Abstract Carbonate platforms are built mainly by corals living in shallow light-saturated tropical waters. The Saya de Malha Bank (Indian Ocean), one of the world's largest carbonate platforms, lies path South Equatorial Current. Its reefs do not reach sea level, and all production is mesophotic to oligophotic. New geological oceanographic data unravel evolution environment bank, elucidating fa...

BACKGROUND Control of serum phosphate over the long term is essential in patients with end-stage renal disease. Six-month and 2-year extensions to a 6-month study evaluated the long-term safety, tolerability and efficacy of the new phosphate binder lanthanum carbonate. METHODS Patients who participated in a 6-month, randomized trial comparing lanthanum carbonate with calcium carbonate were el...

BACKGROUND Lanthanum carbonate (FOSRENOL®) is an effective, well-tolerated phosphate binder. The ability of lanthanum to reduce serum phosphorus levels to ≤5.5 mg/dL in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) was assessed in a clinical practice setting. METHODS A 16-week, phase IV study enrolled 2763 patients at 223 US sites to evaluate the efficacy of lanthanum carbonate in controlling ...

THIS PAPER REPORTS A METHOD for determining carbonate in carbonate-containing solids by means of the Van Slyke-Neill manometric apparatus, which is widely used for the determination of carbon dioxide in biologic fluids. The method is rapid, convenient, and quantitative, and it makes possible the determination of carbonate in solids by the average clinical laboratory without the purchase of addi...

The El Escorial marbles (Cushamen Metamorphic Complex) along with amphibolites form metamorphic septa within the permian granitoids of Mamil Choique Formation (261-286 Ma). metamorphism, determined in granulite facies migmatic gneisses cropping out 120 km southwest Escorial, occurs at 311 ± 27 Ma (CHIME method monazite). are calcitic (calcite > 95%, R.I.: 0.5 to 2.5%) and show 87Sr/86Sr valu...

Reef and temperate carbonate units alternate in the upper Miocene^Pliocene stratigraphic record of Betic basins palaeogeographically connected to the Mediterranean. Shallow-water coralline algal assemblages in temperate units differ in taxonomic composition from those in reef carbonate units. The difference attains the subfamily level since the temperate lithofacies are characterised by assembl...

Neutron diffraction with isotopic substitution has been used to investigate the liquid structures of propylene carbonate and glycerol carbonate. C-HO[double bond, length as m-dash]C hydrogen-bonding motifs dominate the local structure of propylene carbonate, giving rise to the formation of head-to-tail correlated chains of molecules. In contrast, glycerol carbonate exhibits a more disordered st...

Our previous research has demonstrated that dissolved organic matter (DOM) influences calcium carbonate mineral formation in surface and ground water. To better understand DOM mediation of carbonate precipitation and DOM co-precipitation and/or incorporation with carbonate minerals, we characterized the content and speciation of DOM in carbonate minerals and in the lake water of Pyramid Lake, N...

In this study, high-resolution seismic profiles and well data provided a good opportunity for better understanding the reefs carbonate platforms in Wan’an Basin, southwest of South China Sea, also valuable information oil–gas exploration reef reservoirs. Four evolutional phases, including initial phase, prosperous recession phase submerged are proposed according to our data. Early Miocene, few ...