Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Partial melting below the Ontong Java Plateau

Abstract Primary magma compositions for Kroenke-type basalts from the Ontong Java Plateau (OJP) have been estimated using a hybrid forward and universe model. For accumulated fractional melting of a fertile peridotite source, the primary magma had 16.8% MgO and lost 18% olivine by fractional crystallization to produce Kroenke-type basalts; the melt fraction was 0.27 and the potential temperature was 1500°C. For equilibrium melting of a fertile peridotite source, the primary magma had 19.3% MgO and lost 25% olivine by fractional crystallization to produce Kroenke-type basalts; the melt fraction was 0.30 and the potential temperature was 1560°C. The model peridotite source composition, melt fraction and potential temperature required to produce the primary OJP magmas are in excellent agreement with those that have been independently estimated from incompatible trace-element concentrations.
Evolution patterns of radiolaria and organic matter variations: A new approach to identify sea-level changes in mid-Cretaceous pelagic environments

The relation between sea-level changes, plankton productivity, and evolution, as well as the occurrence of anoxic sediments, provides an interesting avenue of paleooceanographic research. In this context, we examined mid-Cretaceous radiolarian faunas, carbonate isotopic and organic matter type data of Deep Sea Drilling Project and Ocean Drilling Program cores from the North Atlantic, and samples from outcrops of the western Tethys from central and northern Italy. Former studies indicate that an expansion of the oxygen minimum zone caused plankton extinctions at the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary. An expanded oxygen minimum zone would destroy deeper habitats of planktic foraminifera, causing the extinction of deeper dwelling forms. Although this model is well established for the Cenomanian-Turonian boundary, not much is known about the causes of extinctions and radiations during the entire mid-Cretaceous (Aptian-Turonian). We demonstrate that the dimension of the oxygen minimum zone, which depends on the relative sea level and the corresponding nutrient supply, causes the complex pattern of evolution and radiation of planktic protozoa and the sedimentation of black shales in the mid-Cretaceous. This new depositional model allows correlation of micropaleontologic data and different types of black shales in the pelagic realm within a sequence stratigraphic framework.
Climate reconstructions: Low-frequency ambition and high-frequency ratification

The assessment of past temperature variations and the magnitude and characteristics of recent warmth relative to warm periods in pre-industrial times—for example, during the Medieval Warm Period (MWP)—have critical implications for understanding and quantifying the forcing of climate in natural and anthropogenic conditions. The desire to benchmark past climate variability of the northern hemisphere has resulted in four millennial-length temperature reconstructions with annual resolution [Briffa, 2000; Esper et al., 2002; Jones et al., 1998; Mann et al., 1999]. These records, however, provide different perspectives on the above issues. For example, the temperature amplitude reconstructed by Esper et al. [2002] is about 1°C, approximately twice that of Mann et al. [1999] and Jones et al. [1998]. Additionally, Briffa [2000] and Esper et al. [2002] display a pronounced MWP followed by a significant 200-300-year-long cooling trend associated with the Little Ice Age. Such a trend is broadly absent in Mann et al. [1999] and Jones et al. [1998].
An Advanced System to Monitor the 3D Structure of Diffuse Volcanic Ash Clouds

AbstractMajor disruptions of the aviation system from recent volcanic eruptions have intensified discussions about and increased the international consensus toward improving volcanic ash warnings. Central to making progress is to better discern low volcanic ash loadings and to describe the ash cloud structure more accurately in three-dimensional space and time. Here, dispersed volcanic ash observed by the Cloud–Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) space-based lidar near 20 000–40 000 ft [~(6–13) km] over Australia and New Zealand during June 2011 is studied. This ash event took place 3 weeks after the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle eruption, which disrupted air traffic in much of the Southern Hemisphere. The volcanic ash layers are shown to exhibit color ratios (1064/532 nm) near 0.5, significantly lower than unity, as is observed with ice. Those optical properties are used to develop an ash detection algorithm. A “trajectory mapping” technique is then demonstrated wherein ash clo.
Valences and site characteristics of iron in radioactive magmatic veins (Egypt): A Mössbauer and chemical study

