Impact of the Globalization of Capital on Human Rights     

Rex Honey 《GeoJournal》2004,60(1):93-98

The globalization of capital has had both positive and negative impacts on human rights. On the positive side are improved health and physical well-being for massive numbers of people. On the negative side are: the oppression of millions as a consequence of the leverage international capital has over government policies and the right of workers; and the growing gap between the haves and have nots, both within and between countries. This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.  相似文献   

A Review of “Qualitative GIS: A Mixed Methods Approach”     

Rex J. Rowley 《The Professional geographer》2013,65(1):155-157

Books Reviewed:

Browning, Frank A Queer Geography: Journeys Toward a Sexual Self

Fellows, Will Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest

Rubenstein, James M. The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography. 6th ed

Knox, Paul L. and Marston, Sallie A. Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context

Kuby, Michael; Harner, John, and Gover, Patricia Human Geography in Action  相似文献   

Late Devensian and Flandrian palaeoenvironmental changes on the Scottish continental shelf west of the Outer Hebrides     

J. D. Peacock  W. E. N. Austin  I. Selby  D. K. Graham  R. Harland  I. P. Wilkinson 《第四纪科学杂志》1992,7(2):145-161

Examination of two radiocarbon-dated vibrocores taken from south of St Kilda at a water depth of about 155 m, a short distance within the maximum position of the Late Devensian (Dimlington Stadial) ice sheet, suggests that the St Kilda Basin became free of glacier ice after 15250 yr BP. Sedimentation in a shallow, low energy, high arctic, muddy environment continued until after 13500 yr BP. There followed a higher energy temperate episode during which water depths were roughly about 40 m: this is correlated with the latter part of the Windermere Interstadial and with the warmer interval known in shallow Scottish seas about or a little before 11 000 yr BP. The Loch Lomond (Younger Dryas) Stadial is marked in the vibrocores by the return of muddy sediments and a cold-water fauna. Relatively shallow water conditions seem to have persisted into the earliest Flandrian, when the water depth was still roughly 60 m, corresponding to a sea-level in the area 90–100 m below present. It is suggested that pack ice was widespread in the northeast Atlantic before the Windermere Interstadial and also during the Loch Lomond Stadial, when it transported shards of Icelandic volcanic ash into the St Kilda basin. Estimates of sea-surface temperature for the last part of the Windermere Interstadial are close to those derived from the deep-sea record for the same period.  相似文献   

Dating ancient wood by high-sensitivity liquid scintillation counting and accelerator mass spectrometry—Pushing the boundaries     

Alan G. Hogg  L. Keith Fifield  Chris S.M. Turney  Jonathan G. Palmer  Rex Galbraith  Mike G.K. Baillie 《Quaternary Geochronology》2006,1(4):241-248

It is critical that a comprehensive terrestrial radiocarbon (¹⁴C) calibration curve is developed beyond 26 ka for high-precision calibration and correlation of climatic, environmental and archaeological records. Abundant sub-fossil New Zealand kauri (Agathis australis) wood, preserved in Oxygen Isotope Stage-2 and 3 peat swamps, provides an important resource for ¹⁴C calibration; nowhere else in the world does such an extensive collection of ancient wood exist. Although finite ¹⁴C ages beyond 50 ka are becoming routinely reported, few attempts have been made to demonstrate their accuracy or precision. Finite ages beyond 50 ka require optimization of all elements involved in sample preparation and ¹⁴C analysis. Here we discuss the methodology employed for optimizing the ¹⁴C dating of near-background wood samples by both benzene synthesis for liquid scintillation counting (LSC) or graphite synthesis for accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). We report the mean background blank activities for both methods and present a statistical model for assigning blank standard errors when blank activity variation is over and above counting statistics. We also present duplicate analyses (using LSC and AMS) of nine successive samples of wood obtained from a sub-fossil kauri log near-background in age to investigate the significance of the measured blank levels and variability.  相似文献   

Rainfall characteristics for shallow landsliding in Seattle,Washington, USA   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Jonathan W. Godt  Rex L. Baum  Alan F. Chleborad 《地球表面变化过程与地形》2006,31(1):97-110

Shallow landsliding in the Seattle, Washington, area, has caused the occasional loss of human life and millions of dollars in damage to property. The effective management of the hazard requires an understanding of the rainfall conditions that result in landslides. We present an empirical approach to quantify the antecedent moisture conditions and rainstorm intensity and duration that have triggered shallow landsliding using 25 years of hourly rainfall data and a complementary record of landslide occurrence. Our approach combines a simple water balance to estimate the antecedent moisture conditions of hillslope materials and a rainfall intensity–duration threshold to identify periods when shallow landsliding can be expected. The water balance is calibrated with field‐monitoring data and combined with the rainfall intensity–duration threshold using a decision tree. Results are cast in terms of a hypothetical landslide warning system. Two widespread landslide events are correctly identified by the warning scheme; however, it is less accurate for more isolated landsliding. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

