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Hadley, Odelle L. "Black carbon transport and deposition to the California mountain snow pack." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3307698.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 18, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Gilsanz, Díaz Ana. "La arquitectura como acontecimiento. La docencia de la arquitectura y su aprendizaje en la experiencia del Black Mountain College (1933-57)." Doctoral thesis, Universidad de Alicante, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10045/86227.
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El Black Mountain College estuvo operativo durante 24 años, desde 1933 hasta 1957. Un centro universitario, situado en Carolina del Norte, basado en la enseñanza en artes liberales, donde se combinó la docencia con la vida en comunidad y donde la experimentación, desde las distintas áreas de conocimiento que conformaban su programa docente, era esencial en el proceso formativo. Un lugar de confluencia de diversas disciplinas e intereses donde el eje vertebrador era la experiencia artística. A lo largo de los años de su existencia, un gran número de figuras, que en ese momento y posteriormente serían fundamentales en el panorama cultural y artístico norteamericano, se acercaron a este college para compartir sus conocimientos y experiencias y pasaron a formar parte de la historia del mismo, colaborando en la generación de un mito alrededor de la institución. En este contexto, la arquitectura encontró su lugar en el proyecto docente a través de profesionales que impartieron clase y de propuestas y acciones que demuestran la capacidad de la arquitectura de entenderse como ‘acontecimiento’. Este trabajo de investigación ahonda en la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de la arquitectura en esta institución, recuperando los arquitectos y profesionales relacionados con la disciplina, que fueron dando forma a un programa docente donde se combinaban conocimientos teóricos con una apuesta decisiva por la experiencia práctica, que en su vertiente constructiva ejecutó parte de los edificios de su propio campus universitario. Asimismo, se explora la historia del college relatada a través de las acciones multidisciplinares colectivas de diversa naturaleza llevadas a cabo, donde se realiza una lectura que muestra la capacidad de la arquitectura de construir, no sólo en el espacio, sino también en el tiempo, a través de situaciones que trascienden el hecho constructivo y a las que denominamos como ‘acontecimientos’.
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Boone, Nicholas S. Downes Jeremy M. "Truth and method on Black Mountain : the hermeneutic stances of Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Robert Duncan /." Auburn, Ala., 2007. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2007%20Fall%20Dissertations/Boone_Nicholas_17.pdf.
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Bond, Tristan. "A study of the genus Desmognathus in West Virginia, with emphasis on Desmognathus welteri, the black mountain salamander." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2007. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=788.
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Galant, Malikaah. "The characterisation of the lead flotation circuit at Black Mountain Mining (Pty) Ltd. using the floatability component model approach." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24313.
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Black Mountain Mining (Pty) Ltd. (BMM) is a base metal operation that has been producing chalcopyrite-, galena- and sphalerite-bearing concentrates for over 30 years. Silver is recovered in the concentrates as a result of elemental substitution within the crystal lattice of chalcopyrite and galena minerals. The primary objective of this study was to adapt the Floatability Component Model (FCM) as a simplified proof-of-concept model for the Lead flotation circuit of the BMM Concentrator based on plant- and laboratory-scale data. The model obtained, using the FCM approach in conjunction with the Woodburn and Wallin (1984) methodology, should give insight to the metallurgical team regarding the performance of the circuit based on the data pertaining to the feed characteristics of the Lead flotation circuit. Additionally, as a result of the known association of silver with galena minerals, an objective of the study was to be able to predict the response of silver based on the response of galena minerals. The model for the Lead flotation circuit of BMM Concentrator was developed in a single MS Excel spreadsheet and it was important that the raw data used to develop the model could be obtained easily, inexpensively and in a manner that was not disruptive to the operation.
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Stevenson, Frederick. "Response of the Black Mountain, South Africa, sulfide deposit to various geophysical techniques and implications for exploration of similar deposits." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/558021.
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Alexander, Patrick Elliot. "Black Man Kneeling, Black Man Standing: Exploring the Interplay Between Secular and Sacred Spaces in Representations of Black Masculinity in Zora Neale Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine, James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain, and Ernest J Gaines's A Lesso." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1146345025.
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Boykins, Ronald. "The relationship among leadership, empowerment, and academic achievement for black students: A case study of the South Mountain High School JROTC program." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186096.
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This study investigated a Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) program in one high school in Arizona to discover relationships among empowerment, leadership, and achievement in schools that have JROTC programs. Anecdotes and experiences of those participating in JROTC suggested that this program and the concepts that guide it would provide techniques for solving the underachievement of black students in schools today. Specifically, this study analyzed the current conditions of black students in a JROTC program in one high school by fully examining and describing aspects of this program. In addition, the study examined the contributions of the program to promoting empowerment, leadership, and academic achievement among black students. Data collection methods were designed to explore and describe the JROTC phenomenon at one high school. Three lists of questions were developed to gather data from students, teachers, and the JROTC faculty. The purpose of this study was to lend support to what may be occurring in JROTC to influence the academic achievement of JROTC students. Each group of respondents provided information that helped the researcher to get a better understanding of what was occurring in the program and how this process may influence achievement. In this study, 14 black students, three JROTC instructors, and five teachers were questioned about the programs and its impact on the public school experiences of the black students enrolled in the program. Pre- and post-grade point averages for these students were also examined to explore relationships among achievement, leadership, and empowerment. Data for this study were of such a nature that analysis by statistical methods only would not make the fullest use of all information available. For this reason, a case study of the South Mountain JROTC Program, with an emphasis on the black student enrolled, was presented. Statistical comparisons of the pre- and post-grade point averages were also made. This study suggested that the JROTC program may have implications for positively influencing the achievement of black students. Additionally, self-esteem building, peer influence, and self-discipline may have possibilities for implementation in many schools.
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Van, Schalkwyk Sunet. "Meat quality characteristics of three South African game species : black wildebeest (Connochaetes gnou), blue wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) and mountain reedbuck (Redunca fulvorufula)." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/50014.
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Schroder, Jason C. "Measurements of black carbon properties during cloud, biomass burning, and free tropospheric conditions at a marine boundary layer site and high elevation mountain site." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/51642.
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Black carbon is a subset of the total atmospheric aerosol population that is formed in the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, biofuels, and biomass. This research focused on the properties of black carbon particles measured in the boundary layer and free troposphere, as well as the activation of black carbon particles by cloud droplets. The primary motivation for this research is to increase our understanding of the properties of black carbon under these different atmospheric conditions.
A single particle soot photometer was used to study properties of black carbon particles incorporated into cloud droplets at two field locations: 1) a marine boundary layer site, and 2) a high elevation mountain site. At both sites, a size dependence on the fraction of black carbon incorporated into cloud droplets was observed; and for small (<100 nm) diameters, black carbon was efficiently incorporated into droplets. In addition, at the marine boundary layer site, thick coatings were observed on the small diameter black carbon particles that were incorporated into the droplets, which was consistent with theory.
The single particle soot photometer was also used at a high elevation mountain site to investigate properties of black carbon from biomass burning and black carbon within the free troposphere. The average mass concentration of black carbon was found to be significantly higher (approximately 9x) during periods of biomass burning than within the free troposphere, yet had similar mass median diameters. Coating thicknesses of black carbon containing particles during the two subsets of data were also investigated. Average coating thicknesses for black carbon core diameters between 140 to 160 nm was 55 nm when sampling in the free troposphere, but approximately 32 nm when sampling air masses influenced by biomass burning.
The results presented in this dissertation increase our understanding of the properties of black carbon particles and how they vary as a function of location and type of air mass sampled. This information can be used to further constrain computer models that are used to predict how black carbon can affect climate.Science, Faculty of
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Ghosh, Amiya Kumar. "Reconnaissance U-Pb geochronology of Precambrian crystalline rocks from the northern Black Hills, South Dakota: Implications for regional thermotectonic history." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1240007954.
