The Chinese Loess Plateau (CLP) is the largest loess deposit on Earth with expansive surface-exposed source rocks of varying origins, ages, and history. Here, we present abundances elements representative palaeosol samples from seven classic sections CLP. Most elements, including soluble (e.g. Rb Cs), show significant correlations La or Al2O3. These indicate that these are hosted absorbed in pa...

Pulsed OSL is applied to nine fine-grained sediment samples from Sichuan province, China, using stimulating pulses of 10 ms on and 240 ms off, with an infrared exposure prior to each OSL measurement. Comparison of fading rates between pulsed and non-pulsed signals, the latter also obtained with a preceding IR exposure, shows that fading is significant for mainly the non-pulsed signals. Presence...

Informal lending and savings institutions exist around the world, and often include regular door-to-door deposit collection of cash. Some banks have adopted similar services in order to expand access to banking services in areas that lack physical branches. Using a randomized control trial, we investigate determinants of participation in a deposit collection service and evaluate the impact of o...

The epithermal high-sulphidation Cu-Au Chelopech deposit is characterized by a well-developed and well-traceable hydrothermal footprint manifested in the volcanic host rocks. economic ore mineralization embedded strong silicification, included among advanced argillic zone of alteration, smoothly transitioning to quartz-sericite alteration that evolves into widespread propylitics. accessible for...

Synneusis, the drifting together and systematic attachment of crystals in a melt, is involved in three of the known origins for mantled feldspars: (1) overgrowth, (2) exsolution, and (3) filling of skeletal plagioclase. Quartz latite dikes of the Chocolate Mountains, California, contain plagioclase crystals in parallel and twinned synneusis. Sanidine mantles consisting of segments, each crystal...

Natural radioactivity is responsible for most of the total radiation dose received by human population. Geological materials used in building industry usually become contaminated with naturally occurring radioactive materials. They are used as mixtures in building industry (kaolin, zircon, frit, feldspar) or mechanically processed and used for covering floors and walls of the rooms (granite). I...

Abstract The ABM deposit, Finlayson Lake district, Yukon, Canada, is a bimodal-felsic, replacement-style volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposit (19.1 Mt @ 6.6 wt % Zn, 0.9 Cu, 2.0 Pb, 1.4 g/t Au, and 148 Ag) hosted by Late Devonian continental back-arc–related volcanosedimentary rocks of the Kudz Ze Kayah formation. VMS-related hydrothermal alteration associated with extends >1 km be...

The rate of K+ leaching from soil minerals such as K-feldspar is believed to be too slow to provide agronomic benefit. Currently, theories and methods available to interpret kinetics of mineral processes in soil fail to consider its microfluidic nature. In this study, we measure the leaching rate of K+ ions from a K-feldspar-bearing rock (syenite) in a microfluidic environment, and demonstrate ...

We present Feldspar, the first system that allows people to find personal information on the computer by specifying chains of other information that it is associated with, emulating the information retrieval process of human associative memory. Feldspar’s contributions include (1) a user interface for constructing retrieval queries that consist of multiple levels of associations, such as “find ...

we have studied the relation between bank deposit rates and house prices in iran. for that, we have run some var models, using the following variables: real deposit rates (including 1 and 5 years deposit rates), money supply (including the high powered money and the liquidity), gdp, housing services index, and number of licenses for new houses. our results show that a reduction in the deposit r...