Coastal Changes in South Wales—The Excavation of an Old Beach

1933 ◽  
Vol 70 (12) ◽  
pp. 541-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard S. Higgins
Keyword(s):  
Surface Conditions ◽  
The Past ◽  
South Wales ◽  
History Of ◽  
Recent Phase ◽  
Coastal Changes ◽  
East And West

While investigating the problem of coastal changes in South Wales, and examining 1 the area of the Merthyr Mawr Warren (Fig. 1) for this purpose, the differences, observable in the surface conditions to-day, and evident in the records of the past, between the areas east and west of a line approximating to the Burrows Well stream, suggested that the relatively recent physical history of the two sections of the area had not been similar. The greater width in the east suggested recent accumulation in this section, and the presence of what appeared to be successively formed littoral dunes pointed to a relatively recent phase of prograding, while the topography made it possible that these changes were related to the mouth of the River Ogmore.

scholarly journals Norfolk Island and Australia: a history of uneasy relationship

2020 ◽  
pp. 224-231
Author(s):  
S. E. Pale ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Past Century ◽  
The South ◽  
The Past ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Norfolk Island ◽  
History Of

This article is about the complicated relations between Norfolk Island located in the South Pacific and Australia that possesses the island as its ‘external territory’. Over the past century Australia and its tiny but strategically important possession have overcome many difficult moments, the most dramatic of which took place in 2015, when the Australian Parliament ended self-government on the island and put Norfolk under the laws of New South Wales thus making it part of Australia.

scholarly journals Reframing the Past: Justice, Guilt, and Consolidation in East and West Germany after Nazism

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 294-313
Author(s):  
Mary Fulbrook
Keyword(s):  
Life Stories ◽  
Transnational History ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Personal Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
East And West Germany ◽  
Direct Knowledge ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nazi Persecution ◽  
East And West

AbstractOnly a minority of Germans involved in Nazi crimes were prosecuted after the war, and the transnational history of trials is only beginning to be explored. Even less well understood are the ways in which those who were tainted by complicity reframed their personal life stories. Millions had been willing facilitators, witting beneficiaries, or passive (and perhaps unhappily helpless) witnesses of Nazi persecution; many had been actively involved in sustaining Nazi rule; perhaps a quarter of a million had personally killed Jewish civilians, and several million had direct knowledge of genocide. How did these people re-envision their own lives after Nazism? And how did they reinterpret their own former behaviors—their actions and inaction—in light of public confrontations with Nazi crimes and constructions of “perpetrators” in trials? Going beyond well-trodden debates about “overcoming the past,” this paper explores patterns of personal memory among East and West Germans after Nazism.

THE PETROLEUM POTENTIAL OF THE EASTERN ARROWIE BASIN AND FROME EMBAYMENT

1982 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bridget C. Youngs ◽  
E. Moorcroft
Keyword(s):  
South Australia ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
Secondary Porosity ◽  
Petroleum Potential ◽  
The Past ◽  
Flinders Ranges ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Deep Wells ◽  
Petroleum Generation ◽  
East And West

The eastern Arrowie Basin is a descriptive term for the present-day structurally defined Cambro- Ordovician basin approximately coinciding with the Curnamona Shelf depositional feature which formed on the eastern stable flank of the Adelaide Trough. Remnants of the Arrowie depositional basin are preserved in outcrops of the Flinders Ranges and in the subsurface to the east and west of the ranges. The eastern subsurface sub-basin occupies the area around Lake Frome in South Australia and across the border in New South Wales. Much of the eastern sub-basin is overlain by the Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks of the Frome Embayment of the Eromanga Basin.The area has been explored sporadically over at least the past 20 years but no deep wells have been drilled to test exploration targets. This assessment of the prospectivity of the basin is assisted by shallow stratigraphic and mineral drilling, by extrapolation from outcrop, and by regional geophysics.In the deepest part of the eastern sub-basin the total thickness of the Cambro-Ordovician sediments is expected to exceed 2500 m. Potential reservoirs can be expected within both carbonate and sandstone rocks. Good secondary porosity exists in sandstones of the Middle to Late Cambrian Lake Frome Group and good porosity development is predicted within possible ooid shoal deposits.Source material has been demonstrated in outcrop samples with Total Organic Carbon measured at up to 0.35 per cent. It is suggested that petroleum generation probably occurred in Cambrian sediments in the Adelaide Trough (now the area of the Flinders Ranges) and the petroleum migrated east and west to the stable shelf areas. Sufficient depth of burial may also have been attained on the Curnamona Shelf to allow local generation.In the past, the very poor quality of available seismic data has frustrated the mapping of the subsurface in sufficient detail to justify exploration drilling. Recent experimental seismic surveys, however, have produced data of a much better quality. Potential exists for anticlinal, fault and unconformity traps. There is also some potential for stratigraphic traps such as ooid shoal deposits. At this stage an exploration programme to evaluate the potential of this area is being carried out by the licence holders.

