Reading of the poetics of Beppe Fenoglio in relation to the philosophical and religious systems of the ancient Celts, a people who dominated the territory of Piedmont from the IV century BC to the I century AD. / A brief explanation of the history of Piedmont from prehistoric times, through Ligurian and Celtic domination, to Roman conquest and the consequent partial romanization of the territory will introduce the subject. / Certain aspects of the religion of the Celts, as described both by classical authors and modern scholars, will be examined in the context of beliefs, customs, and traditions of modern rural Piedmont using interviews (See Appendix ) conducted in Beppe Fenoglio's homeland, the Langhe. / Rural Piedmontese traditions and beliefs will be identified in the works of Fenoglio, particularly in Il partigiano Johnny and La malora, in order to describe the nexus that ties the concept of nature and the view of life and death expressed in the works with the naturalism of the ancient Celts.

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The effects of site quality, dormant and growing season harvests, and four even-aged regeneration treatments on natural hardwood and planted loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) are examined three years after clear felling and whole-tree harvesting upland hardwood stands in the Virginia Piedmont. Natural hardwood regeneration was dominated by stump sprouts, with seedlings and advanced regeneration playing a secondary role. Stump sprouts and seedlings plus advanced regeneration were significantly taller with a dormant season harvest. A growing season harvest resulted in significantly better survival and growth of loblolly pine after 2 growing seasons. A trend for more loblolly pine volume index growth on the poor site class was noted. Regneration alternatives included an herbicide stump treatment at time of harvest that significantly reduced stump sprout growth, 70%, and resulted in significantly better loblolly pine survival. This stump sprout control also favored hardwood seedling and advanced regeneration. One regeneration alternative included either a triclopyr basal bark spray or hexazinone soil applied spot treatment for releasing loblolly pine at age one. Both release treatments significantly reduced natural regeneration basal area and density when used two years after the herbicide stump treatment. Loblolly pine growth was significantly increased by both pine release treatments. Herbicide treatments were most effective, in terms of lower hardwood basal area and greater loblolly pine volume index, in growing season harvest treatment plots. / Master of Science

Rocks of the western and eastern Inner Piedmont, along with the eastern Blue Ridge, comprise the Neoacadian metamorphic core of the southern Appalachians. The composite Inner Piedmont consists of the eastern Tugaloo (western Inner Piedmont) and Cat Square (eastern Inner Piedmont) terranes, which are separated by the Brindle Creek fault. Geochronologic evidence established the Brindle Creek fault as a terrane boundary within the Inner Piedmont, separating terranes of Laurentian and mixed Laurentian/Avalonian (peri-Gondwanan) zircon suites. The Newton window exposes Tugaloo terrane rocks of the Tallulah Falls Formation in the footwall of the Brindle Creek thrust sheet. Detailed geologic mapping in the western Newton window revealed structural and metamorphic similarities between rocks across the Brindle Creek fault. Peak metamorphism occurred contemporaneously with peak deformation, reaching upper amphibolite facies across both terranes. Peak Neoacadian metamorphism occurred between 360 and 345 Ma. Electron microprobe analyses of Cat Square terrane core and rim garnet-biotite and garnet-plagioclase pairs indicate an average temperature and pressure of 620 C, 3.6 kbar and 710 C, 6.1 kbar, respectively. Temperature and pressure estimates from the lower Tallulah Falls Formation core and rim analyses yield conditions of 570 C, 4.1 kbar and 690 C, 5.9 kbar, respectively. The maximum burial depth for both Cat Square and Tugaloo terrane rocks is ~20 km. The range in metamorphic ages suggests subduction and accretion occurred at a rate of 1 kilometer per 1.75 million years. Six deformational events shaped the western Newton window. D1 features are limited to amphibolite boudins of the Tugaloo terrane. D2 regional penetrative structures such as high-temperature foliations, mineral stretching lineations, and curved fold axes are the product of Neoacadian tectonism. The dominant S2 foliation trends north-northwest and dips moderately to the west-southwest. North-northwest-trending L2 mineral lineations parallel F2 fold axes, creating a curved map pattern recording crustal flow in an ancient orogenic channel. D3 resulted in open folding. The D4 event produced regional open folds. D5 and D6 features occur as joints, cataclasis, and diabase intrusion.

