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Press Release (1958-04-11) Tom Jordan
University of Minnesota, Duluth Branch. News Service. (1958). Press Release (1958-04-11) Tom Jordan. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/191908
Preserved Ross-age(?) root beneath the Transantarctic Mountains and origin of the thinner crust beneath the northern Wilkes Subglacial Basin
The Wilkes Subglacial Basin, in the hinterland of the Transantarctic Mountains, represents one of the least un-
derstood continental-scale features in Antarctica. Aeromagnetic data suggests that this basin was imposed on a
much earlier Ross age back arc region that developed along the former active margin of the East Antarctic Craton
(Ferraccioli et al., 2009, Tectonophysics). However, the deeper crustal structure of the basin and its relation with
tectonic evolution remains both disputed and poorly constrained. Here, we present new airborne gravity data that
reveal the crustal architecture of the northern Wilkes Subglacial Basin. Our gravity models indicate that the crust
under the northern Wilkes Subglacial Basin is likely to be 30–35 km thick, i.e. 5–10 km thinner than imaged under
the adjacent Transantarctic Mountains, and
15 km thinner than predicted from some previous flexural and pas-
sive seismic models beneath the southern Wilkes Subglacial Basin region. We infer that crustal thickening under
northern Victoria Land reflects Ross-age (ca 500 Ma) orogenic events and accretion, followed by partial preserva-
tion of the orogenic root since then, as opposed to reflecting the edge of a Mesozoic plateau, which has previously
been inferred to have occupied West Antarctica (Bialas et al. 2007, Geology). Airy isostatic anomalies along both
flanks of the Wilkes Basin reveal major inherited tectonic structures, which likely controlled the basin location and
hence support aeromagnetic interpretations of the Wilkes Subglacial Basin as a structurally controlled basin. The
positive anomaly along the western margin of the basin appears to define the tectonic boundary between the East
Antarctic Craton and the Ross Orogen, and the anomaly along its eastern flank is interpreted as reflecting high-
grade and denser rocks of the central Wilson Terran,e with respect to lower grade meta-sediments and magmatic
arc rocks of the western Wilson Terrane and Wilkes Basin region. Our forward models indicate that the crust is
5 km thinner beneath the northern Wilkes Basin, compared to formerly contiguous segments of the Delamerian
Orogen in south-eastern Australia. We put forward four possible explanations for the thinner crust we modelled
beneath the northern Wilkes Subglacial Basin: i) back-arc basin formation or orogenic collapse processes, coupled
with major crustal-scale tectonic segmentation within the Ross
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Delamerian orogens, ii) Jurassic to Cretaceous
intraplate extension in East Antarctica, prior to later break-up between Australia and East Antarctica, iii) major
glacial erosion within the Wilkes Subglacial Basin since East Antarctic Ice Sheet initiation, ca 34 Ma, or most
likely- iv) a combination of these tectonic and erosional processes and their associated isostatic response
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
We provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
We conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
We have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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