Clase magistral del profesor de la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidade da Coruña, Antonio Raya de Blas

Celebrada en la Escuela de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, miércoles 18 de noviembre de 2015. Clase del Máster universitario Arquitectura y acondicionamiento con tecnologías de comunicaciones para hoteles sustentables, A2TECHS. Dentro de la asignatura Escala y proyecto flexible en la arquitectura para hoteles

Analisi geochimica delle acque iperacide del lago craterico del vulcano Kawah Ijen (Java, Indonesia).

I laghi vulcanici sono corpi idrici che si posizionano all’interno di crateri originatisi da eruzioni idrotermali, idrovulcaniche o magmatiche. Dato il particolare ambiente di formazione di questi bacini, le condizioni fisico-chimiche delle loro acque riflettono l’influenza dei diversi “input” vulcanici quali gas e fluidi che risultano dall’interazione tra le acque sotterranee e i fluidi rilasciati da un corpo magmatico in profondità. Il presente lavoro consiste nella caratterizzazione geochimica delle acque del lago craterico del Kawah Ijen e nella definizione dei principali processi che la controllano, come i processi di diluizione, degassamento e precipitazione di fasi minerali. Tale definizione è la base conoscitiva necessaria per una più realistica interpretazione delle eventuali variazioni geochimiche spazio-temporali

Depositional modes and lake-level variability at Lake Towuti, Indonesia, during the past ~29 kyr BP

Lake Towuti (2.5°S, 121.5°E) is a long-lived, tectonic lake located on the Island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, and in the center of the Indo-Pacific warm pool (IPWP). Lake Towuti is connected with upstream lakes Matano and Mahalona through the Mahalona River, which constitutes the largest inlet to the lake. The Mahalona River Delta is prograding into Lake Towuti’s deep northern basin thus exerting significant control on depositional processes in the basin. We combine high-resolution seismic reflection and sedimentological datasets from a 19.8-m-long sediment piston core from the distal edge of this delta to characterize fluctuations in deltaic sedimentation during the past ~29 kyr BP and their relation to climatic change. Our datasets reveal that, in the present, sedimentation is strongly influenced by deposition of laterally transported sediments sourced from the Mahalona River Delta. Variations in the amount of laterally transported sediments, as expressed by coarse fraction amounts in pelagic muds and turbidite recurrence rates and cumulative thicknesses, are primarily a function of lake-level induced delta slope instability and delta progradation into the basin. We infer lowest lake-levels between ~29 and 16, a gradual lake level rise between ~16 and 11, and high lake-levels between ~11 and 0 kyr BP. Periods of highest turbidite deposition, ~26 to 24 and ~18 to 16 kyr BP coincide with Heinrich events 2 and 1, respectively. Our lake-level reconstruction therefore supports previous observations based on geochemical hydroclimate proxies of a very dry last glacial and a wet Holocene in the region, and provides new evidence of millennial-scale variations in moisture balance in the IPWP.