Pacific Neogene carbonate accumulation rates

I have compiled CaCO3 mass accumulation rates (MARs) for the period 0-25 Ma for 144 Deep Sea Drilling Project and Ocean Drilling Program drill sites in the Pacific in order to investigate the history of CaCO3 burial in the world's largest ocean basin. This is the first synthesis of data since the beginning of the Ocean Drilling Program. Sedimentation rates, CaCO3 contents, and bulk density were estimated for 0.5 Myr time intervals from 0 to 14 Ma and for 1 Myr time intervals from 14 to 25 Ma using mostly data from Initial Reports volumes. There is surprisingly little coherence between CaCO3 MAR time series from different Pacific regions, although regional patterns exist. A transition from high to low CaCO3 MAR from 23-20 Ma is the only event common to the entire Pacific Ocean. This event is found worldwide. The most likely cause of lowered pelagic carbonate burial is a rising sea-level trend in the early Miocene. The central and eastern equatorial Pacific is the only region with adequate drill site coverage to study carbonate compensation depth (CCD) changes in detail for the entire Neogene. The latitude-dependent decrease in CaCO3 production away from the equator is an important defining factor of the regional CCD, which shallows away from the equatorial region. Examination of latitudinal transects across the equatorial region is a useful way to separate the effects of changes in carbonate production ('productivity') from changes in bottom water chemistry ('dissolution') upon carbonate burial.

Direct and general support and depot maintenance repair parts and special tools lists : compressor, rotary : air, skid mounted, gasoline driven, 125 CFM, 100 psi, (Ingersoll-Rand model GER-125), serial numbers 125CR22346 thru 125CR22545 and 125CR24901 thru 125CR25400, FSN 4310-818-9824.

"February 1969."

Organizational, direct support, and general support, maintenance repair parts and special tools lists : compressor, reciprocating : air, hand truck mounted, gasoline engine driven, 5 CFM, 175 psi (Kellogg American model G-311-PC) NSN 4310-00-843-8885.

"26 July 1979."

Pelagic phosphorus accumulation in the Pacific Ocean

As a limiting nutrient to marine life, phosphorus (P) is an effective tracer of today's marine productivity. The distribution of P in marine sediments likewise tracks the history of marine productivity because of its relative insolubility in seawater. CaCO3, biogenic opal, terrigenous sediment, and total P have been measured in cores from nine Pacific sites (Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) 65, 66, 310, 77, 62, 572, 463, 586, and GPC-3) and one subantarctic (DSDP 266) site. These sites were specifically chosen to provide information on biota burial flux changes with time for sedimentary sinks that represent key oceanographic variables, i.e., rate of upwelling, water depth, and carbonate dissolution gradient. The accumulation rates of these components for the last 10 Ma were then calculated from determined core age versus depth plots, core bulk density, and porosity data. The accumulation of P weakly correlates with that of CaCO3, moderately with that of total sediment, and very strongly with carbonate-free accumulation. Two prominent peaks for all components occur at 2-3 Ma and 5-6 Ma, and record the chemical loading of dissolved CaCO3, SiO2, and P from glacially emergent continental shelves. These results indicate that continental shelf phosphorites form during interglacially high sea levels and correspond to low deep-sea P accumulation rates, whereas glacially lowered sea levels allow for shelf bypassing and greater deep-sea P accumulation rates.

Pliocene-Pleistocene oxygen isotope record DSDP Site 586, Ontong Java Plateau, Pacific Ocean i

Oceanographic changes in the western equatorial Pacific during the past 6 Ma are inferred from oxygen isotopic analyses of planktic and benthic foraminifera from Ontong Java Plateau (DSDP Site 586). The taxa are Globigerinoides sacculifer, Pulleniatina, Cibicidoides wuellerstorfi, and Oridorsalis umbonatus. Cooling and ice buildup are indicated by an 18O enrichment of 0.3 per mil in the planktic species near 3.4 Ma. This shift apparently is compensated in the benthic data by a warming of the deep waters by between 1° and 2° C. We suggest that the dominant source of upper deep water supply to the Pacific changed from Antarctic to North Atlantic at that time, the North Atlantic-derived water being warmer. Near 2.8 Ma (approximately) the planktic foraminifera again record an enrichment in 18O (Delta delta18O=0.25 per mil). We suggest ice buildup in the northern hemisphere as the cause, because of subsequent sharp increase in fluctuations of the delta18O signal, that is, instability. The enrichment is magnified in the benthic foraminifera (Delta delta18O = 0.5 per mil) by a cooling of the deep water by 1.5° at the time, presumably signalling a glacial-type reduction of North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) production. Episodic divergence between the signals of G. sacculifer and Pulleniatina in the Pleistocene apparently reflects periods of increased upwelling in the western equatorial Pacific. The amplitude of ice volume fluctuations cannot be reconstructed from delta18O data alone, unless there are constraints on temperature variations. The increase in amplitude of fluctuation of the benthic and planktic signals during the Pleistocene may be attributed either to an increase in maximum ice volume, or to an increase in the fractionation of continental ice, or a combination of both causes.

