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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Ueber die durch wasserfälle erzeugte leitfähigkeit der luft ...

Kaehler, Karl Friedrich, January 1903 (has links)
Inaug.-diss.--Kiel. / Lebenslauf.
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Constraining bedrock erosion during extreme flood events

Baynes, Edwin Richard Crews January 2016 (has links)
The importance of high-magnitude, short-lived flood events in controlling the evolution of bedrock landscapes is not well understood. During such events, erosion processes can shift from one regime to another upon the passing of thresholds, resulting in abrupt landscape changes that can have a long lasting legacy on landscape morphology. Geomorphological mapping and topographic analysis document the evidence for, and impact of, extreme flood events within the Jökulsárgljúfur canyon (North-East Iceland). Surface exposure dating using cosmogenic 3He of fluvially sculpted bedrock surfaces determines the timing of the floods that eroded the canyon and helps constrain the mechanisms of bedrock erosion during these events. Once a threshold flow depth has been exceeded, the dominant erosion mechanism becomes the toppling and transportation of basalt lava columns and erosion occurs through the upstream migration of knickpoints. Surface exposure ages allow identification of three periods of rapid canyon cutting during erosive flood events about 9, 5 and 2 ka ago, when multiple active knickpoints retreated large distances (> 2 km), each leading to catastrophic landscape change within the canyon. A single flood event ~9 ka ago formed, and then abandoned, Ásbyrgi canyon, eroding 0.14 km3 of rock. Flood events ~5 and ~2 ka ago eroded the upper 5 km of the Jökulsárgljúfur canyon through the upstream migration of vertical knickpoints such as Selfoss, Dettifoss and Hafragilsfoss. Despite sustained high discharge of sediment-rich glacial meltwater (ranging from 100 to 500 m3 s-1); there is no evidence for a transition to an abrasion-dominated erosion regime since the last erosive flood: the vertical knickpoints have not diffused over time and there is no evidence of incision into the canyon floor. The erosive signature of the extreme events is maintained in this landscape due to the nature of the bedrock, the discharge of the river, large knickpoints and associated plunge pools. The influence of these controls on the dynamics of knickpoint migration and morphology are explored using an experimental study. The retreat rate of knickpoints is independent of both mean discharge, and temporal variability in the hydrograph. The dominant control on knickpoint retreat is the knickpoint form which is set by the ratio of channel flow depth to knickpoint height. Where the knickpoint height is five times greater than the flow depth, the knickpoints developed undercutting plunge pools, accelerating the removal of material from the knickpoint base and the overall retreat rate. Smaller knickpoints relative to the flow depth were more likely to diffuse from a vertical step into a steepened reach or completely as the knickpoint retreated up the channel. These experiments challenge the established assumption in models of landscape evolution that a simple relationship exists between knickpoint retreat and discharge/drainage area. In order to fully understand how bedrock channels, and thus landscapes, respond and recover to transient forcing, further detailed study of the mechanics of erosion processes at knickpoints is required.
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Kunstgeschichte und Geologie der Wasserfall in Gemälden des 17. bis 19. Jahrhunderts /

Engelhard, Hans, January 1975 (has links)
Thesis--Cologne. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-188).
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Nonlinear dynamics in oscillating waterfalls

Schumann, Michael 01 January 1992 (has links)
The concern of this thesis was to investigate the nonlinear dynamics inherent in oscillating waterfalls.
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A multi-dimensional visual history on the upper falls of the Genesee River, Rochester, NY /

Robinson, Bruce G. January 1990 (has links)
Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1990. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 17).
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Geoturismo na bacia hidrográfica do Rio Rolante/RS : um estudo acerca das Quedas d’água

