scholarly journals Vestige of The Ancient Estuarine of Cisaar Valley, Sumedang as One of the Pleistocene Fossil Bearing Site in West Jawa

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-80
Author(s):  
Unggul Prasetyo Wibowo ◽  
Anton Ferdianto ◽  
Nurul Laili ◽  
Dida Yurnaldi ◽  
Ruli Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Depositional Environment ◽  
Sedimentary Rocks ◽  
Estuarine Environment ◽  
Shallow Marine ◽  
East Part ◽  
The Past ◽  
Braided Channel ◽  
Freshwater Mollusk ◽  
Past Data

Cisaar Valley is located on the east part of Sumedang Regency, West Jawa Province. It’s close to the boundary of Sumedang-Majalengka Regency. In this location the sandy and clay dominated sedimentary rocks are well exposed along the outcrops in the Cisaar Valley. These sedimentary rocks is inferred from Pliocene-Pleistocene deposits from Kaliwangu and Citalang Formation. Foraminifera microfossil that commonly used for interpretation of depositional environment is rarely found, whereas freshwater mollusk and vertebrate fossils often found in the sediment rocks of this area.  This condition raises a question, what is the environment of this valley in the past? Data obtained from measured stratigraphic sections along Cisaar river and its tributary rivers in Cibengkung and Cirendang hamlets, Jembarwangi village. There are at least three depositional paleoenvironments which from old to young are: shallow marine, estuarine and fluviatil braided channel depositional paleoenvironment.  Characteristics of the lower, middle and upper of the estuarine environment were found in this Cisaar Valley as the evidences of the oceanic regression processes was happened in the past in this area. 

scholarly journals Depositional facies and extent of the late Neogene Sandringham Sandstone in southern Victoria, Australia

2016 ◽  
Vol 128 (2) ◽  
pp. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfons H.M. VandenBerg
Keyword(s):  
Sedimentary Rock ◽  
Sedimentary Rocks ◽  
Depositional Facies ◽  
Marine Origin ◽  
Shallow Marine ◽  
The Past ◽  
Late Neogene ◽  
Continuous Sheet ◽  
Southern Fringe ◽  
Western Victoria

The late Neogene sedimentary rocks in the Port Phillip region have in the past been subdivided into a lower shallow marine unit, Black Rock Sandstone, overlain by a fluvial unit, Red Bluff Sandstone. Re-examination of the type section of these units at Sandringham shows that it is entirely of paralic origin, with no evidence for fluvial deposition. Criteria for interpreting a shallow marine origin are sedimentary structures including a planar bedding style and swaley cross-stratification, and highly rounded clasts in conglomerates. Using these criteria it can be demonstrated that all named late Neogene sedimentary rock units in the Port Phillip region are paralic deposits, and that the same applies to the Hanson Plain Sand of the Port Campbell Embayment. Because these were deposited as a continuous sheet, the multiplicity of names used hitherto is not justified and should be unified under the single name Sandringham Sandstone. This formation was deposited on a strandplain that extends across western Victoria to the southern fringe of the Western Uplands. The same lateral continuity applies to the underlying Miocene marl formation, which is unified under the name Gellibrand Marl.

scholarly journals Transfer of Knowhow and Experiences from Commercial Logistics into Humanitarian Logistics to Improve Rescue Missions in Disaster Areas

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Firas Rifai
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Humanitarian Logistics ◽  
Management Information ◽  
Rescue Mission ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Past ◽  
Humanitarian Organizations ◽  
Past Data ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Insight Into

Reports on the news about nature or man-made catastrophes are not uncommon. We hear constantly that a human catastrophe has taken place somewhere in the world. In those cases where the infrastructure could possibly be destroyed, it becomes clear that a rescue mission is difficult to achieve. We need special rescue teams, who despite the difficult rescue mission, save lives and reduce suffering.The special organizations involved in catastrophes are called humanitarian organizations. In addition, the specific skills and abilities that these organizations have should be mainly in logistics.In this paper, the author goes into more details about humanitarian logistics and shows its importance in disaster areas. Unfortunately, these humanitarian organizations have many weaknesses and challenges. As a result, these organizations are not well developed, despite their importance. In contrast, the commercial logistics companies, which are well developed, have much strength in management, information technologies, etc.This research defines humanitarian logistics and describes its weaknesses and limitations. Furthermore, it deals with the specifics of humanitarian organizations. The special features of these organizations are their rescue missions, especially in destroyed infrastructure areas. This research demonstrates the various similarities between commercial and humanitarian logistics and points to the potential of knowledge and experience transfer from commercial logistics to humanitarian logistics.This research compares humanitarian logistics with commercial logistics. In doing so, the author tries to gain a deeper insight into the potential of transferring know-how and experience from retail logistics to humanitarian logistics in order to strengthen humanitarian logistics.The research of logistics is a very dynamic world in which humanitarian logistics is becoming increasingly important both in research and in practice. In particular, the demands on logistics in general and on humanitarian logistics, in particular, will increase significantly in the near future because it is estimated that the number and impact of both natural and human disasters is increasing (Kumar et al., 2012).Murphy (2015) analyzed the past data of catastrophes and derived a forecast for the future frequency of disasters and their impact: “Because of the increasing frequency (and severity) of disasters over the past 50 years, humanitarian logistics is likely to be an important topic into the foreseeable future”.

