Benthonische Foraminiferen aus der Unterkreide des »Deep Sea Drilling Project« (Leg 1–79)

Zusammenfassung In den DSDP-Legs 1, 11, 13, 17, 25, 27, 32, 36, 41, 43, 44, 50 und 62 wurden die Unterkreide-Foraminiferen biostratigraphisch, taxonomisch und paläoökologisch bearbeitet. Eine Übersicht zeigt die in Leg 1–80 erbohrte Unterkreide und ihre Foraminiferen-Bearbeitungen.Im Nordatlantik fehlen regional ab dem Oberen Tithonium im Verlaufe einer Regression und der sie begleitenden Schichtlücken bis in das Valanginium charakteristische Foraminiferenfaunen. In Gebieten ohne Schwarzschiefer-Bedingungen setzen im Valanginium-Barremium mäßig reichhaltige bis sehr spärliche Mikrofaunen mitPraedorothia ouachensis (Sigal) der gleichnamigen Zone ein (Valanginium-Hauterivium). Hauterivium-Aptium gliedern sich in dieGavelinella barremiana-, dieGaudryina dividens- und dieConorotalites aptiensis- Zone.Wo im Albium nicht das ausgedehnte Schwarzschiefer-Milieu herrschte, findet man eine kosmopolitische Fauna aus agglutinierten und kalkschaligen Foraminiferen derPseudoclavulina gaultina- Zone. Für das höhere Albium und Cenomanium wurde dieGavelinella cenomanica- Zone ausgeschieden. Von biostratigraphischer Bedeutung sind im Berriasium-Albium die GattungenPraedorothia, Gaudryina, Pseudoclavulina, von den Kalkschalern nur wenige skulptierte Arten der Nodosariiden (Citharina, Lenticulina) sowieGavelinella, Conorotalites, Pleurostomella, Valvulineria undOsangularia. Die vonMoullade (1984) begründeten Zonen vom Berriasium-Albium der Tethys und des DSDP sind wegen der großen stratigraphischen Reichweite der verwendeten Foraminiferenarten nicht überall anwendbar.Im Indischen Ozean lassen die wenigen, bisher bekannten »australen« Foraminiferenfunde aus dem Neokom von Site 261 mit überwiegend primitiven agglutinierenden Formen eine genaue Datierung kaum zu. Die Kalkschaler sind meist aufgelöst oder auch umgelagert. Man ordnet sie dem Bereich des kühleren Wassers zu.Im Pazifischen Ozean sind die meisten Mikrofaunen wegen der geringen Kerngewinne, Verunreinigungen oder primärer Foraminiferenarmut (Schwarzschiefer) biostratigraphisch und paläoökologisch kaum verwertbar. Erst im Albium findet sich — wie im Atlantik — eine etwas reichhaltigere Kalk- und Sandschalerfauna mit wichtigen Arten derPseudoclavulina gaultina- Zone. Da außerGavelinella cenomanica (Brotzen) keine andere benthonische Foraminiferenart neu einsetzt, wird die Grenze zum Cenomanium in der Regel mit planktonischen Foraminiferen gezogen.Im Albium fallen die einheitlichen, kosmopolitischen Foraminiferenfaunen ohne ausgeprägte Faunenprovinzen auf.