Valences and site characteristics of iron in radioactive magmatic veins (Egypt): A Mössbauer and chemical study Radioactive veins in shear zones of the El-Seboah granite in Egypt with anomalous concentrations of Nd, Ce, Zr, Y, Nb, Sm, Th and U were studied by petrographic microscopy, x-ray diffraction, 57Fe Mössbauer and wet chemical methods. The veins are composed essentially of quartz, aegirine-augite and minor K-feldspar ± α-iron oxide (hematite) ± γ-iron oxide hydroxide (goethite). They likely represent late-stage felsic melt that was quenched and devitrified at high temperature to yield crystals and crystallites, and then subjected to low temperature alteration during which most of the K feldspar transformed to kaolinite and opal. Mössbauer parameters of the samples indicate that the existing Fe-bearing minerals are primary, with appreciable ordering in the Fe sites. The bulk-sample iron (ΣFe) contents are extremely high (12.3-22.4%). The extent of oxidation of the Fe has been found to be 100% by Mössbauer spectroscopy and 95.36-99.69% by a chemical method. These conditions of Fe enrichment and strong oxidation suggest that the veins are extreme differentiates of granite magmas where high states of oxygen fugacity prevailed.
SAM and regional rainfall in IPCC AR4 models: Can anthropogenic forcing account for southwest Western Australian winter rainfall reduction?

Winter rainfall over southwest Western Australia (SWWA) has decreased by 20% since the late 1960s. Why has the reduction occurred in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) winter months but not in summer? To what extent is this reduction attributable to anthropogenic forcing and congruent with the Southern Annular Mode (SAM)? Using reanalysis data and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 4th Assessment Report (IPCC AR4) 20th century model experiments, we show that a SAM‐SWWA relationship exists in winter and not in other seasons. An ensemble result from 71 experiments reveals that anthropogenic forcing contributes to about 50% of the observed rainfall decline. Approximately 70% of the observed trend is congruent with the SAM trend, whereas for the models it is 46%. Our result suggests that other forcing factors must be invoked to fully account for the observed rainfall reduction.
Numerical simulation of waves driven by plasma currents generated by low‐frequency Alfvén waves in a multi‐ion plasma

[1] When multi-ion plasma consisting of heavy and light ions is permeated by a low-frequency Alfven (LFA) wave, the crossed-electric-and-magnetic field (E × B), and the polarization drifts of the different ion species and the electrons could be quite different. The relative drifts between the charged-particle species drive waves, which energize the plasma. Using 2.5-dimensional (2.5-D) particle-in-cell simulations, we study this process of wave generation and its nonlinear consequences in terms of acceleration and heating plasma. Specifically, we study the situation for LFA wave frequency being lower than the heavy-ion cyclotron frequency in a multi-ion plasma. We impose such a wave to the plasma assuming that its wavelength is much larger than that of the waves generated by the relative drifts. For better understanding, the LFA-wave driven simulations are augmented by those driven by initialized ion beams. The driven high-frequency (HF) wave modes critically depend on the heavy ion density nh; for small values of nh, the lower hybrid (LH) waves dominate. On the other hand, for large nh a significantly enhanced level of waves occurs over a much broader frequency spectrum below the LH frequency and such waves are interpreted here as the ion Bernstein (IB) mode near the light ion cyclotron harmonics. Irrespective of the driven wave modes, both the light and heavy ions undergo significant transverse acceleration, but for the large heavy-ion densities, even the electrons are significantly accelerated in the parallel direction by the waves below the LH frequency. Even when the LFA wave drive is maintained, the ion heating leads to the cessation of HF wave excitation just after a few cycles of the former wave. On the basis of marginal stability seen in the simulations, an empirical relation for LFA wave amplitude, frequency and ion temperature is given.
Influence of Mediterranean sea‐level changes on the Dacic Basin (Eastern Paratethys) during the late Neogene: the Mediterranean Lago Mare facies deciphered

