Study of the Saldanha Massif (MAR, 36 degrees 34 ' N): Constrains from rock magnetic and geophysical data

We present a study of the magnetic properties of a group of basalt samples from the Saldanha Massif (Mid-Atlantic Ridge - MAR - 36degrees 33' 54" N, 33degrees 26' W), and we set out to interpret these properties in the tectono-magmatic framework of this sector of the MAR. Most samples have low magnetic anisotropy and magnetic minerals of single domain grain size, typical of rapid cooling. The thermomagnetic study mostly shows two different susceptibility peaks. The high temperature peak is related to mineralogical alteration due to heating. The low temperature peak shows a distinction between three different stages of low temperature oxidation: the presence of titanomagnetite, titanomagnetite and titanomaghemite, and exclusively of titanomaghemite. Based on established empirical relationships between Curie temperature and degree of oxidation, the latter is tentatively deduced for all samples. Finally, swath bathymetry and sidescan sonar data combined with dive observations show that the Saldanha Massif is located over an exposed section of upper mantle rocks interpreted to be the result of detachment tectonics. Basalt samples inside the detachment zone often have higher than expected oxidation rates; this effect can be explained by the higher permeability caused by the detachment fault activity.

Presença de Aedes aegypti em Bromeliaceae e depósitos com plantas no Município do Rio de Janeiro, RJ

Relata-se a freqüência de vegetais Bromeliaceae e de outros criadouros com plantas positivos para Aedes aegypti durante dois ciclos operacionais (tratamento focal) consecutivos no Município do Rio de Janeiro, RJ, cujos períodos foram de 12 de novembro de 2000 a 9 de março de 2001 e 12 de março de 2001 a 15 de junho de 2001. O trabalho destaca as implicações epidemiológicas oriundas da crescente utilização dessas plantas para fins decorativos.

O conteúdo orgânico do sedimento influencia na distribuição intraespecífica de caranguejos-chama-maré

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

A representação do mar nos romances de Moacir C. Lopes

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Sedimentação da Bacia Bauru: cenário tectônico, idade dos depósitos e ambientes paleodeposicionais

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Potencial biotecnológico do mar dos Açores

O ambiente marinho constitui uma extraordinária reserva de compostos com características estruturais únicas, diferentes das encontradas nos Produtos Naturais de origem terrestre. Os compostos de origem marinha assumem assim um papel cada vez mais significativo na descoberta de novos medicamentos, de novas aplicações em cosmética, na produção de enzimas com características específicas ou como biomateriais para engenharia de tecidos. A investigação nesta área, no âmbito do Crescimento Azul, ganhou novo impulso com a Estratégia Nacional para o Mar e as diretivas do Horizonte 2020. A elevada biodiversidade do mar dos Açores e os ambientes e ecossistemas que o distinguem de outras regiões, nomeadamente a influência do vulcanismo ativo e residual, estão na base da investigação que tem vindo a ser feita na Universidade dos Açores, pelo Grupo de Biotecnologia do Centro de Investigação em Recursos Naturais (CIRN), em colaboração com o DCTD, DB e CIBIO-Açores.

Mar dos Açores, mar de Portugal, mar da Europa : aprofundar o passado para projectar o futuro : resumos

Colóquio Internacional "Mar dos Açores, Mar de Portugal, Mar da Europa", Ponta Delgada, 27-29 de Novembro de 2014.

Helmet use among motorcyclists: observational study in the city of Mar del Plata, Argentina

The objective of the study was to assess the use of helmets in a community where helmet use is mandatory but low as there is no police enforcement. A sample comprising 451 motorcyclists in the city of Mar del Plata, Argentina, was studied in 2006. The following variables were studied: gender, type of motorcycle, weather conditions, time of the day, city area and type of road where motorcyclists traveled. Data were analyzed through a multiple logistic regression model. An overall 40% prevalence (95% CI: 35.5;44.5) of helmet use was found. Higher rates of helmet use were seen among women, and under unfavorable weather conditions, lower rates were found in the city outskirts, and variable use was seen according to the type of motorcycle. There is a need to improve law enforcement and to promote education of motorcyclists.

Impressões de leitura: o poema do mar de Jorge Barbosa

Poema do Mar dá voz ao ideal da ―terra-longe‖ e ao ―querer bipartido‖1 do poeta caboverdiano mais desencantado frente à terra-cretcheu, amada. Jorge Barbosa (1902-1971) foi, juntamente com Baltasar Lopes e Manuel Lopes, uma das figuras de proa da Claridade. O aparecimento desta revista, em 1936, define o moderno movimento cultural caboverdiano. Conscientes da sua unidade cultural, pretendiam os ―claridosos‖ romper em definitivo com a subalternidade que os cingia à temática europeia, libertando o acto criador de tão colonial alienação. Já em 1935, ao publicar o seu primeiro livro, Arquipélago, Jorge Barbosa vencera a tradicional dependência dos modelos metropolitanos e tornava-se pioneiro da moderna poesia caboverdiana.

Kafka à beira-mar

Desengane-se quem parta para a leitura de Kafka à Beira-Mar à procura de Franz Kafka. E daí, talvez não.

