Noble gas components in clasts and separates of the Abee meteorite

The noble gas components and their distributions were studied in a variety of clasts and in separated phases of clast 2,2 using a detailed stepwise release program. The results show the presence of two distinct trapped components: one appears to be similar to Kenna-type gas [28], the other is characterized by element ratios³⁶Ar/⁸⁴Kr < 370 and³⁶Ar/¹³²Xe ≥ 900 and is termed Ar-rich component. Silicate phases are identified as carriers of both components; but since they are differentially released, the results imply that multiple carrier phases are required. Unlike results from other meteorites, HF attack removes all but 15% of the xenon. Substantial amounts of trapped and, in many cases, unfractionated air were observed, apparently in reaction products of reduced and easily oxidized minerals. The¹²⁹Xe_r release systematics imply the presence of two distinct carriers of extinct¹²⁹I and suggest lithophilic behavior of I in Abee. The U/Th-⁴He and K-⁴⁰Ar data are consistent with a 4.5 Gy age. Amounts of spallogenic He, Ne and Ar yield a cosmic ray exposure age of 8 My. We compare the Ar-rich component to noble gas abundances in planetary atmospheres and we discuss a suggested model of origin.     

Bioindikation zur Verminderung von Stickstoffdüngerverlusten und der Stickstoffbelastung von Gewässern

Prerequisite to the nitrogen leaching from agricultural soils in spring is the ecologically optimum control of the first nitrogen fertilizer application. On the basis of investigations having been carried out for some years, a method for determining the optimum time of fertilization with the aid of phenological data is presented. The blossoming data of Anemone nemorosa proved to be a suitable sensitive indicator, their onset of blossoming is the optimum time for the first nitrogen application. In dependence on the height and variation of weather, in the subdued mountains this time is 90 … 116 d after the beginning of the year and corresponds to a temperaturetotal ≥ 5°C of 80 … 120°C or > 0°C: 160 … 230°C. Possibly, the leaf development of Alchemilla vulgaris or the first development of Poa pratensis are suitable as other bioindicators. The boundary conditions and disturbance variables of the bioindication are discussed. By the phenological date-determination of the beginning of fertilization the nitrogen losses can be reduced by 10 … 20% and the nitrate leaching can be considerably reduced especially in drinking-water protection areas.     

Über die Natur des Sedimentgleichgewichtes im Litoral

Zusammenfassung Unter Beachtung der Fortschritte der modernen Brandungsforschung sowie neuerer Beobachtungsergebnisse im Litoral erscheint die vonCornaglia entwickelte Theorie der neutralen Linie, die das einzelne Sedimentkorn isoliert in Ansatz brachte, unhaltbar. An ihre Stelle tritt die den tatsächlichen Verhältnissen besser Rechnung tragende Theorie des «Massenmomentes» der brandenden Wellen, die nicht mehr das einzelne Korn, sondern die gesamte unter der Einwirkung der Oszillation entstehende Suspensionswolke betrachtet. Die Vorteile dieser neuen Betrachtungsweise werden kurz skizziert und an Hand einiger Beispiele näher erläutert.

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Summary With respect to the attainments of the modern surf phenomena research and based on new results of observations in the littoral zone the theory of the neutral line, developed byCornaglia, which looked upon the wave-moved grain as an isolated individual, is no longer useful. In its place the better theory of the surging wave's «momentum of mass» is set, which considers the whole cloud of material whirled up by the oscillatory undulation near the bottom. The advantages of this new consideration are shortly sketched and particularly illustrated by means of some examples.

     

Die Temperatur in Grönlandischen Inlandeis

Zusammenfassung Auf Grund der Temperaturmessungen in Schächten 1930/31 und Bohrungen 1948/1951, die berichtigt wurden, wird die wahrscheinlichste Temperaturverteilung in Inlandeis gewonnen.

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Summary The measurements of temperature in holes 1930/1931 and the (corrected) measurements of the temperature in drilled holes 1948/1951 are used, to construct the distribution of the temperature in the inlandice of Greenland.

     

Die östliche Fortsetzung des Kaukasus

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The metamorphic evolution of garnet-cordierite-sillimanite-gneisses of the Gruf-Complex,Eastern Pennine Alps

Metapelitic gneisses occuring as lenses and bands within the migmatites of the Gruf-Complex in the eastern Pennine Alps contain various combinations of the minerals quartz, biotite, cordierite, garnet, sillimanite, plagioclase. K-feldspar, spinel, orthopyroxene, anthophyllite and muscovite. The most common rock type is represented by a darkschistosebiotiterichcordierite-garnet-sillimanite-gneiss. A consistent pressure-temperature range of 3–4 kb and 600–650° C has been calculated for the last metamorphic equilibration from six geological thermobarometers. However, from textural evidence it may be concluded that the rocks were at both higher temperatures and pressures prior to the PT-conditions calculated from thermobarometry. Although the maximum conditions reached are unknown and earlier stages are poorly preserved it is suggested that they coincide with the maximum conditions deduced from rare occurrences of sapphirine granulite in the Gruf-Complex. These are 10 kb and 800° C (Droop and Bucher 1983). Sillimanite+K-feldspar, orthopyroxene+quartz, spinel+quartz and garnet-K-feldspar persisting in rocks with low activity of H₂O are strong evidence for this. The H₂O required to make the observed high degree of equilibration at 3–4 kb and 600–650° C possible was presumably released by crystallizing migmatitic melts present in the quartzo-feldspathic gneisses of the Gruf-Complex. Further evidence comes from the PT-coordinates of the H₂O-saturated muscovite granite solidus which coincides with the high temperature limits of inferred equilibration above and which the rocks must have crossed along the decompression and cooling path during their metamorphic evolution.