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1. Precambrian crustal evolution and Cretaceous–Palaeogene faulting in West Greenland: 207Pb-206Pb dating of magnetite, monazite and allanite in the central and northern Nagssugtoqidian orogen, West Greenland

Author

Frei, Robert, Stendal, Henrik, and Secher, Karsten

Subjects
Pb isotopes, magnetite, Nagssugtoqidian orogen, Palaeoproterozoic, pegmatites, Pb stepwise leaching, supracrustal, Geology, QE1-996.5, Geophysics. Cosmic physics, QC801-809
Abstract

Pb-isotopic data for magnetite from amphibolites in the Nagssugtoqidian orogen, central West Greenland, have been used to trace their source characteristics and the timing of metamorphism. Analyses of the magnetite define a Pb-Pb isochron age of 1726 ± 7 Ma. The magnetite is metamorphic in origin, and the 1726 Ma age is interpreted as a cooling age through the closing temperature of magnetite at ~600°C. Some of the amphibolites in this study come from the Naternaq supracrustal rocks in the northern Nagssugtoqidian orogen, which host the Naternaq sulphide deposit and may be part ofthe Nordre Strømfjord supracrustal suite, which was deposited at around 1950 Ma ago.Pb-isotopic signatures of magnetite from the Arfersiorfik quartz diorite in the central Nagssugtoqidian orogen are compatible with published whole-rock Pb-isotopic data from this suite; previous work has shown that it is a product of subduction-related calc-alkaline magmatism between 1920 and 1870 Ma. Intrusion of pegmatites occurred at around 1800 Ma in both the central and the northernparts of the orogen. Pegmatite ages have been determined by Pb stepwise leaching analyses of allanite and monazite, and source characteristics of Pb point to an origin of the pegmatites by melting of the surrounding late Archaean and Palaeoproterozoic country rocks. Hydrothermal activity took place after pegmatite emplacement and continued below the closure temperature of magnetite at 1800–1650 Ma. Because of the relatively inert and refractory nature of magnetite, Pb-isotopic measurements from this mineral may be of help to understand the metamorphic evolution of geologicallycomplex terrains.

Published
2006

2. Precambrian crustal evolution and Cretaceous–Palaeogene faulting in West Greenland: A lead isotope study of an Archaean gold prospect in the Attu region, Nagssugtoqidian orogen, West Greenland

Author

Stendal, Henrik, Frei, Robert, and Stensgaard, Bo Møller

Subjects
Archaean, gold, magnetite, Pb isotopes, geochronology, West Greenland, Geology, QE1-996.5, Geophysics. Cosmic physics, QC801-809
Abstract

This paper presents a lead isotope investigation of a gold prospect south of the village Attu in the northern part of the Nagssugtoqidian orogen in central West Greenland. The Attu gold prospect is a replacement gold occurrence, related to a shear/mylonite zone along a contact between orthogneissand amphibolite within the Nagssugtoqidian orogenic belt. The mineral occurrence is small, less than 0.5 m wide, and can be followed along strike for several hundred metres. The mineral assemblage is pyrite, chalcopyrite, magnetite and gold. The host rocks to the gold prospect are granulite facies ‘brown gneisses’ and amphibolites. Pb-isotopic data on magnetite from the host rocks yield an isochron in a 207Pb/204Pb vs. 206Pb/204Pb diagram, giving a date of 3162 ± 43 Ma (MSWD = 0.5). This date is interpreted to represent the age of the rocks in question, and is older than dates obtained from rocks elsewhere within the Nagssugtoqidian orogen. Pb-isotopic data on cataclastic magnetite from the shear zone lie close to this isochron, indicating a similar origin. The Pb-isotopic compositions of the ore minerals are similar to those previously obtained from the close-by ~2650 Ma Rifkol granite, and suggest a genetic link between the emplacement of this granite and the formation of the ore minerals in the shear/mylonite zone. Consequently, the age of the gold mineralisation is interpreted tobe late Archaean.

Published
2006

6. Model Hierarchy Predictive Control of Robotic Systems

Author

Li, He, Frei, Robert J., and Wensing, Patrick M.

Subjects
Computer Science - Robotics
Abstract

This letter presents a new predictive control architecture for high-dimensional robotic systems. As opposed to a conventional Model Predictive Control (MPC) approach to locomotion that formulates a hierarchical sequence of optimization problems, the proposed work formulates a single optimization problem posed over a hierarchy of models, and is thus named Model Hierarchy Predictive Control (MHPC). MHPC is formulated as a multi-phase receding-horizon Trajectory Optimization (TO) problem, and can be implemented using any general multi-phase TO solver. MHPC is benchmarked in simulation on a quadruped, a biped, and a quadrotor, demonstrating control performance on par or exceeding whole-body MPC while maintaining a lower computational cost in each case. A preliminary gap jumping experiment is conducted on the MIT Mini Cheetah with the control policy generated offline, demonstrating the physical validity of the generated trajectories and motivating online MHPC in future work., Comment: Author pre-print of accepted RA-L/ICRA 2021 manuscript

Published
2020
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38. The Earth-Moon system during the Late Heavy Bombardment period

Author

Jorgensen, Uffe Graae, Appel, Peter W. U., Hatsukawa, Yuichi, Frei, Robert, Oshima, Masumi, Toh, Yosuke, and Kimura, Atsushi

Subjects
Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract

The Late Heavy Bombardment (LHB) period is the narrow time interval between 3.8 and 3.9 Gyr ago, where the bulk of the craters we see on the Moon formed. Even more craters formed on the Earth. During a field expedition to the 3.8 Gyr old Isua greenstone belt in Greenland, we sampled three types of metasedimentary rocks, that contain direct traces of the LHB impactors by a seven times enrichment (150 ppt) in iridium compared to present day ocean crust (20 ppt). We show that this enrichment is in agreement with the lunar cratering rate, providing the impactors were comets, but not if they were asteroids. Our study is a first direct indication of the nature of the LHB impactors, and the first to find an agreement between the LHB lunar cratering rate and the Earth's early geochemical record (and the corresponding lunar record). The LHB comets that delivered the iridium we see at Isua will at the same time have delivered the equivalent of a km deep ocean, and we explain why one should expect a cometary ocean to become roughly the size of the Earth's present-day ocean, not only in terms of depth but also in terms of the surface area it covers., Comment: Accepted for publication in Icarus

Published
2009
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