Between the compressional structures of the Green Mountains of Vermont and the dome-like Adirondack mass lie the Lake Champlain lowlands characterized by normal faults, moderate dips, and a scarcity of folds. The normal faults belong mainly to two systems, one having a northeast-southwest strike and one a north-south strike. It appears that both systems were formed simultaneously, and structura...

A canopy trap and aerial nets led to finding 8 species of Tabanidae. There was an abundance of calyptrate muscoid flies. Camel's Hump is in the Green Mountains of western New England, USA. Discovering Diptera on Camel's Hump involved sixteen visits over 40 years. Upwards of 23 other Diptera species are listed. Habitats on the east side and above 762 m (2500 ft) elevation on Camel's Hump differ ...

The Wells 6.0 magnitude earthquake of February 21, 2008, occurred on a previously unrecognized northeast-striking southeast-dipping fault situated beneath Town Creek Flat, a few miles north of Wells, Nevada. Focal depth of the earthquake was 5 miles (8 km). Bedrock geology in the surrounding ranges did not indicate the existence of the fault prior to the earthquake, and no surface rupture has b...

Lobelia giberroa is a giant rosette plant growing in the afro-montane belt of the afro-alpine environment, a unique and little-studied ecosystem occupying the high mountains of eastern Africa. We analysed amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs) from 11 mountain systems in Ethiopia and Tropical East Africa to infer the phylogeographical history of the species. A total of 191 individuals ...

A high resolution, limited area version of the NCAR GCM is used to simulate the March 14, 1975 east coast storm. Based on climatological data, synoptic experience, and an examination of numerous cases, this cyclone was chosen because it seemed to have been strongly influenced by the Appalachian Mountains. The storm was investigated in detail and is briefly described. The NCAR GCM is also descri...

Uganda Uganda, referred to as the 'Pearl of Africa' by Winston Churchill, has an area of 236 580 km2 and a population of about 20 million. This beautiful and fertile country varies from semidesert in the north-east to the lush shores of Lake Victoria and the mist covered Rwenzori mountains on its western border. At the time of independence in 1962, Uganda was considered a prosperous and cohesiv...

The mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of 98 Mansi, an ancient group (formerly known as "Vogul") of Uralic-speaking fishers and hunters on the eastern slope of the northern Ural Mountains, were analyzed for sequence variants by restriction fragment--length polymorphism analysis, control-region sequencing, and sequencing of additional informative sites in the coding region. Although 63.3% of the mtDNA de...

In a very influential paper Avise et al. [1] introduced the term “phylogeography” to refer to evolutionary studies lying at the interface of population genetics and systematics. An important property of molecular sequences is that the degree of difference among them contains information about their relatedness. Avise et al. proposed combining information derived from the phylogenetic relationsh...