Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD AGU and the Geochemical Society
Résumé : International audience
New magnetotelluric and receiver transfer function studies provide insights from the upper to the lower crust of the eastern Betic Cordillera, which is deformed by large folds, normal faults, and a major transcurrent left-lateral fault, the Carboneras Fault Zone (CFZ). Receiver function analysis determines a NNW dipping Moho reaching 20 degrees that increases in depth, from 20 km south of the CFZ up to 34 km in the Sierra de Los Filabres. In addition, seismic discontinuities determined in the upper crust are interpreted as major contacts between metamorphic complexes that are detached and folded. The MT inversion model reveals a conductive zone, also representing a crustal seismic discontinuity, associated with the Alpujarride/Nevado-Filabride contact and fitting the N vergent geometry of the Sierra Alhamilla antiform. A small flexure at Moho coincides with the CFZ, as revealed by the Bouguer anomaly trend, in agreement with the receiver function results. Moreover, the Bahr strike and tipper angle at the stations placed closest to the CFZ clearly reveal the continuity of the CFZ at least down to approximately 15 km in depth, crossing all the detected crustal discontinuities up to the Moho. The lack of a clear Moho offset associated with the Carboneras Fault supports the idea that some large strike-slip faults tend to accommodate the deformation by a broadening fault zone at lower crustal levels. Its nucleation could occur at the base of a thin crust, where melting processes critically reduced the lithospheric strength during the late Miocene, to then propagate upward, reaching the topographic surface. Northward, the lithosphere comprised moderately larger strength, and the crustal discontinuities favored the development of larger folds with kilometric amplitude instead of strike-slip faults since the late Miocene.
ISSN: 1525-2027

hal-00671024
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00671024
DOI : 10.1029/2010GC003274

Éditeur(s) : The American Asscoiation of Petroleum Geologists
Résumé : Several marine geophysical profiles off the southern part of the Niger delta reveal the presence of diapiric structures beneath the continental slope and rise. The origin of the diapiric material appears to be deep in the sedimentary section and is believed to be of Aptian-Albian age. If this hypothesis is correct, the presence of evaporite basins, known between angola and Gabon, can be extended as far north as the Niger delta. [NOT CONTROLLED OCR]
The American Asscoiation of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin (The American Asscoiation of Petroleum Geologists), 1973-09 , Vol. 57 , N. 9 , P. 1672-1678

Droits : The American Asscoiation of Petroleum Geologists
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/1973/publication-5119.pdf
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/5119/

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : International audience
Continental erosion and weathering destroy parts of the stratigraphic record. Analyses of the sedimentary filling of paleokarsts help completing the geological record of regions that have been submitted to post-depositional, long-term, continental evolution. Jurassic carbonate platform of Languedoc (South of France) has undergone several karstification phases from Cretaceous to Neogene. Later incision of canyons through the carbonate massifs allows to observe paleokarsts over 400m depth, within the massifs. Paleokarsts are partly filled with sediments. Some have yielded marine bioclasts (echinoderms, radiolars), foraminifera and nannofossils; others are composed of polygenic detrital sediments, including sources from the upstream Paleozoic basement (Cevennes). The age of the filling of successive paleokarsts can be constrained by structural relationships and by biostratigraphy. These findings suggests 1) the marine elements of the karstic filling relate to a Late Cretaceous to Early Paleocene interval, while 2) the Paleozoic basement-sourced-sediments were trapped in the karst during Miocene to Present. Karstic sediment containing Early Paleocene foraminifera and nannofossils are found in paleokarsts cavities distributed across the entire thickness of the carbonate massif (≥350m). This requires base-level lowering and associated karstification, followed by base-level rise and karst filling of at least 350 m amplitude, respectively. The time interval corresponding to the occurrence of foraminifera and nannofossils in karsts covers 10 Myrs ; surprisingly, no equivalent marine sediments are preserved on the surface. In addition, analyses of the different forams species suggests several (up to 3) distinct karstification and marine filling cycles. Finally, sedimentological facies analysis of the karst filling reveals the following succession of processes: low energy settling of mudstone, high energy reworking, transport and deposition of silts and sandstones within the karst system. Integration of geological, paleontological and sedimentological data, leads to a polyphase scenario in response to repeated base-level variations, more than 350m amplitude. Such an amplitude excludes eustacy, and the improbable repeated sequence of uplift and subsidence rules out tectonics, as driving forces for base-level change, respectively. We propose that the high-amplitude base-level changes results from a succession of desiccation-flooding events of an endorheic, silled, basin during Early Paleogene. The later detrital assemblage sourced in the Cevennes occurs on perched paleosurfaces and in karst cavities across the whole 350m-deep canyon walls. When found on paleosurfaces, they correspond to the south-flowing Early Miocene fluvial drainage, and can be correlated downstream with the marine, well dated, Early Miocene, sediments. When found within the karst cavities, they correspond to successive base-level surfaces connected to the progressive incision of the canyon. This canyon incision is coeval with a Late Miocene uplift of the hinterland.
24th International Karstological School "Classical karst" : Paleokarst
Postojna, Slovenia