A recently published scenario viewing the Messinian salinity crisis as two evaporitic steps rather than one has led to a search for new indices of the crisis in the Eastern Paratethys. Fluvial processes characterized the southwestern Dacic Basin (Southern Romania, i.e. the Carpathian foredeep) whereas brackish sediments were continuously deposited in its northern part. This is consistent with previously evidenced responses of the Black Sea to the Messinian salinity crisis. High sea‐level exchanges between the Mediterranean Sea and Eastern Paratethys are considered to have occurred just before and just after desiccation of the Mediterranean. This accounts for two successive Mediterranean nannoplankton‐dinocyst influxes into the Eastern Paratethys that, respectively, belong to zones NN 11 and NN 12. Meanwhile, two separate events that gave rise to Lago Mare facies (with Paratethyan Congeria, ostracods and/or dinoflagellate cysts) arose in the Mediterranean Basin in response to these high sea‐level exchanges and located 5.52 and 5.33 Ma (isotopic stages TG 11 and TG 5, respectively), i.e. just before and just after the almost complete desiccation of the Mediterranean). These Lago Mare facies formed independently of lakes with ostracods of the Cyprideis group that developed in the central basins during the final stages of desiccation. The gateway faciliting these water exchanges is not completely identified. A proto‐Bosphorus strait seems unlikely. A plausible alternative route extends from the northern part of the Thessaloniki region up to the Dacic Basin and through Macedonia and the Sofia Basin. The expression ‘Lago Mare’ is chronostratigraphically ambiguous and should be discontinued for this purpose, although it might remain useful as a palaeoenvironmental term.
Oil Recovery by Gravity Drainage

Recent observations have indicated surprisingly high oil recoveries for gravity drainage. This has prompted the reexamination of gravity drainage as an oil recovery process. It is shown that oil relative permeability is a key factor. To measure this oil relative permeability accurately, a new method based on centrifugal gas-oil displacement in small cores is described. Several oil relative permeabilities for various rock types are presented. These relative permeabilities confirm that gravity drainage in water-wet connate-water-bearing reservoirs can be a very effective oil recovery process.
MINERALOGY OF THE STIBNITE-ANTIMONSELITE SERIES

Minerals of the stibnite-antimonselite series, in close association with tiemannite, clausthalite, kullerudite, Se-bearing stibioluzonite, native gold, quartz, and barite, were discovered in Cambrian stratabound gold deposits at La'erma and Qiongmo, western Qinling, China. Based on S/(S + Se) ratios of microprobe analyses, the binary stibnite-antimonselite system is divided into four series: stibnite, Se-stibnite, S-antimonselite, and antimonselite. Micro-hardness of the stibnite series (Sb = 58.47 to 72.99 wt%, S = 11.86 to 28.76, and Se = 0.00 to 29.12) and the antimonselite series (Sb = 48.94 to 59.13 wt%, Se = 29.20 to 46.86, S = 1.99 to 11.43) is 101.26 and 103 kg/mm2, respectively. Representative reflectivities of the four series are (470 nm) Rg'= 42.62 to 47.62%, Rp' = 30.83 to 40.55%; (550 nm) Rg' = 41.84 to 46.75%, Rp'= 31.48 to 38.85%; (590 nm) Rg' = 42.25 to 46.63%, Rp' = 30.73 to 39.46%; (650 nm) Rg' = 43.30 to 46.48%, Rp' = 30.01 to 41.56%. Cell parameters obtained from two stibnite samples (.
In deep water: a crinoid–brachiopod association in the Upper Oligocene of Antigua, West Indies

Extant brachiopods and stalked crinoids are found together in the deeper waters of the Caribbean Sea. Analogous brachiopod/crinoid associations have been reported from diverse palaeoenvironments in the Neogene of the region. Studied examples include the Pleistocene of Jamaica (deeper water fore reef), and the Miocene of Jamaica (island slope chalks), Barbados (accretionary prism) and Carriacou (turbiditic siliciclastic shelf). Comparison with analogous modern environments indicates deposition in 150+m water depth. This association has now been extended back into the Late Oligocene. Crinoids and brachiopods both occur in the Antigua Formation of Antigua; both occur high in the formation, implying deeper water in this retrograde succession. They have received little attention from systematists, although the brachiopods Cistellarcula dubia Cooper and Tichosina foresti Cooper have previously been described from the Antigua Formation; to these, we add Cistellarcula sp. , Argyrotheca sp. and Tichosina sp. At Half Moon Bay in southeast Antigua, high in the Antigua Formation, we have found columnals of isocrinid crinoids (cf. Isocrinus sp.) associated with rare brachiopods (Terebratulina sp.) in island slope deposits. These taxa provide independent evidence for the deeper water aspect of this part of the Antigua Formation, in beds that also yield large, thin-walled fossil sponges.
Determination of surface reflectance from raw hyperspectral data without simultaneous ground data measurements: A case study of the GER 63-channel sensor data acquired over Naan, Israel

