I first heard of Cesaria Evora in 1989 from the Independent's Madrid correspondent, who covered a Portuguese prime ministerial visit to the country's former colony, and wrote afterwards of an eccentric bar-room singer, "shaped like a manioc root", performing songs of "sad oceanic beauty".
Electrical conductivity in depth ranges of 100 to 250 km is markedly lower for the continental root than it is in oceanic regions (Hirth et al. 2000).
The base of the depleted lithosphere of the Slave craton constrained by thermobarometry of peridotite xenoliths coincides with the base of the thickened lithospheric slab, which supports contribution of the recycled oceanic lithosphere to formation of the cratonic root.
Instead, the late diapiric ascent of buoyant refractory plume residue and subducted oceanic crust resulted in the coupling of the mantle root and arc crust 10's of million years following batholith emplacement.
Evolution of the lithospheric mantle beneath the North China Craton (NCC) from its Precambrian cratonic architecture until Paleozoic, and the transformation to an oceanic realm during Mesozoic, with implications on the destruction of cratonic root have attracted global attention.
The Pelona Schist is thought to have been thrust beneath the margin during the Laramide flat-slab subduction event (e.g., Jacobson et al. 2007), which truncated the roots of the arc and removed the subcontinental lithosphere, emplacing Laramide oceanic lithosphere and superjacent sedimentary sequences in its place.
Bivergent thrust systems around Kandra possibly root into a detachment separating Layers 1 2 from more rigid deeper layers (cf. Layer 3 of oceanic crust), as indicated by absence of significant volume of ultramafic rocks at the current outcrop level.
An oceanic climate prevails.
Generally rooted in traditional culture, it reflects the continued importance of oral history, storytelling, and indigenous belief systems in the region (see also Oceanic literature; New Zealand literature).
Oceanic Avenue is no exception.