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Thesis (M.S.)--Kent State University, 2009.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Feb. 12, 2010). Advisor: Peter Dahl. Keywords: Black Hills; Crook Mountain granite; Homestake gold mine; gold mineralization; magmatism; metamorphism; metapelite; g monazite; zircon; titanite; geochronology; thermotectonism Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-106).
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Cornejo, Happel Claudia A. "Decadent Wealth, Degenerate Morality, Dominance, and Devotion: The Discordant Iconicity of the Rich Mountain of Potosi." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1404653562.
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Gillies, Peter. "'Poems to the Sea', and, Painterly poetics : Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Cole Swensen." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/5225.
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Poems to the Sea: Rather than narrating or describing a work of visual art, the poems that form this collection show an accumulation, juxtaposition and realignment of material ranging from art historical detail and critique to a more personal, location specific response to works viewed in galleries and museums. Many of the poems engage with non-representational artworks and question how best to reflect, translate or expand upon their transformative effects. The first section, ‘Museum Notes’, explores Charles Olson’s open field poetics by giving artists and writers a conversational voice. ‘Sound Fields’, the second section, responds to individual works of art and reflects a systems-based approach. The authorial voice within ‘Poems to the Sea’, the third section, is that of an artist involved in making a series of palimpsest drawings to capture a sense of place as drawing and writing overlaps and intertwines. Painterly Poetics: Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Cole Swensen: This thesis explores three American poets from successive generations to examine three related types of engagement with visual art. As literary models that have informed my own poetic practice, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley and Cole Swensen have theorized their own writing process to consider ways of using language to enhance the transmission and transcription of their visual stimuli and ideas. All three are interested in visual art as a model for the writing process: as a means of seeing, thinking and perceiving. After an introduction that surveys relations between verbal and visual art, a chapter is devoted to each of the three poets. In the opening and longest chapter, examples of Olson’s writing are compared to the approach of several Abstract Expressionist painters who contributed to the culture of experimentation and spontaneity that emerged under Olson’s leadership at Black Mountain College in the early 1950s. Following a discussion of Olson as a uniquely influential figure, the chapter on Creeley considers the role of visual art in his poetics. Swensen’s writing is subsequently explored for its extension of the Black Mountain legacy: how she builds upon established critical methods to achieve what she calls ‘a side-by-side, walking-along-with’ relationship between the poem and the artwork.
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Ward, Anthony H. "An archaeological field survey of part of the Black Mountain in south-east Dyfed : a contribution to the interpretation of economy and settlement in the region from prehistory to the early modern period." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1993. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13215/.
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A survey of archaeological sites was carried out across 60 km2 of the Black Mountain in south-east Dyfed, an upland common. These are described and placed in a putative chronological sequence against a palaeo-environmental backcloth. Sepulchral cairns are the earliest sites recorded, probably belonging to the early second millennium bc. House circles and homesteads may date to later prehistory and the early proto-historic period, while numerous rectangular foundations are probably the remains of Medieval, possibly later Medieval, settlement. Boundaries partition part of the landscape and there are stone clearance heaps and strips. Land-use is discussed up until the early Post-Medieval period, taking account of both the monuments and the palaeo-environmental data and informed by definition of some parameters within which exploitation of upland environments can take place. Seasonality of resources, the importance of the wider region and the requirements for mobility are amongst the factors considered. The historical model of transhumance which is frequently applied to the Welsh uplands is examined. Periodic hunting, gathering and husbandry is suggested in the area prior to c. 2000 bc after which perceptions of the landscape seemingly begin to change with evidence for episodes of more formal management relating to animal husbandry and limited cultivation. Although settlement may frequently have been transient, overwintering or longer periods of continuous occupation are not precluded in response to a combination of economic, social and environmental factors. Suggestions are made for further work.
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Jukna, Tomas. "Introdukuotų pušų rūšių želdinių vertinimas Kuršių nerijos nacionaliniame parke." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2011. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2011~D_20110601_112250-49662.
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Magistro darbe vertinami introdukuotų pušų rūšių Kuršių nerijos nacionaliniame parke būklė ir statusas, pažeidimų priežastys, dendrometriniai rodikliai, estetiškumas.
Darbo objektas –Kuršių nerijos nacionalinio parko kalninės, juodosios, Bankso ir paprastosios pušų sklypai, kurie įveisti 1896 m. – 1962 m. Juodkrantės (kv.38 skl.29, 39; kv.39 skl.6, 12) ir Smiltynės (Kv.36 skl. 14,16) girininkijose.
Darbo tikslas – įvertinti introdukuotų pušų rūšių želdinių būklę ir statusą Kuršių nerijos nacionaliniame parke.
Darbo metodai –instrumentinis denrometrinių rodiklių nustatymas, vizualinis medžių įvertinimas, literatūros šaltinių ir dokumentų analizė
Darbo rezultatai. 2010 metai medynams nustatyti šie dendrometriniai rodikliai: kalninė pušis Dvid=7.7cm, Dmax=19.5cm, Hvid=6.2m, Hmax=7.5m, tankumas 6000 vnt/ha; Bankso bušis Dvid=10,1cm, Dmax=18cm, Hvid=9.2m, Hmax=12,5m, tankumas 3500 vnt/ha; juodoji pušis Dvid=23,2cm, Dmax=40cm, Hvid=15,1m, Hmax=17,5m, tankumas 931 vnt/ha. Sąlyginai sveiki individai kalninės pušies medynuose nerijos palvėje, sudaro 45%, įvairiu laipsniu pažeisti – 27,92%, o sausuoliai ir virtėliai – 27,08% , Bankso pušies medynus Didžiojo kopagūbrio viršuje, sudaro - sveiki 48,57%, įvairiu laipsniu pažeisti – 45,71%, o sausuoliai ir virtėliai – 5,72% , juodosios pušies medynuose Didžiojo kopagūbrio rytiniame šlaite - sveiki 42,96%, įvairiu laipsniu pažeisti – 50,38%, o sausuoliai ir virtėliai – 6,66% . Visų tirtų introdukuotų pušų rūšių želdinių sanitarinė –... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]Master’s work evaluates the invasive pine species in Curonian spit national park, its state and status, causes of damages, tree measurement indicators, aesthetic state. Job object – Curonian spit national park plots of mountain, black and Banks pines, planted 1896 – 1962 in Juodkrante (kv.38 plot.29, 39; kv.39 plot 6, 12), Smiltyne (Kv.36 plot. 14,16) forestries. The aim of the study – to evaluate invasive pine species state and status in Curonian spit national park. Working methods – instrumental tree measurement indicators, visual status evaluation, analyzes of literature and document. Study results – 2010 invasive species the following tree measurement indicators: mountain pine Dvid=7.7cm, Dmax=19.5cm, Hvid=6.2m, Hmax=7.5m, density 6000 units/ha; Banks pine Dvid=10,1cm, Dmax=18cm, Hvid=9.2m, Hmax=12,5m, density 3500 units/ha; black pine Dvid=23,2cm, Dmax=40cm, Hvid=15,1m, Hmax=17,5m, density 931 units/ha. Conditionally healthy individuals in trees of mountain pine that are located in spit palve are 45 %, damaged in different degree – 27,92 %, deadwoods – 27,08 %. Banks pine trees on the top of Huge Dune Ridge : healthy – 48,57%, damaged in different degree - 45,71%, deadwoods - 5,72%. Black pine trees: on the east side of Huge Dune Ridge: healthy 42,96%, damaged in different degree – 50,38%, deadwoods – 6,66 %. Sanitary – higienic state of all evaluated invasive pine species is 3. The second class of aesthetic quality corresponds only Black pine stands on the east on... [to full text]
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Olding, Frank. "The Prehistoric lanscapes of the Eastern Black Mountains /." Oxford : Archaeopress, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb371978337.
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Gaines, William L. "Relationships among black bears, roads, and habitat in the North Cascades Mountains of Washington /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/5599.
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Carling, Gregory T. "The rate and timing of direct mountain front recharge in an arid environment, Silver Island Mountains, Utah." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2007. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2187.pdf.
