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Linking shelfal 'turbidites' to their feeding system: the Monastero Fm. (eastern Tertiary Piedmont Basin)
No full textThough underappreciated in the sedimentary record, there is growing evidence that water- sediment mixtures generated at river mouths consequently to high-discharge events can transfer significant sediment volumes to deep-water via a range of flow types, referred to as hypo-homo-hyperpycnal flows. Identification of these deposits is difficult due to their resemblance to some classical turbidite facies, thus requiring accurate facies analysis.This work focuses on the facies analysis of a ca. 1100 m-thick pile of turbidites belonging to the Monastero Fm. (MF), which were deposited adjacent to coeval Gilbert-type fan-delta conglomerates (Savignone Conglomerates Fm.; SCF) as a part of the Rupelian-early Chattian fill of the eastern Tertiary Piedmont Basin (TPB; Northwest Italy).The MF consists of an apparently monotonous succession of thin-bedded sandstone-mudstone couplets with a sand/mud ratio >1 intercalated by erosive-based amalgamated beds-sets of sandstones and conglomerates a few-tens of metres-thick. The thin-bedded component of MF is dominant, representing about 70% of the total thickness of the studied section, and show a range of features which hardly fit into a turbidite depositional model. The majority of sandstone beds show erosional wavy bases and begins with either coarser basal lags or a thin inversely graded division, passing upward to two or more inversely-normally graded lamina sets separated each other by mud-drapes containing abundant phytoclasts. Typically, the top of these sandstone beds shows a variety of sedimentary structures (cross, trough-cross and hummocky lamination) and is capped by cm-thick heterolithics characterized by a range of flaser to lenticular bedding. In the lower part of MF, presence of symmetric ripple-marks ornamenting sandstone bed tops and articulated lamellibranch valves suggests deposition above the wave base level and short sediment routing.On the other hand, the thicker-bedded component of MF consists of amalgamated coarse-grained sandstones in which mud-draped scours, traction carpets, mud-chips and conglomeratic lags are suggestive of deposition from a range of hyper-concentrated to high-density flows transferring most of their load down-dip.The stratigraphic and lateral relationships of these two contrasting facies associations, along with their characters, suggest that the MF can be interpreted to reflect deposition in the pro-delta of the adjacent SCF system. In this view, the thin-bedded component of MF would represent the product of ‘background’ deposition by a range of hypo-homo-hyperpycnal flows generated at river mouths, whereas the coarser amalgamated counterpart likely represents pro-delta lobes
Rozpor ako východisko, láska ako smer u Simone Weilovej (Contradiction as base, Love as direction in writings of Simone Weil)
No full textArticle is explaining contradiction and love, Simone Weil‘s essential terms of hermeneutics of human Being. It introduces close relation of these terms with her understanding of God as well as with her overall concept of religion. Author also mentions Simone Weil‘s inspirations with philosophical and spiritual concepts of the East
“I beg you to tell me what has become of Djamila”: The Political Mobilization of Simone de Beauvoir’s Readers During the Boupacha Affair
No full textBy Sophia Millman This is a condensed version of a Masters thesis dedicated to the political mobilization of Simone de Beauvoir’s readers. The citations from the letters were translated from French by the author. *** On June 2, 1960, the French government ordered all copies of the daily Algiers edition of Le Monde seized and destroyed to suppress the publication of Simone de Beauvoir’s article “Pour Djamila Boupacha.” Beauvoir, a self-professed “woman of letters”, not “of action[1]”, and one ..
A comparative study of form and theology in the works of Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil
No full textIn this comparative study of the form and theology of Flannery O'Connor and Simone Weil I interrogate how Weil's philosophical writings and her theology illuminate O'Connor's use of both narrative and non-fictional forms, and her Catholicism. The Introduction analyses how Weil's concept of superposed reading provides a new method of approaching both O'Connor, her writings, and O'Connor
studies, and focuses on how such apparently different women interconnect. Chapter One explores how both Weil and O'Connor attempt to write their theologies on the
souls of their readers yet are each subject to constraints imposed by form. Weil's concept of locating equilibrium between incommensurates is discussed, and her
distinctively philosophical approach to fictions and fictionality is used to investigate O'Connor's notion of prophetic fictions and the writer's role. Chapter Two assesses how both writers revivify Christian paradoxes. Weil's monstrous concept of affiiction, and O'Connor's use of the grotesque genre to jolt secular man into an
awareness of the sacred are scrutinised. Chapter Three studies how both writers consider an encounter between God and man is possible through the action of grace. My Conclusion interrogates how Weil's work can deepen our understanding of O'Connor's writings, and examines how successful O'Connor is at realising a truly
Christian literature. I conclude that despite being a writer of powerful fictions, O'Connor can not be totally successful in her mission as writer-prophet because