hal-01306683
https://hal-brgm.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01306683
https://hal-brgm.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01306683/document
https://hal-brgm.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01306683/file/Abstract_IKS.pdf

Éditeur(s) : Amer Geophysical Union
Résumé : In the Atlantic Ocean, the northward export of warm surface water is compensated by a southward flow of cold North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW). The NADW is transported southward along the American continental margin within the Deep Western Boundary Current (DWBC). Some tracer and float observations have shown that part of the DWBC water flows eastward along the equator. Here we present three meridional velocity sections which give an instantaneous image of the top-to-bottom zonal circulation along the equatorial Atlantic. They reveal the presence of Equatorial Deep Jets (EDJs) between 1 degrees 30'N and 1 degrees 30'S, alternating eastward-westward currents with short vertical scale, surrounded by columns of eastward currents (the Extra Equatorial Jets or EEJs) at 2 degreesN and 2 degreesS. In addition to direct velocity measurements, tracer distributions give indications of water-mass feeding of the EDJs and EEJs by the DWBC.
Geophysical Research Letters (0094-8276) (Amer Geophysical Union), 2001-03 , Vol. 28 , N. 5 , P. 819-822

Droits : 2001 AGU
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/10369/9567.pdf
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/10369/

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : International audience
This study provides new Ar-40/Ar-39 geochronological constraints on the age of the Alpine tectonics in the Aspromonte Massif (southern part of the Calabrian-Peloritan belt). This massif exposes the upper units of the Calabride Complex which originated from the European continental margin. The Calabride Complex was incorporated in the Alpine orogenic wedge and then integrated into the Apennines and Maghrebides fold- and-thrust belts. Throughout the Calabride Complex there is evidence for a two stage tectonic history, which remains however rather poorly dated: Alpine nappe stacking is followed by extensional reworking along the former thrust contacts or along new detachment surfaces. Our new ages suggest that exhumation of the uppermost units, which accompanied nappe stacking, probably started at 45 Ma and that the deepest units were almost completely exhumed at 33 Ma. This kinematics probably corresponds to syn-orogenic extension while the end of exhumation is clearly related to the extensional tectonics dated at 28.6 Ma along detachment structures.;Our geochronological data reveal a very short lag time between accretional and extensional processes in this part of the Mediterranean Alpine orogenic belt. The direction of extension, when the units are restored to their initial position (i.e. before the opening of the Western Mediterranean basins and the bending of the arc) is NNE-SSW. Such a direction does not fit with the eastward slab-retreat model generally put forward to explain extension in the Western Mediterranean. In contrast, we provide evidence for roughly N-S middle Oligocene extension in the accretionary prism, not previously described in this part of the Mediterranean domain.
ISSN: 0024-4937

hal-00475649
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00475649
DOI : 10.1016/j.lithos.2009.10.011