The Law and Politics of Registering Doctors: Lessons from New South Wales, 1937–42

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabrielle Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Medical Profession ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Medical Regulation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Law And Politics ◽  
South Wales ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law

Doctors who fled from Nazi-occupied and dominated Europe sought to pursue their profession wherever they could. Those who arrived in Australia confronted substantial impediments to doing so. In New South Wales (‘NSW’), doctors who represented, registered and educated the medical profession and Members of Parliament attempted to prevent ‘refugee doctors’, as they were described, from practising medicine. Due largely to protectionism and prejudice, many refugee doctors were denied registration to practise medicine irrespective of their qualifications, skills and experience, and despite the low number of refugee doctors who settled in NSW. This article focuses on the law and politics of registering the medical profession. It analyses the treatment of refugee doctors who sought to practise medicine in NSW between 1937 and 1942, and then reflects on the contemporary relevance of this episode in Australia’s history of medical regulation. The article discusses cautionary lessons we might learn from the past so that capable overseas-trained doctors to whom Australia grants refuge are permitted to practise their profession and provide valuable medical services to the community. This article also considers whether changes to the law since that time might constitute some safeguard against repetition of past discrimination.

Reducing the divide between the West and the East

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-167
Author(s):  
Georges Corm
Keyword(s):  
Past History ◽  
The West ◽  
Double Standards ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
East And West

This article deconstructs the West–East divide and relates it to the rise of ‘mega identities’ in the West and the rise of contradictory Islamic fundamentalisms. The trauma in the West relates to Israel, to the past history of conflicts and invasions, to terrorism and immigration. The article also analyses the complexities of Jewish trauma, the problem of diverging values between East and West, and considers addressing the issue of double standards as a way towards reducing the divide.

Knowing the Rangelands of Western New South Wales: the Past in the Changing Present.

1997 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
MJ Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
The Past ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
Competition For Resources ◽  
The Way

There is growing competition for the resources of Australia's rangelands. This competition is spreading from traditional users, like pastoralists, to increasingly include interests in the wider community. The way that the history of the rangelands is represented is important to the way these interests are perceived, articulated and reconciled. Popular (and much academic) writing on the past European use of the rangelands remains bogged in a tradition that stresses simplistic themes of careless destruction. The 1901 New South Wales Royal Commission into the Condition of the Crown Tenants is oftp seen as a seminal document in the history of the understanding of the rangelands. The Royal Commission was not, though, a starting point of sophisticated knowledge of the rangelands. Rather, it was an important articulation of an existing tradition of knowledge. The Commission was, furthermore, a product of widespread local understanding, activism and support for reform in western New South Wales. The European management of the rangelands from its earliest decades has been the result of informed struggle - not wanton ignorance. To clearly see this is to see the possibility that today's competition for resources contains no villains either. Moreover, to accept this past knowledgeability may challenge elements of our modern commitment to accruing knowledge, particularly the assumption that better knowledge will lead to better management.

On The Possibility of an Autonomous History of Modern Southeast Asia

1961 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. W. Small
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

It is generally accepted that history is an element of culture and the historian a member of society, thus, in Croce's aphorism, that the only true history is contemporary history. It follows from this that when there occur great changes in the contemporary scene, there must also be great changes in historiography, that the vision not merely of the present but also of the past must change.

Stellar Evolution

1962 ◽  
Vol 11 (02) ◽  
pp. 137-143
Author(s):  
M. Schwarzschild
Keyword(s):  
Solar System ◽  
Stellar Evolution ◽  
Space Craft ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Substantial Body ◽  
Individual Stars ◽  
The Past ◽  
Evolution Of Galaxies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fast Flow

It is perhaps one of the most important characteristics of the past decade in astronomy that the evolution of some major classes of astronomical objects has become accessible to detailed research. The theory of the evolution of individual stars has developed into a substantial body of quantitative investigations. The evolution of galaxies, particularly of our own, has clearly become a subject for serious research. Even the history of the solar system, this close-by intriguing puzzle, may soon make the transition from being a subject of speculation to being a subject of detailed study in view of the fast flow of new data obtained with new techniques, including space-craft.

A 200-Year History of the Study of Childhood Language Disorders of Unknown Origin: Changes in Terminology

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence B. Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Language Impairment ◽  
Specific Language Impairment ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Language Disorder ◽  
Language Disorders ◽  
Unknown Origin ◽  
Developmental Language Disorder ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many

Purpose The current “specific language impairment” and “developmental language disorder” discussion might lead to important changes in how we refer to children with language disorders of unknown origin. The field has seen other changes in terminology. This article reviews many of these changes. Method A literature review of previous clinical labels was conducted, and possible reasons for the changes in labels were identified. Results References to children with significant yet unexplained deficits in language ability have been part of the scientific literature since, at least, the early 1800s. Terms have changed from those with a neurological emphasis to those that do not imply a cause for the language disorder. Diagnostic criteria have become more explicit but have become, at certain points, too narrow to represent the wider range of children with language disorders of unknown origin. Conclusions The field was not well served by the many changes in terminology that have transpired in the past. A new label at this point must be accompanied by strong efforts to recruit its adoption by clinical speech-language pathologists and the general public.

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