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Mantle plumes and Antarctica-New Zealand rifting: Evidence from mid-Cretaceous mafic dykes
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Abstract: Ocean floor magnetic anomalies show that New Zealand was the last continental fragment to separate from Antarctica during Gondwana break-up, drifting from Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica, about 84 Ma ago. Prior to continental drift, a voluminous suite of mafic dykes (dated by Ar-Ar laser stepped heating at 107 +/- 5 Ma) and anorogenic silicic rocks, including syenites and peralkaline granitoids (95-102 Ma), were emplaced in Marie Byrd Land during a rifting event. The mafic dyke suite includes both high- and low-Ti basalts. Trace element and Sr and Nd isotope compositions of the ...
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Narrative self-justification: Melville and Amasa Delano. (novelist Herman Melville)
Magazine article from: Studies in American Fiction
; ...s description of the fictional Amasa Delano as "Melville's American Fool...slyly sarcastic early description of Delano's character: [His] surprise...determine.(3) This questioning of Delano's intelligence marks one of Melville...
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Captain Amasa Delano's dilemma. (poem)
Magazine article from: The American Poetry Review
; That day the albatross colored the sky with shit, I stumbled upon Benito Cereno's pirate ship limping along the high seas. A Spanish sailor locked eyes with me & gestured at the hot sky with his marlingspike. But I wasn't a reader of Free-Mason signs or symbols of modern oblivion. The motley
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Melville's Benito Cereno.(Herman Melville)
Magazine article from: The Explicator
; ...erroneous stories that Captain Amasa Delano tells himself to explain the events...perspective and assumptions of Amasa Delano, Don Benito Cereno's legal deposition...they are in his source, Captain Amasa Delano's 1817 Narrative of Voyages and...
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 "ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)")
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"Melville's (inter)national burlesque: whiteface, blackface, and "Benito Cereno".(Herman Melville)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
; ...of Voyages and Travels (1817), Amasa Delano, the good-natured and affable...the coast of Chile one morning. Delano takes his whaleboat to meet the vessel...captain, Benito Cereno. Amazingly, Delano fails to grasp that the blacks aboard...
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Fatal underestimation--Sue's Atar-Gull and Melville's "Benito Cereno". (Articles).(Herman Melville's 'Benito Cereno')(Eugene Sue's 'Atar-Gull')
Magazine article from: Studies in Short Fiction
; ...plot to capture American captain Amasa Delano's ship and slaughter its crew...homicidal intent, but is captured by Delano's men, who then recapture Cereno...Melville's American captain, Amasa Delano, reflects the then-current view...
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BOOKMAKING
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...Melville's classic novella, "Benito Cereno," Amasa Delano's account of his voyages and travels, has been...going back about five generations links Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Amasa Delano as cousins, the common ancestor being Jonathan...
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The gaze of history in 'Benito Cereno.'
Magazine article from: Studies in Short Fiction
; ...Dominick as is the American captain Amasa Delano, whose dominant perspective we are...all along, taking place before Delano's (and our own) eyes. The deposition...place aboard the San Dominick during Delano's visit there - there can be little...
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 "Mosaic (Winnipeg)")
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Voicing slavery through silence: narrative mutiny in Melville's Benito Cereno. (Herman Melville)
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg)
; ...limited point of view of Captain Delano, the putative protagonist, they...southern coast of Chile, Captain Amasa Delano, an American sealer captain from...the ship's beleaguered captain, Delano is soon confronted by a series of...
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Mutiny with a mission. (Edward Morgan's play 'Benito Cereno')
Magazine article from: American Theatre
; ...commerce, American seafarer Captain Amasa Delano fancied himself a world adventurer...moral - superiority. Then one day Delano and the crew of his merchant vessel...plantation fields of the American South. Delano, nonetheless, was transformed by...
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Echoes of Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution in Melville's "Benito Cereno".(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Leviathan
; ...of course the Yankee sea captain Amasa Delano's account of the extraordinary...occurred. Extensive passages from Delano's Narrative of Voyages and Travels...by the changes Melville made from Delano's narrative, and some have argued...
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