The collaborative federal–provincial Southern Indian Lake project in north-central Manitoba covered an area of more than 3500 km 2 the Trans-Hudson orogen. Regional-scale geological mapping, sampling, and lithogeochemical, isotopic, geochronological studies resulted identification distinct assemblages supracrustal rocks varied episodes plutonism. A granodiorite gneiss dated at ca. 2520 Ma is in...

This study aims to confirm the effects of a neck pillow on postural stability head and variance center mass in sitting position. Experiments were conducted keeping posture at rest with without use two types pillows; wrap front pillow. During experiments, whole body was recorded by motion capture system. Differences head-and-neck resting position statistically compared among conditions. As resul...

Source lithologies and transport histories of materials within the Ephrata Fan are investigated. Data were collected using a variety of remote sensing, laboratory spectroscopic, and field observations and techniques. Laboratory thermal emission spectra were collected of bedrock within the Grand Coulee, dune samples, and clast deposits. Factor analysis, target transformation, and endmember recov...

The phagocytic activity of leukocytes in peripheral blood was investigated after 2, 24, and 48 hr; 1, 2, 4, and 8 weeks; and 6 and 12 months following intraperitoneal administration of asbestos and basalt fibers to Wistar rats. Asbestos and basalt fibers differed in their effects on the parameters studied. Both granulocyte count and phagocytic activity of leukocytes during the 1-year dynamic fo...

BACKGROUND A recent study demonstrates that inhalation of airborne particulate from Mount Etna eruptions may induce fibrotic lung disease. The occupational exposure of construction workers from the Etna area, who excavate building sites and use basalt dust to make mortar, has never been assessed. METHODS Samples of basalt, volcanic ash, basalt + cement and cement dust were collected on the co...

1761. Figure 1. CSR FeO map of the central basalt pond in Apollo crater. The edges of the basalt pond were modeled as different units due to lateral mixing with the surrounding materials. The absolute FeO abundances from CSR may be overestimated by as much as 2 wt.% [15]. Figure 2. Map of modeled Th compositions used in the forward model. Region 1 = 0.9 ppm Th, Region 2 = 2.5 ppm Th, and Region...

We present results of experiments on mixtures of olivine tholeiite and mantle harzburgite, at 5 kb and 1050-1150°C, under conditions of controlled hydrogen fugacity. The basalt end-member was Kilauea 1921 olivine tholeiite + 3 wt.% H2O, and the harzburgite end-member was a mixture of olivine and orthopyroxene mineral separates made from a mantle-derived lherzolite xenolith. The experiments on m...

Small-scale assimilation of limestone during the intrusion of an olivine basalt feeder dyke into an Eocene argillaceous, siliceous biomicrite in the Tokatoka area has resulted in the incorporation of large amounts of calcium into the parent magma. Initial effects of assimilation have caused partial resorption of the earlyformed igneous mineralogy and the precipitation of calcic, iron-rich clino...