Lithology and approximate sub-bottom depths and ages of the transition of soft to firm ooze and of firm ooze to chalk at DSDP Leg 89 and 90 Sites

Leg 90 recovered approximately 3705 m of core at eight sites lying at middle bathyal depths (1000-2200 m) (Sites 587 to 594) in a traverse from subtropical to subantarctic latitudes in the southwest Pacific region, chiefly on Lord Howe Rise in the Tasman Sea. This chapter summarizes some preliminary lithostratigraphic results of the leg and includes data from Site 586, drilled during DSDP Leg 89 on the Ontong-Java Plateau that forms the northern equatorial point of the latitudinal traverse. The lithofacies consist almost exclusively of continuous sections of very pure (>95% CaCO3) pelagic calcareous sediment, typically foraminifer-bearing nannofossil ooze (or chalk) and nannofossil ooze (or chalk), which is mainly of Neogene age but extends back into the Eocene at Sites 588, 592, and 593. Only at Site 594 off southeastern New Zealand is there local development of hemipelagic sediments and several late Neogene unconformities. Increased contents of foraminifers in Leg 90 sediments, notably in the Quaternary interval, correspond to periods of enhanced winnowing by bottom currents. Significant changes in the rates of sediment accumulation and in the character and intensity of sediment bioturbation within and between sites probably reflect changes in calcareous biogenic productivity as a result of fundamental paleoceanographic events in the region during the Neogene. Burial lithification is expressed by a decrease in sediment porosity from about 70 to 45% with depth. Concomitantly, microfossil preservation slowly deteriorates as a result of selective dissolution or recrystallization of some skeletons and the progressive appearance of secondary calcite overgrowths, first about discoasters and sphenoliths, and ultimately on portions of coccoliths. The ooze/chalk transition occurs at about 270 m sub-bottom depth at each of the northern sites (Sites 586 to 592) but is delayed until about twice this depth at the two southern sites (Sites 593 and 594). A possible explanation for this difference between geographic areas is the paucity of discoasters and sphenoliths at the southern sites; these nannofossil elements provide ideal nucleation sites for calcite overgrowths. Toward the bottom of some holes, dissolution seams and flasers appear in recrystallized chalks. The very minor terrigenous fraction of the sediment consists of silt- through clay-sized quartz, feldspar, mica, and clay minerals (smectite, illite, kaolinite, and chlorite), supplied as eolian dust from the Australian continent and by wind and ocean currents from erosion on South Island, New Zealand. Changes in the mass accumulation rates of terrigenous sediment and in clay mineral assemblages through time are related to various external controls, such as the continued northward drift of the Indo-Australian Plate, the development of Antarctic ice sheets, the increased desertification of the Australian continent after 14 m.y. ago, and the progressive increase in tectonic relief of New Zealand through the late Cenozoic. Disseminated glass shards and (altered) tephra layers occur in Leg 90 cores. They were derived from major silicic eruptions in North Island, New Zealand, and from basic to intermediate explosive volcanism along the Melanesian island chains. The tephrostratigraphic record suggests episodes of increased volcanicity in the southwest Pacific centered near 17, 13, 10, 5 and 1 m.y. ago, especially in the middle and early late Miocene. In addition, submarine basaltic volcanism was widespread in the southeast Tasman Sea around the Eocene/Oligocene boundary, possibly related to the propagation of the Southeast Indian Ridge through western New Zealand as a continental rift system.

