Old World Realm

The Cyrtina Community identified in the BA3 of the Appohimchi subprovince (Boucot, 1999) shows a high diversity but lacks the chonetoids here well represented in the Cyrtina-RhynchoneWoids Association. The distal position of this association indicates that it could represent a possible equivalent of the Cyrtina Community in the Old World Realm. 

Blodgett, R.B., Fryda, ]., and Lenz, A.C. (2001) Semitubina yukonensis n. sp., first occurrence of this biogeographically distinctive Old World Realm gastropod genus in the Lower Devonian of the Western Hemisphere. Journal of Paleontology, 75, 466-470. 

Hou Hong-Fei and Boucot, A.J. (1990) The Balkhash-Mongolia-Okhotsk Region of the Old World Realm (Devonian). In McKerrow and Scotese (eds) Palaeozoic Palaeogeography and Biogeography, Geological Society Memoir, 12, 297-303. 

In the Emsian, the Devonian interval of highest provincialism, one can recognise an Eastern Americas Realm that also includes the Perij a branch of the Andes along the Colombian-Venezuelan border and adjacent areas to the west, and an Old World... 

This is present in Antarctica, the southern two-thirds of South America (Parana Basin, Sierras Australes and the provinces of Salta and Jujuy in Argentina, Bolivia and southern Peru central and northern Peru, as well as Ecuador and western Colombia are very poorly known in Devonian terms), the Falkland Islands, South Africa, Ghana, and Guinea (Racheboeuf and Villeneuve, 1992). In the Argentine Precordillera (Herrera and Racheboeuf, 1997), as in the Silurian, there is evidence for boundary mixing between the Malvinokaffric Realm, plus the Old World and Eastern Americas realms, as is also the case in northern Chile (Boucot etal., 1995). 

Is there really a fourth dimension we can explore and understand This question is an old one posed by philosophers and scientists and has profound implications for our worldview. There seems to be no reason why a four-dimensional world of material four-dimensional objects could not exist. The simple mathematical methods in this book reveal properties of shapes in these higher spaces, and, with special training, our dimensionally impoverished minds may be able to grasp the look and feel of these shapes. As we speculate, we touch on the realm of mysticism and religion—because in the fourth dimension the line between science and mysticism grows thin. 

Jensen There is another Flynn effect, in the physical realm, and that s for height. There have been comparable increases in height over the same period. For example, J. M. Tanner (University of London) mentions that 10-year-old children today in London schools are four inches taller than they were 100 years ago. Since World War I there have been the same kinds of increases to about the same extent in standard deviation units. There are other parallels as well. For example, the correlations between different body measurements have remained the same over this time, despite the increase in height. And the differences between various national and ethnic groups that differ in height has continued to exist. 

Discussing the lush interiors of The Visionary, Ligeia, and The Fall of the House of Usher, Ketterer, New Worlds for Old, p. 66, argues that Poe s rooms often serve as machines for transport to an arabesque or intermediate realm. Henri Justin, Poe dans le Champ de la Vertige Des Contes a Eureka, I Elaboration des Figures de I Espace (Paris Klincksieck, 1991), likewise follows the motif of the construction of the chamber in several of Poe s works, linking it to the maelstrom and the heart divine of Eureka. 

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