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Monitoring woody cover by remote sensing is considered a key methodology towards sustainable management of trees in dryland forests. However, while modern very high resolution satellite (VHRS) sensors allow woodland mapping at the individual tree level, the historical perspective is often hindered by lack of appropriate image data. In this first study employing the newly accessible historical HEXAGON KH-9 stereo-panoramic camera images for environmental research, we propose their use for mapping trees in open-canopy conditions. The 2–4 feet resolution panchromatic HEXAGON satellite photographs were taken 1971–1986 within the American reconnaissance programs that are better known to the scientific community for their lower-resolution CORONA images. Our aim is to evaluate the potential of combining historical CORONA and HEXAGON with recent WorldView VHRS imagery for retrospective woodland change mapping on the tree level. We mapped all trees on 30 1-ha test sites in open-canopy argan woodlands in Morocco in the field and from the VHRS imagery for estimating changes of tree density and size between 1967/1972 and 2018. Prior to image interpretation, we used simulations based on unmanned aerial system (UAS) imagery for exemplarily examining the role of illumination, viewing geometry and image resolution on the appearance of trees and their shadows in the historical panchromatic images. We show that understanding these parameters is imperative for correct detection and size-estimation of tree crowns. Our results confirm that tree maps derived solely from VHRS image analysis generally underestimate the number of small trees and trees in clumped-canopy groups. Nevertheless, HEXAGON images compare remarkably well with WorldView images and have much higher tree-mapping potential than CORONA. By classifying the trees in three sizes, we were able to measure tree-cover changes on an ordinal scale. Although we found no clear trend of forest degradation or recovery, our argan forest sites show varying patterns of change, which are further analysed in Part B of our study. We conclude that the HEXAGON stereo-panoramic camera images, of which 670,000 worldwide will soon be available, open exciting opportunities for retrospective monitoring of trees in open-canopy conditions and other woody vegetation patterns back into the 1980s and 1970s.
Zehn Jahre sub\urban sind ein Grund zum Feiern. Die kritische interdisziplinäre Stadtforschung in deutscher Sprache hat dank sub\urban einen Ort, an dem wir die mannigfaltigen Prozesse diskutieren und theoretisieren können, die Städte auf allen räumlichen Maßstabsebenen prägen. Kein Grund zum Feiern ist hingegen, dass viele dieser Prozesse dazu beitragen, dass wir in Verhältnissen leben, „in denen der Mensch ein erniedrigtes, ein geknechtetes, ein verlassenes, ein verächtliches Wesen ist“ (Marx 1976: 385). Noch immer gilt, dass es radikaler Kritik bedarf, um diese „Verhältnisse umzuwerfen“ (ebd.). Noch immer bedarf es dafür eines Verständnisses des Kapitalismus in seiner je konkreten Ausprägung und in seiner Verwobenheit mit sich wandelnden Herrschaftsformen von Patriarchat, Rassismus und Nationalismus, Homo-, Queer- und Transfeindlichkeit sowie all den anderen Formen des hierarchisierenden Ausschlusses, die für so viele Menschen das Leben zur Hölle machen (Arruzza/Bhattacharya/Fraser 2020; Brown 2018; Federici 2012; Harvey 2017). Radikale Kritik hinterfragt diese im Zeitverlauf sich wandelnden und zwischen Räumen sich unterscheidenden herrschenden Verhältnisse, betreibt mithin Aufklärung über sie, um sie in emanzipatorischer Weise zu verändern, ja zu überwinden.
Finanzielle Armut prägt Mobilitätspraktiken und kann dabei zum Prozess von mobilitätsbezogener sozialer Exklusion beitragen. Zu den Personen, deren Armutsrisiko besonders hoch ist, zählen in Deutschland Haushalte mit Kindern, insbesondere Alleinerziehende. Ältere Menschen haben nicht die höchste Armutsgefährdung, jedoch besteht bei ihnen das Risiko von Verharrung in Armut, da die Möglichkeiten, die finanzielle Situation aus eigener Kraft zu ändern mit zunehmendem Alter sinken.
