• AUTHIGENIC 10BE/9BE SIGNATURE OF THE LASCHAMP EXCURSION: A TOOL FOR GLOBAL SYNCHRONISATION OF PALEOCLIMATIC ARCHIVES 

  Leduc G.; Thouveny N.; Bourlès D.L.; Blanchet C.L.; Carcaillet J.T. (2006)

  Authigenic 10 Be and 9 Be isotope concentrations have been measured in marine sediments deposited between 10 and 60 ka BP in the western equatorial Pacific and their ratio compared to the geomagnetic relative paleointensity ...
• EVIDENCE FOR MOLECULAR SIZE DEPENDENT GAS FRACTIONATION IN FIRN AIR DERIVED FROM NOBLE GASES, OXYGEN, AND NITROGEN MEASUREMENTS 

  Huber C.; Beyerle U.; Leuenberger M.; Schwander J.; Spahni R.; Weiler K.; Kipfer R.; Severinghaus J.P. (2006)

  We present elemental and isotopic measurements of noble gases (He, Ne, Ar, Kr, and Xe), oxygen and nitrogen of firn air from two sites. The first set of samples was taken in 1998 at the summit of the Devon Ice Cap in the ...
• ISOTOPE CALIBRATED GREENLAND TEMPERATURE RECORD OVER MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE 3 AND ITS RELATION TO CH4 

  Huber C.; Leuenberger M.; Spahni R.; Flückiger J.; Schwander J.; Stocker T.F.; Johnsen S.; Landais A.; Jouzel J. (2006)

  Large temperature variations on millennial time scales in Greenland characterised the last ice age. Abrupt warmings, known as Dansgaard–Oeschger (DO) events, can be traced in the δ18Oice record of Greenland ice cores. ...
• DEGREES OF SEPARATION: HILLSLOPE-CHANNEL COUPLING AND THE LIMITS OF PALAEOHYDROLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION 

  Wainwright J. (2006)

  Qualitative analysis of hillslope-channel coupling conditions suggests that the internal configuration of a catchment has a strong influence on the transfer of water and sediment through the fluvial system. Consequently, ...
• GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL VARIABILITY IN THE DELIVERY OF DUST TO THE CENTRAL EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN 

  Anderson R.F.; Fleisher M.Q.; Lao Y. (2006)

  Fluxes of continental mineral aerosols (dust) were greater during glacial periods than during interglacials throughout most regions of the Earth. The equatorial Pacific Ocean was a possible exception to this pattern in ...
• LATE MESOZOIC VOLCANISM IN THE GREAT XING'AN RANGE (NE CHINA): TIMING AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE DYNAMIC SETTING OF NE ASIA 

  Wang F.; Zhou X.-H.; Zhang L.-C.; Ying J.-F.; Zhang Y.-T.; Wu F.-Y.; Zhu R.-X. (2006)

  Mesozoic volcanism is widespread throughout northeastern China, but precise geochronological constraints were previously lacking. Twenty samples, including basalt and basaltic andesites, from the Great Xing'an Range were ...
• ANGULAR DEPENDENCE OF POTASSIUM K-EDGE XANES SPECTRA OF TRIOCTAHEDRAL MICAS: SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE DETERMINATION OF THE LOCAL STRUCTURE AND ELECTRONIC BEHAVIOR OF THE INTERLAYER SITE 

  Cibin G.; Mottana A.; Marcelli A.; Brigatti M.F. (2006)

  A detailed description of the interlayer site in trioctahedral true micas is presented based on a statistical appraisal of crystal-chemical, structural, and spectroscopic data determined on two sets of trioctahedral micas ...
• GEOCHEMICAL AND ND-SR-PB ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION OF MESOZOIC VOLCANIC ROCKS IN THE SONGLIAO BASIN. NE CHINA 

  Wang P.-J.; Chen F.; Chen S.-M.; Siebel W.; Satir M. (2006)

  Mesozoic volcanic rocks exposed in the Songliao basin form a major part of the basin fill and are the important pertroleum reservoir rocks. Petrogenesis of these volcanic rocks and their tectonic setting, however, are ...
• THERMAL MODELS AND CLAY DIAGENESIS IN THE TERTIARY-CRETACEOUS SEDIMENTS OF THE ALAVA BLOCK (BASQUE-CANTABRIAN BASIN, SPAIN) 

  Arostegui J.; Sangüesa F.J.; Nieto F.; Uriarte J.A. (2006)

  Diagenesis in the Cretaceous and Tertiary sediments of the Alava Block (Basque-Cantabrian basin) has been studied using the clay mineralogy (X-ray diffraction) of cuttings from three representative wells of a N-S cross-section. ...
• CRYSTALLIZATION OF MICROLITES AND DEGASSING DURING MAGMA ASCENT: CONSTRAINTS ON THE FLUID MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF MAGMA DURING THE TENJO ERUPTION ON KOZU ISLAND, JAPAN 

  Noguchi S.; Toramaru A.; Shimano T. (2006)

