High iridium concentration of alkaline rocks of Deccan and implications to K/T boundary

We report here an unusually high concentration of iridium in some alkali basalts and alkaline rocks of Deccan region having an age of about 65Ma, similar to the age of the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. The alkali basalts of Anjar, in the western periphery of Deccan province, have iridium concentration as high as 178pg/g whereas the alkaline rocks and basalts associated with the Amba Dongar carbonatite complex have concentrations ranging between 8 and 80 pg/g. Some of these values are more than an order of magnitude higher than the concentration in the tholeiitic basalts of Deccan, indicating the significance of alkaline magmatism in the iridium inventory at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. Despite higher concentration, their contribution to the global inventory of iridium in the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary clays remains small. The concentration of iridium in fluorites from Amba Dongar was found to be <30 pg/g indicating that iridium is not incorporated during their formation in hydrothermal activity.     

An Approach for Classification of Groundwaters by Synchronous Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Discriminant Analysis

Monitoring and evaluation of groundwater quality in drinking water protectorates is of particular interest if the uncontrolled entry of pollutants, for example by infiltrating river water, cannot be excluded. A fluorescence spectroscopic method is presented as possible alternative to the conventional expensive hydrochemical investigations. This method uses the information yielded by synchronous fluorescence spectra. After a Fourier transformation of the original spectra and a following discriminant analysis, the samples can be classified in different groups corresponding to the different types of groundwater. The method was tested in the drinking water protectorate of a waterworks of a German metropolis (Halle, Sachsen-Anhalt). We found a prediction rate of about 90% in the investigated case.     

Comparability of Large-Scale Studies of Agricultural Chemical Contamination of Rural Private Wells

Detection of agricultural chemicals in ground water has prompted numerous studies. Federal, state, and regional studies were conducted in the last 10 years in order to assess the occurrence of agricultural chemicals in ground water. The results of the studies present the number or percentage of samples with agricultural chemicals above the drinking water standard or health advisory levels as well as samples with detections of one or more compounds. Data comparison from one state or region to another are frequently referred to by regulatory and agency personnel involved in water quality and agriculture issues. Unless the history of pesticide use, method of chemical analyses, detection limits, statistical design of the sampling plan, well type, well depth, geology of the formation material, and typical land use around the wellhead are known, such comparisons can be misleading. Reporting the limitations or presenting a disclaimer should be a key element for a study so that "apples and oranges" are not compared.     

Über die Zufuhr von Turbulenzenergie durch Grenzflächenreibung und labile Schichtung

Zusammenfassung In einer turbulenten Strömung wird die Arbeitsleistung der mittleren Schubspannung an den Begrenzungen durch deren Rauhigkeit in Turbulenzenergie umgewandelt. Das Resultat ist ein Austauschstrom dieser Energie von der Begrenzung in die Flüssigkeit hinein. Dies kann ein sehr wesentlicher Beitrag zur Aufrechterhaltung seiner Turbulenz werden, insbesondere in Fällen stabiler Schichtung in Bodennähe.In den bekannten Ableitungen des Richardsonschen Turbulenzkriteriums und in der gebräuchlichen Gleichung für die Änderung der Turbulenzenergie scheint man diesen Randeinfluß nicht zu berücksichtigen. Beide Beziehungen versagen außerdem bei Anwendung auf neutrale Schichtung. Für diesen Fall liefern sie, wie von K. L. Calder [1949] und O. G. Sutton [1949] bemerkt, eine ständige Zunahme der Turbulenzenergie, weil die Arbeitsleistungen der Zusatzgeschwindigkeiten gegen die turbulenten Schwankungen des Druckgradienten unberücksichtigt blieben. Bei einer korrekten Ableitung und Anwendung sind sie ebenso in Rechnung zu stellen wie die Konvergenz obigen Austauschstromes der Turbulenzenergie.

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On the supply of turbulent energy by boundary friction and unstable stratification

Summary In a turbulent current, the work of the average shearing stress is transformed into eddy energy by the roughness of its boundaries. The result is a turbulent transport of this energy from the boundary into the fluid. This may become an essential contribution to maintaining the turbulence of the current, especially in cases of stable stratification next to the bottom.This influence of the boundary has apparently been considered neither in the known derivations of Richardson's criterion of turbulence nor in the usual equation of the change of eddy energy which both, in addition, fail when being applied to neutral stratification. In this case, the criterion gives a permanent increase of eddy energy contrary to the observations already stated by K. L. Calder [1949] and O. G. Sutton [1949], since the work of the eddy velocities against the fluctuations of the gradient of pressure is not taken into account. In a correct derivation and application we have to consider both, this work and the convergence of the eddy flow of turbulent energy normal to the smoothed boundaries.

