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Total Pages : 318 pages
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Download or read book Central Appalachian Processes written by and published by . This book was released on 1990* with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Association of Geology Teachers. Eastern Section
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Download or read book Central Appalachian Processes written by National Association of Geology Teachers. Eastern Section and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven L. Stephenson
Publisher : Central Appalachian Natural Hi
ISBN 13 : 9781933202686
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book A Natural History of the Central Appalachians written by Steven L. Stephenson and published by Central Appalachian Natural Hi. This book was released on 2013 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central Appalachia is the system of linear ridges, intervening valleys, and deeply dissected plateaus that make up the rugged terrain found in western and southwestern Virginia, eastern and central West Virginia, western Maryland, and a portion of south central and southwestern Pennsylvania. Through its concise and accessible approach, A Natural History of the Central Appalachians thoroughly examines the biology and ecology of the plants, animals, and other organisms of this region of eastern North America. With over 120 images, this text provides an overview of the landscape of this region, including the major changes that have taken place over the past 300 million years; describes the different types of forests and other plant communities currently present in Central Appalachia; and examines living systems ranging from microorganisms and fungi to birds and mammals. Through a consideration of the history of humans in the region, beginning with the arrival of the first Native Americans, A Natural History of the Central Appalachians also discusses the past, present, and future influences of human activity upon this geographic area.
Author : Heather Ann Ackley Bean
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Total Pages : 294 pages
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Download or read book Women, Music, and Faith in Central Appalachia written by Heather Ann Ackley Bean and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both urban Appalachian evangelical Christianity, as embodied in Appalachian women's folk art and music, and process theology as articulated by John B. Cobb, Jr, and those he has mentored share an existentialist eschatology that emphasizes the salvific quality of individual life in the present rather than hope in the future. Explores the ways in which these two marginal Christian existential theological traditions share common beliefs, articulate them in radically different ways with radically different results, and thus might learn from one another.
Author : Ellison J. Heil
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Total Pages : 129 pages
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Download or read book Restoration Appalachia written by Ellison J. Heil and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appalachia follows the topographical boundary of the Appalachian Mountains which runs north-south along the Eastern Coast of the United States. This paper focuses on the Central Appalachia subregion of West Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, Southwestern Virginia, and Eastern Kentucky, as characterized by large-scale Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining operations. Indigenous nations reliant for subsistence on this region's ecological base were, over-time, increasingly displaced by communities dependent on resource extraction-oriented companies. This transition is chronicled through historical overviews and visual aids of Timber Harvest, Underground Mining, and Surface Mining processes. These resource extraction methods are then analyzed as ecological disturbances that damage, degrade and destroy ecosystems that previously served as an ecological base for subsistence communities. Following the overview of Restoration Ecology, potentials for ecological restoration of Appalachian minelands are presented through relevant policy.
Author : Steven L. Stephenson
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Total Pages : 278 pages
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Download or read book A Natural History of the Central Appalachians written by Steven L. Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 62 pages
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Download or read book Slope Stability and Denudational Processes: Central Appalachians written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald G. Cuppett
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Total Pages : 24 pages
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Download or read book Air-drying Practices in the Central Appalachians written by Donald G. Cuppett and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 254 pages
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Download or read book Central Appalachian Periglacial Geomorphology written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan L. Yarnell
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428953736
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)
Download or read book The Southern Appalachians written by Susan L. Yarnell and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard P. Tollo
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813712068
Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (137 download)
Download or read book From Rodinia to Pangea written by Richard P. Tollo and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 2010 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Appalachians constitute one of Earth's major tectonic features and have served as a springboard for innovative geologic thought for more than 170 years. This volume contains 36 original papers reporting the results of research performed throughout nearly the entire length and breadth of the Appalachian region, including all major provinces and geographical areas. Memoir 206 was designed to commemorate the (near-)fortieth anniversary of the publication of the classic Studies of Appalachian Geology volumes that appeared just prior to the application of plate tectonic concepts to the region. Contributions concerning structural evolution, sedimentation, stratigraphy, magmatic processes, metamorphism, tectonics, and terrane accretion illustrate the wide range of ongoing research in the area and collectively serve to mark the considerable progress in scientific thought that has occurred during the past four decades."--pub. desc.