Luerce, Thiago Dias January 2015 (has links)
O Geoturismo é definido como um segmento turístico sustentável que se integra as estratégias de Geoconservação em determinada região, valorizando sua geodiversidade por meio de atividades turísticas e educativas. As potencialidades paisagísticas exploradas pelo Geoturismo estão relacionadas, principalmente, aos aspectos geológicos e geomorfológicos, configurando as quedas d’água como elementos de interesse para esta atividade. Esta pesquisa objetiva analisar o potencial geoturístico da bacia hidrográfica do rio Rolante, localizada a aproximadamente 95 km de Porto Alegre, buscando contribuir com o registro, valorização e conservação da sua geodiversidade. Para tanto, busca-se, primeiramente, realizar um inventário das quedas d’água da bacia hidrográfica, posteriormente, selecionar e descrever as quedas d’água que, devido ao seu potencial didático, possam constituir o Geopatrimônio desta bacia, e, por fim, propor uma alternativa de valorização e divulgação da geodiversidade da bacia por meio do conteúdo de um Painel Geoturístico das principais quedas d’água da bacia. Os resultados da pesquisa foram divididos em três partes. O inventário das quedas d’água contém o mapeamento e a catalogação de 16 quedas d’água na bacia. Esta etapa da pesquisa permitiu estabelecer relações entre as características geológicas-geomorfológicas de determinadas porções da bacia com a concentração de quedas d’água em certas áreas. A seleção e descrição das quedas d’água contêm a seleção de 8 geossítios e a descrição de suas caracterizações estruturais, de acesso, e de geodiversidade e a exposição de croquis interpretativos. Esta etapa permitiu a identificação tanto da influência dos contatos litológicos na morfologia das quedas d’água devido à erodibilidade diferencial das rochas, como também da influência dos contatos interderrames na morfologia das quedas d’água em degraus, devido às descontinuidades estruturais dos derrames. O conteúdo do Painel Geoturístico proposto nesta pesquisa apresenta as três quedas d’água que, por meio de seus contatos litológicos expostos, representam, de forma didática, a geodiversidade da bacia do rio Rolante. / The Geotourism is defined as a sustainable tourism segment that integrates the Geoconservation strategies in a given region, by enhancement its geodiversity through educational and touristic activities. The landscaped potentials explored by the Geotourism are mainly related to the geological and geomorphological aspects, configuring the waterfalls as place of interest to this activity. This research aims to analyze the Geotouristic potential of the waterfalls of the Rolante river basin, which is located approximately 95 km from Porto Alegre, aiming to contribute with the registration, appreciation and conservation of its geodiversity. Therefore, initially, it seeks to realize an inventory of the waterfalls in the hydrographic basin, subsequently, select and describe the waterfalls that, by their educational potential, may constitute the Geological Heritage of this hydrographic basin, and finally, propose an alternative of appreciation and disclosure of the geodiversity of the Rolante river basin through the content of a Geotouristic Panel of its mainly waterfalls. The results of this research were divided in three parts. The inventory of the waterfalls contains the mapping and the cataloging of 16 waterfalls on the hydrographic basin. This stage allowed establishing some connections between the geological-geomorphological features of some given portions of the hydrographic basin with the concentration of waterfalls in certain areas. The selection and description of the waterfalls contains the selection of 8 geosites and the description of its features of structure, of access and of geodiversity and the exposition of its interpretative sketches. This stage allowed both the identification of the influence of the lithological contacts on the waterfalls morphology because of the differential erodibility of rocks, as well as the influence of the contacts between the superimposed basalts flows on the morphology of the step-like waterfalls because the structural discontinuity of the basalts flow. The content of the Geotouristic Panel proposed in this research shows 3 waterfalls that, by its exposed lithologics contacts, represent, on an educational way, the geodiversity of Rolante river basin.
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Geoturismo na bacia hidrográfica do Rio Rolante/RS : um estudo acerca das Quedas d’água

