Pressure, temperature and cooling rates of granulite facies migmatitic pelites from the southern Adirondack Highlands, New York

Detailed petrographic analysis was performed on samples from five localities within the southern Adirondacks. Textures and zoning patterns in garnet from all samples provide evidence for dehydration melting of biotite. Zoning of grossular in garnet – providing a record of prograde growth – shows both increasing and decreasing trends in garnet from the same sample. However, Ca concentrations at the garnet rims of most samples are identical (grossular = 3.4%). These observations have been interpreted as evidence for the differential timing of garnet nucleation and growth. All Fe/(Fe + Mg) and some spessartine distributions are consistent between samples, displaying diffusive profiles established largely upon cooling. Only one sample, in which retrogression was minimal, contains garnet with flat Fe/(Fe + Mg) profiles. A general pelitic pseudosection constructed in the system MnNCKFMASH reveals a maximum for Ca in garnet where the plagioclase‐out isopleth intersects the solidus (muscovite = 0). The pseudosection predicts bell‐shaped core‐to‐rim profiles of grossular during anatexis, similar to those observed in the rocks. Garnet–biotite thermometry and GASP barometry indicate peak temperatures of at least 790 °C at about 7–9 kbar, similar to conditions determined for the central Adirondacks. Cooling rates determined from finite difference modelling of spessartine and Fe/(Fe + Mg) diffusional profiles indicate a multi‐stage cooling history in which some period of rapid cooling (>200 °C Myr^?1) is required.     

Textural relations in melanosomes of selected specimens of migmatitic pelitic schists: Implications for leucosome-generating processes

Melanosome textures in several specimens of migmatitic pelitic schists are evaluated to test leucosome-generating reactions inferred independently on the basis of mineralogic and chemical relationships in the melanosomes. Systematic variations in grain numbers per unit volume, grain sizes, size distributions, and shapes, and grain contact frequencies within melanosomes can be attributed to leucosome generation. These variations support independent inferences of reactions based on modes and chemistry and, in one case, suggest a refinement of reactions inferred on these bases.In these specimens, at least, textures resulting from the leucosome-generating process have not been obliterated by later recrystallization and provide information regarding this process. These textures indicate that leucosome generation involved preferential reaction at mice-quartz and feldspar-quartz grain boundaries. This conclusion is in agreement with melting processes observed in short-term melting experiments.     

Subtidal Eelgrass Declines in the Great Bay Estuary,New Hampshire and Maine,USA

Long-term monitoring of eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) beds in the central subtidal portion of the Great Bay Estuary showed declines at both transplanted sites and reference beds. Eelgrass beds transplanted as mitigation for habitat loss from port development reached comparable functions (e.g., primary production, canopy structure) to natural reference sites by the late 1990s, within 6 years of transplanting. Data from 2001 to the present show significant declines in eelgrass parameters (biomass, shoot density, canopy height, leaf area) at all sites, suggesting that these declines are the result of an estuary-wide factor.     

Lobster use of eelgrass habitat in the Piscataqua River on the New Hampshire/Maine Border, USA

The relationship between lobsters and eelgrass beds was investigated in the Piscataqua River, which constitutes the lower portion of the Great Bay Estuary, New Hampshire and Maine. The goals of the study were to assess the numbers, size distribution, and sex distribution of lobsters in eelgrass beds, to determine whether lobsters in the eelgrass beds were transients or residents, and to investigate eelgrass density preferences among adolescent lobsters. Eighty percent of the lobsters collected from eelgrass beds were adolescents, measuring >40 to 70 mm carapace length (CL). Of the 295 lobsters collected at four different eelgrass beds, we found an average male-to-female ratio of 1.2. Tag/recapture efforts in eelgrass beds (1.5 to 4 mo interim period) yielded an average recapture of 5.5%. Twenty transects, each 10 m in length, sampled at two eelgrass sites revealed a lobster density of 0.1 m⁻². In mesocosm experiments, lobsters (53–73 mm CL) showed a clear preference for eelgrass over bare mud. Our investigations showed that adolescent lobsters burrow in eelgrass beds, utilize eelgrass as an overwintering habitat, and prefer eelgrass to bare mud.     

