Synthesis and stability of bastnaesites in a part of the system (Ce,La)-F-H-C-O

Summary Bastnaesites of Ce and La and their OH-analogs were synthesized and their stability relations were determined atPf = 1 kbar andT = 400 to 900°C in a part of the system (Ce,La)-F-H-C-0. The initial fluid compositions were such that and HF/(HF + H₂O) ratios were 0 to 0.172. XRD and IR studies indicate that bastnaesites equilibrated in initial fluids low in HF are all F-enriched. The hydroxylbastnaesite-(La) is stable up to 810°C and the fluorbastnaesite-(La) is stable up to 860°C. Their condensed breakdown products are La₂O₂CO₃ and LaOF, respectively. The stability of Ce bastnaesites is slightly dependent. The hydroxylbastnaesite-(Ce) is stable up to 660°C at the defined by the IQF buffer and up to 640°C by the MH buffer. The fluorbastnaesite-(Ce) is stable up to 800°C at the defined by the IQF and up to 760°C by the MH buffer. The condensed breakdown product for the hydroxyl end-member is simply CeO₂ but for the fluorine one is a combination of CeO₂, CeF₃, and CeOF. Factors, such as OH vs F, , and bulk composition, that affect the stability of individual species are discussed. Petrogenic implications resulting from the present study include that bastnaesites can be stable from hydrothermal to magmatic conditions, that F-enriched species can form in an environment relatively low in F content, and that OH-species are rare and occur only in low-temperature environments essentially devoid of F.

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Synthese und Stabilität von Bastndsil in einem Teil des Systems (Ce,La)-F-H-C-O

Zusammenfassung Ce- und La-Bastnäsite, sowie deren OH-Analoga wurden synthetisiert und ihre Stabilitätsbeziehunger beiP _f = 1 kbar undT = 400 bis 900°C wurden im System (Ce,La)F-H-C-O bestimmt. Die anfänglichen Flüssigkeitszusammensetzungen waren so, daß und die HF/(HF + H₂O)-Verhältnisse 0–0.172 waren. Röntgenpulver- und Ultrarot-Untersuchungen zeigten, daß Bastnäsite, die mit anfänglich HF-armen Flüssigkeiten equilibriert wurden, alle an F angereichert sind. Hydroxilbastndsit-(La) ist bis 810°C und Fluorbastnäsit-(La) bis 860°C stabil. Ihre festen Zersetzungsprodukte sind La₂O₂O₃, bzw. LaOF. Die Stabilität der Ce-Bastnäsite hängt etwas von ab. Hydroxilbastnäsit-(Ce) ist bei des Eisen-Quarz-Fayalit-Puffers bis 660°C stabil und mit Magnetit-Hämatit-Puffer bis 640°C. Das feste Zerfallsprodukt ist für das Hydroxil-Glied nur CeO₂, für das Fluor-Glied eine Mischung aus CeO₂, CeF₃ und CeOF. Faktoren, welche die Stabilität der einzelnen Spezies beeinflussen, werden diskutiert, wie das Verhältnis OH zu F, und die Gesamtzusammensetzung. Petrogenetische Folgerungen aus der vorliegenden Studie schließen ein, daß Bastnäsite von hydrothermalen bis zu magmatischen Bedingungen stabil sein können, daß sich an F angereicherte Glieder in relativ F-armer Umgebung bilden können, und daß OH-Glieder selten sind und nur unter Bildungsbedingungen niedriger Temperatur und weitgehender Abwesenheit von F auftreten.

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Die Entstehung einiger tektonischer Grundbegriffe. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Geologie

