Pipeline scour and self-burial on a thin veneer of sand overlying rock due to steady currents

2014 ◽  
pp. 601-610
Author(s):  
S Draper ◽  
L Cheng ◽  
W Sun ◽  
H An ◽  
D White ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thin Veneer

Newness in Scholastic Traditions

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Yigal Bronner
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Scriptural Interpretation ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Will ◽  
Holding Back ◽  
Thin Veneer

This chapter surveys previous treatments of innovation in South Asian cultural studies and shows the strong resistance among scholars to the very possibility of meaningful innovation in this world. In recent decades, this resistance has begun to erode, and several scholars have identified the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as an era of heightened creativity. However, the main voices in recent scholarship still find serious restraints holding back full-throated novelty, characterized by Sheldon Pollock as a situation wherein the “newness of the intellect” is constrained by the “oldness of the will.” This chapter argues that the controversy over the role of sequence in scriptural interpretation charted here in fact shows radical changes disguised by a thin veneer of traditionalism. It also sets this controversy against the background of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic hermeneutic approaches to “early” and “late” in scripture.

The German Enigma

1941 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 428-450
Author(s):  
Goetz A. Briefs
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
German History ◽  
Rhine Valley ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
Thin Veneer

No country within the Western orbit offers to foreign thinkers such an ambiguous and enigmatic aspect as does Germany. There is no end of books and articles wrestling with this problem.German history presents sufficient justification for the existence of an enigmatic dualism within the nation. To begin with: Germany is that country in Europe through which a line of profound cultural demarcation runs. The Limes Germanicus (cf. my articles in this Review, July and October, 1939) signified the borderline of Roman conquest and Roman cultural penetration. Within this line Mediterranean civilization took undisputed hold both during the Roman Empire and throughout the middle ages, in the latter period mediated by the Church. The lands farther to the East and North became christianized hundreds of years later than the lands around the Danube and Rhine valley. Often the christianization of the East was pushed forward by force of arms. Riehl, Nietzsche, Ricarda Huch and others have remarked that, to all appearances, the christianization of the German North and East was only superficial, a thin veneer over a basically heathen reality; of late H. Rauschning expressed his concern over the quick disappearance of the Christian faith and ethics among the Northern German peasants after Nazism came to power, and the prophets of the “German Faith” today spread the suggestion that the Northern German peasant never was a Christian.

scholarly journals Law and the Thin Veneer of Civilization

1969 ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Justice W. G. Morrow
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Canadian Society ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
The North ◽  
Canadian Law ◽  
Northwest Territory ◽  
Physical Attributes ◽  
Thin Veneer

Mr. Justice Morrow employs his sympathetic understanding of the North and it's native inhabitants in revealing discussion of the sudden, ap parent metamorphosis which has occurred as result of the recent advent of Canadian law and society in the Northwest Territories. The author con tends that although the physical attributes of Canadian society have been effectively superimposed upon the native culture, the experience of the Northwest Territory Courts suggests that the effect is merely superficial. Although uniformity of Canadian law is desirable, Mr. Justice Morrow argues that it is difficult and perhaps meaningless to achieve such uniformity through the arbitrary application of laws and penalties which are foreign to time honored native customs and cultures.

European Impact on the California Indians, 1530-1830

1985 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 494-511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Kelsey
Keyword(s):  
Social Groups ◽  
California Indians ◽  
Language Differences ◽  
Thin Veneer

When the first European visitors arrived on the shores of California, they found the Indians to be poor and the country sparsely settled. The natives lived in semi-permanent villages of brush shelters and huts. Though hunters and gatherers, they sometimes practiced a form of protoagriculture. Social groups were fragmented by complex language differences. Often extremely hostile and suspicious of strangers, they were nonetheless attracted to the culture brought in by the newcomers.In most cases the Europeans discovered that the Indians fit their own preconceptions. Missionaries found them eager for conversion. Sophisticates saw them as ignorant and brutish. Kindly people considered them to be warm and friendly. To soldiers they seemed fierce and hostile. Catholic visitors to the missions were frequently impressed with their piety. Protestants often thought their faith was but a thin veneer overlying an undiminished paganism. It is nearly impossible to generalize about the observations of Europeans. Indians in the same place were often described in totally contradictory ways by successive parties of visitors. And this same diversity of opinion exists among historians today.

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