Essays about: "cave"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 35 essays containing the word cave.

  1. 21. The Incidence and Associated Geotechnical Issues of Swelling Clay in Stockholm

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Anna Clark; Viktoria Clarin; [2015]
    Keywords : Tunnel stability; swelling clay; reinforcement; Söderström fault; swelling pressure; Tunnelstabilitet; svällande lera; förstärkning; Söderströmsförkastningen; svälltryck;

    Abstract : The Incidence and Associated Geotechnical Issues of Swelling Clay in Stockholm  Viktoria Clarin & Anna Clark  Previous tunnel failures have shown that inadequate reinforcement in tunnels can lead to cave-ins, whereby swelling clay is one of several factors that can result in these damages. Swelling clay minerals possess the ability to absorb water molecules and cations leading to an increase in volume. READ MORE

  3. 22. Utemiljön på Eriksbergs förskola : från idé till färdigt projekt

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Jenny-My Ljungqvist-Eliasson; [2015]
    Keywords : barnperspektiv; förskolegård; utemiljö; projektering; byggprocess; växtval; lekmiljö;

    Abstract : Barn och deras relation till, och användning av, utemiljöer ligger till grund för det här arbetet. De har ett annat sätt än vuxna att använda och uppfatta sin omgivning. Där vi ser ett yvigt träd ser de en koja eller en grotta med monster. READ MORE

  4. 23. Who gives a ‘dam’ about the Omo River in Ethiopia? : Water security and sustainability of the Gibe III dam through a social-ecological analysis

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)

    Author : Marco De Cave; [2014]
    Keywords : SES system; water security; sustainability; cross-scale analysis; resilience;

    Abstract : