scholarly journals O gênero Pholadomya Sowerby, 1823 (Mollusca: Bivalvia) na formação Jandaíra (Cretáceo Superior), Bacia Potiguar: implicações paleoecológicas e paleogeográficas

2008 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-97
Author(s):  
Natalia Pereira Benaim ◽  
Maria Célia Elias Senra
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
The South ◽  
Shallow Seas ◽  
Latitudinal Range

Pholadomya Sowerby, 1823 is an anomalodesmatan bivalve that dispersed during Mesozoic, like other Mollusks, colonizating the South Atlantic shallow seas, between Brazil and Africa. On brazilian Cretaceous the sources of Pholadomya are scarce, occurring in outcrops from Algodões Formation, Gramame Formation and Jandaíra Formation, where occurs the species Pholadomya baixaleitensis. Based on specimens from new outcrops of Jandaíra Formation, a new occurrence of P. cf. adversa and P. baixaleitensis are shown and a new morfotype for the genus is described. It was possible to infer that the species studied presented deep endobentonic habits, and burrowed slowly the sediment, probably living their whole life into the same cavity. During Campanian Pholadomya is known from Cameroon, France, Poland, Austria, Germany and other localities in United States of America, occurring in association with other tethyan mollusks. The records of the genus in the marginal equatorial basins enhance the fossil bivalve diversity, and agree with the hypotesis of a south latitudinal range for the Tethyan Realm during Upper Cretaceous.

scholarly journals A Comparative Discussion of the Judicial Disqualification of Directors under the South African Companies Act

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Rehana Cassim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
South African ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
The South ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Locus Standi

Abstract Section 162 of the South African Companies Act 71 of 2008 empowers courts to declare directors delinquent and hence to disqualify them from office. This article compares the judicial disqualification of directors under this section with the equivalent provisions in the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States of America, which have all influenced the South African act. The article compares the classes of persons who have locus standi to apply to court to disqualify a director from holding office, as well as the grounds for the judicial disqualification of a director, the duration of the disqualification, the application of a prescription period and the discretion conferred on courts to disqualify directors from office. It contends that, in empowering courts to disqualify directors from holding office, section 162 of the South African Companies Act goes too far in certain respects.

Anorogenic magmatism and the Grenvillian Orogeny

1989 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-489 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian F. Windley
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South America ◽  
Continental Margin ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Island Arc ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Continental Block ◽  
Grenvillian Orogeny ◽  
Alkaline Complexes

The Grenvillian Orogeny was preceded by extensive anorogenic volcanism and plutonism in the period 1500–1300 Ma in the form of rhyolites, epizonal granites, anorthosites, gabbros, alkaline complexes, and basic dykes. An analogue for the mid-Proterozoic anorogenic complexes is provided by the 2000 km by 200 km belt of anorogenic complexes in the Hoggar, Niger, and Nigeria, which contain anorthosites, gabbros, and peralkaline granites and were generated in a Cambrian to Jurassic rift that farther south led to the formation of the South Atlantic. An analogue for the 1 × 106 km2 area of 1500–1350 Ma rhyolites (and associated epizonal granites) that underlie the mid-continental United States is provided by the 1.7 × 106 km2 area of Jurassic Tobifera rhyolites in Argentina, which were extruded on the stretched continental margin of South America immediately preceding the opening of the South Atlantic. The mid-Proterozoic complexes were intruded close to the continental margin of the Grenvillian ocean and were commonly superimposed by the craton-directed thrusts that characterized the final stages of the Grenvillian Orogeny. The bulk of the Keweenawan rift and associated anorogenic magmatism formed about 1100 Ma at the same time as the Ottawan Orogeny in Ontario, which probably resulted from the collision of the island arc of the Central Metasedimentary Belt attached to the continental block in the east with the continental block to the west. The most appropriate modern equivalent would be the Rhine Graben, which formed at the same time as the main Alpine compression.

Agreement on South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone

1996 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-63
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
The United States ◽  
The South ◽  
Free Zone ◽  
The United Kingdom

The governments of the French Republic, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America will sign on Monday, March 25, 1996 the three additional protocols to the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone Treaty, which is also known as the Treaty of Rarotonga.

scholarly journals Vrouwees: perspektiewe in die meer onlangse Afrikaanse poësie en prosa

Literator ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-43
Author(s):  
R. Marais
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Women Writers ◽  
South African ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
The South ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Feminist Movements ◽  
Creative Writings

This article investigates the views on woman and womanhood that are expressed in the poetry and prose of several contemporary women writers in Afrikaans. The study is conducted against the background of certain tendencies in feminist movements in Europe, Britain and the United States of America as well as views pronounced in the writings (both literary and feminist) of a number of feminist writers in Europe, Britain and the USA. For the purposes of this investigation a short exposition is given of what feminism entails, as well as of a number of the different views and approaches which it accommodates. Subsequently different views on womanhood as expressed in the creative writings of a number of women writers who have written extensively on this topic are discussed at the hand of their poetry and prose. Specific attention is paid to the South African woman’s views on men, marriage, her own sexuality and motherhood as revealed in the writings of these women.

Experiences of violence in HIV seropositive women in the south-eastern United States of America

1999 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 606-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Sowell ◽  
Brenda Seals ◽  
Linda Moneyham ◽  
Joyce Guillory ◽  
Yuko Mizuno
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
Eastern United States ◽  
The South ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Hiv Seropositive

scholarly journals Regional Characterization of Tornado Activity

2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 654-659 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Trapp ◽  
Harold E. Brooks
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High Activity ◽  
Gamma Distribution ◽  
The United States ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Major Contributor ◽  
The South ◽  
Upper Midwest ◽  
Statistical Behavior

AbstractIn the United States, tornado activity of a given year is usually assessed in terms of the total number of human-reported tornadoes. Such assessments fail to account for the seldom-acknowledged fact that an active (or inactive) tornado year for the United States does not necessarily equate with activity (or inactivity) everywhere in the country. The authors illustrate this by comparing the geospatial tornado distributions from 1987, 2004, and 2011. Quantified in terms of the frequency of daily tornado occurrence (or “tornado days”), the high activity in the South Atlantic and upper Midwest regions was a major contributor to the record-setting number of tornadoes in 2004. The high activity in 2011 arose from significant tornado occurrences in the Southeast and lower Midwest. The authors also show that the uniqueness of the activity during these years can be determined by modeling the local statistical behavior of tornado days by a gamma distribution.

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