A REVIEW OF BORON SEDIMENTARY GEOCHEMISTRY IN RELATION TO NEW ANALYSES OF SOME NORTH AMERICAN SHALES

1966 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. M. Shaw ◽  
R. Bugry

One hundred and sixty-eight North American shales, ranging in age from Proterozoic to Cretaceous, have been analyzed for boron; analyses for CO2 permitted corrections to a carbonate-free basis. The B values mostly agree with the inferred salinities of the environments of deposition, based on geological evidence: anomalously low values in the Devonian Littleton formation may be correlated with loss of B to regional quartz–tourmaline veins.The data do not permit drawing any inference regarding secular variations in oceanic B content.A review of recent work on B sedimentary geochemistry indicates the need for analyses of real, rather than hypothetical, mineral phases.

1987 ◽  
Vol 119 (11) ◽  
pp. 1043-1054 ◽  
Author(s):  
V.R. Vickery

AbstractA number of recent publications have been produced on North American orthopteroid insects. These publications differ in some respects in dealing with the northern, particularly Canadian, orthopteroid fauna. This paper details the changes in names of taxa at nearly all levels, together with the present accepted names, and explanations and reasons for the changes.


1984 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 533-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Handa ◽  
P. A. Camfield

Seven recording magnetometers monitored time-varying fields at points on a northwest–southeast line 280 km long in north-central Saskatchewan during July 1981. The experiment was designed to test the hypothesis advanced in 1975 by Alabi, Camfield, and Gough that the electrical conductivity anomaly in the North American Central Plains links with the Wollaston Domain in the exposed Precambrian Shield of Saskatchewan. From clear reversals in the phase of vertical variations, it is evident that the conductor passes between two stations straddling the Rottenstone–La Ronge Magmatic Belt, to the immediate east of the Wollaston Domain. Enhanced horizontal variations transverse to the belt at a third, intermediate, station reinforce this interpretation. Vertical-field response arrows obtained from daytime events in the period range 1–40 min clearly indicate the existence of a major conductor that extends to lower crustal depths beneath the belt. To the northwest across the Cree Lake Zone, reversals in the direction of response arrows at short periods (up to 4 min) imply complex electrical structures in the shallow part of the crust.Lewry termed the Rottenstone–La Ronge Belt a Hudsonian "Cordillera-type" arc massif, and described strong geological evidence for collisional suturing and microplate interaction in this part of the Churchill Province. A similar scenario seems to apply in Wyoming, from the work of Hills and Houston. Thus the conductor appears to trace a Proterozoic plate margin 1500 km from a subduction zone in Wyoming along a transform fault to a subduction zone in northern Saskatchewan.


1961 ◽  
Vol 3 (29) ◽  
pp. 940-943 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxwell Gage

Abstract Recent work has resulted in recognition of an additional glaciation preceding the Waimaunga Glaciation in the late Pleistocene. This followed the mid-Pleistocene climax of earth movements responsible for most of the present mountainous relief of New Zealand, but only after an interval of time long enough for the construction and subsequent deep dissection of Banks Peninsula shield volcano. It is inferred from this and other geological evidence that the earliest late Pleistocene glaciation was separated from the early Pleistocene Ross Glaciation by several hundred thousand years, and that the Pleistocene Period altogether covers at least one million years.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cesar Braga-Pinto

Film studies have come to occupy a central part of the curriculum in literature and culture departments, particularly in Anglophone universities. This trend is reflected in the growing number of monographs and edited volumes on Brazilian cinema that have appeared over the last decade. Whereas the indisputable pioneers and authorities (namely, Randall Johnson and Robert Stam) are based in North American universities, it is interesting that much of the recent work on Brazilian film (in English) is authored by scholars based in British universities.


2013 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 345-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Thilini Jaksa ◽  
Venkataramana Sridhar ◽  
Justin L. Huntington ◽  
Mandar Khanal

Abstract Estimating evapotranspiration using the complementary relationship can serve as a proxy to more sophisticated physically based approaches and can be used to better understand water and energy budget feedbacks. The authors investigated the existence of complementarity between actual evapotranspiration (ET) and potential ET (ETp) over natural vegetation in semiarid desert ecosystems of southern Idaho using only the forcing data and simulated fluxes obtained from Noah land surface model (LSM) and North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) data. To mitigate the paucity of long-term meteorological data, the Noah LSM-simulated fluxes and the NARR forcing data were used in the advection–aridity (AA) model to derive the complementary relationship (CR) for the sagebrush and cheatgrass ecosystems. When soil moisture was a limiting factor for ET, the CR was stable and asymmetric, with b values of 2.43 and 1.43 for sagebrush and cheatgrass, respectively. Higher b values contributed to decreased ET and increased ETp, and as a result ET from the sagebrush community was less compared to that of cheatgrass. Validation of the derived CR showed that correlations between daily ET from the Noah LSM and CR-based ET were 0.76 and 0.80 for sagebrush and cheatgrass, respectively, while the root-mean-square errors were 0.53 and 0.61 mm day−1.


