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Reading Landscape: Mid-Century Modernism And The Landscape Idea, Jeffrey David Blankenship
Reading Landscape: Mid-Century Modernism And The Landscape Idea, Jeffrey David Blankenship
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This dissertation traces the recovery of the landscape idea during the middle decades of the 20th century by a group of public intellectuals, scholars and designers responding to the everyday realities of the modern American built environment. That recovery served as a corrective to modernism's construction of landscape as either abstract utopian space or retrogressive historical tableau. The primary catalyst for this renewed interest in landscape as a representation of human cultures and their complex relationship with the natural world was the essayist and critic John Brinckerhoff Jackson (1909-1996) and his magazine Landscape. During the years of Jackson's editorship (1951-1968), …
Lacustrine Records Of Holocene Climate And Environmental Change From The Lofoten Islands, Norway, Nicholas L. Balascio
Lacustrine Records Of Holocene Climate And Environmental Change From The Lofoten Islands, Norway, Nicholas L. Balascio
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Lakes sediments from the Lofoten Islands, Norway, can be used to generate well resolved records of past climate and environmental change. This dissertation presents three lacustrine paleoenvironmental reconstructions that show evidence for Holocene climate changes associated with North Atlantic climate dynamics and relative sea-level variations driven by glacio-isostatic adjustment. This study also uses distal tephra deposits (cryptotephra) from Icelandic volcanic eruptions to improve the chronologies of these reconstructions and explores new approaches to crypto-tephrochronology. Past and present conditions at Vikjordvatnet, Fiskebølvatnet, and Heimerdalsvatnet were studied during four field seasons conducted from 2007-2010. Initially, each lake was characterized by measuring water …
A High-Resolution Temperature Record From Lakes Of The Lofoten Islands, Northwestern Norway Based On A New Uk37 Temperature Calibration From In Situ Measurements, Xiaohui Huang
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
Water filters and sediment trap samples were collected weekly from late May to early September 2009 from four lakes of the Lofoten archipelago, northwestern Norway, and were used to explore the applicability of the alkenone unsaturation index (UK37) for temperature reconstruction in limnic systems in the area. For the first time, we observed the occurrence of long-chain alkenones (LCAs) within the water columns of lakes in this region. Water filters from two of the four studied lakes contained measurable concentrations of alkenones that were restricted to spring turnover and disappeared with the onset of summer stratification. These results indicate that …
Jarosite Formation At The Davis Mine, Rowe, Massachusetts, Karen S. Miller
Jarosite Formation At The Davis Mine, Rowe, Massachusetts, Karen S. Miller
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
This study investigates jarosite formation and stability patterns at the abandoned Davis Pyrite Mine in Rowe, Massachusetts. Jarosite, an iron-sulfate hydroxide, is found in acid mine drainage (AMD) environments, in acid sulfate soils, and on Mars. Jarosite and the iron oxides goethite and hematite are present at the site. Soil samples from the site were examined by XRD, SEM, and EDS. Five mineralogical areas were found, based on mineral abundance patterns. Jarosite exists in four of these areas. Two jarosite morphologies were identified. “Variable” jarosite, with partly-dissolved crystals of about 0.5 to 5 micrometers diameter, exists in spoil pile samples. …
Final Evaluation Report, Sagefox Consulting Group
Final Evaluation Report, Sagefox Consulting Group
IPY STEM Polar Connections
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