Fine resolution palaeoecology confirms anthropogenic impact during the Late Holocene in the Lower Hawkesbury valley, NSW
Australia ; Ecosystem ; Floodplain ; Holocene ; Human impact ; Humid environment ; New South Wales ; Palaeo-ecology ; Palaeo-environment ; Prehistory ; Riparian vegetation ; Sedimentation ; Settlement ; Valley
Action anthropique ; Australie ; Ecosystème ; Holocène ; Milieu humide ; New South Wales ; Paléo-environnement ; Paléo-écologie ; Peuplement ; Plaine d'inondation ; Préhistoire ; Sédimentation ; Vallée ; Végétation ripicole
This paper uses a range of palaeoecological techniques, applied at fine resolution, to gain a better understanding of the lower Hawkesbury Valley over the last 820 years. By examining land-system response to Aboriginal and European management
World Heritage Site M´zab Valley in Algeria. Social Change and Safeguarding Cultural Landscapes
;on the integrity, the authenticity and the conservation of the valley;governance of the valley as a world heritage site;the “New Ksar” project. - (IfL)
The M´zab valley and the autonomous and premodern M´zab (c.1000-1882), exceptional urban construction and a “lesson in architecture”;nationalization, modernization and globalization of the M´zab;problems of safeguarding cultural landscapes
Segmentation of alluvial fans in Death Valley, California : new insights from surface exposure dating and laboratory modelling
Laboratory experiments, recent paleoenvironmental analyses of rock varnish, and surface exposure dating of geomorphic units have led to new insights into the process of entrenchment and segmentation of alluvial fans, and into the history
Moraine and valley wall collapse due to rapid deglaciation in Mount Cook National Park, New Zealand
Climatic variability ; Climatology ; Deglaciation ; Glacier ; Glacier mass balance ; Moraine ; New Zealand ; South Island
Since the 1880s, the ice mass on the Tasman Glacier on South Island has been shrinking. Beginning in the 1960s, lateral moraines and valley walls began to undergo slope failure of which the A. identifies four distinct types. Suggests a seasonal
Frost and drought through time and space, part III : what were conditions like when the high valleys were first settled? in Frost and drought in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Paleogeographic evidence for the high valleys of New Guinea suggests that four advances and retreats of ice can be inferred within the period of probable human settlement. - (DWG)
Stud farming in the Hunter Valley: expansion and restructuring in the equine industry
Australie ; Cheval de course ; Elevage ; Fiscalité ; Impact économique ; Investissement ; New South Wales ; Restructuration économique ; Sciences sociales
Australia ; Economic impact ; Economic restructuring ; Investment ; Livestock farming ; New South Wales ; Social sciences ; Taxation system
Focusing on this valley of New South Wales, it is suggested that horse breeding has been a target for capital investment by entrepreneurs seeking to maximise returns on profits derived from other economic sectors. The role of favourable taxation
A new formation process for calcic pendants from Pahranagat Valley, Nevada, USA, and implication for dating Quaternary landforms
This study presents a new interpretation for soil pendant development from the Pahranagat Valley. This process is developed from an extensive micromorphic investigation of the stratigraphic position of laminae and their relationships to the parent
Aeolian dust contributions to soil on the Namoi Valley, northern NSW, Australia
Alluvion ; Australie ; Eolien ; Granulométrie ; Géochimie ; Minéralogie ; New South Wales ; Poussière éolienne ; Pédogenèse ; Sol
Aeolian dust ; Aeolian features ; Alluvium ; Australia ; Geochemistry ; Grain size distribution ; Mineralogy ; New South Wales ; Pedogenesis ; Soil
The presence of aeolian dust in soil profiles can easily be obscured by pedoturbation , especially in clay soils with vertic properties, such as those of northern New South Wales. To indicate aeolian dust components within soil profiles typical
of the lower Namoi River Valley, the AA. used a range of granulometric, mineralogical and geochemical methods. The AA. also examined contemporary data on dust deposition rates and compared characteristics of present-day dust with the soil materials.
