scholarly journals I. Extract of a letter from Professor Lamont to Major-General Sabine, Treas. and V. P. R. S., dated Munich, Dec. 19, 1858. Communicated by Professor W. H. Miller, For. Sec. R. S

1859 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 584-584
Keyword(s):  
The Sun ◽  
The West ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
The Press ◽  
Absolute Measure ◽  
Annual Changes ◽  
Central Station ◽  
Major General

“My magnetic observations in France, Spain, and Portugal are now published, and a copy for you is on the way. The observations of last summer are under the press. They comprehend about thirty stations in the North of Germany, Belgium, Holland, and Denmark. Next year I am going to Italy, and in 1860 I intend to revisit Spain, in order to observe the total eclipse of the sun, and also to make magnetic observations. “I have found that on the Continent the lines of horizontal intensity move from south-west to north-east, making an angle of about 20° with the meridian, that is, in a direction coinciding with the lines of declination. The lines of inclination seem to move in the same direction, and the motion of the lines of declination will probably coincide with the lines of horizontal intensity. Calling + ΔH and —Δ i the annual changes of horizontal intensity and inclination of a central station (suppose London), the annual changes for a place situated x degrees in latitude to the north, and y degrees in longitude to the west, will be— ΔH — 0·00018 x + 0·00008 y (absolute measure, French units), —Δ i + 0'·21 x —0'·09 y .

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 XI.—Notes on the Geology of the Eildon Hills, in Roxburghshire

1853 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-217
Author(s):  
James D. Forbes
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
The Other ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Eastern Slope ◽  
The West ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
North Bank ◽  
The Town

The following remarks, being the result of a careful examination of a small district of country characteristic of the relations of the trap formations, are perhaps worthy of being recorded; although the general features of the county of Roxburgh have been very clearly stated in a paper by Mr Milne, published in the 15th volume of the Edinburgh Transactions.The outburst of porphyritic trap forming the conspicuous small group of the Eildon Hills, may be stated to be surrounded by the characteristic greywacke of the south of Scotland. It forms an elongated patch on the map, extending from the west end of Bowden Muir in the direction of the town of Selkirk, and running from west-south-west to east-north-east (true) towards Bemerside Hill, on the north bank of the Tweed. The breadth is variable, probably less than is generally supposed; but it cannot be accurately ascertained, owing to the accumulated diluvium which covers the whole south-eastern slope of this elevated ridge. On this account, my observations on the contact of rocks have been almost entirely confined to the northern and western boundaries of the trap, although the other side was examined with equal care.

scholarly journals An ultrabasic pipe in the eastern Sukkertoppen region, southern West Greenland

1980 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 69-73
Author(s):  
R.P Hall
Keyword(s):  
Granulite Facies ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
West Side ◽  
West Greenland ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
Unusual Occurrence ◽  
Anorthosite Complex

An unusual occurrence of ultrabasic material was located in the eastern Sukkertoppen region during the reconnaissance mapping programme of 1977, the findings of which were described by Allaart et al. (1978). It occurs on a small exposure on the west side of a north-pointing peninsula in the middle of the large nunatak Majorqap alangua (65°53'N, 50°40'W), to the north-east of the Majorqaq valley (Hall, 1978, fig. 21). The area is composed predominantly of a suite of granulite facies granitic gneisses which contain numerous enclaves of pyroxene-bearing amphibolites, and locally anorthositic and gabbroic rocks similar to those seen in the Fiskenæsset anorthosite complex (Myers, 1975). The gneisses in the centre af the nunatak are highly irregular in orient at ion, occupying the complex interseclion af closures af at least two major fold phases. A belt af amphibolitcs forms the cliff at the south-west tip af Majorqap alangua. Related rocks occur in arnphibolite facies in the acea around the lakc Qardlit taserssuat immediately to the soulh (Hall, 1978).

scholarly journals Pengukuran Arah Kiblat Masjid Syaikh Zainuddin Nahdhatul Wathan Bintan

