Black Mountain

2021 ◽  
pp. 167-173
Keyword(s):  
Black Mountain

From Baghdad to Antioch and Constantinople: Ibn Buṭlān and the Byzantines

2021 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 355-376
Author(s):  
Daniel Oltean
Keyword(s):  
Local People ◽  
Black Mountain

Abstract This article explores the Byzantine network of the famous physician and theologian Ibn Buṭlān who left Baghdad for Antioch and Constantinople in the mid-11th-century. His contacts included Patriarchs Michael Keroularios and Peter III, Michael Psellos and Symeon Seth. Ibn Buṭlān’s monastic vocation raises the question of his link with Nikon of the Black Mountain. They probably crossed paths in the region of Antioch. Both developed ties with local people and institutions and integrated into the monastic customs of the area.

Short-term tilt anomalies preceding local earthquakes near San Jose, California

1980 ◽  
Vol 70 (6) ◽  
pp. 2221-2228
Author(s):  
C. E. Mortensen ◽  
E. Y. Iwatsubo
Keyword(s):  
Partial Recovery ◽  
San Jose ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Origin Time ◽  
Central California ◽  
Local Earthquakes ◽  
The North ◽  
Surface Creep ◽  
The Times ◽  
Black Mountain

abstract A tilt anomaly preceded a pair of earthquakes (ML = 4.2, origin time 0014 UTC, and ML = 3.9, origin time 0018 UTC, both on 29 August 1978) on the Calaveras Fault near San Jose, California. These earthquakes occurred at hypocentral depths of 8.5 and 9.0 km, respectively, and were located 6.7 and 5.2 km northwest of the Mt. Hamilton tiltmeter site. The anomaly is similar in shape and time scale to signals observed on other tiltmeters at the times of recorded surface creep events. The anomaly began approximately 40 hr before the earthquake pair and consisted of gradual down-to-the-east tilting followed by rapid tilting down-to-the-north-northeast at a rate of 12 μrad/hr. This was followed by 1 hr of rapid down-to-the-east tilting amounting to 1.5 μrad. The maximum peak tilt of 10.6 μrad down-to-the-northeast was followed by gradual decelerating tilting down-to-the-southwest constituting partial recovery. An anomaly of nearly identical form, but smaller in amplitude and duration, preceded an ML = 2.2 aftershock on 5 September 1978. Other nearby earthquakes as large as ML = 4.7 have occurred without accompanying creep-like signals. A similar, but a much smaller (0.74 μrad) creep-event-like signal preceded an ML = 3.5 earthquake with epicenter 3 km east of the Black Mountain tiltmeter site. In general, however, short-term tilt anomalies such as these are not observed to precede local earthquakes within the central California tiltmeter network. The tilt signal preceding the 29 August earthquake pair may be interpreted in terms of a model of a propagating creep event, at depth, associated with seismic failure at a “stuck” patch on the fault. However, the data are not adequate to constrain the model sufficiently to constitute a test of the hypothesis.

scholarly journals Conocimiento geográfico y reconexión entre producción y consumo: el caso de la ganadería orgánica en Gales, Reino Unido

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Ríos Núñez
Keyword(s):  
Black Mountain

Desde fines de la década del noventa, en Gales, los escándalos alimentarios ("mal de las vacas locas" (EEB) y "fiebre aftosa") han puesto de manifiesto los graves problemas de la comoditización agraria (productos con bajo valor agregado) en un contexto donde la cooperación entre agricultores ha sido históricamente baja y las asimetrías en la cadena de suministro de alimentos deprimían los precios al productor. El fomento de la ganadería orgánica como herramienta de política agraria ha logrado reconectar a productores y consumidores a través de agregar valor a los productos y reducir las distancias espaciales de las cadenas de suministro. Cambrian Foods o Black Mountain Foods son claras experiencias exitosas que utilizan importantes elementos del conocimiento geográfico a través de los mercados de agricultores (farmer markets) y cestas orgánicas (box schemes) para promover cadenas agroalimentarias locales. Sin embargo, continúan predominando las cadenas de distribución globales (Tesco entre otras) orientadas claramente hacia la transacción de comodities desarraigados del territorio. El conocimiento geográfico es una rama en el estudio de la Geografía del consumo, óptica teórica desarrollada por la escuela británica que dice relación con el análisis de las dinámicas espaciales que se generan en la relación producción-circulación-consumo de alimentos agrarios.

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