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A Mineralogy of Anthropocene E
1 A Minerology for the Anthropocene Pierre FLUCK Institut Universitaire de France / Docteur-ès-Sciences / geologist and archeologist / Emeritus Professor at Université de Haute-Alsace This essay is a follow-up on « La signature stratigraphique de l’Anthropocène », which is also available on HAL- Archives ouvertes. Table of contents 1. Introduction: neoformation minerals in ancient mining galleries 2. Minerals from burning coal mines 3. Minerals from the mineral processing industry 4 ...and metallurgy 5. Neoformations in slags 6. Speciation of heavy metals in soils 7. Metal objects in their archaeological environment, or affected by fire 8. Neoformations in or on the surface of building stones 9. A mineralogy of materials. The “miracle of the potter”. The minerals in cement 10. A mineralogy of the biosphere? Conclusions Warning. This paper is written to be read by both specialists and a wider audience. However, it contains many mineral names. While these may resonate in the minds of mineralogists or collectors, they may not be as meaningful to less discerning readers. Such readers should not be scared, for they may find excellent encyclopaedic records on the web, including chemical composition, crystallographic properties and description of each of these species. This is why we have decided not to include further information in this paper. Acknowledgements. I would like to thank the mineralogists with whom I have had the opportunity to maintain fruitful exchanges for a long time: my pupil Hubert Bari, Éric Asselborn, Cédric Lheur, François Farges. And I would like to honour the memories of René Weil (1901-1983), my master in descriptive mineralogy, and of Jacques Geffroy (1918-1993), pupil of Alfred Lacroix, my master in metallogeny. -
Respicite Astra: a Historic Journey in Astronomy Through Books
0 Respicite Astra: A Historic Journey in Astronomy through Books RReessppiicciittee AAssttrraa A Historic Journey in Astronomy through Books The Astronomiicall Sociiety of Mallta The Natiionall Liibrary of Mallta The Astronomical Society of Malta The National Library of Malta 1 Respicite Astra: A Historic Journey in Astronomy through Books Respicite Astra A Historic Journey in Astronomy through Books Exhibition held between 25 September – 18 October 2010-09-21 at the National Library, Valletta, Malta on the occasion of Notte Bianca 2010 Introductory Text Mr Victor Farrugia Captions Mr Leonard Ellul Mercer – Pgs 23-24, 57 Mr Alexander Pace – Pgs 25-26, 58, 63, 70 Prof Frank Ventura – Pgs 4, 6-13, 15-18, 21, 27-31, 33, 35-38, 40, 42- 43, 45-48, 50-56, 60-62, 65-69, 72-76, 80, 85, 87, 93 Acknowledgements The Committee of the Astronomical Society of Malta would like to acknowledge the following persons for their kind and generous help in setting up this Exhibition at the Main Hall of the National Library starting on 25th September 2010 during the Notte Bianca event: Mr Fabio Agius (MaltaPost Philatelic Archives) Ms C Michelle Buhagiar (National Library of Malta) Ms Maroma Camilleri National Library of Malta) Mr Leonard Ellul Mercer (Personal capacity) Victor Farrugia (Astronomical Society of Malta) Mr Alexander Pace (Astronomical Society of Malta) Arch Alexei Pace (Astronomical Society of Malta) Ms Joanne Sciberras (National Library of Malta) Mr Tony Tanti (Astronomical Society of Malta) Prof Frank Ventura (University of Malta) Staff of the National Library of Malta Front Image Great Orion Nebula by Mr Leonard Ellul Mercer Production The Astronomical Society of Malta P.O. -
Statecraft and Insect Oeconomies in the Global French Enlightenment (1670-1815)
Statecraft and Insect Oeconomies in the Global French Enlightenment (1670-1815) Pierre-Etienne Stockland Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2018 © 2017 Etienne Stockland All rights reserved ABSTRACT Statecraft and Insect Oeconomies in the Global French Enlightenment (1670-1815) Pierre-Etienne Stockland Naturalists, state administrators and farmers in France and its colonies developed a myriad set of techniques over the course of the long eighteenth century to manage the circulation of useful and harmful insects. The development of normative protocols for classifying, depicting and observing insects provided a set of common tools and techniques for identifying and tracking useful and harmful insects across great distances. Administrative techniques for containing the movement of harmful insects such as quarantine, grain processing and fumigation developed at the intersection of science and statecraft, through the collaborative efforts of diplomats, state administrators, naturalists and chemical practitioners. The introduction of insectivorous animals into French colonies besieged by harmful insects was envisioned as strategy for restoring providential balance within environments suffering from human-induced disequilibria. Naturalists, administrators, and agricultural improvers also collaborated in projects to maximize the production of useful substances secreted by insects, namely silk, dyes and medicines. A study of -
Yearbook 2019
INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEODESY AND GEOPHYSICS UNION GEODESIQUE ET GEOPHYSIQUE INTERNATIONALE Yearbook 2019 INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEODESY AND GEOPHYSICS UNION GEODESIQUE ET GEOPHYSIQUE INTERNATIONALE IUGG Yearbook 2019 Annuaire UGGI 2019 Published by Secretary General Alik Ismail-Zadeh No ISSN: 1038-3846 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE DES MATIÈRES TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................................................ 3 INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEODESY AND GEOPHYSICS UNION ............................................................... 4 Background ........................................................................................................................................................... 4 Objectives and Activities of IUGG ......................................................................................................................... 5 Structure ............................................................................................................................................................... 6 Finances ................................................................................................................................................................ 9 Member Adhering Bodies of IUGG .....................................................................................................................11 Regional Distribution of Members .....................................................................................................................13 -
Liddicoatite Tourmaline from Anjanabonoina, Madagascar
LIDDICOATITE TOURMALINE FROM ANJANABONOINA, MADAGASCAR By Dona M. Dirlam, Brendan M. Laurs, Federico Pezzotta, and William B. (Skip) Simmons Liddicoatite, a calcium-rich lithium tourmaline, was recognized as a separate mineral species in 1977, and named in honor of Richard T. Liddicoat. Most of the remarkable polychrome tourmalines with varied geometric patterns that are characteristic of this species were produced during the 20th century from the Anjanabonoina pegmatite deposit in central Madagascar. To best display its complex color zoning and patterns, the tourmaline is commonly sold as polished slices or carvings. Liddicoatite exhibits physical and optical properties that overlap those of elbaite, so quantitative chemical analysis is required to distinguish these species; both may occur in a single crystal. The most common internal features are color zoning, strain patterns, partially healed fractures, feathers, needle-like tubes, negative crystals, and albite inclusions. or decades, liddicoatite from Madagascar has three lithium tourmalines with the general formula F been prized for its dramatic color zoning. (Ca,Na,K, )(Li,Al)3Al6Si6O18(BO3)3(OH)3(OH,F), FAmong the myriad geometric patterns dis- which are defined on the basis of their X-site occu- played in polychrome slices cut perpendicular to pancy: Ca = liddicoatite, Na = elbaite, and a vacant the c-axis (figure 1), triangular zones and three-rayed (F) X site = rossmanite. Elbaite is the most abundant “stars” resembling a Mercedes Benz symbol are the gem tourmaline, whereas rossmanite has so far been most recognizable features of this remarkable tour- identified from few localities (Johnson and Koivula, maline. The diversity of colors and patterns shown 1998b; Selway et al., 1998), and typically is not of by Madagascar liddicoatite has not been seen in gem quality. -
IUGG Yearbook 2020 Annuaire UGGI 2020
INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEODESY AND GEOPHYSICS UNION GEODESIQUE ET GEOPHYSIQUE INTERNATIONALE Yearbook 2020 INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEODESY AND GEOPHYSICS UNION GEODESIQUE ET GEOPHYSIQUE INTERNATIONALE IUGG Yearbook 2020 Annuaire UGGI 2020 v.01-2020 No ISSN: 1038-3846 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE DES MATIÈRES TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................................................ 3 INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEODESY AND GEOPHYSICS ........................................................................... 4 Background ........................................................................................................................................................... 4 Objectives and Activities of IUGG ......................................................................................................................... 5 Structure ............................................................................................................................................................... 6 Finances ................................................................................................................................................................ 9 Member Adhering Bodies of IUGG .....................................................................................................................11 Regional Distribution of Members .....................................................................................................................13 Affiliate -
The University of the West Indies-Seismic Research Centre
