(Tropical inselbergs: habitat types, adaptive strategies and diversity patterns). Inselbergs are isolated rock outcrops that rise abruptly above the surrounding plains. Granitic and gneissic inselbergs are geologically and geomorphologically old and occur throughout a broad spectrum of climatic zones. They form microclimatically and edaphically dry growth sites that support a highly specialized...

The clayey fissural fillings « 60!-lm and < 2!-lm fractions) associated with the NlOoo-1100E fractures, at the El Berrocal V mine, have been studied in relation to the natural radionuclide migration/retention processes in a fissured granitic environment. The fracture filled with pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena-bearing quartz, later mineralized by pyrite, pitchblende, carbonate and bari...

Supervisory Soil Scientist, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Tempe, Arizona; and Soil Microbiologist, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station, Glendora, California. The weathering of parent rock may be an important source of some nutrients. The rates of weathering of the different parent rock materials vary and affect the inherent fertility and productivity of a...

Three-component wide-angle seismic data acquired in southern Tibet during Project INDEPTH show strong P-to-S converted reflections from reflectors that are aligned at a depth of approximately 15 kilometers beneath the northern Yadong-Gulu rift. These converted reflections are locally higher in amplitude than the corresponding P-wave reflections. Modeling of reflection mode conversion as a funct...

The Table 2 footnotes are incorrectly typeset in the body of the article, as paragraph 3 of the “Biogeographic scenarios, speciation, and the zone of radiation” subsection of the Results section. This can be found on page 12 of the article PDF. The footnotes should read: “Scenario 1 assumes that in the case of O. validus occurring in two archipelagos, the younger archipelago was colonised from ...

The jarrah forest is a natural ecosystem with significant endemism in the flora and fauna. stands on western edge of ancient Great Plateau Western Australia granitic shield Yilgarn craton (2.5 Gya). long-term migration soluble iron aluminium led to formation bauxite ore. regolith ore bound by surficial topsoil deep pallid zone kaolinite clays, primarily used land rehabilitation. We investigated...

A new species of the genus Domene Fauvel, 1873-D. viriatoi n. sp.-is described from a granitic natural cavity in Serra da Estrela, Portugal. This subterranean species is diagnosed and compared with closely related species from the Iberian endemic subgenus Lathromene Koch, 1938. The external morphology and male genitalia are illustrated and information on the species` ecology is presented. A dic...

‘I fact, just about everything that was taught as recently as ten years ago about granitic magmatism has been turned on its head.’1 So concludes John Clemens in his overview paper about the origin of granite, published in the UK in the Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association. In his introduction to Clemens’s paper and the accompanying discussion, editorial board member W.J. French explains t...

Accelerated erosion in the form of landslides can be an undesirable consequence of clearcut logging on steep slopes. Forest managers need a method of predicting the risk of such erosion. Data collected after logging in a granitic area of northwestern California were used to develop a predictive equation. A linear discriminant function was developed that correctly classified almost 90% of the da...