El icnogénero Zoophycos y su valor sedimentológico y paleoambiental

El icnogénero Zoophycos (Cancellophynts) puede proporcionar datos sedimentológicos de sumo interés, lo cual viene favorecido por: su fácil reconocimiento (tanto en series estratigráficas como en testigos de sondeos), relativa frecuencia de aparición, y amplia reparticibn temporal (Ordovicico - Cuaternario)

The usefulness of artificial intelligence techniques to assess subjective quality of products in the food industry

In this paper we advocate the application of Artificial Intelligence techniques to quality assessment of food products. Machine Learning algorithms can help us to: (a) extract operative human knowledge from a set of examples; (b) conclude interpretable rules for classifying samples regardless of the non-linearity of the human behaviour or process; and (c) help us to ascertain the degree of influence of each objective attribute of the assessed food on the final decision of an expert. We illustrate these topics with an example of how it is possible to clone the behaviour of bovine carcass classifiers, leading to possible further industrial application

Sedimentología y caracterización paleoambiental de la serie cretácica inferior de Antromero-Luanco (Asturias)

A paleoenvironmental study for a Lower Cretaceuos (Late Barremian-Aptian) succession (Antromero-Luanco section, Asturian coast) is showed in this work based on stratigraphic, sedimentological and paleontological data. The lower part of the succession shows terrigenous deposits (the Peñaferruz Fm) recording fluvial and fan-deltaic sedimentation, while the upper part is characterized by shallow-water carbonates (the Antromero Fm) covering a broad carbonate platform environments from restricted to open marine zones. Fossil associations had been very helpful in order to interpret the main environmental features

Spatial geochemistry of a Carboniferous platform-margin-to-basin transect: Balancing environmental and diagenetic factors

Conventional (one-dimensional) chemostratigraphy of marine carbonates assesses the chemical archive of individual stratigraphic sections and their correlation in space and time. Whereas this approach has shown to be of value when linking isobathymetric domains, usually characterised by similar facies, more caution is needed when correlations are extended across different physiographic settings and hence different facies belts. Here, the spatial geochemical record of Pennsylvanian platform-margin-to-basin transects across a bathymetric range of about 800 m is documented and discussed in a process-oriented context. Particularly, the presence of layered palaeo-water masses and their potential control on slope facies distribution and geochemical properties requires attention. Whereas Carboniferous thermo- and/or chemo-clines most likely affected depth-related slope facies zonation, it was facies change and hence, variances in porosity-permeability properties, that controlled differential early burial diagenetic alteration. Specifically, the lower-slope related breccia facies is characterised by higher volumes of early burial carbonate cements. This implies that these sediments entered the shallow-burial domain with a considerable open pore space and gave way to an increased rock:fluid ratio. Whereas the