Book reviews     

David Rich  Roger Epps  C.R. Twidale  Bob Fagan  Serrie Kamara  Andrew Pitman 《The Australian geographer》1994,25(1):88-95

VANISHING RAIN FORESTS: the ecological transition of Malaysia (Oxford Monographs on Biogeography No.5) by S.R. Aiken and C.H. Leigh. 19 × 25 cm, xvii and 194 pages. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1992. (ISBN 0 19 854242 9) $130.00 (hard)

ECOGEOGRAPHY AND RURAL MANAGEMENT: a contribution to the International Geosphere‐Biosphere Programme by J. Tricart and C. Kiewiet de Jonge. 267 pages. Longman/Wiley, New York 1992. (ISBN 0 582 06273 X) $51.00.

THE NEW SOCIAL ECONOMY: reworking the division of labor by A. Sayer and R. Walker. 15 × 23 cm, viii and 306 pages. Blackwell, Cambridge MA, 1992. (ISBN 1 55786 280 X) $49.95 (soft)

TROPICAL AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: geographical perspectives edited by M.B. Gleave. 366 pages. Longmans/Wiley, New York 1992. (ISBN 0 582 30147 5)

MINING AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN AUSTRALASIA edited by J. Connell and R. Howitt. 13 × 21 cm, × and 205 pages. Sydney University Press, Sydney 1991. (ISBN 0 424 00177 2) $22.95 (soft)

GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS OF NEW SOUTH 1848 TO 1993 (Fourth edition) edited by M. McPherson. 21 × 30 cm, 242 pp. NSW Department of School Education, Sydney, 1993. (ISBN 0 7310 0288 1). $22.00 (soft)(inc. postage).  相似文献   

Sustainability analysis of groundwater resources in a coastal aquifer, Alabama     

Jie Liu  Kendall Rich  Chunmiao Zheng 《Environmental Geology》2008,54(1):43-52

Fort Morgan Peninsula is an attached portion of a dynamic barrier complex in the northern Gulf of Mexico and is a large tourist area that brings in a significant amount of revenue for Alabama. Many of the hotels and tourist attractions depend on the groundwater as their water supply. The over-withdrawal of groundwater and saltwater intrustion will have a negative impact on the ecology, tourism and economy if groundwater resources are not properly monitored and managed. In this study a calibrated groundwater flow model was used to analyze the sustainability of groundwater resources at Fort Morgan Peninsula. Detailed flow budgets were prepared to check the various components of inflow and outflow under different water use and climatic conditions. The results indicated the locations where groundwater was over-pumped and subjected to saltwater intrusion, or will be subjected to saltwater intrusion under a range of projected water use and climatic conditions.  相似文献   

Magnetic polarity stratigraphy of the Pleistocene section at Portland (Victoria), Australia     

Bruce J. MacFadden  Michael J. Whitelaw  Phil McFadden  Thomas H. V. Rich 《Quaternary Research》1987,28(3)

Three to seven oriented paleomagnetic samples were collected from 16 sites in the Nelson Bay and Bridgewater formations at Portland, Victoria, which contains the recently discovered Nelson Bay local fauna (L.F.). The entire section has reversed polarity. These results, along with Globorotalia truncatulinoides within the section, and the presence of underlying middle Pliocene-dated basalts, indicate that the Portland section, and the included Nelson Bay L.F., was deposited within the late Matuyama Chron between 1.66 and 0.73 myr ago. This represents the first well-documented pre-¹⁴C Pleistocene mammalian fauna in Australia calibrated in direct stratigraphic context with absolute dating methods. In addition, the reversed polarity for the Bridgewater Formation confirms the previous hypothesis that the depositional history of this beach-sand deposit is time-transgressive across the Brunhes-Matuyama boundary.  相似文献   

Jumblies put out to sea again     

Vera Rich 《Marine pollution bulletin》1974,5(10):147-148

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Australian manufacturing, 1968–1988: Recession,reorganisation and renewal     

David C. Rich Ph.D. 《GeoJournal》1988,16(4):399-418

Australian manufacturing developed primarily to supply domestic customers. It played an important role in the country's postwar economic growth, employment increase and rising living standards. However, decades of heavy protection and limited opportunities for achieving scale economies because of the small local market and fragmentation of production across six states were among many factors that meant that by the late 1960s the sector was increasingly ill-equipped to deal with major changes in international and internal economic and political conditions. Over the last two decades, manufacturing has contracted, with employment falling sharply, and there has been a substantial and highly varied restructuring of production, although many past features survive. In the mid 1980s, several factors, most notably a large depreciation of the Australian dollar, have made local manufacturing more cost competitive and created new export opportunities. Nevertheless, many branches of manufacturing remain vulnerable to further rapid rationalisation and future prospects are uncertain.  相似文献   

