Transitional rural landscapes: The role of small-scale commercial farming in former homelands of Post-Apartheid KwaZulu-Natal     

Jytte Agergaard  Torben Birch-Thomsen 《Geografisk tidskrift / udgivet af Bestyrelsen for Det Kongelige danske geografiske selskab》2013,113(2):87-102

Geografisk Tidsskrift, Danish Journal of Geography 106(2): 87–102, 2006

The paper presents trends in past and present land use patterns in parts of a former homeland of KwaZulu-Natal, and discusses the changing role of farming. It suggests that an understanding of the transition in rural land must take into account the impact of rural-urban relations and the Colonial and Apartheid socio-spatial policies. A sequence of map data is analysed and compared with interviews with residents of the studied area and official data concerning actual and prospected development. The data demonstrate how population pressures and changing sources of income during the Apartheid period have resulted in a land use system dominated by home gardens and some attempts to develop small-scale commercial farming, while traditional subsistence farming has gradually decreased. On this background the prospects for small-scale commercial farming are discussed. It is argued that at least four aspects may explain why commercial farming is still marginal: the troubled land allocation system, the continued dependency on cash income for successful farming, the institutional obstacles to farmers from the homeland who wish to develop market relations, and the changing territorial logics that have characterized demarcation and land use in the post-Apartheid period.  相似文献   

Southern Exceptionalism and the Perils of Region     

Caroline Rose Nagel 《The Professional geographer》2013,65(4):678-686

Contemporary political trends associated with the rise of Donald Trump seem to confound traditional regional designations in the United States. Yet the concept of region remains salient in popular discourse. This is especially true with respect to “the South,” which appears in several recent nonacademic works as the source of troubling social and political currents. More surprising, given decades of critique of “Southern exceptionalism,” has been the reappearance of the South as a focus of analysis in the scholarly literature on immigration. This scholarly literature works to deessentialize the South by highlighting the vagaries and instabilities of Southern identities, institutions, and landscapes. It can, however, subtly and inadvertently reinforce Southern exceptionalism by identifying the South as a place marked by uniquely fraught histories of racial exclusion. This article critically assesses how the South as a regional concept has located the problem of race in the United States in a specific time and place. This leads to a broader discussion of the persistence of regional imaginaries in the discipline of geography and the need for more deliberate consideration of the geographical concepts that guide our analyses of societal change.  相似文献   

Introductory Human Geography Textbook Representations of Africa     

《The Professional geographer》2013,65(4):522-532

This article analyzes representations of Africa found in ten introductory human geography textbooks. Recent research in communications studies cites the common tendencies of the U.S. media to represent Africa in rhetorical tropes of disaster that are ahistorical and rife with geographical abstraction and misrepresentation. The main textbooks in geography tend to avoid ahistorical and geographical simplification, yet they often repeat stereotypes and misleading media imagery concerning Africa. A broad body of works by geographers in the last decade that offers critical scholarly analysis of both African crises and African everyday life is generally underrepresented in the discipline's introductory textbooks, although some encouraging exceptions do exist to that generalization. It is suggested that geographers need to critically re-examine the ways in which African examples are utilized to teach fundamentals of human geography.  相似文献   

Crustal thickening prior to 38 Ma in southern Tibet: Evidence from lower crust-derived adakitic magmatism in the Gangdese Batholith     

Qi Guan  Di-Cheng Zhu  Zhi-Dan ZhaoGuo-Chen Dong  Liang-Liang ZhangXiao-Wei Li  Min LiuXuan-Xue Mo  Yong-Sheng LiuHong-Lin Yuan 《Gondwana Research》2012,21(1):88-99

The petrogenesis and geodynamic implications of the Cenozoic adakites in southern Tibet remain topics of debate. Here we report geochronological and geochemical data for host granites and mafic enclaves from Wolong in the eastern Gangdese Batholith, southern Tibet. Zircon LA-ICP-MS dating indicates that the Wolong host granites and enclaves were synchronously emplaced at ca. 38 Ma. The host granites are medium- to high-K calc-alkaline, metaluminous (A/CNK = 0.93-0.96), with high Al₂O₃ (15.47-17.68%), low MgO (0.67-1.18%), very low abundances of compatible elements (e.g., Cr = 3.87-8.36 ppm, Ni = 3.04-5.71 ppm), and high Sr/Y ratios (127-217), similar to those typical of adakite. The mafic enclaves (SiO₂ = 51.08-56.29%) have 3.83-5.02% MgO and an Mg^# of 48-50, with negative Eu anomalies (δEu = 0.59-0.79). The Wolong host granites and enclaves have similar Sr-Nd isotopic compositions (initial ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr = 0.7053-0.7055, ε_Nd(t) = − 2.7 to − 1.4), with varying zircon ε_Hf(t) values, ranging from + 6.0 to + 12.6. A comprehensive study of the data available for adakitic rocks from the Gangdese Batholith indicates that the Wolong adakitic host granites were derived from partial melting of a thickened lower crust, while the parental magmas of the mafic enclaves were most likely derived from lithospheric mantle beneath southern Tibet. The Wolong granitoids are interpreted as the result of mixing between the thickened lower crust-derived melts and lithospheric mantle-derived mafic melts, which are likely the protracted magmatic response to the break-off of the Neo-Tethyan oceanic slab at about 50 Ma. Our results suggest that the crustal thickening in southern Tibet occurred prior to ~ 38 Ma, and support the general view that the India-Asia collision must have occurred before 40 Ma.  相似文献   