Geomorphic controls on the physical and hydrologic properties of soils in a valley floor
Australie ; Bassin-versant ; Cône de déjection ; Granulométrie ; Hydrologie ; New South Wales ; Plaine d'inondation ; Propriétés du sol ; Ruissellement ; Sol ; Variation spatiale
Alluvial cone ; Australia ; Floodplain ; Grain size distribution ; Hydrology ; New South Wales ; Rill wash ; Soil ; Soil properties ; Spatial variation ; Watershed
, was developed along a 2 km length of a valley at Brooks Creek in New South Wales, Australia. Soil physical and hydraulic property data were collected across a set of floodplain and fan features within the valley and analysed statistically to determine if soil
The distribution of soil hydraulic and physical properties strongly influences runoff processes in landscapes. A technique that links the estimation and distribution of soil hydraulic properties in valleys, with easily identified geomorphic features
Sedimentary petrography of glacial deposits in the Rotach Valley, Western Allgau Southern West Germany
In this paper we present new results from sediment-petrographic analyses and discuss the vertical as well as cross-valley compositional variation in till. - (l'A)
Thermoluminescence dating of alluvial sequences in coastal valleys of Southern New South Wales : problems and potential
Alluvion ; Australie ; Datation ; Datation C 14 ; Etude comparée ; Géochronologie ; New South Wales ; Quaternaire ; Sédimentaire ; Technique de recherche ; Thermoluminescence
Alluvium ; Australia ; C 14 dating ; Comparative study ; Dating ; Geochronology ; New South Wales ; Quaternary ; Research technique ; Sedimentary ; Thermoluminescence
here, together with C 14 dating and pedogenic evidence, to assess the reliability of TL determinations for alluvium in the valleys of the Clyde River and Termeil Creek. The Pleistocene TL ages from these valleys seem reliable, but Holocene dates do
Possible differential uplift of New River terraces in southwestern Virginia
Appalachians ; Etats-Unis ; Géographie de l'Amérique ; New River ; Néotectonique ; Quaternaire ; Quaternaire moyen ; Quaternaire supérieur ; Terrasse ; Valley and Ridge province ; Virginia
Une analyse statistique de l'altitude des formations alluviales de la New River fait ressortir une variation de l'altitude moyenne de la haute terrasse au long de la rivière, qui est attribuée à la Néotectonique du Quaternaire supérieur. (CM).
Social Movements in India. The case of the Narmada Valley
Conflict ; Dam ; Decision making process ; Development ; India ; Madhya Pradesh ; Maharashtra ; Narmada ; Policy ; River ; Valley
Backdrop- political development in post-colonial India, Watershed for social movements in the 1970s, Narmada Valley dam projects, Narmada Water Disputes Tribunal, Displacement for development, Implications for people in the project region, Protests
against displacement, new phase of social action, from a local to national movement, World Bank pull-out and Supreme Court verdict. - (IfL)
The results of geomorphological research in the Labský Důl Valley Giant Mts. New evidence regarding landscape development during the Pleistocene glaciations and the Holocene. Paleobotanical evidence prove the existence of a lake in the cirque floor
Downstream changes in channel morphology and capacity in the Bellinger valleys, NSW, Australia
Australie ; Capacité de charge ; Crue ; Fluviatile ; Géométrie hydraulique ; Lit fluvial ; New South Wales ; Plaine d'inondation
Australia ; Carrying capacity ; Channel geometry ; Flood ; Floodplain ; Fluvial processes ; New South Wales ; River bed
Downstream increases in width, depth, cross-section area and channel capacity were related to catchment area, a surrogate for discharge, at two alluvial levels in both Bellinger valleys. These relationships did not continue in tidal reaches where
Holocene valley aggradation driven by river mouth progradation : examples from Australia
Australie ; Cours d'eau ; Estuaire ; Géométrie hydraulique ; Holocène ; New South Wales ; Plaine d'inondation ; Profil longitudinal ; Sédimentation
Australia ; Channel geometry ; Estuary ; Floodplain ; Holocene ; Longitudinal section ; New South Wales ; Sedimentation ; Stream
The links between river mouth progradation and Holocene valley aggradation are examined with a model for the Macdonald and Tuross Rivers in south-eastern Australia. Both rivers have abandoned their main Holocene floodplains over the last 2000 years
The chronology and long term dynamics of a low energy river system : the Kelvin Valley, central Scotland
This report provides new radiocarbon (C 14) dated sediment stratigraphic data from a third aggrading low energy fluvial system in Scotland, in the upper reaches of the Kelvin Valley in central Scotland to clarify the chronology and dynamism
of fluvial and valley forming events and to explore cause in sediment generation. It suggests that aggradation is an early-mid-Holocene phenomenon in these paraglacial valleys, and observes that in the Kelvin Valley, as in the Milfield basin, sedimentation