969 resultados para Ribeira Fold Belt


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Vermiculite minerals are locally available in the Mozambique Belt of Tanzania but are not currently commercially exploited. In part this may be due to lack of any precise characterization. This study was carried out as a first step to assess the suitability of these vermiculites for crop production by characterization of their mineralogical and chemical compositions. X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy combined with an energydispersive X-ray system were used to establish the mineralogy. Electron microprobe analysis and inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry were used to study the chemical compositions and to identify any possible issues related to chemical composition that might affect their use if applied as soil conditioners. The samples were characterized as vermiculites and hydrobiotites with a wide variety of accessory minerals. Accessory minerals that might be of some concern are galena, fibrous amphiboles and sepiolite. The total levels of Ni in all vermiculites, and Cr in some, were also found to be high relative to common European standards and this might limit their potential as soil conditioners. It is clear that a field assessment of the bioavailability of various elements would be necessary before decisions relating to potential agricultural use could be made. © 2009 The Mineralogical Society.

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The rotational state of asteroids is controlled by various physical mechanisms including collisions, internal damping and the Yarkovsky-O'Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack (YORP) effect. We have analysed the changes in magnitude between consecutive detections of ∼ 60,000 asteroids measured by the PanSTARRS 1 survey during its first 18 months of operations. We have attempted to explain the derived brightness changes physically and through the application of a simple model. We have found a tendency toward smaller magnitude variations with decreasing diameter for objects of 1 < D < 8 km. Assuming the shape distribution of objects in this size range to be independent of size and composition our model suggests a population with average axial ratios 1: 0.85 ± 0.13: 0.71 ± 0.13, with larger objects more likely to have spin axes perpendicular to the orbital plane.

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We present a new wrapper feature selection algorithm for human detection. This algorithm is a hybrid featureselection approach combining the benefits of filter and wrapper methods. It allows the selection of an optimalfeature vector that well represents the shapes of the subjects in the images. In detail, the proposed featureselection algorithm adopts the k-fold subsampling and sequential backward elimination approach, while thestandard linear support vector machine (SVM) is used as the classifier for human detection. We apply theproposed algorithm to the publicly accessible INRIA and ETH pedestrian full image datasets with the PASCALVOC evaluation criteria. Compared to other state of the arts algorithms, our feature selection based approachcan improve the detection speed of the SVM classifier by over 50% with up to 2% better detection accuracy.Our algorithm also outperforms the equivalent systems introduced in the deformable part model approach witharound 9% improvement in the detection accuracy

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Dissertação de Mestrado, Biologia Marinha, Especialização em Ecologia e Conservação Marinha, Faculdade de Ciências do Mar e Ambiente, Universidade do Algarve, 2009

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A erosão localizada nas fundações de pilares e encontros é uma das causas de rotura em pontes, podendo conduzir a perdas consideráveis de vidas humanas e bens materiais. Para avaliar este tipo de fenómenos, em estruturas existentes ou a construir e ainda estimar os danos provocados pela alteração da secção transversal do leito, é proposta uma metodologia para o estudo hidráulico e sedimentológico. Este estudo foca os níveis atingidos pela cheia, o risco de a obra ser galgada durante o seu tempo de vida útil e a erosão a que esta está sujeita junto dos pilares e encontros.

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Este artigo apresenta um modelo de precipitação/escoamento superficial que toma em consideração o fenómeno distribuído em toda a área da bacia. A metodologia é válida para todos os pontos da bacia, encosta ou linha de água, pelo que o modelo apresentado é uma ferramenta de análise adequada para a previsão das modificações induzidas na relação precipitação/escoamento superficial devido a modificações antrópicas ou não na bacia hidrográfica. Além disso, este modelo possibilita uma abordagem do controlo de cheias não só pela intervenção no leito como é usual, mas também pelo reordenamento da bacia, práticas de conservação do solo e alteração do seu uso. O modelo desenvolvido é aplicado à bacia hidrográfica da Ribeira de Alportel, exemplo que serve para aferir os dados por retro-análise, comparando os caudais obtidos pela simulação com os caudais medidos na estação hidrométrica de Bodega. Deste modo, é possível prever para possíveis cenários de alteração das condições da bacia hidrográfica qual a futura resposta da bacia hidrográfica a eventos pluviométricos.

