From little Britain to little Italy : an urban ethnic landscape study in Toronto
After World War II, heavy Italian immigration diversified the city of Toronto. Immigrants settled around St Clair where the identity of Little Britain gave way to Little Italy. The study documents and interprets landscape change on St Clair since
The glaciers of Mount Antelao (Dolomites, Italy) since the Little Ice Age
Alps (The) ; Glacier ; Glacier budget ; Glacier retreat ; Italy ; Little ice age
The study has estimated the reduction of the glaciers of Mt Antelao (Dolomites, Italy) from the Little Ice Age (LIA) to today using bibliographic and morphological data as well as modern techniques of data elaboration and processing. - (NF)
Geomorphology of the Little Rann of Kachchh, W.India : implication for basin architecture and Holocene palaeo-oceanographic conditions
This study attempts to describe the geomorphic peculiarities of the Little Rann sedimentary basin, a unique terrain located in the southeastern part of the seismically active Kachchh palaeorift graben and represents the uplift floor of a former gulf
. This paper deals with the tectonic influences on geomorphic characteristics and probable basement configuration of the Little Rann. The Little Rann basin is divided into 3 tectonogeomorphic zones : the Outer subbasin, the Central subbasin and the Inner
subbasin. Geomorphic evidence from the Little Rann, including the islands, point to strong control of subsurface structural elements, which influenced the Holocene palaeooceanographic conditions and the marine sedimentation as well.
Glaciotectonism and landsliding in Little Sandhill Creek, Alberta
This paper deals with a landslide on the north side of Little Sandhill Creek (Dinosaur Provincial Park). The slide was studied intensively because it contained several large stratigraphic exposures which provided clear indications of the effects
A Kisalfold muholdas foldtudomanyi vizsgalata. (An analysis of the Little Plain of earth sciences viewpoint from satellite images)
Information from the processing of LANDSAT-1,-2 and-3 images is interpreted to delimit the Little Plain and compared with the data/on relief, drainage, surficial geology, groundwater conditions, soil erosion and deep geology/accumulated by decades
Prices of food products in Polish Territory as index of climatic oscillations in the Little Ice Age
Climate oscillation ; Climatic variation ; Economic indicators ; Historical geography ; Little ice age ; Poland ; Price
oscillations corresponding with climatic changes are found in this diagram. Three periods of a relatively rapid growth of prices can be distinguished which correspond with three cooling waves during Little Ice Age.
Elevational shifts of Coleogyne ramossissima in the Mojjave Desert during the Little Ice Age
California ; Climatic variation ; Desert ; Little ice age ; Nevada ; Palaeo-ecology ; Palaeogeography ; Precipitation ; United States of America ; Vegetation
In this paper, the AA. add to the knowledge of vegetation changes in the Mojave desert during the Little Ice Age through study of fossil woodrat middens located in the eastern part of the desert where substantially greater amounts of precipitation
Little ice age alluvial fan development in Langedalen, western Norway
Alluvial cone ; C 14 dating ; Climatic variation ; Geochronology ; Little ice age ; Norway ; Palaeo-ecology ; Palaeogeography ; Pollen analysis ; Sedimentology
by 6 radiocarbon age estimates on woody fragments and peat. On the basis of this information a pattern of enhanced fan development and vegetation change coincident with the climatic deterioration of the Little Ice Age can be established.
to other links sediment and historical records in Mesoamerica, they conclude that climate became drier on the Yucatan Peninsula near the start of the Little Ice Age, LIA.
Lichenometric dating of little Ice Age glacier activity in the central British Columbia Coast Mountains, Canada
British Columbia ; Canada ; Dating ; Glacial features ; Glacier fluctuation ; Lichenometry ; Little ice age ; Mountain ; Palaeo-environment
The Little Ice Age behaviour of glaciers in the central British Columbia Coast Mountains was described by conducting lichenometric surveys of Rhizocarpon spp. found on recently deposited moraines in the Kitimat and Pacific ranges. The timing
of these moraine-building episodes corresponds closely to the intervals of glacier expansion recorded in complementary studies in the region. These findings indicate that most glaciers in the region reached their maximum downvalley Little Ice Age extent prior
Effects of the Little Ice Age on avalanche boulder tongues in the French Alps (Massif des Ecrins)
Alpes du Sud ; Avalanche ; France ; Glacial features ; Hautes-Alpes ; Lichenometry ; Little ice age ; Palaeo-ecology ; Palaeo-environment
Lichens of the subspecies Rhizocarpon geographicum were measured on 25 avalanches boulder tongues in the Massif des Ecrins to elucidate the Little Ice Age history of avalanche activity. According to the results, the avalanche activity
was at a maximum before AD 1650 and between AD 1730 and 1830. The relatively good correspondence between avalanche boulder tongue and glacier behaviour in the Massif des Ecrins to climatic variation which occurred since the Little Ice Age confirms that avalanche
The Little Ice Age : re-evaluation of an evolving concept
Climate ; Climatic variation ; Concept ; Glacier ; Land atmosphere interaction ; Little ice age ; Model ; Ocean atmosphere interaction ; Palaeoclimatology
This review focuses on the development of the Little Ice Age as a glaciological and climatic concept, and evaluates its current usefulness in the light of new data on the glacier and climatic variations of the last millennium and of the Holocene
. It is concluded that the concept of a Little Ice Age will remain useful only by : continuing to incorporate the temporal and spatial complexities of glacier and climatic variations as they become better known; reflecting improved understanding of the Earth
The retreat of Tien Shan glaciers (Kyrgyzstan) since the Little Ice Age estimated from aerial photographs, lichenometric and historical data
Aerial photography ; Climatic variation ; Geomorphological map ; Glacier ; Glacier retreat ; Historical geography ; Kyrgyzstan ; Lichenometry ; Little ice age ; Map ; Moraine ; Tien Shan ; Years 1980-89
The retreat of 293 glaciers in the Tien Shan Mountains from their maximum extent during the Little Ice Age (LIA) is estimated using aerial photographs from 1980 to 1985 and maps at a scale of 1:25 000, constructed during period 1956-1990. Two
indices of changes are used : the linear distance from the glacier terminus to its Little Ice Age moraine and the difference in absolute elevation of the terminus and the moraine. Historical information about the front positions of glaciers in the 1880s
Sediment release and storage in early deglaciated areas : towards an application of the exhaustion model from the case of Massif des Ecrins (French Alps) since the Little Ice Age
Alps (The) ; Deglaciation ; France ; Glacier ; Little ice age ; Paraglacial ; Sediment budget ; Sediment transfer