On Jack Torrance As a Fossil Form

2020 ◽  
pp. 231-242
Author(s):  
Barbara Le Maître
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Form

A Fossil Form of Drepanocladus fluitans Jeanbernati (Ren.) Grout

1930 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
A. J. Grout
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Form

Nouvelles observations sur les sables alveolaires

1951 ◽  
Vol S6-I (4-6) ◽  
pp. 213-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rene Baudoin
Keyword(s):  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
High Tide ◽  
Undisturbed Samples ◽  
Fossil Form

Abstract The behavior of alveolar sands under foot affords information on their structure. A "sand drawer" designed for taking undisturbed samples, here described in detail, is an aid in making observations of this behavior. The sands are divided into two categories: firm sands, either solid under foot (compact sands) or elastic (containing bubbles below a firm crust 10 cm or more in thickness); and yielding sands, either thixotropic (yielding only when saturated) or lacking in resistance, both wet and dry. Structural characteristics of recent and fossil alveolar sands are discussed, with data on localities where each type may be found. The evolution of alveolar sands is influenced by the presence of the animals inhabiting them. In fossil form they are evidence of the high-tide limit of former seas.

Jagtia kunradensis, a new genus and species of clawed lobster (Decapoda: Nephropidae) from the Upper Cretaceous (Upper Maastrichtian) Maastricht Formation, The Netherlands

2000 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dale Tshudy ◽  
Ulf Sorhannus
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Deep Water ◽  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
New Genus ◽  
New Genus And Species ◽  
Type Area ◽  
Fossil Form ◽  
Upper Maastrichtian

A new genus and species of clawed lobster, Jagtia kunradensis, is described from the Upper Cretaceous (Upper Maastrichtian) Kunrade Limestone facies of the Maastricht Formation, The Netherlands. Three nephropid lobster genera and at least three species (Oncopareia bredai Bosquet, 1854, sensu Tshudy, 1993, Oncopareia sp. Tshudy, 1993, Hoploparia beyrichi Schlüter, 1862, and Jagtia kunradensis) have now been collected from limestones of the Maastrichtian type area (southeastern Netherlands and northeastern Belgium). Cladistic methods were employed in re-evaluating the phylogenetic relationships of the nephropid lobsters, including Jagtia. These analyses indicate that Jagtia is part of a clade that includes the recent Thymops and Thymopsis. The new genus is the first fossil form to be closely allied with these deep-water genera.

Caulerpa-like marine alga from Permian strata, Palo Duro Basin, West Texas

1992 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 160-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas C. Gustavson ◽  
T. Delevoryas
Keyword(s):  
Marine Alga ◽  
Department Of Energy ◽  
Permian Basin ◽  
Green Algal ◽  
West Texas ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
Algal Genus ◽  
Engineering Corporation ◽  
Geologic Setting ◽  
Fossil Form

A fossil counterpart to ths extant marine noncalcareous green algal genus Caulerpa was recovered from Permian (Wolfcampian) marine sediments of the Palo Duro Basin, a part of the larger Permian Basin, West Texas. These fossil algal remains were recognized in core from the Department of Energy/Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation No. 1 Zeech well (Figure 1). The fossil form is described and compared to a morphologically similar extant species of Caulerpa. The geologic setting of the Palo Duro Basin is also briefly described as is the environment in which the modern algal genus Caulerpa lives.

On Jack Torrance As a Fossil Form

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Le Maître
Keyword(s):  
Dead Body ◽  
Suspended Animation ◽  
Living Fossil ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Fossil Form

The essay starts with the photograph that reveals the mystery of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) to introduce the notion of a fossil as a mineral compound that continues to evolve into something biologically distinct from the cadaver that provided its origin. The fossil represents a form of survival in stone, a material within which the dead body can continue to decay and so, in a certain sense, to live on. Considered to be a state of suspended animation, the fossil holds a particular attraction for the cinema, as we see in the character of Jack Torrance, a paradoxical figure who takes on a clear identity if we recognise him as a fossil—and more precisely a ‘living fossil’.

scholarly journals Biofilm Growth and Fossil Form

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. P. Petroff ◽  
N. J. Beukes ◽  
D. H. Rothman ◽  
T. Bosak
Keyword(s):  
Biofilm Growth ◽  
Fossil Form

SOME ASPECTS OF THE GEOLOGY OF THE RUNDLE OIL SHALE DEPOSIT, QUEENSLAND

1976 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 165 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. W. Lindner ◽  
D. A. Dixon
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Alternative Energy ◽  
Oil Shale ◽  
World War ◽  
Central Pacific ◽  
Restricted Area ◽  
Reducing Conditions ◽  
Exploration Drilling ◽  
Fossil Form ◽  
Fresh Water Lake

The presence of oil shale near The Narrows between Rundle Range and Curtis Island, Queensland, has been known for many years, although the only previous efforts at evaluation of the deposit were during World War II by the Queensland Mines Department and subsequently by Carpentaria Exploration Company in 1969-70. The price increase of oil from OPEC sources has once again made oil shale a possible alternative energy source.Core drilling over the past two years in a relatively restricted area near The Narrows by Southern Pacific Petroleum NL and Central Pacific Minerals NL (2330 m in 19 holes) suggests the persistence of oil shale beds over a strike distance of 7 km with a width of 1000 to 2500 m and a composite thickness of at least 427 m. What appears initially as a monotonous sequence of shales and mudstones is found to be remarkably constant lithologically across the range of borehole control. Four lithologic units are recognised, three of them with a significant and persistent content of hydrocarbon compounds.Limited chemical and petrographic studies indicate that the sequence mineralogically comprises a mixture of quartz, clay minerals, minor carbonates and varying amounts of kerogen. Ostracods are the most common and persistent fossil form but gastropods and crustacean, fish, reptilian and algal remains occur at intervals. Plant and spore material are present but not common. The age of the sequence is early Tertiary. The faunal assemblage and sedimentary features suggest that the deposit accumulated under quiet, essentially reducing conditions in a fresh water lake. In the region of borehole control, the sequence dips to the southwest and west at from 4° to 10° apparently as a result of minor tectonic adjustments in common with other coastal Queensland Tertiary deposits.Systematic assaying of the oil shale at Rundle suggests that an average grade of 89 I of shale oil per tonne persists at a waste-to-resource ratio of about one-to-one over an area of 1400 hectares. While in-fill drilling is needed to confirm these figures, the dimensions of the resource indicated is at least 1200 million tonnes of oil shale which contains the equivalent of 600 million barrels of oil in this area. Further exploration drilling will probably indicate an extension of the deposit.

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