Eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) as an indicator organism of trace metals in the Limfjord,Denmark

The concentrations of Pb, Cu, Cd and Zn were determined in above- and belowground parts of eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) at forty stations in a shallow, brackish water area (the Limfjord, Denmark). The concentrations of the trace metals were significantly elevated near the cities of Aalborg (Pb, Cu) and Struer (Cd). Trace metal concentrations in above and belowground parts of eelgrass were log-normal distributed and the concentrations of Cd, Cu and Zn in aboveground parts were significantly higher than in belowground parts. Furthermore, a significant correlation between trace metal concentrations in above- and belowground parts was found. The background level of trace metal concentrations in eelgrass in the Limfjord was estimated.The application of eelgrass as a monitoring organism is discussed; it is suggested that the concentration of some trace metals in above- and belowground parts of eelgrass may be used as a measure of the bioavailable fraction of these trace metals in ambient and interstitial water (sediment), respectively.     

Dynamics of carbohydrates in the Norwegian Sea inferred from monthly profiles collected during 3 years at 66°N, 2°E

Water samples were collected monthly for 3 years at 66°N, 2°E in the Norwegian Sea, 250 nautical miles off the Norwegian coast. Concentrations of mono- and polysaccharides were measured with the 2,4,6-tripyridyl-s-triazine (TPTZ) spectroscopic method. Total dissolved carbohydrates varied from 3.4 to 28.2 μM C of all samples and the ratio of carbohydrate to dissolved organic C (DOC) varied from an average of 14% at 0–25 m depth to 11% at 800–2000 m depth. This indicates that dissolved carbohydrates were a significant constituent of DOC in the Norwegian Sea. Polysaccharides varied from 0.4 to 21.5 μM C and monosaccharides from 0.7 to 11.7 μM C at all depths. The level of monosaccharides was relatively constant at 2.8–3.2 μM C below the euphotic zone, whereas polysaccharides showed more varying concentrations. Dissolved carbohydrates accumulated during the productive season, reaching maximum concentrations during summer although interannual differences were observed. A significant positive correlation between Chl a and soluble carbohydrate was found in one growing season with nutrient analyses. Average values for total carbohydrates were highest in the surface – 0 to 25 m – with 13.3 μM C and decreased to 8.4 μM C at 800–2000 m depth. The ratio of monosaccharides to polysaccharides exhibited a marked seasonal variation, increased from January to a maximum in June of 1.1, and declined to 0.5 in July.     

Public Engagement in Social-Ecological Systems Management: An Application of Social Justice Theory

Public engagement is important for improving outcomes of social-ecological systems management. We used a social justice theoretical framework to measure residents’ attitudes toward public engagement processes and satisfaction with outcomes of a restoration project in Western Montana. We predicted process control and decision control domains of procedural justice would significantly predict stakeholder satisfaction, with decision control partially mediating the relationship between process control and satisfaction. We tested these predictions using a path analysis of intercept survey data collected from residents within the project area. We found process control had a significant and positive effect on satisfaction but was fully mediated by decision control, suggesting that successful engagement requires opportunities for stakeholders not only to participate but to clearly shape decisions and outcomes. We discuss implications for public engagement, human dimensions research, and social monitoring of social-ecological systems.     

Perspectives on the ethiopian volcanic province

Published major-element analyses of Ethiopian volcanic rocks have been subjected to a systematic discriminant analysis. The plateau regions can be subdivided according to the proportions of alkaline and tholeiitic basalts. In northern Ethiopia, these subprovinces show increasing basalt alkalinity with time. The most voluminous basalts have lowest magnesium values, independent of the degree of alkalinity. Rift and Afar basalt chemistry falls within the spectrum observed for the plateau basalts, with no perceptible difference resulting from lithospheric attenuation beneath Afar. However, silicic volcanics of the Rift-Afar floor differ in bulk terms from those of the plateau margins in showing a stronger bias towards peralkalinity, and having higher Na/K values. Two particularly voluminous volcanic episodes have occurred in Ethiopia, dated at ?30–19 m.y. and 4.5–0 m.y. and which link well with one model for seafloor spreading in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. Evidence for a mantle hotspot under Ethiopia remains ambiguous.     

