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The age and origin of the central Scotia Sea
Opening of the Drake Passage gateway between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans has been linked in various ways to Cenozoic climate changes. From the oceanic floor of Drake Passage, the largest of the remaining uncertainties in understanding this opening is in the timing and process of the opening of the central Scotia Sea. All but one of the available constraints on the age of the central Scotia Sea is diagnostic of, or consistent with, a Mesozoic age. Comparison of tectonic and magnetic features on the seafloor with plate kinematic models shows that it is likely to have accreted to a mid-ocean ridge between the South American and Antarctic plates following their separation in Jurassic times. Subsequent regional shallowing may be related to subduction-related processes that preceded backarc extension in the East Scotia Sea. The presence of a fragment of Jurassic–Cretaceous ocean floor in the gateway implies that deep water connections through the Scotia Sea basin complex may have been possible since Eocene times when the continental tips of South America and the Antarctic Peninsula first passed each other
Three small systems showing probable room-temperature superconductivity
I shall discuss three small systems in which I think room-temperature
superconductivity has been observed. These are: 1. Narrow channels through
films of oxidised atactic polypropylene (OAPP) and other polymers. 2. Some
multiwalled carbon nanotubes or mats of nanotubes. 3. Sandwich structures based
on CdF_2. The main emphasis will be on polymer films.Comment: 8 pages. Physica C, to be published. Changes from v2: Journal of
publication added. Two sentences added on both page 1 and page 6. Three
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Graduate recital: perspective and analysis: an overview of Morton Feldman's The King of Denmark, Michael Gordon's XY, and Jacob Druckman's Reflections on the Nature of Water
Master's Project (M.Mu.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 201
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