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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Bluestone"”.
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Cemetery Siting in the Bluestone Reservation Area, Summers County, West Virginia: 1750-1997
This thesis examines the effects of transportation network changes, settlement pattern changes, population density and terrain characteristics upon cemetery siting. Due to the practically inviolate legal status of cemeteries, they provide a window to the past. Geographic Information Systems …
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Terrestrial paleoecology of distal deltaic environments of the upper Mississippian Bluefield, Hinton and Bluestone formations of southwestern Virginia and southern West Virginia
… (Late Mississippian) Bluefield, Hinton, and Bluestone Formations, were measured. Geological structures and paleontological occurrences were recorded. In situ rooted plants were compared with transported plant and animal assemblages from fluvially dominated terrestrial beds and …
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Reproductive biology and comparative growth rates of selected species of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae) in the New and Greenbrier Rivers, Virginia and West Virginia
… River and three locations downstream of Bluestone Dam on the New River in West Virginia were also made to determine the effect of the dam on growth of mussels downstream. A. carinata is bradytictic, spawning in mid-summer, brooding glochidia throughout the fall and winter, and releasing …
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Adapting Henry James to the screen: Washington Square & The portrait of a lady
… of James Naremorc, Brian Mcfarlane and George Bluestone. Naremore surveys the history of film adaptation, pervasive in many countries with a film industry. Mcfarlane looks at the reasons for this interest in adapting novels to film as well as the issue of authenticity with regard to film …
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Depositional Environments and Sequence Stratigraphy of Upper Mississippian Strata in the Central Appalachian Basin
The Upper Mississippian Hinton, Princeton, and Bluestone formations of southern West Virginia constitute a wedge of strata that filled the Appalachian basin over a ~7 million year time interval. Seventeen transgressive-regressive sequences comprise the study interval in the basin depocenter. Five …
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An Addition to the Virginia Tech School of Architecture
… consists of precast concrete and Virginia Bluestone, which is the stone most buildings on campus are built with. The bluestone is rough cut and heavy, and anchors the building to the site. Precast concrete tops the bluestone, aligning with the ramp, and easily allowing punched-openings to …
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Life history and production of the dominant Chironomidae in the New River, with emphasis on the effects of Bacillus thuringiensis var. Israelensis
… through November at Sandstone Falls, 16 km below Bluestone Dam in Summers County. Sampling was restricted to rock outcrops covered with Podostemum (river weed). Samples were collected at 2- wk intervals with a quantitative device that delineates an area of 0.01 m². Three species belonging to two …
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Why the garden club couldn't save Youngstown : social embeddedness and the transformation of the rust belt
… the high-road of economic change (Harrison and Bluestone 1983; Piore and Sabel 1984; Kochan, Katz and McKersie 1986; Dertouzos, Lester and Solow 1989) while Youngstown has fallen into a lean and mean race to the bottom (Applebaum and Batt 1994; Harrison 1996). Challenging both learning region …
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The relationship between the Massachusetts' building code and construction cost escalation
… nearly 40 percent more than overall inflation" (Bluestone) since 2011. This suggests there is more at play than simply a high volume of work; and while there is no disputing the cyclic nature of the real estate market and the sheer economics of supply and demand, this conversation needs to be …