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Journal articles on the topic "Physical geography Florida"

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Gares, Paul. "The physical geography of Florida." Physical Geography 35, no. 2 (2014): 91–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02723646.2014.906962.

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Weisner, Meagan L., and Mary M. Cameron. "Does Yoga Increase Sustainability?" Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 24, no. 1 (2020): 58–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685357-02401101.

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Abstract This study aims to increase understanding of whether spiritual dimensions of nature experiences are connected to sustainability by examining the relationship between yoga, sensory awareness, and pro-environmental behavior among comparative groups of yoga and non-yoga practitioners in South Florida. According to affective and perceptual theories of human environmental care, the heightened perception of and attention to one’s natural environment through enhanced sensory awareness that yoga practitioners describe experiencing should engender a closer inclination to nature and its protect
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Al-Hindi, Karen Falconer, and Caedmon Staddon. "The Hidden Histories and Geographies of Neotraditional Town Planning: The Case of Seaside, Florida." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 15, no. 3 (1997): 349–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d150349.

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The neotraditional resort development of Seaside, Florida merits special attention from geographers and urban planners because of the normative claims made by its designers and because it has garnered widespread attention from practising architects, planners, anti social critics, Under the banners of ‘neotraditionalism’ and ‘community planning’ the principles implemented in Seaside have also been employed in numerous other developments in North America. Central to Seaside's appeal and normative content is the deliberate attempt to resurrect an idealised past of uniquely American communitariani
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Singh, Prashant, Junayed Pasha, Amir Khorram-Manesh, Krzysztof Goniewicz, Abdolreza Roshani, and Maxim A. Dulebenets. "A Holistic Analysis of Train-Vehicle Accidents at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings in Florida." Sustainability 13, no. 16 (2021): 8842. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13168842.

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Highway-rail grade crossing (HRGC) accidents pose a serious risk of safety to highway users, including pedestrians trying to cross HRGCs. A significant increase in the number of HRGC accidents globally calls for greater research efforts, which are not limited to the analysis of accidents at HRGCs but also understanding user perception, driver behavior, potential conflicting areas at crossings, effectiveness of countermeasures and user perception towards them. HRGC safety is one of the priority areas in the State of Florida, since the state HRGCs experienced a total of 429 injuries and 146 fata
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Fathi, Soheil, Ravi S. Srinivasan, Charles J. Kibert, Ruth L. Steiner, and Emre Demirezen. "AI-Based Campus Energy Use Prediction for Assessing the Effects of Climate Change." Sustainability 12, no. 8 (2020): 3223. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12083223.

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In developed countries, buildings are involved in almost 50% of total energy use and 30% of global annual greenhouse gas emissions. The operational energy needs of buildings are highly dependent on various building physical, operational, and functional characteristics, as well as meteorological and temporal properties. Besides physics-based energy modeling of buildings, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the capability to provide faster and higher accuracy estimates, given buildings’ historic energy consumption data. Looking beyond individual building levels, forecasting building energy performa
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Mitsova, Diana, Monica Escaleras, Alka Sapat, Ann-Margaret Esnard, and Alberto Lamadrid. "The Effects of Infrastructure Service Disruptions and Socio-Economic Vulnerability on Hurricane Recovery." Sustainability 11, no. 2 (2019): 516. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11020516.

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Hurricanes and extreme weather events can cause widespread damage and disruption to infrastructure services and consequently delay household and community recovery. A subset of data from a cross-sectional survey of 989 households in central and south Florida is used to examine the effects of Hurricane Irma on post-disaster recovery eight months after the landfall. Using logistic regression modeling, we find that physical damage to property, disruption of infrastructure services such as loss of electric power and cell phone/internet services and other factors (i.e., homeowner’s or renter’s insu
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Atzori, Roberta, Alan Fyall, Asli D. A. Tasci, and Jill Fjelstul. "The Role of Social Representations in Shaping Tourist Responses to Potential Climate Change Impacts: An Analysis of Florida’s Coastal Destinations." Journal of Travel Research 58, no. 8 (2018): 1373–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047287518802089.

