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Le manteau neigeux de quatre glaciers de haute altitude (3000-3500 m) des Alpes francaises a été échantillonné pendant 3 saisons consécutives. En complément, un carottage de 13 m couvrant 3,5 années sur un glacier froid a permis de retracer la chimie de la précipitation annuelle. L'analyse des ions majeurs et des acides organiques par chromatographie ionique et par titration acide a permis d'équilibrer la balance ionique de la précipitation alpine. La neige alpine a un caractère légérement acide du essentiellement à l'ion nitrate et à la fraction d'acide sulfurique non neutralisée par l'ammoniac et les aérosols minéraux basiques. Les précipitations les plus acides reflètent l'influence des émissions de polluants des régions européennes les plus industrialisées. Les ions majeurs présentent des variations saisonnières avec un maximum d'été. Les arrivées de poussières sahariennes affectent de façon ponctuelle les hautes régions alpines, la neige étant alors alcaline. Ces poussières favorisent des réactions de neutralisation avec les composés atmosphériques acides augmentant ainsi leur dépôt. Les concentrations des acides organiques sont généralement faibles dans la neige alpine. La reprise de ces composés par les cristaux de neige est trés peu efficace du fait de leur réémission en phase gazeuse. Leurs sources sont principalement naturelles. L'ion fluoruré est présent dans la neige alpine au niveau du ppb. Au printemps et en été, les émissions de HF d'origine anthropique permettent vraisemblablement d'expliquer le bruit de fond de fluor observé hors événements sahariens

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Le milieu lagunaire formé par les étangs de Berre et de Caronte est né d'une ingression marine, vers 6000 av. J.-C. Si d'importants vestiges de l'Age de Fer et de l'Antiquité ont été mis à jour sur les rives de Caronte, aucun habitat n'a pu être identifié après l'époque romaine: Caronte n'est semble-t-il, au haut Moyen-Âge, qu'un lieu de passage et de pêche (présence de bourdigues, grandes nasses à poisson). Cet espace est néanmoins convoité par les divers pouvoirs locaux nés de l'effondrement de l'autorité publique, pour des motifs économiques (bourdigues), mais aussi militaires, Caronte et l'Ile formant la porte d'entrée de l'étang de Berre, et donc de la Basse Provence occidentale. La fondation de St-Geniès et du port de Bouc au XIIe s., de l'Ile-St-Geniès au XIIIe s., ainsi que de Ferrières et de Jonquières façonnent cette zone palustre : le centre-ville de la future ville de Martigues se dessine vers 1400. En 1581, la création de Martigues par l'union de l'Ile, Ferrières et Jonquières procure les bases d'un fort développement économique et démographique. La croissance de la cité s'effectue selon un modèle atypique, les phases de pression démographique induisant la création, par remblayage, de secteurs constructibles sur la lagune. Mais du fait de la faible profondeur de Caronte et de la concurrence du port de Marseille, Martigues ne peut suivre l'augmentation du tonnage des navires au XVIIIe s., et son économie connaît jusqu'à l'ère pétrochimique une longue atonie.

This study has collected and analysed a database of place-names containing potential ethnonymic elements. Competing models of ethnicity are investigated and applied to names about which there is reasonable confidence. A number of motivations for employment of ethnonyms in place-names emerge. Ongoing interaction between ethnicities is marked by reference to domain or borderland, and occasional interaction by reference to resource or transit. More superficial interaction is expressed in names of commemorative, antiquarian or figurative motivation. The implications of the names for our understanding of the history of individual ethnicities are considered. Distribution of Walh-names has been extended north into Scotland; but reference may be to Romance-speaking feudal incomers, not the British. Briton-names are confirmed in Cumberland and are found on and beyond the fringes of the polity of Strathclyde. Dumbarton, however, is an antiquarian coining. Distribution of Cumbrian-names suggests that the south side of the Solway Firth was not securely under Cumbrian influence; but also that the ethnicity, expanding in the tenth century, was found from the Ayrshire coast to East Lothian, with the Saxon culture under pressure in the Southern Uplands. An ethnonym borrowed from British in the name Cumberland and the Lothian outlier of Cummercolstoun had either entered northern English dialect or was being employed by the Cumbrians themselves to coin these names in Old English. If the latter, such self-referential pronouncement in a language contact situation was from a position of status, in contrast to the ethnicism of the Gaels. Growing Gaelic self-awareness is manifested in early-modern domain demarcation and self-referential naming of routes across the cultural boundary. But by the nineteenth century cultural change came from within, with the impact felt most acutely in west-mainland and Hebridean Argyll, according to the toponymic evidence. Earlier interfaces between Gaelic and Scots are indicated on the east of the Firth of Clyde by the early fourteenth century, under the Sidlaws and in Buchan by the fifteenth, in Caithness and in Perthshire by the sixteenth. Earlier, Norse-speakers may have referred to Gaels in the hills of Kintyre. The border between Scotland and England was toponymically marked, but not until the modern era. In Carrick, Argyll and north and west of the Great Glen, Albanians were to be contrasted, not necessarily linguistically, from neighbouring Gaelic-speakers; Alba is probably to be equated with the ancient territory of Scotia. Early Scot-names, recorded from the twelfth century, similarly reflect expanding Scotian influence in Cumberland and Lothian. However, late instances refer to Gaelic-speakers. Most Eireannach-names refer to wedder goats rather than the ethnonym, but residual Gaelic-speakers in east Dumfriesshire are indicated by Erisch­-names at the end of the fifteenth century or later. Others west into Galloway suggest an earlier Irish immigration, probably as a consequence of normanisation and of engagement in Irish Sea politics. Other immigrants include French estate administrators, Flemish wool producers and English feudal subjects. The latter have long been discussed, but the relationship of the north-eastern Ingliston-names to mottes is rejected, and that of the south-western Ingleston-names is rather to former motte-hills with degraded fortifications. Most Dane-names are also antiquarian, attracted less by folk memory than by modern folklore. The Goill could also be summoned out of the past to explain defensive remains in particular. Antiquarianism in the eighteenth century onwards similarly ascribed many remains to the Picts and the Cruithnians, though in Shetland a long-standing supernatural association with the Picts may have been maintained. Ethnicities were invoked to personify past cultures, but ethnonyms also commemorate actual events, typified by Sasannach-names. These tend to recall dramatic, generally fatal, incidents, usually involving soldiers or sailors. Any figures of secular authority or hostile activity from outwith the community came to be considered Goill, but also agents of ecclesiastical authority or economic activity and passing travellers by land or sea. The label Goill, ostensibly providing 178 of the 652 probable ethnonymic database entries, is in most names no indication of ethnicity, culture or language. It had a medieval geographical reference, however, to Hebrideans, and did develop renewed, early-modern specificity in response to a vague concept of Scottish society outwith the Gaelic cultural domain. The study concludes by considering the forms of interaction between ethnicities and looking at the names as a set. It proposes classification of those recalled in the names as overlord, interloper or native.