scholarly journals Existing and Proposed Urban Geosites Values Resulting from Geodiversity of Poznań City

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zbigniew Zwoliński ◽  
Iwona Hildebrandt-Radke ◽  
Małgorzata Mazurek ◽  
Mirosław Makohonienko
Keyword(s):  
Tenth Century ◽  
Impact Craters ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Peat Bog ◽  
Human History ◽  
The City ◽  
Weichselian Glaciation ◽  
Vast Area

Abstract Poznań, a city in central-western Poland, is located in the lowland region but has no less attractive geomorphological and human history. It was here that Poland was born at the end of the tenth century. The city’s location is connected with the meridian course of the Warta River valley. In contrast, in the northern part of the city, there is a vast area of the frontal moraines of the Poznań Phase of the Weichselian Glaciation. Against the backdrop of the geomorphological development of the city, the article presents the existing geosites, classified as urban geosites. The present geosites include three lapidaries with Scandinavian postglacial erratics, one of them also with stoneware, a fragment of a frontal push moraine and impact craters. Besides, three locations of proposed geosites with rich geomorphological and/or human history were identified. These are as follows: the peat bog located in the northern part of the city, defence ramparts as exhumed anthropogenic forms, and the Warta River valley. The existing and proposed geosites in Poznań were evaluated in three ways. In general, it should be assumed that the proposed new geosites are higher ranked than the current ones.

Hierapolis

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clyde E. Fant ◽  
Mitchell G. Reddish
Keyword(s):  
River Valley ◽  
Mineral Deposits ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Modern City ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Ancient City ◽  
Southern Side ◽  
The City ◽  
Holy City

Hierapolis is a popular tourist site, featured frequently on travel posters and tourist advertisements because of the adjacent spectacular calcified cliffs. Equally as impressive as the white cliffs, however, are the remains of the ancient city and the excellent museum at the site. Along with Colossae and Laodicea, Hierapolis was one of the major cities of the Lycus River valley. While Colossae and Laodicea are on the southern side of the Lycus River, Hierapolis (today known as Pamukkale) is north (or northeast) of the river. The site of the ancient city is approximately 12 miles north of the modern city of Denizli. The most striking aspect of the city, in ancient as well as modern times, is the sight of the calcified white cliffs, formed by mineral deposits from the water flowing over the cliffs. From these white cliffs, which can be seen from the ruins of Laodicea, approximately 6 miles away, Hierapolis derived its modern name of Pamukkale (meaning “cotton castle”). The date of the founding of the city of Hierapolis is uncertain. Because the earliest inscription found at Hierapolis dates from the reign of Eumenes II of Pergamum (r. 197–159 B.C.E.), the founding of the city has usually been dated to the time of the Pergamene kingdom. But because of an inscription in the theater that lists various tribal names, some of which are derived from the names of members of the Seleucid family who ruled parts of Asia Minor during the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C.E. (such as Seleucidos and Antiochidos), the founding of the city should likely be moved back to the time of the Seleucid kings. Even the origin of the name of the city is uncertain. One tradition is that the Pergamene rulers named the city after Hiera, the wife of Telephus (son of Hercules and grandson of Zeus), the mythical founder of Pergamum. Another explanation is that the name means “holy city” (hieros in Greek means “holy”) and that the city was so named because of the temples located there. The latter explanation may have arisen after the mythological connection was forgotten.

Exercising Power in the City

2020 ◽  
pp. 398-464
Author(s):  
Veronica West-Harling
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Tenth Century ◽  
The Public ◽  
Patron Saint ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
The City

This chapter shows the exercising of power in action in the public space. It looks at who ‘owns’ this, the Christianization of it in Rome, and the increasing role of the papacy in appropriating and in running it, revalorizing it as part of Rome’s Christian past and present, expressed through pilgrimage. This appropriation is contested by the secular aristocracy, which in turn appropriates the public space and rewrites the topography of the city in the tenth century. The use of the public space as an area of either social cohesion or conflict is studied, through the ceremonies, elections, oaths, processions, assemblies, justice and defence meetings; but also riots, conspiracies, and contested elections. This space of cohesion or conflict is fundamental to the creation of the unity and sense of identity of the city, especially around the patron saint or, sometimes, around or indeed against an imperial ruler

The view from under the mushroom cloud: The Chugoku Shimbun newspaper and the Hiroshima Peace Media Center

2015 ◽  
Vol 97 (899) ◽  
pp. 527-542
Author(s):  
Tomomitsu Miyazaki
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Atomic Bomb ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Human History ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Media Center ◽  
The People ◽  
Regional Newspapers ◽  
Nuclear Attack ◽  
The City