Um ein tieferes Verständnis davon zu erhalten, wie finanzielle Armut die Mobilitätspraktiken und soziale Teilhabe von Haushalten mit Kindern sowie älteren Menschen prägt, wurden mit diesen beiden Personengruppen problemzentrierte Interviews in Ronnenberg (Region Hannover) geführt und analysiert. Die Ergebnisse belegen, dass, wenngleich alle Befragten mit ähnlich geringen finanziellen Ressourcen haushalten und Verzicht sowie Abwägungsprozesse notwendig sind, sich ihre Mobilitätspraktiken und Alltagsbewältigungsstrategien unterscheiden, was sich in zwei Typologien widerspiegelt. Erstens, eine Typologie der Mobilitätspraktiken von Haushalten mit Kindern: (i) autozentriert, (ii) autoreduziert, (iii) ÖPNV-orientiert und (iv) nichtmotorisiert. Zweitens, eine Typologie älterer Menschen anhand ihrer Mobilitätspraktiken: (i) aktive ältere Menschen mit vielseitigen sozialen Interaktionen, (ii) nachbarschaftsorientierte ältere Menschen mit lokalen Kontakten und (iii) ältere Menschen, die überwiegend zu Hause sind und wenig soziale Kontakte haben.
Um herauszufinden, inwiefern mobilitätsbezogene Barrieren der sozialen Teilhabe reduziert werden können, wurden fünf Maßnahmen bezüglich ihrer Wirkung auf die Mobilitätspraktiken einkommensarmer Haushalte mit Kindern untersucht: einerseits die Wirkung des 9-Euro-Tickets anhand von problemzentrierten Interviews mit einkommensarmen Haushalten mit Kindern, andererseits anhand von Expert:inneninterviews die Wirkung von Radlernkursen für Frauen mit Migrationshintergrund, eines Mietertickets, eines Quartierstickets und der Verbesserung der Nahraum- und Aufenthaltsqualität am Beispiel von Tempo 30. Die Ergebnisse zum 9-Euro-Ticket belegen, dass ein erschwingliches ÖPNV-Ticket erheblich zur Reduzierung mobilitätsbezogener Barrieren der sozialen Teilhabe im Armutskontext beiträgt. Die Expert:inneninterviews zeigen auf, dass eine Förderung des Umweltverbunds zielführend ist, um zu einer sozial-ökologischen Verkehrswende beizutragen und insbesondere Maßnahmenbündel Wirkung auf die Reduzierung von mobilitätsbezogenen Barrieren der sozialen Teilhabe entfalten.
Die Erkenntnisse dieser Dissertation ergänzen den wissenschaftlichen Forschungstand um ein tiefergehendes Verständnis der Wirkung von finanzieller Armut auf die Mobilitätspraktiken und soziale Teilhabe von Haushalten mit Kindern und älteren Menschen und helfen dabei, Maßnahmen zur Reduzierung mobilitätsbezogener Barrieren der sozialen Teilhabe zu konzipieren und umzusetzen.
Mit einem Stadtbegriff tue ich mich schwer. Städte zu verstehen ist gleichbedeutend damit, Wandel zu verstehen. Städte haben sich über die Jahrhunderte, über die Kontinente und Gesellschaftsformationen hinweg so häufig gehäutet, dass an einem geronnenen Zustand orientierte Definitionen zum Scheitern verurteilt sind. So hat es immer wieder Versuche gegeben, Stadt aus ihrer Bevölkerungsgröße, ihrer Siedlungsstruktur oder ihrer Wirtschafts- und Bauweise abzuleiten, also aus ihren besonderen räumlich-physischen Eigenschaften, die aber allenfalls zeithistorischen Wert haben.
In the digital condition, social networks are part of the everyday practices that produce constructions of space. To include this phenomenon in the Geography classroom, the corresponding knowledge that teachers require and how to measure it need to be determined. For this purpose, a specific instrument is necessary. We analyse constructions of space as a teacher knowledge domain through the lens of the TPACK model and deduce pedagogical and technological knowledge. We then combine these results with available TPACK survey instruments. The product is a self-assessment survey for Geography teachers on constructions of space and social networks. Scale consistency measures and item discrimination yielded good results. Initial results indicate technological and pedagogical knowledge to be greater than content knowledge. The instrument we present is valid for determining future Geography teachers’ TPACK more broadly, and can reveal implications for interventions in Geography teacher education.