Raw hyperspectral data that were acquired over Israel in 1989 by the GER 63-channel scanner were processed to provide surface reflectances seven years after the flight. Because no ground data measurements were available for the time of the flight, four atmospheric correction methods were applied: Atmospheric REMoval program (ATREM), Internal Average Relative Reflectance (IARR), Flat Field (FF) and Empirical Line (EL). Neither the ATREM program, which is an atmospheric model-based method, nor the IARR or the FF techniques, which are scene-dependent methods, were able to provide reasonable results. Whereas the failure of the ATREM program was probably because of a sensor's radiometric problem in the visible (VIS) region, the IARR and FF methods failed because of the relative complexity of the landscape. Of the three EL combinations examined, only one was able to convert the raw digital data into reasonable apparent reflectance information. Processing the data with this combination resulted in a good match between the spectra of selected targets taken from the image and their associated laboratory spectra. Samples, which were collected seven years after the actual flight, were used to assess the ability of each EL correction method to remove atmospheric attenuation. It was concluded that when working with such so-called 'hopeless' data, in order to obtain reasonable results, several combinations of the EL method need to be applied. The results of each method should then be judged, from both a spectral and a spatial perspective, against a separate set of samples, which were not a part of the correction procedure. In this case study, the spectral examination involved 20 samples, and the spatial examination involved two irrigated cotton plots. In the spectral examination, good agreement was obtained between the corrected spectra and the laboratory spectra. During the spatial examination it was possible to distinguish between two cotton plots having different soil water statuses by applying the Spectra Angle Mapper (SAM) classifier. It is felt that careful selection of samples is a prerequisite for achieving reasonable results using the EL correction technique. The samples should consist of albedo information representative of the study area, should have only minor changes related to the passage of time, and should be precisely identified on both the image and the ground. It was concluded that even a 'hopeless' raw data set, such as the current GER data, can be processed to yield reasonable physical information. Assuming that future hyperspectral data taken from orbit will not often be followed by simultaneous ground measurements, the results of this paper are promising.
The chronology of Late Quaternary fluvial activity in part of the Milfield Basin, northeast England

The sediment stratigraphy of a 4 m thick intercalated Holocene alluvial fill and valley floor peat at a site in the Milfield Basin, Northumberland, has been dated by a series of eight 14C assays, and related to a previously analysed pollen record. The sequence extends from the earliest Holocene until c. 2800 cal. BP. Prior to the onset of peat inception, substantial amounts of channel-trenching can be demonstrated to have occurred in the Milfield Basin during the Loch Lomond Stadial. There is no measurable early Holocene accelerated fluvial activity, but a major flooding event occurred at c. 7500 cal. BP, much earlier than recorded elsewhere in the region. The explanation for this is not clear. However, the cessation of mid-Holocene overbank sedimentation at c. 4000–3500 cal. BP is tentatively correlated with slope stability associated with woodland regeneration. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Identification of indigenous ripining technologies of banana and plantain fruits among women-marketers in southeastern Nigeria

The study identified and documented the indigenous ripening technologies of banana and plantain used by the women in Southeastern Nigeria. Data for the study were collected from 120 banana and plantain women marketers, using structured interview schedule. Percentage and mean statistic were used in the analysis of the data. The findings indicated that the mean age of the banana and plantain women marketers was 30.8 years and majority (69.2%) of them were married with a mean family-size of five. A greater percentage (60.8%) of the respondents had primary school leaving certificates, while 27.5% had no formal education. The wives played prominent role than their husbands and children in banana and plantain ripening and marketing activities. Different indigenous ripening technologies were being used. The most commonly used ones in combination with some suitable ripening containers (such as drums, wooden-boxes, pots, baskets, polyethylene/jute bags, sacks, clothes, tarpaulin etc, placed in a cool-dry place) were: the African bush mango fruits (Irvingia smithii and Irvingia gabonesis); spraying of cold and warm water; and heating in the sun for a short period of time. The implications of the findings for banana and plantain indigenous ripening technologies extension education were drawn. Agro-Science Vol. 6 (2) 2007: pp. 60-66
Lunar regolith breccia Dhofar 287B: A record of lunar volcanism

