Kermadec - The Pew Charitable Trusts
... around 6 Sv (1 Sv= 10 m s ) of water, much of which was 0.8°C or colder. The persistence of this heat transport depends heavily on the degree of turbulent mixing. This mixing is very difficult to determine explicitly. However with sufficient fine scale water property measurements it can be possible ...
... around 6 Sv (1 Sv= 10 m s ) of water, much of which was 0.8°C or colder. The persistence of this heat transport depends heavily on the degree of turbulent mixing. This mixing is very difficult to determine explicitly. However with sufficient fine scale water property measurements it can be possible ...
Great Lakes Islands - Conservation Gateway
... Present day islands are very young in geological terms, having existed only in the last 15,000 to 2,500 years (Dorr and Eschman, 1970). Many islands were once connected to the mainland, and were formed by rising waters after the last glaciers retreated. These “land-bridge” islands presumably once ha ...
... Present day islands are very young in geological terms, having existed only in the last 15,000 to 2,500 years (Dorr and Eschman, 1970). Many islands were once connected to the mainland, and were formed by rising waters after the last glaciers retreated. These “land-bridge” islands presumably once ha ...
The Five Themes of Geography Project The Bahamas
... 2,387 islets though the Bahamas. There are many trees and beaches everywhere. There are no mountains in the area. The Bahamas is made of 29 islands. The Bahamas have buildings, roads, so the people can go to work or go place to place. The Bahamas is near the equator so the weather there is warm and ...
... 2,387 islets though the Bahamas. There are many trees and beaches everywhere. There are no mountains in the area. The Bahamas is made of 29 islands. The Bahamas have buildings, roads, so the people can go to work or go place to place. The Bahamas is near the equator so the weather there is warm and ...
Brigham Young University - Hawaii Campus - CURRICULUM
... To broaden their understanding of the major world cultures, history majors are required to complete at least one upper-division course from three of the following five major geographic areas: America, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and the Pacific Islands. First-year students should consider taking Hist ...
... To broaden their understanding of the major world cultures, history majors are required to complete at least one upper-division course from three of the following five major geographic areas: America, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and the Pacific Islands. First-year students should consider taking Hist ...
1. Introduction - Scholars at Harvard
... the North Pacific relate to the South? How does the sea of islands relate to the Pacific Rim or to conceptions of an Asia-Pacific? Or the history of Oceania to the history of the Ocean writ large? These questions are still very much alive.19 By bringing them all within the same frame, this book mark ...
... the North Pacific relate to the South? How does the sea of islands relate to the Pacific Rim or to conceptions of an Asia-Pacific? Or the history of Oceania to the history of the Ocean writ large? These questions are still very much alive.19 By bringing them all within the same frame, this book mark ...
Paleogeography of the Galápagos Islands and Biogeographical
... studies of the organismal colonization and dispersal within the archipelago has changed drastically over the past 20,000 years. The integrated area of the Galápagos Islands was much greater during the Pleistocene than it is today. Although many more islets existed, some of the major islands were con ...
... studies of the organismal colonization and dispersal within the archipelago has changed drastically over the past 20,000 years. The integrated area of the Galápagos Islands was much greater during the Pleistocene than it is today. Although many more islets existed, some of the major islands were con ...
Geology and offshore resources of the Solomon Islands, joint cruise
... belt and lies within a zone of oceanic equatorial climate, where temperatures usually range between 22" and 32"C and the humidity averages about ...
... belt and lies within a zone of oceanic equatorial climate, where temperatures usually range between 22" and 32"C and the humidity averages about ...
Peter Ifland. E-mail: The History of the Sextant
... shoot" device. The observer looked at one place - the straight line of the horizon sighted through the horizon glass alongside the reflected image of the star. The sight was easy to align because the horizon and the star seemed to move together as the ship pitched and rolled. We have seen how naviga ...
... shoot" device. The observer looked at one place - the straight line of the horizon sighted through the horizon glass alongside the reflected image of the star. The sight was easy to align because the horizon and the star seemed to move together as the ship pitched and rolled. We have seen how naviga ...
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... Micronesia (small islands) and Polynesia (many islands). These cultural and ethnic classifications have largely been discredited today, although Melanesia remains a useful classification for distinguishing its constituent political entities of PNG, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia as l ...
... Micronesia (small islands) and Polynesia (many islands). These cultural and ethnic classifications have largely been discredited today, although Melanesia remains a useful classification for distinguishing its constituent political entities of PNG, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia as l ...
The Canary Islands origin: a unifying model - E
... plate volcanic chains, are not yet well understood. ...
... plate volcanic chains, are not yet well understood. ...
