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Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France
- Société géologique de France Éditeur, Paris
The combined use of the illite "crystallinity" Kübler index (KI) and the conodont colour alteration index (CAI) has revealed the existence of three thermal episodes in an area affected by thin-skin tectonics, close to the internal zones of the Variscan orogen in NW Spain. In the southernmost part of the study area, the first episode gave rise to a regional syntectonic Variscan metamorphism. The associated deformation involves the development of a slaty cleavage, which is mainly recognized in Precambrian rocks. Towards the foreland, the syntectonic metamorphism disappears and only an incipient burial metamorphism, giving rise to anchizonal conditions in the basal part of the thrust units, is observed.
Another metamorphic episode occurred close to the Carboniferous-Permian boundary in an extensional tectonic regime. This metamorphism is restricted to the northern part of the study area, where it reached anchizonal or epizonal conditions. It is associated with a subhorizontal or moderately north-dipping cleavage and can be considered as a late-Variscan episode.
The last thermal episode occurred during the Permian. It was produced by heat flow due to hydrothermal fluids, whose migration was favoured by faults. The effects of this episode are irregularly distributed, and they are apparent in the unconformable Stephanian rocks in which anchizonal or epizonal conditions were reached. It is interpreted as a post-Variscan episode.
The study of the thermal evolution of areas in the transition from diagenesis to metamorphism has been made possible through the development of techniques based on the analysis of clay minerals, mainly the Kübler index (KI) [Kübler, 1967], and the study of the transformation of organic matter with increase in temperature, largely using the conodont colour alteration index (CAI) [Epstein et al., 1977; Rejebian et al., 1987] and vitrinite reflectance [Stach et al., 1975; Tissot and Espitalié, 1975]. These techniques have allowed researchers to study the thermal evolution in the external zones of orogenic belts, where low or very low grade metamorphism can develop before, during or after deformation. The thermal evolution is related to mechanisms such as the simple burial of the series, tectonic superposition, emplacement of thrust units at higher temperatures, intrusion of igneous rocks, etc.
The Cantabrian Zone is the external zone of the Variscan belt in NW Spain, and presents a complex oroclinal structure of folds and thrusts that constitutes a good scenario for the study of the lowest metamorphic grades and their relation with regional geology. The thermal evolution in this area has been studied with KI methodology by Galán et al. [1978], Pérez-Estaún [1978], Brime and Pérez-Estaún [1980], Brime [1981, 1985], Aller et al. [1987], Alonso and Brime [1990], Keller and Krumm [1992, 1993] and Gutiérrez-Alonso and Nieto [1996]. CAI data were incorporated to the analysis by Raven and van der Pluijm [1986]. The combined use of KI and CAI in the western and northwestern parts of the Cantabrian Zone [García-López et al., 1997; Bastida et al., 1999; Brime et al., 2001] has led to the establishment of models of tectonothermal evolution for these areas. Preliminary reviews on the tectonothermal evolution of the Cantabrian Zone, based on CAI and KI data, can be found in García-López et al. [1999] and Bastida et al. [2002].
Despite recent advances in our understanding of the tectono-thermal evolution of the Cantabrian Zone, some areas are still poorly known. One of them is the southern part of the Cantabrian Zone, which presents a complex structure and common late-orogenic unconformable series, whose study can be useful to constrain the age and tectonic implications of the late-Variscan metamorphism. The aim of this paper is the analysis, using KI and CAI methodology, of the thermal evolution in the southern part of the Cantabrian Zone. To achieve this goal, all the available data from this area have been compiled and new samples of shale and limestone have been collected to determine KI and CAI. The results obtained are analysed in the context of the whole Cantabrian Zone in order to improve the general model of tectono-thermal evolution of this zone.
The Cantabrian Zone is an area of thin-skinned tectonics with thrusts and folds affecting rocks ranging in age from Precambrian to Carboniferous. The Palaeozoic pre-orogenic sequence is present up to near the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary, and consists of mainly siliciclastic Lower Palaeozoic series and alternating siliciclastic and carbonate Devonian formations. Carboniferous synorogenic deposits have been interpreted as deposited in a foreland basin in which a transition exists from dominant carbonates in the lower part to mainly siliciclastic coal-bearing series in the upper part [Julivert, 1978]. The most common structures in the Cantabrian Zone are thrusts and folds with an arcuate pattern that defines the Asturian arc (fig. 1⇓). Two sets of folds have been distinguished in this zone [Julivert and Marcos, 1973], a longitudinal set parallel to the thrusts and a radial set. These two sets are mainly thrust-related folds associated to the frontal and lateral ramps of the thrusts, respectively [Pérez-Estaún et al., 1988]. The Cantabrian Zone Palaeozoic sequence rests unconformably on the Precambrian rocks of the Narcea antiform, an area transitional to the more internal Westasturian-Leonese Zone, where cleavage and regional metamorphism are widespread. Stephanian (late Carboniferous) siliciclastic unconformable series with conglomerates and coal beds crop out in basins, commonly fault-bounded, distributed throughout the Cantabrian Zone.
The southern part of the Cantabrian Zone, studied in this paper, is part of the Nappe and Fold province [Julivert, 1971] and has a structure of thrusts and associated folds in which two main thrust units can be distinguished: the Bodón Unit to the north and the Correcilla Unit to the south (fig. 1⇑). The latter unit contains Precambrian rocks of the Narcea antiform in its southern part [Alonso et al., 1989]. These two units can be traced into the western part of the Cantabrian Zone, where they are named La Sobia Unit and Somiedo Unit, respectively. An important stratigraphical difference can be found in the Middle and Upper Devonian sequence, which is complete in the Correcilla Unit and missing in the Bodón Unit (fig. 2⇓). The post-Visean Carboniferous succession is also different, since the Correcilla Unit only presents Namurian turbidites and limestones, whereas the Bodón Unit has mainly paralic Westfalian facies over Namurian limestones. As it is common in the Cantabrian Zone, the thrusts usually show a décollement level located in the carbonate rocks of the Láncara Formation (Lower-Middle Cambrian), and folds from both the longitudinal and the radial sets are frequent in the area.
Unconformable Stephanian B-C rocks crop out in two areas corresponding to intermontane basins: the Ciñera-Matallana and the La Magdalena coal fields (fig. 3⇓). Basic dykes and sills can be found intruded in these rocks. The structure of these basins is mainly characterized by upright folds and high-angle faults concentrated near the boundaries of the basins. An important fracture, the León Fault, appears in the northernmost part of the study zone and constitutes the boundary with the thick successsion of Carboniferous rocks cropping out to the north (Central Coal basin). In the southern part of this basin, there is low-grade metamorphism and subhorizontal cleavage cutting through longitudinal and radial folds [Aller and Brime, 1985; Aller, 1986]. Another important fracture is the Sabero-Gordón fault, which is also oriented E-W and in its eastern part constitutes the southern boundary of the Ciñera-Matallana basin (fig. 3⇓).
CAI method
We have compiled all the available information about conodonts from the study area, corresponding to collections in the National Museum of Natural History at Leiden (The Netherlands) and the University of Oviedo (Spain). The CAI determinations of Raven and van der Pluijm [1986] were used for the samples from Leiden, whereas for the Oviedo samples the CAI was determined by one of the authors (S.G.L.). This collection of data incorporated information from 107 localities in the study zone. These data were complemented with 36 new localities sampled for this study, of which 16 yielded conodonts and enabled CAI determination. Neighbouring localities have been plotted on the maps (figs. 3⇑ and 4⇓) in a single point. Due to the lack of conodont-bearing carbonate rocks in the Lower Palaeozoic, the information given by CAI data is restricted to the zones with outcrops of Devonian and Carboniferous rocks. The methodology used for sample treatment and CAI determination has been described in García-López et al. [1997] and Bastida et al. [1999]. For the metamorphic zonation from CAI data, we use the terms defined by García-López et al. [2001]: diacaizone (CAI < 4), ancaizone (4 ≤ CAI ≤ 5.5) and epicaizone (CAI > 5.5). At each locality, the mean CAI value has been used for the contouring of the CAI data on the map.
Layer silicate mineralogy and Kübler index
71 samples of pelitic rocks were collected (fig. 3⇑) for X-ray diffraction analyses of the mineral composition in the < 2 μm fraction and for determination of the Kübler index (KI = illite crystallinity [see Guggenheim et al. 2002]). Diffractograms were obtained using a Philips X'Pert diffractometer equipped with graphite monochromator and using CuKα radiation. These data were complemented with 102 data points from the work of Marschik [1992]; however, the data he provided correspond only to air-dried mounts.
Preparation of samples and determinations of the Kübler Index followed the recommendations of the IGCP 294 working group [Kisch 1991]. The KI values obtained have been converted to the Kübler scale, with anchizone limits of 0.42°/0.25°Δ2𝛉, using a set of samples provided by H. Kisch, the same standards as used by Marschik [1992], and therefore allowing comparison of the two sets of data. Since illite/smectite mixed-layer minerals are abundant in the study area, the measurement of the peak width includes both illite and illite/smectite basal reflections. It should be noted that the numerical values of the KI decreases as the 'crystallinity', and therefore the grade, increases. KI values corresponding to the Kübler scale can be converted to the CIS (Crystallinity Index Standard) scale [Warr and Rice 1994] using the equation of Brime [1999]:
where R is the correlation coefficient.
CAI data
Mean CAI values from the localities of the study zone range from 1.5 to 5, indicating diachizonal to anchizonal conditions. Figures 4⇑ and 5⇓ show that CAI values in general increase with rock age towards the basal part of the thrust units, with a tendency to parallelism between bedding and CAI isovalues. CAI values in the Devonian rocks of the limbs of the La Robla syncline, where shallow anchizonal values are reached, are higher than those found in rocks of the same age immediately to the north, where values between 3 and 3.5 prevail (fig. 4⇑). Lateral variations of CAI values in rocks of the same age are also found in the Carboniferous carbonates of the Bodón Unit (fig. 4⇑), from common values of 3 to 4 in the western part to values ≤ 2 in the eastern part.
Layer silicate mineralogy and KI
Mineralogical analyses of the < 2 μm fraction show that illite is the most common phase. Other clay minerals present are kaolinite, mixed-layer illite/smectite, mixed-layer chlorite/vermiculite, pyrophyllite, and chlorite. The mixed-layer illite/smectite is always ordered, indicating that zone 3 of Eberl [1993] was reached and therefore the temperature was > 100°C. Figure 6⇓ shows that KI increases with decreasing age from Precambrian to Middle-Upper Devonian rocks; however, the KI values of the Carboniferous rocks are lower than those of the Devonian rocks. The distribution of KI values (fig. 7⇓) indicates diagenetic conditions in most of the study area. Nevertheless, several higher-grade areas can be determined. There are anchizonal values in the Precambrian and Cambrian rocks of the southwestern part of the study area. In a few areas within the Precambrian, epizonal conditions were described by Perez-Estaún [1978] using a different scale to standardise the KI. Similarly, anchizonal values are found in the Cambrian rocks of the basal part of the Bodón and Correcilla units, previously described by Brime [1981] and Aller et al. [1987]. In the Carboniferous rocks of the Bodón Unit, close to Villamanín, there is also a narrow E-W strip with anchizonal KI values. Other anchizonal KI values are found in the Central Coal basin (fig. 1⇑), to the north of the León fault, where even epizonal conditions are found in the eastern part (fig. 7⇓) [Aller and Brime, 1985; Aller, 1986; Aller et al., 1987]. Finally, anchizonal and epizonal KI values have been found, respectively, in the unconformable Stephanian rocks of the Ciñera-Matallana and La Magdalena basins.
The spatial distribution of CAI and KI values is complex (figs. 4⇑ to 7⇑⇑⇑) with different features that must be considered independently. One of the basic features observed is the general decrease in metamorphic grade with decreasing rock age (figs. 4⇑ to 7⇑⇑⇑). CAI data record this decrease from the Lower Devonian rocks up to the lower Carboniferous rocks, whereas KI data record it from the Precambrian up to the Middle-Upper Devonian rocks. This pattern is characteristic of burial metamorphism, which is a primary contributor to the metamorphism of the study area. KI data indicate that burial metamorphism gave rise in several areas to anchizonal conditions in the Cambrian-Ordovician rocks of the basal part of the main thrust units (Correcilla and Bodón nappes). At several localities of the study area (fig. 7⇑) an inverted metamorphic pattern, with a metamorphic hiatus between metapelitic zones above and below the basal thrust, is observed, indicating that this metamorphic event was essentially prior to the thrusts of the area, in agreement with its burial character. The metamorphic hiatus suggests that the hanging-wall did not heat the footwall during the emplacement of the thrusts.
An exception to this general pattern has been described in a section of the Correcilla basal thrust, located in the western part of the study area [Brime, 1981; Aller et al., 1987], where KI data indicate that the hot basal part of the thrust unit caused some reheating of the Carboniferous rocks on the upper part of the footwall.
The anchi-epizonal Precambrian rocks in the southwestern part of the study area have a well-developed slaty cleavage. In this area, a continuous thermal trend is observed across the unconformity between the Cambrian and Precambrian rocks, suggesting the absence of pre-Palaeozoic thermal events in the area. This metamorphism is different from the burial type described above and must be considered as the regional orogenic Variscan metamorphism which is widespread, together with the associated cleavage (S1 in the Westasturian-Leonese Zone), throughout the internal zones of the Iberian Variscan belt. According to 40Ar/39Ar dating in micas by Dallmeyer et al. [1997], the age of S1 in a locality of the Cantabrian coast in the eastern part of the Westasturian-Leonese Zone is 336 Ma. Since Variscan deformation migrated from the Westasturian-Leonese Zone towards the Cantabrian Zone [Pérez-Estaún et al., 1991], this age is considered a maximum age for S1 in the study area. On the other hand, the age of 321 Ma obtained for a S2 foliation in a shear zone in the Precambrian folds of the nearby Narcea antiform [Dallmeyer et al., 1997] would be a minimum age for S1 in the Cantabrian Zone. According to these data, the age of S1 and the associated regional metamorphism is early Carboniferous in the study area. This age is similar to that estimated for the climax of the very low-grade burial metamorphism, limited by the age of the younger sediments of the buried sequence (early to late Carboniferous) and that of the Variscan deformation in the area: late Carboniferous after Pérez-Estaún et al., [1988]. The age and disposition of the burial and the orogenic metamorphisms indicate that they could represent two manifestations of the regional metamorphism during the Carboniferous, being early episodes in the context of the Variscan deformation.
In addition to the metamorphism described above, development of late thermal episodes in the context of the tectonothermal evolution of the area is indicated by the following evidences:
existence of anchiepizonal KI values in the Westphalian rocks of the southern Central Coal basin. In this area, the low-grade metamorphism is accompanied by anthracites [Colmenero and Prado, 1993; Piedad-Sánchez et al., 2003], and has an associated subhorizontal cleavage that cuts through both longitudinal and radial folds [Aller, 1981, 1986; Aller et al., 1987]. The late character and the attitude of the cleavage suggest that this metamorphic episode might be associated with extensional tectonics. The southern limit of this metamorphic area with its associated cleavage roughly coincides with the León fault, which suggests a movement of this fault that raised the northern wall after the development of the metamorphism [Aller, 1986];
anchizonal KI values in the Ciñera-Matallana Stephanian basin and epizonal values in the La Magdalena Stephanian basin are associated with high coal ranks. Vitrinite reflectance values corresponding to the anchizone (% Rr > 2) have been measured in some areas of the Ciñera-Matallana basin [Frings, 2003; Frings et al., 2004]. These data indicate a temperature peak subsequent to the Stephanian B-C. KI values in the rocks from the Ciñera-Matallana and La Magdalena basins are lower than those found in the pre-Stephanian surrounding rocks (fig. 7⇑). This can be explained by the fact that the Stephanian sediments were deposited in areas bounded by faults where localised extension occurred. This tectonic setting enabled the rise of the hydrothermal fluids and magma and favoured development of unusually high geothermal gradients of 85°C/km [Frings et al., 2004]. Recent studies of fluid inclusions in the Ciñera-Matallana basin [Ayllon, 2003; Ayllón et al., 2003] indicate that, at peak temperatures, fluid temperature and pressure conditions were about 160–290°C and 3–48 MPa. In addition, at the time of the peak temperatures, the Stephanian sediments were probably less consolidated than the older rocks, which could have enhanced hydrothermal fluids motion and heat transfer. Colmenero and Prado [1993] refer to this fact to explain a comparable situation in a Stephanian basin located near Puerto Ventana, to the northwest of the study area;
CAI values ranging from 2 to 4.5 in the Middle-Upper Devonian rocks of the northern limb of the La Robla syncline and to the west of the Ciñera-Matallana basin present an anomalously higher mean and dispersion than the CAI values found in rocks of the same age in other sectors of the investigated area (mainly 2–3.5) (figs. 4⇑ and 5⇑). On the other hand, these anomalous values are developed on conodont elements that sometimes present sugary textures. The transformations could have been favoured by the intense faulting of the area, and could be a result of high heat flow associated with the ascent of hydrothermal fluids during the same metamorphic event that affected Stephanian B-C rocks. Analogous features have been interpreted in a similar way in other regions of the Variscan belt [Königshof, 2003]. The area with relatively high CAI values in the southern limb of the La Robla syncline could have been affected by the post-Stephanian B-C metamorphism observed in the La Magdalena basin, although an effect of the neighbouring regional metamorphism cannot be discarded. In agreement with the above discussion, the apparent folded pattern of the ancaizonal bands along the limbs of the La Robla syncline could be a consequence of the convergence of two bands following different trends, and not the result of folding of a single initial band (fig. 4⇑). The development of these low-ancaizonal areas is not associated with anchizonal conditions in the neighbouring pelitic rocks (fig. 7⇑). This is probably due to the different kinetics of the illitization and the carbonization of organic matter, as the former process is less sensitive to the time spent at a certain temperature [Hillier et al., 1995; Brime et al., 2001 Arkai et al., 2002 ]. This suggests that the faster and shorter the heating, the higher the CAI value corresponding to the KI in the diagenesis-anchizone boundary;
existence of relatively high diacaizonal CAI values in the western part of the Bodón Unit. Although in this area the cartographic trend of CAI isogrades is not well defined, CAI distribution does not follow a burial pattern (fig. 4⇑) and could be interpreted as another result of the late thermal events.
It is difficult to know at present whether the post-Stephanian B-C metamorphism of the Ciñera-Matallana and La Magdalena basins, and that of the southern part of the Central Coal basin, are different expressions of the same thermal event. The main analogy between them is that in both basins the metamorphism is associated with faults. Nevertheless, in the Central Coal basin the metamorphism has an associated subhorizontal cleavage, whereas in the Stephanian rocks this cleavage is absent and there are igneous rocks and evidence of associated hydrothermal fluids. In any case, the metamorphism developed in these areas is a result of late- or post-orogenic events.
The anchizonal values in the pelitic Carboniferous rocks of the Bodón Unit (fig. 7⇑) are located in the upper part of the footwall of a thrust sheet in which Cambrian rocks thrust over Westphalian rocks. These anchizonal values could be attributed to the late metamorphic events, but the fact that there are some diachizonal CAI values in the proximity and their restriction to the Carboniferous rocks of the footwall make this explanation unlikely. Discrepancies between KI values and thermal organic indicators have been described in Upper Carboniferous rocks from several areas of the Cantabrian Zone, and related to the presence of high-grade illite detrital crystals inherited from the source area, based on microprobe and diffractometry of illite [Castro et al., 2000; Brime et al., 2001; Brime et al., 2002; Castro and Brime, 2003]. This could be a possible explanation for the present case, and agrees with the absence of cleavage, which is usually present in the anchizonal Carboniferous rocks affected by the extensional late-Variscan thermal episode in the southern Central Coal basin. This detrital material, together with the late Palaeozoic thermal events, accounts for the mean KI values being lower in the Carboniferous than in the Devonian rocks (fig. 6⇑).
The interpretation about the thermal episodes presented above improves the understanding of the tectonothermal evolution of the Cantabrian Zone. At the same time, available data about low grade metamorphism in the Cantabrian Zone casts light on the age and meaning of the late thermal episodes of the study area.
The orogenic regional metamorphism, widespread in the hinterland of the belt, slightly penetrates in the northwestern, western and southwestern Cantabrian Zone, where the metamorphic front has been mapped [García-López et al., 1997; Bastida et al., 1999; Brime et al., 2001]. This metamorphism has an associated cleavage (S1 in the Westasturian-Leonese Zone). The epizone-anchizone boundary has been found in the Precambrian rocks of the Narcea antiform located within the Cantabrian Zone, whereas the anchizone-diagenetic zone boundary appears within lower Palaeozoic rocks [Pérez Estaún, 1978; Brime, 1985; Aller et al., 1987; Gutiérrez-Alonso and Nieto, 1996; Brime et al., 2001]. In the northern part of this antiform, the metamorphic front coincides with the thrust that places epizonal Precambrian rocks of the Westasturian-Leonese Zone over diagenetic Lower Devonian rocks of the Cantabrian Zone [Brime et al., 2001]. This inverted metamorphic pattern with metamorphic hiatus indicates that the orogenic metamorphism predates thrusting. Very low-grade burial metamorphism is also observed in other parts of the Cantabrian Zone, mainly in the Somiedo Unit [Bastida et al., 1999; Brime et al., 2001]. Breaks in thermal trend across the basal thrusts also indicate that this metamorphism basically predates the motion of the thrust units.
The metamorphism in extensional regime of the Carboniferous rocks in the southern part of the Central Coal basin is similar to the one that developed in the eastern part of the Cantabrian Zone, mainly in the Pisuerga-Carrión Unit (fig. 1⇑), where there is also a well-developed late-Variscan subhorizontal or north-dipping cleavage associated with the metamorphism. This metamorphism has a continuous trend through the late Carboniferous thrust that placed the Picos de Europa Unit over the Pisuerga-Carrión Unit [Bastida et al., 2004]. On the other hand, this cleavage is prior to the contact metamorphism associated with the Peña Prieta granodiorite in the Pisuerga-Carrión Unit [Gallastegui et al., 1990; Rodríguez-Fernández, 1994], whose age is 292 ± 2/3 Ma, according to the U-Pb geochronology by Valverde-Vaquero et al. [1999]. Hence, the age of the extensional late-Variscan metamorphism is close to the Carboniferous-Permian boundary.
In several areas of the Cantabrian Zone, the development of many ore deposits has been associated with moderate-temperature hydrothermal fluids, whose temperature is about 170–200°C after Gómez-Fernández et al. [1993, 2000]. These ore deposits have various morphologies, such as stratiform, vein deposits, karst fills, limestone breccias, mineralizations associated with faults, etc. [Martínez-García, 1981, 1983; Martínez-García and Tejerina, 1985; Martínez-García et al., 1991; García-Iglesias and Loredo-Pérez, 1992; Gómez-Fernández et al., 1993, 2000; Martín-Izard et al., 1995]. They can appear in post-orogenic Permian sediments, but never in the Mesozoic cover, and have been interpreted as originated at the beginning of the post-Variscan continental rifting [Martínez-García, 1981, 1983; Martínez-García and Tejerina, 1985; Martínez-García et al., 1991]. The existence of several anomalies in CAI values and textural alterations of conodonts in the Picos de Europa Unit (fig. 1⇑), in areas with a dense fault pattern and abundant mineral deposits, could be an indication of this hydrothermal episode [Bastida et al., 2004]. K-Ar ages in hydrothermally altered illites of about 270 Ma obtained by Weh et al. [2001] in the Pisuerga-Carrión Unit probably provide the age of this Permian hydrothermal episode. In the study area, Stephanian rocks were affected by at least one of the two late Palaeozoic extensional thermal episodes described above i. e. the extensional late Variscan episode and the extensional Permian episode. The hydrothermal activity described in the Ciñera-Matallana basin [Ayllón et al., 2003] and the notable thermal variation shown by the different indicators throughout the Stephanian basins support the notion that the hydrothermal event is linked to Permian extension. The absence of subhorizontal cleavage, commonly associated with the late-Variscan extensional episode, supports this interpretation.
A comparison between the CAI values of the study area and those of other areas of the Fold and Nappe Province (western nappes and northwestern part of the Cantabrian Zone) is shown in figure 5⇑ for rocks of different ages. In all cases, the CAI values are higher in the southern part of the Cantabrian Zone than in other parts of the Fold and Nappe Province. This increase is probably the result of the late Palaeozoic metamorphic events described above, whose effect was more intense in the southern part of the Cantabrian Zone.
The existence of pelitic Westphalian rocks with metamorphic features inherited from the source area has also been described in the Aramo Unit and the northern part of the Central Coal basin (fig. 1⇑) [Bastida et al., 1999; Castro et al., 2000; Brime et al., 2002; Castro and Brime, 2003]. Their presence indicates an erosion of Palaeozoic and perhaps Precambrian rocks during the Westphalian in areas towards the hinterland where Variscan deformation was taking place. It is also in agreement with the presence of Stephanian rocks lying unconformably over Precambrian rocks, indicating that during the Stephanian the previous Palaeozoic succession had been entirely eroded in some areas.
The southern Cantabrian Zone is an area affected by thin-skinned tectonics and located close to the internal zones of the orogen, where regional metamorphism and cleavage are widespread. The complex distribution of CAI and KI data in this area is the expression of several Palaeozoic tectono-thermal episodes, whose timing, structural and magmatic relationships have been synthesized in figure 8⇓. The study of these episodes has allowed us to reach the following conclusions.
– The regional orogenic Variscan metamorphism with associated cleavage affected the southwestern part of the study area, close to the Westasturian-Leonese Zone, where this metamorphism is widespread. This orogenic metamorphism is early Carboniferous in age.
– A burial metamorphism occurred prior to the motion of the thrust units as evidenced by the break in the thermal trend, with apparent inversion of the metamorphic gradient, at the base of the thrust units. Cooling took place during the rise and erosion of the hanging walls.
– An extensional late-Variscan metamorphic episode, with subhorizontal cleavage associated that postdates most of the folds in the area, affected the northernmost part of the study area. The spatial distribution of this event is controlled by a long E-W fault (León Fault) and its highest grade (anchizone-epizone) is located in the northern wall of this fault; that is, in the Westphalian rocks of the Central Coal basin. This metamorphism is comparable to that observed in other areas in the eastern part of the Cantabrian Zone, mainly in the Pisuerga-Carrión Unit, where an age close to the Carboniferous-Permian boundary has been established for this metamorphic episode.
– A metamorphic event is registered in the unconformable Stephanian B-C rocks of the southern part of the study zone (Ciñera-Matallana and La Magdalena basins). It reaches the anchizone in the Ciñera-Matallana basin and the epizone in the La Magdalena basin. In these basins there are small igneous basic intrusions and coal beds with high rank. This thermal episode also affected pre-Stephanian rocks, at least in the northern limb of the La Robla syncline. The higher metamorphic grade found in the Stephanian rocks can be explained by the structural location of the basins, partly bounded by faults, which enabled local tectonic extension and the rising of hydrothermal fluids and magma. This metamorphism was a probable result of the hydrothermal Permian episode described in several areas of the Cantabrian Zone. This episode is responsible for many mineral deposits and has been interpreted as a result of post-Variscan extension.
Mean CAI values are higher in the southern part of the Cantabrian Zone than in other areas of the Fold and Nappe province for rocks of the same age. This is probably due to the more intense development of the late- and post-Variscan thermal episodes in the southern part of the Cantabrian Zone.
The present work was supported by the Spanish Project BTE2003-01609 of the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER). We are grateful to Javier Sanz-López for his help, and to Richard J. Lisle and Peter Königshof for their valuable suggestions that notably improved the paper.
- Manuscript Received 4 January 2005.
- Manuscript Accepted 10 May 2005.