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O Algarve é uma região que apresenta algumas particularidades no que toca às necessidades hídricas e respetiva disponibilidade. O consumo de água é relativamente elevado e as necessidades hídricas são mais elevadas nos meses de Verão quando a precipitação é escassa. Deste modo é de grande importância a realização de uma boa gestão dos recursos hídricos de modo a garantir a sustentabilidade dos recursos naturais. Neste âmbito surge a aplicação de softwares de modelação hidrológica que permitem realizar prognósticos simulando as condições a que o meio está sujeito. Na presente dissertação pretende-se aplicar o modelo SWAT para modelar as condições atuais registadas na bacia hidrográfica da Ribeira de Quarteira. Pretende-se também realizar a modelação de cenários de alterações climáticas previstas para dois períodos futuros: 2020-2050 e 2069-2099. A construção do modelo foi realizada em ArcSWAT, a análise de outputs foi feita em SWAT_Check e para a calibração e validação do modelo utilizou-se o software SWAT-CUP4. Os resultados obtidos na calibração e validação são relativamente satisfatórios tendo em conta a fraca qualidade e quantidade dos dados de entrada disponíveis e considerando-se o meio geológico cársico onde se pretendeu realizar a modelação. Os cenários simulados tiveram como base dois modelos climáticos realizados no âmbito do projeto CLIMWAT (ICTP-REGCM3 e CNRM-RM5.1). Os resultados de ambos modelos apontam para um aumento de temperatura e diminuição generalizada de precipitação que têm como consequência um aumento significativo de evapotranspiração real e uma diminuição muito grande de recarga profunda e do caudal instantâneo. Um dos modelos aponta para, no período 2020-2050, um aumento de eventos extremos (secas e cheias). Estas previsões vêm reforçar a grande necessidade de uma boa gestão dos recursos hídricos.

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Dissertação de Mestrado, Arquitectura Paisagista, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade do Algarve, 2015

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Relatório de Estágio submetidoà Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinemapara cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Artes Performativas- especialização em Teatro-Música

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A presente dissertação tem como objetivo a análise arqueológica do forte de São Paulo, edificado na antiga freguesia homónima, em Lisboa, a partir da segunda metade do século XVII. Partindo do estudo dos vestígios arqueológicos associados à estrutura militar exumados no Mercado da Ribeira e na Praça D. Luís I, proceder-se-á à caracterização arquitetural e à análise do espólio, visando a compreensão da dinâmica estratigráfica, bem como a perceção da implementação geoestratégica inerente à sua construção. Paralelamente, pretende-se que os dados obtidos permitam uma melhor perceção da diacronia ocupacional desta área ribeirinha de Lisboa, fulcral na expansão marítima portuguesa.

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A história de Cabo Verde começa com a chegada dos portugueses em 1460. O local selecionado para a primeira ocupação humana, num território anteriormente deserto, recai na zona denominada Ribeira Grande, ilha de Santiago, em consequência da sua ribeira, fonte de água e razão principal de escolha da fixação. É nesse espaço, limitado pelas montanhas acidentadas, pela ribeira e pela topografia irregular que uma pequena povoação nasceu. Nela foi implantada uma área urbana e arquitetónica, fruto de regras de construção do colonizador: Portugal. A génese urbana inicia-se ainda no século XVI, junto a uma baía, designada mais tarde por largo do Pelourinho, bastante orgânica e organizada a partir do porto, do Hospital e da Igreja da Misericórdia. Seguiu-se, ao longo de Quinhentos, o bairro de São Pedro, o maior de todos, também orgânico. O bairro de São Brás, espaço ocupado maioritariamente pelos jesuítas desenvolveu-se de forma paralela à costa. O último bairro intitulado São Sebastião, elevado a partir de meados do século XVI, já foi projetado respeitando os cânones do urbanismo moderno. A cidade conseguiu atrair, pressionada pelos religiosos, pelos monarcas e pelas populações locais, instituições religiosas, régias e privadas que apostaram em obras arquitetónicas marcantes na evolução da urbe, entre as quais a igreja de Nossa Senhora do Rosário, o convento e igreja de São Francisco, a Sé e o paço Episcopal, a fortaleza Real de São Filipe e o Pelourinho.

