Abstract. The Köfels rockslide in the Ötztal Valley (Tyrol, Austria) represents largest known extremely rapid landslide metamorphic rock masses Alps. Although many hypotheses for trigger were discussed past, until now no scientifically proven factor has been identified. This study provides new data about (i) pre-failure and failure topography, (ii) volume porosity of sliding mass, (iii) numeric...

The nine currently recognized species of moa (Order – Dinornithiformes; Bonaparte 1853) suffered extinction soon after New Zealand was settled by humans.  They were the result an evolutionary radiation that produced a unique guild birds giant, and totally wingless evolved in absence non-volant mammals.   Recent advances dating paleoclimatology, compilations data on distributions ...

National administration of surveying, mapping and geoinformation started to launch the project of national fundamental geographic information database dynamic update in 2012. Among them, the 1:50000 database was updated once a year, furthermore the 1:250000 database was downsized and linkage-updated on the basis. In 2014, using the latest achievements of 1:250000 database, comprehensively updat...

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this study aimed to determine the prone areas for sugar beet planting with regards to their major effective factors. climatic data of 1998-2009 period were obtained from the local stations of khorasan razavi meteorological bureau. the topographic data including altitude, slope, slope direction, and tin layers were extracted from 1:250000 topographic maps of cartographic organization, iran. the ...