Sand movement and vegetation in the Apostle Islands, Lake Superior

1986 ◽  
Vol 64 (8) ◽  
pp. 1671-1674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth A. Middleton ◽  
David J. Schimpf
Keyword(s):  
Grain Size ◽  
Lake Superior ◽  
Grain Morphology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ammophila Breviligulata ◽  
Positive Skewness ◽  
Negative Skewness ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sand Movement ◽  
A Site

Recent sand movement was inferred from grain morphology, modal grain size, and grain size distributional skewness of samples from the surfaces of beach–dune landscapes. Negative skewness indicated recent net deflation, and either positive skewness or small modal grain size indicated recent net aeolian accretion. Large grains that were shiny and angular indicated surfaces that could not have been deposited by wind. Net deflation occurred where vegetational cover was below 10%, in foredunes and an interdunal blowout. All other sites in dunal, interdunal, or forested zones showed evidence of net accretion or a balance of accretion and deflation. Net accretion was evident in locations with as little as 15% cover. Relationships between sand movement and vegetational composition could not be separated from relationships with total cover. The sandy foreland of one island was bulldozed during the 1950s. This apparently brought coarser Holocene beach deposits near the surface, which limited the severity of blowout by providing a deflation armor. Ammophila breviligulata has not recolonized the interdunal zone of this island, though it persists in this zone on the other islands. The study of grains in cores may reveal the history of vegetational cover at a site.

Relationship of grain-size modes to nearshore sedimentary environments, Lake Superior, Ontario

1970 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 522-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
John S. Mothersill
Keyword(s):  
Grain Size ◽  
Size Distribution ◽  
Grain Size Distribution ◽  
Lake Superior ◽  
Strong Tendency ◽  
Sedimentary Environments ◽  
Positive Skewness ◽  
Negative Skewness ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Bimodal Grain Size

Longshore-troughs and bars were studied at Batchawana Bay and Pancake Bay, Lake Superior, Ontario. The longshore-trough areas would appear to have been formed by plunging waves that winnowed out the finer sand grains which were then moved lakeward by the undertow to build up the adjacent longshore-bar areas. This process would appear to be confirmed by a grain-size analyses of 242 samples taken from along the axes of the longshore-troughs and bars. The longshore-trough samples had either a unimodal or bimodal grain-size distribution whereas the longshore-bar samples always had a unimodal grain-size distribution. The longshore-trough samples showed a strong tendency towards negative skewness as would be expected from winnowed sediments and would also appear to have a modified grain-size modality of the parent sediment. The longshore-bar samples were finer grained, well sorted and unimodal, and showed a strong tendency towards positive skewness as would be expected if the sediments had been winnowed out of the longshore-trough areas and then re-deposited along the longshore-bars.

Paleomagnetic history of the Mealy dykes of Labrador, Canada

1983 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 1818-1833 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. K. Park ◽  
R. F. Emslie
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Magnetic Mineral ◽  
Magnetic Minerals ◽  
Linear Distribution ◽  
Tectonic Zone ◽  
Magnetic Components ◽  
History Of ◽  
Component C ◽  
A Site

Paleomagnetic analysis of the Mealy diabase dykes of Labrador reveals magnetizations that predate the Grenville event at about 1000 Ma. These dykes intrude the Mealy Mountains anorthositic complex in the Grenville Structural Province. They are well south of the Grenville Front Tectonic Zone, but were apparently never subjected to temperatures as high as 500 °C during their post-consolidation history.Four distinct magnetic components were uncovered by thermal and alternating field treatments and a fifth remained unresolved. The major magnetic mineral present, titanomagnetite, is thought to record two magnetic directions acquired during cooling from magmatic temperatures. These are B (D = 305°, I = −76°; N = 18 sites; κ = 12; α95 = 11°) and A (D = 095°, I = +52°; N = 20 sites; κ = 46; α95 = 5°). Component B has much within-site dispersion. The other two components, C (D = 274°, I = −47°; N = 10 sites; κ = 15; α95 = 13°) and D (D = 292°, I = −74°; κ = 5; α95 = 31°), probably reside in magnetite and pyrrhotite, respectively. Component C, antiparallel to A, was probably acquired at about the same time as A. We suggest that C and A represent the first stable magnetizations retained by the dykes following an extensive period of cooling and re-equilibration of the magnetic minerals. Components B and D, which agree in direction, represent a later stage of cooling.Component B has a pole at 148°E, 34°S (δp = 18°, δm = 19°) in agreement with regional metamorphic poles from the Grenville; A, however, has a pole at 173°W, 23°S (δp = 5°, δm = 7°), which apparently "sees through" the peak in Grenville activity. The A site poles have a linear distribution along the Keweenawan Track and probably relate to an age between 1000 and 1150 Ma.

