrasted to a normal K content in surrounding gneisses, migmatites and related granitic rocks. This feature could be explained by the extraction of granitophile elements by partial melting in the deep crust, but it is suggested that the lack of strong tectonic deformation and the close correlation of the major-element chemical composition of acid arendalites with that of the Norwegian Precambrian rocks requires another explanation, namely a highly selective process controlling the migration of K.The Tromöy rocks are polymetamorphic. Evidence of a post-or late-kinematic event of lower grade is given mainly by the mobilization of limited K-rich masses and by the structural state of the alkali-feldspar in the formation surrounding the arendalitic complex.

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Die metamorphe Entwicklung Tromöy's (Distrikt Arendal, Südnorwegen)

Zusammenfassung Ein hervorstechendes Kennzeichen der Arendalite ist ihr ungewöhnlich niedriger Kaligehalt, der einem normalen Kaligehalt der sie umgebenden Gneise, Migmatite und verwandter granitischer Gesteine gegenübergestellt werden kann. Die Entziehung granitophiler Elemente bei der teilweisen Aufschmelzung in der tiefen Kruste könnte als Erklärung fur dieses Charakteristikum dienen; das Fehlen starker tektonischer Deformationen und die starke Korrelation der Hauptelemente in den sauren Arendaliten und den präkambrischen Gesteinen von Norwegen verlangen jedoch eine andere Erklärung, nämlich einen sehr selektiven Prozeß, welcher die Kaliwanderung regelt.Die Gesteine von Tromöy sind polymetamorph. Beweise für ein post-oder spätkinematisches Ereignis niedrigeren Metamorphosegrades liefern vor allem die Mobilisierung lokaler K-reicher Massen und der Ordnungszustand der Alkalifeldspäte, die sich in der den arendalitischen Komplex umgebenden Formation befinden.

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Background,conceptual structure and organizational-administrative establishing of a “sustainable development strategy” for Coral Islands

Minitope coral islands represent one third of the islands located in the tropical Indo-Pacific. Subsistence farming and extensive agriculture dominate the traditional structure of income. As the lack of natural resources, infrastructure and capital restrict the developmental changes, the islands' natural environment has been utilized as economic potential. Planning and realization of land use systems introduced have, however, often been based on an insufficient data basis and have often inadequately considered the consequences of human impacts on the natural environment and its controlling factors. The result was environmental degradation and ecological destruction, affecting also the population's socioeconomic situation and in some cases rendering alternative land use impossible. Therefore, the long-term utilization of coral islands and, hence, the economic development of those countries require a specific development strategy. Based on the environmental and socioeconomic consequences of touristic utilization of coral islands in the Maldivian Archipelago, the model for a sustainable development strategy and its aims are derived, and the objectives, the conceptual structure, and the way of establishing them organizationally and administratively are presented.     

Principal components analysis of three-way tables

A three-mode principal components method allows visualization of the structural or taxonomic relationships within three-way data tables. The fundamental model includes three sets of eigenvectors and a core matrix relating the principal components of each mode. Formal relationships between the method and the usual principal components formulation allow calculation of loadings and scores for each mode; taken with the core matrix, these provide a number of points of view in graphical analysis of three-mode data. The model compares favorably with alternative formulations in terms of simplicity of computation, generality, and symmetry of operation among the modes. An organic geochemical example illustrates the method.     

Islands and oil — locality and structure

This paper analyses the meeting between the international petroleum industry and two local communities. The building of an oil terminal in a local community is both a major event, and a generator of processes on the local level. Three different angles is used to enlighten these processes; categorised as as place, people and mind. The place analysis consentrates on the effects on population and workforce development, the people analysis look at the institutional and planning processes, and the mind analysis the effects on the feeling of local identification. The paper demonstrates that local factors are of crucial importance even for the international petroleum industry.     

