Search Results - LAND FORM AND EARTHWORKS

Optimizing land leveling by applying warped surface by Hossein Shams Shemirani, Faride Bahrami, Mohammad Modarres

Subjects: “…Land forming…”
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Environmental Aesthetics and Land Art by Jan Defrančeski

“…Moreover, by considering certain features of land art (e.g. integration, interruption, involvement, implementation, and imagining), the author proposes a thesis according to which land art represents not only a contemporary art movement but also a new form of the aesthetic experience of nature. …”
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The Impact of Snow Grooming on Morphology and Erosion of Alpine Hillslopes: A Case Study from Kasprowy Wierch Ski Station in the Tatra Mountains by Dawid Piątek, Kazimierz Krzemień

“…While these activities are known to cause significant land degradation, quantitative geomorphological studies, specifically on the effects of snow grooming, are limited. …”
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Late Holocene dietary and cultural variability on the Xingu River, Amazon Basin: A stable isotopic approach by Letícia Morgana Müller, Renato Kipnis, Mariane Pereira Ferreira, Sara Marzo, Bianca Fiedler, Mary Lucas, Jana Ilgner, Hilton P. Silva, Patrick Roberts

“…Although once considered a ‘counterfeit paradise’, the Amazon Basin is now a region of increasing interest in discussions of pre-colonial tropical land-use and social complexity. Archaeobotany, archaeozoology, remote sensing and palaeoecology have revealed that, by the Late Holocene, populations in different parts of the Amazon Basin were using various domesticated plants, modifying soils, building earthworks, and even forming ‘Garden Cities’ along the Amazon River and its tributaries. …”
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