The Hesperian Massif: From Iapetus aulacogen to ensialic orogen a model for its development

The mantle plume/rift system model developed by three of the present authors (v. C., d. T., K.) for the northern Hesperian Massif is expanded to that of an aulacogen/ensialic orogen for the entire massif. The first author (v. d. M. M.) contributes a review of the supracrustal history of the massif and its predrift adjacent areas, summarized in a time-stratigraphic table of the Cambro-Ordovician and a palinspastic-palaeogeographic sketch map of the general region in Middle Cambrian times. The infrastructural history is also reviewed, and it is concluded that the early Palaeozoic features of the Massif are consistent with those of an aulacogen oriented at a high angle to the Iapetus ocean. In the Late Palaeozoic its features changed into those of an ensialic orogen without appreciable loss of continuity as shown by the facies- and age record of sedimentary, igneous and metamorphic events.

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Zusammenfassung Das Graben-Mantelkissen-Modell, welches für das nördliche Hesperische Massiv von drei der Autoren (v. C., d. T., K.) entwickelt wurde, wird zu dem eines aulacogenen ensialischen Orogens für das ganze Massiv weiterentwickelt. Der erste Autor (v. d. M. M.) liefert eine Übersicht der suprakrustalen Entwicklungsgeschichte des Massivs und seiner Umrandung vor der Driftung, zusammengefaßt in einer stratigraphischen Tabelle des Kambro-Ordoviziums und in einer palinspastisch-paleogeographischen Skizze der Region während des Mittelkambriums.Die infrastrukturale Entwicklungsgeschichte wird ebenfalls beleuchtet, und es wird daraus geschlossen, daß die frühpaläozoischen Konfigurationen des Massivs mit denen eines Aulacogens übereinstimmen, unter Einschluß eines großen Winkels mit dem Iapetus Ozean. Im Jungpaläozoikum veränderten sich die Charakteristika zu denen eines ensialischen Orogens, ohne daß, im weiteren Verlauf der Erdgeschichte, dieser Prozeß unterbrochen wurde, wie sedimentäre Fazies, Altersdatierungen und kristalline und metamorphe Entwicklung dokumentieren.

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Résumé Le modèle d'un panache mantélique avec son système de rift, développé par les trois derniers auteurs pour le Massif Hespérique septentrional, est étendu à un modèle d'aulacogène/orogène ensialique pour le massif entier. Le premier auteur y contribue par un aperçu de l'histoire supracrustale du massif et de ses régions limitrophes avant l'ouverture du présent Océan Atlantique. Cette histoire est résumée dans un tableau chronostratigraphique et exprimée dans un croquis palinspastique/paléogéographique de la région circum-Hespérique à l'époque du Cambrien Moyen. L'histoire infracrustale est passée également en revue. On en conclut que les traits caractéristiques du massif pendant le Paléozoique inférieur correspondent avec ceux d'un aulacogène orienté quasi-perpendiculairement à l'Océan proto-Atlantique, dit Iapetus. Au Paléozoique supérieur ces traits se sont transformés de façon à ressembler à ceux d'un orogène ensialique sans perdre sa continuité, ce que montre l'étalement ininterrompu, dans le temps comme dans l'espace, des événements sédimentaires, ignés et métamorphiques.

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Das Nord-Süd-streichende Lineament von Elizondo in den westlichen Pyrenäen

Zusammenfassung In den spanischen Westpyrenäen läßt sich ein nord-süd-streichendes Lineament nachweisen, das sich vor allem im Aldudes-Quinto Real-Massiv zwischen Elizondo und Eugui bemerkbar macht. Die Magnesitlagerstätte von Eugui ist auf etwa 9 km nord-südlicher Erstreckung an das Lineament gebunden. Zahlreiche NW-SE streichende Diabasgänge zeigen in ihrer Gesamtheit in diesem Bereich eine lineare Anordnung von Nord nach Süd. Während des Devons und Unterkarbons bildete die Lineamentzone ein Becken mit größeren Sedimentmächtigkeiten und besonderer Fazies. Der Faltenspiegel der variszischen Strukturen fällt von Osten und Westen her in das Lineament ab. Die generell nordwestlich streichenden variszischen Faltenachsen schwenken innerhalb des Lineaments in eine nord-südliche bis rheinische Richtung ein. Bemerkenswert ist der Achsenfächer bei Berroeta.

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Near by Elizondo in the Western Pyrenees (Spain) the massiv of Aldudes-Quinto Real is crossed by a lineament of NW direction. This lineament contains the magnisite deposit of Eugui. Diabas dykes show NW-SE direction, but the prevailing direction of the series is N-S. During devonian and lower carboniferous time the region of the lineament represented a sedimentary basin of great thickness and special facies. The axis of this large synclinorium shows the same direction as the lineament. The hercynian axes of folding are striking NW in general but NS in the region of the lineament. Remarkable is the fan of axes near Berroeta.

