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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Black Rock Desert"”.
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Pre-Archaic Occupations in the West Arm of the Black Rock Desert
… between 2004 and 2006 from surface sites in the Black Rock Desert offer an example of early human occupations surrounding these pluvial lakes as well as the nature of these occupations. This study demonstrates how people concentrated their activities adjacent to large lakes and wetlands following …
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Late Holocene Toolstone Procurement and Land-Use Strategies in the Black Rock Desert and High Rock Country of Northwest Nevada
… (5,000 cal BP to present) archaeology for the Black Rock Desert and High Rock Country (BRD/HRC) through an assessment of the toolstone procurement and land-use strategies of the region's prehistoric occupants. This is achieved through: lithic analysis from Paiute Creek Shelter (PCS), a recently …
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Development of a multispectral albedometer and deployment on an unmanned aircraft for evaluating satellite retrieved surface reflectance over Nevada's Black Rock Desert
… 5th, 2017 under clear skies over Nevada's Black Rock Desert to investigate aregion of known high surface reflectance. It was found that satellite retrieved surfacereflectance underestimated measured surface albedo at this location, indicating the needfor more albedo measurements to validate …
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The Relationship Between Paleoindian Site Location and Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene Lake-Level Fluctuations in the Lahontan basin, Nevada
… using a small number of Paleoindian sites in the Black Rock Desert and Winnemucca Lake basins. They argued that sites dating to between ~13,000 and 8,000 years ago should be concentrated at elevations between 1200 and 1235 m ASL. Their research relied on a small archaeological data set from a …
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Welcome Home to Black Rock City: Urban Geography of the Burn
… intentional community anchored by ephemeral Black Rock Desert burns. Participants practice Ten Principles to embody an ethos that radically challenges mainstream culture through manifested Black Rock City (re)formation, negotiation, and deconstruction. The resulting paradoxical heterotopia …
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Structural Controls of the MacFarlane Geothermal System, Humboldt County, Nevada: New Insights Based on Detailed Geologic Mapping, Shallow Temperature Surveys, and Magnetic Data
… spring is located on the eastern margin of the Black Rock Desert, ~85 km west of Winnemucca, in Humboldt County, Nevada. The active hot spring emerges from the west end of an east-trending travertine fissure ridge, which is ~180 m long. The travertine fissure ridge is up to ~2 m tall and ~5 m …
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Deciphering Hydrological Responses: Elastic and Poroelastic Behavior Through GPS Temporal Analysis
… of the Northern Sierras, Klamath Mountains, and Black Rock Desert. By robustly inverting remote sensing data for hydrologic mass, we provide insights on water storage budgets on a reservoir-scale across a critical and drought-prone region. However, there are some regions which can exhibit a …
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AURAL SUBSTANCE: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF REGIONAL BURN SOUNDSCAPES
… of people drive hours into Nevada’s barren Black Rock Desert to build an ephemeral city equal to “the size of downtown San Francisco.” This place, Black Rock City, home of the annual Burning Man event, only exists for a fraction of the year. For one week, participants gather together at …