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A soil description system for burial mounds - development and application

This paper describes the development of such a soil description system for burial mounds primarily based on borings on both protected and unprotected barrows. It is intended for characterizing various types of significant information for both
2003

Strain partitioning in transpressive shears zones in the southern branch of the Variscan Ibero-Armorican arc

The Torre de Moncorvo region (NE Portugal) is a key-sector of the Autochton Domain of the Iberian Terrane. The obtained data enable a better understanding of the D1 sinistral transpressive regime, emphasing both the importance of strain partitioning
2003

Duplex at the lateral tip of a thrust fault : the La Cagalière example (NE Pyrenees, France)

The La Cagalière duplex is an hectometric-scale structure with good exposures offering both dip and strike profiles. An important geometrical feature of the La Cagalière duplex is the lack of lateral persistence along strike. The purpose
2003

Geoekologické aspekty zmírňování povodňových škod

After the disastrous floods in 1997, 1998 and 2002 in Czech Republic the highest damages were registered in cities and towns. The flood damages require additional measures both on rivers and in catchment area. The flood plain segmentation
2003

Water resources in Botswana with particular reference to the Savanna regions

planning, focusing on both the short an long-term effects of water use, is needed in water management strategies. - (AJC)
2003

An assessment of the sustainability of the utilisation of Savanna products in Botswana

The majority of Botswana's population use a wide range of savanna products for food, fodder, medicine, fule, building, utensils and income. The poorest households in both rural and urban areas are most reliant on their consumption and trade
2003

An applied research on remote sensing classification in the Loess Plateau

Taking the loess hill and gully area of northern Shaanxi Province as a test area, a research is conducted to extract sloping field and other land use categories by applying an integrated classification, which is an integration of both supervised
2003

Pedodiversity analysis in Hainan Island

The AA. have applied diversity indices and abundance distribution models to use the notions such as pedodiversity (as an example of geodiversity in a broad sense), in order to detect the differences and similarities between both natural resources
2003

Rock weathering processes in Antarctica : a comparison of some recent studies with those from the Northern Hemisphere

This paper reviews some of the literature on rock weathering in both the Northern Hemisphere and the Antarctic, with a particular emphasis on the processes involved and their relationship to climate and rock properties. The role of freeze-thaw
2003

Solution and recrystallisation processes and associated landforms in gypsum outcrops of Sicily

to both categories : different types of karren and of expansion forms. The AA. discuss models of the dynamics of these gypsum outcrops which are illustrated with the support of large scale geomorphological maps.
2003

A lakótelep-rehabilitáció helyzete hazánkban

with housing shortage. After long decade of neglect these housing estates are declining both physically and socially. A. analyses of the first results of a large scale nation estate rehabilitation programme launched in 1997. - (JS)
2003

International migration and the housing market : Japanese corporate movers in London

Through the use of a questionnaire survey of Japanese residents, interviews with estate agencies and analysis of property available in the Japanese sub-market, the article demonstrates both the impact of Japanese corporate movement on housing issues
2003

Sytuacja demograficzna Federacji Rosyjskiej w świetle rosyjskiej literatury przedmiotu

is threatened with serious depopulation. The fact that number of people is declining has become a source of noisy debate that takes in both scientific and academic circles in the country. The opinions and views put forward are discussed. - (BJ)
2003

Moving mountains : community and resistance in the Isle of Harris, Scotland, and Cape Breton, Canada

on the discursive formulations of the quarry in the expert language, as well as in the arguments of both local proponents and opponents of the quarries, shows the importance of ontological categories in environmental siting disputes.
2003

Youth, racism, and place in the Tony Martin affair

)constructed in the media during the Martin affair showed evidence of both older, stereotypical representations of Travellers and newer ways of locating them in relation to contemporary societal anxieties about dangerous youth, the underclass, and social
2003

River meander behaviour and instability : a framework for analysis

behaviour is then reconsidered as trajectories in the phase space of sinuosity (or curvature) and rate of movement (or erosion). The evidence from both modelling and empirical studies is synthesized to produce an integrating framework for analysis
2003

Analyse des maxima d'aridité pour des périodes prédéterminées dans l'Oltrepo de Pavie et de Plaisance (1951-1991)

It is highlighted that the 1980-1991 period has been characterized from conditions of diffuse aridity, with presence of minimums both in summer and in autumn ; condition, the last, of absolute exceptionality. - (BJ)
2003

Temporäre Migrationsprozesse am Beispiel polnischer Arbeitsmigranten in Deutschland

, the migration processes will be described both in their total numbers and in their different forms. The final conclusion shows the consequences of temporary migration for the workers, for the employers as well as for the government and questions the durability
2003

Ein Projekt zur Erstellung von Internet-Seiten im Erdkunde-Unterricht der Sekundarstufe. Teil I

The project is planned with regard to everyday life at school. It is discussed from two points of view : practice and didactics. Lesson planning is oriented towards the structural levels of didactics and thus bears both, a legitimate and a pragmatic
2003

Ein Projekt zur Erstellung von Internet-Seiten im Erdkunde-Unterricht der Sekundarstufe. Teil II

The project is planned with regard to everyday life at school. It is discussed from two points of view : practice and didactics. Lesson planning is oriented towards the structural levels of didactics and thus bears both, a legitimate and a pragmatic
2003