(Table 3) Major element content of whole-rock samples of DSDP Leg 30 holes

All norms were calculated with an atomic ratio of Fe+3/Fe+2 = 0.2, except analysis 7 which was calculated directly from the analysis.

El rock argentino como generador de espacios de resistencia

En el presente escrito exploramos aspectos de la historia del rock argentino rastreando características que nos permitan señalar algunas ideas en relación con la conformación de determinadas producciones artísticas como "espacios de resistencia". En este caso, definiremos la idea de "espacio de resistencia" como aquellas producciones del rock argentino que proporcionan algún tipo de respuesta o vìa de canalizaciòn a las presiones que ejerce el hàbitat local en lo cotidiano. Esas posibles vías de canalizaciòn serían -desde nuestra perspectiva- la posibilidad de recuperar la voluntad de búsqueda de posibles salidas a determinadas realidades acuciantes. Ese pensar creativo que proporciona una expresiòn-en este caso musical- creemos que contribuye a la postulaciòn de una identidad que forma parte de nuestra historia latinoamericana, intentando la cristalizaciòn de un "nosotros" que busca afirmarse como sujeto de transformaciòn de necesidades planteadas en un contexto determinado.

Petrography, microprobe analyses and isotope composition of ultramafic rock from the northern Haskard Highlands, Shackleton Range, East Antarctica

In the Shackleton Range of East Antarctica, garnet-bearing ultramafic rocks occur as lenses in supracrustal high-grade gneisses. In the presence of olivine, garnet is an unmistakable indicator of eclogite facies metamorphic conditions. The eclogite facies assemblages are only present in ultramafic rocks, particularly in pyroxenites, whereas other lithologies - including metabasites - lack such assemblages. We conclude that under high-temperature conditions, pyroxenites preserve high-pressure assemblages better than isofacial metabasites, provided the pressure is high enough to stabilize garnet-olivine assemblages (i.e. >=18-20 kbar). The Shackleton Range ultramafic rocks experienced a clockwise P-T path and peak conditions of 800-850 °C and 23-25 kbar. These conditions correspond to ~70 km depth of burial and a metamorphic gradient of 11-12 °C/km that is typical of a convergent plate-margin setting. The age of metamorphism is defined by two garnet-whole-rock Sm-Nd isochrons that give ages of 525 ± 5 and 520 ± 14 Ma corresponding to the time of the Pan-African orogeny. These results are evidence of a Pan-African suture zone within the northern Shackleton Range. This suture marks the site of a palaeo-subduction zone that likely continues to the Herbert Mountains, where ophiolitic rocks of Neoproterozoic age testify to an ocean basin that was closed during Pan-African collision. The garnet-bearing ultramafic rocks in the Shackleton Range are the first known example of eclogite facies metamorphism in Antarctica that is related to the collision of East and West Gondwana and the first example of Pan-African eclogite facies ultramafic rocks worldwide. Eclogites in the Lanterman Range of the Transantarctic Mountains formed during subduction of the palaeo-Pacific beneath the East Antarctic craton.