Inaug.-diss.--Zürich. / Vita. "Literatur-verzeichnis": p. [5]-6.

Thesis--Leipzig. / "Abdruck aus Anglia, Zeitschrift für englische Philologie, Bd. XXII, 1910." Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. [vi]-viii).

Th.--Lett.--Rennes 2, 1979. / Index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 312-317). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 312-317). Also available on the Internet.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Canterbury University College, 1949. / Bibliography : p. [76]-[77].

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In the first part of the thesis, historical analysis shows that agents of cultural contact - the trading company and mission churches - focussed the activities of native Eskimo and Indian peoples upon the Mackenzie Delta. Centrifugal forces exerted by whaling in the Beaufort Sea and the Klondike Gold Rush were short-lived and resulted in the more rapid acculturation of native peoples involved in them who eventually drifted back towards the Mackenzie Delta. The intensification of trapping after 1920 and the growth of a pattern of settlements confirmed the importance of the Mackenzie Delta in the ecological regimes of Eskimos, Indians and the white trappers who migrated there at this time, and favoured the emergence of a Delta Community. In the second part of the thesis, an objective hierarchical grouping procedure is used to identify characteristic groups of trappers in terms of the species they trap. Groups specializing in more distant species associated with each settlement virtually disappeared between 1931 and 1951 and the spring muskrat harvest in the Mackenzie Delta became the dominant activity of most trappers. In 1950, trapping camps were evenly distributed throughout the Mackenzie Delta and the take of muskrat generally greater in the northeast. After the building of the new planned settlement of Inuvik the numbers of trapping camps diminished and the regional trend of the muskrat harvest shifted as the takes in the vincinity [sic] of the new town decreased. For the mid-sixties, a grouping procedure used to dichotomize "serious" and "part-time" trappers shows that a large proportion of the latter maintained trapping camps. Analysis of employment in Inuvik also shows a divided commitment to land and town. High income and high status jobs were occupied predominantly by white transient workers since they required skills and levels of educational achievement possessed by few native people. Though native people of Metis origin showed some success in employment, most Eskimos and Indians occupied more menial jobs. A comparison of employment in government and non-government sectors indicates that native involvement in the latter was growing, many native people in both sectors shifted jobs frequently, or between jobs and land-based activities. The town economy like the land economy showed signs of adaptation to the dual allegiance felt by native people to land and town. / Arts, Faculty of / Geography, Department of / Graduate

Garry Island, approximately 11 kilometres (7 miles) long and 0.8 to 3.2 kilometres (0.5 to 3.2 miles) wide, is located at about latitude 69° 28'N and longitude 135° 42'W in the southern part of the Beaufort Sea. The stratigraphy consists mainly of unconsolidated sands, silts, clays and stony clays which have been intensively deformed by the thrusting action of glacier-ice moving from the south. The deformed sediments are locally overlain by undisturbed sands and gravels containing marine fossils dated at >42,000 years. The absence of any evidence of glacial till on top of the sands suggests that Garry Island lay beyond the northwestern limits of the Laurentide ice sheet during the late-Wisconsin glaciation. Elevated strand-lines, which may be of great antiquity and occur at approximately 7.5 metre (25 feet) intervals to an altitude of almost 46 metres (150 feet), indicate the extent of Pleistocene fluctuations of sea level and the drowning of a pre-existing topography. The development of tundra polygons, in small flats behind sandspits or bars built across the drowned valleys in association with the former sea levels, has imparted a distinctive, stepped longitudinal profile to the stream courses. The tundra vegetation of Garry Island is classified into ten major habitats which are primarily related to drainage conditions and type of geomorphic activity. The island is underlain by permafrost and the thickness of the active layer is greatest, and ground temperatures in this layer are highest, beneath unvegetated surfaces and where the substrate is composed predominantly of mineral soil. Stratigraphic, geomorphic and historic evidence indicates considerable recession of the coastline in recent times. Current rates of retreat, reaching maxima of 10.5 metres (35 feet) per annum, are primarily related to the composition of the permafrost, being greatest in areas of fine-grained sediments, containing high ice contents, with a southerly exposure. Thermal erosion of the permafrost is the dominant process influencing cliff retreat and the primary role of wave action, on a short term basis, is in the removal of thawed debris from the base of the cliffs. Observations of three highly active mudslumps, created by the exposure of segregated ground ice, show that the rate of headwall recession is strongly correlated with ambient air temperatures. Maximum recession occurs where the ice content is high and the slumped debris is frequently removed from the base of the scarp. The cyclic development of a gully system on the ice face is described. The longevity of mudslump activity is prolonged where strong mudflows carry the thawed material away from the foot of the headwall, thus preventing the progressive burial of the scarp face. Mudflow velocities reveal a rhythmic pulsation related to periodic blocking of their channels. Mud levees, bordering the mudflows, result from the progressive bleeding of moisture from, and subsequent stagnation of, the mud rather than as residual features pushed aside by the advancing mudflow. Patterned ground on Garry Island is primarily restricted to non-sorted types. Angular intersections of thermal contraction cracks, representing the incipient stages of tundra polygons, exhibit a preferred tendency toward slightly-oriented, orthogonal systems. The initial micro-relief of earth hummocks is believed to originate through the accentuation of a miniature desiccation/frost crack pattern. Following the establishment of a vegetation cover, their subsequent growth involves further differential frost action and solifluction. Statistical tests show that the height, size and shape of earth hummocks are closely related to their position on the slope profile. / Arts, Faculty of / Geography, Department of / Graduate