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Phantom Limbs and the Weight of Grief in Sasha Waltz’s noBody
Authors: Shaw Brandon
Published: April 2015

How can dance—a performing art often expressing emotions through virtuosic bodies—portray its antipode: absence, the imperceptible, and death? Beginning with Martha Graham’s 1930 solo choreography Lamentation , this essay will consider how a dancer’s partnership with an elastic fabric can awaken spectators to a corporeal, kinetic sense of grief. Perceiving the life of the dancer within the fabric and this dynamic duet between the animate and inanimate, Lamentation argues that the division between living and dead is porous and that grief is not a purely mental affair. Both contentions are further developed in choreographer Sasha Waltz’s noBody (2002), where dancers perform duets with apparent corpses and fabric animated by invisible dancers. Both Lamentation and noBody are complementary, supplementary, and antagonistic to dominant psychological approaches to dealing with the dead. The choreographies exemplify practices of grief marginalized or pathologized by Freud and contemporary thanatologists, such as a continuing sense of the departed’s physical presence and/or attempts to communicate. The partnership between the living and the supposedly inanimate presented in Lamentation and noBody strengthens Merleau-Ponty’s analogy between phantom limbs and grief, while the phenomenological articulation of the ambiguous existence possessed by phantoms aids in accounting for the multiplicity that coalesces in these dances of grief. Finally, the blurring between the living and dead within Lamentation and noBody provides choreographic commentary on Merleau-Ponty’s late chiasmic philosophy, which challenges a sharp distinction between the animate and the inanimate.
Performing the Archive: History and Memory in Recent German Theatre
Authors: Cornish Matthew
Published: April 2015

Drawing on Robin Bernstein’s theory of “scriptive things” in Racial Innocence , this essay interrogates Diana Taylor’s distinction, in The Archive and the Repertoire , between the objects and texts of history and the embodied practices of memory. Two recent productions from the German theatre—Rimini Protokoll’s 50 Aktenkilometer (50 kilometers of dossiers) and Hans-Werner Kroesinger’s Vermauern (To wall up)—show how performance can productively engage attributes assigned to the archive and the repertoire. In contrast to the narratives of German reunification in Berlin’s museums and memorials, also examined in the essay, the works by Rimini Protokoll and Kroesinger encourage a critical attitude toward the past. The productions use the objects and documents of museums and archives as scriptive things to be consciously re-performed or resisted; thereby, Rimini Protokoll and Kroesinger work to grant agency to their audiences, encouraging participants to interpret the scripts presented to them. Although the productions discussed belong to the distinctly post-reunification German sphere, the methods of examining how performances utilize the “scriptive past” can be applied more generally to other national and cultural contexts.
2014 VanArsdel Prize Essay: W. T. Stead and Participatory Reader Networks
Authors: Hale Ann M.
Published: April 2015

W. T. Stead’s contribution to the development of reader engagement in the New Journalism was extensive and innovative. In this essay, I argue that Stead’s participatory reader networks in the Link and the Review of Reviews were the culmination of Stead’s career-long interest in media-based community engagement projects. Rather than viewing Stead’s journalism through the narrow lens of a single publication or journalistic campaign, I consider how his participatory reader networks were refined and shaped over the course of many years and within the pages of multiple periodicals.
Six Authors and the Saturday Review : A Quantitative Approach to Style
Authors: Craig Hugh , Antonia Alexis
Published: April 2015

The distinctive corporate style of the Saturday Review was recognized by Victorians and is often mentioned in modern periodicals scholarship. In this quantitative study, we highlight characteristics that distinguish the journal’s writing from other periodicals in terms of stance rather than political orientation or subject matter. We also compare the writing style of six contributors to the Saturday Review and other periodicals. On one end of the spectrum was George Henry Lewes, who, according to our research, assumed a consistent style when writing for the Saturday Review and any other journal. On the other end of the spectrum was Lord Robert Cecil, whose work for the Saturday Review was strikingly different stylistically than his other writings.
Something for the “Silly Season”: Policing and the Press in Israel Zangwill’s The Big Bow Mystery
Authors: Clarke Clare
Published: April 2015

This article examines Israel Zangwill’s little-known locked-room mystery, The Big Bow Mystery (1891), which was serialized in T. P. O’Connor’s East End Radical newspaper, the Star . I focus on the novel’s portrayal of the detective as a murderer and his interaction with the London press. I illuminate the novel’s critique of Scotland Yard and the growing late Victorian trend for sensationalist crime reportage in the wake of the Whitechapel murders of 1888.
Internationalizing Authorship: Beyond New Grub Street to the Bookman in 1891
Authors: Stetz Margaret D.
Published: April 2015

The year 1891 saw two important publications crucial to the redefinition of authorship. In George Gissing’s novel New Grub Street , authorship was a local matter centered on the London-based world of journalism and book publishing, which had turned the profession of writing into a cut-throat Darwinian industry. A different vision underlay William Robertson Nicoll’s founding of a sixpenny monthly, the Bookman . His intended audience was unified and comprehensive--anyone (including women) who bought, read, collected, sold, or wrote books. Perhaps most important was the magazine’s promotion of authorship as an international enterprise occurring in a variety of locations worldwide. Both Gissing and Nicoll understood that writing had become an industry inseparable from the concerns of those who distributed and consumed literature. Only Nicoll, however, recognized that this industry increasingly would be global, and he encouraged that development.
Avaliação da Susceptibilidade ao Temephos de Populações de Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) dos Municípios de Maracaju e Naviraí, MS, Brasil
Authors: Lopes da Silva Ednilson , Arruda Eduardo José , Andrade Carlos Fernando Salgueirosa , Fernandes Magda Freitas , Teixeira Tatiane Zaratini , Scudeler Cinthia Granzotti da Silva , Cabrini Isaias
Published: April 2015

