Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1930. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 40).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1966. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

In view of international digitalization and information trend, and to cope with the New 1-9 Curriculum education policy, the Taiwanese increasingly value information technology education development and methods. The researcher integrates Big6 information skills to school base curriculum with topic study process. A new teaching plan consisting two cycles is developed to test on a sample of 35 fourth graders. The researcher demonstrates the first cycle, and the students actively process the second cycle. The two-cycle teaching plan is to train students to utilize Big6 information skills in researches and promote students¡¦ capabilities of team work, demonstration, presentation, and critique. The researcher conducted and analyzed the data based on three sources consisting quantitative measuring tools, records, and reflections. Quantitative measuring tools include information technology usage investigation, information skill level self-check list, and deliberated comment tables. Records involve students¡¦ learning diaries, teacher¡¦s observant diaries and the teams¡¦ self-checked lists. Reflections engage teacher¡¦s and students¡¦ self reflections. The results of this research are as follows: 1. Big6 skills suit to harmoniously utilize in the two-cycle senior topic instruction program. 2. Applying Big6 skills in project-based learning promotes most students¡¦ learning in five areas including Big6 skills in research processes and study methods, topic-related information, research team work skills, information skills, and critically deliberating behavior. 3. Tested sample showed higher motivation in this process. 4. The researcher could acquire the growing expertise, which includes grasping the value of research, promoting the abilities of designing and compiling instruction program, enhancing the skill of applying and integrating the information technology, utilizing ¡§divided teams project-base¡¨ instruction model for research, and creating the students¡¦ accomplishment with accessing diversificately.

<p> intrusive Ultramafic sill of the Cape Smith-Wakeham Bay Fold Belt, located in the Ungava Peninsula P.Q., was studied. Measurements of olivine crystals were made on enlarged images of thin sections to determine the average olivine grain size and volume across the intrusion. </p> <p> The Bravo ultramafic sills exhibit a peculiar petrographic and chemical zoning, the rocks becoming increasingly rich in olivine as one moves toward the centre of the intrusion. Rock Compositions range from gabbro at the margin to olivine rich peridotite near the centre. The olivine grain size distribution exhibits n similar zoning, the grain size increasing toward the centre. However, the maximum value is skewed somewhat to the south along the edge of the central olivine rich zone, coinciding with the maximum value of Ns (Nickel in sulfides). </p> <p> The zoning is a consequence of flowage differentiation. Along the margins of the intrusion grain dispersive pressure (the pressure due to mechanical interaction between phenocrysts is dominant and grains are forced toward the centre. Within the centre of the intrusion, where the increased crystal concentration results in plug flow, the force of gravity is dominant and the largest grains make their way to the base of the plug. </p> <p> The Bravo Ultramafic Sills are pre-tectonic in origin being intruded into a group of eugeosynclinal strata in a sub-horizontal attitude. </p> / Thesis / Bachelor of Science (BSc)

