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Lonely Mountains
This thesis examines cuteness as it relates to care, culture, and manipulation. Using both scientific studies and cultural theories, this thesis aims to understand these elements of cuteness and relate them to the artwork discussed herein. Additionally, this paper explores layering as an element of …
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To Sing Of Mountains
To Sing of Mountains is a collection of lyric poetry that consists of twenty-six free verse poems and one ghazal. The poems call upon the ancient mountains as witnesses to civilizations of past and present, using them to trace the cycles of cultural and geographic change that occur throughout the …
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The hydrogeology of the Oman Mountains
Northern Oman is an arid area almost entirely dependent upon groundwater recharged by highly sporadic rainfall. Precipitation estimates are hampered by a lack of any reliable altitude-rainfall relationship. Below 700 m there is no statistically significant relationship. The isotopic composition of …
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Albert Bierstadt: Rocky Mountains - Lander's Peak
… aus dem Frühwerk Albert Bierstadts, Rocky Mountains - Lander's Peak (1863), wird analysiert, welchen Einfluß der Europaaufenthalt des Künstlers auf dieses gehabt haben könnte, und wie dieser Einfluß sich in Form von 'in Europa gesehenen Motiven' darin widerspiegelt. Transformiert der …
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Vegetation gradients in Southern Cape mountains
Southern Cape Mountain fynbos has been little studied in the past so that management and planners have had to draw heavily on Western Cape experience. This study arose from the need to define local vegetation patterns and their interdependence with animal life, climate and soil as a necessary …
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Seismic investigations of the northern Transantarctic Mountains
… elevations of ~4500 m, the Transantarctic Mountains (TAMs) are the largest non-compressional mountain chain on Earth. The TAMs show no evidence of folding or reverse faulting as is typically seen in contractional mountain building, calling the origin of the mountain range into question. …
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Rimforest Landslides, San Bernardino Mountains, Southern California
… scars near the crest of the San Bernardino Mountains just east of Strawberry Peak near the community of Rimforest are active landslides. From at least the 1920's to 1988 the primary activity has been mass wasting by rockfall in highly fractured quartz monzonite. Tension cracks in the …
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Reduced modelling of mountains and ice sheets
The motion of rocks that make up mountains and of ice in glaciers and ice sheets can often be treated as a fluid flow. These geophysical systems are, however, very complex in terms of the rheology of their constituents and their interactions with environment. Simple mathematical models are often …
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Hydrogeological investigation of the Naukluft mountains, southwest Namibia
The Naukluft Mountains area is also referred to as the Naukluft Nappe Complex (NNC), that consist of northwest dipping carbonates and sandstones aged 750 Ma and form part of the Damara Super Group that has been thrust over the younger sedimentary rocks of the Nama Group, aged 550 Ma. In this study, …
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Selections from SHADOWS OF CLOUDS ON THE MOUNTAINS
… from a larger work, Shadows of Clouds on the Mountains, a sort of life-spanning nonfiction Ulysses, a literary mixtape in which every chapter takes a different form, and every chapter's form is dictated by its content. These essays, or chapters, will appear, basically as is, in my book, …
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Puma Dispersal Ecology in the Central Rocky Mountains
… three separate populations in the Central Rocky Mountains including the Northern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (NGYE), the Southern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (SGYE) and the Garnet Mountains of Montana. We found human-induced mortality reduced inter-population vital rates with population …
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Puma Dispersal Ecology in the Central Rocky Mountains
… three separate populations in the Central Rocky Mountains including the Northern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (NGYE), the Southern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (SGYE) and the Garnet Mountains of Montana. We found human-induced mortality reduced inter-population vital rates with population …
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ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA
<p>The San Bernardino Mountains are well known for their rich mining history, especially, gold in the mid-1800s and the current mining of one of the world’s largest deposits of high purity limestone. The purpose of this study was to compile new, current, and historical data of the major economic …
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A vegetation analysis of the Great Smoky Mountains
Open Restriction set for Item 112617 on 2019-10-10T18:38:31Z with date null by astein@illinois.edu.
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Quaternary glaciation in the Pindus Mountains, Northwest Greece
… glaciation has been mapped n the Pindus Mountains of Northwest Greece. the dynamics and chronology of glaciation in this area has been established through sedimentological analysis, soil analysis and Uranium-series dating. Four glacial events are recorded in the sedimentological and …
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