in view of using them as markers of environmental changes. It concludes that two elements preserved in fossil hippo enamel, Ba and Sr, are reliable, interesting sources of data for documenting environmental conditions and trends, given the moderate effect of diagenetic processes and the lack of physiological control of their internal concentrations. To a lesser extant, Mg could be also somewhat...

We have studied the syn-kinematic very low-grade metamorphism in a polyphase Variscan deformed region using X-ray diffraction techniques. Two phases of regional metamorphism are related to their respective episodes of penetrative deformation in the southern Central Iberian Zone. The data obtained suggest that the rocks did not reach metamorphic equilibrium, but strain favoured the progress of m...

The Sarliève marsh in the Limagne plain, in the heart of the French Massif Central, functioned as an endorheic lake during the Late Glacial and the Early and Middle Holocene. During the Late Boreal and the Atlantic it experienced drastic lowering of the water level as a result of dry and warm climatic episodes. Then, pre-evaporitic conditions triggered the deposition of sediment rich in organic...

Numerical micropermeametry is performed on three dimensional porous samples having a linear size of approximately 3 mm and a resolution of 7.5 μm. One of the samples is a microtomographic image of Fontainebleau sandstone. Two of the samples are stochastic reconstructions with the same porosity, specific surface area, and two-point correlation function as the Fontainebleau sample. The fourth sam...

[1] In clay-rich sediment, microstructures and macrostructures influence how sediments deform when under stress. When lithology is fairly constant, anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) can be a simple technique for measuring the relative consolidation state of sediment, which reflects the sediment burial history. AMS can reveal areas of high water content and apparent overconsolidation a...

Dissolved oxygen is an influential factor of aquatic ecosystem health. Future predictions of oxygen deficits are paramount for maintaining water quality. Oxygen demands depend greatly on a waterbody’s attributes. A large sediment–water interface relative to volume means sediment oxygen demand has greater influence in shallow systems. In shallow, ice-covered waterbodies the potential for winter ...

An understanding of enamel diagenesis is necessary to ensure sound isotopic palaeodietary and palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. Although carbon isotope signals of browsing and grazing herbivores remain distinct in enamel even after millions of years, subtle alteration of isotopic signatures does occur. To better understand this change we analysed modern and fossil enamel from a number of Sou...

New calcite Sr/Sr data for 47 limestones from the metamorphosed and deformed Neoproterozoic–Cambrian Dalradian Supergroup of Scotland and Ireland are used to identify secular trends in seawater Sr/Sr through the Dalradian succession and to constrain its depositional age. Dalradian limestones commonly have Sr .1000 ppm, indicating primary aragonite and marine diagenesis. Low Mn, Mn/Sr ,0.6, O an...

This study of the interstitial water concentration-depth distributions of iodide, bromide, boron, δ u B , and dissolved organic carbon, as represented by absorbance at 325 nm (yellow substance: YS) and laser-induced fluorescence (LIF), is a follow-up of the extensive shipboard program of interstitial water analysis during ODP Leg 131. Most of the components studied are associated with processes...

-Activity expressions are presented for a six end-member, regular solution, site-mixing model for chlorites. The end members are ideal 14-/~ chlorites for which experimental stability data are lacking. Estimates were made of the standard state 25~ and 1 bar molar 3rd law entropies, volumes, and the Maier-Kelley heat capacity coefficients. Experimental stability data from the literature for 14-A...