Mapping in the Homs region of Syria has revealed a hitherto unrecognized staircase of at least 12 gravel terraces of the upper Orontes River. The terrace gravels overlie Pliocene lacustrine marl and have been calcareously cemented into conglomerates, sometimes interbedded with cemented fine-grained alluvium. A tentative dating scheme, based on modelling the regional-scale surface uplift that ha...

This paper argues that banks must be sufficiently levered to have first-best incentives to make new risky loans. This result, which is at odds with the notion that leverage invariably leads to excessive risk taking, derives from two key premises that focus squarely on the role of banks as informed lenders. First, banks finance projects that they do not own, which implies that they cannot extrac...

in this research a layer of ni-cu-p was deposited on 304 stainless steels by using gelatin and thiourea asadditives in a sulfate solution. in order to determine the properties of deposited layers, a microhardness testerwas used for microhardness measurement, x.r.d. for microstructural analysis, and a scanning electronmicroscope equipped with e.d.x. for determining morphology and analyzing the d...

In this research a layer of Ni-Cu-P was deposited on 304 stainless steels by using gelatin and thiourea as additives in a sulfate solution. In order to determine the properties of deposited layers, a microhardness tester was used for microhardness measurement, X.R.D. for microstructural analysis, and a scanning electron microscope equipped with E.D.X. for determining morphology and analyzing th...

Abstract Southwestern Sardinia, Italy, hosts several skarn, W–Sn–Mo greisen and hydrothermal deposits related to a 289±1 Ma Late Variscan granite suite. Among them, the most representative scheelite-bearing skarns belong San Pietro Sinibidraxiu localities, in Monte Tamara area, Sulcis region. The deposit is typical calc-silicate skarn whereas sharply bounded orebody hosted marble unit. Optical ...

Massive Zn-Cu-Fe sulfide deposits at the Garon Lake Mine occur in three sulfide lenses in a group of metamorphosed rhyolite crystal tuffs, metasediments and basalts. The major ore minerals are sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and pyrite. Minor associated silicates are actinolite, tremolite, chlorite, albite and quartz. Rounded detrital pyrite, magnetite and chert grains and diagenetic p...