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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Merrimack"”.
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Regional organization in the Merrimack River Valley
Thesis (M.C.P.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture and City Planning, 1947.
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A roadway bridge across the Merrimack River between Groveland and Haverhill
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, 1877
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Revelation on the banks of the Merrimack : design studies for the Newburyport waterfront.
Thesis. 1979. M.Arch--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture.
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A case for a "watershed protection approach" to water resources use and allocation : the Merrimack River watershed
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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Are immigrants in Massachusetts accessing welfare? : an exploratory study of families in Boston and the Merrimack Valley
… immigrant heads of households in Boston and the Merrimack Valley to ascertain the employment status of household heads and the use of public benefits by immigrant headed families. The study surveyed Spanish and Portuguese speaking individuals at 300% or below of the poverty level with children …
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The Swift Water Place: Water Quality, Fish Ecology, and Hydropower in the Merrimack River since the Time of Thoreau
The Merrimack River and its landscape reflect the priorities that have shaped the stream for two centuries. When Henry David Thoreau and his brother John put their dory into the Merrimack in September of 1839, they were paddling into a landscape that was shifting towards water-powered industries …
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A spatial analysis of socioeconomic and demographic change in the Lower Merrimack Valley and Lawrence, MA, 1980-1990
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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The interacting hydrologic responses to changing climate, watershed physical characteristics, river regulation, and land development in the northeastern United States
… development and riverine impoundments of the Merrimack River watershed. The Merrimack (New Hampshire-Massachusetts) is a 13,000 km2 forested (67%) watershed located in the northeastern United States. The overarching goal of this dissertation was to assess hydrologic responses to the potential …
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Geology of the Bottle Lake Complex, Maine
… composite granite emplaced near the core of the Merrimack synclinorium in east-central Maine. The two plutons exposed within the Complex are reversely zoned in their mineralogy, major and trace element compositions. Each intrusive exhibits characteristic features including the abundance of …
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Americanaaaaaaa! : or a welcome home in Lowell, Massachusetts
… a once-prosperous textile mill town on the Merrimack River. Lowell is chosen for two of its defining features: its robust preservation campaign, which perpetuates a flattened representation of Lowell's collective identity that is rooted in a 1970s idea of 19th century domestic architecture, …
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On the dynamics of shallow water currents in Massachusetts Bay and on the New England continental shelf
… The major freshening is attributed to the Merrimack River which empties into the Gulf of Maine 30 km to the north of the Bay; discharge of the Merrimack increases by at least a factor of two in spring. Flow directly into the basin from several smaller rivers is not important. Two major …
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Bedrock geology of the seacoast region of New Hampshire, United States
… Rye Complex (RC), and the eastern portion of the Merrimack Group (MG). The Rye Formation and the Breakfast Hill member constitute the RC; the Kittery, Eliot, and Berwick Formations, the MG. The stratigraphic order interpreted in this study places the Kittery Formation transitionally above the …
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Last breath, first pulse: an experiment in modernization, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1823 - 1857
On September 1, 1823, the Merrimack Manufacturing Company commenced operations, the first of many textile mills constructed and operated by the Boston Company (colloquially referred to as the Boston Associates). The burgeoning mill complex, the first large-scale industrial development in the United …
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The marine geochemistry of trace metals
… mixing experiments using water from the Merrimack River (Mass.) and the Mullica River (New Jersey) demonstrated that rapid iron precipitation occurs as negatively-charged iron-organic colloids react with seawater cations and coagulate. This phenomenom was modeled using a synthetic, …
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THOREAU'S A WEEK, RELIGION AS PRESERVATIVE CARE: OPPOSING THE CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF DISCOVERY, MANIFEST DESTINY, AND A RELIGION OF SUBJUGATION
… Henry David Thoreau's A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849) as "Transcendental scripture writing." By placing his book in this genre, Thoreau's religious thinking comes to the fore. His book becomes a contextualized pilgrimage addressing three levels of human existence in the …
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Across- and along-strike structural and geochronological variations of the Nashoba-Putnam and Avalon terranes, eastern Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, southeastern New England Appalachians
… contact with greenschist facies rocks of the Merrimack belt to the west, and with generally low grade rocks of the Avalon terrane to the east. Structural data in the Nashoba-Putnam terrane show five generations of deformation. Structural and metamorphic data are generally consistent with a …