Grain shape of sediment from the Weddell Sea

Very fine quartz sand was examined from Paleogene and Neogene sediments of ODP Sites 693, 694, 695, 696, and 697 to determine their grain roundness using Fourier analysis and SEM surface texture characteristics. The objective of this study was to identify grain roundness and surface texture characteristics unique to East (Site 693) and West (Sites 695, 696, and 697) Antarctica and to glacial regimes. Once identified, these distinguishing features could then be used to determine changes in source area and glacial conditions in the central Weddell Sea Basin (Site 694). Three end members of very fine quartz sand are recognized in the Oligocene to Pleistocene sediments of the Weddell Sea: angular, rounded, and intermediate. End member 1 (angular) consists of extremely angular grains with numerous fracture textures. Previous investigations suggested that these sands are derived from crystalline rocks that fractured during formation or deformation and/or were exposed to weathering by ice. In this study, however, the correlation of angularity with ice activity is problematical as the most angular sands were recovered in the lower Oligocene sediments of the South Orkney Microcontinent, a period of temperate climatic conditions. End member 3 (rounded) consists of rounded grains with chemically and mechanically produced surface textures. These sands are presumed to be derived from the Beacon-type rocks in East Antarctica and the sedimentary deposits of the Northern Antarctic Peninsula. End member 2 (intermediate) grains display crystalline nodes and grain embayments. They are thought to be derived from felsic intrusives, East Antarctic quartzites, basement metamorphics of the South Orkney Microcontinent, and/or the Andean intrusive series of West Antarctica. Unfortunately, no features unique to either the East or West Antarctic sediment sources or to glacial conditions could be isolated. Therefore, the objective of determining provenance changes and sediment erosion and transport mechanisms could not be achieved using this approach.

Revised Cenozoic hiatus database

The differential effects of climate change, sea level, and water mass circulation on deposition/erosion of marine sediments can be constrained from the distribution of unconformities in the world's oceans. I identified temporal and depth patterns of hiatuses ("hiatus events") from a large and chronologically well constrained stratigraphic database of deep-sea sediments. The Paleogene is characterized by few, several million year long hiatuses. The most significant Cenozoic hiatus event spans most of the Paleocene. The Neogene is characterized by short, frequent hiatus events nearly synchronous in shallow and deep water sediments. Epoch boundaries are characterized by peaks in deep water hiatuses possibly caused by an increased circulation of corrosive bottom water and sediment dissolution. The Plio-Pleistocene is characterized by a gradual decrease in the frequency of hiatuses. Future studies will focus on the regional significance of the hiatus events and their possible causes.

Sapientia, 1974, Vol. XXIX, nº 113 (número completo)

Contenido: El Esse y el Intelligere divino, fundamento universal e inmediato de todo ser y de toda verdad y entender participados en Santo Tomás / Octavio N. Derisi – Saint Thomas contre l’agnosticisme / F. Van Steenberghen – Trascendentalidad de la belleza en el pensamiento de Santo Tomás / José R. Sanabria -- ¿Navaja de Ockham o navaja de Santo Tomás? / J. E. Bolzán – Notas y comentarios -- Bibliografía

Diário da Constituinte [gravação de vídeo] : [programa n. 113]

O esboço da nova Constituição está pronto. Bernardo Cabral (PMDB-AM) relata que o esboço reflete exatamente o que foi decidido nas comissões temáticas. Sobre a reforma agrária, Fernando Henrique Cardoso (PMDB-SP) relata que o texto permite emendas que propiciem a manutenção da produção e o acesso à terra. Os direitos individuais também sofreram modificações e Nelson Jobim (PMDB-RS) relata que os conceitos foram bem sistematizados e fundamentados. O esboço da Constituição foi entregue ao presidente da Assembleia Nacional Constituinte (ANC), Ulysses Guimarães (PMDB-SP) e será reexaminado por todos os membros da Comissão de Sistematização da ANC. Na sessão O Povo Pergunta, cidadão quer saber como fica a questão do emprego. Domingos Leonelli (PMDB-BA) responde que houve um avanço considerável com a redução da jornada de trabalho para 40 horas semanais. José Walter Filho, coordenador do Sine-DF, diz que a questão do desemprego é estrutural e o próprio sistema estatal de emprego não chega a atender 2% do desemprego a nível nacional. Aloísio Vasconcelos (PMDB-MG) acredita que o desemprego está associado a políticas nacionais e que uma política de emprego se faz necessária, ao invés de políticas econômicas que geram emprego ou desemprego, dependendo da ocasião . Virgílio Galassi (PDS-MG) entende que o desemprego depende também do empregador. Celso Dourado (PMDB-BA) relata que deve-se evitar a política monetarista que valoriza o capital, não o trabalho. Olívio Dutra (PT-RS) afirma que dentro do capitalismo brasileiro há formas de minimizar o desemprego.