Zusammenfassung Die ersten tektonischen Vorstellungen legte 1669Nic. Steno in seinem Prodromus nieder. Seine Beobachtungen an horizontalen und geneigten Schichten führten später zu dem Begriffe der orogenetischen Diskordanzen. L.Élie de Beaumont ist sein direkter Nachfolger geworden, während J.Hutton ganz unabhängig von beiden den Diskordanzbegriff entwickelte. Die neptunistische Lehre von A. G.Werner ging von einem primären, von Wasserfluten geschaffenen Relief der Erdoberfläche aus, das überschichtet wurde. Doch auchWerner dachte daneben ebenfalls an große Höhlen, deren Decken einbrechen würden. Die neptunistischen Schwierigkeiten ergaben sich aus der Unmöglichkeit einer vertikalen Sedimentation von primär senkrecht gestellten Schichten. Die Anfänge der Erforschung der Tektonik des Rheingrabens werden dargelegt, und es wird besonders gezeigt, daßÉlie de Beaumont, der 1836 von einem eingebrochenen Gewölbe sprach, schon vorher Kenntnis eines eingebrochenen Gewölbes von Island und eines Schichtgewölbes von Württemberg über Schwarz wald — Vogesen nach Lothringen hatte. Die Zeit des Einbruches legteÉ. de Beaumont irrtümlich in die Zeit des Buntsandsteins.Theorien der Gebirgsbildung wurden mit L. v.Buch's Erhebungstheorie und geognostischen Gebirgssystemen um zwei weitere Ideen 1824–1835 erweitert.Élie de Beaumont baute diese Theorie sehr aus und sprach von Revolutionen der Erdkruste (1829). Die Faltengebirge fanden in J.Thurmann (1832) ihren ersten gründlichen Bearbeiter, der am Beispiel des Faltenjuras nachwies, daß doch nur Horizontalkräfte am Werke gewesen sein können und die Erhebungstheorie L. v.Buch's für diese Gebirgsarten keine Erklärung bringe. Zum Schlusse wird die Geschichte des Geologenkompasses gebracht.

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Nic. Steno was the first who developed tectonic ideas in his Prodromus in 1669. His observations in the surroundings of Firenze (Italy) led him to the notion what nowadays is called a discordance by orogeny. He was followed by the French L.Élie de Beaumont, while the Scotchman J.Hutton developed this term of tectonic discordance quite independently of both.The neptunic theory of A. G.Werner in Freiberg (Saxony) started from the idea that the primary relief of the surface of the earth was formed by floods and covered with sediments. Furtheron he assumed large caves, the tops of them having broken down, explaining in this manner very inclined strata. The difficulties in this neptunic theory resulted from the fact that it was impossible to account for a sedimentation in a vertical line as seen in vertical layers.The author gives a survey of the first researches in the tectonics of the Rhinegraben and shows thatÉlie de Beaumont, who in 1836 mentioned the breakdown of the central ridge of a vault, so forming the rift-valley, had already some information of such a pressure arch in Iceland and of a second one stretching from Würtemberg via Black Forest—Vosges to Lorraine.Élie de Beaumont misdated the collapse of this large vault, stating erroneously the time of Buntsandstein (=New Red Sandstone).Between 1824 and 1835 L. v.Buch developed two further theories on orogenesis, that of the elevation-crater hypothesis and that of the geognostic systems of mountains. É.de Beaumont completedBuch's theory and in 1829 he spoke of revolutions of the earth's crust.The first who thoroughly researched the Swiss Jura was J.Thurmann. Quoting the folded strata of this region as an example he proved that only horizontal stresses could have been responsible for the formation of these mountains and that the elevation-crater hypothesis of L. v.Buch acting only with vertical forces could not give any explanation for it.Finally the author recapitulates the history of the geologist's compass.

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Résumé Les premières conceptions tectoniques ont été exposées en 1669 par N.Steno dans son « Prodrome ». Ses observations sur des strates horizontales ou inclinées ont conduit ultérieurement à la notion de discordances orogéniques. L.Élie de Beaumont fut son successeur direct, cependant que J.Hutton, tout à fait indépendamment des deux premiers développa la notion de discordance. La théorie neptuniste de A. G.Werner se basait sur l'existence préalable d'un relief terrestre créé par les flots et qui aurait été noyé sous les strates des dépôts ultérieurs. Pourtant, dans un autre ordre d'idées,Werner pensait aussi à l'existence d'immenses grottes dont les toits s'effondreraient. Les neptunistes éprouvèrent des difficultés résultant de l'impossibilité d'expliquer des couches redressées par une sédimentation verticale. L'auteur expose les débuts des recherches sur la tectonique du fossé rhénan et montre en particulier qu'Élie de Beaumont, qui parla en 1836 d'une voûte effondrée avait déjà auparavant eu connaissance d'une voûte effondrée en Islande et d'une voûter structurale allant du Wurttemberg en Lorraine par-dessus la Forêt-Noire et les Vosges. Par erreur,É de Beaumont plaça le moment de cet effondrement à l'époque du grès bigarré.Avec la théorie des soulèvements et des orogènes géognostiques L. v.Buch enrichit de 1824–1835 les théories orogéniques de deux concepts supplémentaires.Élie de Beaumont les développa et parla de révolution de la croûte terrestre (1829). Les premières recherches approfondies sur les chaînes plissées sont dues à J.Thurmann (1832) qui, d'après l'exemple du Jura plissé, démontra que seules des forces horizontales ont pu avoir été à l'oeuvre et que la théorie des soulèvements de L.von Buch n'apportait pas d'explication pour les chaînes de ce type.Pour terminer, l'auteur expose l'histoire de la boussole du géologue.