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From the DSDP Legs 1, 11, 13, 17, 25, 27, 32, 36, 41, 43, 44, 50, and 62 the Lower Cretaceous foraminifers have been investigated for biostratigraphical, taxonomical, and palaeoecological purposes. An overview of the cored Lower Cretaceous sections of Leg 1–80 is given.In the Northern Atlantic Ocean characteristic foraminiferal faunas are missing from the Upper Tithonian to the Valanginian due to a marked regression which caused hiatuses. In areas without black shale conditions Valanginian to Barremian medium rich to poor microfaunas withPraedorothia ouachensis (Sigal) of thePraedorothia ouachensis Zone (Valanginian-Hauterivian). The Hauterivian-Aptian interval is characterized by zones ofGavelinella barremiana,Gaudryina dividens, andConorotalites aptiensis. During the Albian a world-wide fauna consisting of agglutinated and calcareous foraminifers of thePseudoclavulina gaultina Zone is established in areas lacking the wide-spread black-shale conditions. The Upper Albian and the Cenomanian are represented by theGavelinella cenomanica Zone. Some ornamented species of the nodosariids (Citharina, Lenticulina), Gavelinella, Conorotalites, Pleurostomella, Valvulineria, andOsangularia are of some importance for the biostratigraphy of the Berriasian-Albian interval. The Berriasian to Albian zones introduced for the Tethys and the DSDP byMoullade (1984) could only be of some local importance due to the long stratigraphical range of the foraminiferal species used.In the Indian Ocean an exact stratigraphical age cannot be assigned to the few Neocomian foraminiferal faunas of a cooler sea water (Site 261). These faunas mainly contain primitive agglutinated foraminifers, because in most cases the calcareous tests are dissolved or redeposited.In the Pacific Ocean most of the Berriasian to Aptian microfaunas are of minor biostratigraphical and palaeoecological importance for reasons of poor core recoveries, contaminations or original foraminiferal poverty (black shales). Since the Albian there are somewhat higher-diverse faunas of calcareous and agglutinated foraminifers with index species of thePseudoclavulina gaultina Zone. As a rule, the boundary Albian/Cenomanian is set by means of planktonic foraminifers because no other foraminifer has its first appearance datum during this interval, exceptGavelinella cenomanica.During the Albian very uniform, world-wide foraminiferal faunas without a marked provincialism are obvious.

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Résumé Dans les Legs DSDP 1, 11, 13, 17, 25, 27, 32, 36, 41, 43, 44, 50 et 62, les foraminifères du Crétacé inférieur ont été étudiés aux points de vue biostratigraphique, taxonomique et paléoécologique. La note présente une vue d'ensemble de la section d'âge crétacé inférieur du Leg 1–80.Dans l'Atlantique nord, les faunes caractéristiques de foraminifères sont absentes depuis le Tithonique supérieur jusqu'au Valanginien, en raison d'une régression importante et des lacunes qui en résultent. Dans les régions dépourvues de milieux à shales noirs, on rencontre une microfaune, pauvre à moyennement riche, valanginienne à barrémienne, àPraedorothia ouachensis (Sigal), appartenant à la Zone àPraedorothia ouachensis. L'intervalle Hauterivien-Aptien est caractérisé par les Zones àGavelinella barremiana, Gaudryina dividens et Conorotalites aptiensis. Au cours de l'Albien une faune d'extension mondiale de foraminifères agglutinés et calcaires appartenant à la Zone àPseudoclavu-lina gaultina, s'est établie dans les aires où ne règnaient pas les conditions de formation de shales noirs. L'Albien supérieur et le Cénomanien sont représentés par la Zone àGavelinella cenomanica. Dans l'intervalle Berriasien-Albien, un rôle biostratigraphique de quelque importance est joué par quelques espèces de Nodosariides à coquilles ornementées (Citharina, Lenticulina) ainsi queGavelinella, Conorotalites, Pleurostomella, Valvulineria et Osangularia. Les zones établies parMoullade (1984) pour le Berriasien-Albien de la Téthys et du DSDP ne sont pas partout utilisables, en raison de l'extension verticale trop grande des foraminifères utilisés.Dans l'Océan Indien, un âge exact ne peut être assigné aux faunes de foraminifères néocomiennes considérées jusqu'ici comme «australes» (site 261): ces faunes renferment surtout des formes agglutinées primitives, car les tests calcaires ont été généralement dissous ou remaniés.Dans l'Océan Pacifique, la plupart des microfaunes berriasiennes à aptiennes sont de faible intérêt biostratigraphique et paléo-écologique, en raison des mauvais rendements des carottes, de contaminations ou de leur pauvreté originelle (facies des shales noirs). A partir de l'Albien, on trouve une faune plus diversifiée de foraminifères agglutinés et calcaires, comportant des espèces caractéristiques de la Zone àPseudoclavulina gaultina. Comme d'ordinaire, la limite Albiencénomanien est définie par les foraminifères planctoniques, aucun autre foraminifère n'apparaissant dans cet intervalle, saufGavelinella cenomanica.A l'Albien, la faune de foraminifères est uniforme à l'échelle mondiale, sans distinction de provinces.

