Age Determination 105038 Kawano, Y. & Yuhara, M. Chronological and isotope geological study of Cretaceous granitic rocks, upper reach of the Nakagawa river, Fukuoka Prefecture. J. Geol. Soc. Japan, 114, 218-230, 8 figs., 2 tables (in Japanese with English abstract), 2008. Cretaceous granitic rocks, consisting of Itoshima granodiorite and Sawara granite, are occurred at upper reach of the Nakaga...

The D’Entrecasteaux Islands of south-eastern Papua New Guinea are active metamorphic core complexes that formed within a region where the plate tectonic regime has transitioned from subduction to rifting. While rapid, post 4 Myr exhumation and cooling of amphibolite and greenschist facies rocks that constitute the footwall of the crustal scale detachment fault system have been previously docume...

A new dataset for the high-pressure to ultrahigh-pressure Western Gneiss Region allows the definition of distinct structural and petrological domains.Much of the study area is an E-dippinghomoclinewith E-plunging lineations that exposes progressively deeper, more strongly deformed, more eclogite-rich structural levels westward. Although eclogites crop out across the WGR, Scandian deformation is...

The complex interplay between depositional facies and diagenesis in dolostones presents numerous challenges for calculating petrophysical properties from wireline logs. Complex pore geometries and mineralogies control rock petrophysical properties, and equations for calculating porosities and saturations must therefore be tailored to specific pore geometry-mineralogy combinations. The complex m...

The hydraulic conductivity of aquifers is a key parameter controlling the interactions between resource exploitation activities, such as unconventional gas production and natural groundwater systems. Furthermore, this parameter is often poorly constrained by typical data used for regional groundwater modeling and calibration studies performed as part of impact assessments. In this study, a syst...

We show that inferences of competence based solely on facial appearance predicted the outcomes of U.S. congressional elections better than chance (e.g., 68.8% of the Senate races in 2004) and also were linearly related to the margin of victory. These inferences were specific to competence and occurred within a 1-second exposure to the faces of the candidates. The findings suggest that rapid, un...

Introduction: Ascraeus Mons is one of the three Tharsis Montes shield volcanoes that are aligned along a N40°E trend on the crest of the broad Tharsis Rise. Although largely constructed of volcanic deposits, each of the Tharsis Montes has a distinctive and unusual fan-shaped deposit extending approximately northwest on their western flanks. Three major facies have been identified within the fan...

The Sibari Plain (northeastern Calabria) shows a well-developed stair of late Quaternary marine/coastal terraces resulting from the interaction between sea level fluctuations and tectonic uplift. This paper (i) provides stratigraphic description terraced deposits Raganello Coscile rivers, (ii) assesses relative controls eustacy uplift on staircase formation, (iii) unravels morphosedimentary evo...