RESOLUTION AND NMO-STRETCH: IMAGING BY STACKING1

We analyse the stacking process within the framework of imaging techniques. Our results show how the NMO stretch, traditionally looked upon as giving a negative contribution, can be utilized to improve the vertical resolution of the stacked data from a source deficient in low frequencies. The added bandwidth is provided by the spatial coherency of the energy emitted by a point source.     

Nd and Sr isotopes in the Aleutians: multicomponent parenthood of island-arc magmas

Young volcanic rocks from different sections of the Aleutian Islands-Alaska Peninsula Arc have been measured for ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr, ¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd and some trace elements. We found the ¹⁴³Nd/¹⁴⁴Nd to be highly restricted in range ( _Nd=6 to 7) and low as compared to midocean ridge ba-salts (MORB). This indicates that the source of the Aleutian Arc magmas is different from MORB and remarkably isotopically homogeneous with respect to Nd. The range reported here for arc rocks is substantially smaller than found by other workers. However, the Sr isotope ratios vary considerably ( _Sr=–24 to –14). Those samples from small volcanic centers north of the main arc (second arc) are characterized by low _Sr. Our data in combination with previous studies suggest that there are slight geochemical differences between discrete sections of the arc. The general uniformity of Nd isotope ratios are thought to be the surface expression of an efficient mixing or homogenization process beneath the arc plate, but which still causes a wide dispersion in Sr isotopic composition.To relate the arc rocks to the broader tectonic setting and to identify possible sources of arc magmas, measurements were done on volcanic and sedimentary rocks from the North Pacific/Bering Sea area. Alkali basalts from the back-arc islands St. George, Nunivak and St. Lawrence and alkali-rich tholeiites from the fore-arc have _Nd=+4 to +9 and are correlated on the _Sr- _Nddiagram parallel to the mantle array but shifted to lower _Sr. These samples are thought to be isotopically representative of the mantle transported to that region. A tholeiitic basalt from the Kamchatka Basin ocean floor (back-arc), however, yielded typical MORB values ( _Nd=10, _Sr=–24). Composite sediment samples were made from DSDP cores in the Aleutian Abyssal Plain, Gulf of Alaska and the Alka Basin which represent mixtures of continentally and arc-derived materials. These composites have intermediate Nd isotopic ( _Nd= –2 and +2) and high Sr isotopic values ( _Sr=+9 and +37). These data show that possible source materials of the Aleutian Arc volcanics are isotopically different from and much more heterogeneous than the arc rocks themselves.On the basis of this study and of literature data, we developed a set of alternative models for volcanic arc magma generation, based on the restricted range in _Nd and the wider range in _Sr for arc rocks. Different isotopic and trace element characteristics found in different arcs or arc sections are explained by varying mixing proportions or concentrations in source materials. The basic observations require rather strict mixing ratios to obtain constant _Nd. The preferred model is one where the melting of subducted oceanic crust is controlled by the amount of trapped sediment with the melting restricted to the upper part of the altered basaltic layer. Homogenization within the upper part of the oceanic crust is brought about by hydrothermal circulation attending dewatering of the slab during subduction and possibly some oxygen exchange of the magmas on ascent.Division Contribution Number 3849 (411)     

Relation between source rock properties and wireline log parameters: An example from Lower Jurassic Posidonia Shale, NW-Germany

The relationships between source rock quality and wireline log parameters were established for the Lower Jurassic Posidonia Shale, the most prolific petroleum source rock of Central Europe. Wireline logs used are the gamma ray spectrometry, density, sonic and various resistivity logs. The organic geochemical parameters considered include the organic carbon content, hydrogen index, and the hydrocarbon potential expressed by pyrolysis yield. The case history presented is based on a continuous core through the entire Posidonia Shale interval from a location where this source rock is immature. Care was taken to detect and to avoid samples and log values influenced by bore hole roughness and fractures. Fair correlations were observed only between uranium content from gamma ray spectrometry log and organic carbon content. No correlation was recognized between uranium content and kerogen type as defined by hydrogen indices. For various reasons density, sonic, and resistivity logs did not provide useful data in this study.Three rock units with irregular, high and low uranium contents could be differentiated. Possible causes for this tripartition are different environments during deposition and postdepositional redistribution of uranium during early diagenesis and in association with fractures.     

Early Cretaceous »events« in the evolution of the eastern and western North Atlantic continental margins

At many North Atlantic continental margins, the early Neocomian is characterized by a major stratigraphic turning point from Late Jurassic-Berriasian carbonate bank/pelagic carbonate deposition to Valanginian-Barremian hemipelagic sedimentation with thick Wealden-type deltaic to deep-sea fan sequences. The stratigraphy and structure of the very old, starved passive margin of the Mazagan Plateau and adjacent steep escarpment off Morocco was studied during the French-German CYAMAZ deep diving campaign. The drowning of the Late Jurassic-early Berriasian carbonate platform was strongly influenced by a global late Berriasian sea level fall which was followed by a rapid late Valanginian sea level rise and/or by a major regional blockfaul ting event with accelerated subsidence rates. Upper Berriasian to (?) Hauterivian quartz-bearing bioclastic wackestones document the transition from the carbonate platform to the hemipelagic deposition on the drowned platform margin. Seawards, these deposits are correlated with a deep sea fan sequence. We discuss also an example from the Tarfaya Basin-Fuerteventura area further south. A 300 m thick succession of organic-rich claystone and sandstone turbidites (including m-thick debris flow units) of Hauterivian to Barremian age was an unexpected discovery at DSDP Site 603 off North Carolina (Leg 93). We discuss a tectonically confined fan model with laterally migrating channels, influenced by sea level fluctuations and varying terrigenous supply. During the Valanginian to Barremian time of high-standing (or rising) sea level, shelf construction (Wealden-type deltas) coincided with subdued, resedimentation-starved turbiditic system on the continental rise. Extensive unconsolidated sands, however, reflect sudden input of shelfal material into the basin during a mid-Aptian sea level lowstand (shelf destruction). The following global late Aptian transgression terminated the clastic fan deposition, raised the CCD and started the deposition of organic-rich shales.     

