Siberia

The former Soviet Union constmcted a 262-km, 508-mm dia experimental coal slurry line between the Belovo open-pit coal mine in Siberia s Kuznets basin to an electric power plant at Novosibirsk, using technology developed by Snamprogetti. Testing began in late 1989 and tentative plans call for constmction of two much larger slurry pipelines, each 3000-km long, with capacity to move a total of 33 x 10 t/yr to industrialized areas near the Ural Mountains (27,33). 

Selenium deficiency has been identified iu humans iu a broad area of China, stretching from the northeast to the southwest. Two syndromes are evident Keshan disease, an endemic cardiomyopathy which affects children, and Kashin-Beck disease, an edemic osteoarthropathy (big-joiat), also mainly involving children, which occurs iu eastern Siberia and parts of China. As a result of these observations, a protective effect for selenium has been proposed, and various selenium-containing preparations have been appHed to preserve animal and human health. 

I. P. Ahbert, Pencil Eead Mines of Asiatic Siberia, Riverside Press, printed by H. G. Houghton Co., Cambridge, Mass., 1865. 

Lewis (1989) describes the accident, which occurred in Siberia on the night of June 3 and early hours of June 4, 1989. Late on June 3, 1989, engineers in charge of the 0.7 m (28 in.) pipeline, which carried natural gas liquids from the gas fields in western Siberia to chemical plants in Ufa in the Urals, noticed a sudden drop in pressure at the pumping end of the pipeline. It appears that the engineers responded by increasing the pumping rate in order to maintain normal pipeline pressure. 

Asia/Middle East Kola Peninsula, Kazakhstan, Siberia, Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia, India, Turkey 1.4... 

It has not been possible to obtain details about correspondence or contacts between Woodward and the German Consul-General Kurt Wilhelm Viktor von Tip-pelskirch, born in Ruppin in 1878, German Consul-General in Boston from 1926 to 1938, and who died in Siberia in Soviet internment in 1943 [4]. 

Some petroleum geologists believe that there may be more methane trapped in hydrates than what is associated with natural gas reserves. However, as an energy source, there is considerable uncertainty whether this methane can ever be recovered safely, economically, and with minimal environmental impact. The Russians have experimented with the use of antifreeze to break down hydrates at some onshore locations in Siberia. But perhaps a more promising approach would be to pipe warm surface water to the bottom to melt the hydrates, with a collector positioned to convey the gas to the surface. Another approach might be to free methane by somehow reducing the pressure on the methane hydrates. 

Gas hydrates are an ice-like material which is constituted of methane molecules encaged in a cluster of water molecules and held together by hydrogen bonds. This material occurs in large underground deposits found beneath the ocean floor on continental margins and in places north of the arctic circle such as Siberia. It is estimated that gas hydrate deposits contain twice as much carbon as all other fossil fuels on earth. This source, if proven feasible for recovery, could be a future energy as well as chemical source for petrochemicals. 

Ozone depletion is by no means restricted to the Southern Hemisphere. In the extremely cold winter of 1994-1995, a similar "ozone hole" was found in the Arctic. Beyond that, the concentration of ozone in the atmosphere over parts of Siberia dropped by 40%. 

Element 101 is named Mendelevium in honor of the great Russian chemist, Dmitri Mendeleev. The youngest of seventeen children, he was born in Tobolslca where his grandfather published the first newspaper in Siberia and his father ivaj the high school principal. Dmitri received his early education from a political exile, but when his father died, his mother traveled west in search of better educational opportunities for Dmitri. 

Hampton SE, Izmest eva LR, Moore MV, Katz SL, Dennis B, Silow EA (2008) Sixty years of environmental change in the world s largest freshwater lake - Lake Baikal, Siberia. Global Change Biol 14 1947-1958... 

Examples are presented using samples from Western Europe (Franee, United Kingdom), Siberia and Alaska. 

In this paper, I attempt to refine the predictable isotopic differences between collagen and carbonate that can be found in modem faunas from temperate and cold areas, using samples from Europe, Siberia and northwestern North America. Some of the results presented here have been published previously (Bocherens et a/. 1991a, 1991b, 1994, 1995a, 1995b, 1 6 Bocherens and Mariotti 1992 Fizet et al. 1995) but additional new data are reviewed as well in order to present a new synthesis. This should provide a framework that can be used to assess the quality of preservation of the isotopic signatures in Pleistocene mammal bones and teeth from these areas. 

Modem samples of herbivorous and carnivorous species come from Europe, Siberia and northwestern North America (Alaska and British... 

Table 4.1. Bone 5 C n, 5 C ,b, AS C rb-coii, S N ii values of recent mammals from Europe, Siberia, and northwestern North America. died before 1880 died or was killed in the field during the last ten years. Values previously published have been indicated in the last column (Ret.) as follows 1 = and 5 N an published...

L01700 wolf (Cflnis lupus) Indigirka (Siberia) mandible -18.9 8.2... 

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