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Traitement statistique de donnees palynologiques de l'Holocene du lac Tanma (Senegal)
Le traitement statistique de données pa l ynologiques de 1 ' Ho l ocene du Lac Tanma situé a u Sénégal, a u Nord de Dakar , a u moyen de 1' analyse canonique permet de préciser le schéma clima tique ex posé antérieuremcnt . Il est notamment mis en évidence une pulsation positive de la pluviosi té ca . 6000 BP .El procesamiento de datos palinológicos del Ho l oceno de l l ago Tanma situado al norte de Dakar en Senegal por medio de un anál i s i s canónico ha permitido precisar la in terpretación climá tica anteriormente propuesta , y parti cularmente , poner de manifiesto una pulsación positi va de la l l uvia c a . 6000 BP
Postglacial Vegetation, Climate History and Land-Sea Interaction at Island Lake, Baie des Chaleurs, New Brunswick, as Documented by Palynological Analysis
This study demonstrates that lakes located near the coast, close to large bodies of water, can document sea-level fluctuations and the subtle sea-land interaction that governs coastal areas. At Island Lake, located close to the head of Baie des Chaleurs, northern New Brunswick, the postglacial marine transgression corresponds with a reversal from a cold and dry herb and shrub tundra environment to open pioneer forest that was warmer and wetter. Successive incursions of poplar/aspen and spruce were succeeded by boreal forest dominated by spruce, alder and birch. A forest dominated by alder and fir, indicators of wetter and even colder local conditions followed. Paleoclimatic reconstruction inferred from pollen stratigraphy indicates that an early warming period culminating ca. 9450 BP, was followed by a period when temperatures remained cool. At the same time, the annual precipitation rose sharply, suggesting increased availability of moisture in this area. This is interpreted as a cooling effect due to the proximity to a large body of water to the study site and is attributed to the marine transgression into Baie des Chaleurs following the discharge of glacial lakes Agassiz and Barlow-Ojibway into the Great Lakes and Goldthwait Sea and the isostatic adjustment of the landmass. The cooling effect was recorded by a vegetation change from ca. 9450 to 8100 BP. Within that period, from ca. 8500 to ca. 8400 BP, the vegetation did not record the effect of the proximity to the sea. This period is postulated to be a period of low water levels in the Baie. Recovery to the regional climate norm occurred after 8100 BP when the climate was warmer than today. Since then the climate gradually cooled.Cette étude démontre que des lacs situés à proximité de vastes étendues d’eau peuvent fournir des informations sur les variations antérieures du niveau marin et les subtiles interactions terre-mer qui régissent les régions côtières. Au lac Island, à l’amont de la baie des Chaleurs, dans le nord du Nouveau-Brunswick, pendant que se produisait la transgression marine postglaciaire, la toundra froide et sèche à herbes et arbustes a été remplacée par une forêt pionnière plus chaude et plus humide. Après des incursions successives de peupliers/trembles et d’épinettes, une forêt boréale dominée par l’épinette, l’aulne et le bouleau s’est établie. Par la suite, une forêt où dominaient l’aulne et le sapin, indices de conditions locales plus humides et froides, s’est installée. Les reconstructions paléoclimatiques basées sur la stratigraphie pollinique mettent en lumière l’existence d’une période de réchauffement hâtive culminant vers 9450 BP, suivie d’une période pendant laquelle la température s’est refroidie. Parallèlement, les précipitations annuelles ont rapidement augmenté, ce qui suggère un accroissement de l’humidité régionale. Le refroidissement découlerait de la présence d’une vaste étendue d’eau à proximité du site d’étude ; celui-ci aurait été causé par une transgression marine dans la baie des Chaleurs survenue à la suite de la décharge des lacs Agassiz et Barlow-Ojibway dans les Grands Lacs et la mer de Goldthwait due au redressement isostatique du continent. Des changements dans la composition végétale reflètent ce refroidissement entre 9450 et 8100 BP, sauf vers 8500 à 8400 BP, période durant laquelle la baie présentait probablement un bas niveau d’eau. Un retour aux conditions climatiques régionales normales s’est produit après 8100 BP, époque à laquelle la température était plus chaude qu’aujourd’hui. Depuis cette période, le climat se refroidit graduellement
Last glacial maximum biomes reconstructed from pollen and plant macrofossil data from northern Eurasia
Cultivar mulato (Brachiaria híbrido CIAT 36061): Gramínea de alta producción y calidad forrajera para los trópicos
Liquid-gas phase transition in hot nuclei studied with INDRA
Thanks to the high detection quality of the INDRA array, signatures related
to the dynamics (spinodal decomposition) and thermodynamics (negative
microcanonical heat capacity) of a liquid-gas phase transition have been
simultaneously studied in multifragmentation events in the Fermi energy domain.
The correlation between both types of signals strongly supports the existence
of a first order phase transition for hot nuclei.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figures, Invited talk to Nucleus-nucleus 2003 Moscow June
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Vegetation reconstruction to the mid-Holocene transition in Sahel and Sahara : first palynological results of a lacustrine record from the Mega-Lake Chad
Exploring the performance of the spectrometer prisma in heavy zirconium and xenon mass regions
We present results from two recent runs which illustrate the performance of the PRISMA spectrometer in the proximity of the upper limit of its operational interval, namely 96Zr + 124Sn at Elab = 500 MeV and 136Xe + 208Pb at Elab = 930 MeV. In the latter run, the γ array CLARA also allowed us to identify previously unknown γ transitions in the nuclides 136Cs and 134I
Multifragmentation process for different mass asymmetry in the entrance channel around the Fermi energy
The influence of the entrance channel asymmetry upon the fragmentation
process is addressed by studying heavy-ion induced reactions around the Fermi
energy. The data have been recorded with the INDRA 4pi array. An event
selection method called the Principal Component Analysis is presented and
discussed. It is applied for the selection of central events and furthermore to
multifragmentation of single source events. The selected subsets of data are
compared to the Statistical Multifragmentation Model (SMM) to check the
equilibrium hypothesis and get the source characteristics. Experimental
comparisons show the evidence of a decoupling between thermal and compresional
(radial flow) degrees of freedom in such nuclear systems.Comment: 28 pages, 15 figures, article sumitted to Nuclear Physics
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