LOVE AMONG THE RUINS: THE CATACOMBS, THE CLOSET, AND THE VICTORIAN “EARLY CHRISTIAN” NOVEL

2000 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent A. Lankewish
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Discursive Construction ◽  
Victorian Novels ◽  
Erotic Love ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Absolute Limit ◽  
History Of ◽  
Classical Culture ◽  
A Site

Catacomb, n., a subterranean place for the burial of the dead, consisting of galleries or passageways with recesses excavated in their sides for tombs.The Oxford English DictionarySilence itself — the things one declines to say, or is forbidden to name, the discretion that is required between different speakers — is less the absolute limit of discourse, the other side from which it is separated by a strict boundary, than an element that functions alongside the things said, with them and in relation to them within over-all strategies.Michel Foucault, The History of SexualityWe often assume (rightly) that homosexuality must be hidden, that it has to be found.Neil Bartlett, Who Was That Man?I. Ruining the Religious NovelBY TITLING THIS ESSAY “Love Among the Ruins,” I mean at once to be literal, figurative, and allusive in the framing of my topic: literal, in that I will be examining the place of love — specifically, erotic love — within the Roman catacombs or equivalent sites of Christian sanctuary; figurative, in that the representations of love that I will be discussing occur within the context of “literary ruins” — that is, within a relatively obscure nineteenth-century English narrative sub-genre, the Victorian “Early Christian” novel1; and, finally, allusive, in that I deliberately invoke the first poem of Robert Browning’s 1855 collection of dramatic monologues, Men and Women, for more than mere rhetorical effect. In fact, “Love Among the Ruins” condenses a number of the key concerns that I want to address in this essay, for the poem offers an important critique of classical culture not only as a site of pagan aesthetic production and human vainglory, but, relatedly, of homosocial and, perhaps, homoerotic bonds and the sterility presumed to inhere therein — a critique highly visible in Victorian Early Christian fiction. Indeed, I would argue, Browning’s text implicitly participates in the discursive construction of an important, if ultimately unstable, dichotomy that Victorian novels set in the catacombs and written roughly around the same time as “Love Among the Ruins” powerfully reinforce: namely, the traditional opposition between classicism and Christianity, an opposition at least one facet of which is rooted in competing attitudes toward the erotic.

Verkehr, Warenfluss und Wissenstransfer. Überlegung zu einer internationalen Geschichte der Unteren Donau (1829–1918) / Transport, Trade and Transfer of Knowledge. Towards an International History of the Lower Danube

2014 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 414-428
Author(s):  
Luminita Gatejel
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
The Other ◽  
Great Power ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
International History ◽  
Historical Literature ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site ◽  
Political Economic

Abstract Since the Treaty of Adrianople 1829 the Lower Danube underwent major political, economic and territorial transformations. It changed from a quasi-closed river entirely under Ottoman rule into a site of Great Power intervention. This new found international interest mobilised sustained efforts to make the Danube from the Iron Gates to the Black Sea navigable. Within a few years the Lower Danube turned into an important commercial and communication hub of continental dimensions. It also turned into a place of pilgrimage for politicians, diplomats, merchants and hydraulic engineers from all over Europe enabling a vivid exchange of ideas. The goal of this article is twofold: on one hand it sets out to give an overview over the existing body of historical literature that places the Lower Danube into a transnational framework, and on the other it makes several suggestions for further studies.

scholarly journals Destruction, Reconstruction and Resistance: The Skin and the Protean Body in Pedro Almodóvar’s Body Horror The Skin I Live In