Abstract— Dhofar 287 (Dho 287), a recently found lunar meteorite, consists in large part (95%) of low‐Ti mare basalt (Dho 287A) and a minor, attached portion (˜5%) of regolith breccia (Dho 287B). The present study is directed mainly at the breccia portion of this meteorite. This breccia consists of a variety of lithic clasts and mineral fragments set in a fine‐grained matrix and minor impact melt. The majority of clasts and minerals appear to have been mainly derived from the low‐Ti basalt suite, similar to that of Dho 287A. Very low‐Ti (VLT) basalts are a minor lithology of the breccia. These are significantly lower in Mg# and slightly higher in Ti compared to Luna 24 and Apollo 17 VLT basalts. Picritic glasses constitute another minor component of the breccia and are compositionally similar to Apollo 15 green glasses. Dho 287B also contains abundant fragments of Mg‐rich pyroxene and anorthite‐rich plagioclase grains that are absent in the lithic clasts. Such fragments appear to have been derived from a coarse‐grained, Mg#‐rich, Na‐poor lithology. A KREEP component is apparent in chemistry, but no highlands lithologies were identified.
Crust–mantle interaction in western Turkey: implications from Sr and Nd isotope geochemistry of Tertiary and Quaternary volcanics

Abstract The isotopic composition of Sr and Nd together with the abundance data for major and trace elements are reported for Tertiary to Quaternary volcanics from a variety of localities in western Turkey. These data are used to evaluate the role of crust–mantle interaction in the petrogenesis of the western Turkish volcanics. The major and trace element chemistry reveals a general change in the nature of volcanism from dominantly calc-alkaline in Tertiary to alkaline in Quaternary times. The calc-alkaline rocks are quartz-normative and comprise andesitic to rhyolitic compositions of Miocene–Pliocene age; the trace element patterns are typical of continental margin volcanics with high Ba/Nb ratios and negative Ti anomalies. The alkaline rocks are nepheline-normative and dominantly Quaternary in age; they are basic in composition, with a change from potassic nature in Miocene–Pliocene to sodic in Quaternary times. Most of the Tertiary alkaline volcanics display trace element patterns similar to those of the calc-alkaline ones, whereas the Quaternary alkaline volcanics have low Ba/Nb ratios without negative Ti anomalies; they resemble intraplate volcanics. The calc-alkaline rocks have high 87Sr/86Sr (from 0.705011 to 0.709529) and low 143Nd/144Nd ratios (from 0.512294 to 0.512691). With the exception of two Tertiary samples, all the alkaline volcanics plot within the so-called mantle array of the isotope correlation diagram, 87Sr/86Sr ratios ranging from 0.703128 to 0.703628 and 143Nd/144Nd ratios ranging from 0.512749 to 0.512998. The two Tertiary alkaline samples, with trace element patterns similar to those of the calc-alkaline ones, have considerably higher Sr (0.707741–0.707918) and lower Nd (0.512494–0.512514) isotope compositions. The combined isotope and chemical data suggest the derivation of the western Turkish volcanics from variable mixtures of melts generated in two different mantle regions. The calc-alkaline volcanics were essentially derived from the continental lithospheric or shallow asthenospheric mantle which was contaminated with upper crustal material during earlier subduction events. The generation of the alkaline volcanics was controlled by melts derived from relatively deep, isotopically depleted mantle regions. Most of the volcanics were subjected to contamination at crustal levels, through the operation of an assimilation–fractional crystallization (AFC) process. The nature of contaminant changed from upper crustal in the calc-alkaline to lower crustal in the alkaline volcanics, accompanying the overall decrease in the amount of contamination from about 50% down to about 10%, and broadly paralleling the transition from compressional to extensional tectonics in the region.