1961 ◽  
Vol 3 (29) ◽  
pp. 940-943
Author(s):  
Maxwell Gage

AbstractRecent work has resulted in recognition of an additional glaciation preceding the Waimaunga Glaciation in the late Pleistocene. This followed the mid-Pleistocene climax of earth movements responsible for most of the present mountainous relief of New Zealand, but only after an interval of time long enough for the construction and subsequent deep dissection of Banks Peninsula shield volcano. It is inferred from this and other geological evidence that the earliest late Pleistocene glaciation was separated from the early Pleistocene Ross Glaciation by several hundred thousand years, and that the Pleistocene Period altogether covers at least one million years.


1991 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
George R. Hunsberger

The contextual missiology of the North American churches is poorly formed, at best. At the heart of the recent work of Lesslie Newbigin, there lies a challenge to develop a domestic missiology marked by the theological depth he has habitually brought to bear on missiological issues. To do so will require that we acknowledge the fundamentally new social circumstances in which the churches of North America now live, and pursue the answer to three questions in light of those circumstances: How must we grasp our identity? How must we seek the “common good”? And how must we tell the gospel?


2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert S. Hildebrand

Geological evidence, including the presence of two passive margin platforms, juxtaposed and mismatched deformation between North America and more outboard terranes, as well as the lack of rift deposits, suggest that North America was the lower plate during both the Sevier and Laramide events and that subduction dipped westward beneath the Cordilleran Ribbon Continent (Rubia). Terranes within the composite ribbon continent, now present in the Canadian Cordillera, collided with western North America during the 125–105 Ma Sevier event and were transported northward during the ~80–58 Ma Laramide event, which affected the Cordillera from South America to Alaska. New high-resolution mantle tomography beneath North America reveals a huge slab wall that extends vertically for over 1000 km, marks the site of long-lived subduction, and provides independent verification of the westward-dipping subduction model. Other workers analyzed paleogeographic trajectories and concluded that the initial collision took place in Canada at about 160 Ma – a time and place for which there is no deformational thickening on the North American platform – and later farther west where subduction was not likely westward, but eastward. However, by utilizing a meridionally corrected North American paleogeographic trajectory, coupled with the geologically most reasonable location for the initial deformation, the position of western North America with respect to the relict superslab parsimoniously accounts for the timing and extents of both the Sevier and Laramide events. SOMMAIRELes indications géologiques, en particulier la présence de deux marges de plateforme passives, de déformations adjacentes non-conformes entre l’Amérique du Nord et les terranes extérieurs, ainsi que l’absence de gisements de rift, permet de croire que l’Amérique du Nord était la plaque sous-jacente durant les événements de Sevier et de Laramide et que la subduction plongeait vers l’ouest sous le continent rubané de la Cordillères (Rubia).  Les terranes du continent rubané composite, maintenant au sein de la Cordillère canadienne, sont entrés en collision avec l’ouest de l’Amérique du Nord durant l’événement Sevier (125-105 Ma), et ont été transportés vers le nord durant l’événement Laramide (~80–58 Ma), laquelle a affecté la Cordillère, de l’Amérique du Sud à l’Alaska.  Une nouvelle tomographie haute résolution du manteau sous l’Amérique du Nord montre la présence d’un gigantesque mur de plaques vertical qui s’étend sur 1 000 km, marque le site d’une subduction de longue haleine, et offre une validation indépendante du modèle d’une subduction à pendage vers l’ouest.  D’autres chercheurs ont analysé les trajectoires paléogéographiques et conclu que la collision initiale s’est produite au Canada vers 160 Ma – un moment et un endroit sans épaississement par déformation sur la plateforme d’Amérique du Nord – et plus tard plus à l’ouest, là où la subduction n’était vraisemblablement pas vers l’ouest, mais vers l’est.  Cela dit, en considérant une trajectoire paléogéographique de l’Amérique du Nord corrigée longitudinalement, avec la position géologique la plus probable de la déformation initiale, la position de la portion ouest de l’Amérique du Nord par rapport aux restes de la super-plaque explique alors facilement la chronologie et l’étendue des épisodes Sevier et Laramide.


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