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L'étude des volcans basaltiques a démontré l'importance de leur architecture interne et de leur système intrusif dans le déclenchement de déstabilisations. Découlant d'observations indirectes, les modèles élaborés demeurent néanmoins interprétatifs. À La Réunion, l'importante érosion du Piton des Neiges, en rendant accessible sa structure interne, en fait un atout majeur pour combler ces lacunes d'observation. Ce travail s'est focalisé sur le cirque de Salazie dans le but d'accroitre les connaissances de la structure interne du volcan. Nous proposons ainsi l'existence d'une chambre magmatique litée plurikilométrique située à l'aplomb du cirque de Salazie qui appartiendrait à un édifice plus ancien estimé à plus de 2 Ma. Cette chambre est recoupée par un détachement injecté de plusieurs dizaines d'intrusions basiques et surmonté par une brèche d'avalanche de débris. La déformation cataclasique des minéraux primaires des roches plutoniques du détachement indique que cette structure s'est développée dans le domaine fragile. Une déformation ductile postérieure de basse température (< 250 °C), caractérisé par une cristallisation de chlorite, pumpellyite, zéolite et de calcite s'est ensuite développée dans le détachement. Au toit de la pile de sills, des intrusions sont brèchifiés et disséminés dans la brèche. Une analyse du sill au contact avec la brèche montre l'existence d'une fabrique magmatique asymétrique révélatrice d'un déplacement co-intrusif de l'unité sus-jacente. Ces résultats suggèrent que les volcans basaltiques s'effondrent par déformation le long de plans hydrothermalisés et confirment le rôle majeur des sills dans la déstabilisation des volcans boucliers. / The study of volcanic edifices has shown that both the internal structure and the intrusive system play a role in the initiation of flank destabilization. Arising from indirect observations, the recent models remain interpretative. On Reunion Island, the exceptional erosion of the Piton des Neiges provides a rare access to the inner structure of the basaltic edifice that is propitious to bridge these gaps. Our study focuses on the plutonic rocks outcropping in Mât River (cirque of Salazie) in order to improve our knowledge of the internal structure of Piton des Neiges. Our study allows us to reveal the presence of layered plurikilometric magma chamber under the cirque of Salazie belonging to an edifice older to 2 Ma located to the NNE from the actual summit of the Piton des Neiges. The magma chamber is crosscut by a detachment intruded by tens of basic magmatic intrusions and overlapped by debris avalanche deposits. The cataclastic deformation of primary minerals in the plutonic rocks indicates that the detachment acted as a brittle zone. This is followed by a low temperature ductile deformation (< 250 °C) characterized by crystallization of chlorite, pumpellyite, zeolite and calcite in the detachment zone. At the top of the sill zone, sills are brechified and disseminated in the breccia. The presence of an asymmetric magmatic fabric in the intrusion in contact with the breccia suggests that this sill was emplaced with a normal shear displacement of its hanging wall. These results suggest that deformation of basaltic volcanoes proceeds along hydrothermalized detachments and confirm the major implication of sill intrusions in basaltic volcano flank instability.

O grande magmatismo intracontinental ocorrido a 133 Ma na Bacia do Paraná foi desenvolvido por um sistema fissural no qual a interação da Pluma Tristão da Cunha na base da litosfera (com ou sem contaminação crustal) gerou derrames, diques e sills no Brasil, nos Estados do RS, SC, PR, SP, MT, MS e GO, e em parte do Paraguai, Argentina e Uruguai. Na Formação Serra Geral, representativa deste intenso magmatismo, foram coletadas amostras de sills (RS, PR, SP e GO) cristalizados entre os sedimentos Paleozóicos pré-vulcânicos da Bacia do Paraná. Já haviam sido realizados diversos estudos geoquímicos a partir da década de 80 com objetivo de identificar as variações químicas de diques, derrames e sills da Formação Serra Geral. No entanto, a utilização de novas técnicas analíticas (EPMA e LA-ICP-MS), utilizadas no presente estudo, proporcionaram o entendimento das variações químicas de forma pontual em minerais ígneos. A geoquímica dos sills estudados caracteriza-os como sub-alcalinos toleíticos continentais que variam de basaltos a andesitos basáltico. Assim, podendo ser divididos em dois grupos químicos: sills do Rio Grande do Sul (baixo TiO2 < 2 wt.%, com concentrações inferiores de P2O5, Nb, Sr, Zr, Zn, Y e Pb e concentrações superiores de Rb, Th, U, e Cs) e sills do Paraná, São Paulo e Goiás (alto TiO2 >2 wt.%, de geoquímica oposta). Petrograficamente, os sills do RS possuem granulação mais fina, ocorrência restrita de cobre nativo e distribuição modal elevada para plagioclásios cálcicos, quando comparados ao sills do PR, SP e GO. A determinação geoquímica por micro-análise em plagioclásios e clinopiroxênios demonstra que as variações químicas identificadas em rocha total são relatas as modificações químicas ocorridas nestes minerais. Variações do coeficiente de partição (KD) de elementos traços compatíveis em diversas zonas de cristais de plagioclásio e clinopiroxênio possuem correlação na substituição dos elementos Ca, Na, Al, Fe e Mg nos sistemas NaAlSi3O8-CaAl2Si2O8 e Mg2Si2O6-CaMgSi2O6-CaFeSi2O6- Fe2Si2O6, respectivamente. Coeficientes de partição de cristais de plagioclásio e clinopiroxênio agora são determinados em diferentes porções de núcleo, intermédio e borda aprimorando o conhecimento da variação do KD até então determinado como um único valor apenas para o cristal. / The large intracontinental magmatism occurred at 133 Ma in the Paraná Basin was developed by a fissure system in which the interaction of Tristan da Cunha plume at the base of the lithosphere (with or without crustal contamination) caused lava flows, dikes and sills in the RS, SC, PR, SP, MT, MS and GO and part of Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay. In the Serra Geral Formation, representative of intense magmatism, sills crystallized samples were collected (RS, PR, SP and GO) between the Paleozoic prevolcanic sediments of Paraná basin. Several geochemical studies have been carried out since the 80's in order to identify the chemical variations of dikes, sills and lava flows of the Serra Geral Formation. However, the use of new analytical techniques (EPMA and LA-ICP-MS) provided the study of chemical variations in a timely manner in igneous minerals. The geochemistry of the sills studied characterized them as sub-alkaline continental tholeiitic basalts ranging from the basalt to basaltic andesites. Divided into two chemical groups: sills of Rio Grande do Sul (low TiO2 <2 wt.%, With lower concentrations of P2O5, Nb, Sr, Zr, Zn, Y and Pb and higher concentrations of Rb, Th, U, and Cs) and sills of Parana, Sao Paulo and Goiás (high TiO2> 2 wt.%, geochemical opposite). Petrographically the sills of the RS have finer grain, restricted occurrence of native copper and modal higher to calcic plagioclase, compared to the sills of the PR, SP and GO. Geochemical determination by micro-analysis in plagioclases and clinopyroxenes show that the chemical variations identified in whole rock we describe the chemical changes occurring in these minerals. Variations of the partition coefficient (KD) of compatible trace elements in various parts of crystals of plagioclase and clinopyroxene were correlated in the replacement of Ca, Na, Al, Fe and Mg systems NaAlSi3O8-CaAl2Si2O8 and Mg2Si2O6-CaMgSi2O6-CaFeSi2O6-Fe2Si2O6, respectively. Partition coefficients of crystals of plagioclase and clinopyroxene are now determined in different portions of core, intermediate and rim enhance knowledge of the variation of KD previously determined as a single value only to the crystal.