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Archive for Thursday, March 23, 2000
Overlay district put on hold
The DeSoto City Council put the creation of an overlay district between the city and Johnson County on hold Thursday night after some council members had concern over terms outlined in the agreement.
A joint planning agreement was made between the city and the county in 1998 after DeSoto annexed a large portion of county land, including a section along the K-10 Corridor. At the time of the annexation, county officials mandated a joint zoning review board be established to regulate new development within the annexed portions of the corridor.
The goal of the joint board was to form an overlay district.
The final step in that direction would be the approval of an intra-local agreement, giving the city and the county equal say in what can and cannot be built along certain portions of the corridor.
The overlay district would include just over six square miles, bordered on the east by Cedar Creek Road, on the west by Sunflower Road, on the north by the south side of 91st Street and on the south by 103rd Street. The overlay district would include 3.6 square miles on the city side and 2.6 square miles on the county side.
The Johnson County Board of Commissioners approved the agreement earlier Thursday. Commissioner Johnna Lingle passed that news along to the city council Thursday night.
DeSoto City Council member Tim Maniez told Lingle he had a problem with the arbitration section of the final agreement.
According to overlay district regulations, any disagreement between the city and the county would be decided by an independent arbitrator.
"I think if (the disputed area) is in DeSoto, DeSoto should get the final say. If it's in Johnson County, then Johnson County should get the final say as opposed to a third person," Maniez said.
Dave Peel, a Johnson County planner, told Maniez the attorneys who put the final agreement together wanted to ensure some form of closure if the agreement cannot be worked out. Peel said he didn't think an arbitrator would be necessary to settle disputes.
"I doubt there will be a dispute that gets that far," Peel said.
Maniez said he did not want to take that chance.
"I'm not quite willing to turn that over to a third party in hopes it will be fair and non-biased," he said. "I was elected to look out for this city. The people who elected us expect us to have some final say in what happens in our city."
Maniez asked Lingle if she believed he was out of line. The commissioner responded that she and Maniez thought a lot alike, but the agreement was already approved, as is, by the county. Lingle reminded Maniez the agreement was only for four years.
"If we have a problem in the future, we can change it then," she said.
Council president Duke Neeland said he would like to have another issue between the county and city decided before formalizing the overlay district.
When the city annexed the county land a year and a half ago, the county retained its fire protection authority. Residents now living in the city of DeSoto remain in the county's Fire District No. 3. City Council members have petitioned the county to detach the land from the district and allow the city to provide its fire protection. A decision on the matter is expected from the county within the next few weeks.
Because any new development requires the approval of a fire marshal, Neeland said he was not comfortable voting on the overlay district until he knew what the county's decision would be.
"Who will be the fire marshal? Will Fire District No. 3 be making these decisions for us?" Neeland asked. "I think we should table this until we find out about the fire district.
Mayor Steve Prudden said he understood the council members' concerns, but he hoped the issue would not be a deal breaker.
"I see what you're saying there, but I see a lot of hard working going down the drain," he said.
Lingle told Neeland that she was not free to discuss the fire district situation.
"The fire department cannot legally be part of any other consideration by me," she said. "I cannot legally attach those two issues together."
Council member Linda Zindler, a member of the committee that helped develop the overlay district guidelines, said any concerns over those issues should have been brought up earlier.
"This will do nothing but strengthen what developers can expect from us," she said. "It's a win-win situation with DeSoto benefiting the most."
Zindler made a motion to approve the district for a period of four years. The motion died when it was not seconded by any of her fellow council members.
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Red Wings early overnight report: Zengerle unofficially signed; TV talk & development camp leftovers
by George Malik on 07/22/14 at 09:45 PM ET
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It's not the possibly imminent and possibly not imminent re-signing of Tomas Tatar, but the University of Wisconsin's made official a signing I'd mentioned last Friday--the Griffins' signing of a speedy playmaking forward named Mark Zengerle--and I quote from the University of Wisconsin Badgers' press release:
Mark Zengerle (Rochester, N.Y.) will be gainfully employed come this fall as Wisconsin hockey's top assist man from the last four seasons has signed a one-year contract with the Grand Rapids Griffins of the AHL. Grand Rapids is the top minor-league affiliate of the Detroit Red Wings.
It ends an illustrious collegiate career for Zengerle, whose 162 career points are the most at UW since head coach Mike Eaves took over the program in 2002. The point total also ranks 24th in Wisconsin history. His 125 assists are the seventh-most in program history.
The senior made the most of his final season in Madison, leading the Badgers and ranking second in the Big Ten with 44 points, while also leading the conference with 33 helpers. The regular season effort earned him first-team All-Big Ten accolades, but Zengerle's performance in the Big Ten tournament is what will go down as the highlight of his season.
He opened the tournament by assisting on Michael Mersch's (Park Ridge, Ill.) game-winning goal late in the second period to send UW past Penn State and into the inaugural Big Ten tournament championship against Ohio State. Against the Buckeyes, his two assists helped the Badgers rebound from a pair of two-goal deficits and force overtime, and his goal 7:48 into the extra period gave Wisconsin the tournament title and led to Zengerle being named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.
He departs Wisconsin leaving a major void to fill, as he had played in over 36 games in each of his four seasons with the team and accumulated more than 23 assists in each year. He had more than 30 assists in three seasons, becoming only the fifth Badger ever to accomplish the feat. He ended his Wisconsin career on a 10-game point streak.
Zengerle's 25 and he's 5'11" and 182 pounds, but the right-shooting forward's stats break down as follows (see: he's a playmaker and thensome), per USCHO:
Season Team GP G A TP PIM +/-
2010-11 Univ. of Wisconsin 41 5 31 36 51 0
2011-12 Univ. of Wisconsin 37 13 37 50 38 1
2012-13 Univ. of Wisconsin 36 9 23 32 8 11
2013-14 Univ. of Wisconsin 37 10 34 44 29 10
The Wings have already inked forwards Kevin Porter and Andy Miele to 2-way contracts, ditto for goaltender Tom McCollum, the Griffins brought back defenseman Brennan Evans on an AHL deal, Ferris State University forward Shane Berschbach signed an AHL deal, and now Zengerle gets the chance to prove that he's worth an NHL contract a year from now.
He's on Twitter at @Zengerle9, too.
Otherwise...If you missed it, WDIV's David Bartkowiak, the Detroit News's Ted Kulfan and MLive's Brendan Savage all confirm that the Red Wings are going to be on NBC or NBCSN 15 times this upcoming season:
Wed Oct 15, 2014 Boston vs. Detroit at 8:00 PM ET on NBCSN <--"Rivalry Night" game
Wed Oct 29, 2014 Detroit @ Washington at 7:30 PM ET on NBCSN <--"Rivalry Night" game
Wed Nov 5, 2014 Detroit @ NY Rangers at 8:00 PM ET on NBCSN <--"Rivalry Night" game
Wed Nov 26, 2014 Philadelphia vs. Detroit at 7:30 PM ET on NBCSN <--"Rivalry Night" game
Wed Dec 10, 2014 Toronto vs. Detroit at 8:00 PM ET on NBCSN <--"Rivalry Night" game
Mon Dec 29, 2014 Detroit @ Boston at 7:00 PM ET on NBCSN
Sun Jan 18, 2015 Buffalo vs. Detroit at 8:00 PM ET on NBCSN
Thu Feb 5, 2015 Detroit @ Colorado at 9:00 PM ET on NBCSN
Wed Feb 11, 2015 Detroit @ Pittsburgh at 8:00 PM ET on NBCSN <--"Rivalry Night" game
Wed Feb 18, 2015 Detroit @ Chicago at 7:30 PM ET on NBCSN <--"Rivalry Night" game
Wed Mar 4, 2015 NY Rangers vs. Detroit at 8:00 PM ET on NBCSN <--"Rivalry Night" Game
Sunday March 8 2015 Detroit @ Boston at 7:30 PM ET on NBC or NBCSN <--This game might be on NBC and might be on NBCSN
Sun Mar 15, 2015 Detroit @ Pittsburgh at 7:30 PM ET on NBC or NBCSN <--Ditto
Sun Mar 22, 2015 St. Louis vs. Detroit at 12:30 PM ET on NBC
Thu Apr 2, 2015 Boston vs. Detroit at 7:30 PM ET on NBCSN
Regarding the rink project, again, the "papers" haven't talked about it very much, but the local news stations have stated--repeatedly--that the "District Detroit" should provide some sorely-needed real estate for people who want to live and work downtown. CBS Detroit's Edward Cardenas penned an article about said aspect, and there's a video accompanying the story if you're interested:
"It definitely bridges the gap between downtown and midtown," said Jessica Krug, Director of Banker Relations at In-House Realty.
Krug made the comments following the first day of the [Live Downtown] games in Campus Martius Park. The games, along with charity efforts such as building emergency preparedness kits for the Red Cross, are an opportunity to introduce the changes to the region.
"It is really a great time for people who don't live in the city, or aren't familiar with the city, to come down and see what we are all doing down here," she said. "There is a great vibe."
Noel Pinchum works downtown at Quicken Loans and is excited about the proposed development – especially the diversity of options including housing.
"Now that I'm looking to possibly move, it makes it that much better," said Pinchum, who currently lives in Farmington Hills. "We are not just a game day city. You can do anything down here."
Having more options downtown is appealing to Dana Davis, who has lived downtown for five years and works at DTE Energy.
"I've really had a chance to see the whole energy change, and see the residences change, as well,"Davis said. "I'm really looking forward to some retail. I've always said if I could buy a pair of jeans downtown, I know the city is back."
Shifting focus back to prospect news, Michigan Hockey's Nick Barnowski spoke with someone who looked like he was all of 17 in summer development camp try-out and defenseman River Rymsha...
The son and nephew of pro hockey players Andy and Steve Rymsha, respectively, River is focused on becoming the next member of the family to rise to the top levels of the game.
The Huntington Woods native will be attending Dartmouth College in the fall, but first he made a stop at the Detroit Red Wings' annual development camp from July 4-8 in Traverse City.
"Growing up in Michigan, I've been going to Wings games since I was a little kid," said the 17-year-old Rymsha. "You watch the Lidstroms and the Kronwalls, all of those guys, you learn from them, and to wear the same jersey as them, it's quite an honor."
Despite being one of the youngest players at the camp, Rymsha was upbeat about the way he performed while Red Wings GM Ken Holland and Assistant GM Ryan Martin, among others, were watching.
"I learned that I can compete with the best of the best," Rymsha said. "I learned that you can go to another level even when you don't think you can."
And Octopus Thrower's Peter Fish spoke with someone who has a little higher ceiling in the Wings' first-round draft pick and incoming University of Michigan freshman Dylan Larkin (and this is apparently part 1 of a 3-part article):
The biggest surprise about Larkin is that he is not afraid to be a physical player in the corners or out in front of the net. Usually a player who needs to add more strength and weight is a bit wary about heading into a corner or getting in a battle in front of the net with a bigger player, but not Larkin.