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-116
Author(s):  
M. Arbisora Angkat ◽  
Rizki Pradana Hidayatullah
Keyword(s):  
Community Service ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
West Point ◽  
The West ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
National Hero

Community Dedication is an activity of the academic community that utilizes science and technology to advance the welfare of the community and educate the nation's life. The academic community, in this case the lecturers, is required to be able to socialize with the community and be able to make a real contribution. One form of community service carried out is measuring the Qibla direction towards existing mosques. The measurement of the Qibla direction using science and technology is an attempt to strengthen the prayer service. The more accurate the measurement of the Qibla direction, the more stable the belief in praying. Syaikh Zainuddin Nahdlatul Wathan Bintan Islamic Boarding School is an Islamic Boarding School under the auspices of the Nahdlatul Wathan organization which was founded by Maulana Syaikh TGKH. Muhammad Zainuddin Abdul Madjid, a National Hero from Lombok - West Nusa Tenggara. This Islamic Boarding School is a new Islamic Boarding School category and is currently building various facilities including a mosque. The measurement of the Qibla direction of the Syaikh Zainuddin Mosque was carried out on February 11, 2021 with latitude data 01o 0.84’ south latitude, longitude 104o 30.67’ east longitude using the Falak Instrument, namely Aulatis. The position of the Qibla direction of the Syaikh Zainuddin Mosque is 23o 03’ 8.82” from the West point tilted to the North or 66o 56’ 51.18” from the North point tilted to the West or Qibla Azimut 293o 03’ 08.82” UTSB (North East South West)

The Palaeolithic Sequence at Iver, Bucks. With an Appendix on the Geology

1936 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 420-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. D. Lacaille ◽  
K. P. Oakley
Keyword(s):  
British Museum ◽  
Stone Age ◽  
The West ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
Line Passing

References to palaeolithic implements from the Pleistocene deposits in the Buckinghamshire parish of Iver have appeared from time to time in the Proceedings of learned societies. The British Museum Guide to Antiquities of the Stone Age, 1926, p. 46, mentions artifacts from this district, where palaeoliths have been collected for nearly half a century, but a general summary has not been made showing the sequence of cultures and the significance of the relics from the local deposits. The author has had the commercial workings in the Iver gravels under observation for a number of years, and thinks that the archaeological evidence, now made available as a result of continuous supervision, may perhaps assist in the revision of published material.The area under review measures almost two miles from east to west and a mile and a half from north to south (map, fig. 1). It may be taken as bounded on the east by the Colne Brook, one of the branches of the River Colne, and on the west by a line passing through Parsonage Farm south-west of Shreding Green, which stands, like the eastern end of Iver village in the north-east corner of the rectangle, at an altitude of 120 ft.

Rainsborough, Northants, England: Excavations 1961–5

1968 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 207-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Avery ◽  
J. E. G. Sutton ◽  
J. W. Banks ◽  
M. S. Tite ◽  
J. G. Evans ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tree Roots ◽  
The West ◽  
Outer Slope ◽  
North West ◽  
Gentle Slope ◽  
The Core ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
Visible Part

Rainsborough is 1 mile South of Charlton village, in the parish of Newbottle, S. Northants, 20 miles North of Oxford, (SP 526348). The camp lies atc. 480′ OD, and the area enclosed isc. 6·25 acres.It lies on the edge of a plateau: the approaches to it are flat on the north-east, east, south and south-west, but a gentle slope to the north, north-west and west gives it a wide view across the Cherwell valley, towards Madmarston and Tadmarton (see map, fig. 1 and also pl. XXV). The defences are bivallate: the inner bank stands to 10 feet above the interior, and there is a drop of about 15 feet from the crest into the inner ditch; the second bank is very much lowered by ploughing, but still reaches a height of about 4 feet on the south side, where a hedge line has protected it; the outer ditch is nowhere visible on the surface, except on the west, when it carries a higher growth of weeds. The defences are covered with turf: the inner bank has also trees, bushes and the stumps of large beeches felledc. 1950. The bank is riddled with tree roots, and the sandy character of the core has attracted rabbits: recent attempts to dig and smoke out the warrens have slightly damaged the profile of the bank. A small dry stone wall is visible part way up the outer slope of the inner bank in several places.

