Bloomer Girl Revisited or How to Frame an Unmade Picture

Nearly all contracts casebooks feature the saga of Shirley MacLaine\u27s suit against Twentieth Century Fox arising from the cancellation of the proposed film Bloomer Girl. None really get the story right. To be fair, none try. The case is a vehicle for exploring the obligation of the victim of the breach of an employment contract to take alternative employment. If MacLaine refused an offer of alternative employment that was not different and inferior, her failure to mitigate would mean that the earnings she would have received would be offset against the damages; so, asked the court, was the alternative proposed by Fox different and inferior? And for that purpose it can be great fun. Is a western-type movie to be filmed in Australia different and inferior to a musical about Amelia Bloomer to be filmed in Hollywood? If so, what would not be? A musical filmed in England? A western musical? What about a western set in Mexico in which MacLaine played a nun with an unsavory past? Could she have possibly settled for that

The Use of Integrated Fluid Inclusion Studies for Constraining Petroleum Charge History at Parsons Pond, Western Newfoundland, Canada

This study, based on fluid inclusion petrography, microthermometry and ultraviolet microspectroscopy of inclusion oil, investigates the petroleum charge history at Parsons Pond, western Newfoundland. To address this matter, drill core and cuttings samples of allochthonous and autochthonous strata in the Parson’s Pond area were collected from three exploration wells. Fluid inclusions were examined from fragments of calcite and quartz veins, diagenetic cements in sandstone, and in large hydrothermal dolomite and calcite crystals. Primary aqueous inclusions in authigenic sandstone cements indicate that cementation occurred at relatively shallow depths and low temperatures (<50 °C). Hydrocarbon-bearing fluid inclusions (petroleum, wet gas and gas) are generally restricted to calcite and quartz veins, indicating that petroleum and gas migration at Parson’s Pond is fracture-controlled. No hydrocarbons were observed in the diagenetic cements of the essentially tight sandstones. Fluid inclusion microthermometry and ultraviolet microspectroscopy indicate the presence of multiple generations of hydrocarbon fluid, ranging in composition from ~33 API gravity petroleum to pure CH4. Petrographic evidence suggests that hydrocarbons were generated multiple times during progressive burial and heating. In addition, the distribution of hydrocarbon bearing inclusions with depth suggests that deeper levels are gas-prone, with petroleum confined to relatively shallow depths. Although only gas flow was encountered during the drilling of exploration wells at Parson’s Pond, the presence of petroleum-bearing fluid inclusions in calcite and quartz veins indicates that the historical production from shallow wells in the Parsons Pond area likely tapped small reservoirs of fractured petroliferous strata

Geology, mineralogy, S and Sr isotope geochemistry, and fluid inclusion analysis of barite associated with the Lemarchant Zn–Pb–Cu–Ag–Au-rich volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit, Newfoundland, Canada

Barite in the ~513 Ma Lemarchant VMS deposit, Newfoundland, consists of granular and bladed barite intimately associated with mineralization. Regardless of type, the barite is homogeneous at bulk rock and mineral scale containing predominantly Ba, S, Ca, with minor Sr and Na. The barite has homogeneous sulphur isotope compositions (δ34Smean = 27‰), similar to Cambrian seawater sulphate (25-35‰), and Sr isotope compositions (87Sr/86Sr = 0.70699 to 0.70751). These results are consistent with barite having formed from fluid-fluid mixing between Cambrian seawater and VMS-related hydrothermal fluids. The 87Sr/86Sr values in the barite are lower than mid-Cambrian seawater, which suggests that some of the Sr was derived from underlying Neoproterozoic basement. Fluid inclusions in bladed barite are low-salinity, CO2-rich inclusions with homogenization temperatures between 245°-250°C, and average salinity of 1.2 wt.% NaCl equivalent. Estimated minimum trapping pressures of between 1.7 to 2.0 kbars were calculated from aqueous-carbonic fluid inclusion assemblages. The fluid inclusion results reflect regional metamorphic reequilibration during younger Silurian regional metamorphism, rather than primary fluid signatures, despite the preservation of primary barite and fluid-inclusion textures. These results illustrate that barite in VMS deposits records the physicochemical processes associated with VMS formation and the sources of fluids in ancient VMS deposits, as well as seawater sulphate and basement isotopic compositions. The results herein are not only relevant for the Lemarchant deposit but other barite-rich VMS deposits, globally.The accepted manuscript in pdf format is listed with the files at the bottom of this page. The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the manuscript may differ slightly between what is listed on this page and what is listed in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript; that in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript is what was submitted by the author