Digital spatial processes have been widely explored and investigated in subject-specific geographic research. So far, however, this research has not been sufficiently reflected in classrooms or teacher education, and remains unconnected to notions of geographical digital literacy. Viral constructions of space – realities shaped in everyday life that are experienced and (re-)produced by students and teachers alike through social media – present an opportunity for Geography education to adapt to the digital society. This paper attempts to connect viral constructions of space, the digital society and the knowledge teachers need to include viral constructions of space in the classroom using Mishra and Koehler’s (2006) TPACK model, a well-established means for summarizing teachers’ technological, pedagogical and content knowledge for a specific topic. The paper focuses on content knowledge, identifies five sub-types of viral constructions of space, and extracts nine descriptors of teachers’ content knowledge. By focusing on content knowledge, the paper presents a starting point for future investigations of pedagogical and technological teacher knowledge as well as their intersections. It also raises awareness of viral constructions of space as both a new essential topic in the Geography classroom and a phenomenon already shaping learning environments for spatial acquisition.
Sedimentary charcoal records are widely used to reconstruct regional changes in fire regimes through time in the geological past. Existing global compilations are not geographically comprehensive and do not provide consistent metadata for all sites. Furthermore, the age models provided for these records are not harmonised and many are based on older calibrations of the radiocarbon ages. These issues limit the use of existing compilations for research into past fire regimes. Here, we present an expanded database of charcoal records, accompanied by new age models based on recalibration of radiocarbon ages using IntCal20 and Bayesian age-modelling software. We document the structure and contents of the database, the construction of the age models, and the quality control measures applied. We also record the expansion of geographical coverage relative to previous charcoal compilations and the expansion of metadata that can be used to inform analyses. This first version of the Reading Palaeofire Database contains 1676 records (entities) from 1480 sites worldwide. The database (RPDv1b – Harrison et al., 2021) is available at https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.000345.
Raumkonstruktionen, die über Handlung und Bedeutungszuschreibungen im Kontext sozialer Medien entstehen, sind ein Fallbeispiel dafür, wie vor dem Hintergrund von Digitalität Fachinhalte re-innoviert werden müssen. Mit dem Ziel eines Beitrags zur Konzeption professionellen Lehrkräftewissens im Kontext von Digitalität werden, ausgehend von der Fragestellung, welche professionellen Fähigkeiten Lehrkräfte benötigen, um Raumkonstruktionen im Unterricht zu thematisieren, in dieser kumulativen Dissertation Raumkonstruktionen aus normativer und empirischer Perspektive als exemplarischer geographischer Fachinhalt adressiert.
Als theoretischer Rahmen dient dabei das TPACK Modell von Mishra & Koehler (2006), das professionelles Lehrkräftewissen in die Bereiche fachliches, pädagogisches und technologisches Wissen sowie deren Überschneidungsbereiche einteilt. Zunächst erfolgt eine Anwendung des Modells als Reflexionsperspektive auf Fachinhalte zur Erzeugung normativer Fähigkeitsbeschreibungen. Diese Fähigkeitsbeschreibungen fließen in die Entwicklung eines TPACK-Selbsteinschätzungsfragebogens für Lehramtsstudierende der Geographie ein. Im Rahmen der damit durchgeführten Studie (n= 364) zeigen sich auf deskriptiver Ebene vergleichsweise niedrige Selbsteinschätzungen der Bereiche inhaltlichen und fachdidaktischen Wissens. Durch die Anwendung einer konfirmatorischen Faktorenanalyse kann das TPACK Modell als zufriedenstellend für die Beschreibung der Daten identifiziert werden. Auffällig ist allerdings die niedrige Korrelation des Konstrukts technologischen Wissens mit den angrenzenden Wissensbereichen. In Bezug auf die Selbsteinschätzungen im phasen- und kontextübergreifenden Vergleich lässt sich, ausgehend von linearen Regressionsanalysen, eine tendenzielle Zunahme der selbsteingeschätzten Fähigkeiten entlang der Fachsemesterzahl ermitteln. Mittels Zweistichproben-t-Tests können außerdem höhere Selbsteinschätzungen der pädagogischen Wissensbereiche durch Studierende, die als Vertretungslehrkräfte tätig sind, festgestellt werden.
