Report on Session 3b

1991 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 597-601 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. F. T. Nash
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Geotechnical Properties ◽  
Regional Studies ◽  
Geological History ◽  
Soft Clays ◽  
State Of Stress ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site

IntroductionThe theme of this session covers a very wide spectrum of deposits and processes. The thirteen papers submitted from all over the world, together with several from other sessions which also relate to this theme, describe numerous deposits and processes - mostly the former. Some of the processes which influence the geotechnical properties and behaviour of soils are listed in Table 1. This is a reminder of the importance of fully appreciating the geological history of a site when planning and undertaking construction projects.The papers can be conveniently divided into four groups under the general headings Tectonics and Uplift, Problems relating to Reservoirs, Regional Studies of Soils, Studies of Soft Clays.Quaternary Tectonics and UpliftAs part of the study of the background to the present seismicity of the UK, Ringrose, Hancock and Davenport have observed the distribution of recorded seismicity and noted the coincidence of areas which are currently the most seismicly active with the areas of highest topography and the areas of maximum present day uplift. They have examined several Quaternary faults in Scotland and related the patterns of movement to the inferred state of stress in the earths crust, and concluded that ice-loading must have been sufficient to trigger fault movements. On other faults the displacements are consistent with a zone of uplift coinciding with the maximum zone of present day uplift in the highlands of west central Scotland. The authors report some very substantial fault movements during the Quaternary. The studies, of which these form

scholarly journals On the Devonian age of the World

The Geologist ◽  
1861 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
pp. 332-347
Author(s):  
W. Pengelly
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Conditions ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Geological History ◽  
Geological Time ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Astronomical Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
Time Required ◽  
Devonian Age

The rooks composing the earth's crust contain a history and represent time—a history of changes numerous, varied, and important: changes in the distribution of land and water; in the thermal conditions of the world; and in the character of the organic tribes which have successively peopled it. The time required for these mutations must have been vast beyond human comprehension, requiring, for its expression, units of a higher order than years or centuries. In the existing state of our knowledge it is impossible to convert geological into astronomical time: it is at present, and perhaps always will be, beyond our power to determine how many rotations on its axis, or how many revolutions round the sun the earth made between any two recognised and well-marked events in its geological history. Nevertheless it is possible, and eminently convenient, to break up geological time into great periods: it must not be supposed, however, that such periods are necessarily equal in chronological, organic, or lithological value; or separated from one another by broadly marked lines of demarcation; or that either their commencements or terminations in different and widely separated districts were strictly synchronous.One of the terms in the chronological series of the geologist is known as the Devonian, that which preceeded it the Silurian, and the succeeding one the Carboniferous period; and these, with some others of less importance, belong to the Palæozoic or ancient-life epoch, or group of periods.

scholarly journals III.—Origin of the Archœan Rocks

1883 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 263-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Marr
Keyword(s):  
Geological History ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

It is somewhat remarkable that, just as physicists are assuring geologists that the latter will have to quicken their forces, so as to bring the geological history of the globe within the definite limits assigned by the physicists themselves, the geologists reply by adding several thousand feet more rock in various parts of the world to the already thick column of sediment, and many would assure us that these ‘Archœan’ rocks were produced in a manner similar to the fossiliferous rocks, from which they differ in such important particulars.

scholarly journals Becoming-Flashdrive: The Cinematic Intelligence of Lucy

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-303
Author(s):  
Laurence Kent
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Film Theory ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Ethical Relation ◽  
Philosophical Account ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Universal Values ◽  
A Site

An important but easily forgotten moment in the history of film-philosophy is Jean Epstein's assertion that cinema, more than merely thinking, has a kind of intelligence. If it is a newfound conception of rationality that is needed for any contemporary ethical relation to the world, as thinkers from Reza Negarestani and Pete Wolfendale to feminist collective Laboria Cuboniks have espoused in their respective neo-rationalist projects, then cinema as a thinking thing must be interrogated in its relation to reason. A somatophilia of purely affective and phenomenological approaches in film theory alongside micropolitical injunctions to undermine common-sense and liberate one's desire in extremity can fall limp in view of such calls for universal thinking around rationality. To understand cinema's specific form of intelligence, this article will explore Luc Besson's Lucy (2014) as an instance of how film is able to represent intelligence. Besson's film provides a site where Western cultural anxieties and assumptions around intelligence are manifested. This will allow an explication of contemporary approaches to intelligence in philosophy whilst confronting these discourses with the insidious problematics of gender and race that undergird the film. I argue that Lucy shares many of its ambitions with the emerging vectors of thought associated with the neo-rationalist perspective in its engaging with a rethinking of universal values and the Promethean possibilities of human action. Reading the film through these philosophies will help position the ethical stakes it sets up, but also to distinguish it from a trend of contemporary “posthuman” films that it finds itself in company with. While it is certainly true that posthuman themes, as well as transhumanist fantasies, seem to permeate Besson's film, this article will incorporate another neologism, taken from neo-rationalist thinkers, in order to emphasise moments that can be productive from the standpoint of a philosophical account of intelligence: “rationalist inhumanism.”

scholarly journals Modelling the past: new generation approaches to understanding biological patterns in the fossil record

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew B. Smith ◽  
Paul M. Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Record ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
Geological Record ◽  
The Past ◽  
Partial Data ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Biological Patterns ◽  
New Generation

The history of life on this planet is gleaned from analysing how fossils are distributed through time and space. While these patterns are now rather securely known, at least for well-studied parts of the world, their interpretation remains far from simple. Fossils preserve only partial data from which to reconstruct their biology and the geological record is incomplete and biased, so that taxonomic ranges and palaeocommunity structure are imperfectly known. To better understand the often highly complex deep-time processes that gave rise to the empirical fossil record, palaeontologists have turned to modelling the past. Here, we summarize a series of 11 papers that showcase where modelling the past is being applied to advance our understanding across a wide spectrum of current palaeontological endeavours.

