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Patrimonio geológico en una región de la Sierra de Aconquija, Provincias de Tucumán y Catamarca, Argentina [PDF]

PASOS Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural, 2012
Access to Campo de los Alisos National Park, Sierra de Aconquija, has a varied geological heritage, offering numerous tourist attractions, natural resources and landscapes not yet used in a sustainable way.
Gloria Patricia Ibáñez Palacios, Ana Lía Ahumada, Silvia Verónica Páez   +2 more
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Geoheritage and Dark Tourism in Iasi (Romania): From Building Stones to Sustainable Tourism Development [PDF]

Present Environment and Sustainable Development
Located in northeastern Romania within the Moldavian Plateau, Ia?i is a vital hub of culture, history, and religion. This paper explores the relationship between dark tourism and geotourism in the Ia?i region, examining how geological and ...
Ana-Maria ANASTASIEI, Lilian NIACȘU, Sergiu LOGHIN   +2 more
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Geological Heritage of the Balkan Peninsula: Geological setting (an overview)

Geologica Balcanica, 1996
The Balkan Peninsula represents a region of particulary complex geological composition and structure that is situated within the boundary between the Eurasian and African plates where the Tethyan Ocean has been consumed in Alpine times. The geological sytucture represents the setting of many geosites of national, regional or world-wide importance.
openaire   +1 more source

Treasures of the Serra da Jiboia (Bahia, Brazil): a new species of Racinaea and an overview of the local Bromeliaceae flora

Nordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Serra da Jiboia, located in the south‐central region of Bahia, represents an important ecotone between the Atlantic Forest and the Caatinga and harbors high floristic diversity and numerous endemic species. The Bromeliaceae family, well represented in the region, stands out for its ecological importance and adaptability to various microenvironments ...
Everton Hilo de Souza, Eduardo P. Fernandez, Gláucia C. Ferreira, Lidyanne Yuriko Saleme Aona, Fernanda Vidigal Duarte Souza, Elton Martiez Carvalho Leme   +5 more
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Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources in the Wadi Guir Watershed: Adaptation Strategies for Sustainable Management [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
The Wadi Guir Watershed, located in the eastern basins of Morocco, spans approximately 4,231 km². One of the major challenges both globally and in Morocco, particularly in oasis regions such as the Guir River watershed, is ensuring water availability ...
Messaoudi Badre, Kabiri Lahcen, Ait Lahssaine Ismail, El Hafyani Mohammed, Kadiri Abdelhakim, Essafraoui Badre, Albergel Jean   +6 more
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Zooarchaeology of Houses and Middens: Investigating Patterns of Assemblage Composition at Early Inuit Sites Across the North American Arctic

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines faunal assemblages from paired semisubterranean houses and middens at 10 Early Inuit sites spanning the North American Arctic (ca. 1200–1500 ce) to evaluate whether local resource bases or other factors primarily structure zooarchaeological variability.
Lauren E. Y. Norman, T. Max Friesen, Sean P. A. Desjardins   +2 more
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The Burning Question: Frequencies of Tobacco Consumption in Postmedieval (16th–19th c. ce) England and the Netherlands

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The frequency of tobacco use during the postmedieval period is widely underexplored; this has repercussions for our understanding of the intoxicant's health impacts during this time. Our study assesses the frequency rates of tobacco consumption in different social groups in England and the Netherlands, two countries in which tobacco use became
Anna M. Davies‐Barrett, Sarah A. Inskip   +1 more
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Bioarcheological Insights From Fragmented Remains: Using Dental Health to Understand the Punic Necropolis of Monte Luna

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT To investigate oral health in the fragmented human remains from the Punic necropolis of Monte Luna, Sardinia, and evaluate what dental pathologies reveal about lifeways and diet. Human remains from 227 individuals recovered from 70 tombs were analyzed, including 21 females, 16 males (> 15 years), and 59 non‐adults (1–15 years).
Rossella Paba, Anna Willis, Kate Domett
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Nonstationarity in wildlife disease dynamics: insights from the prairie dog–plague system

Oikos, EarlyView.
Ecological relationships often vary in strength and direction across ecosystems, a pattern that has become increasingly evident as ecology expands to broader spatial and temporal scales. Although such nonstationarity – the changing effect of predictor variables across spatiotemporal contexts – is widely acknowledged in ecological research, it has ...
Gabriel M. Barrile, Joshua F. Layfield, David J. Augustine, Lauren M. Porensky, Courtney J. Duchardt, Imtiaz Rangwala, Ana D. Davidson   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geoconservation in Slovenia

Geologija, 2002
The contribution highlights the system of geological heritage protection according to the Nature Conservation Act (addopted 1999) regulating geoconservation more holistic than previous legislation.
Branka Hlad
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