Southern Base Section

Ltr, Col Ferris U Foster, USAR, to Hist Off, i) Oct 59. Colonel Foster was Chemical Officer, Southern Base Section, in the United Kingdom. 

This paper investigates the radical chemistry of the clean marine boundary layer in the Southern Ocean during the SOAPEX-2 (Southern Ocean Photochemistry Experiment 2) campaign using an observationally constrained box-model based on the Master Chemical Mechanism (Jenkin et al., 1997, 2003 Saunders et al., 2003). The primary aim of SOAPEX-2 was to study free radical chemistry in the remote marine boundary layer in the Southern Hemisphere. Sections 2 and 3 of this paper describe the SOAPEX-2 site and the measurements that were made during the campaign. Section 4 describes the models used and Sect. 5 presents the results. Finally, Sect. 6 contains the summary and the conclusions. 

The Eastern, Western, Southern, and Northern Ireland Base Sections were organized by SOS ETO on 20 July 1942, but only with skeleton staffing. Ruppenthal, Logistical Support, I, 84-83. 

There are a number of various commercial products designed for DNA/ RNA extraction, but their use may lead to variable results. Based on the evidence that formalin-induced modification of protein is similar to that of nucleic acid modification by formalin (Fig. 3.1),15-19 our research group at the University of Southern California has conducted a serial study of AR based heating protocols for DNA/RNA extraction from FFPE tissues following our experience of the AR principle as applied to IHC on tissue sections heating under the influence of pH.19-21... 

Now that we have a simple model for the continuum spectrum of the stars based around the Planck curve, the temperature and the luminosity, we can make some observations and classifications of the stars. There are some constellations that dominate the night sky in both the northern and southern hemispheres and even a casual look should inspire wonder. Star hopping in the night sky should lead to the simplest observation not all stars have the same colour. A high-quality photograph of the constellation of Orion (see page 2 of the colour plate section) shows stars... 

The Geochemical Ocean Section Program (GEOSECS) has produced data from which it is possible to profile the saturation state of seawater with respect to calcite and aragonite in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Representative north-south calcite saturation profiles for the Western Atlantic and Central Pacific oceans are presented in Figures 5 and 6 (based on 39). It was observed that the saturation state of seawater with respect to calcite at the CCD was close to constant ( 2 = 0.70 I" 0,05) except in the southern extremes (39). Broecker and Takahashi (31) have recently found that the carbonate ion concentration is close to constant at the FL, when appropriate corrections are made for pressure. The saturation state of seawater at the FL, calculated by the method presented in this paper, is 0.80 0.05. Berger (40) has presented profiles for Rq, FL, CCD and CSL (calcite saturation level) in the eastern and western Atlantic ocean (see... 

The geologic cross-sections upon which the salinity data are superimposed (Figs. 2 and 3) are based on available literature (Toulmin, 1955, Herrick and Vorhis, 1963 Chen, 1965 Applin and Applin, 1967 Maher, 1971 Cramer, 1974 Schlee, 1977 Dillon et al., 1979 Hathaway et al., 1979 Scholle, 1979). We divide the stratigraphy of southern Georgia into the units Neogene—Holocene, Eocene and Oligocene, Paleocene, Upper Cretaceous, Lower Cretaceous ( ), and igneous and metamorphis basement. 

Fig. 4.18 Alkenone-based sea-surface temperature (SST) reconstruction of two sediment sections from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Holes 1017B (Southern California, 50 km west of Point Arguello) and 1019C (Northern California, 60 km west of Crescent City in the Eel River Basin) on the California continental margin (after Mangelsdorf et al. 2000) compared to the global 5 0 chronostratigraphy (SPECMAP after Martinson et al. 1987). MIS = Marine isotope stage.

The volcanic detritus in the Section Peak Formation presumably originated from an off-shore subduction zone along the Pacific maigin of East Antarctica. Similar volcanic sediment occurs at the base of the Permian System in the Ellsworth Mountains (Section 8.1.3), in the Late Permian rocks of the Beardmore Glacier area, and in the Early Triassic rocks of southern Victoria Land (Collinson et al. 1986). The correlation of the stratigraphic sections of Beacon rocks in northern and southern Victoria Land is indicated in Table 10.6. 

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