scholarly journals The Morphological Effects of Surges of the Donjek Glacier, St Elias Mountains, Yukon Territory, Canada

1972 ◽  
Vol 11 (62) ◽  
pp. 227-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Yukon Territory ◽  
East Side ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Glacier Terminus

Abstract The present surge of the Donjek Glacier on the north-east side of the St Elias Mountains, first noticed in 1969, is producing a number of morphological effects adjacent to the glacier in the terminus area. Although the effects of the surge are minimized by the lobate form of the glacier terminus, several types of push structure, erosional forms and certain drainage changes are being produced. These forms are similar to older forms close to, or on, the Neoglacial maximum moraine. It is considered that the similarities suggest that surges may have occurred throughout most of the Neoglacial period.

scholarly journals The Morphological Effects of Surges of the Donjek Glacier, St Elias Mountains, Yukon Territory, Canada

1972 ◽  
Vol 11 (62) ◽  
pp. 227-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Yukon Territory ◽  
East Side ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Glacier Terminus

AbstractThe present surge of the Donjek Glacier on the north-east side of the St Elias Mountains, first noticed in 1969, is producing a number of morphological effects adjacent to the glacier in the terminus area. Although the effects of the surge are minimized by the lobate form of the glacier terminus, several types of push structure, erosional forms and certain drainage changes are being produced. These forms are similar to older forms close to, or on, the Neoglacial maximum moraine. It is considered that the similarities suggest that surges may have occurred throughout most of the Neoglacial period.

The West Court at Perachora

1967 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 353-371
Author(s):  
J. J. Coulton
Keyword(s):  
Short Distance ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
East Side ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Rock Face ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
East And West

About 10 metres south-west of the sixth-century temple of Hera Akraia at Perachora, and nearly due west of the little harbour lies the small courtyard previously known as the ‘Agora’. Since its purpose is not known, it will here be non-committally referred to as the West Court. It was first excavated in 1932, and more fully, under the supervision of J. K. Brock, in 1933, but it was not entirely cleared until 1939, and it was at that time that the Roman house which stood in the middle of the court was demolished. The West Court is discussed briefly (under the name of ‘Agora’) in Perachora 1 and in the preliminary reports of the Perachora excavations. Short supplementary excavations were carried out in 1964 and 1966 to examine certain points of the structure.In shape the West Court is an irregular pentagon, about 24 metres from north to south and the same from east to west (Fig. 1; Plate 91 a, b). It is enclosed on the west, north, and on part, at least, of the east side by a wall of orthostates on an ashlar foundation. For a short distance on either side of the south corner, the court is bounded by a vertically dressed rock face which is extended to the north-east and west by walls of polygonal masonry. At the south-west corner the west orthostate wall butts against the polygonal wall, which continues for about 0·80 m. beyond it and then returns north for about 8 metres behind it.

scholarly journals Systematic Unequal Dissection of Opposing Valley Sides

1983 ◽  
Vol 29 (103) ◽  
pp. 512-514
Author(s):  
Richard S. Liebling ◽  
Horst S. Scherp
Keyword(s):  
Yukon Territory ◽  
Late Spring ◽  
Long Period ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Melt Water ◽  
Water Saturated ◽  
Snow And Ice

AbstractIn the Nahoni Range of the northern Ogilvie Mountains, Yukon Territory, Canada, dissection channels are most markedly developed on valley sides facing the north and north-east. The extent of slope channelling is controlled by intensity of insolation and its influence on persistence of snow and ice. Upon the cooler north- and north-east-facing slopes, snow and ice remain well into midsummer; melt water is released over a long period and its discharge is restricted to narrow rivulets. In contrast, snow and ice on the warmer west- and south-facing slopes melt rapidly during the late spring months. The scree on these valley sides moves down-slope as a more or less uniform mass of water-saturated detritus.

scholarly journals Black Sea Baric Depression

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-198
Author(s):  
Ion Isaia
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
Atmospheric Pressure ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
East Side ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Synoptic Conditions ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
High Atmospheric Pressure