Dengue é uma das arboviroses mais importante no mundo atualmente, cuja transmissão se dá pela picada do mosquito Aedes aegypti. O controle do vetor, com produtos biológicos ou químicos, ainda é a principal forma de controle, sendo os inseticidas uma importante ferramenta nos programas de manejo integrado. Porém, esta estratégia encontra-se ameaçada pela seleção de resistência, especialmente aos organofosforados. O objetivo com o presente trabalho foi avaliar o status de susceptibilidade/resistência de populações de Ae. aegypti ao organofosforado Temephos® em dois municípios onde ocorre uso contínuo desse inseticida. Utilizou-se as concentrações diagnóstico 0,008 e 0,012 mg L-1 como preconizado, respectivamente, pela Superintendência de Controle de Endemias do Estado de São Paulo (SUCEN) e pela Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS). Os resultados apresentaram percentual de mortalidade abaixo de 80% nas duas concentrações avaliadas, demonstrando resistência das populações ao inseticida. Este fato aponta para a necessidade de monitoramento da resistência nas populações de Ae. aegypti da região.
A globalização das produções científicas
Authors: Oliveira Gislene Farias de
Published: April 2015

À medida que crescem as exigências para o ingresso em programas de pós-graduações, aumentam também a pressão para que os alunos e professores brasileiros publiquem cada vez mais em periódicos internacionais. Esta situação impulsiona os periódicos nacionais a  trabalharem para atender critérios de internacionalização, de forma a se tornarem cada vez mais reconhecidos pela comunidade científica nacional e internacional.
Potentiometric studies on complexes of Cr (â…¢) and Zr (IV)with some carboxylic acids
Authors: Omar Abdalazeem , Ali Elmugdad
Published: April 2015

The present work, deals with the study of proton-ligand (pK) and metal-ligand (logK) of acetic acid, oxalic acid, and oxalacetic acid with Cr (â…¢) and Zr (IV) by potentiometric titration technique. The stoichiometries and stability constants of these complexes were evaluated, usingCalvin-Bjerrum pH-titration technique as adopted by Irriving and Rossotti.Graphic and algebraic methods have been employed, for determination of the stability constants, in purpose to select the most accurate and sensitive method. Furthermore, aiming to determine, the factor that effectingthe precision of those methods under investigation, and to compare the complexes of these ligands with first and second series transition elements of D-block Cr and Zr taken as an example. The obtained results were in a good agreement with each other.
The simulation and design air conditioner in unit 103 of south pars with use advance exergy
Authors: Darabi Mohsen , Mohammadiun Mohammad , Mohammadiun Hamid , Mortazavi Saeed , Maddah Heydar
Published: April 2015

In this paper, energy recycling for distillation tower condenser was done by use of heat integration method. At first, we calculated the amount of condensation energy (QAir Cooler), in air cooler, and then we calculated energy consumption in this equipment based on annual balance (5460 GJ per year). Then, based on heat integration (energy unification), two conditions were proposed to use the current energies in the process for supplying condensation energy (QAir Cooler): first, its must be lesser than condensing temperature of condenser (55 Â° C) (the major condition). Second, it must have much more flow rate than the overhead flow. According to two above conditions, the food flow as chosen as the integration factor and its amount of energy (EStream) is calculated from the Enthalpy equation as 9863964 kj/h. As EFeed >>> QAir Cooler and food flow temperature to condense an overhead vapor is satisfying. The food flow can be used to condense the saturated vapor to 55 Â° C. in case of using food energy and using heat exchanger instead of air cooler; 5460 GJ energy will be saved annually. By using heat exchanger and omitting air cooler, the unit103 operating costs will be reduced considerably. Economically, conducting such a project will demand investing costs. However, obtainable incomes from doing this project (electricity consumption recycling and cost's reduction) reveal this fact that capital return rate and the project benefits for unit103 of South Pars phases2&3 are beneficial.
Desarmamento no Brasil: Lei 9.437/97 x Lei 10.826/03
Authors: Aleixo Márcio Santos , Behr Guilherme Antônio
Published: April 2015

A segregação da sociedade brasileira, somada a histórica e farta disponibilidade de armas de fogo e munição, acarreta em elevados índices de criminalidade. Contudo, observa-se grande evolução na legislação brasileira relativa às armas de fogo visando restringir seu acesso, datando do início do século XVII aos dias atuais. Nesse sentido, o presente trabalho teve como objetivo discutir acerca do controle normativo das armas de fogo por parte do Estado, dando base para uma futura convalidação da eficiência de sua estratégia. Assim, por meio da revisão da literatura, levantou-se um breve histórico referente às normas que visam controlar o comércio e uso de armas de fogo no Brasil e teceu-se uma comparação entre as Leis 9.437/97 e 10.826/03. Por fim, fica claro que aumenta gradativamente a restrição à compra e ao porte de armas de fogo no Brasil, assim como a coerência ao tipificar e cominar penas diferentes frente a diferentes condutas por parte do agente.
Correlação entre cadáveres carbonizados e a dosagem da carboxihemoglobina
Authors: Xavier Danielle Menezes , Dau L.I.G. , Nunes P.D. , Ramos M.G. , Roquette A.L.B. , Santos A.
Published: April 2015

