Zur permischen Vereisung der Salt Range (W.-Pakistan)

Zusammenfassung Die unterpermischen Geröll-Packungen der östlichen Salt Range führen fazettierte und geschrammte Geschiebe unzweifelhaft glazialer Entstehung, die zusammen mit anderen Hinweisen eine Deutung der Boulder Beds als fluviatile Konglomerate (nachLotze) nicht überzeugend erscheinen lassen. Die ausgezeichnete Erhaltung der Schrammung schließt zum mindesten einen längeren Flußtransport aus. Das vereiste Gebiet muß sich daher in der Salt Range selbst oder in seiner unmittelbaren Nachbarschaft befunden haben.

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The Lower Permian boulder beds of the eastern Salt Range contain facetted and scratched boulders of unquestionably glacial origin. Their excellent preservation seems to tell in favour of a glacial tillite rather than of a fluviatile conglomerate, as supposed by F.Lotze. At least a fluvial transport of the glacial boulders over a longer distance is to be excluded. The Salt Range itself or its immediate surroundings must have been covered by the Permian glaciers.

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Résumé Les boulder beds du Permien inférieur de la Salt Range orientale contiennent des galets nettement facettés et striés d'origine glaciale. Leur préservation excellente exclut un long transport fluviatile. Par conséquent la Salt Range elle-même ou ses environs immédiats doivent avoir été couverts de glaciers permiens.

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Die vorstehenden Zeilen sind nicht als Selbstverteidigung, sondern in dem Wunsche geschrieben, den von Tübingen ausgegangenen Arbeiten E.Kokens und denen F.Noetlings, der in seinen späteren Jahren gleichfalls in Tübingen wirkte, zur Anerkennung zu verhelfen. Herrn Koll. G.Einsele danke ich verbindlichst für die Durchmusterung der von den abgebildeten Geschieben angefertigten Dünnschliffe. Unsere Bild-Erläuterungen beruhen auf seinen Bestimmungen.     

Compositions,sources and depositional environments of organic matter from the Middle Jurassic clays of Poland

The comprehensive biomarker characteristics from previously undescribed Middle Jurassic clays of Poland are presented. The molecular composition of the organic matter (OM) derived from clays of Aalenian to Callovian age has not changed significantly through time. High relative concentrations of many biomarkers typical for terrestrial material suggest a distinct dominance of OM derived from land plants. Increasing concentrations of C₂₉-diaster-13(17)-enes towards the northern part of the basin indicate an increase in terrestrial input. This terrestrial material would have originated from the enhanced transport of organic matter from land situated at the northern bank of the basin, i.e., the Fennoscandian Shield. The organic matter was deposited in an oxic to suboxic environment, as indicated by relatively low concentrations of C₃₃–C₃₅ homohopanes, moderate to high Pr/Ph ratio values, an absence of compounds characteristic for anoxia and water column stratification, such as isorenieratane, aryl isoprenoids and gammacerane, as well as common benthic fauna and burrows. δ¹⁸O measurements from calcitic rostra of belemnites suggest that the mean value of the Middle Jurassic sea-water temperature of the Polish Basin was 13.1 °C. It is suggested that this mirrored the temperature of the lower water column because belemnites are considered here to be necto-benthic. The organic matter from the Middle Jurassic basin of Poland is immature. This is clearly indicated by a large concentration of biomarkers with the biogenic configurations, such as ββ-hopanes, hop-13(18)-enes, hop-17(21)-enes, diasterenes and sterenes. The identification of preserved, unaltered biomolecules like ferruginol, 6,7-dehydroferruginol and sugiol in Protopodocarpoxylon wood samples from these sediments present particularly strong evidence for the presence of immature OM in the Middle Jurassic sediments. Moreover, the occurrence of these polar diterpenoids is important due to the fact that they are definitely the oldest known natural products detected in geological samples.     

The isotopic composition of carbon in the Alberta oil sand

The carbon isotopic ratios obtained from Athabasca bitumen, asphaltene and maltene have the same value $\text{δ}{}^{13}\text{C}\text{= ?29.6}\text{per ml}$. The corresponding values in the Cold Lake deposits are ?30.6, ?30.0 and ?31.6 per ml. The ratios determined for methane collected from the oil sand and its fractions are about 15 per ml lower than the above values. It appears that the Athabasca and Cold Lake Reservoirs have similar histories.     

Risø 1978: Further investigations into the effects of local terrain irregularities on tower-measured wind profiles

Observations of flow over complex terrain taken at Risø during June–July 1978 and numerical studies confirm earlier findings that small variations in surface elevation have significant effects on mean wind profiles. Measured shear stresses in the nonequilibrium region of the flow are consistent with theory but quite different from those obtained assuming simple flux-profile relationships. These findings imply that flux-profile relationships can be quite complicated over other than simple homogeneous terrain.