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : International audience
We have performed tri-axial compression experiments on olivine aggregates at 900 °C and at a confining pressure of 300 MPa in a high-resolution gas-medium mechanical testing apparatus. Deformation at two different constant strain rates (1.1 × 10− 5 s− 1 and 3.4 × 10− 4 s− 1) yields continuous hardening, reaching maximal differential stresses of 930 and 1076 MPa, respectively, before sample failure at ca. 10% strain. The deformed samples were characterized by electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Crystallographic preferred orientations (CPO) are weak but reveal an alignment of the [010] axes around the compression direction and some concentration of [001] and [100] axes normal to it. TEM observations confirm plastic deformation by dislocation glide, with both [001] and [100] Burgers vectors. Electron tomography, performed for the first time on deformed fined-grained olivine, shows that [001] dislocations glide extensively on {110} and {130} planes, in complement to the (010) and (100) glide planes often reported at high temperatures. [100] dislocations glide mostly on (010), but {011} and {041} planes are also activated. The experimental CPO and relative activity of slip systems are well reproduced by viscoplastic self-consistent simulations in which all [100] and [001] slip systems have similar strengths. They are also consistent with olivine CPO from natural samples deformed at low temperature. Comparison of the present mechanical results to those obtained for olivine single-crystals at similar conditions shows that at low temperature (below 1100 °C) and high stress (> 300 MPa) polycrystalline olivine has a more complex mechanical behavior than single crystals. However, both datasets advocate for a much weaker dry mantle lithosphere than previously thought.
ISSN: 0040-1951

hal-01053513
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01053513
DOI : 10.1016/j.tecto.2014.03.022

Éditeur(s) : Elsevier Science Bv
Résumé : In this study, the Capbreton canyon head, just off the coast, is investigated using high-resolution multibeam bathymetry datasets, sediment samples and numerical modeling. The HR bathymetry analysis reveals a morphological connection between the longshore trough and the head of the canyon. The analysis of recent sediment samples shows a clear correlation between the sediment of the canyon head and that of the nearshore. Hydrodynamic modeling (a coupled wave-flow model) shows that for high-energy waves, the rotational nature of surf-zone circulation reverses and wave-induced currents have the potential to transport large quantities of nearshore sands toward the canyon head. All these arguments support the assumption that the canyon head captures a part of the sand transported by longshore drift. Over the 15 years of observation (1998–2013), time-lapse bathymetry shows that the floor of the canyon head and one lateral gully network experienced significant morphological reworking. In terms of hazards, despite this strong activity, the position of the canyon head and the profile of its longitudinal slope remained stable and appears as a comforting factor. However, the activity of unusual lateral erosions needs to be monitored.
Marine Geology (0025-3227) (Elsevier Science Bv), 2014-05 , Vol. 351 , P. 1-12

Droits : 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00180/29118/27524.pdf
DOI:10.1016/j.margeo2014.03.001
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00180/29118/

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : International audience
The present study is based on a set of lavas and crosscutting dikes collected by dives along detailed vertical transects on the northern flank of the western part of the Blanco Transform Fault, Northeast Pacific. The studied area consists of a small basin, the Western Blanco Depression (WBD), extending from the southern end of the Juan de Fuca ridge to a pseudofault trace 60 km eastward. The Northern Scarp of the WBD comprises a volcanic unit overlying a sheeted-dike complex. Major and trace element data, coupled with Sr–Nd isotope ratios, reveal a two-component mantle source, composed by an isotopically depleted matrix variably veined by more enriched material. One chemical group (NS2), indistinguishable from the other Northern Scarp samples on the basis of trace element data, has an unusually depleted isotopic composition typical of a nearly pure mantle end-member. Some cogenetic samples of the Northern Scarp have been used to constrain the differentiation modalities. Anorthite and MgO content profiles in plagioclase xenocrysts and phenocrysts reveal (i) the existence of H2O-bearing evolved melts in the mushy zones and (ii) the occurrence of mixing process between these melts and anhydrous mafic liquids. The hydration is supported by other petrographic features such as high magmatic fO2 values, calculated from Fe–Ti oxide pairs, and the presence of pyroxene inclusions in plagioclase phenocrysts. Mixing, consistent with the existence of Ni-rich ferrobasalts, is interpreted to be the consequence of the reservoir refilling by mafic liquids (Mg# = 70). These petrological and geochemical evidences are combined with the evolution of Mg# with depth to suggest a periodic open-system magma chamber evolution beneath the southern end of the Juan de Fuca ridge.
ISSN: 0024-4937

insu-00213426
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00213426
DOI : 10.1016/j.lithos.2007.06.009