Untersuchungen am Köhler in der nördlichen Nordsee (Ergebnisse der 113. Reise des FFS "Walther Herwig")

Im Rahmen des Internationalen Jungfischprogramms des ICES untersuchten von Januar bis März 1991 Forschungsschiffe mehrerer Nationen die Jungtischbestände der Nordsee. FFS "Walther Hcrwig" beteiligte sich vom 13. Januar bis 15. Februar an diesen Untersuchungen.

Cytological aspects of gonadotropic cells and pre-opticoneurohypophysial neurosecretion during the ovarian cycle of Eudontomyzon danfordi. [Translation from: Studia Univ.Babes-Bolyai, Biologia 18 105-113, 1973.]

The connection between the activity of the gonadotropic cells of the hypophysis and the neurosecretion in the pre-optico neuro-hypophysial system in different groups of vertebrates has been examined by many authors. It has been established that in many species there exists some kind of synchronism between the sexual cycle and the cellular activity of neurosecretion, a fact that has led to the prevailing idea that gonadotropic activity in the hypophysis is regulated by the hypothalamus. This paper summarises the results of experiments made in this direction on Cyclostomata. The materials for research came from adult individuals of Eudontomyson danfordi Regan taken from the rivers Somes-Rece and Ivo (Harghita district) at different times of the year.

Mellum Island (southern North Sea): dynamic processes and sedimentary structures. I. Southern tidal flat, transition zone and high-surface.[p.72 (Blasensand) only][Translation from: Senckenbergiana Maritima 11, 59-113, 1979]

This partial translation of a longer article describes the phenomenon of ”Blasensand”. Blasensand is formed when sedimentation of dried out sand is suddenly flooded from above. A more detailed explanation of Blasensand is given in this translated part of the paper.

Morphology and photoluminescence of GeSi self-assembled quantum dot on Si(113)

Morphology of self-assembled GeSi quantum dot grown on Si(113) by Si molecular beam epitaxy has been studied by transmission electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy. Photoluminescence from the as-grown sample and annealed sample was studied. The results were analyzed and explained.

The structures and transformations on Si(113) surface

The surface structures of the Si(113)-(1 X 1), Si(113)-(3 X 1) and Si(113)-(3 X 2) have been studied theoretically by means of an ab initio quantum chemical CNDO method. We address not only the importance of the surface energy but also the energy minimization and the barrier height in the different structural conversion. We found that (1) the relaxed Si(113)-(1 X 1) structure. (2) the Si(113)-(3 X 1) close to the Si(113) Ranke (3 X 1)-2 model; (3) the atomic positions of Si(113)-(3 X 2) corrugated arrangement. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.

Kinetics of dissociative water adsorption on stepped Si(001), on Si(115), Si(113), Si(5,5,12) and Si(112)

We present photoelectron spectroscopic and low energy electron diffraction measurements of water adsorption on flat Si samples of the orientations (001), (115), (113), (5,5,12) and (112) as well as on curved samples covering continuously the ranges (001)-(117) and (113)-(5,5,12)-(112). On all orientations, water adsorption is dissociative (OH and H) and non-destructive. On Si(001) the sticking coefficient S and the saturation coverage Theta(sat) are largest. On Si(001) and for small miscuts in the [110]-azimuth, S is constant nearly up to saturation which proves that the kinetics involves a weakly bound mobile precursor state. For (001)-vicinals with high miscut angles (9-13 degrees), the step structure breaks down, the precursor mobility is affected and the adsorption kinetics changed. On (115), (113), (5,5,12) and (112), the values of S and Theta(sat) are smaller which indicates that not all sites are able to dissociate and bind water. For (113) the shape of the adsorption curves Theta versus exposure shows the existence of two adsorption processes, one with mobile precursor kinetics and one with Langmuir-like kinetics. On (5,5,12), two processes with mobile precursor kinetics are observed which are ascribed to adsorption on different surface regions within the large surface unit cell. From the corresponding values of S and Theta(sat), data for structure models are deduced. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.

Hydrogen adsorption induced surface reconstructions on Si(113) studied by LEED

Surface reconstructions on Si(113) induced by dissociated hydrogen adsorption have been studied using low energy electron diffraction (LEED). It has been found that: (1) at 300 K and 80 K temperatures, with the increase of hydrogen coverage on the surface, the (3 x 1) phase transferred continuously into a hydrogen saturated (1 x 1)-2H phase; (2) flashing of the (1 x 1)-2H surface at about 1100 degrees C resulted in a complete new phase of(1 x 3) and further annealing of the sample at 1250 degrees C gave back the starting surface of (3 x 1); (3) saturated hydrogen adsorption at a sample temperature of 700 degrees C resulted in a stable new phase of(1 x 2)-H and further saturation doses of hydrogen at other temperatures below 700 degrees C did not change the (1 x 2) LEED pattern; (4) annealing of the (I x 2)-H surface in the same manner as (2) gave similar results.

（113）面硅衬底上自组织生长的GeSi量子点及其光荧光

用透射电子显微镜观察了Si(113)衬底上由固态源分子束外延生长的自组织量子点的形貌，测量了其原生及退火后低温下的荧光光谱。对所得结果进行了分析。