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Contamination des sédiments superficiels des principales rivières du Canton de Genève par les Polychlorobiphényles et DDT

The concentrations of PCBs and DDT at the surface of sediments of rivers in the Canton of Geneva were examined. Concentration variations observed along the rivers are discussed. In the case of the Rhône River, recent pollution at the surface of sediments is compared with that of aged underlying layers.     

Mountain hazards

The review examines mountain land risks, especially those that involve sudden, more or less localized bouts of damage and disasters. Geographers' studies to date have mainly dealt with natural hazards, emphasizing those like avalanches, large landslides or natural dams that are uniquely associated with mountain environments. Such work is briefly reviewed. Earthquake risks are then singled out to help define and discuss problems faced by this work. They are shown to depend strongly upon aspects of mountain environments other than seismicity. Human vulnerability appears to be mainly dependent upon socioeconomic and habitat conditions which, although they determine seismic impacts, may and usually do develop independent of it. Moreover, these ingredients of risk are most closely associated with, or definitive of, the mountain people and areas. They are most strongly influenced by human agency, both in deciding who and what are exposed to risk, and in actually increasing or decreasing unfavorable responses to earthquakes. Recent earthquake disasters in the mountains also record how rapid changes in these social and habitat conditions, rather than seismicity, are increasing the scale and altering the forms of damage. These changes in turn, however, are largely dependent upon developments, initiatives and penetration from outside the mountains, and responses of mountain people more or less enforced by them. The importance of so-called highland-lowland interactions, is even more obvious in the most destructive of human hazards discussed, those of war and other armed violence. Mountain lands and peoples are shown to have been subject to recurrent warring, and a disproportionate share of the deployment of state violence in this century. Most of the casualties are resident civilians. They have been usually threatened by other uses of armed violence, including insurgency and counter-insurgency warfare and genocidal actions by state forces. Refugees and expellees from war zones have included great numbers of mountain folk. Another fast growing hazard of the late twentieth century, not unrelated to war and militarism, the international trafficking in and addiction plagues of hard drugs, has a unique relation to mountains. The South American growers of the coca leaf, and Southwest and Southeast Asian growers of the opium poppy are mountain farmers. Their participation is bringing a range of severe risks to their high valleys, as well as benefits. Finally the paper addresses the conceptual problems brought about by the compounding of determinist assumptions in both mountain land and hazards research. These include not only environmental determinist notions, or related Neo-Malthusian and Social Darwinist ideas, but the various historicist ones of assumed technological, economic and political stages of development. It is argued that such social constructions of the problem of hazards and disaster are dubious, and have become a major impediment to understanding and risk mitigation. Alternative frameworks require more attention to the regional, state, and global patterns of influence shaping risk in mountain lands, but also to the human ecology of mountain societies taking account of matters to which the expediences of technocratic expertise have made us blind.     

Flüssige Phasen im migmatitisehen Lauterbrunner-Kristallin (Aarmassiv,Alpen)

During boudinage of competent, amphibolitic layers in the Lauterbrunner Crystalline Complex a pegmatitic liquid phase filled the cross-fractures and other areas of reduced pressure (“hetero-kinetic” spaces according toSander, 1950, p. 306) between the boudins. The mobile components were derived from the adjacent incompetent rocks as well as the apatite rich boudins. The habit of the stubby apatite within the amphibolitic boudins is markedly different from the slender apatite needles which grew in the pegmatitic liquid between the boudins. Various authors, on the basis of microscopic observations and experimental work, propose that acicular apatite crystals cannot be used as a criterion for crystallization from a high temperature magmatic phase. Investigations in the Lauterbrunner Crystalline Complex suggest that acicular apatites have grown in a low temperature liquid phase.