Introduction: Study of the Martian crust by orbital spectroscopy and SNC meteorites has so far only recognized subalkaline volcanic rocks. However, Spirit rover measured high alkalis and low silica in picritic basalts on the Gusev plains [1,2], allowing the possibility that alkaline differentiates might occur. Isolated rocks having mildly alkaline compositions and distinctive spectra have now b...

Race Rocks is a small archipelago located just Southwest of Victoria, British Columbia in the Juan de Fuca Strait. An important Beacon for Coastal Navigation in this busy area is located on Race Rocks, which is also home to a stunning variety of marine mammals and birds. The Race Rocks site has become Canada's first Marine Protected environment and is now carefully managed by a group of interes...

Penicillium simplicissimum solubilized up to 80% of the titanium in granitic rocks but less than 2% of the titanium in basaltic rocks.

The carbonatite problem can be stated as follows: Are carbonatites genetically related to sedimentary carbonate rocks, or are they derived from a silicate parent material? The isotopic composition of strontium in 21 carbonatites and in several related alkaline rocks has been determined. The mean Sr87/$r86 ratio for the 21 carbonatites is 0.7065 + 0.0003. The Sr87/sr86 ratios of sedimentary carb...

Choice functions on tournaments always select the maximal element (Condorcet winner), provided they exist, but this property does not hold in the more general case of weak tournaments. In this paper we analyze the relationship between the usual choice functions and the set of maximal elements in weak tournaments. We introduce choice functions selecting maximal elements, whenever they exist. Mor...

Compressed organic-walled microfossils attributable to five filamentous taxa, and ten coccoidal eight, (taxa originally spheroidal forms and two originally ellipsoidal, colonial forms), all having long time-ranges in the Proterozoic, have been identified in fine-grained siliciclastic sediments in cores from four bore holes cutting subsurface equivalents of the Mesoproterozoic Conselheiro Mata G...

We study the dynamics of a radioactive species flowing through a porous material, within the Continuous-Time Random Walk (CTRW) approach to the modelling of stochastic transport processes. Emphasis is given to the case where radioactive decay is coupled to anomalous diffusion in locally heterogeneous media, such as porous sediments or fractured rocks. In this framework, we derive the distributi...

Major systems of northwesterly, northerly, and northeasterly trending recurrilig fractures or faults controlled emplacement of various units of the Iron Mask batholith. The batholith was emplaced in a high level volcanic to subvolcanic environment, comagmatic with Nicola volcanic rocks and coeval with part of the upper Nicola succession. The batholith intruded volcanic and sedimentary rocks of ...

Objectives: Our two primary objectives are to use Miniature Thermal Emission Spectrometer (Mini-TES) data to determine the mineralogy of the alteration coating on the target Mazatzal [e.g., 1], and to determine if there is mineralogical evidence for sulfate-producing alteration of Adirondack-class rocks. Secondary objectives include identifying any Adirondack-class exotics on the plains or on t...