Statistical chemistry of calcic amphiboles

Principal components analysis is used to study the chemistry of 639 calcic amphiboles. Eigenvectors representing multiple partial correlation coefficients give various sets of substitutional relationships. The relative significance of each set can be noted by the percent variation of the data it represents. The highest percent variation (36%) is associated with the substitutions $$Si + Mg \rightleftharpoons Al^{IV} + Al^{VI} + Ti + Fe^{3 + } + Fe^{2 + } + Na + K$$ . Other expected substitutions among the ions such as Al^IV + Na ? Si, the positive correlation between Al^IV and Al^VI etc. are shown statistically. The substitution of Al in T ₁ and T ₂ positions imposes an ordering in the M ₁, M ₂ and M ₃ sites. Variability of OH in the amphiboles is found to be significant. There is no definite correlation between OH and Fe³⁺ but OH and Ti are positively correlated. Under certain conditions and provided the concentration of Al^IV does not change significantly, Fe and Mg may be assumed to mix ideally in the amphibole solid solution.     

Die Strukturgeschichte der Zentralsahara

The author has investigated paleogeographic and structural problems in the middle part of the Sahara desert since 1959. Detailed studies of thickness changes, of disconformities and unconformities and of structural events resulted in the definition of the different tectonical eras and their individual paleogeographic elements. The middle part of North Africa is characterized by three major periods of structural development:

1. Folding and consolidation in Precambrian time.
2. Formation of NW to NNW striking horsts during Cambrian time, which became the core of uplifts (separated by troughs) in Silurian and Devonian time. This structural relief of the early Paleozoic era possibly is the result of regional stretch in NE-SW direction.
3. Formation of uplifts and troughs striking NE during late Paleozoic and Mesozoic time. Blockfaulting occurred along the edge of some uplifts during Jurassic time or at the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition. These movements were the result of regional compression from SE toward NW. The formation of this large scale undulation of the earth's crust coincides with the separation of the Sahara platform from the so-called Tethys (geosynclinal area in NW Africa, the Mediterranean and parts of Asia). This separation most probably began in Northwest Africa during late Carboniferous or early Permian time, it reached Northeastern Libya in Jurassic time. The Sirte grabens were formed as the result of east-west shearing movements, during Upper Cretaceous. Finally, in late Tertiary to Pleistocene time, volcanic activity formed large basalt plateaus. Volcanism occurs mainly along well defined old structural elements.

The results of this analysis were used to interpret structural aspects of larger parts of Africa. The structural relief of the early Paleozoic Era seems to extend far southeast into areas of the old African shield indicating that there is no principal structural difference between the shield and the Sahara platform. The orientation of the late Paleozoic to Mesozoic large scale undulation indicates that the reason for the SE-NW compression is the rotation tendency of Africa which began in late Carboniferous time and culminated during the Tertiary, when Africa was separated from Asia along the Red Sea graben. At approximately the same time, the Atlas area of Northwest Africa was folded.     

Die großen Gräben: Harmonische Strukturen in einer disharmonisch struierten Erdkruste

A system of intracontinental grabens extends over Western Europe, the Levant and East Africa. Small crustal segments framed by elevated shoulders are sunken along parallel escarpments and disintegrated by antithetic normal faults. The shoulders are risen up as outward tilted blocks and thought to form a closed vault at the base of the crust, corresponding to the wedge block of the graben. Underneath the Rhinegraben exists, as detected by seismic refraction measurements, a pillow-shaped body of material with P-wave velocities of 7.4 to 7.9 km/sec, intercalated between crust and mantle. The taphrogenesis of all larger grabens is assumed to be induced by the formation and growth of subcrustal swells of this type. Also the specific graben volcanism is thought to be connected with the intruded laccolithic body of mantle-derived material. The tensional breakup and the faulting of the warped crustal masses was favoured by the gravity slide of the crust which was uncoupled from the substratum by the intercalated magmatic layer. Along the Red Sea Rift the crust tore completely releasing the basaltic substratum in the inner graben. The pattern of its magnetic anomalies leads to the assumption that the pillow body is recruited by simatic dike injections according to the principle of sea-floor spreading. Therefore, there is a great conformity between the intercontinental and the mid-oceanic rift systems. The supplies of mantle material along the Mid-Atlantic and the Carlsberg Rift are related to the drift of the continental frames. The mid-oceanic rift systems in their medial position to the framing continental margins correspond to the intracontinental graben swarm, equidistant from both fronts of circum-Pacific tectonics. A reciprocating action is presumed between the ascending masses along the rift zones and the suction of masses along the deep-sea trenches and geosynclines. The observed crustal movements imply an equilibrant plastic flow within the upper mantle, probably impelled by mechanical convection currents. The continental unbalance between the Pacific and the anti-Pacific hemisphere is discussed as causing mantle currents. Within this interplay between crust and mantle and between continents and ocean floors, the oceanic crust had obtained harmonical features moulded directly by the deduced mobility. The continental crust, however, is passively stressed, its rocks are affected by heterogeneous deformations from which the continents got its polygenetic multiform fabric.     