In Bezug auf die zur Thematisierung von Raumkonstruktionen im Unterricht benötigten Fähigkeiten ist zunächst die Relevanz der Förderung der Integration fachlichen, pädagogischen und fachdidaktischen Wissens hervorzuheben. Die Studie gibt darüber hinaus Hinweise auf eine niedrigere Bedeutung technologischen Wissens im Hinblick auf soziale Medien als Beispiele alltäglicher Technologien. Vor dem Hintergrund des positiven Effekts von Selbstwirksamkeitsprozessen bieten die Ergebnisse Implikationen für eine Diskussion von praktischen Erfahrungen als Aspekt professionellen Lehrkräftewissens im Sinne der Förderung einer kritisch-reflexiven Auseinandersetzung mit der Tätigkeit als Vertretungslehrkraft aus fachdidaktischer Perspektive. Insgesamt leistet die kumulative Dissertation einen Beitrag zum Diskurs um fachliche geographische Bildung im Kontext von Digitalität und zur Konzeption des professionellen Lehrkräftewissens vor diesem Hintergrund.
"High-aluminous coal" is an important coal kind and widely distributed in North China in age of Permo-Carboniferous period. To explore their occurrence state, a total of 15 harmful elements (Li, Ga, In, Cd, Cr, Pb, Be, Mn, Zn, Ag, Co, Ni, Cu, Ba and U) in the No.9 coal and No.11 coal collected from Pingshuo mining district were determined by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) and scanning electron microscope with energy spectrum (SEM-EDX). The results showed that the content of Li, Ga, In, Pb, Ag and U were all exceed the world hard coal. In view of the result of clustering analysis within trace elements, it was found that Co, Ni, Zn, Cu, Ag and Cr were mainly associated with sulfide minerals due to their common sulfophilic property. Manganese was mainly occurred in carbonate minerals, while Ba, Cd and U were mainly associated with total minerals. In addition, Pb was related to sulfides and Be is mainly distributed in clay minerals. The enrichment of such harmful elements in Pingshuo coal was caused by the combined effect of transgression and input of terrestrial materials in the peat accumulation stage. Li, Ga, In and Ag have reached the harmful grade.
Tectonics and geothermal gradients from subduction to collision in the NW Variscan Iberian Massif
(2022)
The earliest tectonometamorphic record of tectonic slices incorporated to the base of an orogen holds the key to understand how an orogen is built. The tectonic pile of the NW Iberian section of the Variscan Orogen includes tectonic slices separated by crustal-scale thrusts. The earliest tectonometamorphic record in the uppermost parautochthon is calculated at 11–14 kbar and 450–500°C (P-T gradient about 13°C/km), suggesting a subduction-related metamorphic recrystallization at lower pressure than the overlying Lower Allochthon. Early conditions calculated in the autochthon (9–10 kbar and 425–450°C; 16°C/km) point to a relatively ‘cold’ collisional setting. Higher thermal gradients obtained from some sections of the autochthon (11–12 kbar and 700–725°C; 21°C/km) and the Lower Parautochthon (7.5 kbar and 550–700°C; 24–31°C/km), correspond to more advanced and ‘hot’ stages of collision. New U–Pb monazite geochronology indicates a 318–311 Ma age for the final formation of HT domes in the region. We propose the rapid decrease in P-T gradient (from <10 to 16°C/km) documents a fail to sustain further burial along a regular subduction zone. We consider the subsequent increase in the geothermal gradient (from 16 to 31°C/km) as the culmination of previous crustal accretion and the onset of crustal underthrusting and later processes in a collisional stage. We propose these switches in the early tectonometamorphic record of individual tectonic slices as potential markers to track the transition from subduction to collision in collisional orogens.
While high-quality climate reconstructions of some past warm periods in the Cenozoic era now exist, the geological processes responsible for driving the observed longterm changes in atmospheric CO2 are not sufficiently well understood. The long-term change in atmospheric CO2 across the Cenozoic has been proposed to be driven by processes such as terrestrial weathering, organic carbon production and burial, reverse weathering, and volcanic degassing. One way of constraining the relative importance of the various driving forces proposed so far is to better understand the degree to which ocean chemistry has changed because the chemistry of seawater responds to geologic processes that drive atmospheric CO2. In addition, knowledge of the concentration of the major elements in seawater is crucial for accurately applying proxies such as those based on the boron isotopic composition and Mg/Ca of marine carbonates (a proxy for palaeo pH/CO2 and palaeotemperature, respectively). Previously reported records of seawater composition are primarily derived from fluid inclusions in marine evaporites; however, the results are sparse due to the limited availability of such deposits. In this thesis, changes in the Eocene seawater chemistry were reconstructed using trace element (elements/Ca) and isotopic (δ26Mg) proxies in a Larger Benthic Foraminifera (LBFs), i.e., Nummulites sp., to constrain the driving processes of long-term changes in seawater chemistry.