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Soltz, Wendy Fergusson. "Unheard Voices and Unseen Fights: Jews, Segregation, and Higher Education in the South, 1910–1964." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1469136499.
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Bridges, Andrew Scott. "Population Ecology of Black Bears in the Alleghany Mountains of Virginia." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27754.
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The Cooperative Alleghany Bear Study (CABS) was a 10-year study conducted on 2 areas and designed to investigate the ecology of a hunted population of American black bears (Ursus americanus) in the Alleghany Mountains of western Virginia. Over the course of our research, we handled 1,041 individual bears >18 months old and gathered reproductive data from females during 424 bear-winters. My analyses of 183 litters indicate that reproductive rates were high with relatively large litters (mean = 2.49 cubs / litter) and younger (3â 4-year-old) females having smaller litters than older (> 5 years old) females. Overall cub sex ratios did not differ from 1M:1F; however, female cubs were over-represented in 4-cub litters. Most cubs were born in January (mean = January 17) and younger females had later parturition dates than older females. Bears on our study areas had relatively early ages at primiparity (mean = 3.8 years old) and few missed reproductive opportunities. Hard mast failure apparently resulted in periodic reproductive failures and subsequent reproductive synchrony, which I tracked using 5 indices. The amplitude of oscillations in reproductive synchrony dampened through time after each synchronizing event. The population contained substantially more females than males; however, males were more vulnerable to trapping than were females. Population size was determined using genetic and photographic capture-recapture estimators. Density estimates were relatively high and approached 1 bear / km2. Annual survival rates were high for cubs (0.87) and females (0.91). For males, annual survival rates were lower, particularly for 1â 3-year-olds (0.57). Excluding hunting mortality, natural survival rates were high (0.98) for all >1-year-old bears on our study areas. The results of Leslie Matrix and Program RISKMAN models indicated a growing population. A Leslie Matrix model incorporating the effects of a 5-year-cyle of mast-failure-induced reproductive failure yielded a lambda = 1.13. To reach the objective of 0 population growth prescribed for some areas of Virginia, increased levels of hunting mortality on adult (>3-year-old) females would likely be necessary.Ph. D.
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Edds, Donald Dean. "Structural geology of Black Butte area, Northwest Eagle Mountains, Hudspeth County, Texas." Kansas State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18556.
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Ajami, Hoori. "QUANTIFYING SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF MOUNTAIN SYSTEM RECHARGE AND RIPARIAN EVAPOTRANSPIRATION IN SEMIARID CATCHMENTS." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/146063.
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Groundwater response to climate variability and land cover change is important for sustainable management of water resources in the Southwest US. Global Climate Models (GCM) project that the region will dry in the 21st century and the transition to a more arid climate may be under way. In semiarid Basin and Range systems, this impact is likely to be most pronounced in Mountain System Recharge (MSR), a process which constitutes a significant component of recharge in these basins. Despite the importance of MSR the physical processes that control MSR, and hence the climate change impacts, have not been fully investigated because of the complexity of recharge processes in mountainous catchments and limited observations. In this study, methodologies were developed to provide process-based understanding of MSR based on empirical and data-driven approaches. For the empirical approach, a hydrologically-based seasonal ratio the Normalized Seasonal Wetness Index (NSWI) was developed. It incorporates seasonal precipitation variability and temperature regimes to seasonal MSR estimation using existing empirical equations. Stable isotopic data was used to verify recharge partitioning. Using the NSWI and statistically downscaled monthly GCM precipitation and temperature data, climate change impacts on seasonal MSR are evaluated. Second, a novel data-based approach was developed to quantify mountain block recharge based on the catchment storage-discharge (S-Q) relationships and informed by isotopic data. Development of S-Q relationships across the Sabino Creek catchment, Arizona, allowed understanding of MBR dynamics across scale.Two ArcGIS desktop applications were developed for ArcGIS 9.2 to enhance recharge and evapotranspiration (ET) estimation: Arc-Recharge and RIPGIS-NET. Arc-Recharge was developed to quantify and distribute recharge along MODFLOW cells using spatially explicit precipitation data and a digital elevation model. RIPGIS-NET was developed to provide parameters for the RIP-ET package and to visualize MODFLOW results. RIP-ET is an improved MODFLOW ET module for simulating ET. RIPGIS-NET improves alluvial recharge estimation by providing spatially explicit riparian ET estimates. Using such tools and the above methods improves recharge and ET estimation in groundwater models by incorporating temporally and spatially explicit data and hence the assessment of climate variability and land cover change on groundwater resources can be improved.
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Draa, Anna, and Richard L. Orndorff. "GIS-Based Analysis of Mountain Block Recharge for Owens Lake Playa, California." Arizona-Nevada Academy of Science, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/296597.
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Olfenbuttel, Colleen. "Home range dynamics of black bears in the Alleghany Mountains of western Virginia." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35199.
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The Cooperative Alleghany Bear Study (CABS) was initiated in 1994 to address concerns over the lack of biological and ecological data for black bear (Ursus americanus) populations in the Alleghany Mountains of western Virginia. I examined home range dynamics of bears during 1994-2002 on 2 study areas that were approximately 160 km apart. I analyzed my data with 3 home range programs (AMA, HRE, and ABODE) and determined the HRE was the least biased and produced the most biologically reasonable home range estimates. I used HRE to generate annual home ranges (fixed-kernel) for 90 bears over 160 bear years; I also generated seasonal home ranges using MCP. Annual and seasonal home ranges of male and female adult bears in the southern study area were larger than that of male and female adult bears in the northern study area, respectively; southern females and northern males had annual home ranges similar in size at the 95% and 75% fixed-kernel contours. In both study areas, most bears did not shift their range when transitioning from spring to summer (North: 63.0%; South: 57.0%) or from summer to fall (North: 67.0%; South: 65.0%), while most bears shifted their seasonal range between spring and fall (North: 67.0%; South: 52.0%). Most female bears in both study areas maintained the same spring and summer home range throughout the duration of the study, while 63% of northern females changed their fall home range and 55% of southern females maintained their fall home range. I found no differences in annual and seasonal home range size among years or among age classes for adult females, but tests for intra-year seasonal difference indicated that fall range was larger than spring and summer in 1997, when western Virginia experienced a poor mast crop. Females with and without COY had similar annual home ranges in either study area. In the north, seasonal home range size did not differ between females with and without COY, while in the south, breeding females (i.e. without COY) had larger spring ranges and smaller fall ranges than females with COY. In both study areas, females with COY had larger fall home ranges than during spring, while seasonal ranges of breeding females did not vary in size during the year.Master of Science
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Grill, Nicolette Deannah. "ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAINS, CALIFORNIA." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/102.
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The San Bernardino Mountains are well known for their rich mining history, especially, gold in the mid-1800s and the current mining of one of the world’s largest deposits of high purity limestone. The purpose of this study was to compile new, current, and historical data of the major economic resources that are present and mining that has gone on in the San Bernardino Mountains. It is estimated that historical mining of the Holcomb Valley recovered $457,660,000 of gold or about 350,000 troy ounces based on samples collected for this study and 2013 gold price. The current major geologic resource is the limestone deposits on the north slope of the San Bernardino Mountains. Presently, there are three operators: Omya, Specialty Minerals, and Mitsubishi Cement.
The San Bernardino Mountains are well known for skarn gold deposits. New work indicates that the placer gold from Holcomb Valley is often of very high purity. Placer gold samples were analyzed using the scanning electron microscope and energy dispersive x-ray spectra to determine the purity of the gold. Rim and core analysis of the placer gold was used to determine if the gold was transported from its source and to give an estimate of transportation distance. Results show some of the placer gold of Holcomb Valley has been rounded and flattened by weathering and transportation with increased gold purity in the rims while other gold grains still sustain their octahedral crystalline structure. Rims range in gold purity from 84.26% to 100%, with core gold purity ranging from 79.51% to 99.79%.
