At fast spreading ridges such as the East Pacific Rise (EPR) volcanic eruptions are predicted to occur on a decadal timescale. Due to the limited ability to observe submarine eruptions, little is known about the magmatic processes occurring in the underlying magma chamber leading up to a volcanic event, including differentiation and magma mixing. The recent 2005-06 eruption at 9˚46’N-9˚56’N along the EPR provides a unique opportunity to gain a better understanding of rates of magma transport and magma replenishment associated with a typical eruption. This study examines the geochemistry of phenocrysts from the 2005-06 eruption in order to determine if they are in equilibrium with their host melt, or if magma mixing occurred prior to eruption. A diffusion model is used to model those crystals which are out of equilibrium with their erupted host to determine timescales of magma mixing. The major and trace element contents of plagioclase and olivine phenocrysts provides evidence for melts both more evolved (> 3.5 wt % MgO) and more primitive (< 8.8 wt % MgO) than those found within the host lava (7.7-8.3 wt % MgO; Goss et al., 2010). Glomerocrysts and resorbed crystals in equilibrium with evolved melts (3.5-6.5 wt % MgO) suggests an origin in a roof mush zone, and were disrupted and entrained into their host melt within days of eruption. Modelling of the zoning profiles of phenocrysts suggest the 2005-06 eruption was likely triggered by an influx of hotter, more primitive melt (~ 9.0 wt % MgO) which was injected into the melt lens a few weeks to months prior to the eruption. With decreasing time before eruption, there is an overall increase in the number of crystals with modelled timescales representing mixing events in the magma chamber. This increase in modelled timescales appears to correlate with the increase in seismic activity recorded prior to the eruption (Tolstoy et al., 2006). This suggests magma mixing events within the underlying magma chamber may be linked to seismic activity at fast spreading ridges. / Graduate / 0372 / 0996

Columnar jointing is a fracture pattern, best known from locations such as the Giant's Causeway, or Fingal's Cave, in which cracks self-organize into a nearly hexagonal arrangement, leaving behind an ordered colonnade. In this thesis observations of columnar jointing are reported from both a controlled laboratory setting, and in cooled lava flows. Experiments were performed in slurries of corn starch and water, which form columnar joints when dried. This drying process is examined in detail, and it is shown how desiccation leads to the propagation of a sharp shrinkage front. In general, but with some significant exceptions, the size of columnar joints is inversely dependent on the speed of this shrinkage front during their formation. The exceptions, which include sudden jumps in column scale, show that hysteresis is also important in choosing the column scale. Novel observations of the 3D structure of joints in starch show that columnar joints do not settle down to a perfect hexagonal pattern, but rather mature into a continuously evolving dynamic pattern. This pattern is scale invariant, and the same statistical distribution of column shapes applies equally to joints in both starch and lava. Field work was performed to study columnar jointing in the basalts of the Columbia River Basalt Group and the island of Staffa, and the more heterogeneous lava flows of Southwestern British Columbia. The widths of columns and the heights of striae (chisel-like markings that record details of cooling) were examined in detail, and these length scales are shown to be inversely proportional to each other. An additional length scale, that of wavy columns, is also first reported here. Based on these measurements, empirical advective-diffusive models are developed to describe the transport of water in a drying starch-cake, and the transport of heat in a cooling lava flow. These models have only a single scaling parameter, the Péclet number, which relates the fracture front velocity times the column size to the (thermal or hydraulic) diffusivity. In both cases, the formation of columnar joints occurs at a Péclet number of about 0.2. This model explains the hundred-fold differences in scale between columnar joints in starches and lavas, and can be used as a tool for the interpretation of joint patterns in the field.

Photocopy of typescript. / Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1978. / Bibliography: leaves 168-176. / Microfiche. / xi, 176 leaves ill., maps

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 44-45). / vi, 45 leaves, bound ill. (some col.) 29 cm

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1997. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [137]-147).

Thesis (Honors)--College of William and Mary, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-63). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1973. / Typescript. Includes abstract and vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 132-135).

Zugl.: Berlin, Freie Universiẗat, Diss.

