INTRODUCTION Large-scale coastal development for land reclamation has been carried out on the Saemangeum coast of the southwestern part of the Korean peninsula by constructing a 33 km-long sea dike since 1991. This type of construction has an effect upon both the coastal morphology and tidal systems. After construction of the dike, changes in both tides and tidal currents have occured. The weak...

Moses Rock dike is a Tertiary diatreme containing serpentinized ultramafic microbreccia (SUM) located on the Colorado Plateau in Utah. Field evidence indicates that SUM was emplaced first followed by breccias derived from the Permian strata exposed in the walls of the diatreme and finally by complex breccias containing basement and mantle-derived rocks. SUM is primarily found dispersed througho...

Three new heteroleptic copper(II) complexes, [(tmen)Cu(dike)H2O]X where tmen = N,N,N',N'-tetramethylethylenediamine, dike = 2-acetylcyclopentanone anion and X= ClO4- (1), Cl- (2) and Br- (3) are prepared and characterized by elemental analyses, molar conductance measurements and IR and UV-Vis spectroscopy techniques. The complex 1 is fairly soluble in various organic solvents and demonstrates d...

Dike-pond is a unique agricultural landscape type in the Pearl River Delta region of China, which has significance for maintenance ecological balance. In recent years, urbanization China developed rapidly, and dike-ponds have been extensively occupied, reducing their regulation ability threatening regional security. Taking Shunde District Foshan as an example, based on remote sensing images fro...

The Wadi Dib magmatic complex is the oldest known alkaline ring complex in the Egyptian part of the Pan-African orogenic belt. Rb-Sr isotope data for seven samples suggest a Vendian age of 578=k16 Ma, and a 87Sr/S6Sr initial ratio of 0.7048±0.0010. The igneous complex has a diameter of 2 km and was emplaced within granodioritic Pan-African host rocks at the intersection of two faults. It shows ...

Figure 1. Relief map of island of Hawaii (after Moore et al., 1995) showing locations of dive sites (triangles, except dive 389, which is a square), locations of shield volcanoes (L—Loihi, K—Kilauea, ML— Mauna Loa, H—Hualalai, MK—Mauna Kea, Ko—Kohala), areas of recent Kilauea eruptions along south coast of Hawaii (u—Mauna Ulu, p—Puu Oo), rift zones of Mauna Loa (parallel lines), large, ca. 100 ...

We model the ascent and eruption of lunar mare basalt magmas with new data on crustal thickness and density (GRAIL), magma properties, and surface topography, morphology and structure (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter). GRAIL recently measured the broad spatial variation of the bulk density structure of the crust of the Moon. Comparing this with the densities of lunar basaltic and picritic magmas s...