Éditeur(s) : Université des Antilles Études caribéennes
Résumé : Las Rutas Alimentarias son itinerarios turísticos que ofrecen servicios y productos que permiten recorrer y explorar lúdicamente la cultura y la historia de aquellos alimentos embebidos de la identidad de la región que representan; conllevan sin embargo un propósito más profundo; exponer en primer plano el significado simbólico de los alimentos y mudarlos de facilitadores de la experiencia turística a recursos culturales de carácter focal.Desde una perspectiva menor las rutas alimentarias pueden categorizarse como un producto turístico pero su mayor potencial se localiza en el ámbito de las políticas agrarias; circunstancia que suele ser dejada de lado en el diseño de las políticas regionales debido a que turismo y agro transitan por carriles separados en la rutina intelectual que predomina en ambos sectores.Consideramos a las rutas alimentarias como un instrumento, con apariencia turística, que promueve el desarrollo rural a través del posicionamiento de los alimentos con identidad territorial.En América Latina, especialmente a partir del año 2000, han comenzado a promocionarse como rutas alimentarias (ó gastronómicas) productos turísticos con pretensiones de novedosos pero que sólo cumplen un rol turístico. En Europa y especialmente en Francia, la finalidad más importante de las rutas alimentarias –aunque sin formalizar- se relaciona más con la industria de la alimentación y con el desarrollo de marcas que con el turismo. En éste artículo se realiza un análisis comparado de las diversas estrategias de desarrollo de las rutas alimentarias; tanto las seguidas en América Latina como en Europa, confrontándose también para ambas regiones la fisiología de agregación de valor a través del vínculo Turismo - Denominaciones de Origen Protegido.
Les routes alimentaires sont des itinéraires touristiques qui offrent des services et produits touristiques qui permettent de découvrir de manière ludique la culture et l'histoire alimentaire des territoires en accordant une attention particulière à la signification symbolique des aliments et aux ressources culturels locales.Ces itinéraires sont le support d’une offre touristique construite autour des ressources du terroir. Bien conçus, ils peuvent participer au développement rural. Nous considérons les routes alimentaires (ou gastronomiques) comme un instrument au service du développement rural; les productions alimentaires, les ressources vernaculaires, la culturel sont au cœur du projet territorial.En Amérique latine, ces initiatives associant développement rural et tourisme, dans le cadre de routes alimentaires, se développement depuis le début des années 2000. Cet article propose une analyse comparative des diverses stratégies de développement pour les routes alimentaire, autour d’expérience sud-américaines, nord-américaines et européennes.
Food Routes are routes that offer tourist services and tourist products that reveal the culture and history of food in areas with special attention to the symbolic meaning of foods and local cultural resources.These routes are the support of a tourism built around local resources. Properly designed, they can participate in rural development. We consider the road food (or gourmet) as an instrument for rural development, food production, resources vernacular culture are at the heart of the territorial project.In Latin America, these initiatives involving rural development and tourism in the context of road maintenance to development since the early 2000s. This article offers a comparative analysis of various development strategies for road food experience around South America, North American and European
Argentine
Mexique

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urn:doi:10.4000/etudescaribeennes.3828
http://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/3828

Éditeur(s) : XXXIII International Symposium on New Species for Mediterranean Aquaculture, Alghero, 22-24 Avril 1998
Résumé : Mediterranean aquaculture development is now at a crossroads. The production of seabass and seabream has been increasing at a smart and constant pace for the last ten years. Nevertheless, it is still far behind the Northern European salmonid industry in terms of level of production, reduction of production costs and market internationalisation. Meanwhile, an in depth transformation of market conditions is ongoing in Europe which remains the main target market for Mediterranean aquaculture products. The most important issues are the soaring role of supermarkets in the distribution chain, the development of new processing techniques like pre-packed fresh fish, the growing importance of catering and the evolution of the consumer behaviour. Seafood consumer behaviour results from contradictory attitudes such as scrutiny of products' origin and farming process, research of the best value for money, desire of social image and need for easy to store and ready to cook fish. As in any other seafood industry, product differentiation has become a pre-requisite to fit consumer's demand and reach new consumers thanks to market segmentation. From a theoretical point of view, two kinds of differentiation have to be taken into account: horizontal differentiation basedon the diversity of presentations of the same quality and vertical differentiation based on a hierarchy of quality. Examining precedents in the poultry industry and salmonid industry make it possible to assess the potential role new species may play in product differentiation. In the case of Mediterranean aquaculture, an analysis of the market structure for fresh fish in France, Italy and Greece reveals two different ways of product differentiation: new well known species with a good image for connoisseur markets and standard quality fish provided by species with high growth potential for the mass market. In any case, particular attention has to be given to reputation, long term production costs and capacity to provide a large range of products. [NOT CONTROLLED OCR]