Regional landslide-hazard assessment for Seattle, Washington, USA   总被引：13，自引：6，他引：13  

Rex L. Baum  Jeffery A. Coe  Jonathan W. Godt  Edwin L. Harp  Mark E. Reid  William Z. Savage  William H. Schulz  Dianne L. Brien  Alan F. Chleborad  Jonathan P. McKenna  John A. Michael 《Landslides》2005,2(4):266-279

Landslides are a widespread, frequent, and costly hazard in Seattle and the Puget Sound area of Washington State, USA. Shallow earth slides triggered by heavy rainfall are the most common type of landslide in the area; many transform into debris flows and cause significant property damage or disrupt transportation. Large rotational and translational slides, though less common, also cause serious property damage. The hundreds of landslides that occurred during the winters of 1995–96 and 1996–97 stimulated renewed interest by Puget Sound communities in identifying landslide-prone areas and taking actions to reduce future landslide losses. Informal partnerships between the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the City of Seattle, and private consultants are focusing on the problem of identifying and mapping areas of landslide hazard as well as characterizing temporal aspects of the hazard. We have developed GIS-based methods to map the probability of landslide occurrence as well as empirical rainfall thresholds and physically based methods to forecast times of landslide occurrence. Our methods for mapping landslide hazard zones began with field studies and physically based models to assess relative slope stability, including the effects of material properties, seasonal groundwater levels, and rainfall infiltration. We have analyzed the correlation between historic landslide occurrence and relative slope stability to map the degree of landslide hazard. The City of Seattle is using results of the USGS studies in storm preparedness planning for emergency access and response, planning for development or redevelopment of hillsides, and municipal facility planning and prioritization. Methods we have developed could be applied elsewhere to suit local needs and available data.  相似文献   

A direct recording ocean bottom seismometer     

Rex V. Johnson II  Clive R. B. Lister  Brian T. R. Lewis 《Marine Geophysical Researches》1977,3(1):65-85

We have designed a simple, cheap and reliable ocean-bottom seismometer. Signals from three-component geophones are recorded directly on magnetic tape running continuously at a speed of 1 mm s¹. Time reference is derived from a temperature-compensated quartz crystal oscillator and encoded on a fourth channel as an amplitude modulation of a 20 Hz carrier. A bipolar square-root signal-compression scheme doubles the tape dynamic range to 80 db, and the available bandwidth is 2 to 100 Hz. Tape and batteries are capable of 500-hr operation, and the unique magnetic release comes close to being a fail-safe system. A heavy, high-drag concrete anchor shaped like a flower-pot provides easy launching, fast stable descent and good coupling to the ocean floor. We have had numerous successful field emplacements which have yielded good earthquake and shot-refraction data.  相似文献   

Control of bacterial growth by temperature and organic matter in the Western Arctic   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

David L. Kirchman  Rex R. Malmstrom  Matthew T. Cottrell 《Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography》2005,52(24-26):3386

Temperature is thought to have a disproportionate role in controlling bacterial growth in perennially cold waters like the Western Arctic Ocean. One impact of temperature is that bacteria in cold waters may require more dissolved organic material (DOM) in order to approach growth rates observed at higher temperatures (the Wiebe–Pomeroy hypothesis). To explore these issues, this study examined the effect of DOM additions and temperatures shifts on bacterial assemblages during short (2 h) and long (up to 10 days) incubations. We found that the temperature response for bacterial assemblages in the Western Arctic was similar to that observed in temperate waters; the Q₁₀ values for leucine and thymidine incorporation were 3.1±2.6 and 1.9±0.56, respectively, not significantly different from values observed in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. In contrast to what would be predicted from the Wiebe–Pomeroy hypothesis, the impact of DOM additions on leucine incorporation either was the same or greater at higher, not lower temperatures. Increasing the incubation temperature did stimulate leucine incorporation more quickly than did DOM additions, but DOM seems as important as temperature in controlling bacterial growth. Leucine incorporation rates per cell (an index of community growth rates) observed in these experiments varied greatly and approached rates observed in waters warmer by 25 °C. These results suggest that the role of temperature in controlling bacterial growth in the Western Arctic is similar to that in low-latitude ocean.  相似文献   

Modeling landslide recurrence in Seattle, Washington, USA   总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5  

Diana Salciarini  Jonathan W. Godt  William Z. Savage  Rex L. Baum  Pietro Conversini   《Engineering Geology》2008,102(3-4):227