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Geometry and chronology of growth and drowning of Middle Triassic carbonate platforms (Cernera and Bivera/Clapsavon) in the Southern Alps (northern Italy)

The depositional architecture and the geometric relationships between platform-slope deposits and basinal sediments along with paleontological evidence indicate the time interval of the younger Anisian Reitziites reitzi ammonoid zone to largely represent the main stage of platform aggradation at the Cernera and Bivera/Clapsavon carbonate platforms. Published and new U-Pb age data of zircons from volcaniclastic layers bracketing the stratigraphic interval of platform growth constrain the duration of platform evolution to a time span shorter than 1.8±0.7m.y., probably in the order of 0.5-1m.y., reflecting fast rates of vertical platform aggradation exceeding 500 m/m.y. In the range of growth potentials for shallow-water carbonate systems estimated in relation to the time span of observation, this high rate is in agreement with values for short intervals of 10⁵-10⁶yrs (e.g., Schlager 1999). After drowning, the platforms at Cernera and Bivera/Clapsavon were blanketed by thin pelagic carbonates. On the former platform flanks the draping sediments in places comprise red nodular pelagic limestones (Clapsavon Limestone) similar in facies to the Han Bulog Limestones occurring elsewhere in Middle Triassic successions of the Mediterranean Tethys. The drowning of vast areas of former carbonate platforms possibly triggered the onset of bottom-water circulation in adjacent basins as suggested by the abrupt transition from laminated to bioturbated pelagic nodular limestones in the Buchenstein Formation which occurred close to the time of initial platform submergence. During the Late Ladinian the topographic features of the drowned platforms were onlapped by rapidly deposited, predominantly clastic successions including coarse breccias and volcanic rocks sealing and preserving the peculiar stratigraphic setting.     

Leakage below dam sites in limestone terrains by enhanced karstification: a modeling approach

Unnaturally high hydraulic gradients below dam sites enhance dissolutional widening of fractures in limestone. A model is presented which suggests that under unfavorable conditions, leakage rates could become unbearably high during the lifetime of the dam. At the beginning when water is impounded, leakage rates are low and increase slowly. A positive feedback loop, however, causes a sudden dramatic increase of leakage within a few years. Deep grouting becomes necessary to prevent such failures. Inefficiencies in grouting may leave some open fractures in the grouting curtain. These fractures widen faster than pathways below the grouting curtain, and reduce the effect of the grouted region located below. Therefore, open fractures act in a similar way as reduction of the grouting depth.     

Alternative Validation of a LC-MS/MS-Multi-Method for Pesticides in Drinking Water

The development of instrumental analytics such as the LC-MS/MS has made it possible to quickly determine many component concentrations in a single chromatogram. However, the validation of such multi-methods needs new strategies for robustness and optimization. Statistical execution of analytical tests is one tool that can be utilized to meet this requirement. A Central Composite Design (CCD) was utilized for the validation of an LC-MS/MS multi-method for 84 analytes. The experimental design includes six design variables and two non-design variables (response variables). Concentration, ionization temperature, dwell time, gradient, flow (of eluent), and spraying/curtain gas (continuous design variables) were varied on five different levels; the whole design encompassed 91 runs. To investigate the robustness of a LC-MS/MS method both peak sensitivity and chromatographic separation had to be verified. Therefore, two non-design variables were necessary. The distribution of the peaks over analysis time was applied to describe the quality of the chromatographic separation. The sensitivity was described with the signal to noise ratio (S/N). The evaluation of the measured data was accomplished with the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and the Response Surface Methodology (RSM). Three main effects (concentration, ionization temperature, dwell time) and no significant interaction effect were found for the response variable “S/N”. The variables of concentration, ionization temperature, and dwell time had no significant effects for the response variable “S/N”. The ANOVA of the response variable chromatographic separation abandoned no significant effects as well. Therefore, robustness of the method can be guaranteed for all non significant design variables.     