Author : Douglas Wilson Johnson
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Total Pages : 338 pages
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Download or read book Geomorphology of the Central Appalachians written by Douglas Wilson Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judah Schept
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479888923
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)
Download or read book Coal, Cages, Crisis written by Judah Schept and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How prisons became economic development strategies for rural Appalachian communities As the United States began the project of mass incarceration, rural communities turned to building prisons as a strategy for economic development. More than 350 prisons have been built in the U.S. since 1980, with certain regions of the country accounting for large shares of this dramatic growth. Central Appalachia is one such region; there are eight prisons alone in Eastern Kentucky. If Kentucky were its own country, it would have the seventh highest incarceration rate in the world. In Coal, Cages, Crisis, Judah Schept takes a closer look at this stunning phenomenon, providing insight into prison growth, jail expansion and rising incarceration rates in America’s hinterlands. Drawing on interviews, site visits, and archival research, Schept traces recent prison growth in the region to the rapid decline of its coal industry. He takes us inside this startling transformation occurring in the coalfields, where prisons are often built on top of old coalmines, including mountaintop removal sites, and built into community planning approaches to crises of unemployment, population loss, and declining revenues. By linking prison growth to other sites in this landscape—coal mines, coal waste, landfills, and incinerators—Schept shows that the prison boom has less to do with crime and punishment and much more with the overall extraction, depletion, and waste disposal processes that characterize dominant development strategies for the region. Schept argues that the future of this area now hangs in the balance, detailing recent efforts to oppose its carceral growth. Coal, Cages, Crisis offers invaluable insight into the complex dynamics of mass incarceration that continue to shape Appalachia and the broader United States.
Author : John Gaventa
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
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Total Pages : 298 pages
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Download or read book Power and Powerlessness written by John Gaventa and published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Using Clear Fork Valley in central Appalachia as an empirical example, Gaventa attempts to discern the 'hidden faces of power'--those forces which shape actions and consciousness in ways not readily apparent in formal American political processes. He seeks to clarify and expand upon past theories (by such writers as Bachrach and Lukes) on the nature and maintenance of power. The region studied here is characterized by stark incongruity--the co-existence of massive natural wealth (coal and land) with pervasive human poverty attended by high unemployment, limited education, malnutrition, and the prevalent hazards of mining coal: black lung, dismemberment, death, and ecological ruin. This has been the region's status quo under the decades of domination by a British company and its absentee owners. Despite these departure conditions and frequently violent union struggles, culminating in the 1969 murder of UMW reformist Jock Yablonski, acquiescence to this status quo has been maintained. Gaventa searches out the answers to how and why wealth and poverty continue to coexist and the powerless continue to accede to the powerful. His astute analysis poses broader questions about the politics of poverty, working-class consciousness, and corporate power in America"--Publisher's website.
Author : Shannon Elizabeth Bell
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262034344
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Fighting King Coal written by Shannon Elizabeth Bell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contextualizing the Case : Central Appalachia --Micro-Level Processes and Social Movement Participation -- The Depletion of Social Capital in Coalfield Communities -- Identity and Environmental Justice Movement Participation -- Cognitive Liberation and Coal Industry Ideology -- Cognitive Liberation and Hidden Destruction in Central Appalachia -- Photovoice in Five Coalfield Communities -- Becoming, and Un-Becoming, an Activist.