Source contributions to Devonian granite magmatism near the Laurentian border, New Hampshire and Western Maine, USA

Radiogenic isotope data (initial Nd, Pb) and elemental concentrations for the Mooselookmeguntic igneous complex, a suite of mainly granitic intrusions in New Hampshire and western Maine, are used to evaluate petrogenesis and crustal variations across a mid-Paleozoic suture zone. The complex comprises an areally subordinate monzodiorite suite [377±2 Ma; ε_Nd (at 370 Ma)=−2.7 to −0.7; initial ²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁴Pb=15.56–15.58] and an areally dominant granite [370±2 Ma; ε_Nd (at 370 Ma)=−7.0 to −0.6; initial ²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁴Pb=15.55–15.63]. The granite contains meter-scale enclaves of monzodiorite, petrographically similar to but older than that of the rest of the complex [389±2 Ma; ε_Nd (at 370 Ma)=−2.6 to +0.3; initial ²⁰⁷Pb/²⁰⁴Pb 15.58, with one exception]. Other granite complexes in western Maine and New Hampshire are 30 Ma older than the Mooselookmeguntic igneous complex granite, but possess similar isotopic signatures.

Derivation of the monzodioritic rocks of the Mooselookmeguntic igneous complex most likely occurred by melting of Bronson Hill belt crust of mafic to intermediate composition. The Mooselookmeguntic igneous complex granites show limited correlation of isotopic variations with elemental concentrations, precluding any significant presence of mafic source components. Given overlap of initial Nd and Pb isotopic compositions with data for Central Maine belt metasedimentary rocks, the isotopic heterogeneity of the granites may have been produced by melting of rocks in this crustal package or through a mixture of metasedimentary rocks with magmas derived from Bronson Hill belt crust.

New data from other granites in western Maine include Pb isotope data for the Phillips pluton, which permit a previous interpretation that leucogranites were derived from melting heterogeneous metasedimentary rocks of the Central Maine belt, but suggest that granodiorites were extracted from sources more similar to Bronson Hill belt crust. Data for the Redington pluton are best satisfied by generation from sources in either the Bronson Hill belt or Laurentian basement. Based on these data, we infer that Bronson Hill belt crust was more extensive beneath the Central Maine belt than previously recognized and that mafic melts from the mantle were not important to genesis of Devonian granite magma.     

Mutual replacement reactions in alkali feldspars II: trace element partitioning and geothermometry

Perthitic alkali feldspar primocrysts in layered syenites in the Klokken intrusion in South Greenland, underwent dissolution–reprecipitation reactions in a circulating post-magmatic aqueous fluid at ~450°C, and are to a large degree pseudomorphs. These ‘mutual replacement’ reactions provide a perfect natural experiment with which to study trace element partitioning between sodium and potassium feldspars growing simultaneously. The reactant ‘phase’ was a cryptoperthitic feldspar consisting of low albite and low microcline in a coherent sub-μm ‘braid’ intergrowth and the product phases were ‘strain-free’ incoherent subgrains of low albite and low microcline forming microporous patch perthites on scales up to 200 μm. The driving force for the reaction was reduction of coherency strain energy. The mechanisms of this process are described in Part I. Five mixed braid perthite–patch perthite crystals were analysed for major and trace elements using laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry with a 19 μm beam diameter. This gave bulk analyses of the braid texture, which were in the range Ab_73–54Or_45–27An_4.3–0.8, but could resolve Ab- and Or-rich patches in patch perthite. The major element bulk compositions of the crystals were retained during the replacement reactions. Major components in patches plot on tielines in the Ab–Or–An ternary system that pass through or very close to the parent braid perthite composition and indicate local equilibrium on the scale of a few tens of mm. Many trace elements, including REE, were lost to the fluid during the deuteric reactions, but the effect is large only for Fe and Ti. Cs, Pb and Sr were added to some crystals. Plots of log distribution coefficient D for Rb, Ba, Pb, Eu²⁺, La and Ce between Or- and Ab-rich patches against ionic radius are straight lines, assuming eightfold coordination, and to a first approximation are independent of ionic charge. K also lies on these lines, and the smaller ions Na and Ca lie close to them. The best linear fits were obtained using ionic radii for ^[8]K and ^[8]Ca, but there is ambiguity as to whether ^[7]Na or ^[5]Na is most appropriate. The linear relationship shows that the listed trace elements are in the feldspar M-site rather than in inclusions. Tl is in M although an exact D could not be obtained. The very large Cs ion partitions strongly into the Or-rich phase but its D value appears to be less than predicted by extrapolation. The near-linearity arises because partitioning is occurring between two solids into sites which have similar Young’s moduli, so that the parabolas that normally represent trace element partitioning between crystals and liquids (which have negligible shear strength) approximately cancel out. Ga and Be are in T-sites, as well as some of the Fe and Ti present, although part is in oxide inclusions. The site of Sc is unclear, but if structural it is likely to be T. Partitioning on M-sites is a potential geothermometer but because the effective size of the irregular M-site is defined by its K and (Na + Ca) contents, which are controlled by ternary solvus relationships, its calibration is not independent of conventional two-feldspar geothermometers. Trace elements may however provide a useful means of confirming that feldspar pairs are in equilibrium, and of recognising feldspar intergrowths produced by non-isochemical replacement rather than exsolution. Two-feldspar geothermometry for the ternary phases in the low-albite microcline patch perthites gives temperatures above the stability range of microcline, markedly so if a correction is made for Si–Al ordering. This is probably because current geothermometers are too sensitive to low concentrations of An in ordered Or-rich feldspars. This interpretation is supported by two-feldspar assemblages growing at known temperatures in geothermal systems and sedimentary basins. This paper and the earlier Part I are dedicated in the memory of J. V. Smith and W. L. Brown, both of whom died in 2007, in acknowledgement of their unrivalled contributions to the study of the feldspar minerals over more than half a century. An erratum to this article can be found at     

