The Toarcian in the Subbetic basin (southern Spain): Bio-events (ammonite and calcareous nannofossils) and carbon-isotope stratigraphy

A detailed carbon-isotope stratigraphic study for the uppermost Pliensbachian lowermost Aalenian interval in the Median Subbetic palaeogeographic domain (External zones of the Betic Cordillera, southern Spain) has been carried out. During the Early Jurassic, the Median Subbetic, which represents a typical basin of the Hispanic Corridor connecting the Tethys and the Eastern Pacific, was located in the westernmost Tethys. The analyzed sections encompass the entire Toarcian stage as represented in the southern Iberian palaeomargin. Rocks are mainly rhythmic sequences of grey marls and marly limestones containing a rich ammonite fauna, nannofossils, and benthic foraminifers-all these provide an accurate biostratigraphic control. The lower and upper Toarcian boundaries are well represented in some of these sections and therefore represent optimal sites to link the carbon-isotope curves to ammonite zones, and to nannofossil events. delta C-13 values of bulk carbonates from the different localities of the Subbetic basin have similar variations from the uppermost Pliensbachian to the lowermost Aalenian, suggesting changes in the original DIC carbon isotope composition along the Hispanic corridor. The transition from Pliensbachian to Toarcian is marked by increasing delta C-13 values from similar to 12 to 2.0 parts per thousand, interrupted in the Serpentinum Zone by a negative shift concomitant with the Toarcian oceanic anoxic event (T-OAE), with the major ammonite extinction event of the Toarcian, and an important turnover of calcareous nannoplankton. The negative shift observed in the Serpentinum Zone confirms the global perturbation of the carbon cycling documented along the Tethys and the palaeo-Pacific in organic material and in marine carbonates. However, the amplitude of the negative excursion (similar to - 1.5 parts per thousand) is not compatible with an isotopic homogeneous seawater DIC and/or CO2 atmospheric reservoirs. The interval from the middle to the top of the Toarcian delta C-13 shows relatively constant values, minor ammonite turnovers, and is associated with increasing diversity of calcareous nannoplankton. (c) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

De situ orbis. [Christophori Nigri carmen ad Joannem Franciscum Dandalum de miseria vitae saecularis] ([Reprod.]) / [e graeco traducto Gregorio Typhernale, ac Guarino Veronense interpretibus] ; [Antonii Mancinelli praefatio] ; [Joannis Andreae epistola dedicatoria]

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De situ orbis. Christophori Nigri Carmen ad Joannem Franciscum Dandulum de miseria vitae saecularis ([Reprod.]) / e graeco traducto Gregorio Typhernale, ac Guarino Veronense interpretibus ; [Antonii Mancinelli praefatio] ; [Joannis Andreae epistola dedicatoria]

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Carmen Martín Gaite y el periodismo. La visión de los medios de comunicación en los artículos de prensa (1949-2000)

La escritora salmantina Carmen Martín Gaite (1925-2000) compaginó su dedicación a la novela con la publicación de casi trescientos artículos en la prensa durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Estos años corresponden al “lento desentumecerse de la España de la posguerra para desembocar en la de la televisión y el consumo”, en palabras de la propia autora.Este estudio pretende analizar la mirada de Martín Gaite sobre estos cambios comunicativos y sociales, a la vez que quiere abordar la vertiente periodística de la escritora, sólo estudiada hasta el momento por José Teruel. Partiremos de la hipótesis de que Carmen Martín Gaite revela en sus artículos una relación ambigua con los medios de comunicación: unas veces se muestra entusiasmada por el periodismo mientras que en otras ocasiones se trasluce una visión despectiva de los mass media, especialmente de los audiovisuales.

Q. Horatius Flaccus, Carmina (1-48v), Epodon liber (48v-58v), Carmen saeculare (58v-59v), De arte poetica epistula ad Pisones (60-67), Epistulae (60-90), Sermones (90-122v), cum glossis.

Ce ms. a été donné en 1734 au chapitre de Notre-Dame de Paris par le chanoine Gagne de Périgny: "Ex dono Domini Gagne de Perigny canonici Parisiensis anno 1734" (f. 1). L'ex-libris "A l'église de Paris" (XIXe s.) figure au f. 1, suivi de la cote M9. Notre-Dame.