geosciences Article The University of the West Indies-Seismic Research Centre Volcano Monitoring Network: Evolution since 1953 and Challenges in Maintaining a State-of-the-Art Network in a Small Island Economy Frédéric J.-Y. Dondin * , Lloyd Lynch, Chan Ramsingh, Graham A. Ryan, Ilias Papadopoulous , Daniel Rueppel, Erouscilla P. Joseph, Joan L. Latchman, Richard E. A. Robertson , Nisha Nath, Ranissa Mathura, Amit Balchan, Stephen George, Ian Juman, Farrah Madoo, Garth Manette and Hannah Ramsingh Seismic Research Centre, The University of the West Indies, Gordon Street, St Augustine, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago; [email protected] (L.L.); [email protected] (C.R.); [email protected] (G.A.R.); [email protected] (I.P.); [email protected] (D.R.); [email protected] (E.P.J.); [email protected] (J.L.L.); [email protected] (R.E.A.R.); [email protected] (N.N.); [email protected] (R.M.); [email protected] (A.B.); [email protected] (S.G.); [email protected] (I.J.); [email protected] (F.M.); [email protected] (G.M.); [email protected] (H.R.) * Correspondence: [email protected] Received: 7 December 2018; Accepted: 21 January 2019; Published: 30 January 2019 Abstract: The Seismic Research Centre (SRC), formerly known as the Seismic Research Unit (SRU), of the University of the West Indies is located on the island of Trinidad in the Eastern Caribbean. The centre has been operating its volcanological and seismological surveillance network since 1953. Since that time, the network has been upgraded five times resulting in five generations of seismic network topologies (i.e., Classes). -
Dynamique Des Éruptions Pliniennes : Réévaluation De L'aléa Volcanique En Martinique
Université de Paris Ecole doctorale STEP’UP – ED n° 560 Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris Dynamique des éruptions pliniennes : réévaluation de l’aléa volcanique en Martinique Par Audrey Michaud-Dubuy Thèse de doctorat de Sciences de la Terre et de l’Environnement Dirigée par Edouard Kaminski Présentée et soutenue publiquement le 18 décembre 2019 Devant un jury composé de : Costanza Bonadonna, Professor, Université de Genève, rapportrice Tomaso Esposti Ongaro, Assistant Professor, INGV Pisa, rapporteur Anne Le Friant, Directrice de recherche, Université de Paris, examinatrice Hélène Balcone-Boissard, Maître de conférences, Sorbonne Université, examinatrice Edouard Kaminski, Professeur, Université de Paris, directeur de thèse Guillaume Carazzo, Physicien-adjoint, Université de Paris, co-encadrant de thèse THÈSE de DOCTORAT de l’UNIVERSITÉ DE PARIS Spécialité : Sciences de la Terre et de l’Environnement présentée par Audrey MICHAUD-DUBUY pour obtenir le titre de DOCTEURE DE L’UNIVERSITÉ DE PARIS Sujet de la thèse : Dynamique des éruptions pliniennes : réévaluation de l’aléa volcanique en Martinique Soutenue le 18 décembre 2019, devant le jury composé de Costanza BONADONNA . Rapportrice Tomaso ESPOSTI ONGARO . Rapporteur Hélène BALCONE-BOISSARD . Examinatrice Anne LE FRIANT . Examinatrice Edouard KAMINSKI . Directeur de thèse Guillaume CARAZZO . Co-encadrant de thèse Équipe de Dynamique des Fluides Géologiques Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris 1, rue Jussieu - 75005 Paris v Mais un jour la terre s’ouvre Et le volcan n’en peut plus Le sol se rompt On découvre des richesses inconnues La mer à son tour divague De violence inemployée Me voilà comme une vague Vous ne serez pas noyés Une sorcière comme les autres - Anne Sylvestre vii Remerciements Un immense merci tout d’abord à Guillaume Carazzo et Edouard Kaminski, mes directeurs de thèse, pour m’avoir proposé ce formidable sujet qui me permettait de revenir vers la Pelée, mon volcan favori. -
NAT16/10 Booksnew
book reviews In retrospect chosen by Philippe Janvier Les chiens aboient (“The dogs bark”) 1917. A month later, the Deprat case arose. Deprat, who did not return until 1919). Had by Herbert Wild Deprat was at the peak of his fame — Deprat perpetrated the fraud, why did his (1926) national and international — when Lantenois samples include only a few trilobites among the This rare book had fallen into oblivion, but called him into his office and, apparently thousands of other fossils he carefully collected gained renewed interest with the recent “Gupta embarrassed, told him that Mansuy had accused for stratigraphy? And why would he have case” (see Nature 341, 16; 1989). It is a largely him (Deprat) of “salting” his fossil collections ruined a promising career with such a useless autobiographic novel about a similar case of from Yunnan, Tonkin and northern Annam with deception? It seems entirely at odds with his palaeontological fraud — so far unresolved — European trilobites. Deprat was staggered, as personality and the integrity of his other work. which shattered French geology between 1917 Mansuy had never alluded to the deception. Two All the protagonists of the Deprat case are and 1922. weeks later, Deprat returned to one of the now dead. Deprat died in a climbing accident in Herbert Wild, the author, is the pseudonym suspected locations (Nui Nga Ma, now Nui the Pyrenees in 1935; ironically, his last novel, La of Jacques Deprat (1880–1935), a talented Nguu Ma, an easily accessible hill near Ben Thuy, paroi de glace (“The ice wall”), published French geologist accused of “salting” sites in along the Hanoi–Saigon highway) and collected posthumously in 1937, is a detective story Yunnan and northern Vietnam with fossil another fragment of the trilobite species he had dealing with just such an accident. -
GSA TODAY • 1998 Section Meetings a Publication of the Geological Society of America Southeastern, P
