Lower cretaceous basalt and sediments from the Kerguelen Plateau

Geological samples from the southern Kerguelen Plateau include Lower Cretaceous basalt and lava breccia, probable Lower Cretaceous conglomerate and shelf limestone, Upper Cretaceous chert with dolomite, Upper Cretaceous-Eocene ooze, and Tertiary conglomerate. Neogene sediments are only a few hundred m thick, and include foraminiferal and diatomaceous ooze, and ice-rafted debris. In conjunction with seismic reflection profiles, the samples indicate Early Cretaceous near-shore volcanism, followed by erosion, sedimentation, and subsidence through Cretaceous; arching of the plateau at the end of Cretaceous; subsidence through Paleogene; widespread emergence in mid-Tertiary; and slow subsidence through Neogene.     

Le principe d'extremum et la stabilité de certains états de mouvement de l'air atmosphérique

Résumé Une particule qui ne subit que des transformations adiabatiques, occupe sa position d'équilibre au sein d'une masse d'air en équilibre hydrostatique, lorsque la sommeS de son enthalpie spécifique et de son énergie potentielle par unité de masse est extremum. Suivant que cet extremum est un minimum ou un maximum, l'état d'équilibre hydrostatique est stable ou instable. On peut généraliser cette proposition au cas de l'état de mouvement géostrophique, à condition d'ajouter, à la sommeS, l'énergie cinétique longitudinale, par unité de masse, de la particule. On peut étendre immédiatement ce dernier résultat au cas du tourbillon circulaire permanent.

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Summary A particle of air which undergoes but adiabatic changes of state occupies its position of equilibrium inside a mass of air in hydrostatic equilibrium if the sumS of its specific enthalpy and of its potential energy per unit of mass assumes an extreme value. According as this extreme is a minimum or a maximum the state of hydrostatic equilibrium is stable or unstable. This postulate can be generalized in case of geostrophic state of motion on condition that the kinetic longitudinal energy of the particle per unit of mass is added to the sumS. This last result can be immediately extended on the case of a permanent circular vortex.

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Zusammenfassung Ein Luftpartikelchen, das ausschließlich adiabatischen Zustandsänderungen unterliegt, nimmt seine Gleichgewichtslage im Innern einer im hydrostatischen Gleichgewicht befindlichen Luftmasse ein, wenn die SummeS seiner spezifischen Enthalpie und seiner potentiellen Energie in der Masseneinheit ein Extrem wird; je nachdem dieses Extrem ein Minimum oder ein Maximum ist, ist das hydrostatische Gleichgewicht stabil oder instabil. Diese Forderung läßt sich für den Fall der geostrophischen Bewegung verallgemeinern, indem man zur SummeS die kinetische Longitudinalenergie der Partikel (je Maßeinheit) addiert. Dieses letztere Resultat läßt sich unmittelbar auf den Fall des permanenten Kreiswirbels ausdehnen.

     

科克苏-穹库什太古生代构造-岩浆作用及其对西南天山造山时代的约束

天山造山带是古生代多期碰撞增生作用的产物,其确切的造山时代是当前争议较多的热点问题。分布在西南天山的科克苏-穹库什太剖面经历了复杂的构造变形,最明显的两期变形事件分别为朝北的推覆作用和 NE-SW 韧性走滑作用。本剖面可分为伊犁岩浆岛弧、伊犁结晶基底、高压变质杂岩三个岩石-构造单元。野外可见黑云母花岗闪长岩侵入到绿片岩相变质岩中,岩脉切穿绿片岩中面理构造。通过锆石 U-Pb LA-ICPMS 测年,科克苏剖面钾长花岗岩的年龄为341±6Ma 和338±8Ma,穹库什太黑云母花岗闪长岩的年龄为313±4Ma。其中,花岗闪长岩发生了黑云母定向排列,通过对黑云母进行~(40)Ar/~(39)Ar 测年,获得坪年龄为263.4±0.6Ma,表明该花岗闪长岩受过后期热事件的干扰。地球化学分析表明,黑云母花岗闪长岩属于钙碱性系列,Nb 和 Ta 含量低而 Rb,Ba 和 Th 含量很高,与俯冲作用有关的岛弧岩浆岩地球化学组成非常相似。结合前人对该地区高压变质岩、花岗岩和火山岩的研究成果,本文提出,西南天山俯冲-碰撞造山作用发生在晚石炭世之前,研究区后碰撞区域走滑作用标志着西南天山碰撞造山作用在二叠纪之前全部结束。     

The SEEK filter method for data assimilation in oceanography: a synthesis

This paper reviews the developments of the singular evolutive extended Kalman (SEEK) filter method used for data assimilation in oceanography, since the original paper by Pham et al. (J Mar Syst 16:3–4, 323–340 1998a). First, a short review is presented of the context of data assimilation in oceanography and of the variety of numerical ocean codes and configurations in which the SEEK filter has been implemented using different data sets for assimilation. Then, the paper provides an exposition of the different versions of the SEEK filter developed during the past 10 years and discusses their relative merits for scientific or operational implementations. A classification of the algorithmic variants is proposed, and several possible improvements of the generic methodology are mentioned in the perspective of new assimilation challenges.     

The Bolcana Cu–Au ore deposit (Metaliferi Mountains,Romania): first data on the alteration and related mineralisation

The Bolcana ore deposit (Metaliferi Mountains, western Romania) is a porphyry ore deposit with associated epithermal veins. On the basis of different parageneses, four alteration types were distinguished: potassic, phyllic, argillic and propylitic. The mineralogical and geochemical data and estimated crystallisation temperatures of alteration minerals indicate an evolution of the system from an early period of porphyry type mineralisation (Cu+Au) to a late period of low-sulphidation epithermal mineralisation (Au+base metal). To cite this article: V. Milu et al., C. R. Geoscience 335 (2003).     

Characterization and correlation of Upper Jurassic (Oxfordian) bentonite deposits in the Paris Basin and the Subalpine Basin, France

Abstract Explosive volcanic activity is recorded in the Upper Jurassic of the Paris Basin and the Subalpine Basin of France by the identification of five bentonite horizons. These layers occur in Lower Oxfordian (cordatum ammonite zone) to Middle Oxfordian (plicatilis zone) clays and silty clays deposited in outer platform environments. In the Paris Basin, a thick bentonite (10–15 cm), identified in boreholes and in outcrop, is dominated by dioctahedral smectite (95%) with trace amounts of kaolinite, illite and chlorite. In contrast, five bentonites identified in the Subalpine Basin, where burial diagenesis and fluid circulation were more important, are composed of a mixture of kaolinite and regular or random illite/smectite mixed-layer clays in variable proportions, indicating a K-bentonite. In the Subalpine Basin, a 2–15 cm thick bentonite underlain by a layer affected by sulphate–carbonate mineralization can be correlated over 2000 km². Euhedral zircon, apatite and biotite crystals have been identified in all the bentonites. The geochemical composition of the bentonites in both basins is characterized by high concentrations of Hf, Nb, Pb, Ta, Th, Ti, U, Y, Zr and low concentrations of Cr, Cs and Rb. Biostratigraphical and geochemical data suggest that the thick bentonite in the Paris Basin correlates with the thickest bentonite in the Subalpine Basin, located 400 km to the south. These horizons indicate that significant explosive volcanic events occurred during the Middle Oxfordian and provide potential long-distance isochronous marker beds. Immobile element discrimination diagrams and rare-earth element characteristics indicate that the original ash compositions of the thickest bentonites correspond to a trachyandesitic source from a within-plate alkaline series that was probably related to North Atlantic rifting.