the soltan dam on the river soltan, a branch of tine river, is located about 19 km of mateur city in the northeast of tunisia. the dam is now under study and will be constructed in 2017. the soltan dam has been designed as an earth fill dam with homogeneous materials. the dam and its associated concrete structures are mainly founded on marl, shale and shale of lower miocene age, sandstone of th...

Three independent methods: paleomagnetic investigation, analysis of reflection seismic sections and structural study of outcrops have been applied to MesozoicTertiary rocks of the Mecsek and Villány Mts (SW Hungary), which form inselbergs in the southern part of the Pannonian Basin. The structural history is marked by Late OligoceneEarly Miocene NW-SE shortening (in present cooridinates); late ...

Fluid pressures in Miocene-Pleistocene sediments of the US mid-Atlantic continental slope approach the lithostatic stress and are an important control on the stability of the slope. Fluid pressures in excess of hydrostatic were generated by regional depositional patterns and sedimentation rates. Fluid migration within porous and permeable Miocene silty sand layers redistributed pressure and gen...

Cells internalized synthetic oligonucleotides (oligos) in culture. The hybridization of these molecules to target RNA in the living cell was subsequently detected and characterized after fixation of the cells, with or without previous detergent extraction. Hybridized oligo was distinguished from free oligo in the cell using an in situ reverse transcription technique. This assay exploited the ab...

HeLa cell heterogeneous nuclear RNA derived from high-molecular-weight nuclear ribonucleoprotein (RNP) particles contains oligo(U) sequences of 15-50 nucleotides base-paired with poly(A). These duplexes are resistant to pancreatic RNase at 0.5 M NaCl in native RNP, remain so after chemical deproteinization of the RNP digests, and then copurify with poly(A) on oligo(dT)-cellulose chromatography....

50C10 and 52H10 are two DNA clones previously reported by us to be overexpressed in human colonic mucosa at high risk for development of colonic tumors. This report presents sequencing data that reveal that these clones contain repetitive Alu elements. Each Alu sequence is associated with a 3'-oligoadenylate [oligo(A)] sequence, which is demonstrated to exhibit instability in human colonic tumo...

A new genus and species of hipposiderid bat is described from an early Miocene cave deposit (Bitesantennary Site) in the Riversleigh World Heritage fossil property, northern Australia. Eight hipposiderid genera are now recorded from Riversleigh’s Miocene sediments: Hipposideros, Brachipposideros, Rhinonycteris, Riversleigha, Xenorhinos, Miophyllorhina, Archerops and Brevipalatus gen. nov. The n...

A series of Oligocene through Early Miocene terrestrial deposits preserved in the foothills of the Zinda Pir Dome of western Pakistan produce multiple, superposed fossil mammal localities. These include small mammal assemblages that shed light on the evolution of rodent lineages, especially Muroidea, in South Asia. Nine small mammal localities span approximately 28-19 Ma, an interval encompassi...

We re−describe the type material of the tiny African tragulid “Dorcatherium” moruorotensis from the early Miocene of Kenya, and erect the new genus Afrotragulus, the first African Miocene tragulid that does not belong to Dorcatherium. This new taxon is characterized by its elongated and stretched lower molars with a unique morphological dental pattern that strongly contrasts with that of Dorcat...

Although the permanently to seasonally ice-covered Arctic Ocean is a unique and sensitive component in the Earth's climate system, the knowledge of its long-term climate history remains very limited due to the restricted number of pre-Quaternary sedimentary records. During Polarstern Expedition PS87/2014, we discovered multiple submarine landslides along Lomonosov Ridge. Removal of younger sedi...