Gold samples were weighed, photographed, measured, and classified by shape, angularity and texture, to assess the effects of transportation. Gold weights where used to calculate an economic value of gold. Geographic Information System “GIS” was used to visually display geology, historical and current mine locations, locations of samples used in this study, and to help calculate the volume of the Holcomb Valley TsE rock unit, which is where the placer gold is deposited. Sediment sample 15 from TsE had the lowest gold value of .002 ounces per cubic yard. This value is inferred to represent the amount of gold remaining after mining. Based on this assumption and the estimated volume of TsE at 50,027,000 cubic yards, the estimated total weight of gold remaining in the deposit is about 100,000 troy ounces, with a dollar value of about $130,760,000, using gold values for 2013. Sample 17 had the highest gold value, with .014 ounces per cubic yard. This is inferred to represent the concentration of placer gold deposits within parts of Holcomb Valley that have never been mined. This yields a total weight of the deposit of roughly 700,000 troy ounces, with an estimated value of $915,320,000 using gold prices for 2013. The gold values were calculated using November 7, 2013 gold spot price of $1,307.60.
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Ingram, Shelley. ""Symbolic mountain home" : a contextual analysis of bluegrass and its racial ideology /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p1418033.
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Ferriday, Timothy. "Chemostratigraphical characterisation of lower Silurian black shales from the Formigoso Formation (southern Cantabrian Mountains, Spain)." Thesis, Keele University, 2014. http://eprints.keele.ac.uk/1430/.
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This thesis focuses on the development of the black shales belonging to the lower Silurian Formigoso Formation (Fm.) situated within the Cantabrian Fold Belt, Northern Spain. The geochemical data obtained by the use of an energy-dispersive Niton XL3t XRF analyser under controlled laboratory conditions is comparable to that of conventional wavelength dispersive XRF analysers. The in-situ field analysis resulted in similar geochemical signals and elemental concentrations to that of the laboratory analysed samples. The high-resolution geochemical database, consisting of 4148 readings of the Formigoso Fm. was used to characterise the shales of the Formigoso Fm. relative to a number of international shale standards. Following this geochemical characterisation, a number of palaeoenvironmental proxies for [1] anoxia reconstructions, [2] palaeosalinity, [3] palaeohumidity, [4] weathering indices, and finally [5] bioproductivity were utilised. The combined outcome of these proxies together with field-based sedimentological observations led to a detailed reconstruction of the environment that prevailed during the deposition of the Bernesga Mb. black shales. A generic model is developed for the formation of these organically enriched sediments. This model is subsequently compared to previously published Silurian, black ‘hot’ shale models. The major parameters controlling the development of the Cantabrian black shale deposits were mainly the presence of a pronounced palaeorelief, which was generated by a combination of tectonic pulses related to the widening of the Rheic Ocean to the north and glaciogenic processes of the Hirnantian ice masses to the south. Orbital parameters or ‘deep time cycles’, mainly Obliquity and Eccentricity in combination with tectonic pulses led to high resolution sea-level oscillations and consequent cyclic behaviour of the redox elements recorded within the ‘hot’ shale deposits of the southern Cantabrian Basin. Additionally, 209 measurements of 76 international and inter-laboratory standards were performed to formulate new equations for the precise calibration of major and trace elements.
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Lewis, Carys. "La place de «People of the Black Mountains» dans l'oeuvre de Raymond Williams : entre métafiction historico-géographique et récit postcolonial gallois." Brest, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009BRES1014.
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McLuckie, Ann Marie 1965. "Genetics, morphology, and ecology of the desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) in the Black Mountains, Mohave County, Arizona." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278528.
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Desert tortoises (Gopherus agassizii) occurring east and south of the Colorado River form the "Sonoran population," a regulatory designation of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, whereas tortoises west and north of the river constitute the "Mojave population." This distinction is based on significant genetic, morphometric and ecological differences. However, mitochondrial DNA, morphometric, and ecological data from the eastern bajada of the Black Mountains (about 40 km east of the Colorado River) identify the evolutionary affinities of those tortoises as Mojavean: ten of eleven Black Mountain tortoises possessed the Mojave genotype, twenty-four of thirty-seven tortoises predominantly expressed the Mojave phenotype, and all tortoises were similar to Mojave populations in macrohabitat selection. Some ecological and behavioral attributes such as home range size and hibernaculum selection did not differ among Mojave, Sonoran, and Black Mountain tortoises. Several hypotheses on how the Mojave trait became established in the Black Mountains are discussed.
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Trent, Jewel Andrew. "Ecology, Habitat Use, and Conservation of Asiatic Black Bears in the Min Mountains of Sichuan Province, China." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33560.
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This project was initiated in an attempt to address the paucity of data on Asiatic black bears (Ursus thibetanus) in Mainland China. Field work was carried out from May 2004 – August 2006 within the Tangjiahe National Nature Reserve in northwestern Sichuan Province, China. Initial methodology relied on trapping and GPS radio-collaring bears, but due to extreme difficulty with capturing a sufficient sample size, I expanded the study to include reproduction, feeding analysis from scats and sign, and occupancy modeling from sign surveys. I documented the home ranges of an adult female (100% MCP = 107.5km2, n=470 locations) and a sub-adult female (100%MCP = 5.9km2, n=36 locations) Asiatic black bear. I also documented two birthing occasions with a total of four male cubs produced and eight bear den sites. I collected feeding data from 131 scat samples and 200 bear sign transects resulting in 50 identified food items consumed by Asiatic black bears. I also employed the program PRESENCE to analyze occupancy data using both a standard grid repeated sampling technique and an innovative technique of aging bear sign along strip transect surveys to represent repeated bear occupancy over time. Conservation protection patrolling and soft mast were shown to be the most important factors determining the occupancy of an area by Asiatic black bears in Tangjiahe Nature Reserve, Sichuan Province, China.Master of Science
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Sorsby, Skyler J. "Mountain-Block Recharge to the Cache Valley Principal Aquifer and Geochemical Controls on Groundwater Movement in Alpine Karst." DigitalCommons@USU, 2019. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7466.
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Groundwater is documented to flow through solution-widened fractures and bedding planes in limestone and dolostone units in low-relief topography. This enhancement, or karstification, is much harder to study in alpine environments like the Bear River Range of northern Utah. This is problematic, due to the fact that the Bear River Range karst aquifer system supplies the City of Logan with a large quantity of water at Dewitt Spring. Furthermore, the karst aquifer sustains the Logan River for much of the year, and may allow groundwater to flow directly in the subsurface to the Cache Valley principal aquifer system.
Flow measurements along the Logan River constrain a minimum volume of 2.32x106 m3 /y (1.88x103 af/y) that could recharge the Cache Valley principal aquifer. Hydraulic characteristics of alpine karst were estimated by analysis of major ions, stable isotopes, and dissolved gases in spring waters. These data reflect quick groundwater flow through caverns, with no evidence for “diffuse” flow anticipated by some to occupy interstitial space. In fact, the oldest reasonable estimated recharge age for groundwater is 70 years. Young recharge, fast flow, and low storage capability indicate that alpine karst aquifers are very sensitive to droughts and that related water resources are vulnerable to longer-term changes in climate.
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Kenner, Robert. "Genesis, conservation and deformation of ice-rich mountain permafrost:." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2018. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-236283.
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This thesis analyses ice-rich mountain permafrost with regard to its genesis, distribution, deformation and interaction with other environmental factors. The processes influencing ground ice formation in ice-rich and ice-poor mountain permafrost are highlighted. Factors influencing the presence of ice-rich permafrost are identified and their individual or combined effect on frozen ground is determined. Based on these findings, a new permafrost distribution map of Switzerland was created, which specifies permafrost temperature and ice contents and considers rock glacier creep paths. The deformation of rock glaciers is investigated with newly developed monitoring systems and concepts. This enables a better understanding of the processes leading to rock glacier acceleration at different time scales.
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Ibrahim, Habib. "Jean Damascène arabe : édition critique des deux traités Contre les Nestoriens." Thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EPHE5019.
