Environmental policy as a factor in a new security policy

Environmental policy is increasingly becoming an indispensable part of modern policy to maintain peace and security. After the end of the East-West conflict, a new cold war between North and South is looming on the horizon. It is caused by a steadily widening gap between the poverty of the South and the wealth of the North, which has been gained not least at the expense of the environment worldwide, and thus also of the South.There is a need for a parallel development between the disarmament process in the classical sense and a disarmament process in a material sense to promote an economic, social and ecological development which is consistent in itself and coordinated with regard to its effects.Appropriate instruments to achieve this, besides international conventions, include the opening up of markets, ecologically honest prices, technical cooperation and not least the enforcement of environmentally compatible and resource-saving forms of industry and ways of life in the industrialised countries.     

Computer-aided calibration and measurements with a quadruple hotwire probe

A method for calibration and measurement with a four-wire probe is described. For each of the wires a three dimensional calibration field is determined, thus no assumption like King's law or the cosine law need to be made. The velocity vector can then be detected in a fairly large angular range (± 40°) with a numerical search algorithm. First measurements in a free jet and a confined, strongly swirling flow are presented.A version of this paper was presented at the 11th Symposium on Turbulence, University of Missouri-Rolla, Oct. 17–19, 1988     

Geochemistry of acidic volcanic clasts in Silurian conglomerates of the Midland Valley of Scotland: Implications on the Caledonian orogeny

20 clasts of acidic volcanic rocks from Silurian conglomerates of the Midland Valley of Scotland are similar in their geochemical composition to rhyolithes, rhyodacites and dacites of recent island arcs and active continental margins. They differ from the geochemical composition of upper Ordovician peralkaline rhyolites of the Tweed Valley in the Southern Uplands (Scotland) because of their lower Zr, Nb, Ce and Y contents. It is argued that these volcanic clasts represent erosional remnants of an island arc or active continental margin which was situated in the Midland Valley during upper Ordovician or lower Silurian time. This has implications on palaeogeographic models which have been suggested for the Scottish Caledonides.

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Zusammenfassung 20 Gerölle saurer Vulkanite aus silurischen Konglomeraten des Midland Valley in Schottland haben in ihrer geochemischen Zusammensetzung Ähnlichkeiten mit Rhyolithen, Rhyodaziten und Daziten von rezenten Inselbögen und aktiven Kontinentalrändern. Sie unterscheiden sich durch niedrigere Gehalte an Zr, Nb, Ce und Y von oberordovizischen Peralkali-Rhyolithen des Tweed Valley in den Southern Uplands (Schottland). Es wird vermutet, daß die analysierten Gerolle Erosionsreste eines Inselbogens oder aktiven Kontinentalrandes darstellen, der zur Zeit des oberen Ordoviziums oder unteren Silurs im Raum des Midland Valley gelegen hat. Es ergeben sich daraus Folgerungen für paläogeographische Modelle, die für die schottischen Kaledoniden entwickelt worden sind.

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Résumé La présente note porte sur 20 galets de volcanites acides contenus dans des conglomérats siluriens du Midland Valley (Ecosse). Leurs compositions géochimiques sont analogues à celles de rhyolites, rhyo-dacites et dacites d'arcs insulaires et de marges continentales actives actuels. Leur faible teneur relative en Zr, Nb, Ce et Y les distinguent des rhyolites peralcalines d'âge ordovicien supérieur des Southern Uplands (Ecosse). Ces galets de volcanites sont interprétés comme des produits de l'érosion soit d'un arc insulaire, soit d'une marge active, situés à l'emplacement de l'actuelle Midland Valley au cours de l'Ordovicien supérieur ou du Silurien inférieur.Ceci entraîne certaines implications dans les modèles paléogéographiques qui ont été proposés pour les Calédonides d'Ecosse.

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Factors influencing the salinity regime of Lake Pontchartrain,Lousiana, a shallow coastal lagoon: Analysis of a long-term data set

Lake Pontchartrain., Louisiana is a 1,630 km² shallow brackish lagoon with a mean salinity from 1.2‰ in the west to 5.4‰ in the east., The construction of a 120 km long deep-water connection to the Gulf of Mexico in 1963, was expected to cause a 5‰ increase in lagoon salinity. However, the actual increase was everywhere in the lagoon less than 2‰ Analysis of 31 years of daily salinity and discharge records indicates that discharge is the most important factor controlling salinity variations in Lake Pontchartrain., Seventy-four percent of low-frequency salinity variations are explained by freshwater discharge and the completion of the deep-water canal. Lake Pont.-chartrain experiences annual variations of salinity as high as 8‰ This salinity signal has remained constant since the beginning of the salinity records in 1946. It appears that the deep-water canal is not responsible for observed die-back of freshwater swamps and retreat of lagoon shorelines.     

Significance of Europium anomalies in silicate melts and crystal-melt equilibria: a re-evaluation

Although europium speciation in silicate melts partly reflects prevailing oxygen fugacities, melt composition and structure play the major role in determining Eu²⁺/ Eu³⁺ ratios and europium partitioning into mineral phases. Experimental evidence by different investigators on the magnitude of the compositional effect on Eu²⁺/Eu³⁺ provides consistent results only if account is taken of the oxygen buffer system employed in the experiments. The medium-dependent reduction of europium can be understood in terms of the preferential stabilization of Eu²⁺ by a strong aluminosilicate complex in the melt phase, and to a much lesser degree by metasilicate complexes. The stability of these complexes increases as the field strength of the associated cation species decreases. Hence Eu²⁺-aluminosilicate complexes are preferentially stabilized relative to trivalent lanthanides in melts of appropriate composition and their presence minimizes the enthalpy of the melt. The influence of these complexes is particularly pronounced in melts with a high feldspathic component and a strongly polymerized structure. Their petrogenetic influence is best documented through the behaviour of europium relative to the other lanthanides during anhydrous anatexis in high-grade metamorphic terrains and in the anomalous europium partition coefficients of phenocryst phases which formed during the crystallization of highly silicic magmas.     

Volume relaxation of compacted SiO2 glass: a model for the conservation of natural diaplectic glasses

Relaxation experiments on vitreous SiO₂, densified at 900°C, 20 kbar to a permanent density of 2.36 g cm^?3 yield an activation energy of69 ± 5kcal mol^?1 in the temperature range 700–800°C. The data can be used to estimate minimum cooling rates, maximum depositional temperatures or maximum thicknesses of shock-metamorphosed rocks containing diaplectic glasses, if relaxation of a glass densified under dynamic conditions is assumed to be similar to that of statically densified glass.