Canonical orbital elements in terms of an arbitrary independent variable

Within the framework of the Hamiltonian mechanics in the extended phase space, a set of canonical elements of the Delaunay type is developed in terms of an arbitrary independent angular variable. Application to the four classical anomalies-eccentric, true, elliptic, and mean-is presented. Particular attention is given to the generalized time equation and its conjugate energy equation.     

Ultramafic rocks of the Widgiemooltha-Norseman area,Western Australia: Petrological diversity,geochemistry and mineralisation

Mineral exploration of the Widgiemooltha-Norseman region of Western Australia has located massive and disseminated nickel sulphide mineralisation.This paper discusses the geological setting of the nickel sulphide mineralisation with reference to the stratigraphy, structure and metamorphism of the ultramafic sequence and spatially associated rocks. The amphibolite facies metamorphosed ultramafic rocks of the Widgiemooltha area are compared with greenschist metamorphosed ultramafic rocks at Eundynie, which exhibit excellently preserved pseudomorphs of primary igneous textures.Some 2000 ultramafic rock samples were analysed for 13 element/oxides and divided into four major mineralogically and texturally distinct groups. The data were analysed statistically by determination of means and standard deviations and multiple regression analyses.The data suggest differentiation of a magma at depth followed by a vast outpouring of lava to produce picritic-peridotitic rocks. The flows crystallised with upper spinifex zones and lower euhedral-olivine zones in varying proportions dependent on magma composition. The development of spinifex texture is compositionally controlled. This texture is not developed in rocks with MgO contents greater than 26% (± 2%).The comparison of the ultramafics of the Widgiemooltha and Eundynie areas indicates that talc-carbonate formation and serpentinization have modified primary igneous textures and geochemistries, resulting in the production of a diverse group of rock types. Such post-magmatic alteration processes in association with structural elements are considered important in the upgrading of nickel sulphide mineralisation.     

美国Culberson重晶石-硫磺矿中流体包裹体的研究

Culberson自然硫-重晶石矿床位于美国德克萨斯州的Delaware油气盆地中,是北美最大的自然硫矿床。它产在晚二叠世Ochoan期的Castile组和Salado组的石灰宕夹薄层蒸发岩和有机质灰岩中,重晶石和自然硫是后生的,常交代这两个组地层中的蒸发岩和富含有机质的灰岩,并填充在古喀斯特中。流体包裹体的研究表明：有两个世代的包裹体,即成岩时和方解石后生加大和重晶石中捕获的石油包裹体和流体包裹体。按包裹体的成分和相态可分为一相液体包裹体、二相气液体包裹体和油气包裹体。研究表明,在方解石、重晶石和天青石的同一生长带中可见到含有不同气液比的流体包裹体、空的包裹体和油气包裹体,它们是在一个不混溶的环境中捕获的,因而其均一温度的测定并不可靠。流体包裹体的T_e在-18℃～-24℃之间,属于NaCl- H_2O体系,盐度为2%～10%。有许多油气包裹体,因而其成矿流体应是一个温度小于100℃的油田水．     

Growing mountain ranges and quenched river networks

River networks in mountain ranges owe their existence to the competing effects of tectonic uplift and climate-controlled erosion. However, paradoxically, the universal geometric properties of river networks are independent of both tectonics and climate. Currently, this paradox has still not been resolved. Here we propose a solution that consists in considering that the geometry of river networks is established on the lowland margins of incipient uplifts, and is quenched into the erosion zone as the mountain belts widen with time. In our model, the geometry of river networks simply reflects the downward coalescence of alluvial rivers on un-dissected surfaces outside of mountain belts, and is therefore independent of erosion processes. To cite this article: S. Castelltort, G. Simpson, C. R. Geoscience 338 (2006).     

Ontario’s Environmental Farm Plan: Evaluation and research agenda

This paper analyses the operation of the Environmental Farm Plan (EFP) scheme in Ontario, Canada, a voluntary agri-environment scheme established in 1993. Previously unpublished data and interviews with farmers, leaders of farmers’ organisations and government officials are used to detail participation rates, geographical spread and method of operation. Largely developed by farmers’ organisations, the scheme has focused on soil management, water quality and storage/disposal of agricultural wastes. The environmental actions associated with these activities are discussed, revealing both successes and limitations. Distinctions are drawn with agri-environmental schemes in the European Union, and a broader context for the EFP is provided with respect to the proposed post-productivist transition of agri-food systems and the need to examine the way these systems are regulated. A need for further systematic research is proposed, specifically with respect to barriers to participation, the voluntary nature of the scheme, financial incentives and the resultant environmental impacts.     