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Dans cette thèse, nous étudions la question du traducteur du corpus de Jean Damascène en arabe. Deux noms sont proposés : Antoine, higoumène du Monastère Saint-Siméon-le-jeune (10e siècle) et ‘Abdallah ibn al-Faḍl (11e siècle). La découverte d’un traité supplémentaire, le Contre les Nestoriens 1, ignoré de nos prédécesseurs s’est avérée être la clef pour résoudre cette question. C’est pourquoi nous nous sommes résolus de faire une édition critique de ce traité et du deuxième traité Contre les Nestoriens 2, tous deux traduits par le même traducteur et portant sur le même sujet. Dans l’introduction qui précède l’édition, nous consacrons une première partie au contexte historique de cette traduction, c’est-à-dire aux circonstances du passage d’Antioche du grec à l’arabe. Dans la deuxième partie, nous faisons un état de la recherche sur la traduction de Jean Damascène en arabe. Puis, nous fournirons une nouvelle description des manuscrits qui contiennent au moins un des deux traités Contre les Nestoriens et soulignerons leur apport à la solution de la question posée. Après avoir identifié le traducteur et les œuvres qu’il a traduites, nous essayerons de recueillir quelques informations biographiques sur notre traducteur à partir des colophons. Nous étudierons également la postérité du texte avant de laisser place à l’édition critique. L’ensemble est complété par plusieurs indexIn this thesis, I would like to study the question about the translator of John Damascene’s corpus Greek into Arabic. Two names were suggested by scholars: Antony, Abbot of the Monastery Saint-Symon-the-Young (10th century) and ‘Abdallah ibn al-Faḍl (11th century). The discovery of a second Against the Nestorians was the key to solve this question. For this reason, I decided to make a critical edition of the two Against the Nestorians because the translator and the subject are the same, willing to publish the whole translation in the future. In the introduction that precedes the edition, I talked about the historical context and the events that leaded to the translation activity in Antioch (10th /11th century). In the second chapter, I resumed scholars’ conclusions on the Arabic translation of John Damascene’s works. Then, I gave a new description of the manuscripts that have at least one of the two Against the Nestorians and explain how that helped me identifying the translator. After identifying the translator and the works he translated, I collected some new bibliographical information about him from the colophons. I also studied the posterity of the translation. In the third chapter, I tried to find a Greek manuscript similar in content to the Arabic translation. I presented also the way the translator translates from Greek into Arabic. Then, I divided the different manuscripts into groups and draw the stemma. Those introductory elements are followed by the edition, and the whole work is completed by some index containing mostly references to theological and philosophical vocabulary in the edition
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Horton, Ron. "On Family and Fences: Tracing Melungeon Roots in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and Tennessee." PDXScholar, 2010. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1974.
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The Melungeons are a group of indeterminable origin living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Southeastern Tennessee and Southwestern Virginia. This thesis describes characteristics of these tri-racial isolates and gives theories as to their mysterious origins. Being darker skinned, the Melungeons were pushed into more mountainous regions by European colonists in the early 1700’s. While multiple hypotheses exist as to the origin of the Melungeon people, there is no single theory that is accepted by all scholars.
Dr. Brent Kennedy’s The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People, served as a catalyst for my Melungeon research. Kennedy is my cousin, and his book provided facts behind the family stories I recalled from childhood. It also linked me to other famous Melungeons such as Brandy Jack Mullins and Mahala Mullins. Although there are an abundance of stories and facts about my Melungeon heritage, there is also much history that has been lost.
This thesis traces my Melungeon roots, following the family stories of N.B. Kennedy, Brandy Jack Mullins, Mahala Mullins, and Kenneth Kennedy. In order to fully understand these people and their stories, I not only researched their history, but I also visited the areas where they lived and died. In this manner, I was able to gain a better understanding my own family as well as the history of the Melungeons.
A person’s past is pieced together through oral history, written records, fading pictures, and personal artifacts. Along with these methods, we as writers and researchers add a bit of our own thought and imagination to fill in the gaps of a person’s life. In this manner, personal mythology is created. This thesis ends with an example of one fictionalized story from my family surrounding the death of my uncle, Kenneth Kennedy.
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Hoang, Cham, and Moa Stangefelt. "Possible Impact from Alaskan Forest Fires on Glaciers of St. Elias Mountains, Yukon Canada." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-256366.
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How great potential effect does the Black carbon emitted from the boreal forest fire region of Alaska have on the retreating glaciers of the St. Elias Mountains? In this study climate and forest fire history data of Alaska was run in the HYSPLIT wind trajectory model to generate trajectories originated from large occurring fires in Alaska from 2005 to 2014. Results show a small percentage of trajectories passing the St. Elias Mountains and an expected pattern of a correlation between passing trajectories and density of amount forest fires. Interdisciplinary climate research is indicating an increase in global temperatures with consequences such as an upswing of forest fires in the Northern Hemisphere. Inner Alaska is fire prone due to a combination of prevailing droughts during the summer season and frequent lightning ignition as a result from homogeneous vegetation and topography. Downwind from Alaska’s forest fire region is the ice field of the St. Elias Mountains, these glaciers are one of the fastest retreating due to increasing global temperatures and possible deposition of soot from Alaskan forest fires. Forest fire emits black carbon, which when deposited on snow or ice surfaces will decrease the albedo and accelerate the melting rate. Previous studies on ice cores from the St. Elias have investigated traces of combustion products from biomass burning. This indicates a possible record of historic forest fires in ice cores. The small percentage of passing trajectories in this study suggests that most large forest fires in Alaska might not be registered in the St. Elias ice cores.
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Sokoloski, William P. "SEDIMENTOLOGY AND ICHNOLOGY OF LATE CAMBRIAN TO EARLY ORDOVICIAN SKOLITHOS SANDSTONE IN THE DEADWOOD FORMATION, NORTHERN BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, AND SOUTHEASTERN BEAR LODGE MOUNTAINS, WYOMING." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1116014816.
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Cannon, Ammie. "Controversial Politics, Conservative Genre: Rex Stout's Archie-Wolfe Duo and Detective Fiction's Conventional Form." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2006. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/469.
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Rex Stout maintained his popular readership despite the often controversial and radical political content expressed in his detective fiction. His political ideals often made him many enemies. Stances such as his ardent opposition to censorship, racism, Nazism, Germany, Fascism, Communism, McCarthyism, and the unfettered FBI were potentially offensive to colleagues and readers from various political backgrounds. Yet Stout attempted to present radical messages via the content of his detective fiction with subtlety. As a literary traditionalist, he resisted using his fiction as a platform for an often extreme political agenda. Where political messages are apparent in his work, Stout employs various techniques to mute potentially offensive messages. First, his hugely successful bantering Archie Goodwin-Nero Wolfe detective duo—a combination of both the lippy American and the tidy, sanitary British detective schools—fosters exploration, contradiction, and conflict between political viewpoints. Archie often rejects or criticizes Wolfe's extreme political viewpoints. Second, Stout utilizes the contradictions between values that occur when the form of detective fiction counters his radical political messages. This suggests that the form of detective fiction (in this case the conventional patterns and attitudes reinforced by the genre) is as important as the content (in this case the muted political message or the lack of overt politics) in reinforcing or shaping political, economic, moral, and social viewpoints. An analysis of the novels The Black Mountain (1954) and The Doorbell Rang (1965) and the novellas "Not Quite Dead Enough" and "Booby Trap" (1944) from Stout's Nero Wolfe series demonstrates his use of detective fiction for both the expression of political viewpoints and the muting of those political messages.
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Knight, Catherine Heather. "The bear as barometer : the Japanese response to human-bear conflict : a thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Japanese Studies at the University of Canterbury /." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Languages and Cultures, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/991.