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330 km 2 of the easter-n part of the Archean Manitou Lakes - Stormy Lake metavolcanic - metasedimentary belt have been mapped and sampled. A large number of rocks ~.vere analyzed for the major and trace constituents including the rare-earth elements (REE). The Stormy Lake - Kawashegamuk Lake area may be subdivided into four major lithological groups of supracrustal rocks 1) A north-facing mafic assemblage, consisting of pillowed tholeiitic basalts and gabbro sills characterized by flat REE profiles, is exposed in the south part of the map area and belongs to a 8000 m thick homoclinal assemblage outside the map area. Felsic pyroclastic rocks believed to have been issued from a large central vent conformably overlie the tholeiites. 2) A dominantly epiclastic group facing to the north consists of terrestrial deposits interpreted to be an alluvial fan deposit ; a submarine facies is represented by turbiditic sediments. 3) The northeastern part of the study area consists of volcanic rocks belonging to two mafic - felsic cycles facing to the southuest ; andesitic flows with fractionated REE patterns make up a large part of the upper cycle, whereas the lower cycle has a stronger chemical polarity being represented by tholeiitic flows, with flat REE, which a r e succeeded by dacitic and rhyolitic pyroclasti cs. iii 4) A thick monotonous succession of tholeiitic pillmled basalt f lows and gabbro sills with flat REE represent the youngest supracrustal rocks. TIle entire belt underwent folding, faulting and granitic plutonism during a tectono-thermal event around 2700 Ma ago. Rocks exposed in the map area were subjected to regional greenschist facies metamorphism, but higher metamorphic grades are present near late granitic intrusions. Geochemical studies have been useful in 1) distinguishing the various rock units ; 2) relating volcanic and intrusive rocks 3) studying the significance of chemical changes due to post magmatic processes 4) determining the petrogenesis of the major volcanic rock types. In doing so, two major volcanic suites have been recognized : a) a tholeiitic suite, mostly represented by mafic rocks, was derived from partial melting of upper mantle material depleted in Ti, K and the light REE ; b) a calc-alkalic suite which evolved from partial melting of amphibolite in the lower crust. The more differentiated magma types have been produced by a multistage process involving partial melting and fractional crystallization to yield a continuum of compos i t i ons ranging from basaltic andesite to rhyolite. A model for the development of the eastern part of the Manitou Lakes - Stormy Lake belt has been proposed.

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The Island Lake greenstone belt is one of the major Archean supracrustal exposures in the northwestern part of the Superior Province of the Canadian Shield. This belt is subdivided into two units: 1) a lower sequence characterised by pillowed to massive, locally pyroclastic, basalt to andesite with a thin central zone of felsic derivatives, all of which are interbedded with and overlain by thick sequences of turbidite facies rock; 2) the upper unit which consists of thick stratified conglomerate overlain by thickly bedded arkose and feldspathic greywacke. Reconnaissance sampling traverses were completed across both the strike of the belt and along its margins with adjacent granitoids. Most of the belt is within the greenschist metamorphic f acies with amphibolite facies occurring in certain areas near t he margins. A post-tectonic, low pressure thermal event may be responsible for the development of a unit of cordierite schi s t which stretches southeastwards from the east end of Cochrane Bay. Volcanism is cyclical in nature changing from tholeiitic to calc-alkaline. There is a general progression in the character of the lavas from mafic t o felsic with stratigraphic height. Chemica l d a ta sugges t that h i gh level fractionation of a mantle- derived ' dry' magma i s t he s ource of the thole i iti c lavas. Contamination of this magma with 'we t' sia l and subsequent fractionation may be r esponsi b l e for the calcalkaline phases .Observations of stratigraphic relationships (in particular the contact between the supracrustals and the granitoids) coupled with the metamorphic and chemical studies, allow the construction of a preliminary model for the evolution of the Island Lake greenstone belt. The following sequential development is suggested: 1) a platform stage characterised by the subaqueous effusion of mafic to intermediate lavas of alternating tholeiitic and calc-alkaline affinities; 2) an edifice stage marked by the eruption of felsic calc-alkaline rocks; 3) an erosional stage characterised by the deposit~on of thick sequences of turbidite facies rocks; 4) the impingement of granitic masses into the margins of the greenstone belt, which was probably related to a downward warping of the supracrustal pilei 5) the erosion of sialic massifs surrounding and within the greenstone belt and of early supracrustal piles, to give the clastic upper unit.