Normal Point Algorithm For Reduction Of Two Colour Slr Observations

Two colour laser ranging to artificial satellites is an attractivetechnique, which is capable to provide refraction corrected ranges without the need of an atmospheric model by measuring the dispersive delay of laser pulses of different wavelength. Although the required accuracy of the detection scheme is stringent, the technique has matured so far, that routine two colour observationsbecame feasible.The present paper describes a normal point procedure reducing two colour laser range observations with respect to the dispersive delay,exploiting the knowledge of satellite response signatures in conjunction with detector characteristics and the appropriate center of mass correction models.Moreover the dispersion model of the atmosphere is briefly reviewed, paying attention to the wavelength domains provided by modern twocolour ranging lasers, e.g., the Ti:SAP laser.Preliminary data is presented and compared to both, normal point data reduced with a standard procedure and zenith path equivalent meteorological parameters.     

The eastern continuation of the Cadomian orogen: U–Pb zircon evidence from Saxo-Thuringian granitoids in south-western Poland and the northern Czech Republic

We report U–Pb single zircon ages from three pre-Variscan granitoids in the NE part of the Bohemian Massif. The Platerówka granodiorite from the Lausitz-Izera Unit, the Polish Sudetes, has been dated at 533±9 Ma. The Bitouchov granite form the SW part of the South Krkonoe Unit, the Czech Sudetes, gave an age of 540+11/–10 Ma, and the Wdroe granodiorite in the Fore-Sudetic Block yielded 548±9 Ma. All these latest Vendian/Early Cambrian granitoids represent the post-tectonic expression of a late Proterozoic Cadomian orogenic cycle and demonstrate the eastward extent of the Cadomian basement into the Variscan orogen. Granodiorites of similar age have so far been reported from Brittany and especially from the Saxo-Thuringian Terrane to the NE and SW of the Elbe Fault Zone. We conclude that the Saxo-Thuringian Terrane extends across the Elbe and Sudetic Marginal Fault Zones into the Fore-Sudetic Block.     

Calcium isotope (δCa) fractionation along hydrothermal pathways, Logatchev field (Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 14°45′N)

We investigate the Logatchev Hydrothermal Field at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, 14°45′N to constrain the calcium isotope hydrothermal flux into the ocean. During the transformation of seawater to a hydrothermal solution, the Ca concentration of pristine seawater ([Ca]_SW) increases from about 10 mM to about 32 mM in the hydrothermal fluid endmember ([Ca]_HydEnd) and thereby adopts a δ^44/40Ca_HydEnd of −0.95 ± 0.07‰ relative to seawater (SW) and a ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr isotope ratio of 0.7034(4). We demonstrate that δ^44/40Ca_HydEnd is higher than that of the bedrock at the Logatchev field. From mass balance calculations, we deduce a δ^44/40Ca of −1.17 ± 0.04‰ (SW) for the host-rocks in the reaction zone and −1.45 ± 0.05‰ (SW) for the isotopic composition of the entire hydrothermal cell of the Logatchev field. The values are isotopically lighter than the currently assumed δ^44/40Ca for Bulk Earth of −0.92 ± 0.18‰ (SW) [Skulan J., DePaolo D. J. and Owens T. L. (1997) Biological control of calcium isotopic abundances in the global calcium cycle. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta61,(12) 2505-2510] and challenge previous assumptions of no Ca isotope fractionation between hydrothermal fluid and the oceanic crust [Zhu P. and Macdougall J. D. (1998) Calcium isotopes in the marine environment and the oceanic calcium cycle. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta62,(10) 1691-1698; Schmitt A. -D., Chabeaux F. and Stille P. (2003) The calcium riverine and hydrothermal isotopic fluxes and the oceanic calcium mass balance. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 6731, 1-16]. Here we propose that Ca isotope fractionation along the fluid flow pathway of the Logatchev field occurs during the precipitation of anhydrite. Two anhydrite samples from the Logatchev Hydrothermal Field show an average fractionation of about Δ^44/40Ca = −0.5‰ relative to their assumed parental solutions. Ca isotope ratios in aragonites from carbonate veins from ODP drill cores indicate aragonite precipitation directly from seawater at low temperatures with an average δ^44/40Ca of −1.54 ± 0.08‰ (SW). The relatively large fractionation between the aragonite precipitates and seawater in combination with their frequent abundance in weathered mafic and ultramafic rocks suggest a reconsideration of the marine Ca isotope budget, in particular with regard to ocean crust alteration.     

