Agricultural terraces are the most widespread archaeological landforms worldwide. Despite their far-reaching prevalence in many inhabited parts of world, soils (hereafter ‘terrace soils’) scarcely studied and nature is poorly defined. This study aims to depict a space–time framework for development calcareous stone-wall bench suggest modifications soil classification mapping. To do so, we exami...

Combined with eustatic sea-level changes, uplifted Quaternary marine terraces provide insight into the tectonics of coastal areas. Cephalonia Island lies 35 km off western coast mainland Greece and 15 northeast Hellenic subduction zone. Late Pleistocene oscillations long-term tectonic movements are imprinted on landscape southern part island, in form seven terraces. In present study we aim to i...

The Honghe Hani Rice Terraces represent the coexistence between natural and cultural systems. Despite being listed as a World Heritage Site in 2013, certain anthropogenic factors have changed land use/land cover, which has led to reduction size of paddy rice area. It is difficult accurately assess these changes due lack historical maps croplands with fine spatial resolution. Therefore, we integ...

The problem of finding R-sequencings for abelian groups of even orders has been reduced to that of finding R∗sequencings for abelian groups of odd orders except in the case when the Sylow 2-subgroup is a non-cyclic non-elementary-abelian group of order 8. We partially address this exception, including all instances when the group has order 8t for t congruent to 1, 2, 3 or 4 (mod 7). As much is ...

Precipitation in the Hani Rice Terraces water source area is redistributed through soil, providing a continuous flow to terraces downstream and keeping healthy regional ecosystem. The dynamic characteristics of soil moisture its relationship with precipitation need be further investigated. In this study, we examined dynamics content (SMC) different site types (based on vegetation), at varying d...

No-till (NT) is a conservation system that improves the hydrological regime of agricultural slopes by providing greater surface protection and benefits to physical properties soils. However, isolated use NT not enough control runoff its associated degradation processes. Therefore, this study aimed evaluate under different conditions monitoring 63 rainfall events in two 2.4-ha zero-order catchme...

Abstract Cultivated terraces are outstanding modifications of mountains and hills to obtain arable land. These terraced agricultural systems widespread traditional landscapes within the Mediterranean area. The cultivated Amalfi Coast (Southern Italy) examples cultural landscapes, they represent one key descriptors UNESCO Site. Terraces have characterized landscape for a long time as their const...

Abstract The history of agricultural terraces remains poorly understood due to problems in dating their construction and use. This has hampered broader research on significance, limiting knowledge past practices the long-term investment choices rural communities. authors apply OSL profiling sediments associated with across Mediterranean region date Results from five widely dispersed case studie...

The grandest geotourism attractions in the southern hemisphere, nineteenth century, were siliceous Pink and White Terraces, lost New Zealand Eighth Wonder of World.