Kumbira forest is a discrete patch of moist forest of Guineo-Congolian biome in Western Angola central scarp and runs through Cuanza Norte and Cuanza Sul province. The project aimed to document the floristic diversity of the Angolan escarpment, a combination of general walk-over survey, plant specimen collection and sight observation was used to aid the characterization of the vegetation. Over ...

We reassess the architecture and tectonic history of Western Alps based on recent knowledge developed at rifted margins. First, we replace main Alpine units our study area into a synthetic margin template diagnostic petrologic, stratigraphic, structural criteria. find that some previously attributed to internal part thick-crusted Briançonnais domain may rather derive from thin-crusted Prepiemon...

The ruins of the Medieval castle and village El Castellar are located on an abrupt 1.2-km-long scarp Miocene gypsums, in central sector Ebro depression. remains main perched a 100 m cliff River. Considering historical geoarchaeological relevance settlement, this investigation aimed to study geomorphological paleoenvironmental context site during after settlement its later evolution, including c...

An approach to initial assessment of prospective needs for conservation of hill zones and scarps is formulated. The approach begins with a digital elevation model (DEM) and elevation contours generated from the DEM. Three types of hill/slope features are recognized for interactive extraction via geographic information system (GIS). The three types of features are regional ridges, dissected dome...

Excavations in a playa along the 1992 rupture of the Emerson fault reveal evidence of two paleoseismic events, with only one large prehistoric rupture in the past 15 millennia. Accelerator mass spectrometer radiocarbon ages of charcoal from playa sediments and from faultscarp colluvium directly beneath the playa beds indicate that the last large prehistoric slip event occurred about 9000 ka. Tr...