Electric fields and large-scale undulations in the evening sector of the diffuse auroral zone     

D. G. Baishev  E. S. Barkova  A. E. Stepanov  F. Rich  K. Yumoto 《Geomagnetism and Aeronomy》2010,50(1):41-47

The synchronous observations of strong electric fields and large-scale undulations observed on December 12, 2004, in the evening sector of the diffuse auroral zone 0900-1000 UT (~1700-1800 MLT) have been analyzed. The appearance of strong northward electric field at ~0900 UT was almost simultaneously registered at Tixie Bay ionospheric station (71.6° N, 128.9° E, L =, 5.6) and on the DMSP F15 satellite. At 0910-1000 UT, the all-sky TV camera at Tixie Bay and the DMSP satellites (F13, F14, and F15) registered eight undulations propagating westward at a velocity of 0.7—0.8 km/s. The undulation parameters registered during the TV observations agree with the satellite measurements. The distinctive feature of the analyzed event consists in that an intense electric field and undulations were localized within the diffuse zone in the region of increased precipitation of keV electrons. A comparison of the ground-based and satellite measurements made it possible to draw the conclusion on the necessary conditions for formation of diffuse undulations.  相似文献   

A preliminary assessment of oxygen isotope fractionation and growth increment periodicity in the estuarine clam Rangia cuneata     

C. Fred T. Andrus  Kelley Whatley Rich 《Geo-Marine Letters》2008,28(5-6):301-308

Rangia cuneata is an upper estuarine clam common in the coastal regions of the Gulf of Mexico. Limited data exist regarding oxygen isotope fractionation and microstructural increment periodicity in this species. As these clams were recently identified as an invasive species in other regions, such data may be useful for environmental management purposes. Additionally, the shell of this clam is common in archeological middens, and thus may serve as a paleoenvironmental proxy. In order to assess these aspects of the species’ natural history, samples were collected from the upper Mobile Bay, Alabama, USA. A stable oxygen isotope profile was generated from one of these valves, and compared to growth increments seen in thin section. Time-series water temperature data from near the collection site were used to construct idealized models of oxygen isotope variation, assuming equilibrium fractionation, constant shell growth, and stable water δ¹⁸O values. Comparison of the modeled and measured data suggest the shell was precipitated in, or near oxygen isotope equilibrium with ambient water, and that the microstructural increments in the shell were precipitated in response to tidal cycles.  相似文献   

LZIFU: an emission-line fitting toolkit for integral field spectroscopy data     

I-Ting Ho  Anne M. Medling  Brent Groves  Jeffrey A. Rich  David S. N. Rupke  Elise Hampton  Lisa J. Kewley  Joss Bland-Hawthorn  Scott M. Croom  Samuel Richards  Adam L. Schaefer  Rob Sharp  Sarah M. Sweet 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2016,361(9):280

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Subantarctic mode water: distribution and circulation     

Laura Herraiz-Borreguero  Stephen Rich Rintoul 《Ocean Dynamics》2011,61(1):103-126

The subduction and export of subantarctic mode water (SAMW) as part of the overturning circulation play an important role in global heat, freshwater, carbon and nutrient budgets. Here, the spatial distribution and export of SAMW is investigated using Argo profiles and a climatology. SAMW is identified by a dynamical tracer: a minimum in potential vorticity. We have found that SAMW consists of several modes with distinct properties in each oceanic basin. This conflicts with the previous view of SAMW as a continuous water mass that gradually cools and freshens to the east. The circulation paths of SAMW were determined using (modified) Montgomery streamlines on the density surfaces corresponding with potential vorticity minima. The distribution of the potential vorticity minima revealed “hotspots” where the different SAMW modes subduct north of the Subantarctic Front. The subducted SAMWs follow narrow export pathways into the subtropical gyres influenced by topography. The export of warmer, saltier modes in these “hotspots” contributes to the circumpolar evolution of mode water properties toward cooler, fresher and denser modes in the east.  相似文献   

A Regional Measure of Neighborhood Multiple Environmental Deprivation: Relationships with Health and Health Inequalities     

Elizabeth A. Richardson  Jamie Pearce  Rich Mitchell  Niamh K. Shortt 《The Professional geographer》2013,65(1):153-170

The health impacts of simultaneous exposure to multiple adverse environmental factors are of concern in the United Kingdom. UK-wide indicators exist, but context-specific finer resolution measures are lacking. An environmental deprivation index was developed for 398 neighborhoods (average population = 760) in a Scottish council area, including measures of air pollution, noise pollution, traffic environment, undesirable land uses, and crime. Adverse environmental conditions were related to ill health in the region and implicated in wider socioeconomic health inequalities. The results suggest an independent role for environmental deprivation in explaining poor health and health inequalities.  相似文献