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Beside the physical impacts of climate change, society’s perceptions of climate change and its reactions at different stages of decision-making levels have become critical issues. This study presents the perspective of tourists who have previously visited Florida, in a hypothetical scenario of changed climatic conditions. It is proposed that existing social representations about climate change, and therefore individuals’ attitudes, views, and beliefs about this phenomenon, need to be taken into account when examining tourists’ stated responses to climate change and subsequent potential shifts
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Lee, Woojin, and Haeyoon Kwon. "The Influence of Personal Involvement on Festival Attendees’ Revisit Intention: Food and Wine Attendees’ Perspective." Sustainability 13, no. 14 (2021): 7727. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13147727.

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Research on food and wine tourism is recent and mostly attraction-based. Further, it is essential to understand how locally grown food and beverages allow culinary tourists to amplify their involvement experiences and lead to enhance their satisfaction and destination loyalty. This research attempts to explore the structural relationships between the variables of motivation, different types of involvement, physical/intangible service satisfaction, and loyalty in the context of a food and wine festival. Data were collected via intercept surveys on site, which were distributed to and collected f
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Mahmoudi, Jina, and Lei Zhang. "Impact of the Built Environment Measured at Multiple Levels on Nonmotorized Travel Behavior: An Ecological Approach to a Florida Case Study." Sustainability 12, no. 21 (2020): 8837. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12218837.

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Research continues to reveal the benefits of nonmotorized travel modes such as walking and bicycling. Therefore, identification of the factors that nurture these activities is essential in developing sustainable urban planning policies and designs. Among those factors are the built environment characteristics of the place of residence. To date, research on the role of the built environment in nonmotorized travel has focused on neighborhood-level factors. However, people do not stay within their neighborhoods; they live and work at a regional scale and travel to various destinations and distanc
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Nursalam, La Ode, A. Arisona, R. Ramli, et al. "Mapping of Subsurface Geological Structure and Land Cover Using Microgravity Techniques for Geography and Geophysic Surveys: A Case Study of Maluri Park, Malaysia." Geosfera Indonesia 4, no. 3 (2019): 280. http://dx.doi.org/10.19184/geosi.v4i3.13738.

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A microgravity investigation on bedrock topography was conducted at Maluri park reference level in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The study aim to mapping the near-surface structure and soil and land cover distribution for geography and geophysics surveys. Two types of cross-section modeling of the residual anomaly generated the MaluriBouguer Anomaly model for site-1 and site-2 at Maluri Park. The 2D microgravity models produced the contour map, displaying the characterization due to density contrast in rock types while mapping the subsurface geological structure at different depths. Moreover, a synt
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Physical geography Florida"

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Fortin, Madeleine. "Pariah, Florida: Helplessness in the Face of Bureaucracy." FIU Digital Commons, 2002. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3630.

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This thesis is a case study of a small agricultural community located along the eastern edge of Everglades National Park, The purpose of this study was to document the way land use decisions have been made and how these decisions have affected this community and the Everglades ecosystem. This research demonstrated that decisions made by the involved agencies have negatively affected both the community of Pariah, Florida and the Everglades ecosystem. Research methods included extensive document research, participant observation and formal and informal interviews. It appears that public concern
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Cheng, Jie. "Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction of Florida Bay, South Florida, Using Benthic Foraminifera." FIU Digital Commons, 2009. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/179.

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Efforts that are underway to rehabilitate the Florida Bay ecosystem to a more natural state are best guided by a comprehensive understanding of the natural versus human-induced variability that has existed within the ecosystem. Benthic foraminifera, which are well-known paleoenvironmental indicators, were identified in 203 sediment samples from six sediment cores taken from Florida Bay, and analyzed to understand the environmental variability through anthropogenically unaltered and altered periods. In this research, taxa serving as indicators of (1) seagrass abundance (which is correlated with
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D'Andrea, Joy. "A Statistical Analysis of Hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin & Sinkholes in Florida." Thesis, University of South Florida, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10103862.

