Nd, Sm and carbon isotopic data for samples from ODP Legs 115, 145, 171, and 207

Late Cretaceous fish debris from Demerara Rise exhibits a dramatic positive excursion of 8 e-Nd units during ocean anoxic event 2 (OAE2) that is superimposed on extremely low e-Nd(t) values (-14 to -16.5) observed throughout the rest of the studied interval. The OAE2 e-Nd excursion is the largest yet documented in marine sediments, and the majority of the shift is estimated to have occurred over <20 k.y. Low background e-Nd values on Demerara Rise are explained as the Nd isotopic signature of the South American craton, whereas eruptions of the Caribbean large igneous province or enhanced mixing of intermediate waters in the North Atlantic could have caused the excursion.

Iris Rivera y la literatura como epifanía

Fil: Blake, Cristina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET); Argentina.

Paleomagnetic, stable oxygen isotope ratios, and U/Th activities of ODP Site 172-1062

Geomagnetic excursions are recognized as intrinsic features of the Earth's magnetic field. High-resolution records of field behaviour, captured in marine sedimentary cores, present an opportunity to determine the temporal and geometric character of the field during geomagnetic excursions and provide constraints on the mechanisms producing field variability. We present here the highest resolution record yet published of the Blake geomagnetic excursion (~125 ka) measured in three cores from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 1062 on the Blake-Bahama Outer Ridge. The Blake excursion has a controversial structure and timing but these cores have a sufficiently high sedimentation rate (~10cm/ka) to allow detailed reconstruction of the field behaviour at this site during the excursion. Palaeomagnetic measurements of the cores reveal rapid transitions (<500 yr) between the contemporary stable normal polarity and a completely reversed state of long duration which spans a stratigraphic interval of 0.7 m. We determine the duration of the reversed state during the Blake excursion using oxygen isotope stratigraphy, combined with 230Th excess measurements to assess variations in the sedimentation rates through the sections of interest. This provides an age and duration for the Blake excursion with greater accuracy and with constrained uncertainty. We date the directional excursion as falling between 129 and 122 ka with a duration for the deviation of 6.5±1.3 kyr. The long duration of this interval and the fully reversed field suggest the existence of a pseudo-stable, reversed dipole field component during the excursion and challenge the idea that excursions are always of short duration.

Calcium carbonate content and concentration of phosphorus components in sediments of ODP Leg 171B sites

Quantifying phosphorus (P) concentrations in marine sediments is necessary for constraining the oceanic record of phosphorus burial and helps to constrain P sedimentary geochemistry. To understand P geochemistry in the sediments, we must determine the geochemical forms of P as well as the transformations occurring between these P components with depth and age. Although several records now exist of P geochemistry in the western and eastern equatorial Pacific (Filippelli and Delaney, 1995, doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.138.144.1995; 1996, doi:10.1016/0016-7037(96)00042-7), the western equatorial Atlantic (Delaney and Anderson, 1997, doi:10.2973/odp.proc.sr.154.124.1997), the California Current (Delaney and Anderson, in press), and the Benguela Current (Anderson et al., 2001, doi:10.1029/2000GB001270), most of these are Neogene records. Relatively little data exist from sediments of the Paleogene or Cretaceous, time periods when carbon isotope records indicate major carbon shifts and when the nature of P geochemistry has not been well constrained. Samples from several sites at various water depths, oceanographic regions, and ages are needed to understand how P geochemistry and burial in sediments reflect ocean history. We determined P geochemistry and reactive P concentrations in Atlantic sediments of Eocene to Cretaceous age. These are the first records of P geochemistry with good age control from this period. Blake Nose sites are ideal for investigating P geochemistry, as the sediments are shallowly buried at a range of water depths and sedimentation rates. We determined P concentrations and geochemistry, along with calcium carbonate contents, in mid-Cretaceous to upper Eocene sediments drilled on Blake Nose (Ocean Drilling Program Leg 171B) in a depth transect of four sites (Sites 1052, 1051, 1050, and 1049; water depths: 1345, 1983, 2300, and 2656 m, respectively).