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http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/1998/acte-4008.pdf
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/4008/

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Wiley
Résumé : 1. Trade-offs among functional traits reveal major plant strategies that can give insight into species distributions and ecosystem processes. However, current identification of plant strategies lacks the integration of root structural traits together with leaf and stem traits. 2. We examined correlations among 14 traits representing leaf, stem and woody root tissues. Traits were measured on 1084 individuals representing 758 Neotropical tree species, across 13 sites representative of the environmental variation encompassed by three widespread habitats (seasonally flooded, clay terra firme and white-sand forests) at opposite ends of Amazonia (French Guiana and Peru). 3. Woody root traits were closely aligned with stem traits, but not with leaf traits. Altogether leaf, stem and woody root traits delineated two orthogonal axes of functional trade-offs: a first axis defined by leaf traits, corresponding to a leaf economics spectrum, and a second axis defined by covarying stem and woody root traits, corresponding to a wood economics spectrum. These axes remained consistent when accounting for species evolutionary history with phylogenetically independent contrasts. 4. Despite the strong species turnover across sites, the covariation among root and stem structural traits as well as their orthogonality to leaf traits were strongly consistent across habitats and regions. 5. We conclude that root structural traits mirrored stem traits rather than leaf traits in Neotropical trees. Leaf and wood traits define an integrated whole-plant strategy in lowland South American forests that may contribute to a more complete understanding of plant responses to global changes in both correlative and modelling approaches. We suggest further meta-analyses in expanded environmental and geographic zones to determine the generality of this pattern.
ISSN: 0269-8463

hal-01032415
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01032415
DOI : 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.02020.x

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Springer Verlag
Résumé : International audience
The Nile delta sedimentation constitutes a continuous high resolution (1.6 mm/year) record of Ethiopian African monsoon regime intensity. Multiproxy analyses performed on core MS27PT recovered in hemipelagic Nile sediment margin (<90 km outward of the Rosetta mouth of the Nile) allow the quantification of the Saharan aeolian dust and the Blue/White Nile River suspended matter frequency fluctuations during the last 21 cal. ka BP. The radiogenic Sr and Nd isotopes, clay mineralogy, bulk elemental composition and palynological analyses reveal large changes in source components, oscillating between a dominant aeolian Saharan contribution during the LGM and the Late Holocene (~4 to 2 cal. ka BP), a dominant Blue/Atbara Nile River contribution during the early Holocene (15 to 8.4 cal. ka BP) and a probable White Nile River contribution during the Middle Holocene (8.4 to 4 cal. ka BP). The following main features are highlighted: 1. The rapid shift from the LGM arid conditions to the African Humid Period (AHP) started at about 15 cal. ka BP. AHP extends until 8.4 cal. ka BP, and we suggest that the Ethiopian African Monsoon maximum between 12 and 8 cal. ka BP is responsible for a larger Blue/Atbara Nile sediment load and freshwater input into the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. 2. The transition between the AHP and the arid Late Holocene is gradual and occurs in two main phases between 8.4 and 6.5 cal. ka BP and 6.5 to 3.2 cal. ka BP. We suggest that the main rain belt shifted southward from 8.4 to ~4 cal. ka BP and was responsible for progressively reduced sediment load and freshwater input into the eastern Mediterranean Sea. 3. The aridification along the Nile catchments occurred from ~4 to 2 cal. ka BP. A dry period, which culminates at 3.2 cal. ka BP, and seems to coincide with a re-establishment of increased oceanic primary productivity in the western Mediterranean Sea. We postulate that the decrease in thermo-haline water Mediterranean circulation could be part of a response to huge volumes of fresh-water delivered principally by the Nile River from 12 to 8.4 cal. ka BP in the eastern Mediterranean. We propose that the large hydrological change in Ethiopian latitude could be a trigger for the 8.2 ka cooling event recorded in high latitude. Revel R., Colin C., Bernasconi S., Combourieu-Nebout N., Ducassou E., Grousset F.E., Rolland Y., Migeon S., Brunet P., Zhaa Y., Bosch D., Mascle J.,. "21,000 years of Ethiopian African moonsoon variability recorded in sediments of the western Nile deep sea fan", Regional Environmental Change,
ISSN: 1436-3798