To achieve the objective of this thesis, first, a measurement protocol was established using LA-ICPMS to measure the K/Ca ratio simultaneously with other element/calcium ratios, which is challenging due to the interference of ArH+ on K+. Utilising this newly established measurement protocol, laboratory-cultured Operculina ammonoides grown at different seawater calcium concentrations ([Ca2+]), repeated at different temperatures, as well as modern O. ammonoides collected from different regions exhibiting a range of seawater parameters, were investigated. A significant correlation was observed between K/Casw and K/CaLBF, allowing K/CaLBF to potentially be used as a proxy for seawater major ion reconstructions. In addition, modern O. ammonoides demonstrated no significant influence of most seawater parameters (temperature, salinity, pH, or [CO32-]) on K/CaLBF. Modern O.
ammonoides were also assessed for their Mg isotopic composition (δ26Mg), revealing no significant effect of temperature or salinity on δ26MgLBF. Furthermore, the Mg isotopic fractionation in O. ammonoides was found to be close to that of inorganic calcite, indicating minimal vital effects in these large benthic foraminifera.
Operculina ammonoides is the nearest living relative of the abundant Eocene genus Nummulites, enabling the reconstruction of seawater chemistry using the calibration based on O. ammonoides. The trace elemental/calcium proxies, including Na/Ca, K/Ca, and Mg/Ca, as well as the δ26Mg proxy, were investigated in Eocene Nummulites. The result showed that during the Eocene, [Ca2+]sw was 1.6-2 times higher, while [K+]sw was ~2 times lower than the modern seawater composition. Furthermore, [Mg2+]sw decreased from the early Eocene (54.3− +9 7..69 mmol kg-1 at ~55 Ma) to Late Eocene (37.8− +4 4..3 4 mmol kg-1 at ~31 Ma), followed by
an increase toward modern seawater [Mg]. In contrast, the variability in δ26Mgsw values remained within a narrow range of ~0.3 ‰ throughout the Cenozoic. The reconstructed [Ca2+]sw agrees with the suggestion that Cenozoic seawater chemistry changes can be explained via a change in the seafloor spreading rate. When combined with existing records, the observed minimal change in δ26Mgsw with an increase in [Mg2+]sw suggests an additional possible role of a decrease in the formation of authigenic clay minerals coincident with the Cenozoic decline in deep ocean temperature, which is also supported by the increase in the [K+]sw reconstructed here for the first time. This finding highlights that the reduction in seafloor-spreading rate and decline in reverse weathering during the Cenozoic era has played a significant role in the evolution of seawater chemistry, emphasizing the importance of these processes in driving long-term changes in the carbon cycle.
Upper mantle shear zones are complex systems where deformation is commonly closely interacting with metamorphic (solid-solid) and/or melt/fluid-rock reactions. Here, feedback processes between deformation, reactions, grain size reduction and phase mixing result in strain weakening and the localization of deformation. The expression of these interlinked processes is portrayed by the microfabrics of strained peridotites and pyroxenites. The present thesis is focusing on these processes and their impact on the deformation in three upper mantle shear zones situated in the peridotite massifs of Lanzo (Italian Alps), Erro-Tobbio (Italian Alps) and Ronda (Betic Cordillera, Spain). In all three shear zones, the presence of melt led to phase mixing either by interstitial crystallization of pyroxenes from a Si-saturated and partially also highly evolved melt or by melt-rock reactions of pyroxene porphyroclasts with a Si-undersaturated melt. The effect of melt on the localization of strain is twofold and variable. Enhanced deformation by melt-wetted boundaries is assumed for all shear zones. Additionally, phase mixing by crystallization of interstitial pyroxenes or melt-rock reactions reduce or maintain the grain size by the formation of fine grained neoblasts and secondary phase boundary pinning. In this regard, pre- to early syn-kinematic, map-scale percolation of OH-bearing, evolved melts in the NW Ronda peridotite massif and the associated crystallization of interstitial pyroxenes result in the activation of grain size sensitive deformation mechanisms in the entire melt-effected area. In the rocks collected at Erro-Tobbio, syn-kinematic melt-rock reactions of pyroxene porphyroclasts and Si-undersaturated melt led to the formation of ultramylonitic neoblast tails (grain size ~10 μm). Compared to the adjacent coarser-grained olivine-dominated matrix, the activation of diffusion creep led to an increase in the strain rate by an order of magnitude within interconnected ultramylonitic layers. Strain localization and softening in ultramylonitic layers are also documented in the Lanzo samples. Neoblast tails of pyroxene porphyroclasts were likewise identified as their precursor. The phase assemblage of the tails, including ortho- and clinopyroxene, olivine, plagioclase, and spinel (± amphibole), and their geochemical trends suggest, unlike in Erro-Tobbio, a formation by continuous net-transfer reactions enhanced by the spinel lherzolite to plagioclase lherzolite transition.