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Sur la formation d'énergie turbulente causée par la friction des surfaces de séparation et par la stratification labile

Résumé Dans un courant turbulent le rendement moyen du frottement tangentiel auprès des limites solides est transformé en énergie turbulente grâce à la rugosité de ces limites. Le résultat en est un transport de cette énergie à partir des limites solides jusqu'à l'intérieur de la fluide. Cette énergie peut essentiellement contribuer à la conservation de la turbulence du courant, surtout en présence d'une stratification stable au voisinage du sol.Il semble que l'on ne tienne pas compte de cet effet des limites solides dans les dérivations connues du critérium de turbulence d'après Richardson et dans l'équation usuelle concernant le changement de l'énergie turbulente. En outre, ces deux relations ne correspondent pas aux observations lorsqu'on essaie de les appliquer à la stratification neutre, ce qui était déjà constaté par K. L. Calder [1949] et par O. G. Sutton [1949]. Le critérium fournit dans ce cas-là une augmentation permanente de l'énergie turbulente parce que le rendement de la vitesse additionnelle qui a une influence affaiblissante sur les variations turbulentes du gradient de pression n'est pas considéré. Afin d'assurer une dérivation et une application correcte il est nécessaire de considérer l'influence affaiblissante de la vitesse additionnelle sur les variations du gradient de pression aussi bien que de tenir compte du transport de l'énergie turbulente à partir des limites solides jusqu'à l'intérieur de la fluide.

     

Metamorphic history of the Jutogh Series in the Simla klippe,lower Himalayas

The metamorphic rocks of the Jutogh Series around Simla, structurally overlying the less metamorphosed rock groups along a thrust contact, have been involved in three phases of deformation and two episodes of metamorphism. The first metamorphism is in the albite-epidote-amphibolite facies in a major part of the area, reaching the amphibolite facies locally in the central part. This metamorphism is late-to post-kinematic with reference to the F ₁ movement, the thermal peak having been reached in a post-F ₁ pre-F ₂ static phase. The second metamorphism, syn-to post-tectonic with respect to F ₂ but preceding F ₃, is generally in the greenschist facies, and only locally in the albite-epidote-amphibolite facies in the higher structural levels. Metamorphic overprinting has caused widespread retrogression and disequilibrium assemblages. As the large scale recumbent folding and thrusting of F ₁ and F ₂ phases belong to the Tertiary Himalayan orogeny, the metamorphism in the Jutogh Series could not have been Precambrian in age.     

Mineralogy,petrology, and chemistry of a Luna 16 basaltic fragment,sample B-1

Luna 16 sample B-1 was the largest fragment (62 mg) obtained in the sample exchange with the USSR. Petrologic, mineralogic, and chemical investigations have been made on this fragment in conjunction with Rb-Sr and⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar investigations by our colleagues. Sample B-1 is a fine-grained ophitic basalt but is distinguished from the Apollo samples by containing a single pyroxene, predominantly pigeonitic, an ilmenite content (7%) intermediate to that of the Apollo 11 and 12 samples, and subequal amounts of pyroxene (50%) and plagioclase (40%). Chemically it is distinguished by a high Sr content (437 ppm) and a high K/U value (4700). The K-content (1396 ppm) is higher than that of Luna 16 soil sample A-2.     

The frequency response of the horizontal magnetic field for a conductive channel

Summary. Babour & Mosnier's results showing no frequency dependence between the anomalous horizontal magnetic field above a conductor and the difference between the horizontal magnetic fields above and below the conductor over a wide range of frequencies led them to conclude that this effect is due to current channelling. A two-dimensional numerical model of a conductive channel, with a uniform horizontal source field, shows the same effect over a wide range of frequencies. Thus local induction can show the same effect.     

The Apoteri volcanic formation — tholeiitic flows in the North Savannas Graben of Guyana and Brazil

Amygdaloidal tholeiitic flows, locally pillowed, have been mapped at intervals over a distance of 280 km along the margins of the North Savannas Rift Valley in southern Guyana and Brazil. The combined chemical and petrological evidence suggests that the formation represents an originally uniform continental tholeiitic sequence that has undergone variable secondary alteration involving increasing oxidation and ingress of soda, potash and water. The lavas are both spatially and temporally related to the rift faulting; field observations and K∶Ar age determinations on eleven samples from different localities indicate that the flows were erupted during the Early to Middle Jurassic (180-150 m. y.). It is shown that this tectono-magmatic event is synchronous with the initiation of the southern North Atlantic rift and the pan-Antarctic rift which resulted in fragmentation of the continents according to the scheme ofDietz &Holden (1970).     

Vertical migration ofcentropages typicus (copepoda) in Chesapeake Bay,with some thoughts on migration studies

Centropages typicus was collected at two hour intervals over a diel cycle at a station near the Chesapeake Bay mouth. The species migrated upward at dusk and downward at dawn. Neither light, temperature, salinity, nor density appeared to cue the migration. Attention is drawn to the need for information on the extent and regularity of migration by individual organisms, and how the lack of such information may lead to poor interpretations of migration data.