Nemesis: A Mycenaean settlement near the Menidi Tholos Tomb

1959 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 292-294
Author(s):  
R. Hope Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Ground Level ◽  
The West ◽  
North West ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
Original Size ◽  
The Hill ◽  
East West ◽  
Ancient Remains

The site to be described lies on a low hill a little to the north of the small village or suburb of Nemesis, about 150 metres to the west of the main road from Patisia to Koukouvaounes, and 1 kilometre to east-south-east of the Mycenaean tholos tomb at Λυκὸτρυπα, which was excavated by the German Institute in 1879, and is usually called the Menidi Tomb. The site at Nemesis is visible from the tholos tomb, and is separated from it by a gentle valley through which run, in a southerly direction, two streams with steep banks. The eastern stream is the river Kephissos, whose name goes back at least as far as the classical period.The hill of Nemesis stands about 15 to 20 metres above the level of the surrounding land, and measures about 160 m. north-west to south-east × 120 m. north-east to south-west. The hill is an isolated outcrop of conglomerate rock, thinly covered with stony brown earth. It has been eroded over an area about 250 m. north-south × 50 m. east-west, so that its original size was considerably larger than at present, in all about 30,000 square metres. Mycenaean sherds were found over the whole of this area, though mainly in the eroded part, among the lumps of fallen earth and rock. Remains of rubble walling together with several Mycenaean sherds were found here, and also in the steep cliffs formed by the erosion on the west and south sides (this part of the hill has been undermined by recent excavation of the beds of grey clay, which here lie at between 2 and 3 metres below the original ground level). The ancient remains are particularly noticeable in the south-west angle of the cliffs (roughly in the centre of the part of the hill shown on Plate 71a), where there is a greater depth of earth above the rock than is visible elsewhere on the hill.

Notes on the Total Eclipse of the Sun, 8th August 1896

1897 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 489-496
Author(s):  
◽  
A. J. Ramsay
Keyword(s):  
North Pacific Ocean ◽  
Early Morning ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The West ◽  
Novaya Zemlya ◽  
Clear Sky ◽  
Total Eclipse ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
Northern Island

In the Total Eclipse of 8th August last year, the line of totality began at a point to the north of the Shetlands, passed across the north of Norway, from Bodo on the west to Vadso in the north-east, then traversed Novaya Zemlya, Siberia, and Yesso, the northern island of Japan, ending finally in the North Pacific Ocean. Both Bodö and Vadsö are easily accessible by the Nor-wegian mail-boats, the former being, however, some four days nearer than Vadsö. At the first glance one would naturally inquire:—Why was not Bodö chosen for our station in preference to the more distant Vadsö ? The chief reason was the very important one that at Vadsö the sun, at the time of total eclipse, attained an altitude of 15° above the horizon, while at Bodö the altitude was only some 7°; at Vadsö, too, the duration of totality was 106 seconds, as compared with 101 seconds at Bodö. As regards the chances of a clear sky, there was not much to choose between the two stations; on the west coast the rainfall was reported to be relatively large, while fogs were said to be of frequent occurrence at Vadsö. Vardö, some 40 miles east of Vadsö, was declared unsuitable on account of a still greater likelihood of trouble from sea fogs in the early morning, during summer. We therefore fixed on Vadsö as our observing station, and communicated with Professor Mohn of Christiania, the well-known meteorologist, as to the best steps to be taken for securing a favourable site for our instruments. We are indebted to him for much valuable advice, and to Dr Caspersen of Vadsö for his very material help in securing comfortable rooms for us there.

scholarly journals Effects of Propagation Media and Branch Orientation on Rooting of Guava (Psidium guajava L.) Shoots Propagated by Air Layering in a Sub-tropical Environment