The new results obtained from the three studied shear zones underscore the importance of reactions for the interlinked processes of grain size reduction, phase mixing, strain localization and strain softening in upper mantle shear zones. Concerning strain localization, the nature of the reaction (solid-solid, melt/fluid-rock) seems to play a subordinate role compared to its timing. Pre- to early syn-kinematic melt-triggered reactions result in strain localization along map-scale shear zones. Late stage syn-kinematic melt-rock or metamorphic reactions under high stress conditions are capable of localizing the deformation along discrete, sub-centimeter thick ultramylonites.
The metasomatised continental mantle may play a key role in the generation of some ore deposits, in particular mineral systems enriched in platinum-group elements (PGE) and Au. The cratonic lithosphere is the longest-lived potential source for these elements, but the processes that facilitate their pre-concentration in the mantle and their later remobilisation to the crust are not yet well-established. Here, we report new results on the petrography, major-element, and siderophile- and chalcophile-element composition of native Ni, base metal sulphides (BMS), and spinels in a suite of well-characterised, highly metasomatised and weakly serpentinised peridotite xenoliths from the Bultfontein kimberlite in the Kaapvaal Craton, and integrate these data with published analyses. Pentlandite in polymict breccias (failed kimberlite intrusions at mantle depth) has lower trace-element contents (e.g., median total PGE 0.72 ppm) than pentlandite in phlogopite peridotites and Mica-Amphibole-Rutile-Ilmenite-Diopside (MARID) rocks (median 1.6 ppm). Spinel is an insignificant host for all elements except Zn, and BMS and native Ni account for typically <25% of the bulk-rock PGE and Au. High bulk-rock Te/S suggest a role for PGE-bearing tellurides, which, along with other compounds of metasomatic origin, may host the missing As, Ag, Cd, Sb, Te and, in part, Bi that are unaccounted for by the main assemblage.
The close spatial relationship between BMS and metasomatic minerals (e.g., phlogopite, ilmenite) indicates that the lithospheric mantle beneath Bultfontein was resulphidised by metasomatism after initial melt depletion during stabilisation of the cratonic lithosphere. Newly-formed BMS are markedly PGE-poor, as total PGE contents are <4.2 ppm in pentlandite from seven samples, compared to >26 ppm in BMS in other peridotite xenoliths from the Kaapvaal craton. This represents a strong dilution of the original PGE abundances at the mineral scale, perhaps starting from precursor PGE alloy and small volumes of residual BMS. The latter may have been the precursor to native Ni, which occurs in an unusual Ni-enriched zone in a harzburgite and displays strongly variable, but overall high PGE abundances (up to 81 ppm). In strongly metasomatised peridotites, Au is enriched relative to Pd, and was probably added along with S. A combination of net introduction of S, Au +/− PGE from the asthenosphere and intra-lithospheric redistribution, in part sourced from subducted materials, during metasomatic events may have led to sulphide precipitation at ~80–120 km beneath Bultfontein. This process locally enhanced the metallogenic fertility of this lithospheric reservoir. Further mobilisation of the metal budget stored in these S-rich domains and upwards transport into the crust may require interaction with sulphide-undersaturated melts that can dissolve sulphides along with the metals they store.