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987112000588   总被引：4，自引：2，他引：2  

H.M.Rajesh 《地学前缘(英文版)》2012,3(6):773-788

Large charnockite massifs occur in the high-grade Southern Granulite Terrain(SGT) and Eastern Ghats Belt(EGB) crustal provinces of Peninsular India.Available geochronological data indicate that the magmatism is episodic,associated with distinct orogenic cycles in the different crustal domains. The geochemical data also indicate a change in composition from trondhjemitic at～3.0—2.9 Ga to dominantly tonalitic at～2.6—2.5 Ga to tonalitic-granodiorite-granitic at—2.0—1.9 Ga to dominantly tonalitic at 1.7—1.6 Ga to quartz monzonitic or tonalitic at～1.0—0.9 Ga to granodiorite-granitic at～0.8—0.7 Ga. The trondhjemitic and tonalitic end members are metaluminous.magnesian and calcic to calc-alkalic, characteristic of magnesian group charnockites.The granodioritic to granitic end members are metaluminous to slightly peraluminous.ferroan and calc-alkalic to alkali-calcic,characteristic of ferroan group charnockites.The quartz monzonitic end members are metaluminous to peraluminous,magnesian to ferroan and calcic to calc-alkalic.neither characteristic of the magnesian group nor of the ferroan group of charnockites. Based on the occurrence and difference in composition of the charnockite massifs,it is suggested that the charnockite magmatism registers the crustal growth of the Indian plate on its southern(SGT) and eastern(EGB) sides,along active continental margins by accretion of arcs.  相似文献   

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1674987112000084     

Mohamed K.Salah 《地学前缘(英文版)》2012,3(5):681-696

Seismic anisotropy and its main features along the convergent boundary between Africa and Iberia are detected through the analysis of teleseismic shear-wave splitting.Waveform data generated by 95 teleseismic events recorded at 17 broadband stations deployed in the western Mediterranean region are used in the present study.Although the station coverage is not uniform in the Iberian Peninsula and northwest Africa,significant variations in the fast polarization directions and delay times are observed at stations located at different tectonic domains.Fast polarization directions are oriented predominantly NW-SE at most stations which are close to the plate boundary and in central Iberia;being consistent with the absolute plate motion in the region.In the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula,fast velocity directions are oriented nearly E—W;coincident with previous results.Few stations located slightly north of the plate boundary and to the southeast of Iberia show E—W to NE-SW fast velocity directions,which may be related to the Alpine Orogeny and the extension direction in Iberia.Delay times vary significantly between 0.2 and 1.9 s for individual measurements,reflecting a highly anisotropic structure beneath the recording stations.The relative motion between Africa and Iberia represents the main reason for the observed NW-SE orientations of the fast velocity directions.However,different causes of anisotropy have also to be considered to explain the wide range of the splitting pattern observed in the western Mediterranean region.Many geophysical observations such as the low Pn velocity,lower lithospheric Q values,higher heat flow and the presence of high conductive features support the mantle How in the western Mediterranean,which may contribute and even modify the splitting pattern beneath the studied region.  相似文献   

天山南缘石炭系-三叠系碎屑岩成分及其对物源区大地构造属性的指示   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

王松  李双应  杨栋栋  何刚  赵大千 《岩石学报》2012,28(8):2453-2465

本文通过对天山南缘石炭系-三叠系碎屑岩岩石学特征和地球化学特征的分析,揭示了研究区石炭系-三叠系碎屑岩的物质组分特征及其物源区的大地构造背景.碎屑岩的岩石学、地球化学分析表明,天山南缘石炭系、三叠系砂岩成分成熟度和结构成熟度均不高,杂基含量较高,从石炭系至三叠系砂岩不稳定组分依次增加.石炭系、二叠系具有相似的稀土元素含量特征,三叠系稀土元素含量明显低于石炭系和二叠系,石炭系-三叠系轻、重稀土元素分馏程度依次减弱,La/Th、La/Y 比值依次增大,Th/U比值减小,来自再旋回的物质依次增多.综合碎屑组分、常量元素、稀土元素及微量元素特征的判别,天山南缘石炭系物源区构造背景为既有指示大陆岛孤、活动大陆边缘的证据,也有指示为被动大陆边缘,二叠系物源区示为大陆岛弧,三叠系物源区示为大陆岛弧和含有古老沉积岩的陆块.对比石炭系、二叠系及三叠系物源区的大地构造属性,石炭系物源区示有多种属性,而二叠系、三叠系则相对较为单一,这可能与中天山-伊犁地块和塔里木陆块的碰撞有关.  相似文献   