Luerce, Thiago Dias January 2015 (has links)
O Geoturismo é definido como um segmento turístico sustentável que se integra as estratégias de Geoconservação em determinada região, valorizando sua geodiversidade por meio de atividades turísticas e educativas. As potencialidades paisagísticas exploradas pelo Geoturismo estão relacionadas, principalmente, aos aspectos geológicos e geomorfológicos, configurando as quedas d’água como elementos de interesse para esta atividade. Esta pesquisa objetiva analisar o potencial geoturístico da bacia hidrográfica do rio Rolante, localizada a aproximadamente 95 km de Porto Alegre, buscando contribuir com o registro, valorização e conservação da sua geodiversidade. Para tanto, busca-se, primeiramente, realizar um inventário das quedas d’água da bacia hidrográfica, posteriormente, selecionar e descrever as quedas d’água que, devido ao seu potencial didático, possam constituir o Geopatrimônio desta bacia, e, por fim, propor uma alternativa de valorização e divulgação da geodiversidade da bacia por meio do conteúdo de um Painel Geoturístico das principais quedas d’água da bacia. Os resultados da pesquisa foram divididos em três partes. O inventário das quedas d’água contém o mapeamento e a catalogação de 16 quedas d’água na bacia. Esta etapa da pesquisa permitiu estabelecer relações entre as características geológicas-geomorfológicas de determinadas porções da bacia com a concentração de quedas d’água em certas áreas. A seleção e descrição das quedas d’água contêm a seleção de 8 geossítios e a descrição de suas caracterizações estruturais, de acesso, e de geodiversidade e a exposição de croquis interpretativos. Esta etapa permitiu a identificação tanto da influência dos contatos litológicos na morfologia das quedas d’água devido à erodibilidade diferencial das rochas, como também da influência dos contatos interderrames na morfologia das quedas d’água em degraus, devido às descontinuidades estruturais dos derrames. O conteúdo do Painel Geoturístico proposto nesta pesquisa apresenta as três quedas d’água que, por meio de seus contatos litológicos expostos, representam, de forma didática, a geodiversidade da bacia do rio Rolante. / The Geotourism is defined as a sustainable tourism segment that integrates the Geoconservation strategies in a given region, by enhancement its geodiversity through educational and touristic activities. The landscaped potentials explored by the Geotourism are mainly related to the geological and geomorphological aspects, configuring the waterfalls as place of interest to this activity. This research aims to analyze the Geotouristic potential of the waterfalls of the Rolante river basin, which is located approximately 95 km from Porto Alegre, aiming to contribute with the registration, appreciation and conservation of its geodiversity. Therefore, initially, it seeks to realize an inventory of the waterfalls in the hydrographic basin, subsequently, select and describe the waterfalls that, by their educational potential, may constitute the Geological Heritage of this hydrographic basin, and finally, propose an alternative of appreciation and disclosure of the geodiversity of the Rolante river basin through the content of a Geotouristic Panel of its mainly waterfalls. The results of this research were divided in three parts. The inventory of the waterfalls contains the mapping and the cataloging of 16 waterfalls on the hydrographic basin. This stage allowed establishing some connections between the geological-geomorphological features of some given portions of the hydrographic basin with the concentration of waterfalls in certain areas. The selection and description of the waterfalls contains the selection of 8 geosites and the description of its features of structure, of access and of geodiversity and the exposition of its interpretative sketches. This stage allowed both the identification of the influence of the lithological contacts on the waterfalls morphology because of the differential erodibility of rocks, as well as the influence of the contacts between the superimposed basalts flows on the morphology of the step-like waterfalls because the structural discontinuity of the basalts flow. The content of the Geotouristic Panel proposed in this research shows 3 waterfalls that, by its exposed lithologics contacts, represent, on an educational way, the geodiversity of Rolante river basin.
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Geoturismo na bacia hidrográfica do Rio Rolante/RS : um estudo acerca das Quedas d’água

