Some comments about stratiform tin deposits in the Stara Kamienica Chain (southwestern Poland)

The origin of the stratiform tin deposits in the schist belt of the Stara Kamienica Chain, southwestern Poland, is re-examined based upon new data which has become available. It is the author's opinion that no genetic implications should be attached to the stratiform character of the deposits. Hydrothermal metasomatism associated with acid intrusives of the Variscan Karkonosze massif introduced mineralizing fluids along tectonic lineaments.     

Nickel und Kobalt in Gesteinen des Nördlinger Ries

Zusammenfassung Von Glasbomben aus dem Suevit und kristallinen Gesteinen verschiedener Auswurfbreccien des Rieskraters wurden die Nickel- und Kobaltgehalte bestimmt. Die Gläser enthalten 10,0–51,5 ppm Ni (Mittel von 70 Analysen: 30,1 ppmNi) und 4,8–15,8 ppm Co (Mittel von 50 Analysen: 12,1 ppm Co). Die höchsten Nickel- und Kobaltgehalte finden sich in den nicht rekristallisierten und chemisch unveränderten Bomben des Typ I. Die kristallinen Gesteine des Grundgebirges enthalten 2,5–140 ppm Ni (22 Analysen) und 2,2–29,8 ppm Co (22 Analysen).Die Kobaltgehalte der nicht rekristallisierten Gläser sind ziemlich einheitlich (10,7–15,8 ppm) und ebenso hoch wie diejenigen der kristallinen Gesteine ähnlicher Gehalte an MgO, MgO+FeO+Fe₂O₃ und SiO₂. Die Nickelgehalte der nicht rekristallisierten Gläser dagegen streuen inhomogen über einen größeren Bereich (30,0–51,5 ppm). Sie sind im Mittel höher als die der kristallinen Gesteine mit ähnlichen Gehalten an MgO, MgO+FeO+Fe₂O₃ und SiO₂. Der maximale Unterschied beträgt 25 ppm Ni.

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Ni and Co in rocks from the Nördlinger Ries

Ni and Co have been determined in glass bombs from the suevite and crystalline rocks from different breccia outcrops in the Ries crater. The glasses contain 10.0–51.5 ppm Ni (average of 70 analyses: 30.1 ppm Ni) and 4.8–15.8 ppm Co (average of 50 analyses: 12.1 ppm Co). Highest contents of Ni and Co are to be found in non-recrystallized and chemically unchanged bombs of type I. Crystalline rocks from the basement contain 2.5–140 ppm Ni (22 analyses) and 2.2–29.8 ppm Co (22 analyses).The Co-contents of non-recrystallized glasses are rather uniform (10.7–15.8 ppm) and as high as those of crystalline rocks of similar content of MgO, MgO+FeO+Fe₂O₃ and SiO₂. The Ni-contents of non-recrystallized glasses are inhomogeneously scattered over a larger range (30.0–51.5 ppm). On the average, they are higher than those of crystalline rocks with similar contents of MgO, MgO+FeO+Fe₂O₃ and SiO₂. The maximum difference is 25 ppm Ni.

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Herr Prof. W. von Engelhardt veranlaßte die Bearbeitung dieses interessanten Themas und nahm am Fortgang der Untersuchungen regen Anteil. Herr Dr. D. Stöffler stellte freundlicherweise Probenmaterial zur Verfügung und Herr Dr. H. Puchelt war mir bei analytischen Fragen behilflich. Ihnen allen danke ich für die Förderung dieser Arbeit.     

Irregularpi2 pulsations resolved into a superposition of sinusoidal oscillations

Zusammenfassung Als Grundlage der Arbeit dient das Verfahren, dem zufolge man eine unregelmässige Schwingung auf die Summe der Sinusschwingungen überführen kann. Man geht dabei vom Komplexspektrum der gegebenen Schwingung aus, von dem Spektren der Sinusschwingungen mit entsprechender Frequenz, Amplitude und Phase sukzessiv abgezogen werden. Die beschriebene Methode wurde in der vorliegenden Arbeit für magnetische und tellurische Pi2-Pulsationen angewendet. Man hat gefunden, dass die Pi2-Pulsationen aus 3–6 Schwingungen bestehen. Auf solche Weise entstand das Material für die magnetotellurische Sondierung. Die Ergebnisse schliessen gut an die Pc3-Pulsationen an. Der Hauptbeitrag des beschriebenen Verfahrens liegt darin, dass die Anzahl der Punkte zum Finden des spezifischen Widerstandes, und zwar in verschiedenen Perioden, erhöht wird.     