Mechanisms of sill and dyke intrusion require an understanding of fracture growth,stress distributions and intensities, dilation,intrusion rates, hydraulic pressure,host-rock effects,en echelon fracture arrays,and flow direction. The methods of previous studies have been applied to natural sill and dyke examples of the Karoo Igneous Province in northern Natal . An en echelon array of Jurassic dolerite sills occurs within Permian Ecca sediments along the Mhlatuze River, west of Empangeni. Dolerite emplacement occurred as two intrusive phases. The first phase resulted in thick, . coarse-grained dolerite sills. The second phase produced relatively thinner, fme-grained sills. The intrusion of fmegrained dolerite into older sills is demonstrated by abrupt variations in the whole-rock and mineral geochemistry profiles across the sills. Syn-crystallisation effects such as crystal settling and fractionation, and post-crystallisation hydrothermal activity is also manifested in the mineralogical and geochemical changes across the sills. The fine grained doleriteis associated with xenolithic dolerite which represents a contaminated magma propagation front of the fine-grained dolerite. The higher viscosity of the xenolithic dolerite hindered propagation, and was thus overtaken and engulfedby the mainmagmapulse. Consistent sinistral off setting of sill segments is interpreted to be the result of a fingered sill periphery intruding an en echelon fracture array. Dilation of individual segments, or fingers, occurred simultaneously. Subsequent interaction of near-tip stresses induced inwardly propagating curvature of adjacent segmentsin the array.Resultant linkage has produced a stepped-sill geometry; sill propagation and flow directions were orthogonal to the plane of linkage. The flow direction is confirmed by shape preferred-orientations of acicular mineral grains within the chilled margins of the sills, indicating the direction of flow to be perpendicular to the plane of the en echelon array, and parallel to strike directions of offset surfaces that link adjacent sill segments. Multiple dyke intrusion is examinedat an outcrop of the Rooi Rand Dyke Swarm, along the Pongola River. Individual intrusive episodes are identifiable on the basis of chill-zone relationships. The pattern along the Pongola River suggests that younger intrusive episodes frequently intrude through the centres of older dykes. A three dimensional analysis of en echelon dyke let segments allows a re-construction of the dilation history,and provides an explanation for the development of blunt-ended intrusion segments. Mineral geochemistry anomalies around dyke tips suggests possible facilitation of incipient fracture via decreases in mineral strengths manifested by geochemical changes. A statistical digital analysis of micro-phenocryst orientations within chilled dyke margins is shown to provide a viable method to ascertain magma flow directions within dykes, and may thus be a useful tool for future investigations. / Thesis (M.Sc.)-University of Natal, 1994.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on November 6, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.