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<p>Beaches can provide a natural barrier between the ocean and inland communities, ecosystems, and resources. These environments can move and change in response to winds, waves, and currents. When a hurricane occurs, these changes can be rather large and possibly catastrophic. The high waves and storm surge act together to erode beaches and inundate low-lying lands, putting inland communities at risk. There are thousands of buoys in the Atlantic Basin that record and update data to help predict climate conditions in the state of Florida. The data that was compiled and used into a larger data s
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Dicks, Steven E. "Satellite-derived surface temperatures and their relationships to land cover, land use, soils and physiography of North-Central Florida." Gainesville, FL, 1986. http://www.archive.org/details/satellitederived00dick.

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Ottati, Daniela F. "Geographical Literacy, Attitudes, and Experiences of Freshman Students: A Qualitative Study at Florida International University." FIU Digital Commons, 2015. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1851.

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The purpose of the study was to explore the geography literacy, attitudes and experiences of Florida International University (FIU) freshman students scoring at the low and high ends of a geography literacy survey. The Geography Literacy and ABC Models formed the conceptual framework. Participants were freshman students enrolled in the Finite Math course at FIU. Since it is assumed that students who perform poorly on geography assessments do not have an interest in the subject, testing and interviewing students allowed the researcher to explore the assumption. In Phase I, participants complete
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Diver, Kimberly Christine Bendix Jacob. "Biogeography of island flora in the Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, Ontario." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available full text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.

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Books on the topic "Physical geography Florida"

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Cooke, Charles Wythe. Scenery of Florida, interpreted by a geologist. Published for the State Geological Survey, 1987.

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B, Marcus Robert, ed. The face of Florida. 2nd ed. Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., 1987.

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B, Marcus Robert, ed. The face of Florida. 3rd ed. Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., 1998.

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Volney, C. F. Tableau du climat et du sol des États-Unis d'Amérique: Suivi d'éclaircissemens sur la Floride, sur la colonie française au Scioto, sur quelques colonies canadiennes et sur les sauvages. s.n.], 1985.

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Marcus, Robert B., and Clarence M. Head. The Face of Florida. 2nd ed. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1994.

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Dicks, Steven E. Satellite-derived surface temperatures and their relationships to land cover, land use, soils and physiography of North-Central Florida. 1986.

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Spaulding, Malcolm L., and Keith Bedford. Estuarine and Coastal Modeling: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference, Tampa, Florida November 13-15, 1992. Amer Society of Civil Engineers, 1992.

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Book chapters on the topic "Physical geography Florida"

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Chytrý, Milan. "Physical Geography of the Czech Republic." In Flora and Vegetation of the Czech Republic. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63181-3_1.

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Kaplan, Jonathan, and Federico Paredes Umaña. "Physical Environment and Cultural Ecology." In Water, Cacao, and The Early Maya of Chocóla. University Press of Florida, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056746.003.0002.

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Chapter 2 defines the physical environment and cultural geography of Chocolá and the econiches it occupies. The major flora and fauna are described, as are the soils, the extraordinary volcanoes and other plate tectonics of Chocolá’s geological setting, and the similarly extraordinary water resources of Chocolá’s piedmont rainforest—the highest rainfall in Central America, two rivers, several streams, and at least nine natural springs.
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Hallock, Thomas. "Introduction." In Travels on the St. Johns River. University Press of Florida, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813062259.003.0001.

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John and William Bartram were father and son adventurers, plant collectors, and natural historians who explored and described the natural assets of the St. Johns River valley and the Trader’s Path westward to the Suwannee River in north Florida. Their trips during the latter half of the 1700s corresponded to the period after Florida became a possession of England. They collected plants and made extensive observations on local animal life, geography, native cultures, and physical features of what was then an essentially uncharted region.
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Mason, Peter. "Environmental Impacts of Tourism." In Geography of Tourism. Goodfellow Publishers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/9781911396437-3638.

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The environment is made up of both natural and human features. Human settlements set in the countryside may contain a large number of attractions for tourists. Often the natural environment is referred to as the physical environment. The natural or physical environment includes the landscape, particular features such as rivers, rock outcrops, beaches and also plants and animals (or flora and fauna), many of which are tourist attractions and have been discussed in Chapter 3. This chapter is concerned with the impact of tourism on the environment.
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Cancel, Juan J., and Paul N. Backhouse. "Archaeometry." In We Come for Good. University Press of Florida, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813062280.003.0011.

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The archaeometry section is crucial to the operation of all the THPO areas. The philosophy of the section is technological inclusivity—providing the tools and support for applications like GIS Portal and the hardware to enable mobile mapping. These solutions can be operationalized both by staff and the Tribal community. This inclusivity has resulted in some dynamic projects that have been the calling card of the THPO within the community and have forged connections that transcend cultural differences. The ability to generate maps and other digital and physical media promotes collaborative dialogue and active engagement between the community and the THPO, allowing active participation by all constituents and informed cultural heritage decision-making. This is perhaps exemplified by the concept of participatory mapping in which stakeholder groups within the Tribal communities actively work together to provide the information that is then geographically realized. The resultant maps often allow Tribal elders the ability to visually communicate cultural information with younger generations accustomed to receiving information in a geographic format.
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Pasquier, Michael. "French Missionary Priests and Borderlands Catholicism in the Diocese of Bardstown during the Early Nineteenth Century." In Borderland Narratives. University Press of Florida, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813054957.003.0007.

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An examination of the experiences of French missionary priests in the trans-Appalachian West adds a new layer of understanding to places ordinarily associated with the evangelical Protestant revivals of the Second Great Awakening. Their experiences of material deprivation, physical hardship, spiritual suffering, and lay opposition to ecclesiastical authority prompted some of them to reconsider what it meant to be a Catholic missionary in the early American republic, a context quite different from the one they envisioned. Many had difficulties relating their premigratory expectations of the missionary priesthood to their actual experiences of life within a borderlands diocese constructed by church officials in Rome thousands of miles away from the local populations, regional histories, and geographic obstacles that the foreign clergy would come to know intimately over the course of the early nineteenth century. As church leaders in the United States and Rome gradually broke up the Diocese of Bardstown during the antebellum period, French missionary priests realized that their dreams of establishing a nationwide institutional church and saving the peoples of an entire continent always clashed with the goals of other interest groups in the backwoods of Kentucky.
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Armesto, Juan J., and Mary T. K. Arroyo. "The Mediterranean Environment of Central Chile." In The Physical Geography of South America. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195313413.003.0019.

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The Mediterranean-type environment of South America, broadly defined as the continental area characterized by winter rainfall and summer drought, is confined to a narrow band about 1,000 km long on the western side of the Andes in north-central Chile (Arroyo et al., 1995, 1999). Although much has been written about the climate, vegetation, and landscapes of this part of Chile, and comparisons have been drawn with California and other Mediterranean-type regions of the world (Parsons, 1976; Mooney, 1977; Rundel, 1981; Arroyo et al., 1995), a modern synthesis of information on the physical setting, regional biota, and historical development of ecosystems in central Chile has not been attempted. This chapter is intended to provide such an integrated picture, emphasizing those aspects most peculiar to the region. Since the earlier floristic work on the Chilean matorral (e.g. Mooney, 1977), the name given to the vegetation of central Chile, there is now a much greater appreciation of the geographic isolation and high levels of biological diversity and endemism in this region of South America (Arroyo and Cavieres, 1997; Villagrán, 1995; Arroyo et al., 1995, 1999). Because of the great richness and singularity of its terrestrial flora, this area of the continent is considered to be one of the world’s 25 hotspots in which to conserve global biodiversity (Arroyo et al., 1999; Myers et al., 2000). An analysis of the main features of the Mediterranean environment in South America should therefore address the causes of such high floristic richness, the nature of current threats to biodiversity, and the prospects for its conservation in the long-term. A discussion of conservation concerns closes the present chapter (but see also: Arroyo and Cavieres, 1997; and Arroyo et al., 1999). In view of the vast literature on the biota and physical setting of central Chile, this chapter adopts a selective approach, from a biogeographic perspective, of what we consider to be the most remarkable historical, physical, and ecological features of this environment, which in turn may explain its extraordinary richness in plants and animals. Mediterranean-type ecosystems occupy a narrow band along the western margin of South America, from 30 to 36°S in central Chile.
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Hardoy, Jorgelina, and David Satterthwaite. "Environmental Impacts of Urbanism." In The Physical Geography of South America. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195313413.003.0029.