Man-Made earthquakes Ein Weg zum Verständnis natürlicher seismischer Aktivität

The occurrence of earthquakes causing damage in regions, where no seismic activity had been observed previously, has confirmed the suspicion that the construction of high dams and pumped storage hydroelectric plants as well as the pressing of fluid into petroleum reservoirs and of waste water into deep boreholes will trigger the release of tectonic stresses in the earth's crust. A great number of examples indicates that a similar mechanism must be operative in all cases. Comparing the results of laboratory experiments to seismological observations, it is evident that the causes for the “loss of internal balance” must be sought in zones of low velocity and of relatively high energy absorption within the upper part of the earth's crust.     

Die Kreide in der Zentralkordillere östlich von Lima (Peru,Südamerika)

Lower and Upper Cretaceous sediments were investigated in the Peruvian Central Cordillera. As in the western facies of Central and Northern Peru, the Goyllarisquisga Group is subdivided into several lithologically different formations, in which sediments were transported from east to west. The area of investigation is situated west of the facies boundary between Marañon geanticline and West Peruvian trough; this indicates that the boundary continues south and does not follow the line Celendin-Rio Palanga as suggested byWilson. The limestones and dolomites of the Santa Formation were deposited in shallow water, possibly with intermittent subaerial exposure. The sandstone of the Farrat Formation are interpreted to be sediments of a west-east transgression; vertically they grade into the limestones of the Pariahuanca-Formation. Facies and thickness of the Chulec and Pariahuanca-Formation are little different from those in neighbouring areas. During deposition of the thick Jumasha Formation, the differences are much more significant, and only comparison with Northwest Peru shows some agreement.     

Beitrag zur Kenntnis der planktisch lebenden Ruderfusskrebse (Crustacea Copepoda) des Engstlensees (Berner Oberland)

Zusammenfassung Eine am 22. September 1969 im 1850 m hoch gelegenen Engstlensee gesammelte Planktonprobe enthielt zwei verschiedene Copepodenarten. Der Diaptomide ist ein Gield der GattungArctodiaptomus. Bereits 1885 ist er aus diesem Gew?sser als neue Artalpinus erw?hnt worden. Sp?tere Forscher haben ihn dann aber—wie alle ?hnlichen Populationen hochgelegener Alpenseen—mit der Speziesbacillifer Koelbel identifiziert. Nach den Ergebnissen vergleichender Untersuchungen des Verfassers istalpinus indessen doch als selbst?ndige Art zu bewerten, die hier zum erstenmal ausführlich beschrieben wird. DerCyclops des Engstlensees wird alsCyclops abyssorum tatricus (Kozminski, 1927) gekennzeichnet.

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Résumé Le 22 septembre 1969, l’auteur a effectué une récolte de faune pélagique dans l’Engstlensee. L’étude de cette récolte a permis de déterminer les deux Copépodes suivants:Arctodiaptomus alpinus (Imhof) etCyclops abyssorum tatricus (Kozminski). Tous les deux sont des Crustacés caractéristiques pour la faune pélagique de beaucoup de lacs élevés des Alpes. Jusqu’à présent, l’Arctodiaptomus alpinus a été nommébacillifer. Mais au cours d’une revision du ?groupebacillifer? du genreArctodiaptomus, l’auteur a constaté que ?bacillifer Koelbel? et ?alpinus Imhof? sont en réalité deux espèces différentes. Les résultats complets de cette revision seront publiés par un autre journal d’hydrobiologie.

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Herrn Prof. OttJaag zum 70. Geburtstag     

Ein Beitrag zur Frage der Eutrophierung des Bodensees durch den Alpenrhein

Zusammenfassung und Folgerungen Es darf als gesichert gelten, dass die 1961 im Auftrag der Internationalen Gew?sserschutzkommission für den Bodensee ermittelte Jahresfracht von 806 t Gesamtphosphor des Alpenrheins in bezug auf den gel?sten Gesamtphosphor viel zu hoch, in bezug auf die Summe von gel?stem und ungel?stem Gesamtphosphor aber wesentlich zu niedrig liegt. Die aus den Ergebnissen der 1961 er Untersuchung für den Alpenrhein gezogenen Schlussfolgerungen k?nnen daher nur zum Teil richtig sein. Kann durch die andernorts bereits durchgeführten Untersuchungen oder durch neue Abkl?rungen festgestellt werden, dass die aus der adsorptiven Bindung an die Rheinsedimente im Bodensee freigesetzte P-Menge kleiner oder gleich der gel?sten P-Fracht des Alpenrheins ist, so hat, die Forderung auf zus?tzliche Einrichtungen zur P-Elimination (3. Reinigungsstufe oder Simultanf?llung) bei den geplanten oder erstellten mechanisch-biologischen Kl?ranlagen im Einzugsgebiet des Bodensees ihre volle Berechtigung.

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Summary and Conclusions It can be considered an established fact that the yearly load of 806 tons of total phosphorus for the Alpine reaches of the Rhine, determined in 1961 on behalf of the International Commission for the Protection of the Lake of Constance against Pollution, is much too high for the dissolved total phosphorus and significantly too low for the sum of the dissolved and undissolved total phosphorus. The conclusions drawn from the 1961 study of the Alpine regions of the Rhine can therefore be only partially correct. If it can be proven that the amount of phosphorus released from the sediments in the Lake of Constance is smaller or equal to the dissolved phosphorus load of the Alpine part of the Rhine, the demand for additional installations for phosphorus elimination (tertiary treatment of sewage or simultaneous precipitation) for the mechanical-biological sewage treatment plants in the catchment area of the Lake of Constance is fully justified.