Humanities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 54
Author(s):  
Subarna Mondal
Keyword(s):  
Active Site ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Anatomy ◽  
Surgical Operation ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
History Of ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
A Site

The instinct to tame and preserve and the longing for eternal beauty makes skin a crucial element in the genre of the Body Horror. By applying a gendered reading to the art of destruction and reconstruction of an ephemeral body, this paper explores the significant role of skin that clothes a protean body in Almodóvar’s unconventional Body Horror, “The Skin I Live In” (2011). Helpless vulnerable female bodies stretched on beds and close shots of naked perfect skin of those bodies are a frequent feature in Almodóvar films. Skin stained and blotched in “Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!” (1989), nurtured and replenished in “Talk to Her” (2002), patched up and stitched in “The Skin I Live In”, becomes a key ingredient in Almodóvar’s films that celebrate the fluidity of human anatomy and sexuality. The article situates “The Skin I Live In” in the filmic continuum of Body Horrors that focus primarily on skin, beginning with Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” (1960), and touching on films like Jonathan Demme’s “The Silence of the Lambs” (1991) and Tom Tykwer’s “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer” (2006) and attempts to understand how the exploited bodies that have been culturally and socially subjugated have shaped the course of the history of Body Horrors in cinema. In “The Skin I Live In” the destruction of Vicente’s body and its recreation into Vera follow a mad scientist’s urge to dominate an unattainable body, but this ghastly assault on the body has the onscreen appearance of a routine surgical operation by an expert cosmetologist in a well-lit, sanitized mise-en-scène, suggesting that the uncanny does not need a dungeon to lurk in. The exploited body on the other hand may be seen not as a passive victim, but as a site of alterity and rebellion. Anatomically a complete opposite of Frankenstein’s Creature, Vicente/Vera’s body, perfect, beautiful but beset with a problematized identity, is etched with the history of conversion, suppression, and the eternal quest for an ephemeral object. Yet it also acts as an active site of resistance.

scholarly journals (Re)covered Memory: Memorialisation, Race, and Architecture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Max Wiles
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site ◽  
History Of Place

<p>The tendency to record only built memory and significant events in architectural practice means that less tangible cultural memory is prone to erasure. This is prevalent in the memories of the other which often diverge from the majority, and so are not considered for preservation. In this context, cultural memory refers to the intangible qualities and experiences which define place, associated with a particular group. While initiatives such as heritage listings can preserve the physical history of place, little is done to preserve intangible history which has been lost through development and gentrification.  To investigate strategies for reasserting cultural memory in urban space, Haining Street in Wellington is engaged as a site. From approximately 1890 to 1960, Haining Street was Wellington’s Chinatown and home to the largest Chinese population in New Zealand. Despite a long, and often controversial history, this legacy has virtually been erased from the contemporary streetscape, creating an area of note only for a vanished past. This thesis proposes that the memory of Haining Street’s Chinese past can be reasserted through an artist in residence scheme, consisting of a gallery, workshop and accommodation.  Architectural intervention within spaces where history has been erased can reassert memory of the other, creating an identifiable place by: memorialising the intangible qualities of place, engaging with the legacy of race in the built environment, and creating a sensual experience of place. This research suggests that architecture has the potential to reconcile conflicted recollections of the past through an active engagement with the memory of place.</p>

scholarly journals Caesura of History: Performing Greek Tragedy after Brecht

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 241
Author(s):  
Matthias Dreyer
Keyword(s):  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
A Site ◽  
Established Order ◽  
The Way

Taking into account the intertwining of the theory of tragedy on the one hand and theatrical work on ancient tragic texts on the other, the paper explores the way in which tragedy poses the question of history. This is especially the case in conceptions of tragedy as an interruption in a continuum. Hölderlin’s idea of caesura, its reflection in Benjamin’s understanding of tragedy as a revision of myth are in the center of a critical dramaturgy of this kind. By analysing Brecht’s work on Antigone as well as the stagings of critical theatre makers that came after Brecht (Einar Schleef, Dimiter Gotscheff), the paper shows the consequences of the concept ‘tragedy as caesura‘ on the level of the aesthetics of the theatre, unclosing in a radical way the temporality of the tragic process. From this point of view, tragedy is understood as a site of encounter with the persisting powers of the past; as reflexive rupture in the transition between times, that undermines the established order, but without, however, arriving at a new one. Although in the history of theatre and thought tragedy has been too often associated with the universal and timeless, how is it possible to think of historicity in a way negating submission under the universal without losing the genre of tragedy itself?