Tradicionalmente, os estudos que tinham a exploração pecuária como foco, se limitavam a análise de seus indicadores produtivos e econômicos, ou seja, dava-se um enfoque parcial, setorial ou disciplinar. Igualmente, de um ponto de vista estático e baixo equilíbrio. Por sua vez, a exploração pecuária é um sistema aberto, submetido à influência de um entorno que denominamos ambiente, e que, gerido pelo pecuarista, persegue determinadas finalidades. Por conseqüência, a exploração pecuária é sensível a um amplo leque de fatores de natureza biofísica, sociológica, econômica e de políticas. Neste sentido, as explorações pecuárias como sistemas sociais, são dinâmicas, reativas ou evolutivas, o que significa que as características mais importantes aparecem ao longo do tempo. Por isso, o estudo dos sistemas pecuários requer a consideração explícita da dita variável, tempo. O presente estudo pretende dar resposta a seguinte questão: que mudanças aconteceram nas explorações pecuárias da região de Basalto como reação aos condicionantes do entorno socioeconômico, em constante mudança, mas também, dependentes de fatores e características internas a própria exploração? A região de Basalto, a mais extensa do Uruguai, correspondente a 21% do território nacional, é caracterizada fundamentalmente por estar associada a sistemas extensivos de produção pecuária de baixa produtividade e investimento, onde pastoreiam conjuntamente, bovinos e ovinos. A abordagem metodológica utilizada neste estudo baseou-se na comparação do processamento de informações correspondentes aos anos 1994 e 2008, utilizando como ferramenta, entrevistas dirigidas as mesmas explorações pecuárias da região de Basalto com áreas superiores a 200 hectares. O reconhecimento das mudanças ocorridas nos sistemas pecuários da região de Basalto, no marco das transformações recentes do setor agropecuário do Uruguai, é fundamental para explorar evoluções distintas da pecuária extensiva daquela região, apesar da incerteza a respeito das políticas agrárias dos condicionantes socioeconômicos. Os resultados encontrados sugerem a existência de fatores que ameaçam a continuidade das explorações pecuárias em longo prazo e, conseqüentemente, a sustentabilidade dos ecossistemas pastoris. Estes fatores são de natureza diversa: ambientais econômicos e sociais. / Traditionally, the livestock production studies limited the analysis to productive and economic results, which is to say from a partial approach, or from only one discipline. Also, they were done from a static point of view and supposing a situation at equilibrium. However, the livestock farm is an open system, exposed the influence of its environment, and managed by livestock farmers who have certain purposes. Consequently, the cattle operation is sensible to an ample variety of factors of biophysical, sociological, economic, and ecological nature and also to policies. In this sense, the cattle operations like social systems are dynamic, reactive or adaptive, which means that the most important characteristics appear on the long time. For this reason, the study of the cattle systems requires the explicit consideration this variable, time. The present study tries to give answer to the following question: What changes arose in the cattle operations of the Basalt reacting to the conditions of the socio-economic environment in constant change, but also depending on the own operation internal factors and characteristics? The Region of the Basalt, the most extensive of Uruguay, 21% of the national territory, has been characterized essentially as having extensive systems of cattle production of low productivity and investment; where bovine and ovine graze simultaneously. The methodological approach in this study is based on the comparison of information corresponding to years 1994 and 2008, from the same sample of farms - of the Region of the Basalt with surfaces majors to the 200 hectares -. The data of the changes occurred in the cattle systems of the Basalt Region within the framework of the recent transformations of the farming sector of Uruguay, is fundamental to explore extensive cattle ranch different evolutions, in presence of the uncertainty with respect to the agrarian policies and to the socio-economic conditions. The results suggest the existence of factors that threaten the continuity of the cattle operations in the long term, and therefore, the sustainability of the pastoral ecosystems. These factors are of diverse nature: environmental, economic and social.

xviii, 264 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number. / This dissertation examines the role of stone tool production as a strategic resource in the development of chiefly authority in prehistoric Samoa. The evolution of Polynesia's complex chiefly systems is a long standing issue in anthropology, and prior archaeological research has identified that specialized goods were a significant factor in the elevation of elite status in many Polynesian contexts. Before Western contact, Samoa was a stratified chiefdom with leaders claiming exclusive privileges and participating in an extensive trade network within the Fiji-West Polynesian region during the Traditional Samoan period (c. A.D. 300-1700). However, Samoa's political structure was quite different in the earlier Polynesian Plainware period (c. 500 B.C.-A.D. 300). Archaeologists, with the aid of historical linguistics, have documented a simple hereditary system operating among small horticultural communities. To address this political transformation, I investigate coeval changes occurring in stone adze production recovered on Tutuila Island. Based firmly in the theoretical perspective of political economy, I ask three inter-related questions in my dissertation: were adze specialists present in ancient Samoa; if so, what was their connection to chiefly prerogatives; and what further relationship did these adze producers have with Samoa's emerging elite? To answer these questions, I utilize mass flake analysis and typological classifications to document technological and spatial changes in stone tool production. I also employ settlement studies and geochemical characterization to chart how leaders managed and controlled raw materials, as well as the distribution of basalt adzes in exchange networks. From my research, I record numerous nucleated workshops of adze specialization on Tutuila dating as far back as 800 years ago. As a new form of economic organization, these adze specialists acted as catalysts for increased political complexity and stratified authority. In addition, I trace how Samoan elites used their bourgeoning authority in restricting access to basalt sources and the distribution of the finished products during this same time period. In the larger Samoan political economy, I conclude that Tutuilan chiefs, located in an otherwise economically-impoverished island, utilized these newly-developed adze specialists and high-quality basalt as strategic resources for accumulating material surplus in prestige competition. / Adviser: William S. Ayres