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Broken-formations of the Pulaski thrust sheet near Pulaski, Virginia
… and Milici, 1977) occur in the lower part of the Pulaski thrust sheet and contain some of the most strongly deformed sedimentary rocks in the Valley and Ridge province of the southern Appalachians. Deformation in this zone ranges from grain-scale cataclasis to regional-scale faulting. The …
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The Social Importance of a Small-town Theater: A Case Study of the Pulaski Theatre, Pulaski, Virginia
… was to discover the various meanings that the Pulaski Theatre held for the residents of Pulaski and the theatre's social importance to the town. The following research objectives directed this study: 1) to document the theatre's history from the time it was built in 1911 until the present day, …
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Temporal and Material Layers: A Library for Pulaski, Virginia
… my study in an existing foundry building in Pulaski, Virginia, a new public library is allowed to unfold through the interaction of concrete, steel, and wood interventions into a masonry shell.
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A civic and recreation center for Pulaski County, Virginia
… the design of a civic and recreation center for Pulaski County, Virginia, which will to the best or the author's ability satisfy two major requirements. The first requirement is that the building shall fulfill the specific needs of the citizens of Pulaski County in providing them with the …
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Relation of Pulaski and Seven Springs faults in southwestern Virginia
… but heretofore unproven, continuation of the Pulaski fault trace southwestward around the structurally complex Marion dome area. The Seven Springs fault of Cooper (1936) has long been assumed to be the southwestward continuation of the extensive Pulaski fault; however, the linkage of these two …
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Geospatial Analysis of Registered Sex Offenders: a case study from Pulaski County, Arkansas
… of the residences of registered sex offenders in Pulaski County, Arkansas to determine the impact of state enforced residence restrictions. Density and clustering factors were used to identify census tracts of the study area with high and low concentrations of offenders. These zones were then …
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Stratigraphy and deposition of the Price Formation coals in Montgomery and Pulaski Counties, Virginia
The conclusion of this investigation, based on field mapping and measured sections, is the Price Formation was deposited on a high-energy shoreline. Sediments for the shoreline were initially transported from a northern deltaic source. The Cloyd Conglomerate Member represents offshore barrier bars, …
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Geology of the Big Walker Mountain-Crockett Cove Area, Bland, Pulaski, and Wythe counties, Virginia
… feet near its southwestern terminus where the Pulaski block overrides it from the south,to less than 1,000 feet nearly 18 miles away at the eastern border of the area studied. The Tract Mountain block, which is bounded on the northwest by the Tract Mountain fault, is made up of a series of …
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A study of persons with medical care needs among selected rural families in Pulaski County, Virginia
… to determine the medical care needs among rural Pulaski County folks in relation to tenure, land class, and occupations which are indicative of income, age and sex, schooling of the homemaking, size of family or household, distance from medical personnel and facilities, and loss of income through …
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Deformation associated with Pulaski overthrusting in the Price Mountain and East Radford windows, Montgomery County, southwest Virginia
… belt of southwest Virginia, windows in the Pulaski thrust sheet expose a variety of parautochthonous and allochthonous rocks, ranging in age from Cambrian to Mississippian. The décollement of the Pulaski fault as exposed in the Price Mountain and East Radford windows is in places a thick, …
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Chauncey Depew Harmon, Senior: a case study in leadership for educational opportunity and equality in Pulaski, Virginia
… educator's life during the period 1913-1940 in Pulaski, Virginia. Chauncey Depew Harmon, Senior, was an African American educator born in Pulaski, Virginia, in 1913. Educated at Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute during 1929-35, he returned to Pulaski to become principal of Calfee Training …
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Structural geology of the Pulaski-Salem thrust sheet and the eastern end of the Christiansburg window, southwestern Virginia
… From north to south they are Catawba, Salem, Pulaski, Saltville and Max Meadows. The structurally lowest block is the parautochthonous Saltville block which is exposed in the Christiansburg window of the Pulaski overthrust sheet. Exposed are the upper Elbrook Formation, the Cambro-Ordovician …
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Structural evolution of the Roanoke area, Virginia
… delimited from northwest to southeast by the Pulaski, Salem, Max Meadows, and Blue. Ridge faults. Indigenous rocks comprise the Read-Coyner Mountain and Bonsack anticlinal fensters and a probable fenster in Roanoke. The Read-Coyner Mountain fenster effectively separates the Catawba syncline …
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Geology of the Millers Cove area, Roanoke, Craig and Montgomery counties, Virginia
… the southwest the anticline passes beneath the Pulaski fault. The extension of the anticline to the northeast is unknown but it may be continuous with the Broad Run anticline. The Dragons Tooth syncline is continuous to the northeast with the North Mountain syncline but to the southwest passes …
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Geology of the Blacksburg area, Montgomery County, Virginia
… Mountain anticline; (2) the emplacement of the Pulaski thrust sheet; and (3) reverse movement along the eastward dipping Yellow Sulphur fault, which raised the Catawba syncline about 3000 feet relative to the Price Mountain anticline. Subsequent erosion has exposed Mississippian rocks in Price …
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Geology of the Radford area, Virginia
… the Appalachian Valley portion of Montgomery and Pulaski counties, Virginia. All of it is underlain with sedimentary rocks ranging from Early Cambrian to Early Mississippian in age, and having an aggregate thickness of at least 12,000 feet. These rock units do not represent a complete sedimentary …
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Structural geology of the Christiansburg area, Montgomery County, Virginia
… belong to five fault blocks: the Max Meadows, Pulaski, Saltville, Salem, and Catawba blocks. The Max Meadows block contains only the Middle Cambrian Rome Formation, the oldest rocks exposed within the area. The parautochthonous Saltville block includes rocks from Upper Cambrian to Middle …
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James Alexander Walker: a biography
… Settling in New Bern in southwest Virginia’s Pulaski County, Walker became a captain of the “Pulaski Guard.” During the war, Walker rose from captain of Company C of the 4th Virginia, to lieutenant colonel of the 4th, to colonel of the 13th Virginia and finally to brigadier general and last …
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We don't want them in our schools: Black School Equality, Desegregation, and Massive Resistance in Southwest Virginia, 1920s-1960s
… of inequality between Black and White schools in Pulaski County, Virginia began as early as the 1920s. This activism continued through the 1930s and 1940s, with it finally leading NAACP attorneys Oliver Hill and Spottswood Robinson collaborating with Pulaski citizens in 1948 to file a …
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