Trace-element and Sr,Nd, Pb,and O isotopic composition of Pliocene and Quaternary alkali basalts of the Patagonian Plateau lavas of southernmost South America

The Pliocene and Quaternary Patagonian alkali basalts of southernmost South America can be divided into two groups. The cratonic basalts erupted in areas of Cenozoic plateau volcanism and continental sedimentation and show considerable variation in ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr (0.70316 to 0.70512), ¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd (_Nd) and ²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁴Pb, ²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁴Pb, and ²⁰⁸Pb/²⁰⁴Pb ratios (18.26 to 19.38, 15.53 to 15.68, and 38.30 to 39.23, respectively). These isotopic values are within the range of oceanic island basalts, as are the Ba/La, Ba/Nb, La/Nb, K/Rb, and Cs/Rb ratios of the cratonic basalts. In contrast, the transitional basalts, erupted along the western edge of the outcrop belt of the Pliocene and Quaternary plateau lavas in areas that were the locus of earlier Cenozoic Andean orogenic arc colcanism, have a much more restricted range of isotopic composition which can be approximated by ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr=0.7039±0.0004, _Nd, ²⁰⁶Pb/²⁰⁴Pb=18.60±0.08, ²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁴Pb=15.60±0.01, and ²⁰⁸Pb/²⁰⁴Pb=38.50±0.10. These isotopic values are similar to those of Andean orogenic are basalts and, compared to the cratonic basalts, are displaced to higher ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr at a given ¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd and to higher ²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁴Pb at a given ²⁰⁸Pb/²⁰⁴Pb. The transitional basalts also have Ba/La, Ba/Nb, La/Nb, and Cs/Rb ratios higher than the cratonic and oceanic island basalts, although not as high as Andean orogenic are basalts. In contrast to the radiogenic isotopes, ¹⁸O values for both groups of the Patagonian alkali basalts are indistinguishable and are more restricted than the range reported for Andean orogenic are basalts. Whole rock ¹⁸O values calculated from mineral separates for both groups range from 5.3 to 6.5, while measured whole rock ¹⁸O values range from 5.1 to 7.8. The trace element and isotopic data suggest that decreasing degrees of partial melting in association with lessened significance of subducted slabderived components are fundamental factors in the west to east transition from arc to back-arc volcanism in southern South America. The cratonic basalts do not contain the slab-derived components that impart the higher Ba/La, Ba/Nb, La/Nb, Cs/Rb, ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr at a given ¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd, ²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁴Pb at a given ²⁰⁸Pb/²⁰⁴Pb, and ¹⁸O to Andean orogenic arc basalts. Instead, these basalts are formed by relatively low degrees of partial melting of heterogeneous lower continental lithosphere and/or asthenosphere, probably due to thermal and mechanical pertubation of the mantle in response to subduction of oceanic lithosphere below the western margin of the continent. The transitional basalts do contain components added to their source region by either (1) active input of slab-derived components in amounts smaller than the contribution to the mantle below the arc and/or with lower Ba/La, Ba/Nb, La/Nb, and Cs/Rb ratios than below the arc due to progressive downdip dehydration of the subducted slab; or (2) subarc source region contamination processes which affected the mantle source of the transitional basalts earlier in the Cenozoic.     

The alteration of olivine in basaltic and associated lavas

Olivines which cool under oxidizing conditions exsolve iron oxides at high temperature, and at low temperatures break down to essentially chloritic materials. Olivines which cool under non-oxidizing conditions alter at intermediate temperatures to complex assemblages of chlorite and interstratified phyllosilicates containing a smectite. Alteration under oxidizing conditions at low temperature, probably below 140° C, produces iddingsite, an orientated assemblage of goethite and interstratified phyllosilicates also containing a smectite.Post-deuteric alteration extends or initiates the breakdown of olivine to phyllosilicate mixtures often resulting in widespread movement of materials through the flow. Post-deuteric alteration of iddingsite produces strongly pleochroic, highly ordered varieties which eventually break down to green phyllosilicate assemblages.Weathering of olivine may produce orientated assemblages similar to deuteric forms of iddingsite. Weathering of green alteration products results in oxidation and the liberation of discrete iron hydroxides.Alteration in all cases requires exchange of material between interstitial components and olivine. During deuteric alteration, plagioclase and pyroxene are usually unaffected.     