Textural and isotopic variations in graphite from plutonic rocks,South-Central New Hampshire

Graphite occurs in two distinct textural varieties in syntectonic granitoids of the New Hampshire Plutonic Series and in associated metasedimentary wall rocks. Textural characteristics indicate that coarse graphite flakes were present at an early stage of crystallization of the igneous rocks and thus may represent xenocrystic material assimilated from the wall rocks. The range of ¹³C values determined for flake graphite in the igneous rocks (–26.5 to –13.8) overlaps the range for flake graphite in the wall rocks (–26.0 to –16.7), and spatial correlation of some ¹³C values in the plutons and wall rocks supports the assimilation mechanism. The textures of fine-grained irregular aggregates or spherulites of graphite, on the other hand, indicate that they formed along with secondary hydrous silicates and carbonates during retrograde reactions between the primary silicates and a carbon-bearing aqueous fluid phase. Relative to coexisting flake graphite, spherulitic graphite shows isotopic shifts ranging from 1.9 higher to 1.4 lower in both igneous and metasedimentary samples.The observed isotopic shifts and the association of spherulitic graphite with hydrous silicates are explained by dehydration of C-O-H fluids initially on or near the graphite saturation boundary. Hydration of silicates causes dehydration of the fluid and drives the fluid composition to the graphite saturation surface. Continued dehydration of the fluid then requires coprecipitation of secondary graphite and hydrous silicates and drives the fluid toward either higher or lower CO₂/CH₄ depending upon the inital bulk composition. Isotopic shifts in graphite formed at successive reaction stages are explained by fractionation of ¹³C between secondary graphite and the evolving fluid because ¹³C is preferentially concentrated into CO₂ relative to CH₄.Epigenetic graphite in two vein deposits assiciated with the contacts of these igneous rocks is generally enriched in ¹³C (–15.7 to –11.6) relative to both the igneous and wall-rock ¹³C values. Values of ¹³C vary by up to 3.4 within veins, with samples taken only 3 cm apart differing by 2.0 These variations in ¹³C correlate with textural evidence showing sequential deposition of different generations of graphite in the veins from fluids which differed in proportions of carbon species or isotopic composition (or both).     

Geochemistry of trace element in carbonaceous sediments from recent seas and oceans

Published and original data on the contents of 50 elements in carbonaceous sediments from seas (Black, Baltic, and Caspian) and fertile oceanic shelves (shelves of Namibia, Peru, Chile, and California) are generalized. The comparison of these results with the average composition of ancient carbonaceous shales reveals both similarities and differences in the distribution of indicator trace elements (Re, Hg, Se, Ag, Cd, Tl, U, Mo, As, Ni, and Zn). Correlation coefficients were analyzed to determine the characteristic element associations. It is established that oceanic carbonaceous sediments are closer in composition to carbonaceous shales than their marine analogues, which is related to the differences in sedimentation conditions, including hydrological, hydrochemical, and biogeochemical factors. The role of anoxic environment in the accumulation of chalcophile elements in sediments is estimated. The comparison of the contents of some mobile trace elements in oceanic water and carbonaceous sediments of modern oceans demonstrates that the water composition affects the composition of carbonaceous sediments and can be used for deciphering the composition of ancient ocean water.     

