The northern Asia, including the southern territories of Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia and the northern China is known as an important distribution region of uranium deposits and occurrences. Since the 60s of 20th century, after the successful development of in-situ leach technology for sandstone-hosted uranium deposits, numerous uranium deposits previously discovered in Kazakhstan a...

The Nii Zn-Pb-Ag-Ba prospect is located in the headwaters of the Noosegolch River valley, approximately 23 kilometms north-east of Hagensborg in west-central British Columbia (Figure 1). The area lies within the Stikine Termne of the Coast Belt and is mostly underlain by various packages of matic to felsic volcanic, volcaniclastic and sedimentruy m&s @gore 1). Many of these packages are of unce...

Phylogeography relies on examination of geographical distributions of genealogical lineages (Avise, 2000), whereas biogeography relies upon concordant geographical distributions of multiple species (Briggs, 1974; Nelson & Platnick, 1981). However, just as biogeography depends on evidence from multiple species, inference about phylogeographical patterns can be strengthened by examination of mult...

The hypothesis of ecological speciation states that as populations diverge in different niches, reproductive isolation evolves as a by-product of adaptation to these different environments. In this context, we used Nolina parviflora as a model to test if this species evolved via ecological speciation and to explore current and historical gene flow among its populations. Nolina parviflora is a m...

Recent intensive samplings carried out across the mountainous regions of El Pinal (Puebla, Mexico) have provided new insights into the main environmental factors that affect the geographic distribution of the scarabaeinae beetles of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt above 2500 m a.s.l. This study is part of an ongoing project investigating the diversity and biogeography of copro-necrophagous beet...

Sixty heat flow values ranging from 38 to 157 mW/m have been estimated for Armenia from geothermal gradient determinations in 90 locations and a limited number of thermal conductivity determinations. The highest values of heat flow (90-157 mW/m) occur in the central part of the country, which is characterized by vigorous Quaternary volcanic activity, manifestations of thermal springs, intensive...