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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Sierra Madre"”.
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Land surface and orographic controls on precipitation patterns in the Sierra Madre Occidental and Western Ghats
… is significant: the areas surrounding the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains of western Mexico, and the Western Ghats of India, and investigate the processes behind these connections in detail. While these regions possess their own unique meteorological challenges, including sparse …
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A preliminary study of the brush mouse, Peromyscus boylii, in a canyon of the Sierra Madre Occidental in Durango, Mexico
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Zoology, 1958
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Moisture transport associated with the summertime North American monsoon.
… vertical mixing along the western slopes of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains of Mexico and subsequent horizontal transport aloft. Significant differences exist between wet and dry conditions over the Sonoran Desert for all fields considered. As the monsoon shifts from dry to wet conditions, …
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Huichol Yarn Painting as an Art Therapy Intervention to Promote Insight in Latino Children
… One particular group of people living in the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico known as the Huichols (pronounced Wee-chol), have proudly sustained their indigenous ways for over a thousand years. The Huichol Indians created an art form know as a yam painting that is made by pressing colorful …
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Revisiting Aldo Leopold's "Perfect" Land Health: Conservation and Development in Mexico's Rio Gavilan
… Gavilan watershed, located in Mexico 's northern Sierra Madre Occidental , has significance in conservation history. Upon visiting the remote, largely undeveloped watershed during two hunting trips in the 1930s, renowned conservationist Aldo Leopold thought it was the best picture of land health …
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Kinematic models of deformation in Southern California constrained by geologic and geodetic data
… Helendale, Newport-Inglewood, Owens Valley, Sierra Madre, and Chino faults to create a joint geologic and geodetic model, using the a priori slip rates to refine the results in areas with limited geodetic data. Our results for the San Andreas fault are consistent with geologic slip rates in …
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A descriptive grammar of Huehuetla Tepehua
… the town of Huehuetla, Hidalgo, in the Eastern Sierra Madre mountains of the Central Gulf Coast region of Mexico. This grammar begins with an introduction to the language, its language family, and its setting, as well as a brief history of my contact with the language. The grammar continues with …
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Anomalies in P wave velocities in the Tampico embayment, Gulf Coast of Mexico
… of velocities. Velocities augment toward the Sierra Madre Oriental. The residual maps show good correlation with the tectonics of the area. The results are difficult to interpret as functions of known geologic features on the 250-meter depth-interval maps. The regional maps show the same …
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Tropical orographic rainfall regimes according to the tropical rainfall measuring mission
… the tropical Andes, Hawaii, Eastern Himalayas, Sierra Madre Occidental, and Western Ghats are used to evaluate thirteen variables and parameters including convective available potential energy, convective inhibition, lifting condensation level, level of free convection, 700 hPa specific …
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Chemostratigraphy of the Early Paleoproterozoic carbonate successions (Kaapvaal and Wyoming cratons)
… Bow Mountains and the Slaughterhouse Formation, Sierra Madre contains carbonates with 13C-enrichment >+6â ° and locally up to +28%, whereas carbonates higher in the Nash Fork Formation have d13C values between 0 and 2.5%. This dramatic change in the composition of the Paleoproterozoic ocean is …
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La danse du Tutuguri ou le rite du soleil noir : une performance textuelle d'Antonin Artaud.
… him to the land of the Tarahumara Indians in the Sierra Madre, where he participated in the annual sacred Peyotl ceremony conducted by powerful shamans. Artaud's ethno-poetic account of their cosmology confirmed his visionary statements on theater. Alongside contemporary anthropology and …
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Paleogeography of Western North America: Insights from Detrital Zircon U-Pb Geochronology and Hf Isotope Geochemistry
… North Cascades Range, Idaho batholith, Sierra Nevada batholith, Transverse Ranges, Peninsular Ranges, Sierra Madre Occidental, and the Porphyry Copper Province. Identifying changes in sediment provenance from Sevier thin-skinned thrusting through the formation of Laramide basement block …
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Revision of Xanthomicrogaster Cameron, 1911 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae)
… Neotropical, apparently restricted by the Sierra Madre del Sur range in Mexico and the Andes between Argentina and Chile. In addition, the genus Xanthomicrogaster occurs in Trinidad, but it is unknown if its range extends to the island of Tobago or beyond. In terms of elevation, specimens …
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Motivations and incentives for pro-environmental behaviour: the case of silvopasture adoption in the tropical forest frontier
On the frontier of biodiversity-rich tropical forests, how land is used has an important role in buffering the primary ecosystem. Unsustainable small-scale cattle farming endangers soil quality and degrades the landscape. Silvopasture is a type of agroforestry that provides both ecological and …