Dam the rivers; damn the people: Hydroelectric development and resistance in Amazonian Brazil

This paper analyzes the history and consequences of two large scale hydroelectric projects in Amazonian Brazil. The argument makes three points. First, environmental impacts of such projects are inseparable from issues of human rights, regional economic development, and social justice. The implication of this view is that another development, something quite different from the industrial ideal of modernization, is necessary in Amazonia and elsewere.Second, analytical fragmentation of problems into specialist concerns with such topics as ecology (often only meaning wildlife), environment (often concerned only with soil erosion and regional climate), and human rights (sometimes only focusing on the rights of indigenous people, not small farmer migrants tempted to settle in such areas) is mirrored by a fragmented, and therefore weak, resistance to hydroelectric development. The paper traces the early signs of a more unified resistance movement capable of overcoming these special interests and fragmentation.Third, the paper provides data on an economic monstrosity. The Balbina dam was begun in 1981, had cost $ 700 million by 1988, will not be viable withoutanother $ 700 million of design correction, andeven then will not provide enough electricity for Manaus city: this is a monument to an apparent inability to learn from history.Funding provided by the Luce Program in Food, Resources, and International Policy of Hampshire College; The Peggy Howard Fund; Public Service/Social Change Program of Hampshire College; The Explorer's Club; Patrick T. Knight. Special Thanks to Dorothy and Egydio Schwade, Paulinho Paiakan Kaiapo. In Memory of Chico Mendes.     

New global environment programmes and sustainable development —a geographical perspective

After an outline of some developments leading to the present wave of globality, the two new programmes: IGBP (International Geosphere-Programme) and HDGC (Human Dimension of Global Change-Programme) are briefly introduced.The significance of both approaches to geographical science is commented upon, Special reference is made to the important concept of sustainable development.Paper presented to the IGU-Commission: History of Geographical Thought, Hamburg, August 1990.     

The high-pressure assemblages at Milos,Greece

Metamorphic rocks at Milos are known in small outcrops beneath the volcanic formations, as xenoliths in the Traphores volcanic breccia and as pebbles in the Paleochora Quaternary deposits. These rocks seem to belong to three different metamorphic units which probably have intricate relationships in the basement: — the eclogites unit shows garnetjadeite or garnet-omphacite primary associations, with apparently late crystallization of lawsonite phenoblasts an recrystallization features at relatively low temperatures; — the glaucophane schist unit exhibits Jadeite+quartz or glaucophane+lawsonite primary mineralogy; — the greenschist facies unit shows low-pressure main assemblages, most generally developed after high-pressure events. The two former units involve tholeiitic meta-igneous rocks, having been spilitized before metamorphism; they generally suffered more or less advanced recrystallization features in the low-pressure field of the greenschist facies. The third unit shows only meta-sedimentary rocks, with the sole exception of one single meta-doleritic pebble having calk-alkaline affinities.Petrological and mineralogical studies, based upon 15 bulk-rock compositions and 178 probe-analysed data points, lead to suspect at least 2, perhaps 3, different metamorphic events rather than one single metamorphic evolution, to account for the 3 U distinguished. From the observation of the mineralogical assemblages and their evolution, the former events (stages 1 and 2) could be related to rapid subduction of ocean-floor or back-arc basalts, whereas, during the latter event (stage 3), the rocks experienced crystallization conditions involving both decreasing pressures and increasing temperatures.     