GEOLOGY OF THE QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS CHAPTER 1
... of Cretaceous rocks from Skidegate to Cumshewa Inlet and a reconnaissance of Graham Island. In June, 1961, the major part of Graham Island was reconnoitred by helicopter, and subsequently in 1961 and 1962 more accessible parts were mapped from roads, inlets, and lakes. Primary attention from 1963 th ...
... of Cretaceous rocks from Skidegate to Cumshewa Inlet and a reconnaissance of Graham Island. In June, 1961, the major part of Graham Island was reconnoitred by helicopter, and subsequently in 1961 and 1962 more accessible parts were mapped from roads, inlets, and lakes. Primary attention from 1963 th ...
Minutes - WWF South Africa
... different organizations and institutions maintain existing data sets. In addition to providing a central location within the appropriate Government agency for all existing data, our study also forms a spatial planning framework for future iterations of MPA design as new information becomes available ...
... different organizations and institutions maintain existing data sets. In addition to providing a central location within the appropriate Government agency for all existing data, our study also forms a spatial planning framework for future iterations of MPA design as new information becomes available ...
Dating marine shell in Oceania: Issues and - ANU Press
... Laboratories; AA = University of Arizona; NZA = Rafter Radiocarbon Laboratory; L = Lamont-Doherty; LJ = Scripps (UCSD) La Jolla; SUA = University of Sydney; WH = National Ocean Sciences AMS Facility; UCI = University of California, Irvine; UCLA = University of California, Los Angeles. ^∆R Assessm ...
... Laboratories; AA = University of Arizona; NZA = Rafter Radiocarbon Laboratory; L = Lamont-Doherty; LJ = Scripps (UCSD) La Jolla; SUA = University of Sydney; WH = National Ocean Sciences AMS Facility; UCI = University of California, Irvine; UCLA = University of California, Los Angeles. ^∆R Assessm ...
Geology of the Solomon and New Hebrides Islands
... Hebrides blocks is a noteworthy regional feature (Grover, 1969) (Fig. 3).3 Over the Solomon Block most of the earthquake shocks are of shallow focus, less than 60 km, and tend to be distributed along the southern flank of the Block, adjacent to the northeastern side of the Solomon Trough and the eas ...
... Hebrides blocks is a noteworthy regional feature (Grover, 1969) (Fig. 3).3 Over the Solomon Block most of the earthquake shocks are of shallow focus, less than 60 km, and tend to be distributed along the southern flank of the Block, adjacent to the northeastern side of the Solomon Trough and the eas ...
The Origin of Galapagos Island Seamounts and the Impact of Their
... iguanas from a single South American species, based on the calculated genetic distances between the two. The discovery of seamounts off the coast of Costa Rica, thought to be representative of drowned islands, could be a possible explanation for the speciation of the iguanas. These seamounts have be ...
... iguanas from a single South American species, based on the calculated genetic distances between the two. The discovery of seamounts off the coast of Costa Rica, thought to be representative of drowned islands, could be a possible explanation for the speciation of the iguanas. These seamounts have be ...
PRIMNM Expansion - Science Report-2mpm
... reserves, to protect and restore marine life. Currently less than 1% of the ocean is fully protected from fishing. The natural resource values of the oceanic region surrounding the Pacific Remote Islands ...
... reserves, to protect and restore marine life. Currently less than 1% of the ocean is fully protected from fishing. The natural resource values of the oceanic region surrounding the Pacific Remote Islands ...
Channels, wetlands and islands in the Okavango Delta, Botswana
... deltas. The Delta is a dynamic environment with shifting channel routes, causing growth and decay of flanking wetlands, and giving birth to islands. Primary island nuclei are formed by fluvial processes and bioengineering, and subsequently grow into secondary larger islands of irregular shape by cla ...
... deltas. The Delta is a dynamic environment with shifting channel routes, causing growth and decay of flanking wetlands, and giving birth to islands. Primary island nuclei are formed by fluvial processes and bioengineering, and subsequently grow into secondary larger islands of irregular shape by cla ...
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
... and its long axis is orientated in a north-west to south-east direction. It is surrounded by over 70 islands, islets, stacks and rocks, including the outliers Shag Rocks, 155 miles (250 km) west of the north-west end of the island, and Clerke Rocks, 47 miles (75 km) east of the south-east end. The l ...
... and its long axis is orientated in a north-west to south-east direction. It is surrounded by over 70 islands, islets, stacks and rocks, including the outliers Shag Rocks, 155 miles (250 km) west of the north-west end of the island, and Clerke Rocks, 47 miles (75 km) east of the south-east end. The l ...
The Kingdom - Seomra Ranga
... • Kerry is one of the most mountainous regions in Ireland. Carountoohil is the highest mountain in Ireland and is part of the Macgillycuddy’s Reeks range. • Mount Brandon is Ireland’s second higest peak and is part of the slieve Mish range. ...
