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Showing 1 to 20 of 189 for “"Cape Peninsula"”.
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Geomorphology of the Cape Peninsula
… on the other it looks at the contemporary landscape and the changes wrought through time. The writer is of the opinion that the past cannot be ignored, since the present physical landscape can be explained only in the context of geomorphic evolution. This is generally acceptable since today is …
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Vitamin "C" nutrition in the Cape Peninsula
1. A series of 507 cases in the Cape Peninsula, South Africa has been investigated for Vitamin C nutrition.
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Gateway to the Cape Peninsula Marine Park
… locates Millers Point as the new gateway to the Cape Peninsula Marine Park. Architecture is used as the means to create a social identity and frame the problems addressed by the Marine Protected Areas legislative principles. Necessary structures are identified as a means to establish or interpret …
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Zooplankton of the Cape Peninsula upwelling region
The vertical and horizontal distribution of meso-zooplankton in the vicinity of an extremely active upwelling site in the southern Benguela Current is described. Zooplankton samples collected in oceanic, newly-upwelled and mature upwelled water showed that temperature, chlorophyll and time of day …
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The outpatient situation in the Cape Peninsula
… is based on a study commissioned by the Cape Provincial Administration's hospital department into ambulatory care in the Cape Peninsula. The aim of the study was to investigate the whole picture of the provision of outpatient services by that hospital department in the Cape Peninsula. The …
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Manganese deposits of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa
… deposits were studied at several sites on the Cape Peninsula (Skeleton Gorge, Kasteelpoort Path, Kommetjie and Hout Bay) as well as at Rooi Els on the opposite side of False Bay. The purpose of this study was to understand the origin and depositional history of these manganese deposits. …
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Aspects of medical waste disposal in the Cape Peninsula
… practices at ten medical institutions in Cape Town were studied and tests undertaken to determine concentrations of specific chemicals and radioactivity in liquid effluent outflows, as well as emissions from incinerators. To investigate the sewage outflow for Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), …
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Pb and Zn contamination in Zoar Vlei, Cape Peninsula
The sediments in Zoar Vlei act as a considerable sink for Pb and Zn derived from the adjacent Paarden-Eiland semi-industrial area and the Milnenon-Rugby residential area. Through elemental analysis of 34 sediment samples by WDXRF spectroscopy, the sediments were shown to be significantly enriched …
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Vegetation, diversity and rarity on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa
The Cape Peninsula, (471 km²) with over 2285 vascular plant species, is characterised by the combination of a diversity of habitats supporting a mosaic of vegetation types. This study attempts to describe and explain some of the determinants of species pattern and distribution. The first part of …
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Vegetation, diversity and rarity on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa
The Cape Peninsula, (471 km2 ) with over 2285 vascular plant species, is characterised by the combination of a diversity of habitats supporting a mosaic of vegetation types. This study attempts describe. and explain some of the determinants of species pattern and distribution. The first part of the …
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Petrogenesis of the False Bay dyke swarm, Cape Peninsula, South Africa
… observations of each dyke in the False Bay - Cape Peninsula region and the focus of the study is on the finer details of the differentiation process to define combined assimilation and fractional crystallisation models.
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Awareness of AIDS among STD clinic attenders in the Cape Peninsula
… Disease (STD} clinic attenders in the Cape Peninsula. A questionnaire containing open and closed questions in the appropriate language (English, Afrikaans or Xhosa) was administered by trained clinic staff to 306 patients in 9 of the 29 STD Clinics in the region. The study was requested …
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Knemidokoptic mite infections on the Cape Peninsula population of Black Sparrowhawks
… high number of Black Sparrowhawks of the Cape Peninsula were identified as being affected by these mites, with obvious symptoms such as baldness and leg lesions. This is the first record of a possible epizootic event caused by Knemidokoptic mites in a wild population of a bird of prey. The …
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Studies on the intertidal sandy-beach fauna of the Cape Peninsula
… is a brief account of food-relationships on the Cape Peninsula's sandy beaches. The first manuscript is an introduction to the ecology of the sandy beaches of the Cape Peninsula, the first of a series of papers to be published on this topic. The manuscript on Bullia forms the second part of this …
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Negotiating boundaries : (co)-managing natural and urban areas on the Cape Peninsula
… and situated amidst the natural areas of the Cape Peninsula. Current theoretical perspectives on natural and urban areas fail to offer a practical approach to inform integrated and equitable management of these ostensibly disparate realms of the environment. Although largely based in rural …
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Flora of the Cape Peninsula : endemism, threatened plants and conservation in perspective
… accurate species list of flora of the Cape Peninsula was established. distribution of each of species was then databased from c. 42 000 herbarium sheets housed in the three main herbaria in South Africa. The composition of flora, taxonomic and biological aspects of endemic and …
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Colonization and succession of phytoplankton species in upwelling plumes off the Cape Peninsula
… and biomass in the upwelling plumes off the Cape Peninsula are described for two different communities. A drogue study showed the presence of a fast-developing mixed phytoplankton community with Chaetoceros compressus Laud. and Skeletonema costatum (Grev.) Cleve the dominant species. Monthly …
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Phytoplankton production studies in the coastal waters off the Cape Peninsula, South Africa
… chemical changes in the upwelling system off the Cape Peninsula. Extremely active upwelling was found to limit primary production and from these measurements the annual net primary production in the Cape Peninsula upwelling region is estimated for the first time to be approximately 1.13 kgC.m⁻ …
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A study on slope instability above Chapman's Peak Drive, Cape Peninsula, South Africa
… this area and large portions of the rest of the Cape Peninsula. This led to a heightened public awareness of the obvious physical danger to traffic on Chapman's Peak Drive. This problem of a rockfall activity onto Chapman's Peak Drive is not a new, or unexpected, one as all roads constructed …
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