As causas mais frequentes de óbito nos pacientes com lesões inalatórias estão relacionadas à intoxicação por monóxido de carbono (CO). A intoxicação pelo CO se dá pela falta de ar respirável, havendo substituição do oxigênio pelo CO, formando a carboxihemoglobina (COHb). A toxicidade se faz dependente de sua concentração. O artigo em questão avalia a relação da dosagem de COHb associada ao sinal de Montalti positivo, em cadáveres carbonizados, que foram encaminhados ao Instituto de Medicina Legal de Belo Horizonte (IML-BH). O objetivo é de comprovar se os cadáveres em questão vieram a óbito por asfixia ou por outro fator secundário. Para a realização da pesquisa foram feitos levantamentos de dados através de laudos necroscópicos e análises desses, os materiais analisados foram exames de espectrofotometria disponibilizados pelo IML-BH. Foi feito o levantamento dos resultados de COHb e realizado a correlação entre a COHb e o sinal de Montalti, que se mostra positivo quando encontrada fuligem na traqueia. Existiram dificuldades para estabelecer a porcentagem padrão que seria usada como referência para poder se confirmar que a intoxicação foi a causa mortis. Apesar disso, foi possível realizar as dosagens de COHb e fazer correlações dessa com: a faixa etária dos indivíduos, o nível de drogas de abuso e álcool no sangue e o local que ocorreu a carbonização. Os resultados alcançados demonstram a importância das dosagens feitas para a determinação da causa mortis do indivíduo, como fator essencial para o fechamento de laudos e investigações.
Forensic Dentistry in a Southern Brazilian City
Authors: Conceição L.D. , Prietto N.R. , Silva R.H.A. , Lund Rafael Guerra
Published: April 2015

Desde 1932, a inclusão obrigatória da Odontologia Legal no currículo das faculdades de odontologia no Brasil contribuiu para a disseminação desta ciência entre os estudantes de odontologia. Infelizmente, esses profissionais, por vezes, não acham este assunto relevante e apenas se preocupam com o assunto quando enfrentam um problema na área judicial. Este trabalho tem como objetivo relatar as rotinas, procedimentos e funções de um Posto Médico Legal, em Pelotas, cidade do sul do Brasil, porque estas situações são geralmente desconhecidas pelos cirurgiões-dentistas e este contato e conhecimento são importantes para que eles tenham uma compreensão mais precisa do trabalho do perito odonto-legista. Diferentes métodos de identificação humana (exames de arcada dentária, rugae palatal e extrações de dentes para o exame de DNA da polpa dentária) são de responsabilidade do dentista forense. Além disso, o juiz pode nomear o dentista que faz o trabalho na área cível, criminal, trabalhista e administrativo em processos legais. Concluiu-se que a estrutura do Posto Médico Legal de uma cidade do sul do Brasil, como Pelotas, apresenta plenas condições para a prática Odontologia Legal, permitindo um trabalho interdisciplinar na busca de soluções de crimes. Por isso, é essencial para estimular e chamar a atenção para o estudo desta área nos países em desenvolvimento como o Brasil, onde o número de especialistas está a aumentar.
Hastes flexíveis no estudo do trajeto durante o exame perinecroscópico
Authors: Kasakoff Leonardo Baird , Gonçalves Marcelo N.
Published: April 2015

Este trabalho teve como objetivo constatar se a utilização de hastes flexíveis pode contribuir para a determinação do trajeto de projétil de arma de fogo na região da cabeça, quando da realização do exame perinecoscópico no local da ocorrência. Apresenta estudos de casos no trabalho de ex Perito Criminal Oficial do Instituto de Criminalística do Estado do Acre – recentemente trabalhando no Estado do Mato Grosso – atuante em cidades do interior, onde a remoção dos cadáveres para a realização de exame cadavérico na Capital (Rio Branco) fazia com que o cientista criminal não acompanhasse o estudo completo do cadáver. Trata-se de pesquisa descritiva e exploratória, com a utilização de técnica ainda não empregada no Estado Acriano. Os trabalhos são desenvolvidos mediante comparação do uso de haste flexível inserida na cavidade de lesões de entrada. Os resultados comparativos mostraram que a técnica é de fácil aplicação, com baixo custo operacional, além de ser reprodutível e não interferir na coleta dos demais vestígios.
Simulação, dissimulação e exagero: desafios da perícia médica em ortopedia e traumatologia
Authors: Durão Carlos Henrique , Lucas Francisco
Published: April 2015

A relação médico doente é uma interação que envolve confiança e responsabilidade. É caracterizada por compromissos e deveres dos intervenientes, ambos motivados na sincera busca terapêutica. O médico, enquanto assistencialista, norteia-se nos sinais e sintomas descritos pelo doente no estabelecimento de um diagnóstico para a melhor terapêutica, onde os conflitos de interesse, são a exceção. Já o médico enquanto perito, pauta o seu trabalho na perícia médica, na busca do diagnóstico preciso, na valoração das lesões e sequelas, tendo como norma o conflito de interesse, onde o litígio é a regra. É no exercício médico-legal de qualquer especialidade, que o médico se confronta com a simulação, a dissimulação ou tão simplesmente o exagero. É necessário conhecer muito bem o estado da arte da simulação, para que o médico enquanto perito, a possa reconhecer, não se permitindo influenciar no exercício da sua prática pericial.
O crescimento da RBC: publicação do primeiro artigo de autores internacionais e o cadastramento da Revista em bases de dados
Authors: Tonietto Ângela , Telles Bruno , Andrade Charles Albert , Dias Filho Claudemir Rodrigues , Gomes Juliano de Andrade
Published: April 2015