... • Kerry is one of the most mountainous regions in Ireland. Carountoohil is the highest mountain in Ireland and is part of the Macgillycuddy’s Reeks range. • Mount Brandon is Ireland’s second higest peak and is part of the slieve Mish range. ...
Interactive comment on “Biostratigraphic evidence of dramatic
... uplift is still a matter of debate, with far-field flexural response to surface loading, intrusions, hotspot swell growth and isostatic response to erosion/mass wasting as possible mechanisms. The present paper comes to provide another example - Robin Crusoe Island - of such uplifting islands and pr ...
... uplift is still a matter of debate, with far-field flexural response to surface loading, intrusions, hotspot swell growth and isostatic response to erosion/mass wasting as possible mechanisms. The present paper comes to provide another example - Robin Crusoe Island - of such uplifting islands and pr ...
Welcome To Chile
... South America. It is bound by the Pacific Ocean to the west, Argentina to the east, Bolivia to the northeast and Peru to the northwest. Chile stretches over 4,300 km (2,700 mi) along the southwestern coast of South America, a distance roughly the same as that from San Francisco to New York, or Edinb ...
... South America. It is bound by the Pacific Ocean to the west, Argentina to the east, Bolivia to the northeast and Peru to the northwest. Chile stretches over 4,300 km (2,700 mi) along the southwestern coast of South America, a distance roughly the same as that from San Francisco to New York, or Edinb ...
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... Some of the dominant macroalgal species – and associated invertebrate communities – of the littoral ecosystems of many sub-Antarctic islands today were apparently extirpated from the islands during the last Ice Age (and presumably at previous Quaternary glacial maxima). When sea ice extended far eno ...
... Some of the dominant macroalgal species – and associated invertebrate communities – of the littoral ecosystems of many sub-Antarctic islands today were apparently extirpated from the islands during the last Ice Age (and presumably at previous Quaternary glacial maxima). When sea ice extended far eno ...
TPO-27
... Some of the earliest human civilizations arose in southern Mesopotamia, in what is now southern Iraq, in the fourth millennium B.C.E. In the second half of the millennium, in the south around the city of Uruk, there was an enormous escalation in the area occupied by permanent settlements. A large pa ...
... Some of the earliest human civilizations arose in southern Mesopotamia, in what is now southern Iraq, in the fourth millennium B.C.E. In the second half of the millennium, in the south around the city of Uruk, there was an enormous escalation in the area occupied by permanent settlements. A large pa ...
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... Juan Fernández Ridge, SE Pacific Ocean" is timely, well-written and well-argued contribution to our knowledge on the still largely enigmatic origins of ocean island uplift. Ocean island volcanoes throughout the ocean’s basins mostly subside due surface loading, plate ageing/cooling and hotspot swell ...
... Juan Fernández Ridge, SE Pacific Ocean" is timely, well-written and well-argued contribution to our knowledge on the still largely enigmatic origins of ocean island uplift. Ocean island volcanoes throughout the ocean’s basins mostly subside due surface loading, plate ageing/cooling and hotspot swell ...
Submarine slides on volcanic islands - a source for
... while submarine lava flows tend to build steep slopes (more than 20°) owing to rapid cooling processes. In tropical and subtropical regions, coral reef terraces serve as deposition areas for volcanic material and build steep outside slopes that may exceed 20° (Moore and Clague, 1992). Because of rap ...
... while submarine lava flows tend to build steep slopes (more than 20°) owing to rapid cooling processes. In tropical and subtropical regions, coral reef terraces serve as deposition areas for volcanic material and build steep outside slopes that may exceed 20° (Moore and Clague, 1992). Because of rap ...
Polynesian navigation
Polynesian navigation is a system of navigation used by Polynesians to make long voyages across thousands of miles of open ocean. Navigators travel to small inhabited islands using only their own senses and knowledge passed by oral tradition from navigator to apprentice, often in the form of song. In order to locate directions at various times of day and year, Polynesian navigators memorize important facts: the motion of specific stars, so where they would rise and set on the horizon of the ocean; weather and the seasons of travel; wildlife species (which gather at particular positions); the direction, size, and speed of ocean waves; colors of the sea and sky, especially how clouds would cluster at the locations of some islands; and angles for approaching harbours.These wayfinding techniques along with their unique outrigger canoe construction methods have been kept as guild secrets. Generally each island maintained a guild of navigators who had very high status and in times of famine or difficulty these navigators could trade for aid or evacuate people to neighboring islands. As of 2014, the original methods of Polynesian navigation are still taught in the Polynesian outlier of Taumako Island in the Solomon Islands.