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The Asiatic black bear, or 'moon bear', has inhabited Japan since pre-historic times, and is the largest animal to have roamed Honshu, Shikoku and Kyushu since mega-fauna became extinct on the Japanese archipelago after the last glacial period. Despite this, the bear features only rarely in the folklore, literature and arts of Japan's mainstream culture. This relative cultural invisibility in the lowland agrarian-based culture of Japan contrasts markedly with its cultural significance in many upland regions where subsistence lifestyles based on hunting, gathering and beliefs centred on the mountain deity (yama no kami) have persisted until recently. However, in recent decades the bear has been propelled from its position of relative cultural obscurity into the forefront of mainstream society's attention. As more and more of the bear's habitat is destroyed or degraded through forestry and development, the bear is increasingly encroaching onto human territory in its search for food, leading to pestilence and bear attacks. This thesis examines the nature of the contemporary human-bear relationship in Japan, dominated by human-bear conflict, or the so-called 'bear problem'. To better understand the contemporary response to the bear, the thesis explores the historical relationship of the Japanese with both the bear and its habitat, the forested uplands. The thesis further seeks to understand how cultural, historical, social and geographic factors influence a society's response to wildlife conflict and what can be learnt from the Japanese example which can be applied to the understanding of human society's response to wildlife conflict elsewhere.
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McManamay, Rachel Harris. "Assessing the Impacts of Balsam Woolly Adelgid (Adelges Piceae Ratz.) and Anthropogenic Disturbance on the Stand Structure and Mortality of Fraser Fir (Abies Fraseri (Pursh) Poir.) in the Black Mountains, North Carolina." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/42759.
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Over the past several decades, naturally occurring populations of Fraser fir (Abies fraseri) in the Black Mountains of North Carolina have been heavily impacted by both direct and indirect anthropogenic disturbances, including logging and logging- associated fires, and high mortality rates due to the introduction of the exotic insect, balsam woolly adelgid (BWA) (Adelges piceae). The decline in Fraser fir is particularly concern because it serves as a foundation species within the spruce-fir forests of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Our objectives for this research were to 1) use current stand structure to infer whether Fraser fir trees are experiencing a cycle of regeneration-mortality that will lead to eventual decline of the population, 2) determine what role, if any, the site-specific geographic variables of slope, elevation, aspect, and land use history have on stand structure, mortality, and BWA infestation level, and 3) analyze repeat aerial photography to examine broad trends of spruce-fir forest cover change caused by anthropogenic disturbance and the BWA. In order to understand stand structure, mortality, and infestation levels, we conducted detailed field surveys of Fraser fir trees throughout the Black Mountains using 44, fixed-radius circular sampling plots. These plots were placed throughout a series of aspects, elevations, and disturbance types in order to understand geographic variability among these variables. An analysis of 4 repeat aerial photographs and corroborating ground photographs revealed broad spatio-temporal trends of spruce-fir regeneration and mortality from 1954 to 2006. Our results indicate that Fraser fir stands at higher elevations are currently in a state of recovery; whereas stands at lower elevations appear to be more susceptible to BWA-induced mortality. Changes in forest cover area from 1954 to 2006 were influenced greatly by direct and indirect anthropogenic disturbance. Our results call attention to the significant impact that direct and indirect anthropogenic disturbance has had on Fraser fir stand structure, but also provide evidence for the ability of an imperiled ecosystem to recover from high rates of insect caused mortality.Master of Science
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Hoopes, John C. "An Integrated Geophysical and Geologic Study of the Paleogene-Age Volcanic Body and Possible Landslide Deposit on the South Slope of the Traverse Mountains, Utah." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2011. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2866.
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Development of homes, roads, and commercial buildings in northern Utah has grown significantly during the last several decades. Construction has expanded from the valley floor to higher elevations of benches, foothills, and other elevated regions of the Wasatch Mountain Front. Construction in the higher elevation areas are a concern due to potential for landslides, both new and reactivated. Landslides have been identified in this region and are dated as Pleistocene to historical in age. A possible landslide of about 0.5 km2 on the south slope of Traverse Mountain has been mapped by the Utah Geological Survey in 2005. Its surface exhibits hummocky topography and is comprised of Oligocene-age volcanic ash, block and ash flow tuffs, and andesite lava. Landslides along the Wasatch Mountain Front are complex features usually characterized by dense vegetation and poor outcrop and require a combination geological and geophysical methods to study their thickness, slope, lateral extent, and style of emplacement. Our study incorporates trenching, boreholes, and LiDAR aerial imagery. Unique to the study of landslides is our use of seismic reflection with a vibroseis source over the mapped landslide deposit. The seismic parameters of source, station spacing, and processing method provide a coherent, albeit low-resolution, image of the upper 500 m of the subsurface beneath the landslide. A major reflector boundary in our seismic profiles has an apparent dip of 4° to the south, approximately parallel with the surface topography. Its elevation and seismic character are indicative of a contact between the Oligocene-age volcanic rocks on top of a portion of the Pennsylvanian-age Bingham Mine Formation, a mixed carbonate and siliciclastic sequence. The reflector defines an asymmetric graben-like structure bounded by a north-northwest-trending normal fault system. Analysis of trenches, boreholes and local geology reveals a faulted, chaotic body of block and ash flow tuffs, surrounded by andesite lavas. Using LiDAR and surface geological reconnaissance, a possible toe or margin of a landslide has been interpreted in the north-west portion of the study area. The combination weakened block and ash flow tuffs and abundant clay production from this unit contribute to the likelihood of a coalescence of landslides in this mapped landslide area. The integration of LiDAR, trenching, boreholes and reflection seismology provides the range and resolution of data needed to assess the complex geology of landslides.
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Bureš, Miloš. "Obnova Alfredovy chaty v Jeseníkách." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-371893.
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This diploma thesis describes the design of hut with accomodation and restaurant. The hut is situated in Jeseníky mountains. The house is designed as detached house made of clay blocks, with timber roof truss and gable roof. The building has three floors, first one is particulary embedded under the terrain. On the ground floor there is garage, technical and storage rooms. Restaurant with kitchen, toilets,rooms for employees, reception and barrier-free guest room is located on the first floor. On the second floor there are guest and employee rooms.
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Kopečková, Kristýna. "Horský penzion s wellness." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-265232.
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The subject of my thesis is the design mountain guesthouse with a wellness centre, which is located in the village of Mala Morávka, at the level of documentation for construction. The new building is located in the cadastre unit Karlov pod Pradědem. This is a two floors, slab-building L-shaped with separate parking for visitors of boarding house and wellness centre. The structural system is composed of ceramic blocks Porotherm and reinforced concrete joist floor. Roof structure is made up of wooden trusses girders saddle shape. Design of mountain guesthouse with wellness centre respects the territorial plan of the village of Malá Morávka.
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Lee, Chun-Man, and 李春滿. "Black Church and Black Community in James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64763204940308247047.
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This thesis aims to investigate the black church and black community in James Baldwin’s first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain. Particularly, it probes how and why the religion, namely Christianity, casts a loaded shadow for African Americans. I argue that Baldwin, on the one hand, vigorously illustrates a bodily pious black community by bombarding us with heaps of biblical texts and church songs; on the other hand, he serenely indicts a spiritually hollow black church by narrating a blues-like comically sad tone. I discuss Baldwin’s relentless wrestle with God in Chapter One. I suggest reading Go Tell It on the Mountain together with Baldwin’s essay, The Fire Next Time, to flesh out the weighty issue of religion in the text. Since black community and black church generally symbolizes each other in the early history of Africa American lives, I make a detour to explore the emergence and development of the Black Church in Chapter Two. It is also an attempt to explain how the white God in the U.S.A. becomes black and how and why black community eventually accepts the then indifferent God to be their own. In Chapter Three, I look into the importance (and impotence) of the epitome of black community—Harlem—in terms of its geographical location, position, and structure within the capitalist metropolis, New York. This chapter travels with John Grimes, the protagonist, to see the white man’s world and to investigate the impossibility and oxymoron of “black flâneur.” Then I discuss in Chapter Four the performing arts of the Black Church, as well as the secular music outside of the Black Church. Baldwin intelligently borrows God’s spear and shield—the language in the Bible and the music played inside (and later outside) the Black Church—as his writing tool to tell a gospel-like parable. At last, I would conclude that GTIM serves as a parable of the secular world for Baldwin has sung a blues gospel to the world.
