Piano concerto for 2 pianos, 4 hands. [music] : op. 20 /

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A new period of volcanogenic massive sulfide formation in the Yilgarn: A volcanological study of the ca 2.76 Ga Hollandaire VMS deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia

The Archean Hollandaire volcanogenic massive sulfide deposit is a felsic–siliciclastic VMS deposit located in the Murchison Domain of the Youanmi Terrane, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. It is hosted in a succession of turbidites, mudstones and coherent rhyodacite sills and has been metamorphosed to upper greenschist/lower amphibolite facies and includes a pervasive S1 deformational fabric. The coherent rhyodacitic sills are interpreted as syndepositional based on geochemical similarities with well-known VMS-associated felsic rocks and similar foliations to the metasediments. We offer several explanations for the absence of textural evidence (e.g. breccias) for syn-depositional origins: 1) the subaqueous sediments were dehydrated by long-lived magmatism such that no pore-water remained to drive quench fragmentation; 2) pore-space occlusion by burial and/or, 3) alteration overprinting and obscuring of primary breccias at contact margins. Mineralisation occurs by sub-seafloor replacement of original host rocks in two ore bodies, Hollandaire Main (~125 x >500 m and ~8 m thick) and Hollandaire West (~100 x 470 m and ~5 m thick), and occurs in three main textural styles, massive sulfides, which are exclusively hosted in turbidites and mudstones, and stringer and disseminated sulfides, which are also hosted in coherent rhyodacite. Most sulfides have textures consistent with remobilisation and recrystallisation. Hydrothermal metamorphism has altered the hangingwall and footwall to similar degrees, with significant gains in Mg, Mn and K and losses in Na, Ca and Sr. Garnet and staurolite porphyryoblasts also exhibit a footprint around mineralisation, extending up to 30 m both above and below the ore zone. High precision thermal ionisation mass spectrometry of zircons extracted from the coherent rhyodacite yield an age of 2759.5 ± 0.9 Ma, which along with geochemical comparisons, places the succession within the 2760–2735 Ma Greensleeves Formation of the Polelle Group of the Murchison Supergroup. Geochemical and geochronological evidence link the coherent rhyodacite sills to the Peter Well Granodiorite pluton ~2 km to the W, which acted as the heat engine driving hydrothermal circulation during VMS mineralisation. This study highlights the importance of both: detailed physical volcanological studies from which an accurate assessment of timing relationships, particularly the possibility of intrusions dismembering ore horizons, can be made; and identifying synvolcanic plutons and other similar suites, for VMS exploration targets in the Youanmi Terrane and worldwide.

The prehistory of Suomussalmi, eastern Finland; the first billion years as revealed by isotopes and the composition of granitoid suites

The four papers summarized in this thesis deal with the Archean and earliest Paleoproterozoic granitoid suites observed in the Suomussalmi district, eastern Finland. Geologically, the area belongs to the Kianta Complex of the Western Karelian Terrane in the Karelian Province of the Fennoscandian shield. The inherited zircons up to 3440 Ma old together with Sm Nd and Pb Pb data confirm the existence of previously anticipated Paleoarchean protocrust in Suomussalmi. The general timeline of granitoid magmatism is similar to that of the surrounding areas. TTG magmatism occurred in three distinct phases: ca 2.95 Ga, 2.83 2.78 Ga and 2.76 2.74 Ga. In Suomussalmi the TTGs sensu stricto (K2O/Na2O less than 0.5) belong to the low-HREE type and are interpreted as partial melts of garnet amphibolites, which did not significantly interact with mantle peridotites. Transitional TTGs (K2O/Na2O more than 0.5), present in Suomussalmi and absent from surrounding areas, display higher LILE concentrations, but otherwise closely resemble the TTGs sensu stricto and indicate that recycling of felsic crust commenced in Suomussalmi 200 Ma earlier than in surrounding areas. The youngest TTG phase was coeval with the intrusion of the Likamännikkö quartz alkali feldspar syenite (2741 ± 2 Ma) complex. The complex contains angular fragments of ultrabasic rock, which display considerable compositional heterogeneity and are interpreted as cumulates containing clinopyroxene (generally altered to actinolite), apatite, allanite, epidote, and albite. The quartz alkali feldspar syenite cannot be regarded as alkaline sensu stricto, despite clear alkaline affinities. Within Likamännikkö there are also calcite carbonatite patches, which display mantle-like O- and C-isotope values, as well as trace element characteristics consistent with a magmatic origin, and could thus be among the oldest known carbonatites in the world. Sanukitoid (2.73 2.71 Ga) and quartz diorite suites (2.70 Ga) overlap within error margins and display compositional similarities, but can be differentiated from each other on the basis of higher Ba, K2O and LREE contents of the sanukitoids. The Likamännikkö complex, sanukitoids and quartz diorites are interpreted as originating from the metasomatized mantle and mark the diversification of the granitoid clan after 200 Ma of evolution dominated by the TTG suite. Widespread migmatization and the intrusion of anatectic leucogranitoids as dykes and intrusions of varying size took place at 2.70 2.69 Ga, following collisional thickening of the crust. The leucogranitoids and leucosomes of migmatized TTGs are compositionally alike and characterized by high silica contents and a leucocratic appearance. Due to compositional overlap, definitive discrimination between leucogranitoids and transitional TTGs requires isotope datings and/or knowledge of field relationships. Leucogranitoids represent partial melts of the local TTGs, both the sensu stricto and transitional types, mostly derived under water fluxed conditions, with possible fluid sources being late sanukitoids and quartz diorites as well as dehydrating lower crust. The Paleoproterozoic 2.44 2.39 Ga A-type granitoids of the Kianta Complex emplaced in an extensional environment are linked to the coeval and more widespread mafic intrusions and dykes observed over most of the Archean nucleus of the Fennoscandian shield. The A-type intrusions in the Suomussalmi area are interpreted as partial melts of the Archean lower crust and display differences in composition and magnetite content, which indicate differences in the composition and oxidation state of the source.