Pliensbachian magnetostratigraphy: new data from Paris Basin (France)

Sampling of an industrial drill string from the northeastern Paris Basin (Montcornet, France) provides early Jurassic magnetostratigraphic data coupled with biochronological control. About 375 paleomagnetic samples were obtained from a 145 m thick series of Pliensbachian rocks. A composite demagnetization thermal up to 300 C and an alternating field up to 80 mT were used to separate the magnetic components. A low unblocking temperature component (<250degreesC) with an inclination of about 64 is interpreted as a present-day field overprint. The characteristic remanent component with both normal and reversed antipodal directions was isolated between 5 and 50 mT. Twenty-nine polarity intervals were recognized. Correlation of these new results from the Paris Basin with data from the Breggia Gorge section (Ticino, southern Alps, Switzerland), which is generally considered as the reference section for Pliensbachian magnetostratigraphy, reveals almost identical patterns of magnetic polarity reversals. However, the correlation implies significant paleontological age discrepancies. Revised age assignments of biostratigraphic data of Breggia as well as an objective evaluation of the uncertainties on zonal boundaries in both Breggia and Moncornet resolve the initial discrepancies between magnetostratigraphic correlations and biostratigraphic ages. Hence, the sequence of magnetic reversals is significantly strengthened and the age calibration is notably improved for the Pliensbachian, a stage for which sections combining adequate magnetic signal and biostratigraphic constraints are still very few. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Methodus legendi cognoscendique historiam tam sacram quam profanam. Accessit oratio de historiae dignitate... item panegyricus scriptus in honorem festivitatis qua... Henricus Julius,... in episcopatus Mindensis possessionem indulcebatur, auctore Reinero Reineccio Steinhemio. Ad calcem addita est Commentiuncula ["sic"] de Widechindo Magno, rege Saxon., dynasta Angrivariorum, etc. Editio 2a. [Reinero Reineccio historico in inclyta Acad. Julia amico colendo. S. P. D. David Chytraeus. In methodum historicam Reineri Reineccii Carmen Simonis Mencii. Historiae et Reineri Reineccii genio, Arnoldus Freitagius. Historiae encomium per Andream Alciatum. De Westphalorum Saxonia et Widechindo Magno, etc., Petrus Lotichius secundus. De eodem Widechindo Magno Michael Bojemus.]

Comprend : Historiae encomium... ad Galeacium vice-comitem scriptum ; Clarissimo... viro Reinero Reineccio... principis Brunovicensis etc. historico, in inclyta acad. Julia, amico colendo s. p. d. David Chytraeus ; Historiae et cl. viri Reineri Reineccii genio Arnoldus Freitagius ; De Westphalorum Saxonia et Widechindo Magno etc. Petrus Lotichius Secundus ; In Methodum historicam... Reineri Reineccii Carmen ; De... Widechindo Magno Michael Bojemus

Phenetic, biogeographical, and evolutionary study ofOrnithogalum subg.Heliocharmos (Hyacinthaceae) in the western Mediterranean basin

A macromorphological study is made on taxa of the genusOrnithogalum subg.Heliocharmos in North Africa, Spain, and France. The results obtained are consistent with data from cytogenetics, reproductive biology and strategies of reproduction. They allow the retention of two species:O. algeriense and O. umbellatum. A biogeographical and phylogenetic interpretation of the subgenus is proposed for the western Mediterranean. Theoretical views on phenetics are discussed.

ClubMed? Cyclical fluctuations in the Mediterranean basin

We investigate macroeconomic fluctuations in the Mediterranean basin, their similarities and convergence. A model with four indicators, roughly covering theWest, the East and the Middle East and the North Africa portions of theMediterranean, characterizes well the historical experience since the early 1980.Idiosyncratic causes still dominate domestic cyclical fluctuations in many countries. Convergence and divergence coexist are local and transitory. The cyclicaloutlook for the next few years is rosier for the East than for the West.

A Importância da Mulher na Segurança Alimentar e Redução

O presente trabalho analisa a relação entre a mulher e a problemática da pobreza e da insegurança alimentar no concelho de Santa Cruz em Cabo-Verde. Organizações internacionais como a Organização das Nações Unidas dizem que a pobreza tem o rosto da mulher, pois a maioria dos 1,2 bilhões de pobres são mulheres; as mulheres trabalham mais do que 50% de todas as horas trabalhadas no mundo, porém só 30% do trabalho feminino aufere remuneração, enquanto esta percentagem para o trabalho masculino ronda os 75%; as mulheres ganham acentuadamente menos do que os homens e ascendem raramente a cargos de relevo; a maioria dos analfabetos são mulheres; uma em cada três mulheres é chefe de família, tendo que assumir sozinha o sustento e a educação dos filhos. Por outro lado, dados da FAO indicam que a mulher desempenha um papel fundamental na alimentação da família, produzindo mais de metade de todos os alimentos cultivados. No entanto, o seu papel fundamental como produtoras e fornecedoras de alimento e a sua crucial contribuição para a segurança alimentar familiar, nem sempre foi tido em devida conta. Partindo desta realidade global, o trabalho centra a sua atenção nas mulheres na Bacia Hidrográfica dos Picos no concelho de Santa Cruz em Cabo Verde, procurando pôr em relevo o seu papel como produtora e como gestora de alimentos e as estratégias que ela utiliza para minimizar situações de pobreza.