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This chapter describes the environmental impacts of urbanization in South America, and the difficulties that governments have had in managing them. The discussion focuses initially on the rapid urbanization of the continent and its environmental implications and then reviews the quality of the urban environment within the homes and neighbourhoods in which the urban population lives, in the workplace, and in the wider city (the ambient environment). The environmental impacts of these urban areas on their surroundings are then described and their wider and more diffuse impacts considered, including an evaluation of global climate change. Lastly, some of the new directions taken by governments in the region toward addressing these problems are noted. Table 20.1 provides a summary of the main city-related environmental problems in terms of their spatial context and the nature of the hazard or problem. The urban environment is taken to mean the physical environment in urban areas, with its complex mix of natural elements (including air, water, land, climate, flora, and fauna) and the built environment, in other words a physical environment constructed or modified for human habitation and activity encompassing buildings, infrastructure, and urban open spaces (Haughton and Hunter, 1994; OECD, 1990). Its quality is much influenced by: (1) its geographical setting; (2) the scale and nature of human activities and structures within it; (3) the wastes and emissions these activities create and their environmental impacts; and (4) the competence and accountability of the institutions elected, appointed, or delegated to manage it. In summarizing the environmental impacts of urbanization, this chapter concentrates on some of the region’s most serious urban problems. However, it should always be remembered that this is also a region with rich and varied urban cultures. South America has some of the world’s finest historic cities—for instance the historic centers of Cusco, Quito, and Salvador de Bahía. The urban cultures have evolved from a long history, including a rich pre- Colombian urban history in many places (Hardoy, 2000). The cities are widely known outside South America through the literature they have inspired—for instance, for the English-speaking world, the works of Garcia Marquez, Amado, and Vargas Llosa. Its cities are also known for the art, music, and dance that they incubated and inspired.
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Ehlers, Jürgen. "Quaternary Climatic Changes and Landscape Evolution." In The Physical Geography of Western Europe. Oxford University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199277759.003.0012.

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The last 2–3 Ma have witnessed climatic changes of a scale unknown to the preceding 300 Ma. In the cold periods vegetation was reduced to a steppe, giving rise to large-scale aeolian deposition of sand and loess and river sands and gravels. In the warm stages, flora and fauna recolonized the region. Parts of Europe were repeatedly covered by mountain glaciers or continental ice sheets which brought along huge amounts of unweathered rock debris from their source areas. The ice sheets dammed rivers and redirected drainage towards the North Sea. They created a new, glacial landscape. This chapter presents an outline of the climatic history, and in particular the glacial processes involved in shaping the landscapes of western Europe. By convention, geologists generally tend to draw stratigraphical boundaries in marine deposits because they are more likely to represent continuous sedimentation and relatively consistent environments in comparison to terrestrial sediments. However, marine deposits from the period in question are relatively rarely exposed at the surface. According to a conclusion of the International Geological Congress 1948 the Tertiary/Quaternary boundary was defined as the base of the marine deposits of the Calabrian in southern Italy. In the Calabrian sediments fossils are found that reflect a very distinct climatic cooling (amongst others the foraminifer Hyalinea baltica). This climatic change roughly coincides with a reversal of the earth’s magnetic field; it is situated at the upper boundary of what is called the Olduvai Event. Consequently, it is relatively easy to identify; its age is today estimated at 1.77 Ma (Shackleton et al. 1990). However, in contrast to the older parts of the earth’s history, the significant changes within the Quaternary are not changes in faunal composition but changes in climate. For reasons of long-term climatic evolution the base of the Calabrian is not a very suitable global boundary. Its adoption excludes some of the major glaciations from the Quaternary. Therefore, in major parts of Europe another Tertiary/Quaternary boundary is in use, based on the stratigraphy of the Lower Rhine area (e.g. Zagwijn 1989). Here the most significant climatic change is already recorded as far back as the Gauss/Matuyama magnetic reversal (some 2.6 Ma ago).
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Hofstede, Jacobus. "Danish–German–Dutch Wadden Environments." In The Physical Geography of Western Europe. Oxford University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199277759.003.0020.