α径迹测量在非洲特殊环境下的应用及效果     

郑明良 《铀矿地质》2012,(1):52-57

在非洲纳米比亚开展了α径迹测量。针对非洲地区与国内迥然不同的特殊地质和恶劣气候环境,采取了各种应对措施,保证了测量的高灵敏度和准确性;经与钻探资料对比,径迹密度与放射性异常对应很好,测量效果显著。使α径迹测量这一物探找铀矿方法在非洲特殊环境的条件下得到全新的阐释。  相似文献   

柴达木盆地南缘晚奥陶世万宝沟花岗岩:锆石SHRIMP U-Pb年龄、Hf同位素和元素地球化学   总被引：4，自引：1，他引：3  

王晓霞  胡能高  王涛  孙延贵  巨生成  卢欣祥  李舢  齐秋菊 《岩石学报》2012,28(9):2950-2962

柴达木盆地南缘万宝沟花岗岩体主要由似斑状黑云母石英二长岩、环斑结构黑云母二长花岗岩和中粒黑云母二长花岗岩组成,岩体中发育岩浆暗色包体。环斑结构黑云母二长花岗的锆石SHRIMP U-Pb定年为441±5Ma,表明其形成于晚奥陶世。该花岗岩的SiO2含量变化较大(62.20%～75.32%),高钾(3.58%～5.15%)和碱(K2O+Na2O>7%),A/CNK为0.98～1.09,属弱过铝质高钾钙碱性系列;K2O/Na2O(>1)、FeOT/MgO(3.4～6.5)和Ga/Al(2.3～3.1)比值较高,亏损不相容元素Ba、Sr、Nb、P和Ti,相对富集Ta、Hf和Zr,具有A-型花岗岩的特征。黑云母二长花岗岩的εHf(t)=-1.1～10.5,tDM2=744～1490Ma,变化范围较大,表明其物质来源具有多源性,但以壳源为主。较高的εHf(t)(达10)值和较年轻的tDM2(仅为744Ma)暗示,源区中有年轻组分的参与。结合区域地质特征分析,认为该花岗岩形成于后造山的拉张环境。万宝沟花岗岩在结构和地球化学特征上与典型环斑花岗岩有相似之处也有差异,与秦岭中生代环斑结构花岗岩基本相似,表明中央造山带存在古生代和中生代两期环斑结构花岗岩。这将对中央造山带构造演化的进一步研究具有重要的科学意义。  相似文献   

Cryogenian magmatism and crustal reworking in the Southern Granulite Terrane,India     

《International Geology Review》2012,54(2):112-133

Understanding Neoproterozoic crustal evolution is fundamental to reconstructing the Gondwana supercontinent, which was assembled at this time. Here we report evidence of Cryogenian crustal reworking in the Madurai Block of the Southern Granulite Terrane of India. The study focuses on a garnet-bearing granite–charnockite suite, where the granite shows in situ dehydration into patches and veins of incipient charnockite along the contact with charnockite. The granite also carries dismembered layers of Mg–Al-rich granulite. Micro-textural evidence for dehydration of granite in the presence of CO₂-rich fluids includes the formation of orthopyroxene by the breakdown of biotite, neoblastic zircon growth in the dehydration zone, at around 870°C and 8 kbar. The zircon U–Pb ages suggest formation of the granite, charnockite, and incipient charnockite at 836 ± 73, 831 ± 31, and 772 ± 49 Ma, respectively. Negative zircon εHf (t) (?5 to ?20) values suggest that these rocks were derived from a reworked Palaeoproterozoic crustal source. Zircon grains in the Mg–Al-rich granulite record a spectrum of ages from ca. 2300 to ca. 500 Ma, suggesting multiple provenances ranging from Palaeoproterozoic to mid-Neoproterozoic, with neoblastic zircon growth during high-temperature metamorphism in the Cambrian. We propose that the garnet-bearing granite and charnockite reflect the crustal reworking of aluminous crustal material indicated by the presence of biotite + quartz + aluminosilicate inclusions in the garnet within the granite. This crustal source can be the Mg–Al-rich layers carried by the granite itself, which later experienced high-temperature regional metamorphism at ca. 550 Ma. Our model also envisages that the CO₂ which dehydrated the garnet-bearing granite generating incipient charnockite was sourced from the proximal massive charnockite through advection. These Cryogenian crustal reworking events are related to prolonged tectonic activities prior to the final assembly of the Gondwana supercontinent.  相似文献