The Chugoku Shimbun is a daily newspaper based in Hiroshima, the city that experienced the first nuclear attack in human history. Founded in 1892, with a circulation of 620,000, the Chugoku Shimbun is one of Japan's leading regional newspapers. On 6 August 1945, an atomic bomb exploded above the city and citizens of Hiroshima. The bomb's powerful blast, heat rays and radiation annihilated the city, killing more than 100,000 people, including those who had succumbed to injuries and illness by the end of 1945. Those who managed to survive lost not only loved ones but also their homes, schools and workplaces. They endured the chaos of the postwar period and rebuilt the city. The Chugoku Shimbun has always stood beside the people of Hiroshima as a newspaper company that also endured the tragedy, and it worked hard to support the city's reconstruction in the aftermath of the atomic bombing. Furthermore, it has long pursued a variety of distinctive efforts to help realize a world without war and nuclear weapons.

14C-Dating of the Late Bronze Age City of Hala Sultan Tekke, Cyprus: Status Report

Radiocarbon ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 1253-1264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva M Wild ◽  
Peter M Fischer ◽  
Peter Steier ◽  
Teresa Bürge
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Status Report ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
14C Dating ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Southern Scandinavia ◽  
New City ◽  
The City ◽  
Vast Area ◽  
Existing Data

ABSTRACTHala Sultan Tekke is a large Bronze Age city located on the southeastern littoral of Cyprus. The city flourished from approximately 1650 BC to 1150 BC according to the archaeological evidence. Since 2010, Swedish excavations have exposed four new city quarters (CQ1–4) with three occupational phases, the 14C dating of which is of highest importance also for other contemporaneous cultures. The finds demonstrate vast intercultural connections in the Mediterranean and even with southern Scandinavia. In 2014, roughly 500 m to the east of CQ1, one of the richest cemeteries on the island was discovered. According to the archaeological evidence, the finds from the city date mainly to the 13th and 12th centuries BC. However, many of the wealthy tombs and the offering pits from the cemetery are considerably older with the oldest finds dating to the 16th century BC. This raises the question where the city quarters belonging to the oldest finds from the cemetery are situated. The radiocarbon (14C) dates from Hala Sultan Tekke have much influence on the dating of related sites because of numerous imports from a vast area. We present here new 14C data obtained in the course of the current excavations, which add to sets of already existing data.

scholarly journals Provision of Population with Drinking Water in OSH

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 3938-3943
Author(s):  
Ayperi Bayish Kyzy ◽  
Munarbek B. Nazymov ◽  
Turganbay Zhusupali Uulu ◽  
Sveta S. Toktobaeva ◽  
Ashirbek B. Topchubaev
Keyword(s):  
Drinking Water ◽  
Ground Water ◽  
Underground Water ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Underground Waters ◽  
Clean Drinking Water ◽  
The City

The underground waters of the Ak-Buura valleys located among the mountains and the Mady underground water deposit located on the southern out skirts of the Mady village are of great value in providing clean drinking water to the city of Osh. The water horizons of the alluvial-proluvial plains in the Ak-Buura river valley and the Mady ground water deposit are of great importance to the use of ground water to provide the population with clean drinking water.

scholarly journals Archaeological Sites of the Middle Kiya River: History of Discoveries and Study Prospects

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 648-663
Author(s):  
A. S. Savelieva ◽  
P. V. German ◽  
I. A. Plats ◽  
L. Yu. Bobrova
Keyword(s):  
River Valley ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Forest Steppe ◽  
South Siberia ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
The City

The article introduces some information about the expeditionary studies on the archaeological sites located on the banks of the Middle Kiya River valley. The authors believe that the Kiya is one of the main rivers for such important historical and cultural area of South Siberia as the Kiya – Chulym interfluve. The expeditionary studies have been conducted here since the late XIX century; however, professional archaeological studies began as late as in the 1950s. The paper describes the excavations conducted by A. I. Martynov, G. S. Martynova, I. I. Baukhnik, A. M. Kilemzin, A. V. Tsirkin, A. P. Okladnikov, V. I. Molodin, V. V. Bobrov, A. S. Vasyutin, V. N. Zharonkin, P. V. German, A. V. Fribus, and P. G. Sokolov. It focuses on the carefully planned excavations conducted on the banks of the middle forest-steppe part of the Kiya River valley. Seven expeditions discovered eighty previously unknown archaeological sites. While performing the historiographic mapping of archaeological sites, the authors took into account the type of artifact and the type of archaeological study. The authors analyzed the localization of the archeological sites near the villages of Shestakovo and Chumay and the city of Mariinsk published by A. M. Kulemzin and I. I. Baukhnik and compared them with the results of the mapping. They defined the territory as a single Middle-Kiya archaeological microdistrict that includes the archaeological complexes of Shestakovo, Chumay, and Archekas (Mariinsk). The article also includes some preliminary ideas about the types of archaeological studies, as well as typological and chronological description of the monuments.

