Westerly Granite and related Rocks of the Westerly-Bradford Area

Guidebook: 55th annual meeting, October 4-6, 1963, Providence, Rhode Island: Trip

Aspectos fisiológicos y productivos de clones de ajo (Allium sativum L.): Morado Inta, Nieve Inta, Fuego Inta y Castaño Inta con fertilizacion y riego por goteo en la Provincia de La Pampa

El ajo es una especie domesticada y cultivada por el hombre hace más de 5.000 años. En base a datos de FAO en 2008 se cosecharon más de 1.225.007 hectáreas, que produjeron alrededor de 16.417.034 toneladas, con un rendimiento mundial promedio de 13,40 tn.ha-1. En Argentina se cultivan 15.000 hectáreas de las cuales 12.000 hectáreas se concentran en Mendoza y San Juan, y por ultimo Buenos Aires, con densidad media de plantación de 270.000 plantas.ha-1. El riego por goteo tiene un excelente potencial al incrementar las eficiencias de riego y el uso del agua del cultivo eliminando pérdidas por percolación profunda y escurrimiento minimizando las pérdidas por evaporación. Se utilizó como “semilla” de ajo, material proveniente del banco de Germoplasma de la Estación Experimental La Consulta, INTA (Mendoza), dicho material se ha seleccionado, principalmente con bulbos bien formados, y que respondan a las características de los distintos clones a evaluar. La plantación se realizó en la Huerta Didáctica y Experimental de la Facultad de Agronomía UNLPam, el 24 de abril de 2012, empleando diseño estadístico de bloques completos al azar con cuatro repeticiones. Se realizaron a su vez los tratamientos con fertilización fraccionada con la aplicación de Urea. Sin fertilización Morado INTA se diferencia significativamente de Castaño INTA; con fertilización Morado INTA y Fuego INTA se destacan significativamente de Castaño INTA

Puesta en evidencia de granitoides triásicos en los Amotapes-Tahuin: deflexión de Huancabamba

El basamento Amotape-Tahuín y Olmos-Loja afloran en los Departamentos de Tumbes y Piura en el Perú (Cordillera Occidental) y en las Provincias de El Oro y Loja en el Ecuador (Cordillera Real). Estos dominios se extienden a través de la Deflexión de Huancabamba que define la transición de los Andes Centrales a los Andes Septentrionales (Fig. 1). El basamento que es de edad paleozoica está intruido por granitoides a los que se le ha atribuido edades diferentes y mal conocidas en el lado peruano de la deflexión. Así, Iddings y Olsson (1928) asumen una edad Jurásica-Cretácica, Martínez (1970) una edad Pensilvaniana y Palacios et al. (1994) una edad Paleozoica inferior. Por primera vez se han datado cuatro muestras correspondientes al granito y ortogneis de Higuerón y al ortogneis de Paita y mediante el método Ar/Ar, habiéndose obtenido edades del Triásico superior entre 223 y 219 Ma. Estas edades se correlacionan con edades similares obtenidas en territorio ecuatoriano. Por otro lado, análisis químicos de estas rocas indican características afines a corteza continental

Toward improved prediction of the bedrock depth underneath hillslopes: Bayesian inference of the bottom‐up control hypothesis using high‐resolution topographic data

The depth to bedrock controls a myriad of processes by influencing subsurface flow paths, erosion rates, soil moisture, and water uptake by plant roots. As hillslope interiors are very difficult and costly to illuminate and access, the topography of the bedrock surface is largely unknown. This essay is concerned with the prediction of spatial patterns in the depth to bedrock (DTB) using high‐resolution topographic data, numerical modeling, and Bayesian analysis. Our DTB model builds on the bottom‐up control on fresh‐bedrock topography hypothesis of Rempe and Dietrich (2014) and includes a mass movement and bedrock‐valley morphology term to extent the usefulness and general applicability of the model. We reconcile the DTB model with field observations using Bayesian analysis with the DREAM algorithm. We investigate explicitly the benefits of using spatially distributed parameter values to account implicitly, and in a relatively simple way, for rock mass heterogeneities that are very difficult, if not impossible, to characterize adequately in the field. We illustrate our method using an artificial data set of bedrock depth observations and then evaluate our DTB model with real‐world data collected at the Papagaio river basin in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Our results demonstrate that the DTB model predicts accurately the observed bedrock depth data. The posterior mean DTB simulation is shown to be in good agreement with the measured data. The posterior prediction uncertainty of the DTB model can be propagated forward through hydromechanical models to derive probabilistic estimates of factors of safety.Key Points:We introduce an analytic formulation for the spatial distribution of the bedrock depthBayesian analysis reconciles our model with field data and quantifies prediction and parameter uncertaintyThe use of a distributed parameterization recognizes geologic heterogeneitiesPeer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/137555/1/wrcr22005.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/137555/2/wrcr22005_am.pd

Physicochemical conditions and timing of rodingite formation: evidence from rodingite-hosted fluid inclusions in the JM Asbestos mine, Asbestos, Québec

Fluid inclusions and geological relationships indicate that rodingite formation in the Asbestos ophiolite, Québec, occurred in two, or possibly three, separate episodes during thrusting of the ophiolite onto the Laurentian margin, and that it involved three fluids. The first episode of rodingitization, which affected diorite, occurred at temperatures of between 290 and 360°C and pressures of 2.5 to 4.5 kbar, and the second episode, which affected granite and slate, occurred at temperatures of between 325 and 400°C and pressures less than 3 kbar. The fluids responsible for these episodes of alteration were moderately to strongly saline (~1.5 to 6.3 m eq. NaCl), rich in divalent cations and contained appreciable methane. A possible third episode of alteration is suggested by primary fluid inclusions in vesuvianite-rich bodies and secondary inclusions in other types of rodingite, with significantly lower trapping temperatures, salinity and methane content. The association of the aqueous fluids with hydrocarbon-rich fluids containing CH4 and higher order alkanes, but no CO2, suggests strongly that the former originated from the serpentinites. The similarities in the composition of the fluids in all rock types indicate that the ophiolite had already been thrust onto the slates when rodingitization occurred

The growth of large mafic intrusions: Comparing Niquelandia and Ivrea igneous complexes

The Niquelandia Complex, Brazil, is one of the world's largest mafic-ultramafic plutonic complexes. Like the Mafic Complex of the Ivrea-Verbano Zone, it is affected by a pervasive high-T foliation and shows hypersolidus deformation structures, contains significant inclusions of country-rock paragneiss, and is subdivided into a Lower and an Upper Complex. In this paper, we present new SHRIMP U-Pb zircon ages that provide compelling evidence that the Upper and the Lower Niquelandia Complexes formed during the same igneous event at ca. 790 Ma. Coexistence of syn-magmatic and high-T subsolidus deformation structures indicates that both complexes grew incrementally as large crystal mush bodies which were continuously stretched while fed by pulses of fresh magma. Syn-magmatic recrystallization during this deformation resulted in textures and structures which, although appearing metamorphic, are not ascribable to post-magmatic metamorphic event(s), but are instead characteristic of the growth process in huge and deep mafic intrusions such as both the Niquelandia and Ivrea Complexes. Melting of incorporated country-rock paragneiss continued producing hybrid rocks during the last, vanishing stages of magmatic crystallization. This resulted in the formation of minor, late-stage hybrid rocks, whose presence obscures the record of the main processes of interaction between mantle magmas and crustal components, which may be active at the peak of the igneous events and lead to the generation of eruptible hybrid magmas. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Research Support Foundation of the State of Sao Paulo (FAPESP)Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq