Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD AGU and the Geochemical Society
Résumé : International audience
1] Recent statistical analysis by Lallemand et al. (2008) of subduction zone parameters revealed that the back-arc deformation mode depends on the combination between the subducting (nu(sub)) and upper (nu(up)) plate velocities. No significant strain is recorded in the arc area if plate kinematics verifies nu(up) = 0.5 vsub - 2.3 (cm/a) in the HS3 reference frame. Arc spreading ( shortening) occurs if nu(up) is greater ( lower) than the preceding relationship. We test this statistical law with numerical models of subduction, by applying constant plate velocities far away from the subduction zone. The subducting lithosphere is free to deform at all depths. We quantify the force applied on the two converging plates to sustain constant surface velocities. The simulated rheology combined viscous (non-Newtonian) and brittle behaviors, and depends on water content. The influence of subduction rate vs is first studied for a fixed upper plate. After 950 km of convergence ( steady state slab pull), the transition from extensional to compressive stresses in the upper plate occurs for vs similar to 1.4 cm/a. The effect of upper plate velocity is then tested at constant subduction rate. Upper plate retreat ( advance) with respect to the trench increases extension ( compression) in the arc lithosphere and increases ( decreases) the subducting plate dip. Our modeling confirms the statistical kinematic relationship between vsub and nu(up) that describes the transition from extensional to compressive stresses in the arc lithosphere, even if the modeled law is shifted toward higher rates of upper plate retreat, using our set of physical parameters ( e. g., 100 km thick subducting oceanic plate) and short- term simulations. Our results make valid the choice of the HS3 reference frame for assessing plate velocity influence on arc tectonic regime. The subduction model suggests that friction along the interplate contact and the mantle Stokes reaction could be the two main forces competing against slab pull for upper mantle subductions. Besides, our simulations show that the arc deformation mode is strongly time dependent.
ISSN: 1525-2027

hal-00412328
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00412328
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00412328/document
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00412328/file/arcayG32008.pdf
DOI : 10.1029/2007GC001875

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD MDPI
Résumé : International audience
Hand disinfection with alcohols-based hand rubs (ABHRs) are known to be the most effective measure to prevent nosocomial infections in healthcare. ABHRs contain on average 70% by weight of one or more alcohols. During the hand rubbing procedure, users are exposed to these alcohols not only through dermal contact, but also via inhalation, due to the physical and chemical properties of alcohols volatilizing from alcoholic solutions or gels into the air. Ethanol ingestion is well known to increase risks of several diseases (affecting the pancreas, liver, cardiovascular system…), but there is a lack of knowledge about the effects of exposure to other alcohols (including n- or isopropanol) via inhalation and dermal contact, despite the worldwide use of ABHRs. This work aims at discussing possible health effects related to unintentional alcoholization (via inhalation and dermal contact) from professional ABHR usage to suggest the need for more research in this area (but not to question the value of ABHRs). Based upon an average of 30 hand rubbings per healthcare professional per day, it can be assumed that a healthcare worker may be exposed to a maximum 5,500 mg/m(3) per work shift, five times above the recommended occupational time weighted average limit. Thus, in order to answer the question posed in the title, studies on spatial and temporal variability of alcohol emission from ABHRs in real world situations and studies on certain high risk individuals are needed.
ISSN: 1660-4601

hal-01122305
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01122305
PUBMED : 20948945
DOI : 10.3390/ijerph7083038
PUBMEDCENTRAL : PMC2954566

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD American Geophysical Union
Résumé : International audience
We present a 2-D Contact Dynamics discrete element model for simulating initiation and motion of rock avalanches, integrating hillslope geometry, Mohr-Coulomb rock behavior, pore pressure before avalanche triggering, and avalanche trigger. Avalanche motion is modeled as a dense granular flow of dry frictional and cohesive particles. On the basis of granular physics and shear experiments, we review some of the theories for the unexpectedly long runout of rock avalanches. Different causes are evoked, according to the strength (strong or weak) of the slip surface relative to the bulk. "Mechanical fluidization'' and "acoustic fluidization'' theories state that agitation of rock particles reduces frictional strength, increasing runout. Conversely, granular mechanics suggests that, as "shear-strain'' rate increases, granular material becomes more agitated, more dissipative, and more resistant. Another theory states that dynamic fragmentation of clasts creates an isotropic pressure that drives longer runout. In contrast, granular mechanics suggests that fragmentation may induce fluidization and strengthening of the granular material, while particle size reduction (among others) induces weakening of the granular flow and enhances long runout. Runout is also enhanced for column-like rock masses collapsing from steep hillslopes. Long runout may also be linked to thermal weakening mechanisms at the slip surface (e.g., thermal pressurization, and shear melting), which may lower drastically the shear strength. The model is illustrated with a hypothetical example of a rain-triggered avalanche, mobilizing shallowly dipping layers. Several phases are identified, including slope failure, avalanche triggering resulting from slip weakening, and avalanche motion in which rocks are folded and sheared.
ISSN: 0148-0227

hal-00420883
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00420883
DOI : 10.1029/2008JF001072

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : International audience
In boundary lubrication regime, friction reduction and antiwear processes are associated to the presence of additives in the lubricating oils or greases. These processes are due to the formation of protective tribofilms resulting from chemical reactions between the additives and the sliding surfaces, in the physico-chemical conditions of the sliding contact. Conventional antiwear additives mainly consist of transition metal organo phosphate or thiophosphates which present a remarkable efficiency in the case of contacts between ferrous alloys. In the case of non reacting surfaces, these additives become inactive. Recently developped lubrication strategies consist in the use of dispersion in oils of nano additives able to build the protective tribofilm in the sliding contact without reaction with the surfaces. Carbon fluorinated phases, due to their lamellar structure and their high chemical stability even at relatively high temperature (400°C) represent interesting candidates as lubricant nano-additives subjected to present friction reduction, anti wear and anti corrosion actions. This work presents the tribologic behaviour of some carbon fluorinated derivatives such as graphite fluorides, fluorinated carbon nanofibers, fluorinated carbon nanodiscs and fluorinated carbon blacks. The influence, on the tribologic performances, of the structure of the initial carbon phases, of the fluorination rate (0
World Tribology Congress 2013
Torino, Italy

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hal-00926514
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00926514
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00926514/document
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00926514/file/Delbe_9783.pdf
OATAO : 9783

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier Masson
Résumé : The Beni Bousera peridotite contains a diversity of pyroxenite layers. Several studies have postulated that at least some of them represent elongated strips of oceanic lithosphere recycled in the convective mantle. Some pyroxenites were, however, ascribed to igneous crystal segregation or melt–rock reactions. To further constrain the origin of these rocks, we collected 171 samples throughout the massif and examined their variability in relation with the tectono-metamorphic domains. A major finding is that all facies showing clear evidence for a crustal origin are concentrated in a narrow corridor of mylonitized peridotites, along the contact with granulitic country rocks. These peculiar facies were most likely incorporated at the mantle–crust boundary during the orogenic events that culminated in the peridotite exhumation. The other pyroxenites derive from a distinct protolith that was ubiquitous in the massif before its exhumation. They were deeply modified by partial melting and melt–rock reactions associated with lithospheric thinning.
ISSN: 1631-0713

hal-01468018
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01468018
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01468018/document
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01468018/file/chetouani.pdf
DOI : 10.1016/j.crte.2016.06.001

Éditeur(s) : Université des Antilles Études caribéennes
Résumé : Le débat théorique sur les migrations et la famille connait une ambivalence allant du postulat de la migration comme une logique « individualiste » et de distanciation de la famille à celui de la migration vue comme une stratégie de survie portée par le réseau familial. C’est dans le but de contribuer à ce débat que le présent texte aborde l’analyse du processus migratoire sous l’angle des stratégies déployées par les migrants « Hloua » de la côte béninoise. Quatre dimensions ont particulièrement retenu notre attention : la prise de décision, le financement et l’organisation du voyage, l'intégration dans le milieu d’accueil, et les rapports maintenus avec le milieu d'origine.L’analyse s’appuie sur les récits de migration collectés auprès de migrants de retour ou de membres de familles restés au village, ceci dans le cadre d’une enquête plus large sur la pauvreté et les stratégies de survie dans le milieu de la pêche artisanale (Avloh, Ayiguinnou et Agoué) au Bénin. Cette analyse de récit a été complétée par des analyses de type quantitatif sur la fréquence des recours pour l’organisation et la prise de décision, la fréquence de recours pour l’insertion résidentielle et professionnelle, et le montant des envois de fonds. Les résultats montrent la place centrale du réseau familial le long du processus migratoire depuis la prise de décision, l’organisation du voyage, le « confiage » de la femme et des enfants du migrant, à l’établissement résidentiel et l’insertion professionnelle dans le milieu d’accueil. Ce réseau organise et structure efficacement le phénomène migratoire en intervenant lors des étapes décisives. Cependant, une fois insérés, les rapports maintenus avec le réseau familial se limitent pour la plupart à une solidarité affective, caractérisée par des contacts téléphoniques ou transferts de message et quelques envois de fonds largement en deçà des attentes. Ce qui fait dire de plus en plus que le migrant diminue le capital social de la famille sans pour autant y contribuer de façon substantielle sur le plan financier : Un paradoxe qui pourrait bien trouver son explication dans les recherches futures sous une perspective dynamique des migrations.
The theoretical debate on migration and family is ambivalent. Migration can be seen from an “individualist’’ and distant logic of the family or, on the other hand, migration can be viewed as a strategy of survival for the family network. It is in the objective of contributing to this debate, the present article will analyze the migration process from a migrant strategy perspective, more specifically from the perspective of the “Hloua” migrants off the Benin coast. Four dimensions are of particular interest: the decision making process, the cost and organization of the trip, integration in the host community and the maintenance of relations with the host community. Within a large scale research on poverty and the strategies of survival of artisan fishing (Avloh, Ayiguinnou et Agoué) in Bénin, the present analysis is based on migration stories collected from returning migrants or from family members still living in the village. This story analysis has been completed with quantitative analyses on the frequency of the use of organization and decision making, the frequency of the use of residential and professional insertion, and the amount of remittances. The results show the central place of family ties during the migratory process from the start of the decision making process, the travel planning, the entrusting of the women and children of the migrant, to the residential establishment and the professional insertion in the host society. This network organizes and structures efficiently the migratory phenomenon by intervening during the decisive steps. However, once inserted, the connections maintained with the family network are limited for the majority to an affective solidarity characterized by telephone contacts or message transfers, and sometimes remittances sent back largely lower to the family’s expectations. This results more and more in the migrant diminishing the social capital of the family without always contributing in some substantially way on the financial side. A paradox which could find its explanation in future researches under a perspective of migrations’ dynamics.
Bénin

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urn:doi:10.4000/etudescaribeennes.5785
http://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/5785

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Springer Verlag (Germany) Springer Verlag
Résumé : International audience
Replenished axial melt lenses at fast-spreading mid-oceanic ridges may move upward and intrude into the overlying hydrothermally altered sheeted dikes, resulting in high-grade contact metamorphism with the potential to trigger anatexis in the roof rocks. Assumed products of this process are anatectic melts of felsic composition and granoblastic, two-pyroxene hornfels, representing the residue after partial melting. Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expeditions 309, 312, and 335 at Site 1256 (eastern equatorial Pacific) sampled such a fossilized oceanic magma chamber. In this study, we simulated magma chamber roof rock anatectic processes by performing partial melting experiments using six different protoliths from the Site 1256 sheeted dike complex, spanning a lithological range from poorly to strongly altered basalts to partially or fully recrystallized granoblastic hornfels. Results show that extensively altered starting material lacking primary magmatic minerals cannot reproduce the chemistry of natural felsic rocks recovered in ridge environments, especially elements sensitive to hydrothermal alteration (e.g., K, Cl). Natural geochemical trends are reproduced through partial melting of moderately altered basalts from the lower sheeted dikes. Two-pyroxene hornfels, the assumed residue, were reproduced only at low melting degrees (<20 vol%). The overall amphibole absence in the experiments confirms the natural observation that amphibole is not produced during peak metamorphism. Comparing experimental products with the natural equivalents reveals that water activity (aH2O) was significantly reduced during anatectic processes, mainly based on lower melt aluminum oxide and lower plagioclase anorthite content at lower aH2O. High silica melt at the expected temperature (1000–1050 °C; peak thermal overprint of two-pyroxene hornfels) could only be reproduced in the experimental series performed at aH2O = 0.1.
ISSN: 0010-7999

hal-01174139
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01174139
DOI : 10.1007/s00410-015-1136-5

Éditeur(s) : Cornerstone Printing Cornerstone Printing ( US Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, V.I. )
Résumé : For more information on this book and for copies, please contact the author: Elcia Daniel; P .O. Box 10685, St. Thomas V.I. 00801 and email: elciadan@yahoo.com
(Creation/Production Credits) Cover design by Denise Humphrey. Introduction by Howard A. Fergus KBE PhD, UWI Professor (retired).
(Biographical) About the author, from the book section About the Author: "Elcia Daniel was born on the island of Anguilla where she started her teaching career. She attended Teachers’ Training College in Antigua, and later moved to Montserrat to settle with her husband. She has taught throughout the school system, and was Head of the Language Department at the Montserrat Secondary School. She holds a Master of Arts Degree in Education from the University of the Virgin Islands, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with a minor in History from the University of the West Indies. Her present place of abode is St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands where she taught English at the Charlotte Amalie High School before retiring in 2007. She has had several poems and short stories published in Caribbean Journals over the years."
The digital file here is a promotional selection of the full volume. The full volume is available by contacting the author.

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978-0-578-10874-2
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00015948/00001

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : International audience
The Cerro del Almirez massif (Nevado–Filábride Complex, Betic Cordillera, SE Spain) is composed of antigorite (Atg-) serpentinite and chlorite (Chl-) harzburgite separated by a thin reaction front formed in a palaeo-subduction setting. These ultramafic rocks preserve unique prograde structures related to the pre- and peak high-pressure event (1.6–1.9 GPa and 680–710 °C). The oldest subduction-related structures are preserved in Atg-serpentinites: a penetrative S1 foliation and associated L1 stretching lineation that formed in a non-coaxial regime with a top-to-the-W sense of shear. This planar–linear fabric is crosscut by olivine ± Ti-clinohumite veins, formed during the prograde breakdown of brucite and pre-metamorphic clinopyroxene, which form a system of veins decimetres long. They record embrittlement processes due to the release of 6 vol.% of H2O associated with brucite dehydration. The growth of prograde olivine and/or tremolite porphyroblasts is syn- to post-kinematic in relation to the S1 foliation. Further reactions at higher temperature related to the complete breakdown of the Atg (i.e. Atg-out) are post-kinematic to S1. Prograde Chl-harzburgite is crosscut by sets of conjugate zones associated with grain-size reduction of olivine grains. These grain-size reduction zones are interpreted as brittle structures generated by hydrofracturing due to overpressure fluids in a compressional setting at low-differential stresses.Structures related to the exhumation process are mainly preserved in the metasedimentary host rock, where an S2/L2 planar–linear fabric developed within a shear zone dominated by a non-coaxial regime with a top-to-the-W sense of movement in a transpressional regime. Peak metamorphic conditions deduced for the schists are similar in pressure (1.3–1.9 GPa) but lower in temperature (560–590 °C) compared to the ultramafic rocks in contact with them, suggesting a major shear zone at the base of the ultramafic massif during D2 deformation in a right-handed transpressional regime.
ISSN: 0040-1951

hal-01172303
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01172303
DOI : 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.12.022

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : Differentiation of the Earth's mantle and formation of continental and oceanic crust occur principally through partial melting and extraction of basaltic melt. Among the mantle rocks occurring at the Earth's surface, as tectonically-emplaced massifs, abyssal peridotites or xenoliths, the harzburgites (< 5% clinopyroxene) are widely considered as refractory mantle residues left after extraction of a basaltic component. In contrast, the most fertile lherzolites (15% clinopyroxene) are generally regarded as pristine mantle, only weakly affected by partial melting. In this paper we present new convergent structural and geochemical data from the Lherz massif, the type-locality of lherzolite, indicating that the lherzolites from Lherz do not represent pristine mantle. Detailed structural mapping clearly shows that the lherzolites are secondary rocks formed at the expense of the harzburgites. Variations of major, minor and trace elements through the harzburgite–lherzolite contacts indicate that the lherzolites were formed through a refertilization process involving interaction of refractory, lithospheric mantle with upwelling asthenospheric partial melts. Combined with previously published indications of refertilization in orogenic peridotites, our new observations in Lherz suggest that most lherzolite massifs represent secondary (refertilized) rather than pristine mantle. Together with geochemical data on mantle xenoliths, this indicates that melt transport and melt-rock reaction play a key role on the rejuvenation and erosion of the lithospheric mantle.
ISSN: 0012-821X

hal-00406433
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00406433
DOI : 10.1016/j.epsl.2007.05.026

Éditeur(s) : Société Française d'Ichtyologie
Résumé : On the basis of geographical distribution and morphological analysis of the Atlantic Howella , two subspecies of H. brodiei have been established, H. brodiei brodiei for the IndoPacific and H. brodiei atlanlica for the tropical and boreal Atlantic. H. sherborni has been recognized as a separate species, probably distributed circumglobally in southern Ocean but presently recorded only from the South Atlantic, the central South Pacific and from off southern and south-eastern Australia respectively. H. b. atlanlica and H. b. brodiei are distinct by having 3 scale rows between the lateral line and the origin of the second dorsal fin, while H. sherborni has 4 scale rows there. H. sherborni is in geographical contact with the two subspecies while H. b. brodiei and H. b. atlantica are geographically isolated from each other. The new subspecies, H. b. atlantica occurs in the North Atlantic and the tropical South Atlantic. Specimens from 75 mm SL and longer, predominantly occur in the boreal areas, while specimens less than that length occur in the tropical areas respectively. A day and night bathymetric distribution and a size-depth stratification have been observed. NOT CONTROLLED OCR
L'étude de la distribution et l'analyse des caractères méristiques des Howella de l'Atlantique montre la présence dans les régions tempérées nord et tropicales d'une sous-espèce nouvelle, H. brodiei atlantica, et dans la zone tempérée sud de H. sherborni. H. sherborni, caractérisé par 4 rangées d'écailles entre la ligne latérale et l'origine de la seconde dorsale, est au contact, dans l'Atlantique, de H. b. atlantica et, dans les Océans Indien et Pacifique de H. b. brodiei; ces deux sous-espèces, isolées géographiquement, possèdent 3 rangées d'écailles entre la ligne latérale et l'origine de la seconde dorsale. Les exemplaires d'H. b. atlanlica mesurant 75 mm LS ou plus ont été capturés dans la zone tempérée de l'Atlantique nord et ceux de moins de 75 mm principalement dans l'Atlantique tropical et subtropical nord. Les différences de distribution bathymétrique, le jour et la nuit et selon les tailles, sont étudiées chez H. b. atlanlica et H. sherborni. OCR NON CONTRÔLE
Cybium (Société Française d'Ichtyologie), 1991-02 , Vol. 15 , N. 2 , P. 111-128

Droits : 1991 Société Française d'Ichtyologie
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/1991/publication-3769.pdf
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/3769/

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD American Physical Society
Résumé : International audience
Using contact dynamics simulations, we compare the effect of rolling resistance at the contacts in granular systems composed of disks with the effect of angularity in granular systems composed of regular polygonal particles. In simple shear conditions, we consider four aspects of the mechanical behavior of these systems in the steady state: shear strength, solid fraction, force and fabric anisotropies, and probability distribution of contact forces. Our main finding is that, based on the energy dissipation associated with relative rotation between two particles in contact, the effect of rolling resistance can explicitly be identified with that of the number of sides in a regular polygonal particle. This finding supports the use of rolling resistance as a shape parameter accounting for particle angularity and shows unambiguously that one of the main influencing factors behind the mechanical behavior of granular systems composed of noncircular particles is the partial hindrance of rotations as a result of angular particle shape.
ISSN: 1539-3755

hal-00594891
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00594891
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00594891/document
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00594891/file/Estrada2010ReSubmitV2.pdf
ARXIV : 1105.4418

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : Nonobstant leur diversité sur le plan linguistique et socioculturel, les contextes d'enseignement dans les départements et collectivités de l'outre-mer français présentent de nombreux points communs, et notamment la présence de plusieurs langues entrainant des phénomènes de contacts comme les alternances codiques (désormais AC). Ainsi, dans ces contextes bi et plurilingues, la question de la gestion des langues au cours des interactions didactiques est centrale et concerne tous les acteurs : élèves, parents, enseignants, formateurs, conseillers pédagogiques, inspecteurs de l'Éducation nationale... Si l'utilisation des langues régionales et de l'AC dans les situations d'enseignement a longtemps été interdite et considérée comme un manque de maitrise ou de respect, les travaux actuels tendent à considérer ces phénomènes comme des marques de mobilisation des ressources langagières et de construction de compétences plurilingues en vue de l'enseignement et de l'apprentissage de savoirs, tant dans les disciplines dites linguistiques (français, langue vivante étrangère, langue vivante régionale...) que non linguistiques (sciences de la vie et de la terre, histoire, mathématiques, éducation physique et sportive...). C'est pourquoi nous avons relevé, transcrit puis analysé des corpus de parole issus de situations d'enseignement aux Antilles et en Guyane françaises, afin d'analyser les AC en classe et de proposer des pistes de réflexion didactiques et pédagogiques, mais également éducatives, culturelles et sociales en contextes bi- et plurilingues.
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halshs-00978144
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00978144
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00978144/document
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00978144/file/anciaux-delcroix-alby2011_V_SHS.pdf

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : International audience
Regional-scale deformation taking place in a strongly anisotropic, yet homogeneous metapelitic protolith during an apparently single tectonic event was systematically investigated as a function of the distance to the main tectonic contact (i.e., the Filabres shear zone, a major detachment in the Betic Cordilleras, Spain). The density of C3' shear bands (or extensional crenulation cleavage) reworking the earlier S2 schistosity increases exponentially towards the contact, in parallel with the decrease in the size of the shear domains. Systematic variations in angles and shape ratios are also reported. Deformation and age patterns, however, suggest that this spectacular trend at least partly results from a progressive localization of the deformation through time. This fossilized shear strain gradient was thus produced somewhat diachronously. Such shear strain patterns nevertheless provide a mean to constrain the rheological properties for such weak lithologies and a mean to better understand crustal deformation.
ISSN: 0191-8141

insu-00545043
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00545043
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00545043/document
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00545043/file/JSGagardetal2.pdf
DOI : 10.1016/j.jsg.2010.11.011

Résumé : (Ownership) Received by the Rubenstein Library as a gift from Joaquín Zaglul, President, Publicitaria Contacto, Santo Domingo, D.R. in 2008
These coasters, bags, posters and other items were commissioned by the Dominican Navy and the United States Embassy in Santo Domingo, D.R. as part of a public relations campaign designed to deter sea exits.

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : International audience
This study reports petrostructural observations in the pargasite and phlogopite-bearing Finero peridotite massif (Italian Western Alps), which suggest that the pervasive foliation in this massif was formed by deformation concomitant with percolation of hydrous Si-rich melts: (1) diffuse contacts, but systematic parallelism between the pyroxenitic layers and the foliation of the peridotite (2) strong shape and crystal preferred orientations (SPO and CPO), but subhedral or interstitial shapes and weak intracrystalline deformation of the hydrous phases, (3) CPO, but interstitial shapes of the pyroxenes, (4) very coarse olivine grain sizes, which are correlated to the olivine abundance, and (5) elongated shapes, but weak intracrystalline deformation, and extremely weak and highly variable CPO of olivine. The pervasive deformation of the Finero peridotite occurred therefore under conditions that allowed coexistence of H2O–CO2-bearing melts, pargasite, and spinel, that is, temperatures of 980–1080 °C and pressures <2 GPa. The petrostructural observations suggest that the presence of hydrous melts results in accommodation of large amounts of deformation by stress-controlled dissolution–precipitation and advective transport of matter by the melts and in fast grain boundary migration in olivine. By consequence, it produces significant rheological weakening. Water contents in olivine are <4 ppm wt., implying limited contribution of hydration of olivine to weakening. In addition, the analysis of protomylonites composing the external domains of the shear zones that overprint the pervasive foliation indicates that the transition to melt-free conditions results in enhanced contribution of dislocation creep to the deformation. The associated increase of the peridotites' strength leads to onset of strain localization. The latter is not correlated to the local abundance in pargasite or phlogopite, implying that crystallization of amphiboles or phlogopite, even at concentrations of 25 vol.%, does not produce rheological weakening in the upper mantle.
ISSN: 0012-821X

hal-01667879
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01667879
DOI : 10.1016/j.epsl.2017.08.015

Éditeur(s) : Gauthier-Villars
Résumé : Archaias angulatus is a soritid species found in abundance on littoral intertropical carbonate platforms. In the margino-littoral euryhaline biotopes, wedged in the neighbouring littoral marine environment, lives a distinct but similar form: Androsina lucasi. As the latter cannot migrate by sea or be transported by birds or fish, it cannot have been derived phylogenetically from an ancestral species before colonizing this wedged habitat in space and time. Only the idea of a reiterated phenomenon of speciation induced by the environment from another littoral species (Archaias angulatus) can explain its noticeable ubiquity in margino-littoral biotopes isolated from one another but each in contact with the biotopes favoured by Archaias angulatus. This interpretation is reinforced by morpho-structural, taxinomic, biological and ecological data concerning these two taxa.
Oceanologica Acta (0399-1784) (Gauthier-Villars), 1994 , Vol. 17 , N. 1 , P. 33-41

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http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00098/20895/18509.pdf
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00098/20895/