hal-00836300
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00836300

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : International audience
The strength of the lithospheric mantle controls the mode of lithosphere deformation: the presence or absence ofa high strength brittle mantle respectively leads to localized or distributed rifting. However, first order geophysicaldata question the existence of such a brittle mantle. Here we use 2-D finite-element large strain modelling toquantify the impact of a ductile localizing mantle – instead of brittle – in triggering continental rifting. As a novelty,the mantle rheology considers the effect of grain boundary sliding during strain-induced grain size reduction,which may promote a significant strength drop and subsequent strain localization at low mantle temperature (<700-800°C). Our results reveal that such ductile localizing mantle implies varying modes of continental rifting thatmainly depend on both the amount of weakening in the ductile mantle and the strength of the lower ductile crust. Amedium to strong lower crust implies coupling between the upper crust and ductile localizing mantle, yielding tonarrow continental rifting. In contrast, a weak lower crust implies decoupling between the upper crust and ductilelocalizing mantle, giving rise to a switch from distributed faulting at incipient strain to localized faulting at largestrain. Ductile strain localization in the lithospheric mantle is therefore sufficient to trigger continental rifting,although a critical amount of weakening is required. Such ductile localizing mantle provides a relevant geologicaland mechanical alternative to the brittle mantle. It moreover provides a wider variety of modes of upper crustalfaulting that are commonly observed in nature.
EGU General Assembly 2014
Vienne, Austria

insu-01565161
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-01565161

Éditeur(s) : Université des Antilles Études caribéennes
Résumé : L’étude des représentations de la drépanocytose dans une population scolarisée de l’île de Marie-Galante (N=267), en Guadeloupe, est ici réalisée à partir du traitement des réponses à une question d’association libre qui s’inscrivait dans un questionnaire plus large. L’analyse des occurrences et des co-occurrences spontanément associées à la drépanocytose montre le flou qui entoure cette maladie dans la population étudiée, attestant d’une faible maîtrise des représentations biomédicales. Ce sont finalement le statut et la signification du sang, ainsi que la notion même de maladie génétique, qui paraissent mal assurés, car réinscrits dans l’univers des représentations culturelles et sociales liées à l’identité/altérité et à la filiation.
This paper presents a part of the results of a research on the representation on SCD (Sickle Cell Disease) among a schooled population living in Marie-Galante (Guadeloupe). It treats free associations of the respondents concerning SCD. The analysis of occurrencies and co-occurrencies spontaniously associated to the disease reveals the incertitude surrounding it, attesting thus of a small control of biomedical representations. The status and signification of blood, even as the notion of genetic disease, seem to be ambigious in their answers. They are in fact imbedded in the universe of social and cultural representations related to identity/alterity and filiation problematics.
Guadeloupe

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urn:doi:10.4000/etudescaribeennes.3684
http://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/3684

