Accretion tectonics in the circum-Pacific regions.
Findings from recent studies in accretion-collision phenomena in the circum-Pacific mobile belts presented at the first international conference on accretion - collision tectonics (21 papers).
Colonization ; Development ; Economy ; Globalisation ; Oceania ; Pacific Region ; Political geography ; Society
The paper seeks to review some major aspects of New Zealand's changing relationships with Asia and the Pacific in the past 35 years. It shows that the process of colonial disengagement was slow and marked by continuing ties with Europe and a quasi
-colonial role for New Zealand in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands. In New Zealand, there is a perception of a new global economy in which Asia has a prominent position.
Pacific futures? Geography and change in the Pacific islands
Environmental degradation ; Geopolitics ; Global change ; Island ; Pacific Region ; Political geography ; Population pressure ; Social change ; Sovereignty
Pacific sea surface temperature forcing dominates orbital forcing of the Early Holocene monsoon
Asia ; Atmospheric circulation ; El Niño ; Holocene ; Monsoon ; Ocean atmosphere interaction ; Pacific Region ; Palaeoclimate ; Quaternary ; Surface temperature
In this study, a comparison is made between orbital forcing and Pacific sea surface temperature (SST) forcing of the monsoon through a sequence of atmospheric general circulation model experiments configured for 6,000 and 9,000 yr B.P. The results
imply that SSTs are potentially as important as orbital parameters in governing the monsoon and that more data , particularly from the equatorial Pacific, are crucial to deciphering Holocene climate.
The ethics of place and environmental change : some examples from the South Pacific
Environment ; Ethics ; Ideology ; Pacific Region ; Place ; Semiotics of space ; Society ; South Pacific Ocean ; Space
This paper concerns place and placelessness, and suggests links between those two and types of environmental ethic. An historical analysis of place based ethics and environmental degradation draws on examples from the Pacific basin. Finally
Revising ideas about environmental determinism : human-environment relations in the Pacific Islands
Climatic variation ; Cultural studies ; Environment ; Global change ; Impact ; Island ; Man-environment relations ; Pacific Region ; Sea level ; Society
Environmental changes had severe and lasting impacts on Pacific Island societies, largely associated with a massive reduction in the food resource base on some islands. It is clear that environmental change is a major cause of last-millenium
cultural transformation in the Pacific Islands, a conclusion which is likely to apply elsewhere.
Disappearance of pink-pigmented Globigerinoides ruber at 120,000 yr BP in the Indian and Pacific Oceans
The planktonic foraminiferal species Globigerinoides ruber with pink-pigmented tests occupied a worldwide warm water belt during much of the Pleistocene. This variety was exterminated from the Indian and Pacific Oceans at about 120,000 yr BP, based
on the oxygen isotope stratigraphy in 11 Indo-Pacific deep-sea cores, but it continued to live on to the present in the North and South Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. The disparate Atlantic and Indo-Pacific records reflect faunal provincialism
Observations of flexure and the geological evolution of the Pacific Ocean basin
The response of the Pacific plate to oceanic island and seamount loads has been used to estimate the distribution of ridge crest and off-ridge volcanism on the plate since the late Jurassic. The most extensive event, forming the Hess rise, Line
Islands ridge, Necker ridge, and Robbie ridge, occurred on the Pacific/Farallon and Pacific/Phoenix ridge crests during the interval 90-120Myr BP (Barremian to Turonian). This event, which extended over a much larger area than comparable volcanism
Reservations Indians in the United States Pacific North-West
Ecologie humaine ; Economie ; Economie coopérative ; Etats-Unis ; Géographie de l'Amérique ; Indiens ; Industrie du bois ; Oregon ; Pacific North-West ; Pacific States ; Pêche ; Réserve indienne ; Société ; Tourisme ; Tribus confédérées ; Washington
Etude historique et économique des sociétés indiennes de la réserve du Pacific North-West. Les tribus fédérées ont organisé une économie coopérative, fondée sur la pêche, l'industrie du bois et le tourisme, qui leur assure un niveau de vie supérieur