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Compendio En los Pirineos occidentales españoles se encuentra un lineamiento con un rumbo de Norte a Sur, que se hace notable sobre todo en el macizo de Aldudes-Quinto Real entre Elizondo y Eugui. El yacimiento de magnesita de Eugui sigue este lineamiento en una extensión de 9 kms. Numerosas diques de diabasa muestran en su generalidad en esta región un orden en linea de Norte a Sur. Durante el devónico y el carbonífero inferior formaba esta zona de lineamiento una cuenca, en la que se depositaron sedimentos de gran espesor con una facies característica. Los niveles de eje de los anticlinales de las estmcturas varísticas buzan tanto del Este como del Oeste hacia el centro del lineamiento. Los ejes de los anticlinales que tienen en general un rumbo hacia el NO tuercen dentro del lineamiento en una dirección de N—S a NNE—SSO. Interesantes son los ejes en abanico cerca de Berroeta.

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Résumé Dans l'ouest des Pyrénées espagnoles on a prouvé l'éxistance d'un linéament qui se montre particulièrement dans le massif des Aldudes-Quinto Real entre Elizondo et Eugui. Le gîte de magnésite d'Eugui est attaché à cette linéament du nord au sud sur une longueur de 9 km. Dans cette région de nombreux filons basaltiques montrent dans leur totalité un arrangement linéaire du nord au sud. Durant le dévonien et le carbonifère inférieur la zone de linéament a formé une cuvette de grandes epaisseurs sédimentaires et de faciès particulier. Dans cette linéament l'axe de plissement, en général de direction NW, se dirige du N—S jusqu'à une direction rhénale. L'axe en éventail près de Berroeta est remarquable.

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Anschrift der Verfasser: Dr. K.Mohr und Professor Dr. A.Pilger, Institut für Geologie und Paläontologie der Bergakademie Clausthal — Technische Hochschule 3392 Clausthal-Zellerf eld.     

Star Cluster Simulations: the State of the Art

This paper concentrates on four key tools for performing star cluster simulations developed during the last decade which are sufficient to handle all the relevant dynamical aspects. First we discuss briefly the Hermite integration scheme which is simple to use and highly efficient for advancing the single particles. The main numerical challenge is in dealing with weakly and strongly perturbed hard binaries. A new treatment of the classical Kustaanheimo-Stiefel two-body regularization has proved to be more accurate for studying binaries than previous algorithms based on divided differences or Hermite integration. This formulation employs a Taylor series expansion combined with the Stumpff functions, still with one force evaluation per step, which gives exact solutions for unperturbed motion and is at least comparable to the polynomial methods for large perturbations. Strong interactions between hard binaries and single stars or other binaries are studied by chain regularization which ensures a non-biased outcome for chaotic motions. A new semi-analytical stability criterion for hierarchical systems has been adopted and the long-term effects on the inner binary are now treated by averaging techniques for cases of interest. These modifications describe consistent changes of the orbital variables due to large Kozai cycles and tidal dissipation. The range of astrophysical processes which can now be considered by N-body simulations include tidal capture, circularization, mass transfer by Roche-lobe overflow as well as physical collisions, where the masses and radii of individual stars are modelled by synthetic stellar evolution. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Emplacement mechanisms of sill complexes: Information from the geochemical architecture of the Golden Valley Sill Complex,South Africa

The well-exposed Golden Valley Sill Complex, Karoo basin, South Africa, consists of four large sills (ca. 100 m thick; long axes: 13–24 km), one small sill (55–80 m thick; long axis: 4 km; forming an appendix to one of the large sills), and two large dykes (15–20 m thick; 25 and 70 km long), plus some minor intrusions. Field mapping shows physical connections between the small sill and one of the large sills, but no other connection between the large sills, or connections between the sills and the large dykes.     

Peak Oil: Testing Hubbert’s Curve via Theoretical Modeling

A theoretical model of conventional oil production has been developed. The model does not assume Hubbert’s bell curve, an asymmetric bell curve, or a reserve-to-production ratio method is correct, and does not use oil production data as an input. The theoretical model is in close agreement with actual production data until the 1979 oil crisis, with an R ² value of greater than 0.98. Whilst the theoretical model indicates that an ideal production curve is slightly asymmetric, which differs from Hubbert’s curve, the ideal model compares well with the Hubbert model, with R ² values in excess of 0.95. Amending the theoretical model to take into account the 1979 oil crisis, and assuming the ultimately recoverable resources are in the range of 2–3 trillion barrels, the amended model predicts conventional oil production to peak between 2010 and 2025. The amended model, for the case when the ultimately recoverable resources is 2.2 trillion barrels, indicates that oil production peaks in 2013.