Deep-sea submersible survey in the Suruga, Sagami and Japan Trenches: preliminary results of the 1985 Kaiko cruise, Leg 2

Nine submersible dives were made in three trenches off central Japan, between 2990 and 5900 m of water depth. Our observations confirm the interpretation that Daiichi-Kashima Seamount is a Cretaceous guyot formed on the Pacific plate that has traveled into the Japan Trench. We also confirmed the previous interpretation of a large normal fault that splits the seamount in two halves, the lower one being now subducting beneath the Japan margin. Compressional deformation was identified within the lower part of the inner slope in front of the seamount. The pattern of deformation that affects Quaternary sediments is in agreement with the present kinematics of the convergence between the Pacific plate and Japan. Deep-water (5700 m) clam colonies are associated with advection of fluids, driven by the subduction-related overpressures. In the northern slope of the Boso Canyon, along the Sagami Trough system (Philippine Sea plate-Japan boundary), the deformation affecting a thick upper Miocene to lower Pliocene sequence indicates two directions of shortening: a N175°E direction which is consistent with the present relative motion along the Sagami Trough (N285–N300°E) and a N30°E direction which could be related to a more northerly direction of convergence that occured during the early Quaternary and earlier.     

Carbon in olivine single crystals analyzed by the 12C(d,p)13C method and by photoelectron spectroscopy

Carbon subsurface concentration profiles in olivine single crystals from San Carlos, Arizona, and the Sergebet Island. Red Sea, containing total carbon between 60–180 wt.-ppm, were analyzed by means of the ¹²C(d. p)¹³C nuclear reaction and by x-ray induced photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) in combination with acid etching and with Ar⁺ ion sputtering respectively, between 200–930 K. The (d, p) analysis reveals equilibrium subsurface C profiles extending 1–2 μm or more into the bulk. Their steepness is a function of temperature. Typical mean C concentrations at 300 K in the resolvable layers, 0–0.6, 0.6–1.2, and 1.2–1.8 μm. are 1.8, and 0.6 wt.-%, corresponding to enrichment factors over the mean bulk C concentration of the order of 100, 40 and 30 respectively. In the topmost atomic layers analyzed by XPS the carbon is enriched by a factor of the order of 1000, decreasing with increasing temperature. The results suggest that the carbon is in a truly dissolved state and highly mobile, subject to a reversible subsurface segregation. Most probably local lattice strain associated with the solute C species provide the driving force for this diffusional process. The C diffusion coefficient was determined from the (d, p) data below 300 K: D= 10^?13 exp(?7.8/RT) [m²· sec^?1; KJ · mole^?1] and from XPS data between 450–925 K: D = 10^?14 exp(-6/RT) [m² · sec^?1; KJ · mole^?1] The estimated error of the preexponential factors is ± one order of magnitude, that of the activation energies ±3.5 and ±2 KJ mole^?1 respectively.     

Tepee structures and associated diagenetic features in intertidal carbonate sands (lower Jurassic,Morocco)

In southeastern Morocco, Early Jurassic inter- to supratidal carbonates can be followed for 200–300 km along the southern slopes of the High Atlas mountains. These beds form intervals of several tens to more than one hundred metres.Tepee structures, which are common in these beds, are confined to coarse-grained, early lithified beaches. Comparison with similar features in the Recent, and analysis of the diagenetic history of the sheetcrack-fills suggests that the formation of the tepees is an early, almost synsedimentary event.     

Analcimic zones in the tertiary of anatolia and their geological positions

The Anatolian Tertiary and especially the Neogene have some geological series with analcime as the principal rock-forming mineral. Sedimentation basins receiving material in suspension and in solution permit the authigenesis of analcime dolomite, calcite and opal(C-T). Analcimes formed by hydrothermal alteration on the ocean floor, after the pillow lava and diabasic dyke complexes of ophiolites, can form a source of detrital analcime when they are on the continental medium. Continental alteration of the pillow lavas and diabasic dykes permits the formation of solutions suitable in composition for analcime authigenesis. Analcimes formed in these environments are particularly related to the silica content of these media.Principal clay minerals formed with analcimic formations are smectites and (14_s—14_c) mixed layers. Illite, chlorite and corrensite are also present in smaller quantities.