Abstract This work is meant to demonstrate that, in the special synoptic conditions, on the surface of the Black Sea, a baric depression is being formed. This depression is formed when the Black Sea's water temperature is higher than the surrounding continental ground's temperature. There are situations when the baric depression of the Black Sea occurs because of the consequences of the movement of another baric depression from the east of the Mediterranean Sea to its north-east side. Due to the high atmospheric pressure of the continental zone that's surrounding the Black Sea, the baric depression will get a retrograde movement, towards the north or northwest. Eventually, this depression occludes in the eastern continental zone of Europe or even near the Baltic Sea. During a retrograde movement of a baric depression, the atmospheric precipitations will fall in big quantities, in many situations, causing floods.

Part II. The Grave Circle

1954 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 244-247
Author(s):  
A. J. B. Wace ◽  
F. H. Stubbings
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
East Side ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
South Side ◽  
Double Ring ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Western Half ◽  
Made In

In 1950 and 1952, in view of recent discussions about the date of the Grave Circle, we decided to make some fresh soundings in its supporting wall to see if any fresh evidence could be obtained. In the first year the work was confined to soundings in the battered supporting wall on the south side opposite the north-east corner of the House of the Warrior Vase, and was undertaken by Mr. Kenneth Rowe. In 1952 further soundings were made in the battered supporting wall, the wall at its base on the west was further examined, and a sectional cut was made across the double ring of standing slabs on the north-east side about midway between the entrance and the then surviving cover slabs. The work was then directed by Dr. F. H. Stubbings.At the time of Schliemann's excavations the western part of the double ring of vertical poros slabs of the Grave Circle, which rests on the battered supporting wall, was in a very ruinous condition. This can be seen clearly in Schliemann's illustration and in the photographs published later. After the close of Schliemann's and Stamatakes' excavations the supporting wall was restored both on the west and on the south, and the western half of the double ring of standing slabs was reconstructed. When Keramopoullos excavated the fallen rock in the centre of the circle the Greek Archaeological Service undertook some further work of conservation.

The Grange of S. Anna in Montauro: The Employment of a Particular Steel-Concrete Structure in a Borderline Case of Conservation and Restoration for High Seismic Area

2010 ◽  
Vol 133-134 ◽  
pp. 861-866
Author(s):  
Michele Candela ◽  
Roberta Fonti
Keyword(s):  
Great Part ◽  
Borderline Case ◽  
Seismic Events ◽  
East Side ◽  
The Core ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
High Magnitude ◽  
Seismic Area ◽  
The Church

For at least five hundred years, the majestic grange of St. Anne in Montauro (CZ) has been overlooking the wonderful gulf of Squillace, placed at the core of Calabrian Ionic Coast. Masonry ramparts size (more than 7 metres high and 1,60 wide at the basis) together with the massive presence of four angular towers immediately hit even an inattentive beholder. Unfortunately, the predominant presence of grange results damaged by a clearly visible crack outline, which turned a great part of surrounding wall into a perpendicular heap of huge masonry portions. They appear disconnected and sheer, so that some panel systems are already collapsed on the north-east side of the building, included many internal constructions such as the church. The serious damage is not only due to repeated seismic events of high magnitude, that systematically run over this zone of Calabria. This article will describe in detail the methodologies and techniques of its making safe, considering the seismic and geological risk of the zone.

II.—Notes on the Corries of the Comeragh Mountains, Co. Waterford

1906 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 154-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. R. Cowper Reed
Keyword(s):  
Geological Survey ◽  
Glacial Lakes ◽  
East Side ◽  
North East ◽  
The North

The corries and tarns of the Comeragh Mountains have received but scanty attention at the hands of geologists. In the Memoir of the Geological Survey dealing with this portion of co. Waterford their position and height are mentioned, and reference is made to some of the glacial phenomena in their immediate neighbourhood, but no connected description of the whole group of corries is given. Kinahan, in his “Geology of Ireland” (1878), pp. 245, 310, refers briefly to them, and inclines to the view that they were cut out by the action of the sea on the flanks of the mountains, but that the rock-basins which they frequently contain were excavated by small glaciers. The position of the corries, chiefly on the north and east sides of these mountains, as elsewhere in Ireland, is attributed by him to the preservative action of the ice and snow, which would not melt in them so rapidly (owing to their colder aspect) as on the southern and western slopes, where the corries have been obliterated by denudation effected by ordinary subaerial agents. Carvill Lewis refers to the glaciation of the Comeragh Mountains in several places, remarking that they “show signs of glaciation on their north-east side as high as 1,000 feet, up to which height they are rounded off and drift occurs. Above this they are jagged and contain cwms, glacial lakes, and other evidences of small local glaciers.”