O Corpo Editorial da Revista Brasileira de Criminalística (RBC) informa o lançamento do seu quinto fascículo, sendo o primeiro do ano de 2015 dos três previstos. Fazendo um retrospecto rápido dos números já publicados, teve-se um fascículo em 2011, um em 2013 e dois em 2014. Como pode-se perceber, a RBC está crescendo, não só em números, mas também em abrangência, haja visto que esta edição conta com a publicação do primeiro artigo exclusivo de autores internacionais.
An annotated checklist of the orchids of Western Himalaya, India
Authors: Jalal Jeewan Singh , Jayanthi J.
Published: April 2015

A checklist of the Orchidaceae of Western Himalaya is presented based on recent orchid explorations and herbarium collections. This checklist comprised of 239 taxa of orchids belonging to 72 genera. Of these, 130 are terrestrial, 13 mycoheterotrophic and 96 epiphytic. Thirteen (13) species are endemic to Western Himalaya. The best represented genus is Dendrobium, with 16 species followed by Habenaria with 14 species and Bulbophyllum with 12 species. In this checklist habit, habitat, phenology, elevational range of distribution etc. are provided.
Interventions for wound healing among diabetic patients infected with Staphylococcus aureus: a systematic review
Authors: Lima Anacássia Fonseca , Costa Lívia Bandeira , Silva Joás Lucas da , Maia Maria Bernadete Sousa , Ximenes Eulália Camelo Pessoa Azevedo
Published: April 2015

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Staphylococcus aureus is the most frequent agent isolated in diabetic foot infections and may be associated with changes to wound healing times. The aim of this study was to perform a systematic review of the literature, including studies that assessed the efficacy of any clinical or surgical intervention, as well as oral or topical therapy for diabetic ulcers infected with S. aureus. DESIGN AND SETTING: Systematic review with a search conducted in databases. METHODS: We conducted a systematic review with a comprehensive search in the Lilacs, SciELO, PubMed/Medline, Old Medline, Embase and Cochrane Library databases, for articles published from 1966 to 2010. The articles selected were limited to studies on diabetic patients with wounds infected with S. aureus for whom their healing was followed up, with the use of either antibiotics or experimental treatments. Animal studies and those that did not report the wound healing, as well as review articles, were excluded. RESULTS: Five studies that met the inclusion and exclusion criteria were analyzed. CONCLUSIONS: There are few studies reporting the healing of wounds infected with S. aureus in diabetic patients, although this is the most commonly found pathogen in this type of wound and it frequently consists of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA). There is insufficient evidence to support early use of broad-spectrum antibiotics against MRSA to promote healing of diabetic ulcers, since antibiotic resistance may develop from such treatment. This highlights the need for further studies on the subject.
Acetolactate Synthase–Inhibiting, Herbicide-Resistant Rice Flatsedge (Cyperus iria): Cross-Resistance and Molecular Mechanism of Resistance
Authors: Riar Dilpreet S. , Tehranchian Parsa , Norsworthy Jason K. , Nandula Vijay , McElroy Scott , Srivastava Vibha , Chen Shu , Bond Jason A. , Scott Robert C.
Published: April 2015

Overuse of acetolactate synthase (ALS)–inhibiting herbicides in rice has led to the evolution of halosulfuron-resistant rice flatsedge in Arkansas and Mississippi. Resistant accessions were cross-resistant to labeled field rates of ALS-inhibiting herbicides from four different families, in comparison to a susceptible (SUS) biotype. Resistance index of Arkansas and Mississippi accessions based on an R/S ratio of the lethal dose required for 50% plant mortality (LD50) to bispyribac-sodium, halosulfuron, imazamox, and penoxsulam was ≥ 21-fold. Control of Arkansas, Mississippi, and SUS accessions with labeled field rates of 2,4-D, bentazon, and propanil was ≥ 93%. An enzyme assay revealed that an R/S ratio for 50% inhibition (I50) of ALS for halosulfuron was 2,600 and 200 in Arkansas and Mississippi, respectively. Malathion studies did not reveal enhanced herbicide metabolism in resistant plants. The ALS enzyme assay and cross-resistance studies point toward altered a target site as the potential mechanism of resistance. Trp574–Leu amino acid substitution within the ALS gene was found in both Arkansas and Mississippi rice flatsedge accessions using the Illumina HiSeq platform, which corresponds to the mechanism of resistance found in many weed species. Field-rate applications of 2,4-D, bentazon, and propanil can be used to control these ALS-resistant rice flatsedge accessions.
Trans-disciplinary Research: An Academic-Practitioner Partnership Effort on Investigating the Relationship between the Cooperative Model and Sustainability
Authors: Newell Robert , Dale Ann , Herbert Yuill , Duguid Fiona , Foon Rebecca , Hough Peter
Published: April 2015

