Organic petrology of Neogene sediment from ODP Leg 117

Neogene sediments from three areas of the Northern Indian Ocean (Indus Fan, Owen Ridge, Oman Margin, ODP Leg 117) were studied in order to determine the amount, type, and preservation of organic matter as functions of the environments encountered. The work consisted of geochemical analyses on whole sediment (Total Organic Content and Rock Eval pyrolysis) and of petrographic studies on isolated organic matter by optical and scanning electron microscopy. In Indus Fan sediments, organic matter is present in low amounts, mainly as lignaceous fragments. A contrasting situation exists in Oman Margin sediments which are generally rich in amorphous autochtonous organic matter. Owen Ridge, located between Indus fan and Oman Margin areas, shows two phases of organic sedimentation as a consequence of the uplift of the ridge. The older phase (Oligocene to early or middle Miocene) is strongly influenced by detrital supply from the Indus, while the younger phase (middle Miocene to Pleistocene) is characterized by relatively high amounts of autochtonous organic matter. From a general point of view it appears that high amounts of organic matter are mainly due to good preservation of marine amorphous organic matter, such as in Oman Margin sediments and in upper pelagic levels of Indus Fan and Owen Ridge deposits. Low total organic carbon contents are correlated with low proportions of amorphous material in the total organic matter due to oxidizing conditions. This leads to a relative enrichment in components derived from resistant materials (lignin, chitin, or other resistant biopolymers) such as lignaceous fragments (Indus Fan) and/or fragments from benthic organisms and alveolate microplankton (Oman Margin).

Chemical analyses of the clay fraction in selected samples of Sediment core KS09 (Table 2)

A deep-sea core over 16 m long from the crestal area of the Mediterranean Ridge has been investigated with different techniques, including quantitative micropaleontology, stable isotopes (measured on the epipelagic species Globigerinoides ruber and on the mesopelagic species Globorotalia inflata), and clay mineralogy. The resulting record of climatic fluctuations can be cross correlated to other Mediterranean cores by means of isochronous lithologies (tephra layers and sapropels). The climatic record of the Mediterranean is similar in character, phase, and chronology to the records investigated in the equatorial Pacific and in the Caribbean. Isotope stages 1 to 17 have been recognized. Cyclically repeated stagnant cycles resulting in sapropel deposition complicate both the isotopic and the faunal signal. The isotopic investigations reveal that the temperature change in the surface layers of the eastern Mediterranean was no greater than 8°C in the late "glacial" Pleistocene. The chronostratigraphic and biostratigraphic interpretation of Core KS09 indicate that the mean sedimentation rate was 2.4 cm/1000 years, a value very close to the 2.5 cm/1000 years calculated for the entire Quaternary section at DSDP Site 125, also located in the crestal area of the Mediterranean Ridge in the Ionian Basin. The base of KS09 is likely to be very close to the Brunhes/Matuyama boundary dated at 0.7 my.

Vertical profiles of environmental parameters measured on discrete water samples collected with Niskin bottles during the Tara Oceans expedition 2009-2013

The present data publication provides permanent links to original and updated versions of validated data files. The data files include properties of seawater, particulate matter and dissolved matter that were measured from discrete water samples collected with Niskin bottles during the 2009-2013 Tara Oceans expedition. Properties include pigment concentrations from HPLC analysis (10 depths per vertical profile, 25 pigments per depth), the carbonate system (Surface and 400m; pH (total scale), CO2, pCO2, fCO2, HCO3, CO3, Total alkalinity, Total carbon, OmegaAragonite, OmegaCalcite, and dosage Flags), nutrients (10 depths per vertical profile; NO2, PO4, N02/NO3, SI, quality Flags), DOC, CDOM, and dissolved oxygen isotopes. The Service National d'Analyse des Paramètres Océaniques du CO2, at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, determined CT and AT potentiometrically (Edmond 1970; DOE 1994) on samples preserved according to Dickson et al. (2007). More than 250 vertical profiles of these properties were made across the world ocean. DOC, CDOM and dissolved oxygen isotopes are available only for the Arctic Ocean and Arctic Seas (2013).

Le petit Faust : opéra-bouffe en 3 actes /

Pl. no. H. 3665.

Heruei Britonis ... In quattuor Petri Lombardi sententiaru[m] volumina scripta subtilissima nuperrime in lucem castigatissime prodeuntia ...

CCBE. s. XVI, N, 133.

De china china in synochis putribus animadversiones /

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L'hydre morbifique exterminee par l'Hercule chimique ou les sept maladies tenuës pour incurables jusques à present, renduës guerissables par l'art chimique medical : où est traicté briefuement de leur definition, causes, differences, signes, pronostic & cure .../

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Fifine at the fair; Red cotton night-cap country; and The inn album /

Fifine at the fair.--Prince Hohenstiel.-Schwangau.--Hervé Riel.--Red cotton night-cap country.--The inn album.

Tarif de quadrature pour le mesurage du sciage des bois, d'après le système métrique, calculé pour toutea les longueurs de madriers, de 1 à 162 décimètres, et les largeurs de 1 à 64 centimètres,

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OEuvres posthumes de Madame la Baronne de Staël-Holstein. Précédées d'une notice sur son caractère et ses écrits.

Notice sur le caractère et les écrits de madame de Stael.--Considérations sur les principaux événements de la révolution française. Publiées en 1818 par m. le duc de Broglie et m. le baron de Stael.--Dix années d'exil.--Éloge de m. de Guibert [etc.]; Essais dramatiques: Agar dans le désert. Geneviève de Brabant. La sunamite. Le capitaine Kernadec. La signora Fantastici. Le Mannequin. Sapho.

Histoire naturelle et médicale des nouveaux médicaments introduits dans la thérapeutique depuis 1830 jusqu'a nos jours /

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Le rationalisme chrétien a la fin du XIe siècle, ou, Monologium et proslogium de Saint Anselme, sur l'essence divine.

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Eloge de Michel de L'Hôpital, chancelier de France, ... /

With: Essai de traduction de quelques épitres et autres poésies latines ... / Michel de L'Hospital. A Paris : Chez Moutard, ... , 1778 -- Eloge de Michel de L'Hôpital, ... / [Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, marquis de Condorcet]. A Paris : Chez Demonville, 1777 -- Eloge de Michel de L'Hôpital, ... / [Antoine Jean Baptiste Auget, baron de Montyon]. A Paris : Chez Demonville ... , 1777 -- Eloge historique de Michel de L'Hospital ... / [Jacques Antoine Hippolyte, comte de Guibert. S.l. : s.n.], 1777.