Introduction: Archives, Record Keeping and Imperial Governance, 1500-1800

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 311-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Pia Donato
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
Historical Collections ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Project ◽  
Imperial Governance ◽  
A Site ◽  
Geographical Scope ◽  
Archival Practices

Abstract In the last decades, a vast body of literature has scrutinized the archive, regarding it as an instrument of power for the Western conquest of the world. More recently, a new, vibrant cultural history of archives has changed our understanding of archives as a fully-fledged historical object and why they matter for extending the geographical scope of history and achieving a more connected image of modernity. The articles assembled in this themed issue delve into the history of imperial archives and archival practices in the period 1500-1800, bringing together different lines of inquiry. Each contribution focuses on a major Western imperial formation at different epochs in their evolution, dealing both with current records and historical collections; each engages with archives as an institution, as assemblages of documents that circulated in and out of official depositories, as a site where colonial administrative knowledge was elaborated, and as a political project.

Glass Architecture as a Site for Encountering the Surface Aesthetics of Urban Photography

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-286
Author(s):  
Paulina Nordström
Keyword(s):  
Capacity To Act ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site

This article brings glass architecture and geophilosophy into a relationship with one another with the further aim of studying surface aesthetics of urban photography. First I present a selected history of glass architecture and its previous methodological applications. Then, I focus on the characteristics of glass architecture—its permeability/reflectivity and capacity to act with light—in relation to the geophilosophies of Nietzsche and Deleuze. I aim to formulate surface aesthetics through which I contemplate the materialities and the fabulative landscape of urban photography. Urban photography is valued for its characteristic of combining the practices of art and research. In this article, urban photography is also understood as an affectual encounter. However, for urban photography to be seen as a creative medium, it has to be acknowledged as not merely making aesthetic representations of the world but also opening a landscape in order to see it differently and ask new questions.

scholarly journals CANYONS OF THE CHARYN RIVER (SOUTH-EAST KAZAKHSTAN): GEOLOGICAL HISTORY AND GEOTOURISM

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-111
Author(s):  
Saida NIGMATOVA ◽  
◽  
Aizhan ZHAMANGARА ◽  
Bolat BAYSHASHOV ◽  
Nurganym ABUBAKIROVA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Geological History ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Tectonic Processes ◽  
Clay Deposits ◽  
The World ◽  
East Kazakhstan ◽  
History Of ◽  
Paleozoic Rocks ◽  
Scientific Value ◽  
Eastern Kazakhstan

The Charyn River is located in South-East Kazakhstan, 195 km east of Almaty. The river valley cuts through Paleozoic rocks and loose sandy-clay deposits of the Cenozoic and forms amazingly beautiful canyons, the so-called "Valley of Castles". This place is actively visited by tourists from all over the world. However, Charyn canyons have not only tourist but also scientific value. Deposits with fossil fauna and flora are exposed here, and there is evidence of unique tectonic processes that took place in this area. Years of research have made it possible to describe in detail the stratigraphy of the region and outline new tourism routes that open up unknown pages in the history of South-Eastern Kazakhstan.

A checklist of trichodinid species (Ciliophora: Trichodinidae) on tilapia fishes (Cichlidae), with new records from Mexico and the first data from Argentina

Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4896 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-484
Author(s):  
ALMA G. ISLAS-ORTEGA ◽  
PAULA S. MARCOTEGUI ◽  
LINDA BASSON ◽  
ROGELIO AGUILAR-AGUILAR
Keyword(s):  
New Records ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
General View ◽  
Metazoan Parasites ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
High Species Richness ◽  
The Common ◽  
Host Parasite

Tilapia is the common name for a wide spectrum of cichlid fishes usually selected for aquaculture activities. However, some aspects of the natural history of these fishes, such as the diversity of certain ectoparasitic protistan groups remain understudied. In order to understand the diversity of ciliates of the family Trichodinidae parasitizing tilapia around the world, a database with all available accounts was assembled. This information, along with records derived from our own recent research, allowed us to generate a checklist containing all the records for tilapia-Trichodinidae associations. The checklist is presented as a host-parasite list containing 44 nominal taxa from 29 countries on four continents, and it also presents the first data from Argentina, where tilapia culture is still an incipient, but growing activity. The observed high species richness of trichodinids is probably derived from a set of specific taxa for tilapia, along with an important component of species acquired from the new environments where tilapia have been introduced. Data presented here could be used along with existing information of metazoan parasites to build a general view about diseases that affect tilapia. 

A History of the World Semiconductor Industry

IEE Review ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 355
Author(s):  
D.A. Gorham
Keyword(s):  
Semiconductor Industry ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

The problem of periodization of the history of religion

1997 ◽  
pp. 3-8
Author(s):  
Borys Lobovyk
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Religious Development ◽  
History Of Religion ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Role Of Religion

An important problem of religious studies, the history of religion as a branch of knowledge is the periodization process of the development of religious phenomenon. It is precisely here, as in focus, that the question of the essence and meaning of the religious development of the human being of the world, the origin of beliefs and cult, the reasons for the changes in them, the place and role of religion in the social and spiritual process, etc., are converging.

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