Some trace element relationships among liquid and solid phases in the course of the fractional crystallization of magmas

The classical equations relating the trace element concentrations of the liquid and solid phases coexisting in the simple fractional crystallization of a parental magma have been put in a simple graphical form, which allows rapid analysis of the possible genetic relationships in a given rock suite. The effects of an incomplete separation between the two phases are taken into account. The approach does not require the use of otherwise estimated partition coefficients. Trace element data concerning the minerals of cumulates, where available, may provide an independent estimation of the effective mineral-liquid partition coefficients. With reasonable assumptions, this approach may even be applied to plutonic rocks. Interpretation of the published rare earth element data from the Southern California Batholith by this procedure suggests that a tonalitic parental magma could generate a granodioritic liquid by crystallizing 40–50 wt % of a solid residue of gabbroic composition, in agreement with Larsen's (Mem. Geol. Soc. Amer. 29, 1948) calculations. The calculated mineral-liquid partition coefficients for the REE fall in the range of published phenocryst-groundmass values for acidic volcanic rocks.     

北大别漫水河混合岩化片麻岩中锆石微区微量元素特征及其地质意义

本文通过对北大别漫水河片麻岩的锆石进行阴极发光(CL)显微图像观察及激光剥蚀等离子体质谱(LA-ICP-MS)微区微量元素分析，试图对重结晶和深熔成因变质锆石的微量元素特征进行制约。CL图像显示该片麻岩锆石存在复杂的内部结构，有原岩岩浆锆石、重结晶变质锆石和深熔锆石。不同锆石区域的Hf、P、Ti、Nb、Ta和Ce等元素含量及Nb/Ta比值相似。但重结晶和深熔锆石的Th/U比值明显低于原岩锆石(分别为0.33～1.12、0.03～0.60和0.92～1.99).重结晶锆石区域低Th/U比值是由于重结晶过程中Th比U更易排出锆石晶格，而深熔锆石区域低Th/U比值是其结晶的熔体中低Th和高U含量的原因。不同锆石区域的稀土元素含量也不相同。原岩锆石稀土总量高(621.9～1331.6ppm)，变化较大，而深熔锆石和重结晶锆石稀土总量低(分别为236.8～642.5ppm；98.5～435，6ppm)。不同锆石区域的稀土元素配分模式相似。但重结晶锆石的稀土元素含量比原岩锆石低3～4倍，可能是重结晶过程中稀土元素被逐出锆石晶格所致。深熔锆石的稀土元素含量受深熔熔体与残留体之间平衡与否的制约，如果熔体与残留体之间达到了平衡，则深熔锆石与原岩锆石有相似的稀土元素含量；反之，深熔锆石的稀土元素含量就会低于原岩锆石。漫水河片麻岩深熔锆石的稀土含量比原岩锆石低1～4倍，反映了深熔熔体与残留体之间没有达到平衡。结合已有的花岗岩与混合岩化岩石的年龄和同位素特征，说明北大别混合岩化片麻岩可能与同时代花岗岩的形成有成因关系。     

Development of early composite cleavage in pelites from West Donegal

In the Portnoo-Rosbeg area of west Donegal the main penetrative cleavage, S₂, generally dips to the south with F₂ folds facing up to the north. In places the S₂ cleavage is cut by a gently SW-dipping crenulation cleavage (S₃) verging and facing south on the long limbs of F₂ folds.A series of structural domains have been mapped in which the relationship of S₂ and S₃ changes from cross-cutting at a large angle (Rosbeg domain) to the development of a composite $\text{S}{}_{\mathrm{<mtext>2</mtext><mtext>3</mtext>}}$ cleavage (Portnoo domain). The relationship between the two phases and the composite cleavage was investigated by mapping out cleavages (megascopic scale), detailed mesoscopic field observations and on a microscopic scale using textural relationships to widespread post D₂-pre D₃ garnet porphyroblasts.In addition to demonstrating the composite nature of the cleavage, the examples of D₂/D₃ interference and the rotation of, and drag patterns around, the garnet porphyroblasts allow discussion of the kinematics of D₃. D₃ appears to have involved either bulk pure shear or north-directed bulk simple shear, or any intermediate type of deformation history, and was promoted by southerly directed active slip parallel to S₂.     

