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Showing 1 to 20 of 238 for “"Archipelago"”.
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Catastrophic Tsunamis In the Indonesian Archipelago
Tsunamis are not rare events for the Indonesian Archipelago as a consequence of four major plate boundaries that meet and collide, and producing highly active seismic zone that is mostly located under the sea. The ‘tsunami season’ within this region started in 1992 at Hading Bay, Flores Island, …
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Sill Overflow Processes in the Philippine Archipelago
… with bathymetric sills in the Philippine Archipelago, with an emphasis on in situ observations made during the 2007-2009 Philippines Straits Dynamics Experiment (PhilEx). Due to their location at the margins of larger basins, the dynamics at these sills set the conditions under which …
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Incomplete Conquests in the Philippine Archipelago, 1565-1700
… political and economic environment of the archipelago. This dissertation argues by contrast that the extent of Spanish control has been overstated – partially as a by-product of an over-reliance on religious and secular chronicles that sought to magnify the role and interests of the …
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Geographic drivers of avian diversification in the Philippine archipelago
I investigate the relative roles of different classes of geographical barriers in the diversification of the Philippine avifauna, by inferring the evolutionary relationships of 20 avian groups with DNA sequence data. In chapter one, I reconstruct the historical biogeography of the Aethopyga …
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Equatorial ocean dynamics impacting upwelling west of the Galápagos Archipelago
… temperature (SST) just west of the Galápagos Archipelago. Modeling studies have shown that the GCP is maintained by wind- and current-driven upwelling. The Galápagos Archipelago lies on the equator, in the path of the Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent (EUC) as it flows eastward across the …
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The Archipelago. Envisioning the Urban Revolution amid the Planetary Flood.
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Childhood epidemics and the demographic landscape of the Aland Archipelago
Historically, the introduction of childhood diseases such as measles or smallpox resulted in the infection of nearly every susceptible individual in a community. While smallpox has long been considered the deadlier of the two childhood diseases, research has shown that the immune response to …
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Archipelago: a Literary Ecology of Heligoland and the Frisian Coast
This thesis combines creative non-fiction (Volume 1) with analytical commentary (Volume 2) which, together, turn an ecocritical lens on Heligoland and the Frisian coast. I posit the region of Heligoland and the surrounding coastal area as a bioregion, an area with a fluid, ambivalent identity, …
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Equatorial ocean dynamics impacting upwelling west of the Galápagos Archipelago
… temperature (SST) just west of the Galápagos Archipelago. Modeling studies have shown that the GCP is maintained by wind- and current-driven upwelling. The Galápagos Archipelago lies on the equator, in the path of the Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent (EUC) as it flows eastward across the …
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Calcite cements in carbonates of the Sverdrup Basin, Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
… 3 and 4 of the Sverdrup Basin (Canadian Arctic Archipelago) are the subject of this study. On a micro-scale, petrography with light microscopy, cathodoluminescence (CL), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and staining helped to identify two main textural groups of cements, neomorphic and …
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Testing Terraces: Managing and Sustaining the Agrarian Environment in the Maltese Archipelago
… is this more relevant than in the Maltese archipelago where terraces are, somewhat paradoxically, extant in use and enigmatic archaeologically. As such, this thesis employs an appropriate archaeological methodology to examine terraces from both geoarchaeological and social perspectives. By …
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Religious Sculpture of the Chiloé Archipelago, From the 17th to the 21st Century
… tradition of the Southern Chilean Chiloé Archipelago, ranging from the 17th century to the present day, has been vastly understudied. Isidoro Vázquez de Acuña’s 1994 volume Santeria de Chiloe: ensayo y catastro remains the only catalogue of Chilote sculpture. Though the author includes …
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High resolution sedimentary archives of past millennium hurricane activity in the Bahama Archipelago
… variability in hurricane activity in the Bahama Archipelago over the past millennium. I present annually-resolved archives of storm activity derived from sediment cores from blue holes on three islands in the Bahama Archipelago: South Andros, Long Island, and Middle Caicos. Dramatic differences …
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Ecological Assembly of Leaf-Litter Anuran Communities Across a Neotropical Land-Bridge Archipelago
… assembly of leaf-litter anurans on a Neotropical archipelago. I combined experimental and observational approaches to: first, identify patterns of body size variation in leaf-litter anurans; second, assess how coloration and body size variation in a territorial and common species, Oophaga pumilio, …
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MAPPING TRADE BY SHIPWRECKS: AN ANALYSIS OF AMPHORA ASSEMBLAGES FROM FOURNOI ARCHIPELAGO (AEGEAN)
… different shipwrecks, documented in the Fournoi Archipelago of the east-central Aegean, dating to the Late Roman period (fourth to seventh centuries CE). Both the macroscopic observations and typological study of the raised amphorae indicate a variety of provenances. While some of the artifacts …
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Land Ice Monitoring via GRACE and Satellite Altimetry in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago
The Canadian Arctic Archipelago (CAA) was remarked as the third most significant contributor to the global sea level rise between 2003 and 2009, containing one third of the world’s freshwater as land ice (Gardner et al., 2011). Continuous monitoring of the long-term mass variability of the CAA is …
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Alutiiq Engineering: The Mechanics and Design of Skeletal Technologies in Alaska's Kodiak Archipelago
This dissertation expands current theoretical and practical knowledge of variability in the technological strategies practiced by past forager societies. Specifically, it examines the interplay between raw material innate and working properties, and tool design as they relate to skeletal media and …
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