Éditeur(s) : Direction Générale des Travaux Publics Direction Générale des Travaux Publics ( Haiti )
Résumé : This collection of over 5,000 black and white photographs held by the National Archives of Haiti dates from 1918 to 1945. It contains images of public buildings before and after restoration, public works, monuments, and the visits of U.S. Presidents and other officials.
Haiti

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Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Wiley-Blackwell
Résumé : International audience
This paper aims to decipher the thermal evolution of the Montagne Noire Axial Zone (MNAZ,southern French Massif Central) gneiss core and its metasedimentary cover through determination ofP–T paths and temperature gradients. Migmatitic gneiss from the core of the dome record a clock-wise evolution culminating at 725 25 °C and 0.8 0.1 GPa with partial melting, followed by adecompression path with only minor cooling to 690 25° C and 0.4 0.1 GPa. Field structuralanalyses as well as detailed petrological observations interpreted in a petrogenetic grid indicate thatthe cover sequence experienced LP-HT metamorphism at <0.4 GPa. Apparent thermal gradientswithin the cover were determined with garnet–biotite thermometry and Raman Spectroscopy on Car-bonaceous Matter. High-temperature apparent gradients (e.g. 530 °C km1 along one transect) areexplained by late brittle–ductile extensional shearing evidenced by phyllonites that post-date peakmetamorphism. In areas where normal faults are less abundant and closely spaced, gradients of 20to 50 °C km1 are calculated. These gradients can be accounted for by a combination of domeemplacement and ductile shearing (collapse of isotherms), without additional heat input. Finally, thethermal evolution of the MNAZ is typical for many gneiss domes worldwide as well as with otherLP-HT terranes in the Variscides.
ISSN: 0263-4929

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insu-01290388
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-01290388
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-01290388/document
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-01290388/file/jmg12188.pdf
DOI : 10.1111/jmg.12188

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : International audience
The geology of the North Pyrenean Zone in the central Pyrenees allows for the observation in the field of theentire section of the Pyrenean rift, from the mantle to the crust and the Mesozoic cover (pre, syn and post rift).The good knowledge we have of the pre-Alpine history of the Pyrenees allows us to properly constrain the Alpinegeological evolution of the pre-Triassic rocks which record both Variscan and Alpine orogenic cycles.The mantle outcrop as kilometric to centimetric fragments of peridotite dispersed within a carbonate metamorphicbreccia. The study of peridotite serpentinisation shows several events of low-temperature serpentinisation, incontact with seawater. In some locallities, we can observe a mixture of fragments of variously serpentinizedperidotites. This suggests a tectonic context where fragments of peridotites from different structural levels weresampled more or less synchronously.The granulitic basement is characterized by a Variscan syndeformational HT event (300-280 Ma). So farwe have not found any trace of a Cretaceous HT event (> 500C). On the other hand, the basement is affectedby a regional metasomatism that began during the Jurassic and became more spatially focused with time until itwas restricted to the Pyrenean rift during the Aptien, Albian and Cenomanian. The talc-chlorite metasomatism(120-95 Ma) shows an evolution from a static toward a syn-deformation hydrothermal event, under a more or lessnormal geothermal gradient. Extensional deformation is recorded by the reworking of several inherited low-angleVariscan tectonic contacts, but also by dispersed high-angle extensional shear zones formed under greenshistconditions.The metamorphic Mesozoic cover of the basement massifs, which constitute the so-called Internal MetamorphicZone, is an allochtonous unit made of lenses of Mesozoic rocks enclosed into the breccia, whichlocally contains peridotite and basement clasts. The Mesozoic metamorphic carbonates show a first phase ofsyn-metamorphic (450-600C, P < 2 kb) ductile deformation, and subsequent phases of folding and fracturing.The datation of neoformed minerals give a 108-85 Ma time span for the metamorphism. We interpret this brecciaas an abandonment breccia which marks the emergence of the main detachment. The basal contact of the Mesozoiccover has a complex 3D geometry traced by Triassic evaporites. It corresponds to a major pre- and synorogenicpolyphased tectonic contact.All these data show a geometrically complex hyper-extended rift where the crust was not stretched under ahigh geothermal gradient but thinned by the tectonic extraction of relatively thin lenses and perhaps cut by highangle low-grade shear zones. The 3D geometry, as well as the strain records and the breccia lithologies stronglysuggest a non-cylindricity for the exhumation process, probably within a transtentional system
Geophysical Research Abstracts
Vienne, Austria

insu-01510371
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-01510371

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Bureau de recherches géologiques et minières
Résumé : National audience
Les tremblements de Terre sont sans doute l’un des phénomènes les plus catastrophiques associés à la dynamique de notre planète. Leur occurrence peut être associée d’une part au chargement lent et progressif des failles dû au mouvement des plaques tectoniques, mais également à la proximité d’autres séismes qui peuvent localement provoquer une déstabilisation du milieu. Les séismes sont classiquement interprétés dans le cadre de la théorie du cycle sismique (Fig. 1). La période asismique, correspondant au chargement séculaire des contraintes sur le plan des failles, est appelée période inter-sismique. Sa durée, entre 50 et 1000 ans, dépend du contexte géodynamique et notamment de la vitesse de chargement. La phase co-sismique correspond au séisme, i.e. à la phase de nucléation et de propagation de la rupture sismique. La période de temps associée est extrêmement courte et varie suivant les séismes entre quelques secondes à plusieurs minutes pour les méga-tremblements de terre comme celui de Sumatra en 2004 ou plus récemment celui du Japon en 2011. Enfin, suite à la rupture sismique, on considère une phase post-sismique qui correspond à un réajustement mécanique rapide du milieu qui peut s’effectuer sur plusieurs semaines, mois ou même années. La courte échelle de temps des observations sismologiques ou géodésiques (<100 ans) par rapport à la durée d’un cycle sismique (plusieurs centaines d’années) est un facteur limitant. Ainsi, aucun cycle sismique complet n’a pour l’instant pu être documenté.
ISSN: 0292-8477

insu-00913121
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00913121
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00913121/document
https://hal-insu.archives-ouvertes.fr/insu-00913121/file/geochronique_cattinetal.pdf