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : International audience
Unusual high-pressure inner thermal aureoles are described from the Minador and Angico Torto epidote-bearing tonalitic plutons that emplaced into green schist-facies metasedimentary rocks of the Neoproterozoic Cachoeirinha-Salgueiro belt, northeastern Brazil. The foliated pelitic hornfelses display the mineral assemblage garnet, kyanite, staurolite, muscovite, biotite, plagioclase +/- quartz. Rare fibrolite is only found very close to the contacts. Hornfelses display steep mineral lineations and steeply-dipping foliations concordant with magmatic contacts. Leucocratic veinlets containing quartz, oligoclase, garnet, kyanite, staurolite, rutile and ilmenite suggest that limited melting conditions were reached very close to magmatic contacts (T >= 650 degrees C, P around 8 kbar). These high-pressure hornfelses form a few meters thick, rigid envelopes around the two plutons. Contrary to known examples of kyanite-bearing hornfelses that recorded high-temperature decompression, the nearly isobaric cooling down to ca. 450 degrees C is constrained by 3.20-3.30 Si contents of retrogressive phengites from both inner hornfelses and ductilely-deformed tonalite at the pluton margins. Isograds and bathograds are, therefore, apparently telescoped due to HP/LT shearing, possibly caused by subsequent differential vertical movements affecting these two solidified plutons. The unusual depth of emplacement of these syn-kinematic calc-alkaline plutons is explained by a tentative geodynamic model involving a pre-620 Ma-subduction setting.
ISSN: 0895-9811

hal-00424503
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00424503
DOI : 10.1016/j.jsames.2008.09.005

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD American Physical Society
Résumé : International audience
This is the first of two papers investigating the mechanical response of cemented granular materials by means of contact dynamics simulations. In this paper, a two-dimensional polydisperse sample with high-void ratio is constructed and then sheared in a simple shear numerical device at different confinement levels. We study the macroscopic response of the material in terms of mean and deviatoric stresses and strains. We show that the introduction of a local force scale, i.e., the tensile strength of the cemented bonds, causes the material to behave in a rigid-plastic fashion, so that a yield surface can be easily determined. This yield surface has a concave-down shape in the mean: deviatoric stress plane and it approaches a straight line, i.e., a Coulomb strength envelope, in the limit of a very dense granular material. Beyond yielding, the cemented structure gradually degrades until the material eventually behaves as a cohesionless granular material. Strain localization is also investigated, showing that the strains concentrate in a shear band whose thickness increases with the confining stress. The void ratio inside the shear band at the steady state is shown to be a material property that depends only on contact parameters.
ISSN: 1539-3755

hal-00523453
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00523453
DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevE.82.011303

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : International audience
We review the geodynamic evolution of the Aegea-Anatolia region and discuss strain localisation there over geological times. From Late Eocene to Present, crustal deformation in the Aegean backarc has localised progressively during slab retreat. Extension started with the formation of the Rhodope Metamorphic Core Complex (Eocene) and migrated to the Cyclades and the northern Menderes massif (Oligocene and Miocene), accommodated by crustal-scale detachments and a first series of core complexes (MCCs). Extension then localised in Western Turkey, the Corinth Rift and the external Hellenic arc after Messinian times, while the North Anatolian Fault penetrated the Aegean Sea. Through time the direction and style of extension have not changed significantly except in terms of localisation. The contributions of progressive slab retreat and tearing, basal drag, extrusion tectonics and tectonic inheritance are discussed and we favour a model (1) where slab retreat is the main driving engine, (2) successive slab tearing episodes are the main causes of this stepwise strain localisation and (3) the inherited heterogeneity of the crust is a major factor for localising detachments. The continental crust has an inherited strong heterogeneity and crustal-scale contacts such as major thrust planes act as weak zones or as zones of contrast of resistance and viscosity that can localise later deformation. The dynamics of slabs at depth and the asthenospheric flow due to slab retreat also have influence strain localisation in the upper plate. Successive slab ruptures from the Middle Miocene to the Late Miocene have isolated a narrow stripe of lithosphere, still attached to the African lithosphere below Crete. The formation of the North Anatolian Fault is partly a consequence of this evolution. The extrusion of Anatolia and the Aegean extension are partly driven from below (asthenospheric flow) and from above (extrusion of a lid of rigid crust).
ISSN: 0040-1951

insu-00715950
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00715950
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00715950/document
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00715950/file/Jolivet-Aegean_Tectonophysics-2012.pdf
DOI : 10.1016/j.tecto.2012.06.011