Vol. 7, No. 10 October 1997 INSIDE • New Honorary Fellows, p. 15 • Call for Award Nominations, p. 16, 22, 24, 26 GSA TODAY • 1998 Section Meetings A Publication of the Geological Society of America Southeastern, p. 27 Cordilleran, p. 29 Postglacial Ponds and Alluvial Fans: Recorders of Holocene Landscape History Paul Bierman,* Andrea Lini, Paul Zehfuss, Amy Church, Department of Geology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405 P. Thompson Davis, Department of Natural Sciences, Bentley College, Waltham, MA 02154 John Southon, Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550 Lyn Baldwin, Field Naturalist Program, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405 ABSTRACT northern Vermont as an example, alluvial fan sediments reveal that we demonstrate that the sedimentary the highest rates of hillslope erosion Little is known about rates and record preserved in humid-region occurred as a consequence of European patterns of Holocene hillslope erosion ponds and alluvial fans can be dated, settlement. The geologic record of colo- in areas once covered by Pleistocene ice deciphered isotopically and stratigraph- nial deforestation is clear, revealing sheets and now heavily populated. Yet, ically, and used to understand the his- significant human impact and suggest- understanding past landscape behavior tory of hillslope erosion. Our data sug- ing that past landscape response is a is prerequisite to predicting and mitigat- gest that erosion rates were higher in meaningful basis for guiding future ing future impacts of human-induced the early and late Holocene than in the land management practices. disturbance and climate change. Using mid-Holocene, perhaps the result of changing climate and the frequency INTRODUCTION *E-mail address: [email protected]. -
History of IAVCEI 1919 – 2019 from Small Beginnings to a Vibrant International Association
History of IAVCEI 1919 – 2019 From small beginnings to a vibrant international association THE EVOLUTION OF IAVCEI The movers and shakers behind IAVCEI’s formation in 1919 The movers and shakers who are credited with establishing the Section for Volcanology in IUGG in 1919 are Annibale Ricco (Italy), Alfred Lacroix (France), Henry S. Washington (USA), and Alessandro Malladra (Italy) (see photos below; Gasparini and Johnson 1995). Annibale Ricco (Photo 1) was a celebrated Italian astronomer, with interests in other natural sciences, including seismology. He served as an astronomer at the universities of Modena, Napoli, Palermo and at the time of appointment, Catania, all in Italy. Alfred Lacroix (Photo 2) was a French volcanologist at the Museum of Natural History in and was most famous for his account of the 1902 eruption of Mt Pelee, which killed ~30,000 people in the coastal town of St Pierre, Martinique, and for defining the concept of nuees ardentes (“glowing clouds” or pyroclastic flows). Henry S. Washington (Photo 3) was a well-known American petrologist and geochemist at the Carnegie Institute in Washington DC, who was integral to introducing the normative mineralogy composition concept. Alessandro Malladra (Photo 4) was an Italian volcanologist from the Vesuvius Observatory in Naples. Annibale Ricco Alfred Lacroix Henry S. Washington Alessandro Malladra At that Inaugural General Assembly of the International Research Council in Brussels, Belgium, in 1919, where IUGG was formed as a union of six disciplinary sections, Annibale Ricco was elected as first President of the Section for Volcanology (SV), Alfred Lacroix and Henry Washington as Vice-Presidents, and Alessandro Malladra as Secretary General. -
Yearbook 2018
INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEODESY AND GEOPHYSICS UNION GEODESIQUE ET GEOPHYSIQUE INTERNATIONALE Yearbook 2018 INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEODESY AND GEOPHYSICS UNION GEODESIQUE ET GEOPHYSIQUE INTERNATIONALE IUGG Yearbook 2018 Annuaire UGGI 2018 Published by Secretary General Alik Ismail-Zadeh No ISSN: 1038-3846 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE DES MATIÈRES INTERNATIONAL UNION OF GEODESY AND GEOPHYSICS UNION GÉODÉSIQUE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE INTERNATIONALE ......................................................................... 3 Background .............................................................................................................................................. 4 Objectives and Activities of IUGG............................................................................................................... 5 Structure.................................................................................................................................................. 7 Finances................................................................................................................................................. 11 Member Adhering Bodies of IUGG ........................................................................................................... 12 Regional Distribution of Members ........................................................................................................... 14 Affiliate Members of IUGG .....................................................................................................................