Fe-Ti oxide minerals from regionally metamorphosed quartzites of western New Hampshire

The assemblages rutile-hematite, hematite, hematite-magnetite, hematite-ilmenite-magnetite, and ilmenite-magnetite occur in sillimanite- and kyanite-grade quartzites exposed in western New Hampshire. Different assemblages are found in interlayered sedimentary beds of single outcrops. Magnetites are nearly pure Fe₃O₄ and contain trace amounts of Al, Si, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, and Ni. Magnetites in contact with hematites contain up to 0.4 weight % MnO, but magnetites in contact with ilmenites containing up to 2.3 weight % MnO have no detectable Mn. Ilmenite is enriched in Mn relative to coexisting hematite, and hematite is so enriched with respect to magnetite. Systematic partitioning of elements between oxide minerals and absence of crossing tie lines suggest that the minerals attained chemical equilibrium during regional metamorphism. None of the assemblages are divariant because of the presence of components in addition to FeO, Fe₂O₃, and TiO₂; therefore, none of them constitute oxygen buffers. Nevertheless, gradients in between adjacent sedimentary beds can be measured using variations of oxide mineral composition in trivariant and quadrivariant phase assemblages. Oxygen behaved as an initial value component or inert component during regional metamorphism. It is likely that the gradients are due to differences in bulk composition of sedimentary beds at the time of deposition.     

Predicting New Hampshire indoor radon concentrations from geologic information and other covariates

 Generalized geologic province information and data on house construction were used to predict indoor radon concentrations in New Hampshire (NH). A mixed-effects regression model was used to predict the geometric mean (GM) short-term radon concentrations in 259 NH towns. Bayesian methods were used to avoid over-fitting and to minimize the effects of small sample variation within towns. Data from a random survey of short-term radon measurements, individual residence building characteristics, along with geologic unit information, and average surface radium concentration by town, were variables used in the model. Predicted town GM short-term indoor radon concentrations for detached houses with usable basements range from 34 Bq/m³ (1 pCi/l) to 558 Bq/m³ (15 pCi/l), with uncertainties of about 30%. A geologic province consisting of glacial deposits and marine sediments was associated with significantly elevated radon levels, after adjustment for radium concentration and building type. Validation and interpretation of results are discussed. Received: 20 October 1997 · Accepted: 18 May 1998     

Metamorphism, Fluid Flow and Partial Melting in Pelitic Rocks from the Onawa Contact Aureole, Central Maine, USA

Field, petrologic and geochemical data were used to characterizefluid infiltration and partial melting during metamorphism ofpelitic rocks in the contact aureole of the Onawa pluton, centralMaine, USA. Mineral assemblages delineate five metamorphic zoneswithin the contact aureole: chlorite zone, andalusite–cordierite(a–c) zone, alkali feldspar zone, sillimanite zone andleucocratic-vein (l–v) zone. The sequence of observedmineral assemblages and mineral–fluid reactions calculatedby mass balance is similar to those observed in other contactaureoles. Pressure of contact metamorphism is 3 kbar, on thebasis of optimum geothermobarometry calculations. Metamorphictemperatures vary from 500C in the andalusite–cordieritezone to 65OC in the leucocratic-vein zone. Data from fieldobservations, mineral textures, observed reaction stoichiometry,geothermometry and major-element geochemistry suggest that theleucocratic veins of the l-v zone represent crystallized, partialmelts. Two overall calculated mineral reactions are responsiblefor vein formation: which can be modeled as combinations of two NKFMTASH meltingreactions: Progress of (M1) and (M2) was measured in eight samples, andreaction (M1) is the dominant melt-forming reaction in all samples.Partial melting (and vein formation) was therefore driven byinfiltration of the l-v zone by H²O-rich fluids. Calculatedtime-integrated fluid fluxes for l-v zone samples range from09 10⁴ to 31 10⁴ mol/cm², and flow was in the directionof increasing temperature. KEY WORDS: pelites; contact metamorphism; fluid infiltration; partial melting; Onawa Pluton; Maine; USA ^*Corresponding author. Telephone:(516) 632–8192. Fax (516)632–8240 e-mail: gsymmes{at}ccmail.sunysb.edu     

Subsolidus reactions monitored by trace element partitioning: the spinel- to plagioclase-facies transition in mantle peridotites