Larkin talked about going to the net and said, "I like to score goals, so you gotta go to those areas to score goals. You see the NHL and even in the Playoffs this year most of the goals were from the point with guys in front, so that is how you score goals now."
Dylan Larkin will have to work on his strength in order to battle efficiently with NHLers, but he was given a good base by the Detroit Red Wings training staff and will have two or three years to develop with the strength and conditioning staff at Michigan.
There are times when Larkin was thinking too much about the drill or what he was going to do with the puck and it allowed the defenseman to close down on him and make like harder on the young forward. More often than not Dylan was still able to make the play, but even in the NCAA there will not be enough time for him to think while playing.
As Fish states in the balance of his article, Larkin did indeed look 17--a little underpowered, a little less than a finished product--but that's why he's going the college route.
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And finally, Puck Daddy's Harrison Mooney's "Puck Headlines" included an article in which Chicago Blackhawks president John McDonough spoke with CSN Chiago's Nina Falcone regarding the team's annual fan convention. Do you think that this would be a good idea for the Wings?
"I think one of the missions of the Blackhawks Convention is to humanize these guys," Blackhawks president and CEO John McDonough said. "Again, make them have a common man's touch to professional sports. If there is any innocence left in professional sports — and I'm not sure that there is — I truly believe that it's in hockey.
"For the most part, these guys come up and they're not wildly heralded, they're not coming from some Big Ten program where everybody knows about them, or they're not coming from a school where you hear a lot about them. They go to the minor leagues."
At the start of the weekend, the players talked about how impressed they are by the turnout year after year; this year over 10,000 tickets sold out in less than a day.
They were excited to be all together again in Chicago, and to give their fans a special weekend to thank them for all of their support.
"I think [the players] were blown away with what they saw at the convention," McDonough said. "I think Blackhawks fans now feel they have something very special of their own."
Update: Detroit turns "313" today, and as such, the Free Press named its "All-Time Detroit Sports Teams." Among them:
The 1997 Detroit Red Wings: The Red Wings ended Detroit's 42-year wait for its eighth Stanley Cup. After a so-so regular season, the Wings stormed through the playoffs, beating St. Louis in six, Anaheim in four, Colorado in six and Philadelphia in four. Goalie Mike Vernon won the Conn Smythe. More key Wings: Captain Steve Yzerman, Nick Lidstrom, Brendan Shanahan and Igor Larionov.
The 2002 Detroit Red Wings: The Hall of Fame team. Before the NHL instituted a salary cap, owner Mike Ilitch was able to spend as much as he wanted to bring players to Hockeytown. And what a crew he assembled, with seven current Hockey Hall of Famers (Chris Chelios, Dominik Hasek, Brett Hull, Igor Larionov, Luc Robitaille, Brendan Shanahan and Steve Yzerman) and likely three future ones: Nicklas Lidstrom, Sergei Fedorov and Pavel Datsyuk. You might never see another team like that, except for NHL All-Star Games.
The Free Press's Helene St. James completes her Atlantic Division survey with a glance at the Florida Panthers, who've improved significantly...
The Panthers have to entice players to come to Florida, the lure being more money than they'd get elsewhere. So far this summer, Dave Bolland, Jussi Jokinen, Shawn Thornton and Willie Mitchell have taken the bait to come play for a team that ranks among the lowest in the NHL in home attendance and that has made the playoffs once in the past 13 seasons.
The Panthers bought out defenseman Ed Jovanovski and saw Tom Gilbert depart to Montreal. They've also changed coaches, bringing in former Wings forward Gerard Gallant to help with the turnaround.
Bolland, last with Toronto, brings depth at center along with Nick Bjugstad and Aleksander Barkov, and Jokinen gives the Panthers another winger to use in the top-six mix along with Jonathan Huberdeau and Tomas Fleischmann. Training camp will determine where Aaron Ekblad, the No. 1 overall pick from this summer's draft, will fit.
The Panthers should be better defensively as they will have Roberto Luongo in goal. Luongo isn't the elite netminder of a few years ago, but he is a definite upgrade over last season's No. 1, Tim Thomas.
And DetroitRedWings.com's Bill Roose's latest "Red Wings Firsts"profile involves Xavier Ouellet:
The 20-year-old was called up from the Grand Rapids Griffins on Oct. 21 and made his NHL debut with Detroit during the team's 1-0 shootout loss to San Jose. The defenseman skated in place of Jonathan Ericsson, whose fiancé delivered the couple's first child, a daughter named Liv.
"I was really excited," Ouellet said of making his debut. "I was happy to have my opportunity and I just wanted to get the best of it. It's a loss so it's kind of hard to say I feel good but I'm pretty proud of my game. There are a few things to still work on but it was really exciting and a great experience."
The Bayonne, France, native returned to Grand Rapids the following day, and appeared in three more regular-season games throughout the season, making a lasting impression on his coaches and teammates during his short time wearing the Winged Wheel.
"I think he played very well, he made it easy on myself too," defenseman Brendan Smith said. "I think he's got a lot of skill and he understands the NHL or the professional way to play. You have to get the puck in the top guy's hands, we have some great forwards and he understood that. He made the easy, simple play and that's how he stayed out of trouble and it actually ended up working out really well for our D pairing."
In 23 shifts during his debut, Ouellet avoided committing any turnovers and spent his time on the bench soaking up knowledge from his fellow defensemen. Smith spent a lot of time after shifts talking to Ouellet to ease the transition between the Griffins and Red Wings systems, a gesture that the rookie greatly appreciated.
"They're the best players in the world so I learned a lot, how to prepare and get ready on the ice talking and just learning how to play with a lot of structure," Ouellet said. "These are things I learn every day here."
Update #2: MLive's Brendan Savage emptied out his notebook via an interview with Andreas Athanasiou:
Athanasiou has blossomed into a major goal scorer since being taken by the Red Wings in the 2012 NHL draft and it's not a stretch to say he's flashier than Mantha given his stick-handling abilities, creativity with the puck and outstanding skating ability.
"He's unbelievably fast," said fellow Red Wings prospect Tyler Bertuzzi, who played against Athanasiou in OHL.
Like Mantha, Athanasiou is destined to begin his pro career full-time in Grand Rapids of the AHL this season.
But doesn't mean the highly confident forward won't have an NHL roster spot on his mind when training camp begins in September.
"I think that's everyone's expectation no matter how far or how close it is," said Athanasiou, who scored 49 goals for the OHL's Barrie Colts last season. "Everyone's expectation is to become a National Hockey League player. That's what I'm going to strive for.
"If I come up short, I'm going to be ready for wherever I go next year. I think I have the ability to play in the NHL. It's just a matter of how soon."
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George; awhile back, I got into an argument with one of my Canadian friends from Windsor. The topic? The best teams of all-time. The qualifier was that you couldn't pick two champions from the same dynasty, so some teams were omitted.
Our consensus, in no particular order, was the 2001-02 Wings (obviously the best), 1976-77 Canadians, 1983-84 Oilers, 1981-82 Islanders, and the 1971-72 Bruins.
Would your list be any different?
Posted by ZandPasha11 on 07/23/14 at 06:58 AM ET
Interesting info about Smith and Ouellet. Glad to see Smith taking that kind of leadership role and trying to teach. Although Smith has some things to learn, I've found teaching to be a great way to learn in my lifetime. I've long predicted Smith will turn out to be a really good defenseman. I expect this season or next season that he'll have a breakout year.
Posted by VitoLambruski on 07/23/14 at 09:56 AM ET
I'd love for the Wings to hold a fan convention. The Tigers do their Winter Caravan, so it's not like Olympia doesn't realize the value it has.
You'd think that a team that sells itself as "Hockeytown" would be more involved with selling hockey. (Not to say the Wings are lacking in terms of public outreach, they certainly have plenty of community events for children and charity.)
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DES MOINES, Iowa, Feb. 5 (UPI) -- Caucus results that handed Hillary Clinton a triumphant victory over Bernie Sanders in Iowa earlier this week may not be exactly how they were officially listed.
Democratic party officials have reportedly confirmed that parts of Monday's results are being reviewed after some purported discrepancies were uncovered.
The Des Moines Register reported Friday that a state party spokesman had confirmed at least one discrepancy in the delegate count.
"Both the Sanders and Clinton campaigns have flagged a very small number of concerns for us, and we are looking at them all on a case-by-case basis," Iowa Democratic Party spokesman Sam Lau told the Register.
The state's Democratic chairwoman, Andy McGuire, said earlier this week that an audit would not be performed and that Clinton's win was assured.
A review of the final tally could potentially have an impact on Sanders' finish. The Vermont senator performed well in Iowa, but fell just short of a victory. Clinton's win margin was just a few delegates and about 0.3 percentage points -- making Monday's the closest result in the state's caucus history.
The Iowa caucuses, for both Democrats and Republicans, are considered critical events of primary season -- the results from which, most analysts believe, could literally make or break a candidate's campaign.
Sen. Ted Cruz won the Republican vote, which was subsequently disputed by both Donald Trump and Ben Carson. The final tally listed Cruz ahead of Trump by more than 3 percentage points and 6,000 votes. Carson finished fourth, behind Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
The Register said it has received numerous reports of discrepancies between final results posted online by state Democratic officials and those announced at various precincts Monday night.
In one precinct cited by the Register's report, Sanders won 19 delegates to Clinton's 7 -- but the party's official results differed by one delegate in Clinton's favor.
"19-7 is right," Pablo Silva, secretary of that precinct, said. "On Monday night, the Iowa Democratic Party felt we had not done it right and they attempted to correct what they saw as errors."
Lau confirmed that particular discrepancy, the Register reported.
However, there would need to be many more discrepancies for Iowa to hand Clinton a retroactive defeat. The example cited above wouldn't even amount to one-tenth of a delegate in Sanders' favor.
Clinton's camp has been critical of Sanders this week for suggesting "conspiracy theories" about the Iowa vote. Her Iowa campaign manager, Matt Paul, wrote a post online earlier Friday titled, "Hillary Clinton won Iowa. End of story."
"Now that the caucus is over, they are calling into question the results that were reported by Iowans," he wrote. "It was a close contest and a hard fought campaign. But Hillary won."
"They'll look at the numbers reported that night, check the math and figure out if there are any discrepancies or misallocation of delegates," Paul said of the Iowa Democratic Party. "Even if the Sanders campaign were to win all of their challenges -- the marginal bump they receive in support would not be enough to overcome Hillary Clinton's win margin. Those are just the facts."


