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.

Extramuros : la historia del movimiento de rock mendocino

Esa es la historia del rock en Mendoza: una necesidad nunca satisfecha. Esta frase, dicha por uno de los entrevistados para este libro, refleja el espíritu que anima al rock: una búsqueda que es, al mismo tiempo, una actitud ante la vida, la sociedad y el mundo. Una resistencia inagotable, una identidad siempre en proceso de construcción. Por eso el rock, como movimiento social, se caracteriza por ser contracultural y contestatario. En Mendoza el rock tiene una larga y rica historia - que se inició en 1957 cuando llegó a las pantallas la película "Bailando al compás del reloj - y que no decayó nunca. Extramuros reconstruye esta historia y es el fruto del trabajo de un equipo de investigadores de la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo dirigido por la Mgter. Graciela Cousinet. Recolectando información durante varios años, entrevistando a músicos y participantes, revisando diarios, revistas y documentos, hasta dar forma a esta obra que recorre cuarenta años de rock mendocino, desde sus inicios hasta 1997. Se completa con valiosos anexos: un listado de lugares de toque y reunión y una extensa y exhaustiva lista de bandas que llega a las 640. Este libro editado por EDIUNC viene a satisfacer un reclamo de los rockeros mendocinos: verse reflejados en una historia que le es propia.

(Table 1) Characteristics of silicified sediments at DSDP Site 61-462 according to host-rock lithology, opal-CT-to-quartz ratio, and the origin of the quartz phase

This study deals with the mineralogical variability of siliceous and zeolitic sediments, porcellanites, and cherts at small intervals in the continuously cored sequence of Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 462. Skeletal opal is preserved down to a maximum burial depth of 390 meters (middle Eocene). Below this level, the tests are totally dissolved or replaced and filled by opal-CT, quartz, clinoptilolite, and calcite. Etching of opaline tests does not increase continously with deeper burial. Opal solution accompanied by a conspicuous formation of authigenic clinoptilolite has a local maximum in Core 16 (150 m). A causal relationship with the lower Miocene hiatus at this level is highly probable. Oligocene to Cenomanian sediments represent an intermediate stage of silica diagenesis: the opal-CT/quartz ratios of the silicified rocks are frequently greater than 1, and quartz filling pores or replacing foraminifer tests is more widespread than quartz which converted from an opal-CT precursor. As at other sites, there is a marked discontinuity of the transitions from biogenic opal via opal-CT to quartz with increasing depth of burial. Layers with unaltered opal-A alternate with porcellanite beds; the intensity of the opal-CT-to-quartz transformation changes very rapidly from horizon to horizon and obviously is not correlated with lithologic parameters. The silica for authigenic clinoptilolite was derived from biogenic opal and decaying volcanic components.

Tab.1: Representative bulk-rock and trace element chemistry

High-pressure/low-temperature metabasites occupy a definite geological position within the structure of the Polar Urals and have a very important bearing on the understanding of the early history of the Ural Mountains. Recently obtained geological, petrographic, geochemical and isotope data allow some conclusions on this history. The metabasites of the Khord"yus and Dzela complexes contain relics of a Neoproterozoic (578 ±8 Ma) oceanic crust. This crust formed part of the base of the early Paleozoic (500 Ma) ensimatic island arc and experienced Ca-Al-Si±Na metasomatism and, probably, partial melting with the formation of boninite melts. However, so far no boninite volcanics have been found. The metabasites at the base of the island arc took part in the collision and as a consequence experienced glaucophane schist and greenschist facies metamorphism during the collision and obduction over the passive Baltic margin 350 ±11 Ma ago.