Mar das especiarias: A Viagem de um português pela Indonésia

Mar das especiarias: a viagem de um português pela Indonésia

Controlo fotogramétrico da condição de estruturas quebra-mar

Dissertação de natureza Científica para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Engenharia Civil

Notas sobre depósitos de Taveiro estratigrafia, paleontologia, idade, paleoecologia

This paper reports some research work that has been done to support Geological Survey's field work for the 1:50.000 Carta Geológica de Portugal, (sheets 19-C Figueira da Foz and 19-D Coimbra-Lousã). Its main purpose was to establish the age of some continental formations. At Cerâmica do Mondego, Ld.ª near Taveiro, two series were observed. The lower one is mainly pelitic, montmorillonite being predominant. It also includes some sandy beds and channel deposits with high energy sediments (conglomerate with limestone pebbles). The upper series lies unconformably upon the former, and there is a neat discontinuity surface between the two. It mainly consists of sands, kaolinite being the most abundant of the clay minerals. This seems to indicate an intensive weathering, an acid, well drained environment and transportation by quite high energy running waters. No fossils were recorded. Preliminary paleontological results are presented, along with some data concerning other localities (Aveiro, etc.). Fossils found in the lower series are: gastropoda (Bulimus gaudryi, TV. 15 bed), several vertebrates (TV. 18), fishes (TV. 19?) and plants (TV. 19-TV. 24). Vertebrata belong to the same fauna as that from Vizo, Aveiro, etc. The presence of mammals is most important as only a single tooth was previously Know in Europe (Southern France) in Late Cretaceous formations. Elsewhere there are some mammalian remains in Peru besides the rich assemblages found in the USA and Mongolia. Plants are representative of the «Debeya flora» well known at several localities in Beira Litoral province, in «Buçaco sandstones», and in Lisbon's «Basaltic Complex». The most important stratigraphical conclusion is that the lower series is Upper Campanian and/or Maastrichtian in age, and not Tertiary as sometimes it has been considered. As at Aveiro, «Bebeya flora» occurs in-beds somewhat higher than those with the Aveiro-Vizo-Taveiro vertebrate fauna. Correlation with other «Debeya flora» localities are now more clear. Data concerning Taveiro lower series, in the whole, point out to a rather warm (and moist?) environment in an occasionally (seasonally?) flooded region.

Notas sobre depósitos de Taveiro estratigrafia, paleontologia, idade, paleoecologia

This paper reports some research work that has been done to support Geological Survey's field work for the 1:50.000 Carta Geológica de Portugal, (sheets 19-C Figueira da Foz and 19-D Coimbra-Lousã). Its main purpose was to establish the age of some continental formations. At Cerâmica do Mondego, Lda. near Taveiro, two series were observed. The lower one is mainly pelitic, montmorillonite being predominant. It also includes some sandy beds and channel deposits with high energy sediments (conglomerate with limestone pebbles). The upper series lies unconformably upon the former, and there is a neat discontinuity surface between the two. It mainly consists of sands, kaolinite being the most abundant of the clay minerals. This seems to indicate an intensive weathering, an acid, well drained environment and transportation by quite high energy running waters. No fossils were recorded. Preliminary paleontological results are presented, along with some data concerning other localities (Aveiro, etc). Fossils found in the lower series are: gastropoda (Bulimus gaudryi, TV. 15 bed), several vertebrates (TV. 18), fishes (TV. 19?) and plants (TV. 19-TV. 24). Vertebrata belong to the same fauna as that from Vizo, Aveiro, etc. The presence of mammals is most important as only a single tooth was previously know in Europe (Southern France) in Late Cretaceous formations. Elsewhere there are some mammalian remains in Peru besides the rich assemblages found in the USA and Mongolia. Plants are representative of the «Debeya flora» well known at several localities in Beira Litoral province, in «Buçaco sandstones», and in Lisbon's «Basaltic Complex». The most important stratigraphical conclusion is that the lower series is Upper Campanian and/or Maastrichtian in age, and not Tertiary as sometimes it has been considered. As at Aveiro, «Bebeya flora» occurs in-beds somewhat higher than those with the Aveiro-Vizo-Taveiro vertebrate fauna. Correlation with other «Debeya flora» localities are now more clear. Data concerning Taveiro lower series, in the whole, point out to a rather warm (and moist?) environment in an occasionally (seasonally?) flooded region.

Depósitos messinianos do sul de Portugal, mamíferos (incluindo Rodentia e Logomorpha) e idades K-Ar

In the southern part of Tagus basin, North of paleozoic rocks of Valverde-Senhor das Chagas (near Alcácer do Sal) horst, a marine transgression has been recognized, Upper Serravallian, and maybe Lower Tortonian in age. There are no earlier marine deposits, and no younger ones are known either. Paleozoic behaved as a barrier separating two basins, distinct at least since Middle Miocene until Upper Pleistocene. Until now, both were regarded as a single entity, the so-called «Sado basin» Southwards (Alvalade basin) there has been a single transgression. It was assummed that it was the same one as the former. Indeed it is not definitely so. Later transgression accounts for Esbarrondadoiro Formation, whose deposits have been ascribed to Tortonian or even to Middle Miocene. However they are Upper Messinian to Lower Zanclean. Esbarrondadoiro Formation is younger than Lower Member of Cacela Formation in Algarve and, with even stronger reason, than the upper-most well dated marine levels in Tagus basin. Age of Miocene units dealt with here has been based on small mammals found in marine sands.