Petrographie und Diagenese des Stubensandsteines (mittlerer Keuper) aus Tiefbohrungen im Raum Memmingen (Bayern)

The “Stubensandstein” (Middle Keuper) of the Memmingen region (Southern Germany) — the detrital deposit of a nearby granitic red-soil area — was investigated sedimentologically, on the basis of three cores from 2,230, 1,930 and 1,420 metres depth. Shale- and marl-layers are intercalated in beds of coarse grained, immature sandstone. The rare carbonate is predominantly early diagenetic dolomite. The most exceptional result of the diagenesis is the formation of a variously composed claymineral association in the porous sandstones: Kaolinite, sudoite, sudoite/montmorillonitemixed-layers and tosudite (a regular 1∶1 sudoite/montm.-mixed-layer). The detrital component of the clay-minerals (illite and illite/montm.-mixed-layers) is preserved more or less unchanged in the shales, marls and argillaceous sandstones. Two main diagenetic phases can be distinguished:

1. The early diagenetic formation of kaolinite out of the solution-products of feldspars in acid environment. Quartz is precipitated in microcrystalline form in the pore space, garnet is partly dissolved.
2. In the course of the Neogen deep burial stage kaolinite becomes unstable and sudoite and sudoite/montm. are newformed; the intensity of this phenomenon depends on depth of burial and rock-permeability. Calcite sporadically crystallizes out of an environment that has become alkaline; adjacent feldspar becomes more or less dissolved and is pseudomorphically replaced by calcite. Al(OH)₃ is thereby released and is fixed in montmorillonite, thus forming the sudoite of the carbonatic horizons, which never contain kaolinite.

     

Geothermometry and geobarometry applied to early proterozoic “S-type” granitoid plutons,Wopmay Orogen,Northwest Territories,Canada

Many of the S-type granitoid plutons that comprise Hepburn and Wentzel Batholiths of the Early Proterozoic Wopmay Orogen contain garnet, biotite and rarely cordierite and sillimanite. The garnet, cordierite and sillimanite are interpreted to be relict crystals brought up from the depth of origin of the magmas.Two methods of geothermobarometry were applied to ten samples from the two batholiths: the garnet-biotite Fe-Mg exchange equilibrium (Ferry and Spear 1978) and the garnet-plagioclase-sillimanite-quartz equilibrium (Ghent 1976). The intersection of the two displaced equilibrium curves on a P-T plot provides an estimate of theP-T conditions of equilibration of the minerals. P-T estimates in eight of ten samples ranged between 800 and 1,100°C, and 5 and l0 kbars. These values are in distinct contrast to the typical 650 °C — 3 kb results obtained from the immediately adjacent metapelites, to which the same geothermobarometers were applied.Numerous theoretical and practical problems are encountered both in the application of the methods and in the interpretation of the results. Two of the important theoretical problems are (1) how the anatexis of certain minerals in the equilibria influences the elemental ratios of other minerals that remain as solids, and (2) how far the elemental ratios of the minerals re-equilibrated below the maximalP-T conditions. The most serious practical problem was chloritization of biotite, which generated spuriously high temperatures on the garnet-biotite geobarometer.The significant difference in results between the batholith rocks and the metamorphic rocks indicates that the minerals did not re-equilibrate to sub-magmatic conditions. Using theP-T results as a guide to the conditions of origin of the plutons, it appears that several of the plutons were generated at depths between 21 and 29 km, and rose between 8 and 18 km to the level of emplacement.The core-to-rim zonation of the garnets produces aP-T trend that is towards lower pressure, temperature or both. Such a pattern would be expected in a pluton that rose to the less extreme conditions at higher levels in the crust.The geothermobarometers successfully distinguish between granitoid rocks that were generated at depth and those that were formed by anatexis of country rocks near the level of emplacement.     

The transition between spinel lherzolite and garnet lherzolite,and its use as a Geobarometer

