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The Marine Pleistocene Sediments Andn Paleogeography Of The Southern Thrace Coast, Mehmet Sakinç, Cenk Yaltirak

Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration

No abstract provided.

Si̇vasella Goekceni̇, A New Foraminifer Species Of Maastrichtian Of Southwest Malatya (Se Türki̇ye), Engin Meri̇ç, Nurdan İnan

Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration

No abstract provided.

Paleomagnetic Characteristics Of The Cenozoic Volcanics And Tectonic Evolution Of Thrace, M. Cengiz Tapirdamaz, Cenk Yaltirak

Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration

No abstract provided.

Stratigraphy And Tectonics Of The Pulur (Bayburt) Region In The Eastern Pontides, Aral I. Okay, Ömer Şahi̇ntürk, Hüseyin Yakar

Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration

No abstract provided.

Anatomy Of An Epithermal Mineralization: Mumcu (Balikesi̇r-Sindirgi), Inner-Western Anatolia, Turkey, Vedat Oygür

Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration

No abstract provided.

Interpretation Of The New Radiometric Age Determinations From The Tertiary And Quaternary Volcanic Rocks In Western Anatolia., Tuncay Ercan, Muharrem Satir, Dilek Sevi̇n, Ahmet Türkecan

Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration

No abstract provided.

Environmental Interpretation Of The Ostracoda Fauna From The Upper Miocene-Pliocene Sequence In The Karaman Region, Ümit Şafak

Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration

No abstract provided.

Stratigraphy Of The Tectonostratigraphic Units Around Hadim-Bozkir-Taşkent Region (Northern Part Of The Central Taurides, Turkey), Necdet Özgül

Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration

No abstract provided.

Geology Of The İdi̇ş Daği - Avanos Area (Nevşehi̇r - Central Anatolia), Serhat Köksal, M. Cemal Göncüoğlu

Bulletin of the Mineral Research and Exploration

No abstract provided.

Les Deux Faces De La Pensée De E. A. Martel, Jacques Choppy

International Journal of Speleology

Réunion de textes de Martel: 1 - Extraits du Nouveau Traité des Eaux Souterraines (1921), donnant l’essentiel de la pensée de l’auteur sur l’hydraulique et la morphologie du karst. 2 - En opposition à cette vision, rappelée de nombreuses fois par l’auteur, extraits de diverses publications (de 1894 à 1930), admettant qu’un fonctionnement en régime noyé était possible: Martel est donc l’un des tout premiers ayant observé des formes de creusement en régime noyé, et les ayant interprétées comme telles.

Edouard-Alfred Martel Et Les Cavernes De La Belgique, Daniel André

International Journal of Speleology

An exhaustive report on the activity of Martel in Belgium is here given. In particular some relevant passages of Martel’s letters and papers are also included.

Climatic Fluctuations And Tropical Troglobitic Evolution, Pedro Gnaspini

International Journal of Speleology

No abstract provided.

Genetic Divergence And Evolutionary Times: Calibrating A Protein Clock For South-European Stenasellus Species (Crustacea Isopoda), Valerio Ketmaier, Roberto Argano, Marina Cobolli, Elvira De Matthaeis

International Journal of Speleology

We studied genetic divergence in a group of exclusively stygobiont isopods of the family Stenasellidae. In particular, we assessed evolutionary relationships among several populations of Stenasellus racovitzai and Stenasellus virei. To place this study in a phylogenetic context. we used another species of Stenasellus, S. assorgiai, as an outgroup. S. racovitzai occurs in Corsica, Sardinia and in the fossil islands of the Tuscan Archipelago, while S. virei is a polytypic species widely distributed in the central France and Pyrenean area. This vicariant distribution is believed to be the result of the disjunction of the Sardinia-Corsica microplate from …

Geographic Variation And Genetic Relationships In Populations Of The Androniscus Dentiger Complex From Central Italy (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Trichoniscidae), Gabriele Gentile, Giuliana Allegrucci

International Journal of Speleology

Androniscus dentiger is a terrestrial isopod distributed from Great Britain to North Africa, inhabiting humid edafic environments, superficial underground compartments and both natural and artificial caves. In this study allozyme data have been used to investigate the geographic variation and the genetic relationships of several populations of A. dentiger from Central Italy, using as outgroups populations from four congeneric species, A. calcivagus, A. cfr. subterraneus, A. spelaeorum, and A. degener. Multivariate analysis of A. dentiger allele frequencies indicates the existence of a group of populations (group A) distributed in a wide geographic area which are genetically …

Long Term Stability Of A Terrestrial Cave Community, Claudio Di Russo, Gianmaria Carchini, Mauro Rampini, Marco Lucarelli, Valerio Sbordoni

International Journal of Speleology

We report data on the spatial structure and seasonal variation of the community of Valmarino cave, a medium sized sandstone cave, located a few kilometres from the coast line, in Central Italy. Due to both its habitat features and its relatively recent geological history, Valmarino cave is only inhabited by terrestrial, troglophilic elements, i.e facultative cave dwellers. By means of monthly censuses and density plot estimates we have investigated species abundance, diversity and their spatial organization, by considering separately samples from different cave sectors. Homogeneous sampling design allowed to compare series of samplings performed in 1974 and 1994. On the …