This article details novel research methodology developed through a researcher-practitioner partnership and employed in a three-phase research effort that explored relationships between the co-operative model and sustainable development. Firstly, a basic understanding of the characteristics of the co-operative model was established using the co-operative principles as a framework, and their complementarity to sustainable development was examined by comparing them with sustainability theory, principles and best practices (defined through seminal journal articles on the topic). Secondly, relationships between sustainability theory and the ideas and operations of currently functioning co-operatives were investigated, namely, whether co-operatives had integrated sustainability into their organizations.  Thirdly, an integrated analysis that examined the relationship between co-operatives, the co-operative principles and sustainability concepts was conducted, and output from this work was used to build a visualization (referred to as the ‘Co-operative Star’), specifically designed to communicate a synthesis of research findings to diverse audiences.  This study specifically focused on co-operatives and sustainability; however, the analytical techniques developed and employed have applications for other research involving comparisons between concepts and large bodies of literature, and it is particularly useful for comparing theoretical works (such as academic literature) with texts that discuss operations and practices (such as website and reports).
Transversality in Diversity: Experiencing Networks of Confusion and Convergence in the World Social Forum
Authors: Hosseini S A Hamed
Published: April 2015

Drawing on the World Social Forum as an exemplary case study, this article shows how an emerging mode of cosmopolitanist vision (‘transversalism’) can be explained in terms of activists’ experiences of both complexity and contradiction in their networks. The paper questions the idea that the transnationalization of networks of solidarity and interconnection can uncomplicatedly encourage the growth of cosmopolitanism among global justice activists. Activists’ experiences of dissonances between their ideals, the complexity of power relations and the structural uncertainties in their global justice networks can provide them with a base for self-reflexive ideation and deliberation, and thereby encourage agendas for accommodating differences. Underpinning the accommodating measures which arise for dealing with such a cognitive-practical dissonance is a new mode of cosmopolitanism, coined here as ‘transversalism’. The article proposes a new conceptual framework and an analytical model to investigate the complexity of this process more inclusively and systematically.
An Early Paleogene Submarine Canyon and Fan System
Authors: Fischer Peter J.
Published: April 2015

A late Paleocene -early Eocene submarine canyon and fan complex, the Meganos Formation (or “Channel”) is exposed in the homoclinal sequence of Mesozoic to late Eocene age sediments that form the northern flank of Mount Diablo. Along this outcrop, the Meganos Formation comprises a narrow belt, 16 km long and one km wide. Exposures of the canyon-fill mudstones are largely masked by the alluvium of Deer Valley, but the resistant sandstones and conglomerates of the fan are well exposed along the southwest ridge flanking the valley.

Canyon fed sediments spilled onto the late Paleocene -early Eocene basin floor(?) and subsequently filled the lower canyon. These sediments may be divided into two facies: (1) a lower submarine fan facies of coarse-grained clastic material; and (2) an upper mudstone canyon-fill sequence. The submarine fan facies is particularly well exposed from its basal contact, which unconformably overlies the lower Paleocene Martinez Formation, to the base of the overlying mudstone or canyon-fill facies. Within this basal sequence, fan channels are filled with disorganized conglomerates and pebbly sandstones. Boulders over 2 m in diameter are the largest clasts found in the basal channel-fills near Oil Creek. The canyon fan sequence fines vertically upwards in general aspect from basal inner fan channels to the thin sandstones of the outer fan facies and finally the mudstone of the basin plain(?) and fill.

Based upon palinspastic reconstructions a minimum wall height of the submarine canyon in the vicinity of the inner fan is estimated to have been 800 m. The submarine fan was 450 m thick and the overlying mudstone of the canyon-fill facies was at least 675 m thick.

The series of north-trending high angle normal faults that cut the outcrop belt are dated as Maastrichtian-earliest Paleocene to middle Eocenein age. Palinspastic restoration of Paleocene and lower Eocene units demonstrates uplift to the east, west and possibly south during this time. Uplift related to the normal faulting controlled the position of the submarine fan system and possibly the canyon. The location of the early Paleogene Meganos and underlying Martinez canyon-fan complexes and younger (Eocene) canyons in the deepest portion of southwest tilted graben that forms the Sacramento basin suggests regional and long term tectonic control. Perhaps this southern basin edge was bounded by an ancestral Stockton Arch-Mt. Diablo uplift. This major tectonic feature may be the expression of a change of subduction rate or direction of the Early Tertiary trench system.
Sedimentary Facies and Depositional Environments of the Big Blue
Formation Between Anticline Ridge and the Domengine Ranch
Authors: Bate Matthew A.
Published: April 2015

The Big Blue Formation conformably overlies the Temblor Formation along the northeast flank of the Coalinga anticline, but is progressively truncated beneath the late Miocene Santa Margarita Formation. The near continuous exposures of yellow, orange, brown, red, and blue sediments are almost exclusively composed of detrital serpentinite. Several authors (Eckel and Myers, 1946; Cowan and Mansfield, 1970) noted the proximity of the thickest Big Blue exposures to the large (19 × 6 km) serpentine body atop San Joaquin Ridge, near the mining town of New Idria, and suggested a relationship between the two. This inferred, but poorly understood relationship between the technically emplaced serpenti nite mass at New Idria, exposed up-plunge from the San Joaquin-Coalinga anticline and the sedimentary serpentinite, was significantly clarified by Dickinson and Casey,(1976). They recognized the non-detrital character of much of the Big Blue Formation and distinguished a chaotic facies that represents protrusive serpentinite flows that resulted from massive protrusive emplacement of serpentine, associated with a major episode of diapiric movement. The major uplift occured in late middle Miocene (Luisian) time, depositing between 5 and 10 cubic miles of serpentinite debris (Eckel and Myers, 1946). Dickinson (1966) likewise called upon extrusive sheets of serpentine to explain similar deposits to the south on Table Mountain, west of Reef Ridge.