Histoire de la conquéte de l'Angleterre par les normands, de ses causes et de ses suites jusqu'a nos jours en Angleterre, en Ecosse, en Irlande et sur le continent

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Irrégularités dans la distribution des nombres premiers et des suites plus générales dans les progressions arithmétiques

Le sujet principal de cette thèse est la distribution des nombres premiers dans les progressions arithmétiques, c'est-à-dire des nombres premiers de la forme $qn+a$, avec $a$ et $q$ des entiers fixés et $n=1,2,3,\dots$ La thèse porte aussi sur la comparaison de différentes suites arithmétiques par rapport à leur comportement dans les progressions arithmétiques. Elle est divisée en quatre chapitres et contient trois articles. Le premier chapitre est une invitation à la théorie analytique des nombres, suivie d'une revue des outils qui seront utilisés plus tard. Cette introduction comporte aussi certains résultats de recherche, que nous avons cru bon d'inclure au fil du texte. Le deuxième chapitre contient l'article \emph{Inequities in the Shanks-Rényi prime number race: an asymptotic formula for the densities}, qui est le fruit de recherche conjointe avec le professeur Greg Martin. Le but de cet article est d'étudier un phénomène appelé le <>, qui s'observe dans les <>. Chebyshev a observé qu'il semble y avoir plus de premiers de la forme $4n+3$ que de la forme $4n+1$. De manière plus générale, Rubinstein et Sarnak ont montré l'existence d'une quantité $\delta(q;a,b)$, qui désigne la probabilité d'avoir plus de premiers de la forme $qn+a$ que de la forme $qn+b$. Dans cet article nous prouvons une formule asymptotique pour $\delta(q;a,b)$ qui peut être d'un ordre de précision arbitraire (en terme de puissance négative de $q$). Nous présentons aussi des résultats numériques qui supportent nos formules. Le troisième chapitre contient l'article \emph{Residue classes containing an unexpected number of primes}. Le but est de fixer un entier $a\neq 0$ et ensuite d'étudier la répartition des premiers de la forme $qn+a$, en moyenne sur $q$. Nous montrons que l'entier $a$ fixé au départ a une grande influence sur cette répartition, et qu'il existe en fait certaines progressions arithmétiques contenant moins de premiers que d'autres. Ce phénomène est plutôt surprenant, compte tenu du théorème des premiers dans les progressions arithmétiques qui stipule que les premiers sont équidistribués dans les classes d'équivalence $\bmod q$. Le quatrième chapitre contient l'article \emph{The influence of the first term of an arithmetic progression}. Dans cet article on s'intéresse à des irrégularités similaires à celles observées au troisième chapitre, mais pour des suites arithmétiques plus générales. En effet, nous étudions des suites telles que les entiers s'exprimant comme la somme de deux carrés, les valeurs d'une forme quadratique binaire, les $k$-tuplets de premiers et les entiers sans petit facteur premier. Nous démontrons que dans chacun de ces exemples, ainsi que dans une grande classe de suites arithmétiques, il existe des irrégularités dans les progressions arithmétiques $a\bmod q$, avec $a$ fixé et en moyenne sur $q$.

MODEL PARTITIONS AND COMPACT TEST CASE SUITES

We present a generalized test case generation method, called the G method. Although inspired by the W method, the G method, in contrast, allows for test case suite generation even in the absence of characterization sets for the specification models. Instead, the G method relies on knowledge about the index of certain equivalences induced at the implementation models. We show that the W method can be derived from the G method as a particular case. Moreover, we discuss some naturally occurring infinite classes of FSM models over which the G method generates test suites that are exponentially more compact than those produced by the W method.

Second suite in F for military band : op. 28, no. 2 /

Pl. no. H.10472.

Vingt suites d'orchestre du XVIIe siècle français /

v. 1. Etude historique. Les facsimilés du manuscrit de Cassel avec l'ancien et le nouveau classement.--v. 2. Partition d'orchestre et réduction pour le piano.

Scènes pittoresques, suite d'orchestre. 1. Marche. 2. Air de ballet. 3. Angelus. 4. Fête bohême.

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English suites for the pianoforte. [music] /

v. 1. (ser. vol. 17) Suite 1 ; Suite 2 ; Suite 3 -- v. 2. (ser. vol. 18) Suite 4, in F major ; Suite 5, in E minor ; Suite 6, in D minor.

Suite no. 1, C major, for 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 violins, viola and continuo. [music] /

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