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Uses of volcanic ash beds in geomorphology [PDF]

open access: yes, 1967
In geomorphology air-fall volcanic ashes possess high value as marker beds. These have proved particularly useful in studies associated with infilling of flood plains, fan building, terrace correlation and chronology, erosion, shoreline and sea level ...
Pullar, W.A.
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Loess Studies in Aotearoa New Zealand

open access: yesNew Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, Volume 69, Issue 2, June 2026.
Loess in Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ) has been studied since its first documented recognition (on Banks Peninsula) in 1878 by Julius von Haast. A decade later, John Hardcastle revealed that southern ANZ loess was both glacial in origin and contained signals of past climates.
Brent V. Alloway   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Key pedagogic thinkers: Anton Makarenko [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article gives an introduction to the life and work of the Ukrainian social pedagogue and educational theorist Anton Makarenko. In the early part of the 1920s, he formulated a theory that he further developed while helping orphans under the most ...
Halvorsen, Terje
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The future of soil science education at the university level to meet societal demands at the global level

open access: yesNatural Sciences Education, Volume 55, Issue 1, June 2026.
Abstract The number of soil science university programs has decreased in many countries around the world. There is an ongoing need for more effective ways to attract students to the discipline, train soil specialists, and support instructors to challenge the future format of soil science education.
Yoshitaka Uchida   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

L’approche géoarchéologique de l’urbain. Développement du concept, méthodologie et applications aux opérations archéologiques

open access: yesArchéopages, 2011
Geoarchaeology is defined as a discipline dedicated to studying the interaction between human groups and their environment through the interpretation of sediments and physical landscapes and using the methods and concepts of Earth Sciences.
Cécilia Cammas   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sources compromises : ambiguïtés et impasses pédologiques au Mozambique

open access: yesSources, 2022
How do you frame your research when land is simultaneously a field of knowledge and a battlefield? What tools, methods, and sources are together acceptable (to the inhabitants), productive (capable of generating new knowledge), and just (capable of ...
Nelly Leblond
doaj   +1 more source

Mapping cacao fertiliser requirements in Côte d'Ivoire [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In Côte d'Ivoire, soils in cacao plantations are depleted due to the absence or underuse of fertilisation. A digital map of 130 landunits was created from soil and climatic parameters.
Camara, Mamery   +6 more
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Meteorology and geography, more than biological traits, drive variation in frog phenology across decades

open access: yesEcology, Volume 107, Issue 5, May 2026.
Abstract The fate of a species is a function of interacting environmental and biological processes. Disentangling the roles and interactions of such processes can elucidate the breadth of possible responses to global change, for instance, the potential for phenotypic plasticity or trait evolution to rescue populations from climate change.
David H. Klinges   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Histoire des « sols vivants »

open access: yesRevue d'anthropologie des connaissances, 2020
This article will consider several historical sequences of putting the scholarly category of “living soil” on the agenda in the french agricultural and agronomic worlds from the 1930s to the 1970s.
Céline Pessis
doaj   +1 more source

Where geology meets pedology: Late Quaternary tephras, loess, and paleosols in the Mamaku Plateau and Lake Rerewhakaaitu areas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
On this trip we focus on tephrostratigraphy and soil stratigraphy together with aspects of palaeoenvironmental reconstruction over long and short time-spans.
Lanigan, Kerri Miriam   +2 more
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