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Project report (D. Min.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 1997. / Include bibliographical references (leaves 154-160).

Si la montagne est un objet qui n'a cessé d'accompagner la discipline géographique et ses évolutions, la question des seuils de la montagne est toujours restée relativement marginale. Pourtant, un intérêt croissant pour ces espaces est à noter. De nombreux concepts animant la discipline (interface, interspatialités, espaces intermédiaires…) poussent à reconsidérer ces espaces flous, au seuil de « l'espèce d'espace » ou catégorie spatiale qu'est la montagne. C'est dans ce cadre qu'est menée cette étude croisée entre terrain des Alpes du Nord franco-suisses et terrain des Carpates roumaines. Ce seuil de la montagne, appelé ici piémont, ne saurait émerger selon des critères exclusivement physiques ou topographiques qui n'ont plus lieu d'être au sein d'une discipline toujours plus ancrée dans les sciences humaines. Le piémont peut alors être défini comme l'espace sur lequel se déploie un ensemble de fonctions dites « piémontines ». Ce sont ces fonctions qu'il s'agit ici de saisir, de définir, afin d'en identifier les acteurs et d'en expliquer les dynamiques spatiales et temporelles. Ce sont aussi les logiques territoriales et métropolitaines qui sont à interroger, puisque ces fonctions « piémontines » peuvent constituer autant d'occasions de développement, de rapprochements mais aussi de concurrences entre territoires et/ou entre métropoles. Par conséquent, ce sont également la genèse et le fonctionnement des territorialités et, plus spécifiquement, des processus d'urbanisation et de métropolisation qui sont obligatoirement envisagés lorsque l'on s'intéresse à ces fonctions « piémontines ». Enfin, l'étude croisée permet, au moins dans une certaine mesure, d'envisager la comparaison, malgré tous les écueils et limites que celle-ci présente. Les paradoxes émergeant de cette volonté de comparaison constituent alors autant d'éléments susceptibles de mieux saisir ce que peuvent être les seuils de la montagne, mais aussi de proposer une approche renouvelée de ces terrains d'étude. / If the mountain is an object that has continued to support the geographical discipline and its developments, the issue of thresholds the mountain has remained relatively marginal. Yet a growing interest in these areas is noteworthy. Many concepts animating discipline (interface, interspatialités, intermediate spaces ...) push to reconsider these blurred areas, the threshold of "the kind of space" or spatial category what the mountain. It is in this context what this crossover study conducted between land North of the Alps in France and Switzerland and field of Romanian Carpathians. This threshold of the mountain foothills called here, can not emerge as exclusively physical or topographical criteria that have longer relevant in an increasingly rooted in the humanities discipline. The foothills can then be defined as the space on which deploys a set of functions called "foothill's functions". It is these features that this is to capture, define, in order to identify the players and explain the spatial and temporal dynamics. These are also the territorial logic and metropolitan which are to be questioned, as these "foothill's functions" can be as many development opportunities, but also of reconciliation competition between territories and / or between cities. Therefore, it is also the genesis and operation of territoriality and, specifically, the process of urbanization who must be considered when we look at these "foothill's functions". Finally, crossover study allows, at least to some extent, to consider the comparison, despite all the pitfalls and limitations that it presents. Emerging paradoxes of this comparison will then constitute elements that may better understand what can be the thresholds of the mountain, but also to propose a new approach to study these courses.

