Anachronistic facies from a drowned Lower Triassic carbonate platform: Lower member of the Alwa Formation (Ba'id Exotic), Oman Mountains

- The lower member of the Alwa Formation (Lower Olenekian), found within the Ba'id Exotic in the Oman Mountains (Sultanate of Oman), consists of ammonoid-bearing, pelagic limestones that were deposited on an isolated, drowned carbonate platform on the Neotethyan Gondwana margin. The strata contain a variety of unusual carbonate textures and features, including thrombolites, Frutexites-bearing microbialites that contain synsedimentary cements, matrix-free breccias surrounded by isopachous calcite cement, and fissures and cavities filled with large botryoidal cements. Thrombolites are found throughout the study interval, and occur as 0.5-1.0 m thick lenses or beds that contain laterally laterally-linked stromatactis cavities. The Frutexites-bearing microbialites occur less frequently, and also form lenses or beds, up to 30 cm thick; the microbialites may be laminated, and often developed on hardgrounds. In addition, the Frutexites-bearing microbialites also contain synsedimentary calcite cement crusts and botryoids (typically <1 cm thick) that harbour layers or pockets of what appear to be bacterial sheaths and coccoids, and are indicative of biologically mediated precipitation of the cement bodies. Slumping following lithification led to fracturing of the limestone and the precipitation of large, botryoidal aragonite cements in fissures that cut across the primary fabric. Environmental conditions, specifically palaeoxygenation and the degree of calcium carbonate supersaturation, likely controlled whether the thrombolites (high level of calcium carbonate supersaturation associated with vertical mixing of water masses and dysoxic conditions) or Frutexites-bearing microbialites (low level of calcium carbonate supersaturation associated with anoxic conditions and deposition below a stable chemocline) formed. The results of this study point to continued environmental stress in the region during the Early Triassic that likely contributed to the uneven recovery from the Permian-Triassic mass extinction.

Metamorfozy Kopciuszka. Studium porównawcze dwóch angielskich przekładów baśni Perraulta

L'étude comparative de deux traductions de « Cendrillon ou la petite pantoufle de verre » de Charles Perrault montre comment le conte est réorienté vers la jeunesse en Angleterre à partir de projets très différents. «Cinderilla: or, The Little Glass Slipper», publié par Robert Samber dans Histories, or Tales of Past Times. With Morals en 1729, est considéré comme la première traduction du conte en langue anglaise. Plus près de nous, sa retraduction par l'écrivain britannique Angela Carter, « Cinderella: or, The Little Glass Slipper », parue dans The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault en 1977, donne une nouvelle actualité au conte de Perrault. La première traduction propose un calque du conte qui illustre les conditions matérielles et l'interdiscours des traducteurs de Grub Street au début du XVIIIe siècle, tandis que la deuxième adapte le conte pour les enfants dans une perspective féministe au XXe siècle. Mon analyse s'attache surtout à dégager les enjeux de la (re)traduction de Carter, qui se démarque délibérément de Samber pour renouveler le sens du conte de Perrault et de sa morale.

Salvador Dalí: a spiritual gaze

There is a tendency to overlook the many fields that attracted Salvador Dalí, one of the most controversial figures of the 20th century. The Catalan artist was interested in painting, sculpture, engraving, opera, literature, advertising, dance, and even the theatre of life. Dalí was also a theoretician, constantly examining the processes of creation and knowledge: over the years he developed an imagery which, though changing, remained coherent, giving his body of work an unexpected unity.