Luerce, Thiago Dias January 2015 (has links)
O Geoturismo é definido como um segmento turístico sustentável que se integra as estratégias de Geoconservação em determinada região, valorizando sua geodiversidade por meio de atividades turísticas e educativas. As potencialidades paisagísticas exploradas pelo Geoturismo estão relacionadas, principalmente, aos aspectos geológicos e geomorfológicos, configurando as quedas d’água como elementos de interesse para esta atividade. Esta pesquisa objetiva analisar o potencial geoturístico da bacia hidrográfica do rio Rolante, localizada a aproximadamente 95 km de Porto Alegre, buscando contribuir com o registro, valorização e conservação da sua geodiversidade. Para tanto, busca-se, primeiramente, realizar um inventário das quedas d’água da bacia hidrográfica, posteriormente, selecionar e descrever as quedas d’água que, devido ao seu potencial didático, possam constituir o Geopatrimônio desta bacia, e, por fim, propor uma alternativa de valorização e divulgação da geodiversidade da bacia por meio do conteúdo de um Painel Geoturístico das principais quedas d’água da bacia. Os resultados da pesquisa foram divididos em três partes. O inventário das quedas d’água contém o mapeamento e a catalogação de 16 quedas d’água na bacia. Esta etapa da pesquisa permitiu estabelecer relações entre as características geológicas-geomorfológicas de determinadas porções da bacia com a concentração de quedas d’água em certas áreas. A seleção e descrição das quedas d’água contêm a seleção de 8 geossítios e a descrição de suas caracterizações estruturais, de acesso, e de geodiversidade e a exposição de croquis interpretativos. Esta etapa permitiu a identificação tanto da influência dos contatos litológicos na morfologia das quedas d’água devido à erodibilidade diferencial das rochas, como também da influência dos contatos interderrames na morfologia das quedas d’água em degraus, devido às descontinuidades estruturais dos derrames. O conteúdo do Painel Geoturístico proposto nesta pesquisa apresenta as três quedas d’água que, por meio de seus contatos litológicos expostos, representam, de forma didática, a geodiversidade da bacia do rio Rolante. / The Geotourism is defined as a sustainable tourism segment that integrates the Geoconservation strategies in a given region, by enhancement its geodiversity through educational and touristic activities. The landscaped potentials explored by the Geotourism are mainly related to the geological and geomorphological aspects, configuring the waterfalls as place of interest to this activity. This research aims to analyze the Geotouristic potential of the waterfalls of the Rolante river basin, which is located approximately 95 km from Porto Alegre, aiming to contribute with the registration, appreciation and conservation of its geodiversity. Therefore, initially, it seeks to realize an inventory of the waterfalls in the hydrographic basin, subsequently, select and describe the waterfalls that, by their educational potential, may constitute the Geological Heritage of this hydrographic basin, and finally, propose an alternative of appreciation and disclosure of the geodiversity of the Rolante river basin through the content of a Geotouristic Panel of its mainly waterfalls. The results of this research were divided in three parts. The inventory of the waterfalls contains the mapping and the cataloging of 16 waterfalls on the hydrographic basin. This stage allowed establishing some connections between the geological-geomorphological features of some given portions of the hydrographic basin with the concentration of waterfalls in certain areas. The selection and description of the waterfalls contains the selection of 8 geosites and the description of its features of structure, of access and of geodiversity and the exposition of its interpretative sketches. This stage allowed both the identification of the influence of the lithological contacts on the waterfalls morphology because of the differential erodibility of rocks, as well as the influence of the contacts between the superimposed basalts flows on the morphology of the step-like waterfalls because the structural discontinuity of the basalts flow. The content of the Geotouristic Panel proposed in this research shows 3 waterfalls that, by its exposed lithologics contacts, represent, on an educational way, the geodiversity of Rolante river basin.
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Estruturação longitudinal da ictiofauna a jusante das Cataratas do Iguaçu / Longitudinal structuring fish populations downstream of the Iguazu Falls