The equilibrium between spinel lherzolite and garnet lherzolite has been experimentally determined in the CaO-MgO-Al₂O₃-SiO₂ system between 800° and 1,100° C. In confirmation of earlier work and predictions from thermodynamic data, it was found that theP-T slope of the reaction was close to zero, the equilibrium ranging from 16.1 kb at 800° C to 18.7 kb at 1,100° C (±0.3 kb). The addition of Cr₂O₃ to the system raised the stability field of spinel to higher pressures. It was found that the pressure at which both garnet and spinel could exist with olivine+orthopyroxene+clinopyroxene in the system CMAS ?Cr₂O₃ could best be described by the empirical relationship: $$P = P^{\text{O}} + \alpha X_{{\text{Cr}}}^{s{\text{p}}} $$ whereP ⁰ is the equilibrium pressure for the univariant reaction in the Cr₂O₃-free system,α is a constant apparently independent of temperature with a value of 27.9 kilobars, andX _Cr ^sp is the mole fraction of chromium in spinel. Use was made of the extensive literature on Mg-Fe²⁺ solid solutions to quantitatively derive the effect of Fe²⁺ on the equilibrium. The effect of other components (Fe³⁺, Na) was also considered. The equilibrium can be used as a sensitive geobarometer for rocks containing the five phases ol+opx+cpx+gt+sp, and thus provides the only independent check presently available for the more widely applicable geobarometer which uses the alumina content of orthopyroxene in equilibrium with garnet.     

Towards Adaptive Grids for Atmospheric Boundary-Layer Simulations

We present a proof-of-concept for the adaptive mesh refinement method applied to atmospheric boundary-layer simulations. Such a method may form an attractive alternative to static grids for studies on atmospheric flows that have a high degree of scale separation in space and/or time. Examples include the diurnal cycle and a convective boundary layer capped by a strong inversion. For such cases, large-eddy simulations using regular grids often have to rely on a subgrid-scale closure for the most challenging regions in the spatial and/or temporal domain. Here we analyze a flow configuration that describes the growth and subsequent decay of a convective boundary layer using direct numerical simulation (DNS). We validate the obtained results and benchmark the performance of the adaptive solver against two runs using fixed regular grids. It appears that the adaptive-mesh algorithm is able to coarsen and refine the grid dynamically whilst maintaining an accurate solution. In particular, during the initial growth of the convective boundary layer a high resolution is required compared to the subsequent stage of decaying turbulence. More specifically, the number of grid cells varies by two orders of magnitude over the course of the simulation. For this specific DNS case, the adaptive solver was not yet more efficient than the more traditional solver that is dedicated to these types of flows. However, the overall analysis shows that the method has a clear potential for numerical investigations of the most challenging atmospheric cases.     

A new scenario framework for climate change research: the concept of shared climate policy assumptions

The new scenario framework facilitates the coupling of multiple socioeconomic reference pathways with climate model products using the representative concentration pathways. This will allow for improved assessment of climate impacts, adaptation and mitigation. Assumptions about climate policy play a major role in linking socioeconomic futures with forcing and climate outcomes. The paper presents the concept of shared climate policy assumptions as an important element of the new scenario framework. Shared climate policy assumptions capture key policy attributes such as the goals, instruments and obstacles of mitigation and adaptation measures, and introduce an important additional dimension to the scenario matrix architecture. They can be used to improve the comparability of scenarios in the scenario matrix. Shared climate policy assumptions should be designed to be policy relevant, and as a set to be broad enough to allow a comprehensive exploration of the climate change scenario space.     

Acoustic monitoring of gas emissions from the seafloor. Part II: a case study from the Sea of Marmara

A rotating, acoustic gas bubble detector, BOB (Bubble OBservatory) module was deployed during two surveys, conducted in 2009 and 2011 respectively, to study the temporal variations of gas emissions from the Marmara seafloor, along the North Anatolian Fault zone. The echosounder mounted on the instrument insonifies an angular sector of 7° during a given duration (of about 1 h). Then it rotates to the next, near-by angular sector and so forth. When the full angular domain is insonified, the “pan and tilt system” rotates back to its initial position, in order to start a new cycle (of about 1 day). The acoustic data reveal that gas emission is not a steady process, with observed temporal variations ranging between a few minutes and 24 h (from one cycle to the other). Echo-integration and inversion performed on the acoustic data as described in the companion paper of Leblond et al. (Mar Geophys Res, 2014), also indicate important variations in, respectively, the target strength and the volumetric flow rates of individual sources. However, the observed temporal variations may not be related to the properties of the gas source only, but reflect possible variations in sea-bottom currents, which could deviate the bubble train towards the neighboring sector. During the 2011 survey, a 4-component ocean bottom seismometer (OBS) was co-located at the seafloor, 59 m away from the BOB module. The acoustic data from our rotating, monitoring system support, but do not provide undisputable evidence to confirm, the hypothesis formulated by Tary et al. (2012), that the short-duration, non-seismic micro-events recorded by the OBS are likely produced by gas-related processes within the near seabed sediments. Hence, the use of a multibeam echosounder, or of several split beam echosounders should be preferred to rotating systems, for future experiments.