Are Troglobitic Taxa Troglobiomorphic? A Test Using Phylogenetic Inference, Laure Desutter-Grandcolas

International Journal of Speleology

Obligate cave dwelling organisms are frequently characterised by a peculiar morphological syndrome, named troglomorphosis or troglobiomorphosis. This hypothesis, which deals with the evolutionary influence of the subterranean environment on cave organisms is far from being universally accepted. Yet it has been adopted by many authors and is often included in the definitions of the current classification of cave taxa. In this paper I present a test of the troglobiomorphosis hypothesis, using the case study of the cricket clade Amphiacustae (Orthoptera, Grylloidea, Phalangopsidae). Such a test preliminarily requires that observations of the habitat of the taxa (achieved on present-day populations) are …

Martel's Links With Usa, Trevor R. Shaw

International Journal of Speleology

Of the 29% foreign members in the Société de Spéléologie, five lived in the USA. They were Luella Owen (the only woman member of the Société), R. Ellsworth Cali, H.C. Hovey, E Van Epps and C. R. Blackall. E.S. Balch, though not a member, also knew Martel. These members, between them, published ten papers in Spelunca, which also reviewed their other work. The activities of these six, and their links with France, are discussed. Martel actively encouraged cave work in America, as elsewhere, and Hovey, who had been with him during the survey of Aven Armand, he knew quite well. …

Martel's Voyage To Russia In 1903, Arrigo A. Cigna

International Journal of Speleology

The news concerning caves and karst reported in a Martel’s book on his voyage to Russia in 1903 are here listed and the cave maps are reproduced.

A Simple Scenario For Stygobitization In Stenobermuda Schultz, 1978 (Isopoda Asellota Stenetriidae), With Description Of A New Species From Andros Island, Bahamas, Lazare Botosaneanu, Thomas M. Iliffe

International Journal of Speleology

Description of a new stygobitic and troglomorphic species of Stenobermuda from a Blue Hole in the Bahamas, is an opportunity for speculation about hypogean colonization by this and by another cave-dwelling species from Bermuda, starting from populations of a widely distributed Western Atlantic shallow water marine species.

The Significance Of E. A. Martel For Speleology In Slovenia, Andrej Kranjc

International Journal of Speleology

Three times Martel visited karst in Carniola: in 1879, 1893 and 1896. The importance of his visits and later publications lies in fact that he informed the francophone public about our karst and caves; his visit stimulated the introduction of new technical means into the then Austrian speleology (folding boat, portable telephone); in 1893 due to his researches Postojnska jama became the longest cave in Europe; public found out about existence of caving society Anthron, which was the first Slovene and Slav society of the kind; he set up the foundations of international speleological co-operation and included into it Austrian …

Discovery Of Fossil Cretaceous Bird In Southwest Arkansas, Leo Carson Davis, Kathie Harris

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

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Hydrogeological And Hydrochemical Connection Between The Decatur City Spring And Crystal Lake, Benton County, Arkansas, Demetra O. Salisbury, Ralph K. Davis

Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science

Arkansas is ranked nationally in the production of broilers, laying hens, turkey, swine and beef cattle. These animals produce large volumes of waste, which are spread on pasture land as a method of disposal, as well as a source of fertilizer, resulting in nonpoint source contamination of surface water and ground water. One area of concern includes the Decatur City Spring, which provides municipal water for the city of Decatur. A total of eight sites in the surrounding area were monitored routinely for water quality parameters, including pH, specific conductance, and nitrate-nitrogen. Water temperature and spring and lake stage were …

The Hawaiian Cave Planthoppers (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Cixiidae) - A Model For Rapid Subterranean Speciation?, Hannelore Hoch

International Journal of Speleology

After the successful colonization of a single ancestral species in the Hawaiian Islands, planthoppers of the cixiid genus Oliarus underwent intensive adaptive radiation resulting in 80 described endemic species. Oliarus habitats range from montaneous rain forests to dry coastal biotopes and subterranean environments. At least 7 independant evolutionary lines represented by different species have adapted to lava tubes on Molokai (1), Maui (3), and Hawaii Island (3). Behavioral and morphological studies on one of these evolutionary lines on Hawaii Island, the blind, flight- and pigmentless Oliarus polyphentus have provided evidence for reproductive isolation between allopatric populations which may in fact …

Focus Catchments : A New Approach To Salinity Research : National Dryland Salinity Program, Steve Porritt

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Dry/and salinity is a major threat to the resource base of many rural industries around Australia. More than 1.8 million hectares of once productive land are affected by salinity, with a further 1.6 million hectares at risk in the next 15 to 25 years in Western Australia alone. Much of the past Commonwealth and State expenditure on salinity programs and activities has been poorly targeted and coordinated. In view of this, a national dry/and salinity program that supports specific State salinity management programs has been established jointly between the Commonwealth and State government agencies.

The Upper Kent River Catchment is …