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Kuharsky also wonders if players really "won" anything with OTA limits.
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Ganguli thinks money will keep Mike Thomas on the roster.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. The morning after hearing about the fatal tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo, Ed Diebold headed straight for the big-cat exhibit at Riverbanks Zoo in Columbia, S.C.
"I stood in front of that exhibit for an hour, just checking it out," said Diebold, director of animal collections at Riverbanks. "It's sobering."
The death in San Francisco on Tuesday after a tiger escaped has all zoos re-examining their exhibits and safety procedures.
"Any animal at any given time is capable of doing something you don't anticipate," said Satch Krantz, executive director at Riverbanks.
Krantz, who also is chairman of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, noted the San Francisco case marks the first visitor killed by an animal at an accredited U.S. zoo. Zoo authorities nationwide await the results of the investigation.
Late Thursday, San Francisco Zoo officials disclosed that their moat wall is 12 1/2 feet high, well below industry standard.
Riverbanks officials are confident their exhibit designs and daily practices keep people and zoo animals safe. But even with nearly 50 locks on doors in the gorilla barn and a 22-foot wide "moat" with a 17-foot sheer wall in the tiger exhibits, zoo officials never stop worrying.
Riverbanks' tiger exhibit is similar to San Francisco's, but with a deeper moat really a ditch, since it doesn't contain water. The tigers can climb down ledges into the moat, but the side closest to zoo visitors is sheer. Diebold has a hard time fathoming a zoo tiger jumping across the moat. Two of Riverbanks' three tigers have joint ailments that make it difficult for them even to climb back up the ledges on the inside of the moat.
Still, when Diebold checked out the exhibit Wednesday, he was doing what is done every day, only with less urgency. The daily routine for keepers includes a walk around each exhibit, checking moats and barriers to make sure they're intact and free of fallen limbs or other debris.
That's one of several safety procedures, including:
* Removable signs on doors that indicate whenever a keeper is in the barns or in the exhibit.
* At least two locked doors at each large mammal barn. The padlocks require keys; keepers have keys only for the area in which they work.
* Checks of all locks before entering or leaving. Failing to lock a door is a firing offense, with no second chances.
* Bans on keepers placing any body part inside the wire mesh cages.
Each keeper also is equipped with pepper spray and a radio. On the rare instance when a call goes out about the most serious emergency Riverbanks has 12 staffers with South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division training and access to rifles.
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Prominent Egyptian actor Nour El Sharif has refused to compare his upcoming television drama "Al Dali" to any of his former works. The actor held a press conference to announce the launch of filming the first scenes of the drama, which he describes as a turning point for him in the television world.
According to the Qatar based daily, Al Raya, the drama revolves around the journey of a young man from rags to riches. The young man leaves his home to go abroad to study and work then returns a very wealthy man who strives to fight poverty in every way possible.
Throughout the events of the drama, Nour will play the role of a minister in the era of the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. The minister will have duel personality of good and evil and becomes involved in corrupt schemes that eventually ruin the lives of many.
The drama "Al Dali" will be aired this upcoming Ramadan season.
The drama focuses on traditional social values held by older generations which today's generation lack.
Written by Walid Yousif and directed by Yousef Sharaf Al Din, the drama costars Majida Zaki, Sawsan Badr, Mahmoud Al Jundi, Salah Abdullah, and Al Muntaser Billah.
Nour's most recent drama, "Hadret Al Mutaham Abi" (My Father the Accused), tackled social issues such as disputes between families of different social classes, the spread of violence, drugs and juvenile misconduct.
Nour plays the role of an Arabic teacher and a school counselor whose eldest son's engages in an affair with a young woman from an upper class family. Nour attempts to resolve the problems facing his family from the affair, but is caught in a cycle of self-blame.


