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K-feldspars form important detrital and authigenic components in sediments but may be difficult to separate by conventional means for isotope analysis, particularly geochronology. UV lasers are being increasing applied to in situ analysis since they are strongly absorbed by clear minerals such as K-feldspar, and can achieve a spatial resolution of better than 20 m for individual Ar/Ar analyses. Here we demonstrate separation of detrital K-feldspar with a mean age of 423 14 Ma and authigenic overgrowths with a mean age of 138 5 Ma in clastic sediments from the Msolwa Group of the Kilombero Rift of Tanzania. The young age obtained for authigenic K-feldspar overgrowth demonstrates that precipitation occurred more than 160 Ma after sedimentation, during the period of deepest burial and synchronous with the initial extensional phases of the intracontinental Anza and Sudan rifts, as well as the initial stages in the break-up and separation of South America and Africa.

In globally distributed projects, virtual teams are often partially dispersed. One common setup occurs when several members from one company work with a large outsourcing vendor based in another country. Further, the introduction of the popular BizDevOps concept has increased the necessity to cooperate across departments and reduce the age-old disconnection between the business strategy and technical development. Establishing a good collaboration in partially distributed BizDevOps teams requires extensive collaboration and communication techniques. Nowadays, a common approach is to rely on collaboration through pull requests and frequent communication on Slack. To investigate barriers for pull requests in distributed teams, we examined an organization located in Scandinavia where cross-functional BizDevOps teams collaborated with off-site team members in India. Data were collected by conducting 14 interviews, observing 23 entire days with the team, and observing 37 meetings. We found that the pull-request approach worked very well locally but not across sites. We found barriers such as domain complexity, different agile processes (timeboxed vs. flow-based development), and employee turnover. Using an intellectual capital lens on our findings, we discuss barriers and positive and negative effects on the success of the pull-request approach.