ultimately fiction escapes orthodoxy
Microlinices benthovus Simone 2014
No full textbenthovus, Microlinices Simone, 2014 Microlinices benthovus Simone, 2014: 575–578 (figs 6A–J, 7A–H, 11A–C). Gastropoda, Naticidae Paratypes (22 spc): MZSP 105269. Paratypes 1 (15 spc): MZSP 105270. Paratypes 2 (16 spc): MZSP 105271. Paratypes 3 (7 spc): MZSP 105272. Localities: Brazil, Espírito Santo, off Itaúnas, Abrolhos Slope, 18°59' S, 37°50' W, MD55 sta. DC 73, 637 m depth, 27 May 1987; 1) 19°00' S, 37°48' W, MD55 sta. DC72, 950– 1050 m, 27 May 1987; 2) off Regência, 19°40' S, 37°48' W, MD55 sta. CB77, 790– 940 m depth, 27 May 1987; 3) off Itaúnas, Abrolhos Slope, 19°01' S, 37°47' W, MD55 sta. CB79, 1500–1575 m depth, 28 May 1987. Collectors: P. Bouchet, J.H. Leal and B. Métivier. Preservation: Dry. Remarks: Former MNHN, Paris. The catalogue number MZSP 105250 is mentioned twice in Simone’s (2014) paper, among the paratypes of M. ibitingus Simone, 2014 and M. benthovus. This duplicity was a mistake by the author: the latter is an erroneous designation and should be disregarded. The only valid paratype lots for M. benthovus are the ones shown above.Published as part of Cavallari, Daniel C., Dornellas, Ana Paula S. & Simone, Luiz Ricardo L., 2016, Second annotated list of type specimens of molluscs deposited in the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, pp. 1-59 in European Journal of Taxonomy 213 on page 10, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.213, http://zenodo.org/record/384012
Facies architecture of alluvial fan systems: insights from the Early Permian Orobic Basin (North Italy)
No full textThe Lower Permian continental succession of central Southern Alps (Italy) comprises a number of volcaniclastic facies, ranging from alluvial fans to playa-lake sediments, deposited in a narrow, fault-controlled basin (Orobic Basin, OB) under hot, semi-arid climate conditions. Such deposits are formally known as Pizzo del Diavolo Formation (PDV). Although most sectors of the OB have been the subject of a number of recent studies, depositional and evolutionary models have been proposed for its central part only. This work presents new data from the marginal areas and proposes a more detailed and integrated view of the articulated depositional setting of this 50 km long graben.In the north-western sector of the OB (Pizzo dei Tre Signori massif), wedge-shaped units of crudely bedded conglomerates (100’s of metres thick) grade downstream (south-eastwards and eastwards) into pebbly sandstones and interfinger with heterolithic deposits and dark mudstones. The eastern sector of the OB (Lago di Barbellino area), on the contrary, is characterised by thick coarsening-upward successions of dark mudstones, heterolithics and well-bedded coarse sandstones interfingering south-eastwards with massive conglomerates and amalgamated pebbly sandstones hosting isolated gravel-filled channels. In both areas, conglomerates are either massive, planar or cross-bedded and may be interpreted as mass-flows, poorly confined flows, or rarer high-energy channel deposits in a high-discharge, likely seasonal alluvial fan system. Amalgamated sandstones and thin-bedded heterolithic facies are characterised by the preservation of climbing, current and wave ripples, water-escape structures, mud-cracks, mud-chip lags, rare raindrop prints, burrows and vertebrate traces. These features suggest rapid vertical aggradation driven by sheet-flood events and the post- flood reworking in a floodplain environment and/or at the margins of shallow ephemeral lakes. Mudstone-dominated successions locally host continental carbonates (stromatolites, oncoids, groundwater calcretes), likely recording the recurring temporary development of relatively long-lasting palustrine conditions.The new data (geological maps, stratigraphic logs, thin sections) have been integrated in the existing OB’s central sector model providing additional information about the distribution, geometry and facies architecture of its fringing conglomerate wedges, as a whole. Compositions of conglomerates and coarse sandstones clearly indicate different source areas for the alluvial fan systems of the two sectors. Conglomerates dominated by volcanic lithics (Val Sanguigno Conglomerates) typically occur at the southern margin, constituting a fairly continuous, mainly alluvial fan belt connected to extensive sandflats. At the northern and north-western margin, conglomerates are generally thicker and richer in quartz and metamorphic lithics (Ponteranica, Monte Aga and Val Vedello Conglomerates). There, compositional differences among individual fan systems may be evident, indicating the presence of heterogeneous sediment source areas with similar, but different, outcrops. In addition, in the northern conglomerate belt, debris flow deposits are common, which may indicate steeper gradients or greater margin instability. Finally, the northern conglomerates interfinger with finer grained floodplain or palustrine deposits not only towards the basin centre but also laterally (in some instances), suggesting they formed a set of locally non-coalescent fans
Was bringt die Föderalismusreform? Wahrscheinliche Effekte der geänderten Zustimmungspflicht