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One way to relieve resources when executing a program on constrained devices is to migrate parts of it to other machines in a distributed system. Ideally, a system can automatically decide where to place parts of a program to satisfy resource constrains (CPU, memory bandwidth, battery power, etc.). The authors describe a compiler and virtual machine infrastructure as the context for research in automatic program partitioning and optimization for distributed execution. They define program partitioning as the process of decomposing a program into multiple tasks. The main motivation for their design is to enable experimenting with optimizing program execution on resource-constrained devices with respect to memory consumption, CPU time, battery lifetime and communication.


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Black Hills State University will host the Spearfish Area Chamber of Commerce Gone Fishin' Mixer Thursday, Nov. 6 from 5 – 7 p.m. at Clare and Josef Meier Hall on the campus of BHSU.
Black Hills Corporation and BHSU are both commemorating their 125th anniversary.
Black Hills Corporation will be recognized at the mixer for their recent generous scholarship donation to the University. Refreshments will be available and entertainment will be provided by The Five Guys.
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Adelaide Airport is located fewer than 10 kilometres from Adelaide's CBD and is one of the busiest airports in Australia. It serves more than seven million passengers annually through the nearly one hundred daily flights to Adelaide that travel into the airport every day, and departing flights from Adelaide to cities Melbourne, Brisbane,Sydney and Perth moving travellers from across the country and around the world.Visitors to Adelaide can enjoy the benefits of rental cars, taxis, shuttle buses, or public transport buses to take them into the city, where they can then begin their visits in earnest.
The city is known as the most liveable city in Australia, thanks in part to its moderate weather, carefully designed layout, and diverse culture. Located scenically between Gulf St Vincent and the Mount Lofty Ranges, Adelaide was originally planned as South Australia's capital and was laid out in a grid pattern with spacious public areas and plentiful parklands. It was founded by those in search of religious freedom and continues to be known for its progressive thinking and dedication to personal liberty.
Adelaide is also a green city with carbon neutral races and zero-waste events where earthworms are used to help compost waste into plant food. The city provides bicycles to residents and visitors free for their use around the city, and solar-powered buses transport visitors across Adelaide.
You will have plenty of options for entertainment and activities during your visit here. The wine capital of Australia, Adelaide has cultural, art, and music festivals and a multitude of dining options that include pubs, al fresco cafes, coffee houses, and finer restaurants. Family friendly activity options include the botanical gardens and zoos or Kangaroo Island.
All of Australia's major cities are known for their lively shopping districts, but Adelaide has put its own unique spin on its shopping district, with farmers' markets filled with fresh in-season, non-GMO fruits and vegetables that you can purchase directly from the growers and kid-friendly interactive stalls. Vintage fashions, collectibles, antiques, and more are all available in Adelaide's markets.