  Bubble and crystal textures provide information with regard to the kinetics of the vesiculation and crystallization processes. They also provide insights into the fluid mechanical behavior of magma in a conduit. We performed ...
• WATER DIFFUSION IN BASALTIC TO DACITIC GLASSES 

  Okumura S.; Nakashima S. (2006)

  Dehydration experiments on basaltic, andesitic and dacitic glasses with 1.1, 0.7 and 1.0 wt.% total water, respectively, were performed at 400-675 °C and 0.1 MPa. The dehydration rates were measured by in situ infrared ...
• REDOX REACTIONS BETWEEN IRON AND QUINONES: THERMODYNAMIC CONSTRAINTS 

  Uchimiya M.; Stone A.T. (2006)

  Iron is the most abundant redox-active metallic element on the earth's surface. Quinones, a term that encompasses dihydroxybenzenes (catechol and hydroquinone), semiquinone radicals, and benzoquinones, are abundant moieties ...
• MOLECULAR SCALE INVESTIGATIONS OF THE REACTIVITY OF MAGNETITE WITH FORMIC ACID, PYRIDINE, AND CARBON TETRACHLORIDE 

  Cutting R.S.; Vaughan D.J.; Muryn C.A.; Thornton G. (2006)

  The (111) surface of magnetite, a dominant growth and fracture surface of this mineral, has been studied using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) at atomic resolution. In line with previous work, this surface shows three ...
• AR-AR AND U-PB AGES OF MARBLE-HOSTED RUBY DEPOSITS FROM CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST ASIA 

  Garnier V.; Giuliani G.; Ohnenstetter D.; Maluski H.; Schwarz D. (2006)

  To date the formation of ruby deposits and link it to the regional metamorphism associated with Tertiary Himalayan orogenesis, 40Ar-39Ar stepwise heating experiments were performed on single grains of phlogopite syngenetic ...
• NUCLEAR FIELD VS. NUCLEOSYNTHETIC EFFECTS AS CAUSE OF ISOTOPIC ANOMALIES IN THE EARLY SOLAR SYSTEM 

  Fujii T.; Moynier F.; Albarède F. (2006)

  Even in the absence of nucleosynthesis, mass-independent isotope effect due to nuclear field can lead to a number of isotope anomalies found in refractory inclusions of chondrites. Isotope anomalies observed for Ba, Ca, ...
• BUBBLE GROWTH IN SLIGHTLY SUPERSATURATED ALBITE MELT AT CONSTANT PRESSURE 

  Baker D.R.; Robert G.; Allard E.; Bai L.; Lang P.; Bergevin J.-F. (2006)

  Bubble growth experiments were performed in a piston-cylinder by hydrating albite melt with ~11 wt.% H2O at 550 MPa followed by rapid decompression at 1 MPa s-1 to pressures of 450 or 400 MPa. At these conditions the melt ...
• ABRUPT TRANSITIONS DURING SUSTAINED EXPLOSIVE ERUPTIONS: EXAMPLES FROM THE 1912 ERUPTION OF NOVARUPTA, ALASKA 

  Adams N.K.; Houghton B.F.; Hildreth W. (2006)

  Plinian/ignimbrite activity stopped briefly and abruptly 16 and 45 h after commencement of the 1912 Novarupta eruption defining three episodes of explosive volcanism before finally giving way after 60 h to effusion of lava ...
• 2480 MA MAFIC MAGMATISM IN THE NORTHERN BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA: A NEW LINK CONNECTING THE WYOMING AND SUPERIOR CRATONS 

  Dahl P.S.; Hamilton M.A.; Wooden J.L.; Foland K.A.; Frei R.; McCombs J.A.; Holm D.K. (2006)

  The Laramide Black Hills uplift of southwest South Dakota exposes a Precambrian crystalline core of ~2560-2600 Ma basement granitoids nonconformably overlain by two Paleoproterozoic intracratonic rift successions. In the ...
• STABLE ISOTOPE EVIDENCE FOR THE ATMOSPHERIC ORIGIN OF CO2 INVOLVED IN CARBONATION OF MSWI BOTTOM ASH 

  Fléhoc C.; Girard J.-P.; Piantone P.; Bodénan F. (2006)

  Stable isotopes were used to constrain the origin of CO2 involved in the ageing process of municipal solid waste incineration (MSWI) bottom ash under open-air conditions. The δ13C and δ18O values of CaCO3 occurring in MSWI ...
• THE LATE EOCENE 187OS/188OS EXCURSION: CHEMOSTRATIGRAPHY, COSMIC DUST FLUX AND THE EARLY OLIGOCENE GLACIATION 

  Dalai T.K.; Ravizza G.E.; Peucker-Ehrenbrink B. (2006)

  High resolution records (ca. 100 kyr) of Os isotope composition (187Os/188Os) in bulk sediments from two tropical Pacific sites (ODP Sites 1218 and 1219) capture the complete Late Eocene 187Os/188Os excursion and confirm ...

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