Petrogenesis of some Ligurian peridotites—I. Mineral and bulk-rock chemistry

Bulk-rock and mineral compositions of eleven lherzolitic specimens have been determined. Eight samples are from the Erro-Tobbio thrust sheet of the Gruppo di Voltri, western Liguria; three samples are from allochthonous eastern Ligurian masses within the External Ligurides. All specimens consist of spinel (±plagioclase) in addition to ol + opx + cpx, and have been derived from mantle portions of the South Alpine-Apennine lithospheric plate.Electron microprobe analyses of 11 olivines, 17 orthopyroxenes, 13 clinopyroxenes, eight spinels and one plagioclase have been performed. Except for Ca-rich and Ca-poor lamellae in some pyroxenes, and iron-enriched rims in a few spinels, the analyzed phases are remarkably homogeneous. Mineral compositions vary insignificantly from rock to rock. Consideration of major element partitioning in coexisting opx + cpx pairs, combined with the petrogenetic grid for aluminous lherzolite bulk compositions, yield the following provisional P-Tequilibration conditions: Erro-Tobbio complex, 1150 ± 50°C, 16 ± 6 kbar; External Ligurides, 1000 ± 50°C, 14 ± 6 kbar. Evidently the western Ligurian peridotites equilibrated at higher temperatures and possibly at slightly greater depths with the upper mantle than those from eastern Liguria.The lherzolite samples have nearly identical bulk-rock major element compositions. Comparisons with estimated compositions for the upper mantle, and for model pyrolite indicate that these Ligurian peridotites are primitive or only very slightly depleted in basaltic constituents. Thus, based on major element chemistry, the Ligurian peridotites cannot be regarded as residua left after extensive partial fusion, hence evidently cannot have produced large proportions of oceanic tholeiite liquid; on the other hand, they seem to represent a fertile mantle source for such melts.Relics of garnet have not been found, and apparent temperatures for both Erro-Tobbio and eastern Ligurian ultramafic suites exceed the classical intraplate oceanic geotherm; accordingly, these bodies may represent rising mantle material that recrystallized during ascent in the general vicinity of a spreading center, without having undergone extensive partial melting.     

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Ohne ZusammenfassungDie Transkription der Autorennamen und der geographischen Namen erfolgte nach den Richtlinien der Zentralstelle für wissenschaftliche Literatur, Berlin NW 7, vom 7. Dezember 1955.     

Die Bedeutung der Kondensationskerne in der hygienischen Forschung

Zusammenfassung Eine erschöpfende Beurteilung des Verunreinigungsgrades der Luft ist nur auf Grund von Registrierungen der wichtigsten gasförmigen und korpuskulärne Beimengungen möglich. Eine grobe Aussage wird in vielen Fällen bereits auf Grund gleichzeitiger Messungen des Kern- und Staubgehalts der Luft gemacht werden können.Eine Aussage über die schädigende bzw. belästigende Wirkung einer Luftheimengung nur auf Grund einer Kernzahlbestimmung, wird nur in wenigen besonderen Fällen möglich sein. Als Beispiel sei angeführt, daß bei der Verunreinigung der Luft mit Tabakrauch die Kernzahl ein grobes Maß für den Nikotingehalt und die Kernzahl in Verbindung mit der Staubzahl ein Maß für den Gehalt der Luft an Tabakteeren darstellt.Auf Grund eigener Untersuchungen und den bisher in der Literatur veröffentlichten Meßergebnissen werden maximale Mittelwerte für den Kern- und Staubgehalt der Luft für verschiedene Orte angegeben. Somit wird es den Gesundheitsämtern möglich sein, durch einfache Kern- und Staubmessungen den geforderten Reinheitsgrad der Luft zu kontrollieren. Eine Vorraussetzung hierfür ist die Schaffung einheitlicher, leicht transportabler und einfach zu bedienender Meßgeräte.

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Summary An exhaustive assessment of the degree of contamination of the air is possible only from records of its most important gaseous and corpuscular admixtures. A rough assessment will be possible in many cases by using simultaneous measurements of the nuclei and dust content of the air.A statement on the injurious or annoying effect of an air admixture based only on the determination of the number of nuclei will be possible only in few special cases. As an example may be mentioned that with the contamination of the air due to tobacco smoke the number of nuclei represents a rough measure of the nicotine content and the number of nuclei together with the number of dust particles is a measure of the content of the tobaceo tars in the air.Based on personal investigations and on the results of measurements so far published highest averages of the nucleus and dust content of the air for various places are given. Thus, it will be possible for the health authorities by means of simple measurements of nuclei and dust concentration to check the prescribed purity of the air. A condition for this is the design of uniform measuring instruments which are very portable and simple to operate.

     

Zur Unterscheidung glazialer und Postglazialer Fliesserden

Zusammenfassung Abweichend von der vorherrschenden Auffassung einer ausschließlich periglazialen Entstehung der Fließerden in Mitteldeutschland wird festgestellt, daß im Holozän zwei verschiedenaltrige Fließerden aus Rötmergeln vorkommen. Da sich diese in der Substanz nicht von den glazialen Fließerden unterscheiden, ist es notwendig, zu ihrer Charakterisierung andere Kriterien, wie Struktur, Fließweite, Hanggefälle, Durchfeuchtung, Kleinmorphologie und Schichtfolge, heranzuziehen. Die Mergel des Röts neigen infolge ihrer Krümelstruktur bereits bei einer relativ mäßigen Durchfeuchtung zum Bodenfließen. Die Befunde werden hinsichtlich der klimatischen Bedeutung ausgewertet.     