Éditeur(s) : ESA Publication
Résumé : Satellite remote sensing has emerged as an essential and necessary observing system to acquire global information about the state of the ocean. Complemented with in situ observing networks, the ultimate goals are to be able to make accurate estimates of selected key sets of geophysical variables, with the intention of either making operational predictions across time and spatial boundaries, or advancing fundamental knowledge through development of empirical relationships and theoretical models. For satellite oceanography, improvements are then constantly being sought in our understandings of the geophysical processes, the sensor physics, the electromagnetic and microwave properties and interactions at the complex air-sea interface. Challenges appear as unlimited as the variety of sea surface dynamics and boundary layer meteorological conditions with their broad range of spatial and temporal scales across the globe. To face these challenges, numerous efforts took places over the passed decade to build an ever-increasing quality, quantity, duration and integration of ocean observations. In parallel, simulation capabilities largely improved. All these efforts are then all critically calling for improved methodologies to better structure the wealth of information that is made readily accessible. This latter aspect is a very demanding new component for future multidisciplinary scientific research. Major innovations to consolidate sensor data repositories, to automate tailored queries, to extract, reveal and quantify relationships will then closely associate computer science developments and applied statistics with comprehensive theoretical and experimental thematic studies.
Proceedings of OceanObs'09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society (ESA Publication), 2010

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http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00029/14046/11241.pdf
DOI:10.5270/OceanObs09.pp.12
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00029/14046/

Éditeur(s) : Institut de Ciències del Mar de Barcelona, CSIC
Résumé : Acoustic and core data have recently been collected on the shelf break and the upper part of the slope of the south Aquitaine continental margin. They reveal the major role played by mass-flow gravity processes in deposit erosion and redistribution, modelling of the sea-bed, and transfer of sediment toward the deep-sea. The study region is bounded in the south by the Capbreton canyon. The northern area, which shows a smooth morphology, is characterised by small-scale deformations due to sediment creep or low-amplitude slide processes. The deformations are associated with mini listric-like faults that bound packets of sediments in which the deposit geometry is typical of constructional sediment waves. These sediment waves result from the interaction of depositional and gravity deformation processes. In the southern area, closer to the canyon, wave-like structures are still present but mostly of smaller size. They only result from gravity deformation processes without any evidence of constructional processes. In the vicinity of the Capbreton canyon, the shelf break and upper slope have a much more uneven morphology with sedimentary reliefs, escarpments and depressions directed toward the canyon thalweg. The depressions look like slide scars, and could be the result of regressive slides initiated at the top of the canyon flank. The age of the sliding event responsible for the formation of the depression observed today could be middle to upper Quaternary. Since their formation, these depressions act as conduits that channel the transfer of shelf sediment into the canyon, as demonstrated by the occurrence of a meandering channel on the sea-floor of one depression.
Scientia Marina (0214-8358) (Institut de Ciències del Mar de Barcelona, CSIC), 2006-06 , Vol. 70 , N. 1 , P. 89-100

Droits : 2006 Institut de Ciències del Mar de Barcelona
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2006/publication-3960.pdf
http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/3960/

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Résumé : International audience
It was in 1969, six years after the creation of the first sports fédération for the physically disabled in France, that regular ties with the Ministry of Youth and Sports began to develop. The aim of this article is to question how these ties affected the development of the movement towards the model of ‘classic’ sports federations. Between 1968 and 1973, data from the Ministry of Youth and Sports kept in the National Archives, along with information published in the federal press (crossed with accounts from persons with prominent roles d in disabled sports at the time), reveals a reorganization of the internal relations between managers (who are physically disabled people) and doctors (who generally come from the field of re-education). These new circumstances entailed their collaboration with another federal agent, who consequently became centrally important: the sports technician.
ISSN: 1743-0437

hal-01681359
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01681359
DOI : 10.1080/17430437.2016.1273610

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD American Geophysical Union
Résumé : International audience
Analysis of continuous seismic data recorded by a dense passive seismological network (Hi-CLIMB) installed across the Himalayas reveals strong spatial and temporal variations in the ambient seismic energy produced at high frequencies (>1 Hz). From June to September 2003, the high-frequency seismic noise is observed to increase up to 20 dB (relative to (m/s)(2)/Hz) for all the stations located along a steep 30-km-long narrow and deeply incised channel of the Trisuli River, a major trans-Himalayan river. The early summer increase in high-frequency energy is modulated by a 24-h periodicity where the minimum of seismic noise level is reached around noon and the maximum is reached late in the evening. A detailed study of seismic noise amplitude reveals a clear correlation with both regional meteorological and hydrological data along the Trisuli River. Seasonal increase in ambient noise coincides with the strong monsoon rainfall and a period of rapid melting of snow and ice in the high elevations. The observed 24-h cyclicity is consistent with the daily fluctuation of the precipitation and river discharge in the region. River-induced seismic noise is partly generated by stream turbulence, but this mechanism fails to explain the observed clockwise hysteresis of seismic noise amplitude versus water level. This pattern is better explained if a significant part of the observed seismic noise is caused by ground vibrations generated by bed load transport. This points out the potential of using background seismic noise to quantify in continuous river bed load and monitor its spatial variations, which remain difficult with classical approaches.
ISSN: 2169-9313

hal-00412170
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00412170
DOI : 10.1029/2007JB005034