Santos, Dhonatan Oliveira dos 20 August 2013 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-10T14:38:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dhonatan Santos.pdf: 674044 bytes, checksum: 1cff602fb13d2c3e5d393019f4f174ab (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-08-20 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This study evaluated the distribution and structure of the ichthyofauna of the Iguaçu River, in the stretch between downstream of the Iguaçu Falls to the mouth of the Paraná River. Were sampled monthly during the period of October 2010 to September 2012 using gillnets and longlines. Environmental variables showed no statistical differences between the sampled points. Were collected 10,996 fish belonging to 124 species, the Siluriformes had the greater values of richness, while Characiformes were the most abundant. Were recorded 17 species of longdistance migratory. In the lower portion were recorded high values of relative abundance for small species, while the upper portion, were recorded high values of biomass for large species. The evenness and Shannon diversity index showed significant differences between the points of the lower and upper portion, indicating that there could be some dominant species. The pattern increment longitudinal in richness was not detected, and the points of the upper portion were separated from others in multiple comparison test, suggesting a structuring for areas along the stretch sampled. These results indicate that the stretch of Iguaçu river, between Iguaçu Falls to the mouth with the Paraná River, the ichthyofauna presents differentiated structure along the spatial gradient, which may be related to differences in the physical structure of the sampled area / Este estudo avaliou a distribuição e estrutura da ictiofauna do rio Iguaçu, no trecho entre à jusante das Cataratas do Iguaçu até a foz com o rio Paraná. Foram realizadas amostragens mensais durante o período de outubro de 2010 a setembro de 2012, utilizando redes de espera e espinhel. As variáveis ambientais não apresentaram diferenças estatísticas entre os pontos amostrados. Foram coletados 10.996 peixes pertencentes a 124 espécies, os Siluriformes tiveram os maiores valores de riqueza, enquanto que Characiformes foram os mais abundantes. Foram registradas 17 espécies migradoras de longa distância. Na porção inferior foram registrados altos valores de abundância relativa para espécies de pequeno porte, enquanto que na porção superior foram registrados altos valores de biomassa para espécie de grande porte. A Equitabilidade e o índice de diversidade de Shannon apresentaram diferenças significativas entre os pontos da porção inferior e os pontos da porção superior, indicando que pode 8 haver dominância de algumas espécies. O padrão de incremento longitudinal na riqueza não foi detectado, e os pontos da porção superior foram separados dos demais no teste de comparações múltiplas, sugerindo uma estruturação por zonas ao longo da área amostrada. Esses resultados indicam que no trecho do rio Iguaçu compreendido entre as Cataratas do Iguaçu até a sua foz com o rio Paraná, a ictiofauna apresenta estrutura diferenciada ao longo do gradiente espacial, o que pode estar relacionado às diferenças na estruturação física da área amostrada
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Influence of waterfalls on patterns of association between trout and Natal cascade frog Hadromophryne natalensis tadpoles in two headwaterstreams of the Ukhahlamba Drakensberg Park World Heritage Site

Karssing, Jeffery Robert 06 1900 (has links)
Current literature suggests that little, if any, research has been conducted in South Africa to determine the impact of alien invasive trout on indigenous amphibian biodiversity. The primary aim of the research project was to establish whether waterfalls are seasonally important in protecting the indigenous Natal Cascade Frog Hadromophryne natalensis tadpole populations from predation by alien rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss and brown trout Salmo trutta at two sampling areas located at Injesuthi and Monk‟s Cowl Nature Reserve within the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park World Heritage Site (UDPWHS). The dissertation argues in favour of a biotic rationale, namely trout predation, as being the primary cause for the decline of H. natalensis tadpoles below the waterfalls and systematically negates the influence of geo-physical (abiotic) environmental factors on tadpole abundance. Habitat isolation and fragmentation is identified as a latent threat to the continued persistence of H. natalensis populations in the UDPWHS. / Environmental Sciences / M. Sc. (Environmental Science)

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