The upper Temblor Formation is grey-green silty claystone overlain by 22 m of an increasingly coarse sand and pebble interval. The lowest 5 m are very fine-grained sandstone, planar bedded with thin silt-stone layers. The next 3 m are generally medium-grained sandstone, with wel 1-cemented si Itstone inter-beds.
Descriptions of Field Trip Stops 1, 2, and 3
Authors: Bate Matthew A.
Published: April 2015

Coalinga Oil Field (Fig. 11) has been oil and gas productive from the Temblor Formation on Coalinga anticline and the contiguous homocline to the southeast since the early part of this century. Oil was first discovered in 1890 in the Oil City area in Upper Cretaceous strata, up-plunge from the present Coalinga Field (Anderson, 1952). Development of the Eastside and Westside Fields began in 1900 and 1901 respectively, close to the Oil City area, but soon spread north, south, and southeast to the limits of the field (Anderson, 1952). The producing area is divided into the Eastside Field on the crest and flanks of the plunging anticline, and the Westside Field along the homocline into the apex of the Coalinga syncline (Kaplow, 1945). Approximately 98% of oil production in the Coalinga Oil Field is from the Temblor Formation (Cal. Oil and Gas Fields, Maps and Data Sheets, 1960), although recent efforts have been directed toward the shallower Etchegoin Formation (Taschman, 1982).

Trapping is accomplished by a combination of structural and strati graphic mechanisms. The structural configuration of Coalinga anticline and its position up-dip from the Buttonwillow depocenter through much of the Tertiary (Zieglar and Spotts, 1978) resulted in migration of oil to the Coalinga Field. Zieglar and Spotts (1978) suggested that hydrocarbon generation occurred in Tertiary beds of the depocenter within the last few million years (perhaps 5 m.y.), but other structures “competing” for the oil, such as the Kettleman Hills, only developed during the Pleistocene episode of folding (Harding, 1976). The Temblor is overlapped by the Monterey and Etchegoin Formations along the Westside Field and is not exposed.
Stratigraphic and Structural Significance of Foliate Serpentinite
Breccias, Wilbur Springs
Authors: Carlson Christine
Published: April 2015

The local appearance of voluminous, monomineralic, foliate serpentinite breccias in the Wilbur Springs section of the Great Valley Sequence record a direct sedimentological response to a late Neocomian accretion event in the Coast Ranges. Field and petrologic studies establish the following events: 1) Early Cretaceous emplacement of lower plate Franciscan rocks (Indian Valley terrane) beneath the proto-Coast Range thrust, 2) deformation of both upper and lower plate rocks into the southeast plunging Wilbur Springs anticline, and 3) contemporaneous protrusion of serpentinite breccias.

Recently discovered modern examples of diapiric serpentinite protrusions of similar magnitude from the Mariana arc-trench system suggest many parallel analogies between the tectonics of active forearcs and the late Mesozoic of the California margin.

Two modes of occurrence of serpentinite have been recognized in the Wilbur Springs area. The first type, serpentinite derived from the alteration of ultramafic tectonite, is widely distributed throughout the Coast Ranges (Bailey et al., 1964). Once considered to be altered ultramafic intrusions and included as part of the Franciscan Complex, these serpentinite masses occur as regionally extensive, allochthonous fault slices or fault-bounded mèlange belts, and tend to be preferentially concentrated along or near contacts between the Franciscan complex and the Great Valley Sequence (Fig. 61). Based on the characteristic spatial association of the serpentinite with layered mafic plutonic rocks, submarine basaltic lavas, and pelagic sedimentary sequences, these serpentinized ultramafic rocks are now generally accepted to represent the basal, mantle tectonite of an ophiolite sequence, the Coast Range Ophiolite, upon which the sediments of the Great Valley Sequence were deposited (Bezore, 1969; Bailey et al., 1970; McLaughlin, 1974; Evarts, 1977; Hopson and Frano, 1977; Hopson et al., 1981).
Descriptions of Field Trip Stops 7, 8, and 9
Authors: Carlson Christine
Published: April 2015

The sedimentary serpentinites we will visit are exposed in the southeast plunging Wilbur Springs anticline, where they interfinger with lower Cretaceous turbidites of the Great Valley Sequence. The Wilbur Springs area (Fig. 65) lies astride this anticlinal structure on the western edge of the Sacramento Valley approximately 175 km north of San Francisco (Fig. 61). The area is named for a hot springs resort on Sulfur Creek, which is located upstream from the Lodoga Road connecting Bear Valley with Highway 20. Barren, block-strewn, grass-free slopes or dense brush characterize areas underlain by serpentinite. Outcrops are sparse, and mainly confined to road and stream cuts. However, even in areas of poor exposure, contacts are easily traced in soils and subcrop. Because of the serpentinite, the area is highly suceptible to landslides and soil creep which locally bury or displace contacts.

The main outcrops of sedimentary serpentinite occur near Sulphur and Bear Creeks, south of Wilbur Springs. Here, thick bedded to massive, crudely stratified, foliate serpentinite breccia is the dominant lithologic facies. A quarry on Highway 20 and adjacent roadcuts provide excellent exposures of foliate serpentinite breccia and its stratigraphic relation with Great Valley strata.

