Major-oxides and trace-elements at DSDP Hole 78-543A

Four chemically distinct basalts were cored in 44 m of basement penetration at Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 543, in Upper Cretaceous crust just seaward of the deformation front of the Barbados Ridge and north of the Tiburon Rise. All four types are moderately fractionated abyssal tholeiites. The four types have different magnetic inclinations, all of reversed polarity, suggesting eruption at different times which recorded secular variation of the earth's magnetic field. Extensive replacement of Plagioclase by K-feldspar has occurred at the top of the basalts, giving analyses with K2O contents up to 5 %. The earliest stages of alteration were dominantly oxidative, resulting in fractures lined with celadonite and dioctahedral smectite, and pervasive replacement of olivine and most intersertal glass with iron hydroxides and green clay minerals. Latef, non-oxidative alteration resulted in formation of olive-green clays and pyrite veins in a portion of the rocks. Basalts affected by this alteration actually lost K2O (to abundances lower than in adjacent fresh basalt glasses), and gained MgO (to abundances higher than in the glasses). Finally, fractures and interpillow voids were lined with calcite, sealing in much fresh glass. Oxygen-isotope measurements on the calcite indicate that this occurred at 12 to 25C. Either altering fluids were warm or the basalts had become buried with a considerable thickness of sediments, such that temperatures increased until a conductive thermal gradient was established, when the veining occurred.

"Convivir con el agua" : Las políticas de gestión del recurso hídrico ayer y hoy

Expongo algunos resultados preliminares de mis indagaciones sobre un primer período que abarca desde la década de 1870, en que se van gestando algunas políticas aisladas para el sector rural hasta la de 1940 en que el problema hídrico en el campo se combinó con el surgimiento del conurbano que rodea a la actual Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Pero como espero continuar estos trabajos hasta el presente y la realidad se impone en las situaciones de desastre que hemos sufrido en mi provincia en los últimos años, y continuamos sufriendo con la inundación de los últimos meses, presento trabajos de otras disciplinas que me permiten pensar en ciertas tendencias seculares en la gestión del recurso hídrico.