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Taliaferro, Matthew Stuart. "The Black Mountain phase occupation at Old Town : an examination of social and technological organization in the Mimbres Valley of southwestern New Mexico, ca. A.D 1150 - 1300." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/25885.
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The Black Mountain phase of the Mimbres Mogollon cultural tradition, dating from around A.D. 1150 through A.D. 1300, is perhaps the most poorly understood time period of the entire Mimbres sequence. During that time, people inhabiting the Mimbres Valley of southwestern New Mexico adopted new ceramic sequences, ceased producing Black-on-white pottery, adopted new architectural styles, and possibly changed mortuary patterns. These changes have been interpreted in a multitude of ways that can be reduced to models of continuity and discontinuity. Unfortunately, these models and interpretations rest on a very limited set of data that comes largely from three moderately tested Black Mountain phase sites in the Mimbres Valley proper: Montoya, Old Town, and Walsh. Thus, arguments for or against either model based on the presence of absence of particular traits are necessarily limited by the modest data from these three sites. It was in this context of opposing interpretations that other aspects of the life ways of Black Mountain phase peoples were analyzed. Specifically, I look at the ways lithic and ceramic technologies were organized to assess if the changes that occurred during the Black Mountain phase also represent changes in the ways social systems were organized. I believe that while certain aspects of material culture such as shifts in ceramic or architectural style are easily changed whereas the social mechanisms responsible for their production are more resistant. The results of these analyses demonstrate that there are more similarities than differences with respect to the manner in which technologies were organized during the time periods traditionally accepted as representing “Mimbres” manifestations and the Black Mountain phase. Thus, the social mechanisms dictating the processes of production, distribution, transmission, and reproduction appear to be similar from the Pithouse periods through the Black Mountain phase. This research adds to the growing body of evidence that suggests continuity between the Classic period inhabitants of the Mimbres area and later Black Mountain phase peoples.text
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Dias, Alexandra Luísa Ribeiro. "Ecology and management of Pinus nigra in mountain areas." Doctoral thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10348/10719.
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Ciências Agronómicas e Florestais - Tese apresentada à Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto DouroPinus nigra Arnold is a relict pine species from the Tertiary period, with a complex botanical classification. Its natural distribution is wide, fragmented and ranges from the Northern Mediterranean, North Africa and Eastwards to the Black Sea, Corsica and Sicily islands. In Portugal, P. nigra populations are allochthonous, were planted 50 to 90 years ago with plant material of unknown origin and, until the beginning of this work, were just characterized morphologically by Louro in 1982. This work intended to evaluate the P. nigra stands planted in the North and Centre of Portugal, their wood density, growth and quality traits, and to characterise molecularly their genetic structure, variability and relationships in order to infer about their origin and/or infraspecific taxonomy by comparison with P. nigra samples from different provenances and with known taxonomic classification. For this work, six planted stands that were considered representative of the species distribution in Portugal were chosen. Height and diameter at breast height (DBH) was measured and the general state of these stands evaluated. Overall, no mortality was observed except in Paredes de Coura, where trees manifested poor growth. Schumacher model was tested for the prediction of DBH growth and provided satisfying results in terms of the model fitness. Wood traits evaluation revealed that P. nigra had identical or slightly higher values of wood density components, similar growth rate and mechanical properties, higher fiber length and extractive content and lower Klason lignin and H/G ratio than Pinus pinaster which constitutes the main species used by the Portuguese forestry industry. In this sense, P. nigra could be used to satisfy wood national demands. Concerning the genetic results achieved with dominant inter-simple sequence repeats (ISSRs) and Start Codon Targeted (SCoT) markers, 127 P. nigra individuals planted in Portugal were clustered per population. Genetic differentiation was higher within rather than among populations. The pooled ISSR and SCoT data indicated that the Portuguese populations had higher genetic proximity with foreign samples of subspecies laricio. Also, the separate analysis per marker system revealed that two varieties of subspecies laricio (corsicana and calabrica) may have been used in the plantations of the Portuguese P. nigra stands. Upon molecularly analysed with codominant markers simple sequence repeats (SSRs), the same planted populations also revealed higher intra-population diversity but a genetic structure defined into two clusters with low differentiation. This last feature might suggest two provenances or infraspecific taxa, corroborating the results achieved with the dominant markers. Despite the comparison of the SSR data among Portuguese and foreign P. nigra samples from different subspecies, it was not possible to infer unequivocally the origin and/or infraspecific taxonomy of the planted populations. Although the multidisciplinary characterizations performed during this work in the P. nigra planted in Portugal provided useful information for future studies on forest management, afforestation and germplasm use, research involving the comparison of the Portuguese samples with others from different provenances and infraspecific taxa, and the use of other marker systems, should not be discarded.
Pinus nigra Arnold é uma conífera do período Terciário, de classificação botânica complexa. A sua distribuição natural é ampla e fragmentada, abrangendo desde o Norte do Mediterrâneo, Norte de África e, a Este, o Mar Negro, bem como as ilhas de Córsega e Sicília. Em Portugal, as populações de P. nigra são alóctones, foram plantadas há 50 a 90 anos com material vegetal de origem desconhecida, e até ao início deste trabalho, foram apenas caracterizadas morfologicamente por Louro em 1982. Este trabalho pretendeu avaliar a aptidão dos povoamentos de P. nigra plantados no Norte e Centro de Portugal, as suas características de densidade, crescimento e qualidade da madeira, e caracterizar molecularmente a estrutura, variabilidade e relações genéticas para inferir sobre a sua origem e/ou taxonomia infraespecífica por comparação com amostras de P. nigra de diferentes origens e com classificação taxonómica conhecida. Para este trabalho foram escolhidos seis povoamentos plantados considerados representativos da distribuição da espécie em Portugal. Foi avaliado o estado geral dos povoamentos através da altura e diâmetro à altura do peito (DAP). No geral, nenhuma mortalidade foi observada, exceto em Paredes de Coura, onde as árvores manifestaram fraco crescimento. O modelo de Schumacher foi testado para a previsão do crescimento do DAP, fornecendo resultados satisfatórios e adequados para a espécie. A avaliação das características da madeira revelou que P. nigra demonstrava valores idênticos ou ligeiramente superiores de componentes de densidade de madeira, taxa de crescimento, propriedades mecânicas semelhantes, maior comprimento das fibras e conteúdo extrativo e menor lenhina Klason e razão H/G comparativamente com Pinus pinaster, que constitui uma das principais espécies utilizadas pela indústria florestal portuguesa. Neste sentido, P. nigra poderia ser utilizada para atender às necessidades nacionais da indústria florestal. Relativamente aos resultados genéticos alcançados com os marcadores dominantes intermicrossatélites (ISSR) e SCoT (“Start Codon Targeted”), 127 indivíduos de P. nigra plantados em Portugal foram agrupados por população. A diferenciação genética foi maior dentro da população do que entre as populações. A totalidade dos dados ISSR e SCoT indicaram que as populações portuguesas tinham maior proximidade genética com amostras estrangeiras da subespécie laricio. Adicionalmente, a análise separada por sistema marcador revelou que as duas variedades da subespécie laricio (corsicana e calabrica) podem ter sido usadas nas plantações dos povoamentos portugueses de P. nigra. Após a análise molecular realizada com os marcadores codominantes microssatélites (SSR), as mesmas populações plantadas também revelaram maior diversidade intra-populacional mas uma estrutura genética definida em dois grupos com baixa diferenciação. Este facto pode sugerir duas proveniências ou taxa infraespecíficos, corroborando os resultados alcançados com os marcadores dominantes. Apesar da comparação dos dados SSR entre amostras portuguesas e estrangeiras de P. nigra de diferentes subespécies, não foi possível inferir de forma inequívoca a origem e/ou a taxonomia infraespecífica das populações plantadas. Embora as caracterizações multidisciplinares realizadas ao longo deste trabalho nas populações de P. nigra plantadas em Portugal tenham fornecido informações úteis para a gestão florestal, florestação e utilização de germoplasma, pesquisas futuras envolvendo a comparação das amostras portuguesas com outras de diferentes proveniências e taxa infraespecíficos, e o uso de outros sistemas marcadores, não devem ser descartadas.