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Tolerancia del híbrido de sorgo (Sorghum bicolor (L) Moench) H 89-96 a diferentes niveles de daños causados por enfermedades foliares durante la etapa vegetativa, postrera 2006

Con el objetivo de evaluar diferentes niveles de daños causados por enfermedades foliares en la etapa vegetativa de sorgo hibrido H 89-96 y su efecto en el rendimiento durante la época de postrera, se estableció este experimento en tierras que fueron alquiladas por el productor Agapito Ñurinda ubicada en el km 43 carretera Tipitapa Masaya, del departamento de Managua a 12° 08'36"de latitud norte y 86° 09' 49"de longitud oeste, Se utilizó un diseño con bloques completos al azar (BCA), Los tratamientos consistieron en aplicaciones de Benomyl con tres niveles de severidad de enfermedades; siendo el tratamiento uno con 3%, tratamiento dos con 7% tratamiento tres con 20% de severidad. El tratamiento T4 es el testigo al cual no se hizo aplicación alguna. Se realizaron aplicaciones calendarizadas para cogollero con Cypermetrina cada ocho días durante la etapa vegetativa y protección a la panoja con Cypermetrina y Benomyl al inicio de la floración para todos los tratamientos. La toma de datos para la severidad de enfermedades foliares fue basada en la escala de Takhur, utilizando cinco sitios al azar y registrando 10 plantas consecutivas por sitio. Los datos se procesaron mediante el análisis de varianza, para todas las variables evaluadas. No se presentaron condiciones climáticas favorables, para el desarrollo de las enfermedades que comúnmente afectan al cultivo del sorgo, no obstante la antracnosis (Colletotrichum graminicola (ces) G.W.Wison), se presentó en el híbrido de sorgo no alcanzado el 20 % de nivel de daño en estudio. El efecto de la aplicación de fungicida para antracnosis no mostró diferencia estadística entre tratamientos. La enfermedad no superó el 7% de severidad, durante la etapa vegetativa. Durante la etapa reproductiva, las condiciones ambientales favorecieron la incidencia de mohos en un período corto no mostrando diferencias estadísticas significativas. El acame se presentó hasta el momento de cosecha no llegando a tener significancia estadísticas en los tratamientos. Para la variable rendimiento el análisis de varianza no mostró diferencias significativas, sin embargo, los mayores rendimientos se obtuvieron en el T1 (3 % severidad) y T3 con 6 149, 01kg ha¹ y 5 389, 80kg ha¹ respectivamente. El análisis económico indicó que el T1 presentó mayor rentabilidad con un 0.55 %.

Sapientia, 1968, Vol. XXIII, nº 89 (número completo)

Contenido: Espíritu y esquematismo / Octavio N. Derisi – Preeminencia del individuo-especie total / J. E. Bolzán – La división de los conceptos en la lógica formal / Augusto Furlán – Notas y comentarios -- Bibliografía

Benthic Macrofauna of the New York Bight, 1979-89

The benthic macrofauna of the New York Bight has been monitored extensively, primarily to determine trends over space and time in biological effects of waste inputs. In the present study, from 44 to 48 stations were sampled each summer from 1980-1985. Data from other Bight benthic studies are included to· extend the temporal coverage from 1979 to 1989. Numbers of species and amphipods per sample, taken as relatively sensitive indicators of environmental stress, showed consistent spatial patterns. Lowest values were found in the Christiaensen Basin and other inshore areas, and numbers increased toward the outermost shelf and Hudson Shelf Valley stations. There were statistically significant decreases in species and amphipods at most stations from 1980 to 1985. (Preliminary data from a more recent study suggest numbers of species increased again between 1986 and 1989.) Cluster analysis of 1980-85 data indicated several distinct assemblages-sewage sludge dumpsite, sludge accumulation area, inner Shelf Valley, outer Shelf Valley, outer shelf-with little change over time. The "enriched" and "highly altered" assemblages in the Basin appear similar to those reported since sampling began there in 1968. No consistently defaunated areas have been found in any sampling programs over the past 20 years. On a gross level, therefore, recent faunal responses to any environmental changes are not evident, but the more sensitive measures used, i.e. numbers of species and amphipods, do indicate widespread recent effects. Causes of the faunal changes are not obvious; some possibilities, including increasing effects of sewage sludge or other waste inputs, natural factors, and sampling artifacts, are discussed. (PDF file contains 54 pages.)

Diário da Constituinte [gravação de vídeo] : [programa n. 586]

Aprovação pelo Plenario da fixação do mandato do Presidente da República José Sarney para 5 anos. Influência do Centrão na manobra regimental que garantiu a votação do tempo de 5 anos para o mandato do atual chefe de Estado. Rejeição de emenda sobre a realização de plebiscito para reexame da Carta Magna. Aprovação da proposta de revisão da Constituição Federal daqui a cinco anos a partir da data de sua promulgação, na forma de sessão unicameral.