scholarly journals On the Computation of Accurate Earth Rotation by the Classical Astronomical Method

1979 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 109-114
Author(s):  
Martine Feissel
Keyword(s):  
Earth Rotation ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Universal Time ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Data

Improved series of Universal Time and latitude measurements back to 1962 have been provided to the BIH by several observatories recently. New techniques are currently or will soon provide Earth rotation data that are independent from the classical astronomical observations. In the meantime, the BIH has acquired experience on possible methods for achieving better accuracy. These reasons make it worthwhile to apply our present practical knowledge to the past data. The method which will be used for computing Earth rotation data from the updated BIH files is presented.

An Arrangement Design Framework for Ships and Offshore Plants Based on Expert System and Optimization Technique

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ki-Su Kim ◽  
Myung-Il Roh ◽  
Sung-Kyoon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Expert System ◽  
Optimization Technique ◽  
Design Framework ◽  
Design Rules ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past Data ◽  
Systematic Structure ◽  
Data Missing ◽  
Ocean Environment ◽  
Offshore Plants

The arrangement design of ships and offshore plants is normally being made based on data of the past design and experts’ experiences. When performing the arrangement design, experts refer the past data and add additional requirements to the data for a new design based on their experiences. During this task, delay in design can occur due to the data missing or the absence of experts. In addition, most of ships and offshore plants are operated in the ocean environment so that spaces that can be filled with components for them are restricted. In this sense, there is a need to accumulate data regarding the past design, experts’ experiences, and design rules as a systematic structure. And a demand for optimization technique for the arrangement deign of ships and offshore plants are increasing. For this, an arrangement design framework for ships and offshore plants based on expert system and optimization technique is proposed in this study. And the proposed framework is applied to a problem with regard to the arrangement design of a small size submarine, and an FPSO topside. The results shows that the proposed framework can be used as a new tool for the arrangement design of ships and offshore plants.

scholarly journals “Palaeoentomology”: A modern journal for a science dealing with the past

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANY AZAR ◽  
JACEK SZWEDO ◽  
EDMUND JARZEMBOWSKI ◽  
NEAL EVENHUIS ◽  
DIYING HUANG
Keyword(s):  
Sedimentary Rocks ◽  
Fossil Insects ◽  
The Past ◽  
Terrestrial Arthropods ◽  
Invertebrate Paleontology ◽  
Xxist Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Geological Sciences ◽  
Fossil Resins ◽  
Biological Literature

Palaeoentomology started in the late XVIIIth century, shortly after the 10th edition of Linnaeus’ Systema Naturae (the foundation of modern taxonomy), when papers on the curiosities of insects entombed in fossil resins were published. The beginning of XIXth century (with the growing interest in geological sciences and prehistoric life) witnessed the first attempts to study and describe insects from sedimentary rocks. This discipline then developed during the XIXth and beginning of the XXth centuries; and resulted in some major works and reviews (summarizing the knowledge on fossil insects and other terrestrial arthropods) published in the geological and biological literature. The XXth century was a period of relatively slow but constant development in palaeoentomology, during which the famous “Treatise on invertebrate paleontology: Arthropoda 4. Superclass Hexapoda” (cataloguing the knowledge on fossil insects) was published (Carpenter, 1992). At the beginning of XXIst century, palaeoentomology grew significantly and exponentially; and two major manuals (“History of insects” and “Evolution of the insects”) were published (Rasnitsyn & Quicke, 2002; Grimaldi & Engel, 2005, respectively). These manuals helped to encourage more students and researchers to work on fossil insects and other terrestrial arthropods. 

Marine incursion in Upper Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks of the Oslo Region, Southern Norway

1981 ◽  
Vol 118 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Olaussen
Keyword(s):  
Marine Environment ◽  
Rift Zone ◽  
Sedimentary Rocks ◽  
Marine Transgression ◽  
Shallow Marine ◽  
Shallow Marine Environment ◽  
Marine Fossils ◽  
Middle Carboniferous ◽  
Southern Norway

SummaryThe discovery of marine fossils in the Upper Palaeozoic of the Oslo Region suggests a previously unknown marine transgression of probable middle Carboniferous age. The fossiliferous sequence in the Oslo district was probably deposited in a very shallow marine environment as indicated by its fauna, ooids and the strong micritization of the fossils. The discovery of this sequence is consistent with the rift model for the Oslo Rift Zone, and suggests a connection with the Variscan Ocean.

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