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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Driftwood"”.
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Morphodynamics and driftwood dispersal in braided rivers
Driftwood is widely recognized as a relevant component of riverine systems due to its complex interactions with flow, sediment transport and vegetation dynamics. In-channel large wood has a relevant geomorphic and ecological role as it enhances morphological diversity and creates a variety of …
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The Life and Times of Medieval Drifters: The Social and Environmental Significance of Driftwood in the Medieval Icelandic Culture and Identity, 9th - 13th Centuries
… study is concerned with the relationship between driftwood and the cultural identity of the Icelandic people from landnám (Norse colonization of Iceland between the ninth and tenth centuries), to the thirteenth century. After the Norse arrival in Iceland in the late ninth century, low-growing …
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Ashes to Ashes: Identifying archaeological fuels
… of ash from fuels including peat, seaweed, driftwood, willow, hazel, heather, grasses, cow dung, sheep dung, and bone. Modern analogue fuels at increasing temperatures showed an intensification in magnetism and alkalinity, and an alteration to mineral components during the chemical reaction …
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Bivalve associations of the Cannonball Formation (Paleocene, Danian) of North Dakota
… and a biotic association of Ophiomoroha Crab-Driftwood-Shark Teeth, are also defined. These associations aid in the interpretation of the relationships of Cannonball lithologic units and depositional environments. </p><p> The Ostrea-Corbula-Corbicula association (lower tongue) and the …
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String Quartet I
… over a pizzicato cello drone. Movement III, "Driftwood Hymn," is a chorale, drawing on my love of both classical choir and traditional American hymnody. This movement explores the deeply spiritual experience of lying down in the shallow Platte River and letting the current move my body …
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Roger Ackling: Work and Teaching
… from the margins, he is renowned for his work on driftwood but also used other materials of no or little value that were found or discarded. His primary tool was the light of the sun, transforming energy in a way that was fundamentally photographic and also akin to a cauterising of the surface. …
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Pseudoscorpion Systematics & Phylogenetics: Exploring the Effects of Accelerated Rates of Evolution on Both Ancient and Recent Diversification
… and crevices underneath tree bark, rocks, and driftwood. For a subset of arachnologists and general naturalists, however, pseudoscorpions have long been the subject of intrigue and careful study; captivating in their potential to shed light on the evolution of silk, venom, phoresy …
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Distribution and Productivity of Least Terns and Piping Plovers Along the Missouri and Cheyenne Rivers in South Dakota
… cover, and distance and type of nearest object (driftwood, rock etc.). A surveyors transit and stadia rod were used to measure elevation above water for each nest. All colony sites were revisited every 7 to 10 days to determine nest fates and to search for new nests. Colony sites with successful …
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The ecology and conservation of Latrodectus katipo, New Zealand's endangered widow spider : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Science in Ecology at Massey University
… have preference for certain plant species or driftwood as web sites. Native sand-binding shrubs such as Coprosma acerosa are favoured by katipo over other plant species for web construction, and the exotic grass Ammophila arenaria is avoided by katipo even when growing at low densities. L. …
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Exile, homecoming, and the remembered journey: towards a new writing of perspective, place and event
… by the obsessive reconstruction of a “driftwood ship”. As the novel progresses the oceanic gives way to a psychosis of gyrating voices, in which the question becomes: who is narrating who? A quasi-autobiographical prologue appears to link the “real” author with the story that follows. …
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The Inhabited Arctic: Architecture, Time, and the Making of the Past in the Bering Strait (1760–1980)
… Unangax watercraft hewn from circulating driftwood, and Chukchi ice cellars carved into permafrost were both prisms for temporal explanations and sites driving change. Russian colonial administrators, British geologists, US ethnographers, Orthodox priests, and Soviet engineers co-opted …