Periodico di Mineralogia Vol. 87, 2 settembre 2018

Periodico di Mineralogia Vol. 87, 2 settembre 2018

Author: Paolo Ballirano

Publisher: Edizioni Nuova Cultura

Published: 2018-09-28

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 8833651010

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Contents Gioacchino Tempesta, Carlo Porfido, Michele Bellino, Alessandro Monno, The “Exultet 1” of Bari: multi-methodological approach for the study of a rare medieval parchment roll · Abdullah Mahmoud Ahmed Kamel, Ahmed Abo El-yamin, Chemical and physical characterization of mortars and plasters from a Coptic paternoster: new excavation in the temple of Ptolemy XII, Sheikh Hamad, Athribis, Sohag, Egypt · Paolo Ballirano, Andrea Bloise, Carlo Cremisini, Elisa Nardi, Maria Rita Montereali, Alessandro Pacella, Thermally induced behavior of the K-exchanged erionite: a further step in understanding the structural modifications of the erionite group upon heating · Marilda Osmani, Aida Bani, Fran Gjoka, Dolia Pavlova, Peçi Naqellari, Edmira Shahu, Irena Duka, Guillaume Echevarria, The natural plant colonization of ultramafic post-mining area of Përrenjas, Albania · Fuat Yavuz and Demet Kıran Yıldırım, A Windows program for pyroxene-liquid thermobarometry · Shohreh Hassanpour and Ghahraman Sohrabi, Major-trace elements geochemical characterization, geochronology and radiogenic isotopes of Eocene magmatic rocks in Anique, Qaradagh pluton, NW Iran · Alessandro Pacella, Giovanni B. Andreozzi, Ingrid Corazzari, Maura Tomatis, Francesco Turci, Surface reactivity of amphibole asbestos: A comparison between two tremolite samples with different surface area


Trading Paintings and Painters' Materials

Trading Paintings and Painters' Materials

Author: Anne Haack Christensen

Publisher:

Published: 2019-07-08

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 9781909492714

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The papers in this volume were presented at the CATS international technical art history conference Trading Paintings and Painters' Materials 1550-1800 which explored international markets for paintings and artists' materials in the early modern period and their implications for artistic production. Questions central to these papers include: did preferences exist for artists' materials and paintings from specific geographical areas in particular places and if so why? How did the import of painting materials and artworks impact local production, connoisseurship and art theory? In what conditions were these artists' materials and finished artworks produced and traded in early modern Europe and beyond? The lavishly illustrated contributions in this volume deal with the above questions and shed light on different trades, products, countries and timeframes by combining a large variety of methods and sources, including visual analyses, written sources, pigment analyses and archaeological excavations. This fourth CATS Proceedings will be of interest to scholars and students, museum professionals, curators, conservators, art historians and conservation scientists.


Granite-related Ore Deposits

Granite-related Ore Deposits

Author: Alcides Nóbrega Sial

Publisher: Geological Society of London

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 9781862393219

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This volume brings together a collection of papers that summarize current ideas and recent progress in the study of granite-related mineralization systems. They provide a combination of field, experimental and theoretical studies. Papers are grouped according to the main granite-related ore systems: granite-pegmatite, skarn and greisen-veins, porphyry, orogenic gold, intrusion-related, epithermal and porphyry-related gold and base metal, iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG), and special case studies. The studies provide a broad spread in terms of both space and time, highlighting granite-related ore deposits from Europe (Russia, Sweden, Croatia and Turkey), the Middle East (Iran), Asia (Japan and China) and South America (Brazil and Argentina) and spanning rocks from Palaeoproterozoic to Miocene in age.


Copahue Volcano

Copahue Volcano

Author: Franco Tassi

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-09-21

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 3662480050

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This book provides a comprehensive description of the volcanological, petrological and geochemical features of the Copahue volcano, located at the border between Argentina and Chile. Scientific studies are limited for this volcanic system, due to its remote location and difficult access in winter. However, Copahue is one of the most active volcanic systems in the southern Andes. Monitoring the volcano's activity is of utter importance, as it provides means of existence for the nearby village of the same name, hosting the world's highest-located hot-springs resort. This book's aim is to present the current monitoring activities, and to describe future research programs that are planned in order to mitigate volcanic hazards. Special attention is therefore devoted to the social and industrial activities close to the volcano, such as health therapies and geothermal energy exploitation. In a special section, the Copahue volcano is presented as a terrestrial modern analog for early-Earth and Mars environments.


The Principles of Quantum Mechanics

The Principles of Quantum Mechanics

Author: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780198520115

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The first edition of this work appeared in 1930, and its originality won it immediate recognition as a classic of modern physical theory. The fourth edition has been bought out to meet a continued demand. Some improvements have been made, the main one being the complete rewriting of the chapter on quantum electrodymanics, to bring in electron-pair creation. This makes it suitable as an introduction to recent works on quantum field theories.


