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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Lake District"”.
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Ecology of Lake District ostracoda
… since their calcified valves may be preserved in lake sediments, are also valuable in palaeolimnological studies of environmental pollution such as eutrophication and surface water acidification. To establish a data-base of ostracod ecology, biannual survey work in 1989-1990 was performed in 75 …
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Geophysical investigations in the English Lake District
Lake District which define the principal anomalies in considerably more detail than previous widely-spaced observations. The physical properties of the Shap and Skiddaw granites have been analysed from geophysical logs recorded in 300 m deep heat-flow boreholes. New density determinations have been …
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Investigating route-choice by recreational walkers in the English Lake District
… survey questionnaire of walkers in the English Lake District (n=518). The study was framed by a grounded theory approach. This research design methodology reflects the exploratory nature of the study. Additionally it addresses the fact that the UK walking market is at present, supplied by a …
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A study of nitrification in lakes of the English Lake District
… dominant nitrogen transformation in a number of lakes which accumulated ammonium, in hypolimnetic water, under aerobic conditions. The timing and duration of this activity varied between lakes but was characterized by decreasing ammonium, and increasing nitrate, concentrations. In Grasmere lake …
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Reconstructing Loch Lomond Stadial Glaciers and Climate in the south-west English Lake District
The most recent glaciation of the English Lake District occurred during the Loch Lomond Stadial (Younger Dryas) when full glacial conditions returned to the British Isles. The largest ice mass formed over the Western Scottish Highlands with smaller ice masses developing throughout the British …
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Lake remediation by top-down and bottom-up management : an ecosystem-scale experiment in the English Lake District
Lake ecosystems face a variety of pressures arising from catchment-based anthropogenic activities and long-term changes in background environmental conditions, which greatly threaten their structure, function and the sustainable provision of essential ecosystem services. The response of lakes to …
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An Exploration of the Relationship between Contemporary Spirituality, the Physically Active Rural Tourist and the Geography of Place: a case study of the Lake District
… the location of the study focus is the Lake District National Park, a unique and popular rural landscape that embodies the socially constructed image of a rural idyll. Rural tourism, a prevalent contemporary activity offering a sharp contrast to the urban experience, is largely …
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Fungoid conditions of the lungs: Part .1
… the farming community of South Cumberland, the Lake District and Westmorland, which Munro Campbell, Faulds and myself believe to be due to the inhalation of dust born fungi, and accordingly a broncho- mycosis, for which I have coined the name broncho -mycosis feniseciorum ( of haymakers or …
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Mountains: Time out of mind? Contextualising the landscape: the significance and use of the Cumbrian fells in the neolithic and early bronze age
… discovered idiosyncratic rock art of the Lake District. Original fieldwork includes the identification of several new rock art sites within the Lake District and a survey of the upland Rydal Valley. From the results of these researches a model is proposed for the uptake of farming in …
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Palaeoecology of human impact in northwest England during the early medieval period: investigating ‘cultural decline’ in the Dark Ages
… diatom records from six tarns within the English Lake District. Of the sites investigated, both Loughrigg and Barfield Tarns produced good records for the study period. The pollen curves for Loughrigg Tarn appear to support the traditional interpretation of woodland regeneration in the early …
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An interdisciplinary approach to mapping soil carbon
… developed around three case study farms in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria. This region is an upland landscape which has been identified as an important space for carbon management in the UK. The research offers a distinct and timely approach to assessing the potential of …
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Sedimentology of the Penrith sandstone and brockrams (Permo-Triassic) of Cumbria, north-west England
… of desert basins bordering the upstanding Lake District. The fans were deposited on an irregular topography which is demonstrated to have a probable minimum preburial relief of 250 to 300 metres in west Cumbria. The cross-stratified Penrith Sandstone of the Eden Valley accumulated as the …
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The Impact of Climate Change upon the Snowmelt Hydrology of an Upland UK Catchment
… of the Dacre Beck catchment in the English Lake District. A distributed snowmelt model was created which spatialised temperature and precipitation data across the catchment. The model accumulated snow when the temperature fell below 0°C and applied one of three temperature-index snowmelt …
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The characterisation of nickel resistance in sewage-borne enterobacteriaceae
… effluent discharged from a sewage outfall in the Lake District, Cumbria. Its aim is to further characterise the nickel resistance determinant ftom Enterobacter cloacae FBA30. FBA30 was found to harbour a 55-60 kb plasmid designated pFBA30 which confers nickel resistance on its host and in …
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Great Langdale Valley, Cumbria: An Analysis of the viability of road-user charging as a Demand Management Tool for motor-vehicle dependent recreation
… Strategy for Great Langdale Valley in the Lake District National Park. There were three research objectives: firstly, to investigate the response of motorists to the hypothetical imposition of monetary road-user charges for entry to Great Langdale Valley (Bovaird et al, 1984); secondly, …
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A CREATIVE AND PRACTICE BASED INVESTIGATION INTO THE POSSIBILITIES FOR CONTEMPORARY DRAWING AND PAINTING, WHICH IS INFORMED BY PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCES OF THE NATURAL WORLD
… on practice were fieldwork (in the English Lake District) and research into the paintings of Titian (at the National Gallery). Drawings were made during fieldwork, in response to the sights, sounds and sensations of natural phenomena. The physical engagement; the perceptions and sensations …
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