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As anthropogenic nutrient loads threaten the health of the Chesapeake Bay, lotic processes throughout its headwaters may buffer increased nitrogen inputs by converting them to stable forms, ultimately through denitrification to N2 gas. However, the temporal environmental factors controlling baseflow nitrogen retention are poorly understood, particularly temperature, shading, and dissolved organic matter dynamics. This study therefore attempts to elucidate the effects of these environmental variables on nitrogen cycling within the Fair Hill Natural Resources Management Area (Fair Hill), a forested watershed within the Piedmont physiographic province of the Chesapeake Bay. As expected, groundwater and allochthonous organic matter inputs set the foundation for lotic biogeochemistry at Fair Hill, creating a nutrient-limited, heterotrophic reach. Within this setting, three temporal "hot-moments" of in-stream nutrient processing were observed: the release of ammonium and phosphate during the warm - but shaded - growing season; nitrate uptake during autumnal leaf-fall; and a unique spike of nitrate uptake and respiration-induced degradation of labile organic matter during a drought. Consequently, the baseflow capacity of this headwater stream to buffer nutrient exports to the Chesapeake Bay constantly varies throughout the year in response to light availability, temperature, and in-stream organic matter dynamics. / Master of Science / Throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed, ecological processes known as nitrogen retention can naturally remove nitrogen pollution from small streams (a.k.a. headwater streams), and hence the Chesapeake Bay watershed. However, in-stream nitrogen retention varies throughout the year due to seasonal changes in temperature, shading (as leaves grow in the spring or fall off in the fall), and the amount and type of organic matter in the stream. This study examines how these three variables (temperature, shading, and dissolved organic matter dynamics) affect nitrogen retention in a headwater, forested stream within the Fair Hill Natural Resources Management Area (Fair Hill) located in the Piedmont region of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. As expected, groundwater and organic matter inputs set the foundation for in-stream conditions at Fair Hill, creating an environment with low concentrations of nitrate and phosphate (thus causing the stream to be nutrient-limited), while also creating a heterotrophic environment, which is an environment where more oxygen is consumed by microbes than produced by algae and plants. Additionally, three seasonal patterns regarding in-stream nutrient dynamics were observed at Fair Hill. Firstly, in-stream ammonium and phosphate concentrations increased during the warm - but shaded - growing season. Secondly, in-stream nitrate concentrations decreased when leaves fell in the fall. Thirdly, during a drought, in-stream nitrate removal increased while in-stream organic matter became more degraded. Consequently, in-stream nutrient retention at Fair Hill varies constantly throughout the year in response to light availability, temperature, and in-stream organic matter dynamics.

The Springfield pluton intrudes the Wissahickon schist in the southeast Pennsylvania Piedmont. The mineralogy of the pluton. in order of decreasing abundance is plagioclase, quartz, microcline, biotite, epidote (often with allanite cores) and trace amounts of hornblende. Accessory minerals include sphene, magnetite, apatite and zircon. The magmatic assemblage of quartz+two feldspars+biotite+sphene+hornblende+magnetite permits its utilization of AI-in-hornblende as a geobarometer (Schmidt, 1992) and yields a pressure estimate of 9 kbars. The initial 87Sr/86Sr ratio of 0.708, suggests an evolved source for the magma with respect to mantle compositions, while a Rb-Sr whole rock age of 457 ± 9 Ma suggests a link between peak metamorphic conditions (Crawford and Crawford, 1980; Crawford and Mark, 1987, Sinha, 1988) and magmatism. The pluton is metaluminous to weakly peraluminous, with the aluminum saturation index (ASI) < 1.15. Si02 contents range from 64.1 to 75.1 wt. percent, with all other elements showing a correlation (either positive or negative) with the Si02. The pluton is correlated with two similar bodies to the south, Ellicott City, Maryland and Ellisville, Virginia. The spatial and temporal relationships of the plutons, including the two mica Gunpowder granite, Maryland record a magmatic axis associated with high pressures (>5.0 kb) of emplacement of magmas. / Master of Science