Seismotectonics of the northern sector of the Verkhoyansk fold system (north-east of the Russian Arctic)

For the first time on the north-east of Malozemelskaya tundra at the coast of the Barents Sea the following 5 associations — Puccinellietum phryganodis Hadač 1946 (with subassociations inops Thannheiser, Willers 1988 ex Hofmann 1969 and caricetosum subspatheceае Thannheiser, Willers 1988 nom. nud).; Caricetum subspathaceae Hadač 1946 with subass. Inops Molenaar 1974 and arctanthemetosum hultenii subass. nov. (with variants inops var. nov. and typicum var. nov.); Caricetum glareosae Molenaar 1974 (as a geographical vicariant Calamagrostis deschampsioides vic. nov.) (with subassociations typicum and festucetosum rubrae); Scirpeto—Hippuridetum tetraphyllae Nordh. 1954 (inops subass. nov.), and the Dupontia psilosantha com. type that belong to the three alliance of the Glauco-Puccinellietalia order of the Juncetea maritime class are described with the Braun-Blanquet approach. A provisional ass. Parnassio palustris—Salicetum reptantis ass. nov. prov. represented the transitional vegetation between marshes and tundras belongs to the Scheuchzerio—Caricetea fuscae class. This shows that syntaxa of different levels known previously for various territories outside of the Russian Arctic are rather common at least in its European part. The comparison of the classification units of both Braun-Blanquet and Russian dominant systems (used by A. I. Leskov in the same region in the first half of the last century) has demonstrated a large correspondence in between and the absence of the insuperable barrier between two approaches.

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Ras al Khaimah: further archaeological discoveries

Antiquity ◽

10.1017/s0003598x00150070 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 50 (200) ◽

pp. 216-222

Author(s):

Beatrice De Cardi

Keyword(s):

United Arab Emirates ◽

The State ◽

Focused Attention ◽

North East ◽

The North ◽

History Of ◽

The City

Ras a1 Khaimah is the most northerly of the seven states comprising the United Arab Emirates and its Ruler, H. H. Sheikh Saqr bin Mohammad al-Qasimi, is keenly interested in the history of the state and its people. Survey carried out there jointly with Dr D. B. Doe in 1968 had focused attention on the site of JuIfar which lies just north of the present town of Ras a1 Khaimah (de Cardi, 1971, 230-2). Julfar was in existence in Abbasid times and its importance as an entrep6t during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-the Portuguese Period-is reflected by the quantity and variety of imported wares to be found among the ruins of the city. Most of the sites discovered during the survey dated from that period but a group of cairns near Ghalilah and some long gabled graves in the Shimal area to the north-east of the date-groves behind Ras a1 Khaimah (map, FIG. I) clearly represented a more distant past.

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