Seismic Activation in the Eastern Part of the Southern Slope of the Great Caucasus in the Late XX to Early XXI Centuries

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (8) ◽  
pp. 870-883
Author(s):  
G. J. Yetirmishli ◽  
T. Y. Mammadli ◽  
E. A. Rogozhin ◽  
A. I. Sysolin
Author(s):  
Yu. K. Vasil’chuk ◽  
E. S. Slyshkina ◽  
A. V. Bershov

The article contains materials on the study of landslide deposits in the upper reaches of the Mzymta river basin. The results of14C analysis showed that the youngest landslides are common on the southern slope of the Psekhako Ridge and date back to less than 200 and 390±90, 400±70 years ago BP and more than 770±150 years BP. The most ancient landslide-collapse on the northern slope of the Aibga Ridge and dates back to 1110±90 years BP.


2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-47
Author(s):  
Clinton D. Young

This article examines the development of Wagnerism in late-nineteenth-century Spain, focusing on how it became an integral part of Catalan nationalism. The reception of Wagner's music and ideas in Spain was determined by the country's uneven economic development and the weakness of its musical and political institutions—the same weaknesses that were responsible for the rise of Catalan nationalism. Lack of a symphonic culture in Spain meant that audiences were not prepared to comprehend Wagner's complexity, but that same complexity made Wagner's ideas acceptable to Spanish reformers who saw in the composer an exemplar of the European ideas needed to fix Spanish problems. Thus, when Wagner's operas were first staged in Spain, the Teatro Real de Madrid stressed Wagner's continuity with operas of the past; however, critics and audiences engaged with the works as difficult forms of modern music. The rejection of Wagner in the Spanish capital cleared the way for his ideas to be adopted in Catalonia. A similar dynamic occurred as Spanish composers tried to meld Wagner into their attempts to build a nationalist school of opera composition. The failure of Tomás Bréton's Los amantes de Teruel and Garín cleared the way for Felip Pedrell's more successful theoretical fusion of Wagnerism and nationalism. While Pedrell's opera Els Pirineus was a failure, his explanation of how Wagner's ideals and nationalism could be fused in the treatise Por nuestra música cemented the link between Catalan culture and Wagnerism.


2019 ◽  
Vol 154 ◽  
pp. 164-171
Author(s):  
L. Kengni ◽  
A.N. Mboussop ◽  
A. Njueya Kopa ◽  
C.M. Tankou ◽  
P. Tematio ◽  
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Our Nature ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kalu Ram Rai

Tangting River originates from southern slope of Murtidanda of Mahabharat range and forms a very narrow v-shaped agriculturally fertile valley in lower parts of Chure hills. It has three main tributaries merging from east and west. Water is clear with rocky bed and margin is covered with thick bushes of semi-shrubs (Eupatorium adenophorum). During the herpetological survey, a live juvenile specimen of Cyclemys oldhamii (Gray, 1983) was collected from the periphery of Banmare Khola, an eastern tributory of the river. It was found hiding in the paddy field in the flood plain of Tangting river (280 m), and another adult specimen was collected from Dhobi Khola (450 m), a western tributory of the river. Empty shells were also collected from Garuwa and Mai valleys, respectively. Tangting and Garuwa river valleys are the favourable habitats for Cyclemys oldhamii. The main reason of discontinued distribution is habitat loss by deforestation. Key words: Cyclemys, Morphology, Ecological habitats, Distributiondoi:10.3126/on.v2i1.317Our Nature (2004) 2: 7-12


Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 272 (1) ◽  
pp. 94 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZHONG-SHUAI ZHANG ◽  
XIANG-YUN ZHU ◽  
LING-LU LI ◽  
SHAN-WEN JIANG ◽  
WEN-LI CHEN

Ptilagrostis Grisebach (1852: 447) is a small genus of the grass family, including approximately 11 species (Wu & Phillips 2006, Barkworth 2007). It occurs in both Asia and North America with about eight species distributed in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, its diversity center. Ptilagrostis yadongensis Keng & Tang (1985: 44) is one of the species that occurs in this region, which was described based on materials from Yadong, China, the southern slope of Himalayas. The paper was published in a Chinese journal, viz. Journal of Southwest Agriculural University, and had not been noticed until 2005 (Peterson et al. 2005, Wu & Phillips 2006). The author pointed out that P. yadongensis is distinguished from its morphological close, Ptilagrostis concinna (Hooker 1897: 230) Roshevitz (1934: 75) by linear panicles with fewer spikelets, longer and unequal glumes, and shorter and glabrous anthers.


2017 ◽  
Vol 476 (2) ◽  
pp. 1130-1133
Author(s):  
V. I. Popkov ◽  
O. Yu. Krickaya ◽  
A. A. Ostapenko ◽  
I. E. Dementjeva ◽  
O. N. Byhalova

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Chen ◽  
Bärbel Vogel ◽  
Xiangde Xu ◽  
Shuai Yang

Abstract. The Asian summer monsoon (ASM) is associated with an upper-level anticyclone and acts as a well-recognized conduit for troposphere-to-stratosphere transport. The Lagrangian dispersion and transport model FLEXPART forced by ERA-Interim data from 2001–2013 was used to perform climatological modeling of the summer season (May–July). This study examines the properties of the air mass transport from the atmospheric boundary layer (BL) to the tropopause layer (TL), with particular focus on the sub-seasonal variability in the tracer-independent BL sources and the potential controlling mechanisms. The results show that, climatologically, the three most impactful BL source regions are northern India, the Tibetan Plateau, and the southern slope of the Himalayas. These regions are consistent with the locations of sources identified in previous studies. However, upon closer inspection, the different source regions to the BL-to-TL air mass transport are not constant in location or shape and are strongly affected by sub-seasonal variability. The contributions from the Tibetan Plateau are most significant in early May but decrease slightly in mid-May to mid-June. In contrast, the contributions from India and the southern slope of the Himalayas increase dramatically, with peak values occurring in mid-July. Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) analysis provides further evidence that the BL sources in the ASM region vary across a wide range of spatiotemporal scales. The sub-seasonal behavior of these BL sources is closely related to the strength of persistent deep convection activity over the northern Bay of Bengal and its neighboring areas.


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