Turn out at the large vista point and walk back across the road to examine the sandstone-shale sequence and the foliate serpentinite breccia exposures in the quarry and in roadcuts at either side. Relocation of the highway and backfill of the original quarry cut has removed some of the section and considerably degraded what remains. Nevertheless, the relationships seen here, though now with some difficulty, are significant enough to justify a look.
Depositional Framework of a Triassic Rift Basin
Authors: Gore Pamela J. W.
Published: April 2015

During the Early Mesozoic, tectonic activity caused the breakup and separation of the North American and African continental plates, initiating the opening of the Atlantic Ocean. This process is generally referred to as rifting, but there was a strong component of strike-slip movement associated with transform faults (Manspeizer, 1981). Wrench-faulting (Bain, 1977) led to the formation of a series of rhomb-shaped half-grabens or pull-apart basins in eastern North America, which filled with continental sediments during the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic. The distribution of sediments within these basins was strongly controlled by tectonic setting. Coarse clastics were deposited in alluvial fans adjacent to faulted basin margins, and broad alluvial plains developed across the basins. Fine-grained, organic-rich sediments accumulated in large lakes, where subsidence was greatest. Deltas formed where rivers entered the lakes, and coal swamps were present locally in some of the basins. In some basins, subaqueous fissure flows of tholeiitic basalt erupted during the Jurassic. Early Mesozoic fault-bounded basins extend from Nova Scotia to southern Georgia, and are referred to as the Newark rift system. Twenty basins are exposed (Figure 1), and the others are buried beneath post-Jurassic sediments of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains, and continental shelf. The rocks in the exposed basins belong to the Newark Supergroup; those in the subsurface are generally considered to be coeval, but they are poorly understood, and apparently of diverse lithology, age and origin (Froelich and Olsen, 1984, 1985). The Deep River basin is the southernmost of the exposed rift
Fuel-Grade Peat Deposits of Eastern North Carolina
Authors: Ingram Roy L. , Barnes J. Steve
Published: April 2015

Peat deposits of North Carolina are of three main geologic types that represent accumulations of organic matter in: (1) coastal swamps or pocosins broad, shallow depressions on stream-dissected emerged sea floor, (2) river flood plains, and 3) Carolina bays - elliptical depressions of unknown origin.

The largest deposits of fuel-grade peat (peat with less than 25% ash) are found in coastal swamps pocosins and are: (1) Pamlimarle peninsula, which has 583 sq mi of peatland with 278 million tons of moisture-free peat (1510 sq km, 252 million metric tons), (2) Dismal Swamp, which has 120 sq mi of peatland and 68 million tons of peat (311 sq km, 62 million metric tons), and (3) Croatan Forest, which has 55 sq mi of peatland and 27 million tons of peat 142 sq km, 24 million metric tons). The thickness peat in these deposits normally ranges from 1 to ft (0.3 to 2.4 m) with an average of about 5 ft 1.5 m).

River flood plain peats of unknown extent and quantity occur as lenses in alluvial sands and clays. The ash content is usually high, averaging about 11%.

Of the approximately 500 Carolina bays larger than 100 acres (40 ha), 96 contain some peat. The largest single deposit contains 1.3 million tons of peat under 1,400 acres (1.2 million metric tons under 740 ha).

Most peats are black, fine-grained, and highly decomposed with ash contents commonly less than 5%. Sulfur contents are low (median 0.2%) and heating values are high (median 10,100 ati/lb, or 23.5 MJ/kg).

North Carolina has an estimated 1,060 sq mi (2,740 sq km) of peatland containing about 500 million tons (450 million metric tons) of moisture-free peat.
Tectonic Setting of the Magallanes Basin, Chile
Authors: Fildani A. , Romans B.W. , Hubbard S.M. , Fosdick J.C.
Published: April 2015

The Magallanes Basin is a retroarc foreland basin (Suarez and Pettigrew, 1976; Dalziel, 1981; Wilson, 1991: Fildani and Hessler, 2005) and the sedimentary sequence preserved in the Andean fold-thrust belt reflects the early extensional phase of basin evolution and the subsequent contractile phase with eventual uplift associated with Andean orogenesis (Figs. i.1 and i.2). In the latest Jurassic, extension associated with the initial breakup of southern Gondwana (Bruhn, et al., 1978; Gust, et al., 1985; Pankurst, et al., 2000; Calderón et al., 2007) culminated in the development of an oceanic backarc basin referred to as the Rocas Verdes Basin (Katz, 1963). Ophiolitic rocks exposed in the Cordillera Sarmiento, south and west of Parque Nacional Torres del Paine, represent the obducted remains of the floor of this backarc basin (Wilson, 1991; Fildani and Hessler, 2005; Calderón et al., 2007).

Compression associated with the onset of the Andean orogeny resulted in rapid uplift along the western basin margin and concurrent foreland subsidence. A deep-water depositional phase, caused by flexural loading of obducted ophiolitic blocks over the attenuated crust, is marked by the turbidites of the Punta Barrosa Formation (Fig. i.1). The overlying shale-rich Upper Cretaceous Cerro Toro Formation represents the climax of deep-water sedimentation. Conglomerate-filled channel systems (channel belt up to 8 km wide) within the Cerro Toro Formation developed along much
Outcrop 1. Punta Barrosa Formation Sheet Complex, Marina’s Cliff
Authors: Fildani A.
Published: April 2015

Outcrop accessibility: easy Outcrop Coordinates: 51.2284°S, 72.9526°W Refer to outcrop 1 on location map
Outcrop 3. Punta Barrosa Formation Sheet Complex, Headquarters’ Cliff
Authors: Fildani A.
Published: April 2015

Outcrop accessibility: easy Outcrop Coordinates: 51.1786°S, 72.9618°W Refer to outcrop 3 on location map

The Headquarters section (Fig. 3.1A), located within a few hundred meters of the Torres del Paine Park Headquarters, is one of the most accessible outcrops of the upper Punta Barrosa Formation. Stratigraphically, it sits directly below the first mudstone considered as part of the Cerro Toro Formation. This outcrop does not offer the same lateral continuity of exposure as the Marina’s cliff sections, but it presents an interesting packaging of slurry beds (S1) capped by amalgamated thick-bedded conventional turbidites.