La literatura como "desafío de lenguaje" : Entrevista a María Teresa Andruetto

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

Una apuesta a la irreverencia : Entrevista a Ricardo Mariño

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

Haciendo historia

Fil: Sardi, Valeria. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET); Argentina.

Jornadas de Poéticas de la Literatura Argentina para Niños (3 : 2011 : La Plata). Una literatura sin fronteras

Una de las marcas reveladoras en los discursos sobre la literatura argentina para niños que son publicados en este libro fue el acceso a nuevas poéticas de autor que en años anteriores no habían sido transitadas. Otro sesgo fue la inclusión de poéticas del género como el policial, la poesía, el cuento fantástico, el libro-álbum que brindaron otras dimensiones de análisis interpretativos a través de estudios comparativos entre autores y líneas estéticas de la tradición literaria. En este encuentro otra marca diferencial fue la presencia de las relaciones entre literatura e ilustración Como eje transversal en las ponencias se observa la recuperación del debate acerca de las características del género literatura infantil argentina que muestra cambios por sus intenciones en diferentes épocas y por distintos planteos estéticos que las poéticas de autor, especialmente, revelan. Por último, otra abordaje que se manifestó en algunas ponencias fue las relaciones entre crítica literaria y literatura para niños, dando así cuenta de cómo un espacio, que había sido soslayado en los estudios literarios, comienza a ocupar territorio en el campo de la literatura para niños.

Relatos inesperados : La escritura de incidentes críticos en la formación docente en Letras

Tabla de contenidos: Prólogo / Valeria Sardi. La escritura de las prácticas en la formación docente en Letras / Valeria Sardi. Tensiones en las prácticas de escritura escolares / Cristina Blake. Marcas biográficas en la escritura de incidentes críticos / Valeria Sardi, Fernando Andino. Enseñanza de la lengua y la literatura: una mirada desde la escritura de las prácticas / Carolina Mathieu, Cristina Blake. Voces que tensionan contextos / Fernando Andino.

Cenozoic radiolarians from the Bahamas

Radiolarians from two sites north of Little Bahama Bank (Sites 627 and 628) are correlated with assemblages from sites on the southeastern U.S. coastal plain and continental shelf and from DSDP Sites 391 and 534 in the Blake-Bahama Basin. Results show that deposition of biogenic silica-rich sediments occurred in this region from the late Oligocene through middle Miocene, although the record is interrupted by unconformities. Radiolarians help constrain the age of a mass-transported deposit at Site 627 that appears to be coeval with the Great Abaco Member of the Blake Ridge Formation.

Susceptibility and time-dependent magnetization of basalts at DSDP Hole 76-534A

Basalts from Hole 534A are among the oldest recovered from the ocean bottom, dating from the opening of the Atlantic 155 Ma. Upon exposure to a 1-Oe field for one week, these basalts acquire a viscous remanent magnetization (VRM), which ranges from 4 to 223% of their natural remanent magnetization (NRM). A magnetic field of similar magnitude is observed in the paleomagnetic lab of the Glomar Challenger, and it is therefore doubtful if accurate measurements of magnetic moment in such rocks can be made on board unless the paleomagnetic area is magnetically shielded. No correlation is observed between the Konigsberger ratio (beta), which is usually less than 3, and the ability to acquire a VRM. The VRM shows both a log t dependence and a Richter aftereffect. Both of these, but especially the log t dependence, will cause the susceptibility measurements (made by applying a magnetic field for a very short time) to be minimum values. The susceptibility and derived Q should therefore be used cautiously for magnetic anomaly interpretation, because they can cause the importance of the induced magnetization to be underestimated.

Una apuesta a la irreverencia : Entrevista a Ricardo Mariño

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

Jornadas de Poéticas de la Literatura Argentina para Niños (2 : 2010 : La Plata). Literatura argentina e infancia

Nos hemos propuesto publicar las ponencias seleccionadas para ser leídas en las II Jornadas de Poéticas de la Literatura argentina para niños que tuvieron lugar en el Colegio Nacional "Rafael Henández" de la ciudad de La Plata, el 5 de noviembre de 2010 con el fin de poner en circulación la producción teórico-crítica de colegas argentinos interesados en el campo de la literatura infantil argentina.