Author : Mary Sheela Biswal
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Total Pages : 192 pages
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Download or read book Late Tertiary Tectonic Uplift in the Southern and Central Appalachians written by Mary Sheela Biswal and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exposed Appalachian Mountains extend about 2500 km from Newfoundland to Alabama with the highest peaks >2000 m above sea level. The last orogeny that affected Appalachian crust was the 325-260 Ma Alleghanian. Even with minimal erosion rates, it is highly unlikely that the Appalachians could have sustained such elevations for over 200 m.y., suggesting that recent tectonic uplift has produced today's mountainous topography. The multiple phases of Tertiary uplift are related to poorly understood processes, but a large amount of data from today's mountain chain and the adjacent Coastal Plain indicate the present high topography is anomalous and clearly not related to Paleozoic crustal processes. Uplift signatures suggest that current topography and visible geomorphology are a product of the late Tertiary uplift. Antecedent rivers flowing westward across very high topography in the Blue Ridge, westward-migrating drainage divide and anomalous drainage patterns are common in the southeastern Appalachians. A marked shift in high topography occurs northward from the Blue Ridge in Tennessee-North Carolina to the Valley and Ridge in Virginia-West Virginia. Evidence suggests a possible late Tertiary tectonic uplift in the southern and central Appalachians, although more data and evidence are needed to understand the uplift. The main research problem of this project is to identify and analyze uplift signatures as recorded in lower Gulf Coastal Plain sediments and fluvial terraces along Douglas Lake, French Broad River. Detrital zircon geochronology of Miocene-Pliocene lower Gulf Coastal Plain sediments shows important age peaks at 1.0 Ga, 600 Ma, 480 Ma, 440 Ma and 300 Ma. Collective zircon data suggest a possible predominance of Appalachian provenance. This indicates occurrence of tectonic uplift in the source region during the Miocene-Pliocene, producing exceptionally high sediment influx in the Coastal Plain during that time. Fluvial terrace mapping along Douglas Lake, Tennessee has been done with the help of vintage topographic maps and classic geologic mapping involving foot traverses. A provisional geologic terrace map at 1:24,000 scale has been produced as part of this study. Terrace mapping has helped identify five distinct terraces, resolve their relative chronology and understand the evolution of terraces along the river.
Author : Paul Joseph Soltesz
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Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Large Wood Dynamics in Central Appalachian Hemlock Headwater Ravines written by Paul Joseph Soltesz and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Large wood (LW) is a critical component of forested mountain headwater streams that significantly contributes to geomorphic and ecological processes including channel structure, sediment and nutrient dynamics, flow regimes, and habitat formation for fish and aquatic macroinvertebrates. The character of LW is a function of valley recruitment processes that influence LW entering the channel and instream retention processes that influence LW transport through the channel reach. In the central Appalachian Mountains, US, LW dynamics in eastern hemlock-dominated ravines may change due to the invasive insect Hemlock Wooly Adelgid (HWA). However, quantitative LW studies are lacking for this region, yet are necessary for effective management of ecosystem health and processes regarding projected HWA-associated change. We examined LW dynamics across central Appalachian headwater streams (drainage area 20 km2) to identify: 1) the current state of LW loading, 2) the environmental factors that influence LW loading, 3) potential signs of HWA impact on LW dynamics, and 4) functional grouping patterns of LW pieces in these systems. A field study was conducted in 24 streams across southeastern Ohio, West Virginia, and western Virginia that represent a gradient of HWA infestation from 0 (uninfested) to 23 years. At each site, channel morphology, in-stream wood load, and wood recruitment potential were recorded. Mean wood density was 36 pieces/100m ± 21 and mean wood volume was 5.6 m3/100m ± 3.5. Most pieces were less than bankfull width suggesting high transportability, but large pieces (10m) contributed significantly to wood volume, jam formation (>3 LW pieces touching), and geomorphic function. Central Appalachian LW loading was on the lower end of mountain headwater streams reported elsewhere in the world, although comparable to similar stream types in the northeastern US. A mixture of recruitment and retention processes influenced LW dynamics, but channel retention processes better explained LW jam dynamics. Specifically, higher LW load was associated with lower forest basal area, smaller channel dimensions, and lower hydraulic driving forces, which is consistent with other studies. We did not detect a significant influence of HWA infestation even in moderately advanced infestation (e.g., ~20 years) on LW load, which may reflect a lag period between tree mortality, toppling, and LW load. Pieces clustered in three functional groups of: 1) larger, stable pieces that store sediment, stabilize the bank, and create pools, 2) relatively stable pieces that deflect flow and dissipate energy, and 3) smaller pieces associated with flow deflection and energy dissipation composed of mixed stability. This study provides quantitative information on LW dynamics in the central Appalachian region prior to expected environmental change associated with HWA. This information may aid land managers in regulating LW loads and environmental processes influenced by LW including sediment dynamics, aquatic habitat creation, and flow regimes.
