Predicting potential locations of ancient settlements using GIS and Weights-Of-Evidence method (case study: North-East of Iran)

Environmental magnetism techniques enable us to reconstruct paleoclimate conditions in some deposition such as losses. The magnetic properties of minerals are used as proxies for environmental changes. For this study, loess/paleosol sequence of Kolet section at Neka, north-east of Iran were magnetically investigated. We applied environmental magnetism methods, to reconstruct paleoclimate changes. We investigated relationship between paleoclimate changes and environmental magnetism proxies like magnetic susceptibility (?) variation. The laboratory techniques indicated the presence of main factor of magnetic property in loess/paleosol sequence, such as magnetite, maghemite and etc. We also estimated magnetically parameters (like SIRM, HIRM and etc.) to confirm concentrations of both aeolian and pedogenic particles versus variations of magnetic susceptibility enhancement. The ? values show prominent peaks for the three well developed soil and paleosol horizons, Recent Soil (S0), Upper Paleosol (S1) and Lower Paleosol (S2); which refer to warmer and wetter conditions. As result, we concluded that the increase/decreasing of magnetic susceptibility is coinciding with palaeosol/loess sequence, and probably with humid/arid conditions. Moreover, variations of magnetic susceptibility versus lithological column of Kolet section enabled us to recognize paleoclimatically periods known as interglacial/glacial cycles. The obtained magnetic data indicate that during over the past 50 ka, there have been at least two glacial/interglacial periods and since last 20 ka, there was no main glaciation occurrence, in the study area.

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Application of Warning and Rapid Estimation of Earthquake Damage (WARED) system in unprepared cities case study: Mashhad, north east of Iran)

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction ◽

10.1016/j.ijdrr.2015.05.004 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 13 ◽

pp. 139-144 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Abbas Kangi

Keyword(s):

Earthquake Damage ◽

Rapid Estimation ◽

North East ◽

East Of Iran

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Investigation of the geotechnical properties and estimation of the relative density from the standard penetration test in sandy soils (Case study: north east of Iran)

10.21203/rs.3.rs-781747/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Omid Amini ◽

Arman Khoshghalb ◽

Mahin Etemadifar

Keyword(s):

Relative Density ◽

Standard Penetration Test ◽

Unit Weight ◽

Granular Soils ◽

North East ◽

East Of Iran ◽

Soil Gradation ◽

The Relationship ◽

Better Than

Abstract In the present research, SPT results are adopted to establish relationships for estimation of the relative density in a sandy soil. SPTs are performed in 20 boreholes in Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh city in Iran. Laboratory tests including mineralogy, relative density, soil gradation, Atterberg limits, and unit weight were performed on the soil samples. The SPT numbers were then properly corrected. In particular, the correct procedure for correction of the SPT number against the existing overburden effective stress is discussed when the SPT is performed in the vadose zone where the soil may be unsaturated. The soil in the study area is dominantly classified as SP-SM. The relationship between the relative density as one of the most important parameters for dominantly granular soils, with the corrected SPT number (N 1(60) ) and fines content is then investigated and discussed using artificial neural network and statistical analysis. Results showed that for the soil of interest, the developed relationship performs better than those established in the literature, hence demonstrating the value of developing locally tuned relationships for important projects.

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Lord Dacre and the Politics of the Scottish Enlightenment

The Scottish Historical Review ◽

10.3366/shr.2005.84.2.202 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 84 (2) ◽

pp. 202-220 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Colin Kidd

Keyword(s):

Political Economy ◽

Eighteenth Century ◽

Cultural History ◽

Economic Transformation ◽

Scottish Enlightenment ◽

North East ◽

The Social ◽

Romantic Movement ◽

Scottish History

Hugh Trevor-Roper (Lord Dacre) made several iconoclastic interventions in the field of Scottish history. These earned him a notoriety in Scottish circles which, while not undeserved, has led to the reductive dismissal of Trevor-Roper's ideas, particularly his controversial interpretation of the Scottish Enlightenment, as the product of Scotophobia. In their indignation Scottish historians have missed the wider issues which prompted Trevor-Roper's investigation of the Scottish Enlightenment as a fascinating case study in European cultural history. Notably, Trevor-Roper used the example of Scotland to challenge Weberian-inspired notions of Puritan progressivism, arguing instead that the Arminian culture of north-east Scotland had played a disproportionate role in the rise of the Scottish Enlightenment. Indeed, working on the assumption that the essence of Enlightenment was its assault on clerical bigotry, Trevor-Roper sought the roots of the Scottish Enlightenment in Jacobitism, the counter-cultural alternative to post-1690 Scotland's Calvinist Kirk establishment. Though easily misconstrued as a dogmatic conservative, Trevor-Roper flirted with Marxisant sociology, not least in his account of the social underpinnings of the Scottish Enlightenment. Trevor-Roper argued that it was the rapidity of eighteenth-century Scotland's social and economic transformation which had produced in one generation a remarkable body of political economy conceptualising social change, and in the next a romantic movement whose powers of nostalgic enchantment were felt across the breadth of Europe.

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