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The study area is situated in NE Newfoundland between Gander Lake and the north coast and on the boundary between the Gander and Botwood tectonostratigraphic zones (Williams et al., 1974). The area is underlain by three NE trending units; the Gander Group, the Gander River Ultramafic Belt (the GRUB) and the Davidsville Group. The easternmost Gander Group consists of a thick, psammitic unit composed predominantly of psammitic schist and a thinner, mixed unit of semipelitic and pelitic schist with minor psammite. The mixed unit may stratigraphically overlie the psammitic unit or be a lateral facies equivalent of the latter. No fossils have been recovered from the Gander Group. The GRUB is a terrain of mafic and ultramafic plutonic rocks with minor pillow lava and plagiogranite. It is interpreted to be a dismembered ophiolite in thrust contact with the Gander Group. The westernmost Davidsville Group consists of a basal conglomerate, believed deposited unconformably upon the GRUB from which it was derived, and an upper unit of greywacke and slate, mostly of turbidite origin, with minor limestone and calcareous sandstone. The limestone, which lies near the base of the unit, contains Upper Llanvirn to Lower Llandeilo fossils. The Gander and Davidsville Groups display distinctly different sedimentological , structural and metamorphic histories. The Gander Group consists of quartz-rich, relatively mature sediment. It has suffered three pre-Llanvirn deformations, of which the main deformation, Dp produced a major, NE-N-facing recumbent anticline in the southern part of the study area. Middle greenschist conditions existed from D^ to D- with growth of metamorphic minerals during each dynamic and static phase. In contrast, the mineralogically immature Davidsville Group sediment contains abundant mafic and ultramafic detritus which is absent from the Gander Group. The Davidsville Group displays the effects of a single penetrative deformation with localized D_ and D_ features, all of which can be shown to postdate D_ in the Gander Group. Rotation of the flat Gander S- into a subvertical orientation near the contact with the GRUB and the Davidsville Group is believed to be a Davidsville D^ feature. Regional metamorphism in the Davidsville Group is lower greenschist with a single growth phase, MS . These sedimentological, structural and metamorphic differences between the Gander and Davidsville Groups persist even where the GRUB is absent and the two units are in contact, indicating that the tectonic histories of the Gander and Davidsville Groups are distinctly different. Structural features in the GRUB, locally the result of multiple deformations, may be the result of Gander and/or Davidsville deformations. Metamorphism is in the greenschist facies. Geochemical analyses of the pillow lava suggest that these rocks were formed in a back-arc basin. Mafic intrusives in the Gander Group appear to be the result of magraatism separate from that producing the pillow lava. The Gander Group is interpreted to be a continental rise prism deposited on the eastern margin of the Late Precambrian-Lower Paleozoic lapetus Ocean. The GRUB, oceanic crust possibly formed in a marginal basin to the west, is believed to have been thrust eastward over the Gander Group, deforming the latter, during the pre-Llanvirnian, possibly Precambrian, Ganderian Orogeny. The Middle Ordovician and younger Davidsville Group was derived from, and deposited unconformably on, this deformed terrain. Deformation of the Davidsville Group occurred during the Middle Devonian Acadian Orogeny.