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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"New Caledonia"”.
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A History of Culture Contact in North-Eastern New Caledonia 1774-1870
… different cultural groups, Melanesians of New Caledonia and the Europeans with whom they came into· contact between 1774 and 1870. Within this theme the main focus of attention is the impact of culture contact on Melanesian social organization, attitudes and way of life during the period of …
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A History of Culture Contact in North-Eastern New Caledonia 1774-1870
… different cultural groups, Melanesians of New Caledonia and the Europeans with whom they came into· contact between 1774 and 1870. Within this theme the main focus of attention is the impact of culture contact on Melanesian social organization, attitudes and way of life during the period of …
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New Caledonia´s Wake: Expanding the Story of Company of Scotland Expeditions to Darien, 1698-1700
… an unintentional diaspora to opportunities for new alliances among European powers to ramifications for the indigenous Cuna, the Company of Scotland intruded into events on the eve of the seventeenth century in ways far beyond those previously considered.
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Nature and Potential Origins of the Low-Rate Tectonics of the Hauraki Rift and North-Western New Zealand: A Geophysical Investigation
… of tectonic activity throughout north-western New Zealand, beyond that it is a stable environment (velocities ~1 mm/yr relative to Australia) and home to the Hauraki Rift, N-S trending, 250+ km long and 25 km wide on-shore/off-shore continental rift 40 km east of Auckland City and oblique to …
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Questioning the Cunonia in C. capensis
… excluding C. capensis, occur on the island of New Caledonia. Dickison has repeatedly noted (1973, 1975, 1980, and 1984,) that evolutionary patterns may have led to incorrect systematic conclusions among many cunoniaceous genera, which are likely to generate incorrect systematic conclusions. For …
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Submarine channelforms and fans in the Miocene Moki and Mount Messenger formations, Taranaki Basin, New Zealand
Taranaki Basin (New Zealand) contains a Late Cretaceous – Cenozoic sedimentary succession up to 9 kilometres thick. Neogene strata are volumetrically a significant part of the basin fill. During the late-Middle Miocene a new sediment source, arising from the onset of uplift and erosion of the …
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Post-Lapita Fiji: cultural transformation in the mid-sequence
… of localised interaction found in Vanuatu and New Caledonia.
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Post-Lapita Fiji: cultural transformation in the mid-sequence
… of localised interaction found in Vanuatu and New Caledonia.
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Oceania Football Confederation: the impact of affiliate disaffiliation on the inter-organizational dynamics of a federated network
… in favour of the two French speaking nations, New Caledonia and Tahiti, which were both previously considered minor players within the network. It is unclear if this is due to their connection with France. The key conclusion from this research is that disaffiliation provides a ‘wake-up call’ to …
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Taxonomy and Evolution of the Buckthorn Family (Rhamnaceae) in Southeast Asia
… We have published taxonomic revisions and new species descriptions in four genera: Ventilago, Smythea, Gouania and Ziziphus. We revised the genus Smythea throughout its range, including six new species descriptions, described three new Ventilago species, plus two additional species in New …
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Marine carbonate accumulation during the greenhouse climate of the Eocene
… and two of which derive from field work in New Caledonia (the Sommet-Khian outcrop and the Cadart drill core). Here we identify long-term changes in carbon and oxygen isotope records, possibly related to 405 Ky eccentricity cycles; and present a δ13C-stratigraphic framework for the Tasman …
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Temporal and spatial distributions of baleen whales in central New Zealand, based on passive acoustic monitoring
… in the marine environment around central New Zealand to elucidate the spatio-temporal distributions of ‘data deficient’ baleen whales that frequent the region. The recorded data featured notable acoustic contributions from several baleen whale species. Seismic surveys, shipping and …
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Molecular Phylogenetics and Historical Biogeography of the Tribe Chiococceae (Rubiaceae)
… and palynological data, is transferred to a new monotypic tribe Strumpfieae; concurrently tribe Chiococceae is re-delimited to include 29 genera.</p> <p>This study presents the most comprehensive molecular phylogeny, to date, of the Chiococceae that includes 126 species and 27 genera and …
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Rhodoliths as environmental archives in the tropics
… Sporolithon durum from the Ricaudy Reef in New Caledonia were chosen for this project. The use of laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICPMS) permitted to investigate the distribution pattern of Mg across single rhodolith branches. The combination of LA-ICPMS …
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Rhodoliths as environmental archives in the tropics
… Sporolithon durum from the Ricaudy Reef in New Caledonia were chosen for this project. The use of laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICPMS) permitted to investigate the distribution pattern of Mg across single rhodolith branches. The combination of LA-ICPMS …
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Studies in the Alseuosmiaceae
… three genera of shrubs: Alseuosmia A. Cunn. from New Zealand; Memecylanthus Gilg and Schltr. and Periomphale Baill. (=Pachydiscus Gilg and Schltr.) from New Caledonia. These genera are readily excluded from their traditional position in the Caprifoliaceae by virtue of their alternate leaves, …
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