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Showing 1 to 20 of 168 for “"terrace"”.
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Terrace housing : providing quality in higher-density housing
… space above ground must therefore be considered. Terrace housing, that is multi-story housing with open spaces on each level, is a building type which has the advantage of providing the qualities of private open spaces to each unit of building. Terrace building types have been a popular solution …
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Alternative proposal: Linkou Terrace South Project Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1973. M.Arch.A.S.
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Ceramics of Aztec north and the terrace community, Aztec Ruins National Monument
… from five unexcavated sites on the river terrace at Aztec Ruins National Monument, including the Aztec North great house. I conducted a detailed attribute analysis and mean ceramic dating.</p> <p>The mean ceramic date for Aztec North is AD 1104±39, while other terrace sites have later mean …
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A geophysical characterization of New River terrace deposits in Giles County, Virginia
… sediments, commonly referred to as New River terrace deposits, near the town of Pembroke in Giles County, southwest Virginia. Geological and geophysical investigations were utilized to characterize the terrace deposits and investigate the nature of the observed faults. Geologic mapping of the …
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Investigation of Low Impact Development Practices For Coastal South Carolina: Oak Terrace Preserve
… (e.g. rain over time). The LID practices at Oak Terrace Preserve reduced the concentrations of FC and TSS in the first portion of the runoff hydrograph (defined as the first 13 millimeters of rainfall) compared to subsequent portions of runoff. However, these lower concentrations did not …
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The classification and analysis of terrace houses and the rationalization of their design process
… economic conditions) The specific level of terrace houses as an example of buildings of that kind and their adaptation process and mechanisms to the external conditions as rational, systematic development process. The S.A.R. approach serves as a background reference for this study. Some …
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High Resolution Facies & Architectural Analysis of a Tributive, Basal Terrace of a Ferron Compound Incised Valley
… 1 throughout the area. The oldest valley terrace, of what are thought to be three constituent valleys formed during a stepped relative fall of sea level, is particularly well exposed along the cliffs of East Neilson Wash. This study documents the facies, architecture, paleohydraulic scale, …
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Representing Mount Wutai's Past: A Study of Chinese and Japanese miracle tales about the Five Terrace Mountain
This dissertation explores diverse imaginings of Mount Wutai's significance put forward between the seventh and fourteenth centuries. It is built around a close reading of five principal miracle tales, various versions of which appear in court memorials, clerical biographies, diaries, statuary …
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The "New" sounds of the slap-of-the-stick : Termite Terrace (1937-1943) and the slapstick tradition
… Tunes and Merrie Melodies- made at Termite Terrace between 1937 and 1943 embody the slapstick tradition, reinvigorate it, and transform it. The thesis explains the production processes (technologies and practices) that led up to the creation of an energetic audiovisual rhythm and the …
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Mothers' perceptions of housing space : an analysis of 3 married student housing sites: Eastgate, Westgate and Peabody Terrace
… which were explored in detail. Peabody Terrace was found to be by far the most satisfactory of the three environments, and this, largely because of its location and the variety of both indoor and outdoor communal places it provides. There, mother and child can be either alone or together …
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Exploration and application of post-infrared high-temperature infrared stimulated luminescence dating techniques: investigation of marine terrace deposits along the northern San Andreas Fault
… are done so via their application to a marine terrace that is displaced by the San Andreas Fault. Corals from the terrace along the Pacific plate, dated with U-series by Muhs et al. (2002), offer an age estimate. Comparison of the pIRIR ages to the U-series ages yield an underestimation, …
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Cosmogenic dating of fluvial terraces in the Sorbas Basin, SE Spain
… in many fluvial systems around the world by terrace landform sequences. The incision manifests itself as inset sequences of river terraces which form terrace staircases. The timing of the onset of incision and the rate incision then proceeds at is poorly constrained due to the difficulties in …
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Elevation, Longitudinal Profile, And Schmidt Hammer Analysis Of Strath Terraces Through Capitol Reef National Park, Utah: Bedrock Channel Response To Climate Forcing?
… and Schmidt hammer data indicate that strath terraces (specifically the lower elevation terraces) mapped in the Fremont River drainage of Capitol Reef National Park are correlative to the terraces of the smaller Pleasant Creek drainage located approximately ten miles to the south. This …
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Hydrogeologic assessment of the Brazos River alluvial aquifer : Waco to Marlin, Texas.
… River. The deposits include the floodplain and terrace material which are comprised of clay, silt, sand, and gravel. Thicknesses of the alluvial deposits range up to 80 feet. Groundwater in the terraces is restricted to domestic and livestock wells producing less than 50 gpm. Irrigation wells …
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The Geologic and Archaeological History of the Dickie Carr Site 41PR26
… The buried lower unit is comprised of terrace, floodplain, and channel deposits with extensive pedogenesis. The unit is Late Pleistocene in age and contains the remains of Mammuthus columbi. The upper stratigraphic unit is comprised of terrace and floodplain sediments with …
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Tectonic and sedimentary history of the Mid-Natal Valley (S.W. Indian Ocean)
… shelf and slope, Tugela Cone, Central Terrace, Mozambique Ridge and deep basin plain. Thinned (20-25 km) continental crust, attenuated and subsided in response to Gondwana rifting and drifting, underlies the Central Terrace, Tugela Cone and Mozambique Ridge. Southern margins of the …
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A stable isotope investigation of nitrate contamination at Many Devils Wash, Shiprock UMTRCA Site, Shiprock, NM
… processing site located in Shiprock, NM, on a terrace adjacent to the San Juan River. The leaching of ore with ammonium and sulfuric acid introduced large amounts of contaminants such as uranium, nitrate, sulfate, manganese and selenium into groundwater of the terrace and the adjacent …
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Quaternary geology of the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site
… of this area.</p> <p>There are eight river terraces within a 300 square kilometre area surrounding the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, near Stanton, North Dakota. , The terraces are former river floodplains that have been preserved above the present floodplain. The …
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Extension and Quaternary Faulting in the Northern Central Nevada Seismic Belt
… at Siard Canyon in Pleasant Valley and Terrace Creek in Dixie Valley areanalyzed to show the Pleasant Valley and Terrace Creek surfaces where abandoned ~110ka and ~70 ka ago, respectively. The Pleasant Valley and Terraces Creek surfaces aredisplaced to exhibit vertical separations of 5.6 …
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Landscape forcing mechanisms on Quaternary timescales: The Tabernas Basin, SE Spain
… their associated sedimentary assemblages (river terraces and alluvial fans) often provide important records of long-term landscape evolution. The reconstruction of global terrace sequences has enabled the identification of numerous external and internal forcing mechanisms which operate within the …
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