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Salento Peninsula (Apulia, southern Italy) is characterised by many active sinkholes, which represent the main geological hazard. The stretch of coastline between the village of Casalabate and Le Cesine wildlife reserve is highly affected, with a system ...
S. Margiotta +6 more
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Cave Palaeolithic of the Ural Mountains – a review
The Ural Mountains are of fundamental importance for studying early human migrations along the geographical limits between Europe and Asia. Geological processes and past climates gave rise to numerous caves, mostly in Palaeozoic carbonate formations.
Jiri Chlachula
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Misconceptions About Caves and Karst: Common Problems and Educational Solutions [PDF]
Provides pedagogical insight concerning learners' pre-conceptions and misconceptions about groundwater, caves, karst The resource being annotated is: http://www.dlese.org/dds/catalog_DLESE-000-000-010-102 ...
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University
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Maximum entropy model-based spatial sinkhole occurrence prediction in Karapınar, Turkey
Sinkholes in Karapınar and their rapidly increasing occurrence rate are considered one of the main hazards that threaten arable lands and human life.
Fatih Sarı, Mustafa YALÇIN
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The Nature, Structure, and Perception of Illumination
ABSTRACT Illumination is a defining characteristic of natural environments, yet its nature and spatial structure remain poorly understood. I argue first that illumination is not simply light: it is an emergent, ecologically significant kind. Illumination has features not possessed by light, and contains self‐organizing structures that persist through ...
Will Davies
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Mapping of Potential Show Caves in the Racha Limestone Massif (Country of Georgia) [PDF]
: The Racha limestone massif is located in the eastern part of the karst zone of western Georgia. The massif is a typical example of Georgian mountain karst regions, where diverse surface and subsurface karst landforms are found.
Asanidze, Lasha +4 more
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Power-law size distributions in geoscience revisited
The size or energy of diverse structures or phenomena in geoscience appears to follow power-law distributions. A rigorous statistical analysis of such observations is tricky, though.
Corral, Álvaro, González, Álvaro
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Security in Wireless Sensor Networks: Issues and Challenges [PDF]
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is an emerging technology that shows great promise for various futuristic applications both for mass public and military.
Delic, H, Ersoy, C, Onel, T, Onur, Ertan
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An Exploratory Study of Mayoral Transition Work
ABSTRACT A new mayor's transition period is widely regarded as important to their overall success, yet mayoral transitions have received little research attention. This exploratory, mixed‐method study of 15 newly elected U.S. mayors combines primary survey data of time use with two waves of mayoral interviews to illuminate the nature and purposes of ...
Matthew Lee +2 more
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Karst, GIS and geological hazard planning and management in Great Britain [PDF]
The British Geological Survey (BGS) database of karst features for the United Kingdom include dolines, cave entrances, stream sinks, resurgences and building damage; data for approximately half of the country has so far been gathered.
Cooper, A.H., Farrant, A.R., Price, S.J.
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