Genetic structure of the benthic amphipod Diporeia (Amphipoda: Pontoporeiidae) and its relationship to abundance in Lake Superior

2009 ◽  
Vol 66 (8) ◽  
pp. 1318-1327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik M. Pilgrim ◽  
Jill V. Scharold ◽  
John A. Darling ◽  
John R. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Great Lakes ◽  
Dreissena Polymorpha ◽  
Sequence Data ◽  
Lake Superior ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dna Sequence Data ◽  
Population Structuring ◽  
History Of ◽  
Potential Population ◽  
Distinct Lineage

The freshwater amphipod Diporeia is a crucial part of the food web in the Laurentian Great Lakes, but has faced serious declines correlated with the invasion of zebra mussels ( Dreissena polymorpha ), except in Lake Superior, which has seen an increase in Diporeia abundance. Speculation on the mechanisms causing changes in Diporeia densities has not included the possibility of evolutionarily distinct lineages of Diporeia within the Great Lakes. In this study, we use cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) DNA sequence data to investigate the evolutionary history of Lake Superior Diporeia relative to the other Great Lakes and consider potential population structuring within Lake Superior based upon depth or geography. Our analyses reveal that Lake Superior Diporeia represent a distinct lineage that diverged from populations of the other lakes at least several hundred thousand years ago. F statistics show that two localities within Lake Superior were significantly differentiated from all other locales, but analysis of molecular variance did not find significant structure based on depth or geography. Genetic diversity within Lake Superior was not correlated with depth, although abundance was significantly negatively correlated with increasing depth.

scholarly journals (Re)covered Memory: Memorialisation, Race, and Architecture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Max Wiles
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
History Of ◽  
A Site ◽  
History Of Place

<p>The tendency to record only built memory and significant events in architectural practice means that less tangible cultural memory is prone to erasure. This is prevalent in the memories of the other which often diverge from the majority, and so are not considered for preservation. In this context, cultural memory refers to the intangible qualities and experiences which define place, associated with a particular group. While initiatives such as heritage listings can preserve the physical history of place, little is done to preserve intangible history which has been lost through development and gentrification.  To investigate strategies for reasserting cultural memory in urban space, Haining Street in Wellington is engaged as a site. From approximately 1890 to 1960, Haining Street was Wellington’s Chinatown and home to the largest Chinese population in New Zealand. Despite a long, and often controversial history, this legacy has virtually been erased from the contemporary streetscape, creating an area of note only for a vanished past. This thesis proposes that the memory of Haining Street’s Chinese past can be reasserted through an artist in residence scheme, consisting of a gallery, workshop and accommodation.  Architectural intervention within spaces where history has been erased can reassert memory of the other, creating an identifiable place by: memorialising the intangible qualities of place, engaging with the legacy of race in the built environment, and creating a sensual experience of place. This research suggests that architecture has the potential to reconcile conflicted recollections of the past through an active engagement with the memory of place.</p>

"BUT TOUCH THE LAW AND THE SECT WILL SPLIT:" LEGAL DISPUTE AS THE CAUSE OF SECTARIAN SCHISM

2002 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Baumgarten
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
A Site ◽  
Complete History

AbstractMy intention in this paper is to take issue with a view widely held among scholars in the field, an opinion I shared in the past but that I have also questioned and ultimately come to reject. To set the stage for accomplishing this goal let me begin with a definition of a historian offered by my late teacher, Professor Elias Bickerman. He called a historian a "digger in texts." The comparison to an archeologist, who digs in the ground, is enlightening. Every layer of a site contributes something to the complete history of its occupation, and that total picture can only be drawn on the basis of information from every layer, in which each layer teaches us something about any and all of the other layers. Nevertheless, an archeologist digging at a particular site is usually most interested in the remains from one particular stratum. For that archeologist, these remains are of the greatest importance.

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