Raised Beaches in the Outer Hebrides

The Hebrides

The papar names in the Western Isles are restricted to the north Hebrides. The reasons for this distinction between north and south Hebrides have already been speculated on above (3.2. Situation in the Hebrides; also in Crawford, 2005, 94). Is it a reflection of the different toponymic (place-name) pattern in the two areas? Or has it something to do with the pre-Norse political /ecclesiastical ...

Conjugate cummingtonite and hornblende at Sgeir nan Sgarbh, South Harris, Outer Hebrides

Blood Pressures in Three New Hebrides Communities.

There has been increasing interest in the normal blood pressures of isolated and unsophisticated communities in the last few years. In particular, several investigators have questioned whether the rise in blood pressure with increasing age which appears to be common to all "Western" peoples is universal for mankind, and they have suggested that this rise is due to the occurrence among Westerner...

the u.s. policy in central asia and its impact on the colored revolutions in the region (the case study of tulip revolution in kyrgyzstan)

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The October 1980 Earthquake Sequence near the New Hebrides

Four large earthquakes occurred in 1980 in a seismic gap near the Loyalty Islands in the New Hebrides. At 3:25 UT on October 24 an event with M, = 6.7 initiated the sequence. Three events, M, = 6.7, 7.2, and 6.5, followed on the next day. We investigated this sequence by using the seismicity, first-motion, and wavefonn data and long-period surface waves. The first-motion data constrain one of e...