Geology of Lyon and Sioux Counties

Surficial Geology of Keyesport Quadrangle Clinton, Bond, and Fayette Counties, Illinois

Geology and geomorphology of Turkmenistan: A review

This article provides a background for scientists interested in a general overview of the geology and geomorphology of Turkmenistan. The basement of Turkmenistan is a complex amalgamation of arc-related terranes developed in the Asiatic and northern Paleotethys oceanic domains during Late Paleozoic to Triassic times. A major part of the country coincides with the Turan Platform, where a thick s...

Groundwater Flow Modeling as a Tool to Understand Watershed Geology: Blackberry Creek Watershed, Kane and Kendall Counties, Illinois

Front Cover: Map of the Blackberry Creek watershed in Kane and Kendall Counties, Illinois, and the Fox River watershed in northeastern Illinois (modified from Bartosova et al. 2007). CONTENTS Abstract 1

Bruce Lyon

communities. Many communities and tribal governments have established research and ethics review boards to evaluate proposed projects in their communities, stemming from a growing awareness and sophistication of issues surrounding genetic and biomedical research, including individual versus community (or cultural) risk, adequacy of individual versus community consent issues, confidentiality, re...

Conceptions of Humor: Lakota (Sioux), Koestlerian, and Computational

The Lakota (Sioux) sacred clowns (heyoka) of traditional religious practice offer a glimpse of the clown phenomenon found in many of the world's indigenous traditions. By illustrating the unified Lakota and Western conceptions of humor, the logic of how particular entities of the natural environment are understood as relatives according to Lakota thought is brought to light in hopes of introduc...