XIV.—The Discovery of Prehistoric Pits at Peterborough and the Development of Neolithic Pottery

Archaeologia ◽  
1910 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 333-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Wyman Abbott ◽  
Reginald A. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
East Side ◽  
The West ◽  
West Side ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
Early Settlement ◽  
Human Habitation ◽  
The Town

The series of relics exhibited to the Society come from an early settlement at Peterborough, dating from a time when flint was in general use, perhaps before the introduction of metal, at least among the poorer inhabitants of the country. The site is a promontory rising out of the Fens and lying on the north-east side of the town. The river Nene joined the Fens about half a mile to the south-west of the site, which is only a few feet above sea-level, and was almost surrounded in times of flood. So far as can be determined at present, the extent of the settlement is several acres, but the ground has not yet been moved except on the west side, where unfortunately no observations were taken. There were no surface indications of human habitation, and no burrows noticed on the promontory or in its neighbourhood. The subsoil is gravel, fine and coarse, varying in depth from 8 to 10 feet. The top 18 inches of gravel, underlying the soil, is reddish brown, mixed with a reddish loam, which sometimes occupies natural pockets 3 to 8 feet deep, cutting down through the gravel and at times reaching the cornbrash below.

Excavations at Verulamium 1959. Fifth Interim Report

1960 ◽  
Vol 40 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. S. Frere
Keyword(s):  
Interim Report ◽  
East Side ◽  
Daily Number ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Main Work

The fifth season of the current Verulamium Excavations lasted from 29th July to 23rd September 1959, a period of 8 weeks of exceptionally dry weather. Work was done on a slightly smaller scale than previously, the highest daily number of helpers being about 75. The main work was undertaken in insulae XIV, XXI, XXVII, and XXVIII; in addition a trench was cut in the Theatre and another through the defences on the north-east side of insula XVIII.

Roman York: Excavations in 1955

1956 ◽  
Vol 46 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 76-90
Author(s):  
H. G. Ramm
Keyword(s):  
Second Century ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
East Side ◽  
The South ◽  
North West ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Stone Wall ◽  
Period 2 ◽  
Historical Monuments

The excavation described below was undertaken by the writer on behalf of the Ministry of Works and the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, but the present article is his own sole responsibility.The defences of the Legionary Fortress at York were first scientifically examined by the late S. N. Miller in 1925–8 and the report on the work in 1925–7 appeared in this Journal. As a result of his work we have a satisfactory framework into which to fit subsequent and previous discoveries. The structural sequence arrived at by Miller can be briefly summarized as follows:—Period 1. A campaigning base deduced by Miller from occupation earth in what he considered to be part of the clay rampart of Period 2 and dated by him to the beginning of the governorship of Petillius Cerialis (A.D. 71–4).Period 2. The first defences of which Miller recognized structural evidence consisted of a massive rampart of clay, dated by him to the close of the governorship of Cerialis.Period 3. In the early part of the second century stone gates and towers were built and linked by a stone wall. The south-east gate was built in A.D. 108–9, but some work was still being done in Hadrian's reign. The clay bank of Period 2 remained behind the stone wall.Period 4. At the end of the second century there was an extensive restoration under Severus. A new stone wall was built, at any rate on the south-east side, immediately behind the wall of Period 2 which was completely removed except for the foundations.Period 5. At the turn of the third and fourth centuries the south-west and north-west sides and part of the north-east side were reconstructed, with projecting multangular corner and interval towers on the river front (fig. 9).

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