Palynological analyses from exposed palaeolacustrine deposits located at the flanks of Damavand volcano, in the central AlborzMountains in Northern Iran, provide a broad idea of the temporal variation of vegetation according to climate changes during a rangeof limited time intervals during the Quaternary period. This research reveals that the regional vegetation of the study area had been asemi...

structural evolution of alborz has already been mentioned by many researchers all over the world. central alborz is located in the bending of the eastern and the western alborz. damavand volcano is situated in the bending part along the great and active faults such as mosha, north of baijan, ask, nava and ira. the nava and ira faults are in the eastern side of damavand volcano with a trend of e...

The compostion of the oils from flower and leaf of Achillea mellifolium L. subsp. mellifolium were collected during the flowering priod from Lar area to Damavand montain, altitude 3400 m in July 2003. The essential oils obtained by different methods of distillation (steam distillation and hydro-distillation), the percentage of oils for flower and leaf by steam distillation were 0.2 and 0.05% an...

extended abstractintroductionin the past decades, development policies in the country have caused negativeeffects on regions. these policies have caused the mass evacuation of ruralsettlement and the imbalance hierarchy of settlements. the reflect of these policiesare visible in the rapid and uneven growth of large cities and eliminate loops linkingbetween cities and rural settlements from the ...

introduction: the major target of this paper shows effect of selected decision variables in the steam system foroptimization of thermal combined cycle power plant.material and method: exergoeconomic, and other similar terms used to imply the combined thermodynamicand economic analysis of energy systems, which helps to increase the efficiency of a plant without jeopardizingits economic viability...

in order to study fruit  quality changes in apple cultivar gala, related to ripening stage and storage time, an experiment was conducted in a split plot arrangement in randomized complete block design with four replicationsin the area of damavand– jaban for three years. five levels of sampling times in storage were assigned to main plots, and three levels of harvesting times were randomized in ...