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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Antilles"”.
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Making Haiti "The Pearl of the Antilles" again : what can be done?
From being the "Pearl of the Antilles", Haiti has regressed to being the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. Several factors contributed to this decline, including a long history of exploitation, corruption, political instability, and devastating natural disasters. Today, only 25% of the …
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The history of sedimentation and abyssal circulation on the Greater Antilles outer ridge
The Greater Antilles Outer Ridge is an 1800 km long, submarine sedimentary ridge which lies below 5000 m in the southwestern North Atlantic Ocean. Seismic reflection profiles and core data indicate that the ridge is composed of more than 6 x 104 km3 of acoustically transparent sediment which has …
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The history of sedimentation and abyssal circulation on the Greater Antilles outer ridge
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Science, 1973.
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Systematics, Biogeography and Leaf Anatomy and Architecture of Bursera subgen. Bursera (Burseraceae) in the Greater Antilles and the Bahamas
… the arrival of the modern biota to the Greater Antilles and Bahamas (GAB). I conclude that all endemic taxonomic entities of the genus in this region belong to <em>Bursera</em> subgen. <em>Bursera</em> but that two separate lineages colonized the GAB via dispersal. The genus diversified during …
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Comparative Growth Rates of the Extinct Coral Montastraea nancyi: A Dominant Framework Builder in the Pleistocene (MIS 5e) Reefs of Curacao, Netherland Antilles
The extinct organ-pipe coral Montastraea nancyi Pandolfi was a major framework building coral in reefs of the Pleistocene interglacial highstand (MIS 5e, ~125 kya) in Curaçao as well as many other islands in the Caribbean. In Curaçao well-preserved columns of this species were sampled from two …
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Revisão das espécies neotropicais de Scolopocryptopinae (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopocryptopidae)
… distribution is modified for D. miersii (Lesser Antilles, Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina); S. ferrugineus (Central America, Antilles, north and northeastern South America; S. melanostoma (Central America, some Antilles' islands, Venezuela and Brazil); S. inversus (Guyana, French Guyana and …
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Present day plate boundary deformation in the Caribbean and crustal deformation on southern Haiti
… allowing for partial locking along the Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico, and Hispaniola subduction. This improved GPS velocity field in the Lesser Antilles excludes more than 3 mm/yr of strain accumulation on the Lesser Antilles-Puerto Rico subduction plate interface, which appears essentially …
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The reproduction of violence in the works of Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphaël Confiant
… in their representation of the origins of the Antilles in order to address the painful, difficult issues arising out of these origins. In its comparative approach to the authors and in its focus on the reproduction of violence, this study makes two original contributions to the study of …
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Cenozoic stratigraphic and tectonic history of the Grenada and Tobago basins as determined from marine seismic data, wells, and onland geology
… tectonic history for the southern Lesser Antilles arc and flanking Grenada and Tobago basins. A new tectonic model for the Grenada and Tobago basins is based on three seismic megasequences. The striking similarity in the two basins' half-graben structure, smooth basement character, …
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Characterizing the southeast Caribbean-South American plate boundary at 64°W
… north of the Venezuela coast beneath the Leeward Antilles remnant arc islands, and that the Leeward Antilles are accreting onto South America. The results presented in this dissertation determine instead that the dextral strike-slip system along the Venezuelan coast cuts near-vertically through …
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Seasonal oscillations in a mid-latitude ocean with barriers to deep flow
… Sverdrup balance. A meridional ridge such as the Antilles Arc is modeled as an infinitely thin meridional barrier that blocks the lower layer but does not protrude into the upper layer. It is found that such a barrier has little effect on the upper layer flow across the barrier. This result is …
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Forced Migration and Population Expansion: The Genetic Story of the Garifuna
… are found on St. Vincent Island in the Lesser Antilles and in over 60 villages in Central American, stretching along the coasts of Belize to Nicaragua. They were born out of admixture between the last native inhabitants of the Caribbean and escaped slaves. When Britain took control of the …
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Traces de terre, traces d'encre... La rappresentazione dello spazio nella letteratura caraibica. (Francofona e Anglofona)
… archipelago, in particular of the French Antilles, from the first colonization until the départementalisation. The first paragraph “The colonized space: historical-political excursus” the explores the history of the European colonization that marked forever the theatre of the relationship …
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Studies of new world treehoppers of the subfamily Centrotinae with emphasis on the Caribbean fauna (hemiptera: membracidae)
… support for a single colonization of the Greater Antilles by Mesoamerican ancestors.
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MIGRATIONS INTERCONTINENTALES D¿OBJETS VERS LA CARAÏBE D¿EXPRESSION FRANÇAISE
… voluntarily or involuntarily—to the French Antilles. It is through the presence of these objects, assembled in a catalogue structured around three domains (religious, clothing and culinary), that we were able to shed light, first, on the relationships maintained among the various migrant …
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Jack Délano’s (1914-1997) Burundanga or Cantata Antillana: an art-music portrayal of Luis Palés Matos’s (1898-1959) black Caribbean
… and musical reality of Puerto Rico and the Antilles. The analysis underscores the relationships between the textual images and the musical resources employed in their setting, focusing on the composition’s formal, melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, orchestrational and expressive elements. It also …
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The Taino Are Still Alive, Taino Cuan Yahabo: An Example Of The Social Construction Of Race And Ethnicity
… newsletters of the Taíno Nation of the Antilles--one of the leading organizations working for revitalization. The content of this material culture was dissected and organized into rhetorical categories in order to reveal patterns of endogamic assertions of race and ethnicity. This thesis …
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The English settlement of St Christopher, 1624 - 1629
… in the Leeward Island chain of the Lesser Antilles from 1624 - 1629. This activity has been largely overlooked in the historiography, where the focus in this period falls primarily on the English colonies of North America. A considerable weakness of imperial history lies in the lack of …
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