Petrogenesis of the Bosworgey granitic cusp in the SW England tin province and its implications for ore mineral genesis

The Bosworgey granite cusp forms an apical portion of the concealed northern extension of the Tregonning-Godolphin granite ridge. It is characterised by unusually high values of B, P, Mn, Fe, As, Cu, Nb, Ta, Bi, Sn, W, U and S which are present largely as tourmaline, apatite, pyrite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, bismuth, columbite, cassiterite, wolframite and uraninite; and low levels of Zr, Hf, Ti and REE present in zircon, ilmenite and monazite. The granite is classified as Sn and W specialised (Tischendorf, 1974) and it belongs to the ilmenite series of Japanese workers. The classification of Chappell and White (1974) (S and I type granites) is shown to be inapplicable to Cornubian rocks although the Bosworgey samples show characteristics of S type granites. The accessory mineral assemblages are typical of high temperature lodes (cassiterite, wolframite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite) and the assamblage is concluded to be the cusp analogue of hypothermal lodes produced by extreme differentiation and concentration of volatiles. It is speculated that such granites could provide the parent material for the mesothermal crosscourse mineralisation (pitchblende, bismuth, pyrite, galena, sphalerite).     

Nature of the coordination polyhedra around M 2 cations in pigeonite

An understanding of the irregular coordination polyhedra exhibited by the M2 cations in clinopyroxenes is of prime importance in connection with the behaviour of solid solutions and polymorphism in pyroxenes.As shown by unfolding the silica chains in pigeonite, cations with octahedral stereochemistry like Mg⁺⁺and Fe⁺⁺ cause kinking of the silica chains, whereas larger cations like Ca⁺⁺and Na⁺have an opposite namely straightening effect. This is a probable factor causing immiscibility in the Mg⁺⁺-Ca⁺⁺ solid solutions in pyroxenes. In pyroxene structures with kinked silica chains the arrangement of oxygen atoms approaches close packing; consequently different stacking sequences will be energetically possible leading to polymorphism in pyroxenes.When Pauling's electrostatic valence rule is applied to clinopyroxenes, the charge balance will be exceedingly improved if effective coordination number of M2 cation is assigned and if the distortions of M 2 coordination polyhedron is considered.     

Sakmarian geography

The known palaeontological and stratigraphical evidence is used as a basis for the construction of maps of the continents showing the extent of their inundation by the sea in Sakmarian time in the Upper Palaeozoic. In the northern hemisphere apart from India the evidence is sufficiently reliable to give reasonable maps, and the great extent of the inundations suggests that the climate would be considerably modified from that of today; no undoubted Sakmarian glacials occur there. In Southern continents and India, the Gondwana biogeographical province has made correlation with the northern continents controversial, but reasons are given for assuming that Gondwana glacial deposits were at least in part Sakmarian; the resultant maps show that the Gondwana land surfaces were but little reduced in area, and that the main glacials (except for India) lie within a belt between 40 S and 20 S. Present lack of knowledge of Sakmarian conditions in Antarctica makes reconstructions of climatic belts too hazardous for possible use in enunciating or checking hypotheses of continental drift and polar wandering.     

Use of the lattice parameter b 0 of dioctahedral illite/muscovite for the characterization of P/T gradients of incipient metamorphism

The P/T gradient or baric type of low-grade metamorphic terranes can be characterized on the basis of cumulative frequency curves of the lattice parameter b ₀ of dioctahedral micas (Sassi and Scolari 1974), which essentially reflects celadonite content and increases with pressure. The method is here applied to illite/muscovite of sub-greenschist (incipient metamorphism) and low-greenschist facies terranes from the marginal zones of the Swedish Caledonides, Swiss Alps and Venezuelan Andes, where the grade of metamorphism was determined on the basis of illite crystallinity.Complications in the determinations of b ₀ arising from (a) shifts in the spacing of the apparent 060 diffraction peaks of the illites due to the presence of inter-stratified expandable layers, and (b) persistence of more crystalline clastic micas are pointed out.In contrast to the earlier-reported decrease of b ₀ with progressive metamorphism at higher grades, b ₀ tends to increase with grade during incipient metamorphism: it is markedly lower in the diagenetic and low-grade anchimetamorphic grades in the Cambro-Silurian of the Caledonides of Jämtland, western Sweden (zone A), and the Lower Tertiary of the Helvetic zone of the Swiss Alps, than in the higher grade anchizone and epizone of the former terrane.Mean b ₀ values for the intermediate and highest (epizone) grades of the Swedish Caledonides are respectively 9.030 and 9.037 Å compared to the mean value of 9.035 Å for the medium-high pressure, Barrovian-type, terrane of Otago, N.Z. Mean b ₀ of 9.005 Å for the mainly epizonal slates of the Venezuelan Andes lies between those for the low-pressure terranes of Bosost ( 8.992 Å), and the low-medium pressure terrane of northern New Hampshire (9.010 Å). These baric estimates agree well with those for the metamorphic facies series at higher grade produced by the same events.Cumulative b ₀ curves are concluded to be useful for the characterization of P/T gradients of incipient metamorphism, particularly in the higher grade part of the anchizone and the epizone.     

