A new technique for field measurement of soil creep displacement profiles in Erosion budgets and their hydrologic basis.
This new technique has been designed to produce a profile of displacement within the soil without any excavation, by using a set of plastic blocks emplaced within the soil at different depths as markers. The technique was tested in a pilot study
, and has been employed in the field for eighteen months in Upper Weardale, northern England.
This review deals with the entrainment of gravel bedload : theory, laboratory studies, fieldstudies, the relevance of studies in nonfluvial environments and the significance of studies of bedload entrainment.
A study on field water circulation pattern in the dryland of northern China
Based on the observed data of soil water from locating experiments between 1986 and 1990, using the water balance, this paper studies the field water circulation law of main crops in northern China, where the mean annual precipitation is 300-600 mm
This study of consumption extends the field of enquiry to include the full range of goods and services consumed by households rather than concentrating upon the narrower field of mass produced articles which has been the concern of those
The seasonal changes of wind fields in the global tropics
The seasonal variations of global wind field in the tropics mainly at 850 mb and their relation to the cloud distribution revealed from outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) are studied based on 5-day mean data. Seasonal composite maps of wind and OLR
fields are constructed and features of these seasons are described.
Coastal dune fields at the São Francisco River strandplain, northeastern Brazil : morphology and environmental controls
dunes fields are recognized. This study suggests that the aeolian sedimentation is a relatively recent phenomenon at the Quaternary strandplain of the São Francisco River.
This paper documents the morphology and the environmental controls responsible for the formation and evolution of the São Francisco strandplain dune fields with major emphasis on the active dunes. Three morphological provinces in the active coastal
Keeping tabs on Kansas : reflections on regionally based fieldstudy
Cultural studies ; Kansas ; Midwest ; Regional analysis ; Regional geography ; Regionalism ; United States of America
Paper presented originally as keynote address for the 1996 Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Division of the Association of American Geographers. Using Kansas to illustrate, A. calls for more regional and local studies to further the understanding
of place and culture. He notes that the people, in what he calls neolocalism, are seeking regional lore and local attachment and that anthropologists, environmental historians, and other academics are quick to study and give voice to unique regional
Maps of Storglaciären and their use in glacier monitoring studies
Photogrammetrical studies of volume changes of glaciers are a helpful complementary tool to fieldstudies of mass balance. Map data give an indication as to what has happened and field data provide possibilities to interpret why it happened
. Photogrammetric studies are thus well suited for monitoring programmes , especially in remote areas such as in the Arctic.
Geography and art. An expanding field : site, the body and practice
Art ; Creativity ; Cultural studies ; Human body ; Inter-disciplinary approach ; Painting ; Place
In the paper the A. wants to draw attention to how and with what effect the engagements have proceeded. Discussion is framed by R. Krauss’ influential exploration of art’s ‘expanded field’. The body of the paper explores three analytics that mark
intersections of art’s expanding field of theory and practice, and geography’s own expanding field of operations : they are artists’ changing orientations towards ‘site’, a phenomenological critique of the ‘body’, and the ‘materialities’ and ‘practices
’ of making. Synthesizing these perspectives with current geographical engagements with art and broader disciplinary debates is to affirm the place and value of the study and practice of art within key disciplinary concerns.
Soil hydraulic properties of two loess soils in China measured by various field-scale and laboratory methods
and the hot-air methods) and two in situ field methods : the internal drainage and Guelph permeameter methods for one of the soils. The data obtained in this study will be used in an ecosystem model to evaluate field-scale water balance partitioning under
The aims of this study are to quantify soil hydraulic properties of the two main types of agricultural soils in the Loess Plateau, and to compare the effectiveness and accuracy of two different laboratory methods (the undisturbed soil core
The present study adresses to the questions how the shoreface-connected ridges along the central part of the Dutch coast were formed and what their behaviour is under the present hydrodynamic conditions. The study is based on field observations
and model computations. The field observations focus on the present hydrodynamic and sediment transport processes, on the resulting morphological and sedimentological response, and on the geologic evolution of the ridges. - (AGD)
The aim of this study is to comprehensively discuss the field of research embracing Women and the built environment. In this study the following aspects, among others, are covered: the woman as user of the built environment, as expert on her own
residential area and as qualified expert in the subject field. (AGD).
The variability of runoff registered during the campaign fieldstudies indicates the range of uncertainty, due to the application of only the permanent, macroscale hydrological network. This is especially significant when runoff information