To manage the hazard associated with shallow landslides, decision makers need an understanding of where and when landslides may occur. A variety of approaches have been used to estimate the hazard from shallow, rainfall-triggered landslides, such as empirical rainfall threshold methods or probabilistic methods based on historical records. The wide availability of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and digital topographic data has led to the development of analytic methods for landslide hazard estimation that couple steady-state hydrological models with slope stability calculations. Because these methods typically neglect the transient effects of infiltration on slope stability, results cannot be linked with historical or forecasted rainfall sequences. Estimates of the frequency of conditions likely to cause landslides are critical for quantitative risk and hazard assessments. We present results to demonstrate how a transient infiltration model coupled with an infinite slope stability calculation may be used to assess shallow landslide frequency in the City of Seattle, Washington, USA. A module called CRF (Critical RainFall) for estimating deterministic rainfall thresholds has been integrated in the TRIGRS (Transient Rainfall Infiltration and Grid-based Slope-Stability) model that combines a transient, one-dimensional analytic solution for pore-pressure response to rainfall infiltration with an infinite slope stability calculation. Input data for the extended model include topographic slope, colluvial thickness, initial water-table depth, material properties, and rainfall durations. This approach is combined with a statistical treatment of rainfall using a GEV (General Extreme Value) probabilistic distribution to produce maps showing the shallow landslide recurrence induced, on a spatially distributed basis, as a function of rainfall duration and hillslope characteristics.  相似文献   

Age and nature of carbonatite emplacement in North Pakistan     

M. J. Le Bas  I. Mian  D. C. Rex 《International Journal of Earth Sciences》1987,76(2):317-323

The N Pakistan carbonatites of Loe Shilman, Silai Patti and those within the Ambela complex were formerly considered as comprising one alkaline igneous province associated with a Peshawar rift valley. New data show that these alkaline rocks occur in two distinct periods, Carboniferous and Tertiary, and are not related to any Tertiary rift faulting. K-Ar dates determined on biotites from the Loe Shilman and Silai Patti carbonatites reveal that the carbonatites were emplaced at 31±2 Ma, and along thrust planes, not rift faults. Subsequent movement of the thrusts reset the argon contents in some biotites to indicate a deformation age of 24±2 Ma for the carbonatites at both localities.The Koga carbonatite in the Ambela complex occurs as a plug associated with nepheline syenites and ijolites, and Rb-Sr isotope determinations on the silicate rocks give dates of approximately 297–315 Ma.The study implies that there were thrust movements associated with the Indian — Asian plate collision more than 31 Ma ago, which is much earlier than the 20 Ma date previously advocated for the initiation of thrusting.

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Zusammenfassung Die nordpakistanischen Karbonatite Loe Shilman, Silai Patti und jene aus dem Ambela-Komplex wurden bisher zusammen mit einer Alkaligesteins-Provinz betrachtet, deren Bildung mit dem Peshawar Riff zusammenhÄngt. Neue Daten zeigen auf, da\ die Alkaligesteine von Shilman und Silai Patti dem Karbon zuzuordnen sind und jene aus dem Ambela-Komplex dem TertiÄr. Beide Gesteinserien gehören keiner tertiÄren Riff-Faltung an. K-Ar Altersdaten, bestimmt an Biotiten aus den Karbonatiten von Loe Shilman und Silai Patti, ergeben ein Alter von 31±2 Ma für die Platznahme der Karbonatite entlang einer überschiebungszone. Nachfolgende Bewegungen in der überschiebungsbahn verÄnderten den Argongehalt in einigen Biotiten, so da\ sich ein Deformationsalter von 24±2 Ma ergibt. Die Koga Karbonatite aus dem Ambela Komplex kommen dagegen als Propfen vor. Sie sind assoziiert mit Nephelinsyeniten und Ijoliten. Rb-Sr Bestimmungen an diesen Silikatgesteinen ergeben ein Alter zwischen 297–315 Ma.Diese Untersuchung zeigt, da\ die Indisch-Asiatische Plattenkollision vor 31±2 Ma Jahren stattfand, da sie mit der überschiebungsbewegung assoziiert werden kann. Bisher wurde für diese Kollision ein Alter von 20 Ma angenommen.

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Résumé Les carbonatites du Pakistan septentrional, situées à Loe Shilman, Silai Patti et dans le complexe d'Ambela, ont été regardées jusqu'ici comme appartenant à une seule province magmatique alcaline associée au fossé de Peshawar. Des données nouvelles démontrent que ces roches alcalines appartiennent à deux périodes différentes, le Carbonifère et le Tertiaire, et qu'elles ne sont associées à aucun fossé tertiaire. Des datations K-Ar, effectuées sur les biotites des carbonatites de Loe Shilman et de Silai Patti, montrent que ces roches se sont mises en place il y a 31±2 Ma et ce, le long de failles de charriage et non de failles radiales. Des mouvements plus récents le long de ces charriages ont modifié la teneur en argon de certaines biotites, qui fournissent pour cette déformation un âge des 24±2 Ma dans les carbonatites des deux localités.La carbonatite de Koga dans le complexe d'Ambela est un culot associé à des syénites à néphéline et à des ijolites sur lesquelles les déterminations Rb-Sr donnent des aes approximatifs de 297 à 315 Ma.Cette étude montre que des mouvements de charriage, associés à la collision des plaques indienne et asiatique, ont eu lieu avant 31±2 Ma, c'est-à-dire beaucoup plus tÔt que les 20 Ma admis jusqu'ici.

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