Fire ecology of a Late Carboniferous floodplain, Joggins, Nova Scotia

Fire ecology of a Late Carboniferous floodplain, Joggins, Nova Scotia

The facies distribution and palaeobotanical identity of fossil charcoal is described from the Upper Carboniferous (Westphalian A–B) Joggins section, Nova Scotia, in order to examine the fire ecology of early Westphalian floodplains. Three charcoal assemblages are noted. Assemblage (1) consists of channel sandstone bodies, containing beds of calcrete breccia, cordaite logs (up to 3 m long), and ...

A Pennsylvanian Tetrapod Trackway from Joggins, Nova Scotia: the Size Continuum of Batrachichnus Salamandroides

A tetrapod trackway from the Lower Pennsylvanian at the historic section at Joggins, Nova Scotia, preserves 13 pairs of impressions with a possible partial tail drag. Although overstepping and poor preservation obscure many of the diagnostic features, the pes is plantigrade to semi-plantigrade and distinctly pentadactyl, with digit length increasing sequentially I-III. The manus may be tetradac...

Nova Scotia University of Windsor

Commonly recognized as one of the most significant innovations in the information systems (IS) area, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems have been widely adopted by organizations in both public and private sectors worldwide. Their widespread adoption marks a paradigm shift in the organizational approach to IS, as the adopting organizations in most cases have moved from a proprietary made...

WHO IS DEFENDING NOVA SCOTIA'S COASTLINE? A Paper by the Royal United Services Institute of Nova Scotia Halifax Nova Scotia

ASAC 2008 Halifax, Nova Scotia

The upper echelon theory (Hambrick and Mason 1984) posits that the firm is a reflection and extension of the entrepreneurs that manage it. As such, the firm’s strategic choices, behaviours, and performance are, to a large extend, influenced by the demographic characteristics of the entreprenurs (Smith et al. 1996), their social connections (Geletkanycz and Hambrick 1997), their perceptions of t...