Kriging with imprecise (fuzzy) variograms. I: Theory

Imprecise variogram parameters are modeled with fuzzy set theory. The fit of a variogram model to experimental variograms is often subjective. The accuracy of the fit is modeled with imprecise variogram parameters. Measurement data often are insufficient to create good experimental variograms. In this case, prior knowledge and experience can contribute to determination of the variogram model parameters. A methodology for kriging with imprecise variogram parameters is developed. Both kriged values and estimation variances are calculated as fuzzy numbers and characterized by their membership functions. Besides estimation variance, the membership functions are used to create another uncertainty measure. This measure depends on both homogeneity and configuration of the data.     

Metropolitan food systems in developing countries: The perspective of “Urban Metabolism”

The perspective of the paper is that of urban metabolism which views cities, metaphorically, as metabolic processes which take in people, food, resources, and energy, transform these into a distinctive quality of life, and emit people, products, and wastes. The paper focuses on urban food metabolism, by using the concept of the food system which includes the sub-systems of production, supply, distribution and consumption of food. The paper seeks to review the state of knowledge for each of these sub-systems, to provide examples that illustrate the functioning and determinants of urban food systems, to identify critical gaps in knowledge, to outline central research desiderata and to examine critically the analytic value of the concept of urban food metabolism.Revised version of a paper presented to the International Symposium on Urban Metabolism, held in Kobe, Japan, September 6–11, 1993     

Contact strain and folding instability of a multilayered body under compression

The contact strain which develops in a host rock during compression-folding of a more competent layer is treated mathematically and demonstrated by tests on composite models of rubber sheets and blocks with different rigidities.The contact strain is found to be negligible outside a zone about one initial wavelength wide on either side of the folded sheet. This theoretical conclusion based upon the contact deformation resulting from the initial small-amplitude buckles is also, according to the experimental tests, valid for rather strong buckling.Second-order folding of a thin competent layer laying within the contact zone of a thicker buckled competent layer is demonstrated by experimental tests.Considerations of the stresses connected with the contact strain and the stress distribution in the buckling competent layer itself give a simple expression for the initial stable wavelength which develops in response to compression parallel to the layering.The strain distribution in folded multilayers consisting of a set of thin competent sheets evenly spaced in an uniform less competent body is considered theoretically.In such multilayers the stable initial wavelength as developed during compression will, according to the theory, increase somewhat with decreasing spacing between the competent layers if all other conditions are equal. If the spacing is close enough (the limit depends upon the relative mechanical properties of the two substances) the multilayer will buckle as an unit in the sense that one half-wave covers the whole length of the body. This agrees with compression tests on multilayered rubber blocks.In the last two sections of the paper a theory of viscous buckling of thick layers is developed both for the case of a single layer enclosed in a large uniform body and for the case of a multilayer of alternating competent and incompetent layers. In this theory shear parallel to layering plays an important part. For a single embedded layer the thick-layer model gives a little smaller wavelength/thickness ratio than the simple but less realistic thin-layer model. For multilayers strain parallel to layering becomes very significant, particularly when the spacing between the competent layers is small, and the thick-layer model differs considerably from the simpler thin-layer model.A theory of buckling of a multilayer withn alternating competent-incompetent layers sandwiched between two very thick uniform bodies is also developed.