In the lower part of the section, the stratigraphic packaging consists of an alternation of thin-bedded fine-grained turbidite packets with more resistant and massive slurry-bed packets. Thin-bedded turbidites include Tc,d,e intervals ranging in thickness from a few centimeters to a maximum of a few tens of centimeters. Slurry bed packets display well-developed meso- and macro-banding. No other sedimentary structures have been observed beyond rare climbing ripples in some of the fine-grained tops of sedimentation units. The lowest bed of the lowest slurry flow package is characterized by a superb example of multi-banding (Fig. 3.1B). It shows fourteen bands defined by dark and light coloration, and it is capped by a 5 cm thick ripple-laminated, fine-grained sandstone interval probably related to more typical turbiditic sedimentation. The top of the stratigraphic succession is capped by amalgamated, thick-bedded high-density turbidity current deposits stacked offset of one another (compensational stacking).
Outcrop 13. Tres Pasos Formation Slope Minibasin Fill, El Chingue Bluff
Authors: Shultz M.R. , Hubbard S.M.
Published: April 2015

Outcrop accessibility: moderate Outcrop Coordinates: 51.1537°S, 72.4725°W Refer to outcrop 13 on location map

Limited exposures of sandstone are present in the Tres Pasos Formation between Sierra Contreras and Laguna Figueroa; an important exception is a 60 m thick succession dominated by coarse-grained turbiditic units at El Chingue Bluff. The stratigraphic section is characterized by an upward coarsening of grain size, and the vertical progression of facies indicating increasing energy. The top of the bluff is defined by the thick sandstone package; beds at the base of this sandstone package are truncated by a normal fault at the southern end of the outcrop, and lap out towards the north onto the tilted hanging wall. Stratal thickening and thinning across the fault, and unfaulted overlying deposits, have led to the interpretation that the fault was active during sand deposition (a growth fault), and that it created accommodation space for the partially ponded sand body (Shultz and Hubbard, 2005). This, and other growth faults in the underlying strata, have contributed to the development of an intraslope minibasin model for deposition. The sandstone package is overlain by a thick succession of mass transport deposits, recording the progradation of the slope across the area. Sandstone dikes are extensive, paralleling growth fault planes. Shultz (2004) has speculated that these dikes were injected downwards, sourced from the coarse sandstone present in the top of the measured section.
Outcrop 14. Tres Pasos Formation Slope Complex, Sierra Dorotea Outcrop Belt
Authors: Hubbard S.M. , Fildani A.
Published: April 2015

Outcrop accessibility: easy to moderate Outcrop Coordinates: 51.3696°S, 72.4210°W Refer to outcrop 14 on location map

A thick sandstone package (~350 m) characterizes the Tres Pasos Formation outcrop between Laguna Figueroa and Arroyo Picana along the Puerto Natales-Cerro Castillo highway (Fig. 14.1). Overlying this sandstone package is a succession of mudstone-dominated strata on the order of 1000 m thick. Sierra Dorotea is capped by deltaic deposits of the Dorotea Formation. In the satellite image presented in Figure 14.1, the northern part of Sierra Dorotea, Cerro Sol and Cerro Cazador are featured. The interpreted stratigraphic architecture consists of large-scale slope surfaces (Chingue, Figueroa, and Puma) building southward (the image is oriented along depositional dip). Sandstones of the Tres Pasos Formation at Laguna Figueroa are interpreted as base-of-slope deposits. Conversely, the corresponding topset units are attributed to the shallow-marine Dorotea Formation. Individual slope surfaces are locally identified as resistant ridges in the satellite image (surface length ~30–35 km; surface stratigraphic relief ~1600 m; slope angle ~2.5–3 degrees). A schematic diagram of the architecture in the region is presented in Figure 14.3, incorporating the location of the El Chingue Bluff slope minibasin fill within the regional context (Outcrop 13).

Architectural elements along the lower part of slope surfaces include mud clast-filled bypass channels, channelized sheets and sandstone-filled channels, featured on the following pages.
The effect of the molecular properties of calcium channel blockers on their elimination route
Authors: Trbojevic-Stankovic Jasna , Odovic Jadranka , Jelic Ratomir , Nesic Dejan , Stojimirovic Biljana
Published: April 2015

Calcium channel blockers (CCBs) are among the most widely used drugs in
cardiovascular medicine. In this study, nine CCBs (amlodipine, felodipine,
isradipine, nicardipine, nifedipine, nimodipine, nisoldipine, verapamil and
diltiazem) were investigated to assess the relationship between their
molecular properties and elimination data obtained from literature. The
descriptors of the molecular properties of CCBs were calculated using three
software packages. The relationship between computed molecular properties and
elimination data collected from relevant literature, initially investigated
with simple linear regression analysis, showed poor correlation (R2 <0.25).
Application of molecular weight or volume data as additional independent
variable, multiple linear regression (MLR) revealed better correlations (R2 ~
0.38) between CCB renal and fecal elimination data and their lipophilicity.
Excluding nimodipine from the calculations resulted in more acceptable
correlations. The best correlations were established after computed
lipophilicity descriptor and molecular weight were applied (R2 = 0.66 with
acceptable probability value).