No full textThe recently enacted reform of German federalism is supposed to make legislation faster, more efficient and better. To what extent are these expectations justified? In order to assess the likely effects of the reform, this study uses a research design that was recently applied by the Research and Reference Services of the German Bundestag (parliament): we estimate the future effects of the reform by analyzing the impact it would have had on the legislation in the 14th and 15th term of the Bundestag if it had already been been in force at that time. In particular we ask: To what extent would the number of laws requiring the consent of the states' chamber, the Bundesrat, have been reduced? Which type of laws would have been affected by this reduction - the more controversial ones, or the less controversial ones? Which policy sectors would have seen the greatest reduction? How much would the reduction have increased the government's capacity to act effectively? Would the legislative process have been accelerated? -- Die verabschiedete Föderalismusreform soll die Gesetzgebung in Deutschland schneller, effizienter und besser machen. Inwiefern sind diese Erwartungen berechtigt? Zur Abschätzung der Reformfolgen auf die Bundesgesetzgebung folgen wir in dem vorliegenden Working Paper einer Vorgehensweise, die der Wissenschaftliche Dienst des Bundestages kürzlich in einer Studie angewandt hat: Die Auswirkungen der Föderalismusreform insbesondere auf die Zustimmungspflicht werden anhand der Gesetzgebung der 14. und 15. Legislaturperiode untersucht. Wir fragen insbesondere: Wie stark hätte sich der Anteil der Zustimmungsgesetze verringert, wenn die neuen Zustimmungsregeln schon in diesen beiden Legislaturperioden gegolten hätten? Wären eher zwischen Regierung strittige oder unstrittige Gesetze von der Zustimmungspflicht befreit worden? Welche Politikbereiche wären betroffen? Wie sehr hätte sich die politische Handlungsfreiheit der Bundesregierung erhöht? Wäre die Gesetzgebung durch die veränderten Zustimmungsregeln beschleunigt worden?
Idea ofiary u Simone Weil
No full textAutorka omawia ofiarę, jaką z samej siebie złożyła Simone Weil. Głównym celem autorki artykułu jest wykazanie, iż idea ofiary była najważniejszą myślą w życiu francuskiej filozof. W artykule ukazano myśl o ofierze w życiu i pismach intelektualistki, jak również analogie, które rzucają nowe światło na ofiarę Weil. Jako klucz do interpretacji i zrozumienia ofiary Weil, autorka analizuje myśl Emmanuela Levinasa oraz Józefa Tischnera.The author interprets the sacrifice that Simone Weil filed with itself. The main point of the present article is the assumption that the sacrifice Simone Weil was the most important idea of her life. A thought about the victim is portraying the article in the life and letters of the intellectual, as well as is portraying analogies which are shedding new light on the Weil victim. As the key to interpretation and understanding the her victim, the author is analysing the thought of Emmanuel Levinas and Jozef Tischner.Udostępnienie publikacji Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego finansowane w ramach projektu „Doskonałość naukowa kluczem do doskonałości kształcenia”. Projekt realizowany jest ze środków Europejskiego Funduszu Społecznego w ramach Programu Operacyjnego Wiedza Edukacja Rozwój; nr umowy: POWER.03.05.00-00-Z092/17-00
Complexity of geothermal systems in wedge-top basins: Insights from a 3D geological model of the Tertiary Piedmont Basin, NW Italy
No full textForeland and wedge-top basins host geothermal systems, in which the nature and architecture of reservoir units, heat sources, and fluid circulation result from a complex tectonic evolution. However, the relationship between tectonics and local geological processes (e.g., sediment dispersal and fracturing), is often not obvious in wedge-top basins, hindering the exploration of their geothermal resources. To investigate the multiscale tectonic-geothermal relationship, we focus our study on the Tertiary Piedmont Basin (TPB), a wedge-top basin formed on the Alps-Apennines junction (northwest Italy). The geometry and thermal structure of the region arise from the interaction between the Alps and Apennines, including processes such as slab break-off, mantle upwelling, and orogenic collapse. The basin fill is up to 6 km-thick and characterized by several unconformity-bounded clastic units, encompassing shelf to deep-water depositional
settings. Their spatial arrangement reflect major depocenter shifts and structural regime transitions. The presence of several thermal springs, local high geothermal gradients (>80 °C/Km), and moderately high surface heat flux suggest a deep groundwater circulation,
most likely within the highly fractured Alpine basement rocks. We present a conceptual basin-scale 3D model of the reservoir and overlying sealing sedimentary cover, implemented through the analyses and integration of different geological/geophysical data (e.g., seismic reflection lines, structural and petrophysical data), along with a synthesis of the main tectonic events that affected the basin. This model helps unravel possible heating mechanisms and circulation of the geothermal waters in the TPB and the applied workflow can be used on analogue basins to estimate their geothermal potentia
My life on the road: the exhilarating experience of travel
No full textVERSION FRANÇAISE ICI By Tiphaine Martin Researcher at Babel, University of Toulon, Member of the editorial board of Simone de Beauvoir Studies and author of a doctoral dissertation about Simone de Beauvoir's travels Translated from French by Marine Rouch (under the kind supervision of her dear friend Daniel Sawyer) I will begin with a brief criticism of the French edition. While the translation is very pleasant and captures Gloria Steinem's fluidity, humor and appetite for life, there is no..
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