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Development of Regional Flood Frequency Relationships Using L-moments for Middle Ganga Plains Subzone 1(f) of India
In this study, screening of the data has been carried out basedon the discordancy measure ( D i ) in terms of the L-moments. Homogeneity of the region...
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Effects of Release Conditions Uncertainty on Avalanche Hazard Map**
Dynamical models for calculating snow avalanche motion have gained growingimportance in recent years for avalanche hazard assessment. Nevertheless,...
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Introduction
What is archaeomineralogy? The term has been used at least once before (Mitchell 1985), but this volume is the first publication to lay down the...
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The Changing Incidence of Extremes in Worldwide and Central England Temperatures to the End of the Twentieth Century
Annual and seasonal gridded ocean surface temperature anomalies show an increase in warm extremes and a decrease in cold extremes since the late 19th...
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Social Vulnerability to Climate Change and the Architecture of Entitlements
The objective of this paper is to outline a conceptual model of vulnerability to climate change as the first step in appraising and understanding the...
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Stratigraphic Correlation
Whether the geologist is dealing with roadside outcrops, subsurface data from a petroleum play, or regional seismic lines, one of the first problems...
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Rock-Fabric, Petrophysical Parameters, and Classification
The goal of reservoir characterization is to describe the spatial distribution of petrophysical parameters such as porosity, permeability, and...
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Origin, characteristics, and behaviour of lahars following the 1990 eruption of Kelud volcano, eastern Java (Indonesia)
In contrast to most twentieth-century eruptions of Kelud volcano (eastern Java), the 10 February 1990 plinian eruption was not accompanied by...
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Sedimentology and Clast Orientation of Deposits Produced by Glacial-Lake Outburst Floods in the Mount Everest Region, Nepal
Climatic wanning during the last 100 to 150 years has caused many alpine glaciers to thin and retreat (Grove, 1990; O’Connor and Costa, 1993; Evans...
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TECHNICAL NOTE. Model study of H-piles subjected to combined loading
A series of model tests on H-piles subject to lateral and vertical loading have been performed so that the experimental data could be used to...
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Model study of H-piles subjected to combined loading
A series of model tests on H-piles subject to lateral and vertical loading have been performed so that the experimental data could be used to...
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Outer Light, Inner Fire
Southward along a line of longitude our research ship steamed, halfway between Africa and South America. That day we were to cross a line supposedly...
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Fluvial geomorphology of central and southern England
The boundary between the ‘Highland Zone’, of the north and west of Britain, and the ‘Lowland Zone’, of the south and east, is usually taken as a line...
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Petroleum
For the industrial nations of the world, petroleum has fueled the twentieth century. Despite accelerating depletion of the resource, new technologies...
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Conditional estimates of the number of podiform chromite deposits
A desirable guide for estimating the number of undiscovered mineral deposits is the number of known deposits per unit area from another well-explored...