scholarly journals Reklamasi pantai berkaitan dengan status hukum tanah dan pendapatan daerah dalam tatanan negara Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
H Muhamad Rezky Pahlawan MP
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
Economic Sector ◽  
Business World ◽  
Legal Subject ◽  
Legal Subjects ◽  
The City ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Vast Area ◽  
Legal Infrastructure

The need for land has become a very important demand explosion due to the vast area of ​​the city of Jakarata which is already very dense. So that reclamation becomes one of the efforts in increasing the region as well as regional income. The purpose of this research is to provide a clear and formal explanation for both the regional government and the general public. The writing uses an empiric juridical method with a positive written legal approach that is applied to in concreto legal events in society. . This can affect the legal subjects holding rights from land reclaimed by the beach. The legal status of the legal subject to management rights is still regulated by general regulations so that it can lead to multiple interpretations of legal subjects that hold management rights from land reclaimed by the beach. Regional Governments should be able to prepare legal infrastructure in accordance with the existing laws and regulations and can also have a positive effect on the business world as well as the economic sector.

scholarly journals MONDACA VOLCANO LAHAR OF DECEMBER 3, 1762, MAULE REGION (35°28’S): ONE OF THE LARGEST VOLCANIC DISASTERS IN CHILEAN HISTORY

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Antonio Naranjo ◽  
Francisco Hevia ◽  
Edmundo Polanco
Keyword(s):  
Central Valley ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Agricultural Activity ◽  
The South ◽  
Collateral Consequences ◽  
High K ◽  
Coastal Beach ◽  
Dome Structure ◽  
Vast Area ◽  
Pyroclastic Fall

The Mondaca volcano is a rhyolitic thick lava-field, located in the vicinity of the nascent Lontué River Valley in the northern part of the Southern Andes. It reached a total volume of ~ 0.85 km3, and formed 4 subunits, named Mondaca 1, 2, 3 and 4, which correspond to successive emissions of rhyolitic blocky lavas, sourced at a rounded dome structure. They present well-preserved flow structures and, in the vicinity, restricted to the south and east of the dome, pyroclastic fall, as well as block’n ash deposits are also exhibited. Downstream, along the Lontué River, a laharic deposit is recognized. The lahar was generated after the collapse of an ephemeral ~0.44 km3 lake generated after the river obstruction during the first eruptive phase. Proximal lahar facies are well exposed between 5 and 30 km from their source. The profuse agricultural activity has completely obliterated the lahar's medial facies deposits along the central valley, but are well identified at the mouth of the Mataquito River, 180 km downstream, as a beige-coloured layer, interbedded within dark coastal beach-sands. The identification of superelevation deposits formed during the debris flow emplacement along the Lontué river valley, allows to determine high flow mobility, with estimated velocities that locally reached between 20 and 114 km/h. Petrographic characteristics in addition to whole-rock chemical analyses of lavas, pyroclasts and juvenile blocks of the laharic deposit, indicate that all they correspond to High K calcoalkaline rhyolites with subalkaline affinity. These antecedents, together with the geographical continuity between the lavas and debris deposits along Lontué and Mataquito rivers, corroborate facies correlation and common origin as the result of the complex evolution of the Mondaca volcano. Being a fundamentally effusive eruption that could not be observed from Curicó, the collateral consequences would have been catastrophic over a vast area to the south of that city, and evidences one of the largest volcanic catastrophes in Chilean history.

scholarly journals Waterscape and Floods Management of Greek Selinus: The Cottone River Valley

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1066-1090
Author(s):  
Alba Mazza
Keyword(s):  
Water Body ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Water Bodies ◽  
Western Sicily ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Flood Retention

Abstract This paper investigates water bodies in the Greek colony of Selinus, Western Sicily-Italy. It focuses especially on one of the two rivers of the city: the Cottone. The investigative strategy adopted in this study consists of an interdisciplinary approach based on the analysis of archaeological evidence, Earth Sciences data, and the study of historical cartography. Results indicate that the Cottone River was not a swampy and unhealthy intermittent stream as it was believed so far; it was instead a fully functional water body featuring an active floodplain. Most importantly, research presented in this article indicates several floods occurred in Selinus from the second or third quarter of the sixth century BC to the end of the fifth century BC. These floods, which occurred at the peak of Selinus’ cultural and economic life, were related to severe major events, rather than seasonal floods, as suggested by other scholars. The management of these floods and the waterscape was crucial to the city’s prosperity. This article also analyzes the relationship between the Cottone River and the fortification walls located at the Cottone River Valley. Results indicate that the fortification walls functioned not only as a defensive infrastructure, but also as a hydraulic engineering solution for flood retention. A better understanding of the environment in which Selinus was settled is now available, and knowledge on the importance of waterscapes and their management has been enhanced.

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