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Lee, Hsiu-Fen, and 李秀芬. "An Exploration on The Marketing Strategies of "Aboriginal" Coffee Industry-The Black Gold Culture In Dawu Mountain." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6nw38m.
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Abstract In facing the nature and life, the “Aboriginal” of weak social status are accepting the main stream value of ‘Policy’ in an attitude of ‘humility’, ‘sharing’, ‘mutual help’ and ‘leisurely’. However, many policies failed to keep up with times or information asymmetry up and down, resulting the micro-economy of Aboriginal Tribes has been repeatedly hampered and harmed. This research was mainly to study the marketing difficulties of “Aboriginal” coffee through in-depth interviews, in order to find out what kind of strategy can it be turned into an better opportunity.It has been found that, the ‘Agricultural Resources Commission’ of Central Government from beginning did not attach too much importance to the potential development and growing business opportunities of the coffee industry. There are no government agricultural agencies have a dedicated unit to counsel and provide comprehensive assistances to the production and marketing of coffee in order better economic benefits for the producers. The study through case by case discussing with individual coffee producer, to explore the best practices of the management, to understand the problems of their facing and as well as the coping strategies. By taking the methods of literature exploration, field observation and semi structure in-depth interviews to promote the best policy of “Aboriginal” coffee industry. It has been discovered that, ‘Policy’ after implement for a long time must be ‘Review and Adjust’ with ‘Time and Law’, otherwise will hinder the weak industry, creating direct impact to the production and operation of coffee farmers’ development. Problems such as ‘Information Asymmetry’, ‘Top to Bottom Administrative Inconsistencies’, causing the basic public sectors failed to implement the policies effectively, in result of indigenous people to become direct victims. Some good policies due to spatial factors being in stagnation, unable to continue in accordance with time and space changes. All these factors were found attributed to hinder the development of miniature economic in Aboriginal areas. This study explored how the Aboriginal coffee be introduced into Taiwan market and how the coffee industry should act towards the ‘6 P’. In Strategy: to integrate individual farmer to create independent brand awareness; In Marketing: to positioning the product brand, and to stabilize production in order prices to increase; In Sales Channels: to participate all kinds of sales promotional activities for better exposition, to introduce online selling and home delivery sales; In Policy: Government to set up dedicated agencies to enlarge Taiwan coffee market, to attract more farmers to put into production, to increase the output value to become more competitive in the expansion of International Market. Keywords: marketing mix, micro economy, mainstream value, marketing strategy, international competitive market
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Muzerengi, Confidence. "Gold-sulphide mineralisation in the Giyani Grrenstone Belt case studies at Black Mountain and West-59 targets, Limpopo Province, South Africa." Diss., 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/224.
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Dempsey, Kate Erin. "Ray Johnson in correspondence with Marcel Duchamp and beyond." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/21766.
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Believing that one thing was real only if it corresponded with others, Ray Johnson highlighted the connections between himself and famous artists such as Marcel Duchamp. The ways the two artists thought and how they shaped their lives corresponded like two elements in Johnson's collages. My study of Johnson through the lens of Duchamp allows me to discuss two highly intellectual and creative artists. I address the few direct interactions between Johnson and Duchamp as well as their mutual acquaintances who served as conduits of information, particularly in Johnson's direction. This dissertation focuses on Johnson's creative engagement with Duchamp and begins to explicate the depth and richness of that interchange. Each chapter focuses on several key works by Johnson, ranging from some of his earliest collages to what was perhaps the last work he completed. Through these works I explore the correspondences between the two artists outside of their individual works, with each chapter looking at one major theme including language, the viewer, performance, and identity. I outline the relationship between Duchamp and Johnson, using the selected collages to demonstrate how the synergy of the two artists is manifested in Johnson's work. My work sheds light on the enigmatic Johnson who has only very recently come under critical and historical investigation. By looking at Duchamp from this unique perspective I am also contributing to our understanding of one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Most artists after Duchamp felt that they worked in his shadow but Johnson's relationship to the elder artist was different. He seems to have understood Duchamp better than almost anyone and therefore was able to selectively choose his inheritance--defining himself alongside and against Duchamp.text
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Inman, Robert Michael. "Caloric Production of Black Bear Foods in Great Smoky Mountains National Park." 1997. http://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/7.
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Understanding energetic potential of habitat patches is important for management designed to provide adequate habitat for wildlife species. Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) has a high density of black bears that have been studied intensively from 1968-1997; habitats within the Park are relatively undisturbed, and similar vegetative cover types can be found throughout the southern Appalachian mountains. Black bear reproduction in the Park has been correlated to hard mast production, however little work has been done to assess the importance of soft mast. Geographic Information System (GIS) based habitat use models have been developed for bears in the Park, yet the importance of foods in determining habitat selection, and the possibility of sexual habitat segregation due to food availability have not yet been determined. The primary objectives of the study included estimation of the location, timing, and amount of caloric production by 19 important black bear foods and determination of the significance of caloric production by mast type, season, overstory vegetation type, and plant species. Secondary objectives were to test for correlation of bear habitat use with estimated caloric production from mast, and to test for sexual segregation of habitats based on caloric production. This study was limited to the northwest quadrant of GSMNP during 1995.
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(5930639), Carolyn L. Gleason. "LIFE IN THE RAIN SHADOW: UNDERSTANDING SOURCES OF RECHARGE, GROUNDWATER FLOW, AND THEIR EFFECTS ON GROUNDWATER DEPENDENT ECOSYSTEMS IN THE PANAMINT RANGE, DEATH VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, USA." Thesis, 2019.
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Despite its location in the rain shadow of the southern Sierra Nevada, the Panamint Range within Death Valley National Park, CA hosts a complex aquifer system that supports numerous springs. These springs, in turn, support unique groundwater-dependent ecological communities. Spring emergences range in elevation from 2434 m above sea level (within the mountain block) to 77 m below sea level (in the adjacent basins). Waters were collected from representative Panamint Range springs and analyzed for environmental isotopes and geochemical tracers to address the following questions: 1) What is the primary source of recharge for the springs? How much recharge occurs on the Panamint Range? 2) What groundwater flowpaths and geologic units support springflow generation? and 3) What are the residence times of the springs? The stable isotopic composition (δ18O and δ2H) of spring water and precipitation indicate that localized high-elevation snowmelt is the dominant source of recharge to these perennial springs, though recharge from rainfall is not wholly insignificant. Geochemical evolution was evaluated using principle component analysis to compare the concentrations of all major spring cations and anions in a multidimensional space and group them according to dominant geochemical signatures. These resulting geochemical groups are controlled primarily by topography. The Noonday Dolomite and other carbonate units in the range are identified as the water-bearing units in the mountain block based on the 87Sr/86Sr of spring waters and rock samples. These units also offer higher hydraulic conductivities than other formations and are chemically similar. Radiocarbon- and 3H derived residence times of these spring waters range from modern to approximately 1840 years, with the shortest residence times at higher altitudes and Hanaupah Canyon and increasing residence times with decreasing altitude. This residence time-altitude relationship is likewise likely topography-driven though there are significant disparities in mountain block storage between the various canyons of the range resulting in variable residence times between drainages. Lower Warm Springs A and B, however, are the exceptions to this trend as they emerge at lower altitudes (750m above sea level) and are likely driven by the transport of groundwater to the surface along faults which increases both the temperature and groundwater residence times of waters from these springs. Benthic macroinvertebrates and benthic and planktonic microbes were also sampled for each spring studied. BMI and microbial community structure in the Panamint Range is likewise topography-controlled with more tolerant communities at lower elevations (within more chemically evolved waters) and less tolerant species in the unevolved waters at higher elevations.