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Brad Hudson: Even though my group is called the Boulder Performance Group, I coach four individuals, and this time around I had two athletes at sea level, Dathan Ritzenhein and Jason Hartmann, and two athletes at altitude, James Carney and Ed Torres, who are now at sea level. Ed is in Chicago and James is in State College, Pennsylvania. I coach them all very differently. We don't train the same each cycle; it changes a little bit. We keep trying to do things better. I wouldn't say we are either speed or strength. We try to utilize what is going to work best for each individual athlete.
Altitude is a topic we've been talking about for decades. What is your current thinking? Coach (Joe) Vigil says something near 7000 feet is ideal. Could you outline your philosophy of where altitude fits into the training of a marathoner?
BH: I have two athletes at altitude and two athletes at sea level. I just want to emphasize that we believe strongly in altitude training. Some athletes do a little bit better at altitude than our others. The real reason that we're using Eugene (Oregon) at sea level right now is because of the soft surfaces, and the last month of training, all my athletes are at sea level doing more specific work for the marathon. We believe strongly and altitude and we think Boulder is a great place for training.... It's 5200 feet or 5300, and we actually think the stress and the time are a little bit slower than that. So I don't necessarily believe in any sort of magic altitude.... It's just how you use it in training and how you prepare specifically for a race. At the end of the day, the races are at sea l level, and so I think using sea level in our training takes a little bit of the mystery out of how we're going to do in the race. We know where we're going, especially close to the race.
TM: The mystery with altitude is that people get a little too complicated with it. I consider altitude as a stressor on an athlete's typical training regimen, and I don't see it actually as that much different than the stressor or, let's say, weigh training or running up a hill or doing sprints. If you look at it like that, you're obviously going to see that different athletes are going to adapt differently to different stresses on their body. For example, there are certain athletes who get quicker gains in the weight room than another athlete, and the same applies to altitude. So what we look at is altitude as a stressor component within our system, so it's going to be different for different types of athletes. One, it's going to vary from year to year, depending on how long an athlete has been at altitude .... I don't think there's a magic in terms if saying "hey, there's an altitude of 7000 feet, and that's the best altitude," because for a new athlete, maybe 4000 feet or 5000 feet is the stress that their body can handle at that time given all the other stresses that are going on in the training work load, be it volume, speed, intensity, density.... If we take someone like a Ryan Hall, who's pretty much been at altitude, 6000 feet or higher, since he was a young boy, his adaptation to that stress as such isn't as hard as the next person. What we've actually looked at this year Ryan is we've brought him up to 9000 feet because we found we weren't getting as much of a stress at 8000 feet and we're looking to add that tiny bit of stimulus to the system to improve his running economy.
KH: Obviously, our group trains in the suburbs of Detroit and we like the training area because it is very soft surfaces. Eighty percent of our mileage is probably done on dirt, between trails and dirt roads. Certainly I agree with Terrence; it's obvious that running at altitude is a stressor.... A Brian Sell, for example, counters that will running very high volume. Brian is a consistent 150-plus milers per week athlete when he's training for a marathon. That's the sort of thing that gives Brian confidence. Brian would be a good example, in my opinion, of somebody who would have difficulty at altitude because it would be somewhat suicidal of him to run his 150 to 160 miles per week at altitude .... It would actually be, in my opinion, a disadvantage with the mentality that Brian has and the strength that he gains from that mentality to put him at altitude.
What are the advantage or disadvantages of having the race on a loop course? It obviously has a lot of hills. Does it favor any particular runners?
KH: It's very spectator-friendly. You can run back and forth and see them two times a loop. There's some rolling terrain in the course and obviously we've seen faster runs in everything up to the half-marathon distance on this course. So I think that the course can run fairly fast. I wouldn't say it's a fast course, but using different muscle groups with the ups and downs in the hills can sometimes be advantageous in the marathon. I like the course a lot. As far as favoring any individuals, everybody knows what the course is and I'm sure everybody's adapted their training to prepare.
BH: Having a loop course that's spectator-friendly in New York City the day before the New York City Marathon is kind of what our sport has needed for a very long time to promote the sport.... Everybody that's running the New York City Marathon will have an opportunity to watch the U.S. Olympic Trials. As far as the course, I think there's a lot of action on the course. Essentially, that means there's a lot of action on the course. Essentially, that means that there's change going on as far as up and downs and grades. I think it's going to wear on people. But I think we've down the best that we can preparing the athletes for the Central Park course and I think most people do know the course.
TM: The important thing to understand with an Olympic Trials race .... is when you have an event that's only going to have 100 or 150 athletes running, it's pretty hard to get thousands of spectators to line a 26-mile course that's NOT a loop course. In some of the past Trials, as a participant myself, there were many dead zones out there in different cities, not to be disrespectable to cities that had them .... I was at the women's Trials last time in St. Louis and it was great to have that many people out where they're only having to fill a four or five-mile, so you're not required as many spectators to keep it exciting for the athletes as they're going. The ability for coaches to be able to get on multiple spots on the course is very helpful for the athletes. I don't think it's boring at all.... These kids will be able to monitor what their loop splits are as a whole and kind of get out of the mentality of just paying attention to one mile versus the next. It will give them some good barometer checks along the way to see how they're doing, whereas in a triple New York City Marathon course, you don't know how much effort to put forth going over that 59the Street (Queensborough) Bridge because you're not going to come at it again. So these kids will kind of go through a learning curve as they go each loop around the course, and I think that's very advantageous.
There's talk that this is the best U.S. men's marathon field since the days of Frank Shorter and Bill Rodgers in the '70s. Could you comment on that, and have training centers like yours been a key ingredient in upgrading the depth of American marathoning?
KH: I would go so far as to say it's the deepest ever, not just (as good as) the '70s and '80s. I can't think of another time when we've had all three (Olympic ) marathon athletes coming back and running (Alan Culpepper, Meb Keflezighi, Dan Browne) and then we add to that field a Khalid Khannouchi, who's the American record holder as well as former world record holder in the event, and then you add an Abdi Abdirahman, who's run under 2:09 in the event, and add a Ryan Hall, who's run under 2:09 in the event, and let's not forget Mbarek Hussein, who's also run under 2:09 in the event that weren't in the (Trials) field last time. And that's not including Brian Sell and Dathan Ritzenhein. For the top eight or so, it's deeper than it's ever been. As someone who started a group in '99, I thought it was a huge component, the group training mindset and aspect, to developing a large group of 2:15, 2:14 guys who would push the guys who were running in the past 2:12 and 2:13 and be dominant marathoners in the United States. No longer can that be dominant in the United States because there's a large group that can do that and that again pushes the guys who are running 2:10, and so on and so forth. I really think that's how development needs to take place.
BH: The Trials field is not only strong up front with a lot of young athletes and veteran athletes that have had great careers and have Olympic medals, but there's a lot of depth, and I think that's important to the sport. Not only are we top heavy right now, but we have a lot of depth, and I think not since maybe 1980, when (Tony) Sandoval won the Trials and we had all those guys run 2:10 in Buffalo - this is probably a little bit better. And I think it is coming from the training groups. Athletes are seeing other athletes do well in the U.S. - Matt Tegenkamp running well, Dathan Ritzenhein, Brian Sell, Meb, Ryan Hall. The younger athletes are training harder; some of that has to do with the Internet, seeing what people are doing.
Besides the eight or so names most often mentioned as Trials contender, can you name one person who might break through - other than the ones you're coaching?
TM: If I'm looking at that, I guess I'm going to say there's NOT going to be a breakthrough in the top three ... The types of guys are entering this race as compared to the last one (the 2004 Trials), I don't think they're guys who are going to let anyone go, so to speak. You're not going to get a Teddy Mitchell who's going to take off for the first half of this race and have guys not go with it. I know the style of, like, Abdi (Abdirahman) and how Abdi runs and there's no way he's letting anyone have a minute lead halfway into a race. And when Abdi goes, Meb's gonna go, Ryan's gonna go, Brian Sell's gonna go, Dan Browne's gonna go, so on and so forth, and the ball's just going to start rolling from there. And so I think it's going to eliminate anyone doing a kind of a sneak attack in there, and least for the top spots.
KH: I'll say Jason Lehmkuhle or Josh Rohatinsky, the NCAA champ in cross country, are two guys who definitely have the tools to surprise. I think it's going to be a very competitive race for the top three.


