Abstract The paper analyses the motivations of actors who reclaimed and appropriated banks Ebrié Lagoon in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, which were many cases marginal lands under public ownership. analysis focuses on evolution two unplanned settlements, Soweto (from 1964) Adjahui 2011). Practices incremental place-making residential stories connect these places, are located opposite to one another a...

Abstract The exposed Middle Eocene (Bartonian) Qurn Formation along Qattamiya—Ain Sokhna district is measured, sampled and microscopically investigated. Besides, the vertical distribution of chemical oxides strontium (Sr) has been determined to identify their petrographic, geochemical characteristics interpret depositional environments. facies analysis (lithofacies, microfacies, biofacies) stud...

On 26 November 2019, an Mw = 6.4 earthquake struck the central-western part of Albania. Its impact comprises secondary environmental effects (EEE) and severe building damage within Periadriatic Tirana Depressions. EEE comprised mainly liquefaction phenomena in coastal, riverine, lagoonal sites earthquake-affected area. From evaluation all available earthquake-related data, it is concluded that ...

Three sequential hurricanes, Dennis, Floyd, and Irene, affected coastal North Carolina in September and October 1999. These hurricanes inundated the region with up to 1 m of rainfall, causing 50- to 500-year flooding in the watershed of the Pamlico Sound, the largest lagoonal estuary in the United States and a key West Atlantic fisheries nursery. We investigated the ecosystem-level impacts on a...

Abstract This is the first of two comprehensive taxonomic works on early Miocene (ca. 23–20 Ma) bryozoan fauna associated with coral reefs from Siamaná Formation, in remote region Cocinetas Basin La Guajira Peninsula, northern Colombia, southern Caribbean. Fifteen species 11 families are described, comprising cyclostomes and 13 cheilostomes. Two cheilostome genera seven new: Antropora guajirens...

Abstract The Ediacaran Period witnessed major environmental change and an expansion of eukaryotic life following the Marinoan glaciation. Doushantuo Formation south China has furnished much our understanding Earth System biosphere evolution during this period, but its depositional setting–marine or non-marine–is still debated. Here we conduct mineralogical, petrographic geochemical analyses sam...