in the urumieh-dokhtar volcanic zone, there are nearly parallel faults to the zagros zone.they were formed during collision of the arabic plate with central iran plate. the northwest-southeast trending of qom-zefreh fault system has long been recognized as major faults in central iran. the general aim of this research is to identify the activity period of this fault and the extent of its effect...

The Anthropocene concept arose within the Earth System science (ESS) community, albeit explicitly as a geological (stratigraphical) time term. Its current analysis by the stratigraphical community, as a potential formal addition to the Geological Time Scale, necessitates comparison of the methodologies and patterns of enquiry of these two communities. One means of comparison is to consider some...

Geological, geophysical and hydrological surveys were performed in an area between Lecce to the North and Otranto to the South on the Lower Adriatic coast of Italy in order to verify the “state of health” of the ground water in the deep aquifer, which is characterised by Mesozoic carbonatic formations and is permeable due to fracturing and karstic phenomena. This area was chosen because it is h...

0039-3681/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2012.07.004 E-mail address: jelwick@yorku.ca This paper depicts Ian Hacking’s ‘styles of reasoning’ as conditions of possibility. After distinguishing between possibilities and causes, it articulates the implicit stratigraphical metaphor used to describe the relationship between different conditions of possibili...