Mantle peridotites of the External Liguride (EL) Units (Northern Apennines) mainly consist of fertile spinel-lherzolites partially recrystallized to plagioclase-facies assemblages, and are consequently appropriate to investigate the interphase element partitioning related to the transition from spinel- to plagioclase-facies stability field. Evidence for the development of the plagioclase-facies assemblage is mainly given by: (1) large exsolution lamellae of orthopyroxene and plagioclase within spinel-facies clinopyroxene; (2) plagioclase rims around spinel; (3) granoblastic domains made up of olivine+plagioclase±clino-and orthopyroxene. In situ major and trace [REE (rare-earth elements), Ti, Sc, V, Cr, Sr, Y, Zr and Ba] element mineral analyses have been performed, by electron and ion probe, on selected samples which show the progressive development of the plagioclase-bearing assemblage. The main compositional variations observed during the change from spinel- to plagioclase-facies minerals are as follows: (1) clinopyroxenes decrease in Al, Na, Sr, Eu/Eu^* and increase in Y, V, Sc, Cr, Zr and Ti; (2) amphiboles decrease in Eu/Eu^*, Sr, Ba and increase in Zr and V; (3) spinels decrease in Al and increase in Cr and Ti. The most striking feature is the decoupling in the behaviour of similarly incompatible elements (D about 0.1) in clinopyroxene, e.g. Sr decrease is mirrored by Zr increase. Massbalance calculations indicate that the trace element interphase redistribution documented in the EL peridotites occurred in a closed system and in response to the metamorphic reaction governing the transition from the spinel- to the plagioclase-facies stability field. The observed element partitioning reveals, moreover, that subsolidus re-equilibration processes in the upper mantle produce HFSE (high-field-strength element)/REE fractionation in minerals, which must be evaluated for a reliable determination of mineral-melt distribution coefficients. The results of this study furnish evidence for subsolidus metamorphic evolution during decompression, without concomitant partial melting processes. This is consistent with the interpretation that the EL peridotites represent subcontinental lithospheric mantle emplaced at the surface in response to lithospheric thinning and tectonic denudation mechanisms related to the Triassic-Jurassic rifting of the Ligure-Piedmontese basin.     

Melting relationships of Ni-Mg olivines and some geochemical implications

A complete series of solid solutions exists in the range Ni₂SiO₄-Mg₂SiO₄. Temperatures of beginning of melting increase with increasing content of Mg₂SiO₄. Solid solutions in the range N₁₀₀–N₅₀M₅₀ melt incongruently with the separation of NiO. In this range, ternary relations obtain. In the range N₅₀M₅₀–M₁₀₀ the system is binary. The behaviour of nickel in magmas is discussed in terms of the experimental data obtained, and it is concluded that nickel enters common olivine at the expense of iron rather than magnesium.     

A morphological SEM study of wurtzite-sphalerite relationships in specimens from Zvezdel,Bulgaria

Summary SEM has been used to study columnar ZnS aggregates from the Zvezdel lead-zinc deposit in the Eastern Rhodope Mts. They consist of subparallel fine tabular crystals, 250 to 600 m wide and 1 to 20 m thick. By characteristic differences and similarities in their morphologies some of them are identified as sphalerite, and others as wurtzites of hexagonal and trigonal morphologies, the ZnS 3R polymorph included. These wide tabular crystals alternate with crystals of much smaller diameters and pyramidal habit showing signs of spiral growth. Preliminary x-ray studies have shown the presence of reflections of sphalerite and wurtzites 2H, 4H, 6H and 15R. The wurtzit-sphalerite aggregates formed in an environment of variable and often low from highly super-saturated solutions. The rapid crystallization favoured not only the growth of the fine platy crystals as columnar aggregates but also the stabilization of the three-layer close packing of ZnS in trigonal orientation at (111)_Sph//(0001)_w.