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Nontsikelelo Mahlambi ◽  
Victor D. Shongwe ◽  
Michael T. Masarirambi ◽  
Kwanele A. Nxumalo
Keyword(s):  
Adventitious Root ◽  
Psidium Guajava ◽  
The Sun ◽  
North West ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
Adventitious Root Development ◽  
Top Soil ◽  
Propagation Media

Guava (Psidium guajava L.) is a tropical fruit rich in vitamins and beneficial phytochemicals and thus often referred to as a super fruit. Despite the potential nutritional benefits of guava fruit, it has received little research to facilitate its wide-scale production in the Kingdom of Eswatini. This study was conducted with the aim of determining the effects of media and branch orientation on rooting of guava branches propagated by air layering. Media treatments used included vermiculite, compost, top soil, and media mix which was a mixture of top soil, pine sawdust and sand. Branches that were oriented towards the North East to South East and South West to North West directions in relation to the sun were selected for air layering. The experiment was a factorial arrangement laid out in a split plot design where there were 5 replications per treatment. Vermiculite wrapped branches showed the best adventitious root formation in relation to root length, root volume, root mass, rooting percentage and root number in comparison to other media treatments. North East to South East oriented branches produced superior adventitious root development than North West to South West orientated branches. Wrapping branches with vermiculite in combination with the selection of North East to South East oriented branches enhanced adventitious root development in air layered guava branches. It is recommended that farmers who wish to produce guavas of desired quality by air layering may select branches with the greatest exposure to the sun in the North East to South East directions using vermiculite or alternatively compost in the absence of vermiculite as propagation media.

scholarly journals Results from a geological reconnaissance around Svartenhuk Halvø, West Greenland

1973 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
V Münther
Keyword(s):  
Fault Zones ◽  
The South ◽  
Large Area ◽  
The West ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
Early Tertiary ◽  
Lateral Extent ◽  
Tectonic Movements

Svartenhuk Halvø is built up primarily of Tertiary basalts; these overlie Cretaceous and early Tertiary sediments, and overlap onto the Precambrian basement. The basalt series can be divided into a lower and an upper series; although displaced by faults, the boundary between these series can be followed across the peninsula. The thickness of the lower basalt series is estimated to be about 2-3 km in the south of the peninsula and barely 1 km in the north; the sub-aquatic basalt breccia is included in these thicknesses. FauIts causing repetitions of the lava succession have resulted in the series being preserved over a rather large area. The general dip of the lavas is 3-4 dregrees towards SW in the east and 8-10 degrees, also towards SW, in the west. Locally dips between 10 and 20 degrees or even steeper are seen; these are the resulf of drag along fault zones in Arfertuarssuk fjord and Kugssineq valley, and between Svartenhuk Halvø and Ubekendt Ejland. The youngest fault has a displacement of 500 m or more and has downthrown the basement area to the north-east in relation to the sediment-basalt breccia-basalt series to the south-west. The upper basalt series has by far the greater lateral extent and covers the gneiss and metasediment area to the north and north-east at least as far as the Inland lee. The dip of the flows in this part of the basalt series is considerably lower than in much of the lower basalt series, but faults repeating the succession are also frequently encountered within the upper basalts. The tectonic movements evidence a strong E-W (or NE-SW) tension, never a compression; the weak anticlinal and synclinal structures which are seen are interpreted as resulfing from differential sagging. The lower basalt series is thought to have arisen from fissure eruptions, with the main area of eruption in the east. The lavas are very rich in olivine (i. e. are pieritic). The upper basalt series probably arose from central eruptions and smaller fissure eruptions, and the area of eruption is thought to have shifted to the west. The upper lavas become poorer in olivine; andesitic lavas represent perhaps a closing phase, more local in its distribution and perhaps resulting from magmatic assimilation of pre-basaltic sediments. "Iron basalt" and intrabasaltic breccia have not been noted on Svartenhuk Halvø.

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