The ophiolitic peridotites of the Western Alps: Record of the evolution of a small oceanic-type basin in the Mesozoic Tethys

Summary Among the ophiolitic peridotites upwelled during the opening of the small Mesozoic Tethys, two groups have been recognized in the sector of the Western Alps: a) EO ultramafics (Mt. Civrari and Monviso) which are very depleted in easily fusible elements and followed a very high temperature (starting from 1300°C) decompressional trajectory; b) LA (Lanzo) and WO (Tour Real) ultramafics which are less depleted, followed decompression at slightly lower temperature (< 1200 °C) and might represent sections of shallower subcontinental mantle. The peridotites are associated with magmatic sequences showing affinities with N-MORB. These sequences derive from partial melting processes which left residua similar to the EO peridotites, but probably different from the LA-WO peridotites. These evidences demonstrate that small oceanic-type basins like the Mesozoic western Tethys are associated with MORB-type magmatism, but include mantle sections recording different steps in the evolution of the basin. Moreover these Tethys-like basins closed a few tens of m.y. after opening and their formation seems to be controlled by active tectonism and by local perturbations of large scale geodynamic processes.

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Les péridotites ophiolitiques des Alpes occidentales: témoins de l'évolution d'un petit bassin de type oceanique dans la Téthys Mésozoique

Résumé Parmi les péridotites tectonitiques remontées dans la Téthys Mésozoique lors de son ouverture on reconnait dans le secteur des Alpes occidentales: a) des ultramafites appauvries en éléments incompatibles qui ont suivi une trajectoire décompressionale à tres haute température (1300 °C) (M. Civrari et Monviso: EO); b) des ultramafites moins appauvries qui ont suivi une trajectoire à plus basse température (< 1200 °C) et qui pourraient représenter des témoins de manteau sous-continental (Lanzo: LA; Tour Real: WO). Ces peridotites sont associées à des séries magmatiques à affinité de N-MORB. Les péridotites EO peuvent représenter les résidus de la fusion partielle qui a produit les séries magmatiques de type N-MORB, cela n'étant pas probablement possible pour les péridotites LA et WO. Bien que les séries magmatiques des petits bassins océaniques de la Tethys Mésozoique occidentale montrent en général des affinités MORB, les péridotites témoignent de differentes étapes d'évolution des bassins. De plus ces petits bassins ont été fermés quelques m.a. après leur ouverture et leur évolution semble liée à une tectonique tres active et à des perturbations locales des phénomènes géodynamiques à grande échelle.

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This work is part of a C.N.R. (Centro di Studio sui Problemi dell'Orogeno dell Alpi Occidentali) programme.     

Survivality and Impaired Growth in Arsenic Treated Fingerlings of Channa punctatus,a Fresh Water Murrel

The LC₅₀-values of As³⁺-compounds for Channa punctatus are determined for a 48-h exposure to 19.4 (18.02… 21.3) mg/1 and for a 96-h exposure to 14.3 (13.06… 16.80) mg/1. At a long-time exposure to 7.0 mg/1 As³⁺, during the first seven days there does not occur any change of growth, then the growth in length and the increase in weight decreased by 6.6 and 11.7%, respectively, till the 31st day. At the same time, the RNA content of the muscle decreased by 11.5% to 966.7 μg/g fresh weight and the protein content decreased by 12.5 % to 95.39 mg/g fresh weight.     

Proterozoic deformation of the East Saharan Craton in Southeast Libya, South Egypt and North Sudan

The basement areas in Southeast Libya, South Egypt and North Sudan, west of the Nile, between Gebel Uweinat and the Bayuda Desert, are part of an approximately 1000-km-wide, complexly folded, polymetamorphic zone with a regional N-NNE-NE-ENE trend of foliation and fold axis. Since this belt extends southwestward into the area of Zalingei in the southern Darfur block (West Sudan), it is named the Northern Zalingei fold zone. Sr and Nd isotopic studies suggest that this zone is older than Pan-African and further indicate that, apart from Archean rocks in the Gebel Uweinat area, this belt is of Early-Middle Proterozoic age. An Early-Middle Proterozoic three-stage deformational and anatectic event established the present-day fold and fault geometry in the western parts of this zone in the Gebel Uweinat—Gebel Kamil area. The Pan-African tectono-thermal episode was most effective in the eastern part of the belt, near the boundary with the Nubian Shield volcano-sedimentary-ophiolite-granitoid assemblages. It caused migmatization, granite emplacement, mylonitization and large-scale wrench faulting which was related to Late Proterozoic accretionary and collisional events of the Arabian-Nubian Shield with the margin of the East Saharan Craton.