Anatomy of an Orogen: The Apennines and Adjacent Mediterranean Basins

Anatomy of an Orogen: The Apennines and Adjacent Mediterranean Basins

Author: Gian Battista Vai

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2001-10-31

Total Pages: 664

ISBN-13: 9780412750403

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This is the first book in English reviewing and updating the geology of the whole Apennines, one of the recent most uplifted mountains in the world. The Apennines are the place from which Steno (1669) first stated the principles of geology. The Apennines also represent amongst others, the finding/testing sites of processes and products like volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, olistostromes and mélanges (argille scagliose), salinity crisis, geothermal fluids, thrust-top basins, and turbidites (first represented in a famous Leonardo's painting). As such, the Apennines are a testing and learning ground readily accessible and rich of any type of field data. A growing literature is available most of which is not published in widely available journals. The objective of the book is to provide a synthesis of current data and ideas on the Apennines, for the most part simply written and suitable for an international audience. However, sufficient details and in-depth analyses of the various complex settings have been presented to make this material useful to professional scholars and to students of senior university courses.


Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 5

Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 5

Author: Giorgio Lollino

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-08-25

Total Pages: 1304

ISBN-13: 3319090488

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This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the theme of urban geology. Along with a rapidly growing world population, the wave of urban growth continues, causing cities to swell and new metropolitan centers to emerge. These global trends also open new ventures for underground city development. Engineering geology plays a major role in facing the increasing issues of the urban environment, such as: finding aggregates for construction works; providing adequate water supply and waste management; solving building problems associated to geological and geomorphological conditions; evaluating host rock conditions for underground constructions; preventing or mitigating geological and seismic hazards. Furthermore, this book illustrates recent advancements in sustainable land use planning, which includes conservation, protection, reclamation and landscape impact of open pit mining and alternative power generation. The Engineering Geology for Society and Territory volumes of the IAEG XII Congress held in Torino from September 15-19, 2014, analyze the dynamic role of engineering geology in our changing world and build on the four main themes of the congress: environment, processes, issues and approaches. The congress topics and subject areas of the 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes are: 1. Climate Change and Engineering Geology 2. Landslide Processes River Basins 3. Reservoir Sedimentation and Water Resources 4. Marine and Coastal Processes Urban Geology 5. Sustainable Planning and Landscape Exploitation 6. Applied Geology for Major Engineering Projects 7. Education, Professional Ethics and Public Recognition of Engineering Geology 8. Preservation of Cultural Heritage


Local Clusters in Global Value Chains

Local Clusters in Global Value Chains

Author: Valentina De Marchi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-28

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1351723995

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The international fragmentation of economic activities – from research and design to production and marketing – described through the lens of the global value chain (GVC) approach impacts the structure and performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) agglomerated in economic clusters. The consolidation of GVCs ruled by global lead firms and the recession of 2008-09 exacerbated the pressures on cluster actors that based their competitive advantage on local systems, spurring an increasing heterogeneity, both across and within clusters, that is still overlooked in the literature. Drawing on detailed studies of different industries and countries, Local Clusters in Global Value Chains shows the co-evolutionary trajectories of clusters and GVCs, and the role of firms and their strategies in organizing manufacturing and innovation activities in the context of ongoing technological shifts. The book explores the tension between place-based variables and global drivers of change, and the possibility for territories containing such clusters to prosper in the new global scenario. By adopting insights from the GVC framework and management studies, the book discusses how the internationalization strategies of firms create opportunities as well as constraints for adaptive upgrading in clusters. This book is of interest to both researchers and policy-makers who are interested in the dynamic sources of competitive advantage in the global economy.


Periodico di Mineralogia Vol. 87, 1 aprile 2018

Periodico di Mineralogia Vol. 87, 1 aprile 2018

Author: Paolo Ballirano

Publisher: Edizioni Nuova Cultura

Published: 2018-04-30

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 8833650367

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Contents Giovanna Rizzo, Salvatore Laurita, Uwe Altenberger The Timpa delle Murge ophiolitic gabbros, southern Apennines: insights from petrology and geochemistry and consequences to the geodynamic setting .. Mahboobeh Jamshidibadr, Alan S. Collins, Gabriel N. Salomao, Mozaniel Costa U-Pb zircon ages, geochemistry and tectonic setting of felsic and mafic intrusive rocks of Almogholagh complex, NW Iran Dario Di Giuseppe, Jordi Ibáñez, Massimiliano Melchiorre, Massimo Coltorti On the potential effect of micronized zeolites on seed germination: a prospective study Ali I.M. Ismail, Doris Sadek Ghabrial, Wael Abdel Wahab, Mahmoud Eissa, Alberto Cazzaniga, Chiara Zanelli, Michele Dondi Exploring Syenites from Ring Complexes in the Eastern Desert (Egypt) as Ceramic Raw Materials Daniela Mauro, Cristian Biagioni, Marco Pasero Crystal-chemistry of sulfates from Apuan Alps (Tuscany, Italy). I. Crystal structure and hydrogen bond system of melanterite, Fe(H2O)6(SO4)·H2O