A-type granitoids, either intruded into greenschist facies volcano-sedimentary sequence or emplaced at the contact between lowand high-grade terranes, constitute a significant proportion of the granitoid rocks in the Precambrian of western Ethiopia. These granitoids are characterized by Fe-rich biotite, ferro-hornblende, alkali-amphiboles, and alkali pyroxenes. High total alkalis, high FeOT/MgO...

compositions of biotite from three different rock types of mashhad granitoids, i.e., granodiorite, monzogranite and leucogranite in ne of iran have been documented by electron microprobe and wet chemistry for fe3+ and fe2+. mashhad granitoids have been geochronologically and petrologically grouped into g1 and g2 phases. microprobe data show that the total fe contents in biotite from g2 leucogra...

Aims. We present a new list of thorium and argon emission lines in the visible obtained by analyzing high-resolution (R = 110, 000) spectra of a ThAr hollow cathode lamp. The aim of this new line list is to allow significant improvements in the quality of wavelength calibration for medium-to high-resolution astronomical spectrographs. Methods. We use a series of ThAr lamp exposures obtained wit...

The objective of this work has been the co-precipitation of the coating material Ethyl Cellulose (EC) and two natural extracts (IDOKI SCF Technologies), R1 and P1, using the Supercritical Antisolvent (SAS) precipitation technique with supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2), in order to obtain active microparticles. EC is a hydrophobic material widely used for controlled delivery systems, sustain...

A scheme is proposed to desalinate sea water using solar energy for the Thar Desert of India. The scheme has been using solar energy for the Thar Desert of India. The scheme has been designed to produce about 5.25 x 10 m/yr (13860 MG/yr) of fresh water with 11.52 km (4.5 miles) of collector area. The solar collectors are rectangular concrete tubes, half buried in the ground, through which sea w...

The Mesozoic Mashhad granitoid plutons have intruded into ophiolite complexes, meta-sediments and pyroclastics in the Binalood region, located SW of Mashad city in the NE part of Iran. Based on petrography and geochemistry, the Mashhad granitoids have been classified into 1) grey granite, 2) pink granite, 3) muscovite granite, 4) granodiorite and 5) pegmatite and quartz veins. Granitoids show t...

Analysis of fluorine and chlorine in 228 samples of granitoids' from the Basin and Range province of the western United States suggests that at least three types of granitoids can be distinguished: (1) fluorine-poor granitoids of the northwestern Great Basin (mean F = 0.041 wt %, maximum = 0.11 wt %) intrude a variety of allochthonous oceanic or island-arc terranes that were probably accreted t...