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The Wadden Sea environment is a coastal tidal environment situated between the North Sea and the northwestern European Lowlands. It stretches over a distance of about 450 km from Den Helder in The Netherlands to the peninsula of Skallingen in Denmark. The approximately 10,000 km2 large Wadden Sea is a coastal sediment sink that developed in the course of the Holocene transgression. It resulted from a specific combination of sediment availability (mainly from the North Sea) and a hydrodynamic regime of tides and waves. In its present state, the Wadden Sea environment consists of extensive tidal flats (the wadden), tidal gullies and inlets, salt marshes, and about twenty-four sandy barrier islands. Further, four estuaries exist that discharge into the Wadden Sea. The Wadden Sea may best be characterized by the words ‘dynamic’ and ‘extreme’; dynamic from a geo-morphological point of view, extreme in its biology. According to Spiegel (1997), with each flood phase a tidal energy input in the order of 2.2 thousand MW occurs in the Wadden Sea of Schleswig-Holstein (Germany). This energy input, combined with the energy impact of wind, waves, and storm surges, results in strong morphological processes. Flora and fauna in the Wadden Sea have to adapt to these intense morphodynamics. Further, they have to endure the permanent change of flood and ebb and fluctuations in salinity, as well as high water temperatures during summer and occasional ice cover during winter. As a result of these extreme environmental conditions, a highly specialized biosystem with about 4,800 species has developed (Heydemann 1998). In its present state the Wadden Sea is one of the last remaining near-natural large-scale ecosystems in central Europe. Its ecological significance is underlined by the fact that 250 animal species live exclusively here (Heydemann 1998). Furthermore, nowhere else in Europe is an ecosystem of this size visited by more birds per surface area for the purpose of feeding. However, the Wadden Sea is subjected to considerable human influences, e.g. the input of nutrients and pollutants, fisheries, dredging, boat traffic, and tourism (de Jong et al. 1999).
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Reports on the topic "Physical geography Florida"

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Henderson, Tim, Mincent Santucci, Tim Connors, and Justin Tweet. National Park Service geologic type section inventory: Chihuahuan Desert Inventory & Monitoring Network. National Park Service, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2285306.

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A fundamental responsibility of the National Park Service is to ensure that park resources are preserved, protected, and managed in consideration of the resources themselves and for the benefit and enjoyment by the public. Through the inventory, monitoring, and study of park resources, we gain a greater understanding of the scope, significance, distribution, and management issues associated with these resources and their use. This baseline of natural resource information is available to inform park managers, scientists, stakeholders, and the public about the conditions of these resources and t
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Henderson, Tim, Vincent Santucci, Tim Connors, and Justin Tweet. National Park Service geologic type section inventory: Northern Colorado Plateau Inventory & Monitoring Network. National Park Service, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2285337.

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A fundamental responsibility of the National Park Service (NPS) is to ensure that park resources are preserved, protected, and managed in consideration of the resources themselves and for the benefit and enjoyment by the public. Through the inventory, monitoring, and study of park resources, we gain a greater understanding of the scope, significance, distribution, and management issues associated with these resources and their use. This baseline of natural resource information is available to inform park managers, scientists, stakeholders, and the public about the conditions of these resources
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Henderson, Tim, Vincent Santucci, Tim Connors, and Justin Tweet. National Park Service geologic type section inventory: Klamath Inventory & Monitoring Network. National Park Service, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/nrr-2286915.

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A fundamental responsibility of the National Park Service (NPS) is to ensure that park resources are preserved, protected, and managed in consideration of the resources themselves and for the benefit and enjoyment by the public. Through the inventory, monitoring, and study of park resources, we gain a greater understanding of the scope, significance, distribution, and management issues associated with these resources and their use. This baseline of natural resource information is available to inform park managers, scientists, stakeholders, and the public about the conditions of these resources
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