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Caddo Ceramic Vessels from the Womack Site (41LR1), Lamar County, Texas [PDF]

, 2015
The Womack site (41LR1) is an ancestral Caddo settlement situated on an alluvial terrace in a horseshoe bend of the Red River in north central Lamar County in East Texas.
Perttula, Timothy K., Walters, Mark
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Morphometric and Paleobiological Insights Into Pleistocene Sicilian Wolf Populations

Acta Zoologica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Pleistocene wolves (Canis lupus) from Sicily represent one of the few known insular populations of this species from that time period. Despite their potential relevance for understanding carnivore adaptations in insular contexts, no dedicated study has previously investigated their morphology and evolutionary significance.
Domenico Tancredi, Carolina Di Patti, Sabrina Lo Brutto, Matteo Cammarata   +3 more
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Morphostructural evolution of the Labe and Jizera rivers confluence area (the Bohemian massif, Czechia)

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Geographica
This article investigates the morphostructural evolution of the Labe and Jizera rivers confluence area in the Bohemian Massif of Czechia. The main stages of morphostructural evolution are identified and related landform patterns are described.
Tereza Steklá, Jan Kalvoda
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Morphology of Guard Hairs in Amazonian Marsupials: Intergeneric Variation, Habitat and Habit Association in a Phylogenetic Framework of the Order Didelphimorphia

Acta Zoologica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cuticle and medulla of guard hairs exhibit distinct morphological patterns among mammalian species. To investigate this variability in marsupials from the Brazilian Amazon, we analysed guard hairs from nine Didelphimorphia species and incorporated data from an additional 25 didelphid species.
Matheus M. Bitencourt, Ana Cristina Mendes‐Oliveira, Gleomar F. Maschio, Maria Clara S. Ribeiro, Alexandra M. R. Bezerra   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Self‐Giving and Reflections on Life Extension: How Love Might Shape the Choice of Whether to Live Past a Natural Human Lifespan

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing upon a deprivationist account of the badness of death, Ingemar Patrick Linden advocates for a hypothetical state called “contingent immortality.” The future Linden champions is one in which every person would be able to live for as long as they would like, save for events like accidents or murder.
Andrew Moeller, Ann‐Marie Shorrocks, Keith Lemna   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of the Ceramic Sherds from Area C at the Ware Acres Site (41GG31), Gregg County, Texas [PDF]

, 2013
The Ware Acres site (410031) was discovered by Buddy Calvin Jones in 1951 on an alluvial terrace of Grace Creek, a southern-flowing tributary to the Sabine River in the southwestern part of the city of Longview, Texas.
Nelson, Bo, Perttula, Timothy K., Selden, Robert Z., Jr.   +2 more
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Early Holocene jökulhlaup chronology and deglaciation dynamics in central Iceland

Boreas, EarlyView.
Glacial lake outburst floods (jökulhlaups) have occurred throughout the Quaternary in glaciated regions worldwide. Reconstructing flood chronology yields insight into deglaciation processes, environmental change and the role of extreme events in landscape evolution.
Greta H. Wells, Þorsteinn Sæmundsson, Edwin R. C. Baynes, Timothy Beach, Sheryl Luzzadder‐Beach   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

2023 Jishishan Earthquake-triggered river terrace landslide enabled by tectonic and human activities

npj Natural Hazards
The continued increase in demand for food is such that flood-irrigation-based agricultural techniques are not expected to change in the future.
Zonglin Zhang, Runqiang Zeng, Shufen Zhao, Ziran Wei, Xingmin Meng, Zhao Long, Xiaorui Wang, Tianjun Qi, Ruihuan Su, Bing Wu, Jianhua Ma, Dongxia Yue, Guan Chen, Yi Zhang, Yajun Li, Yan Zhao   +15 more
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Use of alternate upland nesting habitat reduces brood parasitism in an endangered bird

Avian Conservation and Ecology
The Least Bell’s Vireo ( Vireo bellii pusillus ) is a federally endangered songbird restricted to Southern California, USA, and Baja California, Mexico. Historically abundant, it suffered a catastrophic population decline during the twentieth century due
Kevin B Clark, Kimberly Ferree
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“yellow crowfoot in the pond,/not lotus, not lily”: Mapping the River, Mapping Voices [PDF]

, 2016
This paper examines the prosody of Chin’s eponymous poem, The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty, through an eco-critical lens. While it does not dismiss the hybrid cultural influences of the poem, it focuses on the ways the non-human agents, or the ...
Rader, Pamela J.
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