Über die Sedimentationsgeschwindigkeit rezenter Tiefseesedimente

Zusammenfassung Nach einer kurzen Erörterung der wichtigsten Methoden, die die Sedimentationsgeschwindigkeit in rezenten Tiefseeablagerungen auf verschiedenen Wegen zu erfassen versuchten, werden die Werte über die Absatzgeschwindigkeit näher besprochen, die sich aus der Stratigraphie der Meeresablagerungen im äquatorialen Atlantischen Ozean an der Hand der Grundproben der Meteor-Expedition ergeben. Um zuverlässige Werte über die Sedimentationsmenge der heutigen ozeanischen Ablagerungen zu erhalten, ist es zu allererst erforderlich, die stratigraphischen Verhältnisse im Sediment festzulegen, d. h. die gleichzeitig abgelagerten Horizonte auszuscheiden, aus deren Mächtigkeit die Sedimentationsgeschwindigkeit berechnet werden kann. Danach wird auf dem äquatorialen Atlantischen Tiefseeboden seit dem Ausgang des Diluviums durchschnittlich 1 cm in 1000 Jahren sedimentiert (Tab. 1). - Auf Grund der im äquatorialen Atlantischen Ozean gewonnenen stratigraphischen Erkenntnisse wird nach einigen Grundproben der Deutschen Südpolar-Expedition die Sedimentationsgeschwindigkeit im südlichen Indischen Ozean etwas genauer als bisher festgelegt. Sie ist sehr viel geringer als in der atlantischen Äquatorialzone (Tab. 2). Für den äquatorialen Atlantischen Ozean ist außerdem die Absatzgeschwindigkeit während der letzten Diluvialzeit angegeben und das Sedimentationsverhältnis zwischen Blauschlick, Globigerinenschlamm und Rotem Ton. Dies Verhältnis hat sich seit der letzten Eiszeitperiode nicht geändert.Die Arbeit erscheint auch in englischer Sprache im Symposium on Recent Sediments", herausgegeben vom United States National Research Council in Washington.     

Preparing a seismic hazard model for Switzerland: the view from PEGASOS Expert Group 3 (EG1c)

The seismic hazard model used in the PEGASOS project for assessing earth-quake hazard at four NPP sites was a composite of four sub-models, each produced by a team of three experts. In this paper, one of these models is described in detail by the authors. A criticism sometimes levelled at probabilistic seismic hazard studies is that the process by which seismic source zones are arrived at is obscure, subjective and inconsistent. Here, we attempt to recount the stages by which the model evolved, and the decisions made along the way. In particular, a macro-to-micro approach was used, in which three main stages can be described. The first was the characterisation of the overall kinematic model, the “big picture” of regional seismogenesis. Secondly, this was refined to a more detailed seismotectonic model. Lastly, this was used as the basis of individual sources, for which parameters can be assessed. Some basic questions had also to be answered about aspects of the approach to modelling to be used: for instance, is spatial smoothing an appropriate tool to apply? Should individual fault sources be modelled in an intraplate environment? Also, the extent to which alternative modelling decisions should be expressed in a logic tree structure has to be considered.