Various mechanisms have been proposed for the dynamic cause and kinematic development of gneiss domes. They include (1) diapiric fl ow induced by density inversion, (2) buckling under horizontal constriction (i.e., extension perpendicular to compression), (3) coeval orthogonal contraction or superposition of multiple phases of folding in different orientations, (4) instability induced by vertic...

Fractured Gneiss aquifers present a challenge to hydrogeologists because of their geological complexity. Interpretation methods which can be applied to porous media cannot be applied to fractured Gneiss aquifers because flow and transport occur in fractures, joints, and conduits. In contrast, the rock matrix contribution to groundwater flow is not very important in Gneiss aquifers. Sodium chlor...

Geochemical signatures throughout the layered Earth require significant mass transfer through the lower crust, yet geological pathways are under-recognized. Elongate bodies of basic to ultrabasic rocks are ubiquitous in exposures of the lower crust. Ultrabasic hornblendite bodies hosted within granulite facies gabbroic gneiss of the Pembroke Valley, Fiordland, New Zealand, are typical occurrenc...

It is suggested that in a localized remnant of Kalahari sand at Dufuya, central Zimbabwe, groundwater flows in an integrated pattern inherited from the paleochannel network of the underlying gneiss. Contact springs occur at discrete localities along the Kalahari sand/gneiss boundary and are associated with spring sapping and land surface subsidence. Subsidence is presumed to be due to preferent...

85 The physiography of the area is dominated by glaciated landforms carved in gneiss of the Fiordland Complex. The gneiss is generally dioritic, with gradations to quartzo-feldspathic and amphibolitic varieties, and is cut by mainly barren pegmatite veins; epidote is abundant. The rocks commonly show signs of post-consolidational shearing and crushing. There is a well defined zone of strongly c...

We present a tool called Gneiss that extends the familiar spreadsheet model to support creating data-drive web applications that use data from the Internet. Gneiss allows the user to extract data from arbitrary REST web services to a spreadsheet and send spreadsheet data to web services dynamically without writing conventional code. It provides new spreadsheet functions and interface elements t...

Precambrian quartzo-feldspathic gneiss was encountered at an elevation of —3616 feet in the Herman 1A well drilled in southeastern Erie County, Ohio, by the Amerada Petroleum Corporation. The five samples of this gneiss that were studied exhibit varying degrees of gneissose foliation. In order of decreasing abundance, microcline, plagioclase, quartz, and biotite together account for an average ...

An eclogite and its surrounding gneiss from the Malpica-Tuy zone, northwestern Spain, were studied. The eclogite contains besides garnet and omphacite, barroisitic amphibole, quartz, phengite with Si contents between 3.27 and 3.45 per formula unit (pfu), rutile, and accessory phases such as talc and (clino)zoisite-epidote. Garnet exhibits a chemical zonation with Alm59Prp13Grs24Sps4, Alm57Prp13...

Precambrian quartzo-feldspathic gneiss was encountered at an elevation of —3616 feet in the Herman 1A well drilled in southeastern Erie County, Ohio, by the Amerada Petroleum Corporation. The five samples of this gneiss that were studied exhibit varying degrees of gneissose foliation. In order of decreasing abundance, microcline, plagioclase, quartz, and biotite together account for an average ...

Sir,?There is an impression amongst the visitors to Parjeeling that the water supplies contain mica, and is sometimes suggested that mica in the drinking Water causes irritation of the intestinal mucosa, with resultant diarrhoea. The water supply of Darjeeling is obtained from a number of perennial springs on the western slope of the Senchal range. The springs connect with a closed concrete con...