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Pat Payton, Gazette sports editor

The youngest player on the Canadian National Junior Men's Paralympic basketball squad is a Grade 11 student at Stratford St. Michael Secondary School.

Eric Voss, 16, was recently named to the U-23 team after a series of selection camps. The final camp was held just before Christmas in Scarborough.

"All the camps were really hard, and really high-calibre," the RR 7 St. Marys resident told the Gazette in a recent interview. "It kind of takes it to the next level."

Voss is one of 12 players on the national team, plus there are two alternates. Thirty to 40 players attempted to win a spot when the numerous selection tryouts began about two years ago.

Voss and the Canadian squad will now attempt to qualify for the World tournament in Adana, Turkey in September. Their qualifier is March 11-17 in Mexico City, and the Canadians must finish first or second in that tournament to punch their ticket to Turkey.

The team's "ultimate" goal is to medal should they reach the Worlds, Voss says.

Canada is currently ranked eighth in the world. After Canada won the World title in both 1997 and 2001, the team finished sixth in 2005 and eighth in 2009.

Voss is a point guard on the U-23 team. He notes that since he's the youngest player on the team, he likely won't be a starter. He sees himself "coming off the bench" and playing more of a supportive role to the more experienced players.

As a guard, he says he likes bringing the ball up the court and "setting up" his teammates. "I started out (as a youngster) playing with a ball, so it just came natural that I always carried a ball. I just got used to it."

When he hits the court in Mexico in mid-March, it won't be Voss's first time competing at a high level of wheelchair basketball. He was a member of Ontario's U-23 basketball team, which captured the silver medals at the 2011 Canadian Winter Games in Halifax.

Voss has been playing wheelchair basketball for the past six years. He competes in track and field at St. Mikes, but basketball is "definitely" his favourite sport.

To prepare for the Mexico qualifier, Voss is doing a lot of training on his own.

"We don't get together that much (as a team), only a couple of times a month," he explained. "The rest is left to the individual, and I have to find my own court time."

Voss shoots hoops about four times a week at schools in St. Marys, Stratford and London.

"I also work out at home with weights and stuff," he added.

Voss says it's very important to be in top shape for international competition. "Basketball is pretty physically gruelling and you have to be at the top of your game."

Notes:

• Voss is also a member of a London Senior wheelchair hoops team.

• The basketball coaches at St. Mikes have been very supportive of Voss's basketball endeavours, he says.

• Voss is the son of Matt and Heather Voss, who plan on making the trip to Mexico City in mid-March for the qualifier.


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Statistics have entered the life sciences and they are here to stay. This science emerged in the XVIII century by the hand of the mathematicians Thomas Bayes and Pierre Simon Laplace and was used by Gregor Mendel to demonstrate his theory on genetic inheritance. Since the 90s with the appearance of large genomic studies, statistics has become a fundamental tool for the analysis and interpretation of biomedical data. "Today it is difficult to find a scientific article in the field of biomedicine that does not include statistical methodology" explains David Rossell, who performed his postdoctoral training at the Department of Biostatistics in one of the best cancer research centres in the US, namely the MD Anderson Cancer Center. Rossell is now head of the Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core Facility at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona).
Dr. Rossell, together with the scientist Donald Berry, from the aforementioned North American centre, and the ICREA researcher Omiros Papaspiliopoulos, from the Department of Economics at the Pompeu Fabra University, are co-organizers of the Barcelona Biomed Conference "Bayesian Methods in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics", which is supported by the BBVA Foundation. Brought together at the "Institut d'Estudis Catalans" from Monday 17 December till Wednesday 19 December, approximately twenty biostatisticians mainly from the US and Europe, where this science is well established, will explain to a multidisciplinary audience the virtues of statistics for biomedical applications. They will also present the current state of the discipline, the fields to which it is contributing, and the main obstacles to overcome in order to improve the interpretation of data.
The capacity to obtain and store colossal amounts of biomedical data requires professionals to analyse and interpret them correctly. "Our work consists of making the data talk, extracting relevant information from the huge amount of background noise generated by biology", explains Rossell. "Biostatistics is like a radar for biomedicine: it allows biologists to navigate in an immense ocean of information with only a small amount of light, saving them from inappropriate experiments and helping them to design consistent ones".
Biostatistics applied to clinical assays
One of the application fields for statistics is clinical assays. The North American Donald Berry is professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, where he has played a role in the use of methods to develop innovative, adaptive clinical trials. His research objectives include reducing the number of patients participating in clinical assays before the commercialisation of treatments. Traditionally, in a clinical trial half the patients receive the experimental treatment and the other half a standard treatment or placebo. Dr. Berry studies experimental designs that, on the one hand, assign a greater number of patients to treatments with greater therapeutic benefits and, on the other hand, avoid unnecessary experimentation with patients. "It is not merely a question of cost saving but also of patient ethics, because if we sell hope to participants in clinical trials then hope must be given and biostatistics is proving to be useful also for this purpose".
Clinical trial design and innovative experiments are the focus of the first of three main sections of the conference. The second is how biostatistics scrutinizes huge amounts of data and integrates the information from diverse sources in a context in which thousands of variables are measured but in a small number of patients. "This is one of the greatest challenges ahead for statistics. How to better look for the needle in the haystack and how to increase the degree of certainty of the results", says Rossell, whose interest lies in developing theoretical models and methodological applications in this field of research. The third and last section of the conference centres the experts on computation, that is to say, in putting into practice the mathematical models drawn up by statisticians. Again, the difficulty lies in finding effective strategies to perform calculations with huge amounts of data.
Consult the conference programme: Bayesian Methods in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics


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Several city officials and some appreciative Del Mar residents converged on the city's public works department's headquarters May 20 for a lunchtime thank you to those who keep the city's infrastructure operating.
The barbeque was part of Del Mar's celebration of National Public Works Week, which began May 17 with a city proclamation for its public works employees. Public Works Director David Scherer, who will reach 10 years with Del Mar in September, accepted that honor from Mayor Richard Earnest at the May 17 City Council meeting.
Aside from maintaining the city's sewers, traffic signals and running water, the public works department is working on a sewer pump on the north end of the city. Scherer said Oct. 1 is the target date for beginning construction on the Torrey Pines Bridge retrofit, the largest capital project in Del Mar history.
"Our job is to keep things working so you don't have to call us," said Scherer, formerly the public works director of Little Rock, Ark. "We want the signals to work on the streets, we want the signs to work on the streets, we want your water to work when you turn your tap on."
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I haven't played dragon age but by now I have seen every cutscene, probably, due to people posting them to make fun of.
Most of it is just stupid and laughable but there's an "elf" who looks and talks like a 12 year old girl, and ACTS like one, who you can "romance". Something about it really made me cringe inside, it's that creepy.
To me in a way it's more disturbing to see them simulating real relationships than to just show their lame sex scenes. Someone who wants to simulate a relationship with a little girl, I am guessing is very very ill.
The police who bust pedophiles say that every one of them is heavy into star trek or star wars. I am guessing if they check their computers they will find a copy of Dragon Age to go along with it.


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Clive Owen Channeling Philip Marlowe
Apparently, BuzzSugar readers love Clive Owen. He's neck and neck with Leonardo DiCaprio for the Hottest Actor Oscar, and he filled the Humphrey Bogart role in our Casablanca recast.
Apparently, we're not the only ones to draw a comparison between Bogie and the British hottie. Zap2It is reporting that Owen has been tapped by Universal to star in a new film franchise as Philip Marlowe, the detective in Raymond Chandler's novels. (Bogart played the Marlowe character in the film version of Chandler's The Big Sleep. For details,
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Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment have acquired rights to Chandler's novels, including "The Big Sleep" and "Farewell My Lovely." Nobody has yet decided which book they want to adapt, much less who will be doing the adaptation, but Owen is attached as both star and executive producer.
I've always wondered why Owen hasn't become a much bigger star, so perhaps this franchise could be his ticket to blockbuster status. What do you guys think about the idea of Detective Clive?