scholarly journals Book reviewAkhani H.: Plants and vegetation of north-west Persian Gulf: The coasts and islands of Khore Musa, Mahshar and adjacent areas.— Maps and page design: Samadi N. — Tehran: University of Tehran Press, 2015. - ISBN 978-9-64-03-6739-1. — 507 p., many dot maps, more than 1600 colour photos, bilingual Persian/English; 24 cm, hardcover. — Price: EUR 60.

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 465-466
Author(s):  
Ulrich Deil
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
North West ◽  
Page Design

scholarly journals A STUDY ON THE SAND-MUD MIXTURE AT NORTH-WEST OF THE PERSIAN GULF

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (34) ◽  
pp. 79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afshan Khaleghi ◽  
Mohsen Soltanpour ◽  
Seyed Abbas Haghshenas
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
North West ◽  
The Persian Gulf

Feeding and Spawning of Sphyraena jello in the North-West of Persian Gulf

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.A. Hosseini ◽  
S. Jamili ◽  
T. Valinassab ◽  
G. Vosoghi ◽  
S.M.R. Fatemi
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
North West ◽  
The North

Hydrology of the Indian Ocean. III. Water masses of the upper 500 metres of the South-east Indian Ocean

1964 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
DJ Rochford
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Water Mass ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Core Layer ◽  
Water Masses ◽  
Intermediate Water ◽  
Surface Currents ◽  
North West ◽  
East Indian

The following seven water masses have been identified, and their distribution traced during several seasons of the year: Red Sea mass, with the same distribution and properties in 1962 as the north-west Indian Intermediate described in 1959-60; Persian Gulf mass, which is confined to the region south of Indonesia and is limited in extent of easterly flow by the opposing flow of Banda Intermediate water; upper salinity minimum mass, entering via Lombok Strait and moving zonally in the direction of the prevailing surface currents, a secondary movement of this water mass towards north-west Australia is limited by the northern boundary of a south-east Indian high salinity water mass. This latter water mass occurs as three separate core layers north of 22-23� S. The deep core layer mixes with waters of the oxygen maximum below it, the mid-depth core layer mixes with Persian Gulf and upper salinity minimum water masses, and the upper core layer mixes with the Arabian Sea water mass. The latter water mass spreads eastwards to about 120� E. and southwards to north-west Australia, in conformity with surface currents. A sixth water mass enters with the counter-current and is found as a salinity maximum within the thermocline to about 20� S. A seventh water mass characterized by a salinity maximum around temperatures of 28-29�C has a limited distribution and an unknown origin. Both of these water masses move in the direction of surface currents.

X. Sennacherib's Campaigns on the North-West and his Work at Nineveh

1910 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-411
Author(s):  
T. G. Pinches
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
British Museum ◽  
Considerable Importance ◽  
Historical Document ◽  
North West ◽  
Asiatic Society ◽  
The North ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
Royal Asiatic Society

THE British Museum having been fortunate enough to acquire a new historical document from Assyria of considerable importance, it has been thought that (not withstanding that an excellent translation and commentary upon it, from the pen of the copyist of the text, Mr. L. W. King, of the British Museum, has been published) a few notes concerning it would not be without interest to the readers of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, and more particularly those whose studies deal with the pre-Christian Semitic East, especially the tract lying north-west of the Persian Gulf.

The ‘Hearth of Domestication’? Transitions to Farming in South-West Asia

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Barker
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
Mediterranean Coast ◽  
North West ◽  
Hill Country ◽  
Anatolian Plateau ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Western Side ◽  
The Persian Gulf

The principal focus of this chapter is the classic zone of early farming research from the 1960s onwards, the so-called ‘hilly flanks of the Fertile Crescent’ in South-West Asia (Fig. 4.1). This region is normally defined as the arc of hill country to the west of the Syrian desert and to the north and east of the Tigris and Euphrates valleys. The western side of the arc begins east of the Nile in the Sinai and the Gulf of Arabah on the southern border of Israel and Jordan; it continues northwards as the hill country on either side of the Jordan rift valley in Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, western Jordan, and western Syria (the so-called ‘Levantine corridor’); and extends westwards to the Mediterranean littoral. The northern sector is formed by the Taurus mountains along the southern edge of the Anatolian plateau, which curve eastwards from the Mediterranean coast in northern Syria to form the present-day Syrian–Turkish border. The eastern sector consists of the Zagros mountains, running south-eastwards from eastern Turkey and north-west Iran to the Persian Gulf, forming the Iraq–Iran border for most of their length, and continuing in south-west Iran beyond the Persian Gulf towards the Straits of Hormuz. The region also embraces adjacent zones: the alluvial plains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and the vast tracts of steppe and desert country separating them from the Levantine, Taurus, and Zagros upland systems; the Anatolian plateau to the north of the Taurus, within modern Turkey; and the Iranian plateau east of the Zagros, within modern Iran. The archaeological literature commonly uses the term Near East to describe the main region of interest, with the Levant for its western side (a term also used in this chapter), and South-West Asia for the eastern side, but the entire region is more correctly termed South-West Asia. The upland areas of the region mostly receive more than 200 millimetres of rainfall a year, which is the minimum required for growing cereals without irrigation. Rainfall decreases drastically moving out into the steppe and desert zones.

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