AOX‐Bildung bei der sonolytischen Oxidation von Salicylsäure in Gegenwart von Chlorid

AOX‐formation by the Sonochemical Treatment of Salicylic Acid in Presence of Chloride Ultrasound shows great potential for improving water, wastewater and sludge treatment processes. However, a number of questions exist: for example the influence of suspended solids or salts. In this paper the influence of chloride in view of AOX‐formation should be investigated. As organic model compound salicylic acid (0.05…1 mmol/L) was used. Formation of AOX (adsorbable organically bound halogens) was measured in dependence upon chloride concentrations (1.4…141 mmol/L) and pH 2 and 9. Ultrasound irradiation was performed in glass reactor (500 mL) at 206 kHz and 353 kHz by continuous bubbling argon:oxgen (4:1) at a flow rate of 1 L/min into the solutions. The elimination of salicylic acid and the formation of hydrogen peroxide were not influenced by the presence of chloride (up to 56 mmol/L). The rate of salicylic acid elimination and the formation rate of hydrogen peroxide are at concentrations of mmol/(L min) levels but those of AOX formation of μmol/(L min) levels. The reactions leading to chlorinated by‐products can be seen as minor reaction paths. The yield of AOX depending on frequency, pH and chloride concentration lies between 10 μg/L and 900 μg/L. In acidic medium they were twice as high as in basic medium. Below the ratio chloride : salicylic acid of 2 mol/mol, AOX could not be identified.     

Arsenic fixation on iron-hydroxide-rich and plant litter-containing sediments in natural environments

Iron-hydroxide-rich and plant litter-containing sediments from natural sites contaminated with uranium mine tailing leachates were examined for their ability to adsorb arsenic. The samples with high contents of iron hydroxides (Fe_total concentration, >300 g kg⁻¹) exhibited remarkable fixation of arsenic (up to 40 g As kg⁻¹). This value corresponded approximately to the supersaturation point for natural iron hydroxides under the present conditions, and it was significantly lower than the value found for synthetic iron hydroxides. There was a strong correlation (R=0.8999) between the concentration of iron and that of arsenic at low arsenic contents, indicating adsorption on strong binding sites. Although all the samples had noticeable contents of organic carbon (plant litter), calcium, and manganese, no obvious effect of these elements on arsenic fixation could be detected. The amount of iron hydroxides was found the only fixation-controlling parameter immediately below a leaching water source.     

Advection and removal of Pb and stable Pb isotopes in the oceans: a general circulation model study

Natural Pb-isotope variability in the oceans encodes information about the sources of continental material to the oceans, about ocean circulation, and about Pb removal. In order to use this information, we must understand the natural cycle of Pb in the oceans, which is overprinted by large anthropogenic input. In this study we use ²¹⁰Pb, which has not been significantly anthropogenically perturbed, to investigate oceanic Pb. GEOSECS ²²⁶Ra and model-derived atmospheric fluxes of ²¹⁰Pb are used to input ²¹⁰Pb into an ocean general circulation model. Irreversible scavenging of this ²¹⁰Pb onto settling biogenic particles and at the seafloor are tuned so that the model replicates the observed pattern of ²¹⁰Pb in the oceans. The best-fit model run provides a map of the variability of residence time for Pb. The global average residence time of Pb in this model is 48 yr, but there is over an order of magnitude variation between areas of high and low productivity. This is expected to enhance provinciality of Pb isotope ratios in the oceans. Because stable Pb isotopes are expected to behave in seawater in a similar fashion to ²¹⁰Pb, the pattern of removal of ²¹⁰Pb derived by the model can be used to investigate the behavior of stable Pb isotopes. We use a simplified input of Pb consisting of five point sources representing major rivers and a disseminated dust input. Although this simplified input scheme does not allow precise reconstruction of Pb concentration and isotopes in the oceans, it allows us to answer some first-order questions about the behavior of Pb as an ocean tracer. With a total Pb input of 6.3 × 10⁷ mol/yr (Chow T. J. and Patterson C. C., “The occurrence and significance of Pb isotopes in pelagic sediments,” Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta26, 263-308, 1962), the model predicts natural seawater Pb concentrations averaging 2.2 pmol/kg. Even in the absence of anthropogenic input, the model ocean exhibits a near-surface maximum in Pb concentration. And the model suggests natural Pb concentrations in the Northern Hemisphere an order of magnitude higher than in the Southern Hemisphere. A point source of Pb is suggested to dominate the seawater Pb inventory close to the source but is reduced to typically less than 10% of the inventory by the time that Pb is advected out of the originating ocean. This length scale of advection for Pb isotope signals confirms their potential as tracers of ocean circulation. Assuming an 8% dissolution of dust, their input to the open ocean are seen to be a significant portion of Pb inventory throughout the oceans and make up >50% of the Pb inventory in the model’s Southern Ocean. Finally, a preliminary investigation of the response of Pb-isotope distributions to changes in boundary conditions between glacial and interglacial times illustrates that significant variation in the Pb isotopes are expected in some regions, even for reasonably small changes in climate conditions.