Search results for "coral"

Coralli trapanesi nella collezione March

2016

Il volume tratta le opere trapanesi in corallo della collezione March, battute all''asta presso la sede londinese di Christie''s il 16 giugno 2015. Si tratta di esemplari di diversa tipologia, sia a carattere sacro che profano, che contribuiscono ad arricchire il catalogo della produzione trapanese in corallo tra XVI e XX secolo, attestandone ancora una volta l’eccezionalità nel contesto dell’area mediterranea e l’alto livello di esecuzione raggiunto da questi artisti. La preziosità di questi manufatti viene ulteriormente confermata dalla loro presenza in una prestigiosa collezione privata insieme ad esemplari di grande valore artistico come dipinti, sculture, arazzi, arredi ed opere d’arte…

Ancora coralli trapanesi all’asta: nove lotti di Christie’s e Sotheby’s

2017

Studio scientifico di opere trapanesi in corallo inedite recentemente battute all'asta da Christie's e Sotheby's

Ancora coralli trapanesi all’asta: quattro lotti di Sotheby’s

2016

Studio scientifico di quattro opere trapanesi in corallo inedite recentemente battute all'asta da Sotheby's

Improved constraints on open-system processes in fossil reef corals by combined Th/U, Pa/U and Ra/Th dating: A case study from Aqaba, Jordan

2019

Abstract Here we present 230Th/U, 231Pa/U as well as 226Ra/230Th isotope ratios from five fossil reef corals of Last Interglacial origin from the Gulf of Aqaba, Northern Red Sea. The results show clear evidence for open-system behaviour with strongly elevated δ234U values and U concentrations indicating post-depositional U addition. The combined application of all isotope systems enables us to better constrain the nature and timing of the open-system processes than only based on the 230Th/U data. Quantitative modelling of the diagenetic processes allowed us to reproduce the trends in the isotope ratios. Two of the five corals were probably affected by two separate phases of U addition with …

Speleothems in a north Cuban cave register sea-level changes and Pleistocene uplift rates

2018

Porites corals from Crete (Greece) open a window into Late Miocene (10Ma) seasonal and interannual climate variability

2006

Variations in the biotic composition of marine shallow water carbonates document global climatic changes. However, a discontinuous stratigraphic record and uncertainties regarding the ages limit the significance of shallow water carbonates as palaeoclimatic archives on geological time-scales. Notwithstanding these deficits, the environmental information stored in the skeleton of reef biota is a unique source of information that resolves seasonal to interannual climate variability in geological time. Application of the method to corals from carbonate rocks is usually restricted to the past 130,000yr, because the aragonite skeleton undergoes rapid diagenetic alteration. Consequently, reconstr…

LA-ICP-MS analyses on coral growth increments reveal heavy winter rain in the Eastern Mediterranean at 9 Ma

2009

Abstract Sediment particles incorporated into coral skeletons reflect variation in composition and amount of suspended material in ambient water during coral growth. They can be used to identify periods of enhanced storm frequency and associated freshwater discharge. Tortonian (Late Miocene) Porites corals from Crete (Aegean Sea, Eastern Mediterranean) show pronounced annual density bands in X-ray photographs. δ18O compositional variability reflects the annual banding equivalent with a ~ 7 °C annual sea surface temperature (SST) cycle over a seven-year period. Fine sediment particles are concentrated in layers with skeletal porosity parallel to growth increments. Variations in the chemical …

230Th/U dating of Last Interglacial brain corals from Bonaire (southern Caribbean) using bulk and theca wall material

2016

Abstract We compared the suitability of two skeletal materials of the Atlantic brain coral Diploria strigosa for 230Th/U-dating: the commonly used bulk material comprising all skeletal elements and the denser theca wall material. Eight fossil corals of presumably Last Interglacial age from Bonaire, southern Caribbean Sea, were investigated, and several sub-samples were dated from each coral. For four corals, both the ages and the activity ratios of the bulk material and theca wall agree within uncertainty. Three corals show significantly older ages for their bulk material than for their theca wall material as well as substantially elevated 232Th content and (230Th/238U) ratios. The bulk mat…

Diel variability in counts of reef fishes and its implications for monitoring

2006

Studies of reef fish assemblages in space rarely consider the effects of temporal variability on spatial comparisons, and when they do, usually examine timescales of months to years. The nature of fish monitoring surveys is such that particular locations may be surveyed at one time of day, and surveys designed to establish the degree of spatial variability in assemblages may be confounded if the order of sampling within treatments is not randomised with respect to time of day. In this study, we tested the degree of temporal variability in temperate reef fish counts at the same sites in New Zealand and Italy, within and between days. Repeated counts separated by months returned quite differe…

Inferring True Species Richness and Complete Abundance Distribution in Six Reef-fish Communities from Red-sea, Using the Numerical Extrapolation of I…

2019

Even when ecological communities are incompletely sampled (which is most frequent in practice, at least for species-rich assemblages including many rare species), it remains possible to retrieve much more information than could be expected first, by applying numerical extrapolation to incomplete field data. Indeed, recently developed procedures of numerical extrapolation of partial samplings now allow to estimate, with fair accuracy, not only the number of the still unrecorded species but, moreover, the distribution of abundances of each of these unrecorded species, thereby making available the full range of the Species Abundance Distribution, despite dealing with incomplete data only. In t…