Interstitial water d13C and sediment geochemistry of ODP Leg 166 sites

A review of interstitial water samples collected from Sites 1003-1007 of the Bahamas Transect along with a shore-based analysis of oxygen and carbon isotopes, minor and trace elements, and sediment chemistry are presented. Results indicate that the pore-fluid profiles in the upper 100 meters below seafloor (mbsf) are marked by shifts between 20 and 40 mbsf that are thought to be caused by changes in sediment reactivity, sedimentation rates, and the influence of strong bottom currents that have been active since the late Pliocene. Pore-fluid profiles in the lower Pliocene-Miocene sequences are dominated by diffusion and do not show significant evidence of subsurface advective flow. Deeper interstitial waters are believed to be the in situ fluids that have evolved through interaction with sediments and diffusion. Pore-fluid chemistry is strongly influenced by carbonate recrystallization processes. Increases in pore-fluid Cl- and Na+ with depth are interpreted to result mainly from carbonate remineralization reactions that are most active near the platform margin. A lateral gradient in detrital clay content observed along the transect, leads to an overall lower carbonate reactivity, and enhances preservation of metastable aragonite further away from the platform margin. Later stage burial diagenesis occurs at slow rates and is limited by the supply of reactive elements through diffusion.

Authigenic uranium, mass accumulation rates, benthic d13C and SST during the last interglacial period of ODP Site 177-1094

Southern Ocean sediments reveal a spike in authigenic uranium 127,000 years ago, within the last interglacial, reflecting decreased oxygenation of deep water by Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW). Unlike ice age reductions in AABW, the interglacial stagnation event appears decoupled from open ocean conditions and may have resulted from coastal freshening due to mass loss from the Antarctic ice sheet. AABW reduction coincided with increased North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) formation, and the subsequent reinvigoration in AABW coincided with reduced NADW formation. Thus, alternation of deep water formation between the Antarctic and the North Atlantic, believed to characterize ice ages, apparently also occurs in warm climates.

El buen paño en el arca. Una lectura de los diarios de Max Aub

Las líneas de los diarios de Max Aub están pobladas por reflexiones, narraciones, recuerdos a propósito del exilio y, en particular, de sus consecuencias en el caso de los escritores: la precariedad, cuando no anulación, de su relación con la crítica, las publicaciones especializadas, la academia, las historias de la literatura, el público y el mercado editorial. Con énfasis en este último aspecto, la ponencia aborda la incidencia de los factores antedichos en la construcción de la imagen de escritor aubiana, en los diarios del autor de El laberinto mágico.

Alejandra Torres Torres, Lectura y sociedad en los sesenta: a propósito de Alfa y Arca : Montevideo, Yauguru, 2012, 210 páginas

Fil: Añón, Valeria. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación; Argentina.