Vor rund 60 Jahren ist das Buch Mensch und Raum von Otto Friedrich Bollnow erstmals erschienen. Der folgende Beitrag geht der Frage nach, inwieweit die Überlegungen des Philosophen (unter bestimmten Aspekten) noch heute aktuell sind. Bollnows Raum-Verständnis weicht in seiner phänomenologischen Orientierung geradezu grundlegend vom heute vorherrschenden sozialwissenschaftlichen Raumdenken ab. Umso mehr regt Bollnow dazu an, die Lehren des wissenschaftlichen Mainstream kritisch gegen den Strich zu lesen. Ins Zentrum der Suche nach heute möglicherweise bedeutsamen Themen und Methoden des Denkens rückt das Wohnen. Wie denkt Bollnow das Wohnen, und was sagt uns dies in einer Zeit, in der die Menschen ganz anders wohnen als in den 1950er Jahren? Brücken zu methodologisch benachbarten Theorien und Philosophen werden ebenso geschlagen (z. B. Heidegger, Dürckheim, Müller-Freienfels) wie zu anderen thematisch relevanten Arbeiten von Bollnow.
Reconstructing Oligocene-Miocene paleoelevation contributes to our understanding of the evolutionary history of the European Alps and sheds light on geodynamic and Earth’s surface processes involved in the development of Alpine topography. Despite being one of the most intensively explored mountain ranges worldwide, constraints on the elevation history of the European Alps, however, remain scarce. Here we present stable and clumped isotope geochemistry 15 measurements to provide a new paleoelevation estimate for the mid-Miocene (~14.5 Ma) European Central Alps. We apply stable isotope δ-δ paleoaltimetry on near sea level pedogenic carbonate oxygen isotope (δ18O) records from the Northern Alpine Foreland Basin (Swiss Molasse Basin) and high-Alpine phyllosilicate hydrogen isotope (δD) records from the Simplon Fault Zone (Swiss Alps). We further explore Miocene paleoclimate and paleoenvironmental conditions in the Swiss Molasse Basin through carbonate stable (δ18O, δ13C) and clumped (Δ47) isotope data from three foreland basin sections in different 20 alluvial megafan settings (proximal, mid-fan, and distal). Combined pedogenic carbonate δ18O values and Δ47 temperatures (30 ± 5°C) yield a near sea level precipitation δ18Ow value of -5.8 ± 0.2‰ and in conjunction with the high-Alpine phyllosilicate δD record suggest that the region surrounding the SFZ attained surface elevations of >4000 m no later than the mid-Miocene. Our near sea level δ18Ow estimate is supported by paleoclimate (iGCM Echam5-wiso) modeled δ18O values, which vary between -4.2 and -7.6‰ for the Northern Alpine Foreland Basin.
Stratospheric inorganic chlorine (Cly) is predominantly released from long-lived chlorinated source gases and, to a small extent, very short-lived chlorinated substances. Cly includes the reservoir species (HCl and ClONO2) and active chlorine species (i.e., ClOx). The active chlorine species drive catalytic cycles that deplete ozone in the polar winter stratosphere. This work presents calculations of inorganic chlorine (Cly) derived from chlorinated source gas measurements on board the High Altitude and Long Range Research Aircraft (HALO) during the Southern Hemisphere Transport, Dynamic and Chemistry (SouthTRAC) campaign in austral late winter and early spring 2019. Results are compared to Cly in the Northern Hemisphere derived from measurements of the POLSTRACC-GW-LCYCLE-SALSA (PGS) campaign in the Arctic winter of 2015/2016. A scaled correlation was used for PGS data, since not all source gases were measured. Using the SouthTRAC data, Cly from a scaled correlation was compared to directly determined Cly and agreed well. An air mass classification based on in situ N2O measurements allocates the measurements to the vortex, the vortex boundary region, and midlatitudes. Although the Antarctic vortex was weakened in 2019 compared to previous years, Cly reached 1687±19 ppt at 385 K; therefore, up to around 50 % of total chlorine was found in inorganic form inside the Antarctic vortex, whereas only 15 % of total chlorine was found in inorganic form in the southern midlatitudes. In contrast, only 40 % of total chlorine was found in inorganic form in the Arctic vortex during PGS, and roughly 20 % was found in inorganic form in the northern midlatitudes. Differences inside the two vortices reach as much as 540 ppt, with more Cly in the Antarctic vortex in 2019 than in the Arctic vortex in 2016 (at comparable distance to the local tropopause). To our knowledge, this is the first comparison of inorganic chlorine within the Antarctic and Arctic polar vortices. Based on the results of these two campaigns, the differences in Cly inside the two vortices are substantial and larger than the inter-annual variations previously reported for the Antarctic.