Mountaineering

The features created by crustal movements may be mountain chains, like the Himalayas, where collision of continents causes extensive compression. Conversely, the depressions of the Red Sea and East African Rift Basin are formed by extensional plate movements. Both type of movements form large scale depressions into which sediments from the surrounding elevated areas ( highs ) are transported. These depressions are termed sedimentary basins (Fig. 2.3). The basin fill can attain a thickness of several kilometres. 

This electrical field potential is measured by means of portable millivoltmeter with high input resistance. The field registration is carried out in the mountain areas at the distance of 5 km and more, at the same time the minimal gradient value is about 10 mV/km. 

Rather different circumstances are encountered when considering THz remote sensing of extraterrestrial sources. The major source of THz opacity in the Earth s atmosphere is water vapour, and from either high, dry mountain sites or from space there are windows in which the background becomes very small. Incoherent instruments which detect the faint emission from astronomical sources can therefore be considerably more sensitive than their laboratory... 

Chandler D 1998 Finding transition pathways throwing ropes over rough mountain passes, in the dark Classical and Quantum Dynamics In Condensed Phase Simulations (Singapore World Scientific) pp 51-66... 

A geographical analogy can be a helpful way to illustrate many of the concepts we shall encounter in this chapter. In this analogy minimum points correspond to the bottom of valleys. A minimum may be described as being in a long and narrow valley or a flat and featureless plain. Saddle points correspond to mountain passes. We refer to algorithms taking steps uphill or downhill. ... 

L. Ruthenia, Russia) Berzelius and Osann in 1827 examined the residues left after dissolving crude platinum from the Ural mountains in aqua regia. While Berzelius found no unusual metals, Osann thought he found three new metals, one of which he named ruthenium. In 1844 Klaus, generally recognized as the discoverer, showed that Osann s ruthenium oxide was very impure and that it contained a new metal. Klaus obtained 6 g of ruthenium from the portion of crude platinum that is insoluble in aqua regia. 

A member of the platinum group, ruthenium occurs native with other members of the group in ores found in the Ural mountains and in North and South America. It is also found along with other platinum metals in small but commercial quantities in pentlandite of the Sudbury, Ontario, nickel-mining region, and in pyroxinite deposits of South Africa. 

Platinum occurs native, accompanied by small quantities of iridium, osmium, palladium, ruthenium, and rhodium, all belonging to the same group of metals. These are found in the alluvial deposits of the Ural mountains, of Columbia, and of certain western American states. Sperrylite, occurring with the nickel-bearing deposits of Sudbury, Ontario, is the source of a considerable amount of metal. 

It is water that, in taking different forms, constitutes tlie earth, atmosphere, sky, mountain, gods and men, beasts and birds, grass and trees, animals down to worms, flies and ants,... 

A few studies have found potential surfaces with a stable minimum at the transition point, with two very small barriers then going toward the reactants and products. This phenomenon is referred to as Lake Eyring Henry Eyring, one of the inventors of transition state theory, suggested that such a situation, analogous to a lake in a mountain cleft, could occur. In a study by Schlegel and coworkers, it was determined that this energy minimum can occur as an artifact of the MP2 wave function. This was found to be a mathematical quirk of the MP2 wave function, and to a lesser extent MP3, that does not correspond to reality. The same effect was not observed for MP4 or any other levels of theory. 

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Mountain-climbing analogy to using a searching algorithm to find the optimum response for a response surface. The path on the left leads to the global optimum, and the path on the right leads to a local optimum. 

In optimizing a method, we seek to find the combination of experimental parameters producing the best result or response. We can visualize this process as being similar to finding the highest point on a mountain, in which the mountain s topography, called a response surface, is a plot of the system s response as a function of the factors under our control. 

Hard red winter (HRW) is an important bread wheat that accounts for more than 40% of the United States wheat crop and wheat exports. This fall-seeded wheat is produced in the Great Plains, which extend from the Mississippi River west to the Rocky Mountains, and from the Dakotas and Montana south to Texas. Significant quantities are also produced in California. HRW has moderately high protein content, usually averaging 11—12%, and good milling and baking characteristics. 

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Fig. 1. Average hourly o2one concentrations during August 1, 1973 to August 17, 1973 for selected sites in New York State site designations are Kingston -------------------------Rensselaer — Glens Falls New York City Mt. Utsayantha — - Whiteface Mountain (19).

Zinc. Zinc deposits in the United States extend from Maine through the Appalachian Mountains, and west through the Mississippi Valley into the Rocky Mountain states. U.S. reserves are estimated to be 27 x t Zn (108). World reserves and resources are 135 and 110 x 10 t, respectively. The... 

Other botanical varieties are caUed cassia, but the leaves of these varieties differ in flavor components from those of the bark. Saigon cinnamon, C. loureirii Nees, from Viet Nam, closely resembles Chinese cassia in appearance but is grown on the other side of the mountains and has an entirely different flavor character, containing no orthomethoxy cinnamic aldehyde. C. burmani B/ume, ie, Korintje or Kerintje cinnamon and Padang or Batavia cinnamon, is from Sumatra and Indonesia. C. sintok B/ume is native to Malaysia and of minor commercial importance. 

Fluorspar deposits ate commonly epigenetic, ie, the elements moved from elsewhere into the country rock. For this reason, fluorine mineral deposits ate closely associated with fault 2ones. In the United States, significant fluorspar deposits occur in the Appalachian Mountains and in the mountainous regions of the West, but the only reported commercial production in 1993 was from the faulted carbonate rocks of Illinois. 

Labiatae Pycnanthemum incanum western mountain mint... 

The principal source of helium is certain natural gas fields. The helium contents of more than 10,000 natural gases in various parts of the world have been measured (9). Helium concentrations of a few are Hsted in Table 2. In the United States, recovery of helium is economical only for helium-rich gases containing more than about 0.3 vol % belium. Most of the United States helium resources are located in the midcontinent and Rocky Mountain regions, and about 89% of the known United States supply is in the Hugoton field in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas the Keyes field in Oklahoma the Panhandle and Cliffside fields in Texas and the Riley Ridge area in Wyoming (11). 

Mineral Deposits. The only iodine obtained from minerals has been a by-product of the processing of nitrate ores in Chile. CaUche occurs in the Atacama desert of Northern Chile and west of the Andes mountains. The Atacama desert is known as the driest of the world s deserts, where measurable (>1 mm) rainfalls may be as infrequent as once every 5—29 years (58). The caUche deposits occur in an area averaging 700 km (north—south) by 30 km (east—west). The iodine may total over 5 x 10 t (59). 

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