Éditeur(s) : Université des Antilles Études caribéennes
Résumé : L’eau joue un rôle incontournable dans l’Histoire de la Caraïbe. Ainsi que le remarque Aimé Césaire, les premiers colons furent des aventuriers, des pirates qui traversèrent les eaux avec pour mission de violer la terre et ses hommes. L’océan fut ainsi le vecteur qui aboutit au premier génocide de l’histoire. L’eau abonde dans les écrits de Roland Brival qui sont marqués par la mémoire ancestrale liée au « passage du milieu ». Il présente aussi des personnages métis dont la subjectivité est imbibée des composantes de l’eau. Leur corps et leur identité deviennent un prolongement archétypique de l’élément liquide. Ils sont attirés par la mer qui appelle leurs multiples « moi ». L’eau les invite à conjuguer toutes les identités possibles contrairement à la vie terrestre qui leur impose un ancrage identitaire. L’article présente aussi l’eau comme élément complice dans les rencontres Les couples se retrouvent souvent au bord d’une rivière, d’une source, de la mer. L’océanique est ainsi un élément de prédilection pour les héros brivaliens et représente l’espace métis par excellence. L’eau, l’identité et le corps métis partagent la violence de l’histoire, l’entre-deux, le flou, la mouvance et l’impossibilité d’une fin. La métaphore filée de l’eau marque son empreinte dans des textes qui inscrivent la complexité de l’être métis
The water plays an inescapable role in the History of the Caribbean. As Aimé Césaire remarks, the first colons were adventurers, buccaneers who crossed the sea with a mission to rape the earth and its men and women. The ocean was a vector, which lead to the first genocide in history. The imagery of water is abundant in the works of Roland Brival: his novels are infused with the ancestral memory linked to the “middle passage.” He also introduces metis characters whose identity is infused by the components of the liquid element. Their body and identity become an archetypical extension of the water. They are attracted by the sea, which invites the multiplicity of self. The water enables them to “conjugate” all the potential identities unlike the life on earth, which imposes an identitarian anchoring. This article also presents the water as an accomplice in sexual encounters. Characters often meet by the river, the spring water, the sea, and the ocean. The water represents the ideal space par excellence for the metis protagonists. The hybrid body, identity, and the waters share the violence of history, the “third space,” the ever-changing and the unfeasibility of closure. The metaphors of water brand the texts of Roland Brival and reveal the complexity of the hybrid body and identity.
Martinique

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urn:doi:10.4000/etudescaribeennes.6348
http://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/6348

Éditeur(s) : Université des Antilles Études caribéennes
Résumé : L’article s’intéresse à la migration des Caribéens vers l’Éthiopie, et notamment celle des Rastafariens qui se définissent comme de « vrais Éthiopiens » et se disent « rapatriés » en Éthiopie. En dépit de leur nombre limité, ils n’en sont pas moins importants, car ils illustrent la persistance et les transformations des imaginaires et idéologies liant les Noirs du monde à l’Éthiopie ainsi qu’un pan méconnu des mobilités caribéennes qui, se dirigeant vers l’Afrique, se découvrent complètement à contre-courant.
The article deals with Caribbean migration towards Ethiopia, and especially the one of Rastafarians who define themselves as ‘true Ethiopians’ and ‘repatriates’ in Ethiopia. Despite their limited number, their experience is nonetheless important as it reveals the persistence and change in imaginaries and ideologies linking black all over the world to Ethiopia as well as unknown Caribbean mobility towards Africa, a mobility which is driven against the current.

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urn:doi:10.4000/etudescaribeennes.942
http://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/942