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Morphologische SEM Studien von Wurtzit-Sphalerit Aggregaten aus Zvezdel, Bulgarien

Zusammenfassung SEM Untersuchungen wurden an aus der in den Ost-Rhodopen gelegenen Pb-Zn Lagerstätte Zvezdel stammenden stengeligen ZnS Aggregaten durchgeführt. Diese Aggregate bestehen aus subparallel verwachsenen, 250–600 m breiten und 1–20 m dicken, dünntafeligen Kristallen. An Hand charakteristischer Unterschiede und Ähnlichkeiten der Morphologie wurden sie als Sphalerit und Wurtzit mit trigonaler und hexagonaler Morphologie, einschließlich des ZnS 3R Polymorphs, identifiziert. Die breiten tafeligen Kristalle alternieren mit kleineren Kristallen geringeren Durchmessers und pyramidalem Habitus, die Spiralwachstum zeigen können. Erste röntgenographische Untersuchungen zeigten das Vorhandensein der Sphalerit- und Wurtzitreflexe 2H, 4H, 6H und 15R. Die Wurtzit-Sphalerit Aggregate bildeten sich in einem Milieu mit variablem, vor allem aber niedrigem, aus stark übersättigten Lösungen. Die rasche Kristallisation begünstigte nicht nur das feinplattige Kristallwachstum, sondern auch die Stailisation der 3-Schicht Dichtestpackung von ZnS in trigonaler Orientierung nach (111)_Sph//(0001)_w.

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Dedicated to Prof. Dr. Josef Zemann on the occasion of his 70-th birthday     

Historical trace element distribution in sediments from the Mississippi River delta

Five sediment cores were collected on the shelf of the inner Mississippi Bight in June 2003 for a suite of radionuclides to establish geochronologies and trace elements to examine patterns of contaminant deposition and accumulation. Core sites were chosen to reflect a matrix of variable water depths, proximity to the Mississippi River mouth as the primary source for terrigenous particles, and extent and duration of summertime water column hypoxia. The vertical distribution of^239,240Pu and²¹⁰Pb_xs(=²¹⁰Pb_total−²²⁶Ra) provided reliable geochronological age constraints to develop models for mass accumulation rates and historic trace element inputs and variations. Mass accumulation rates ranged from 0.27 to 0.87 g cm⁻²yr⁻¹ and were internally consistent using either²¹⁰Pb_xs or^239,240Pu. Measured inventories of¹³⁷Cs,^239,240Pu, and²¹⁰Pb_xs were compared to atmospheric deposition rates to quantify potential sediment focusing or winnowing. Observed variability in calculated mass accumulation rates may be attributed foremost to site-specific proximity to the river mouth (i.e., sediment source), variability in water depth, and enhanced sediment focusing at the Mississippi River canyon site. Trace element concentrations were first normalized to Al, and then Al-normalized enrichment factors (ANEF) were calculated based on preanthropogenic and crustal trace element abundances. These ANEFs were typically >1 for V and Ba, while for most other elements studied, either no enrichment or depletion was observed. The enrichment of Ba may be related, in part, to the seasonal occurrence of oxygen-depleted subsurface waters off the Mississippi River delta, as well as being an ubiquitous byproduct of the petroleum industry.     

The evolution of trace element concentrations in basic rocks from Israel and their petrogenesis

The geochemistry of tholeiitic rocks, alkali olivine basalts and basanites of The Mesozoic province of Israel has been studied. The elemental concentration in the magmas was treated in terms of batch melting followed by fractional crystallization processes. During the latter process, the crystallizing minerals from effusive and hypabyssal bodies match the conditions of maintaining surface equilibrium with the melt (Rayleigh Law). According to the incompatible characteristics of the LIL elements which were determined, they can be divided into two groups: (1) those elements (La, Ce, Ta, Th, Hf) which maintain incompatibility for rocks having D.I. <63, and (2) those elements which can be regarded as incompatible in rocks with further restrictions for U and Ba (D.I.<50); for P₂O₅ (Ni>75 ppm); for Sr (Ni>200 ppm). Assuming that the mantle has [La] _n = 1 the spectrum of the rocks studied was generated by 0.5% to 3.2% partial melting from a single garnet peridotite source rock. The source rocks appear to be quite homogeneous with only a slightly LREE-enriched pattern. For the above melting range the D _s (bulk distribution coefficient between the source rocks and the melts) values for Ta, La, Ce, Th, U, P₂O₅, Sr, Ba, and Hf were found to be 0.0012, 0.002, 0.0029, 0.0031, 0.0039, 0.0082, 0.0083, 0.01, and 0.015, respectively. If the mantle has [La] _n =2, then for the range of 1 to 6.4% melting, the D _s values would be 0.002, 0.0035, 0.0053, 0.0055, 0.007, 0.0152, 0.0153, 0.019, and 0.027, respectively.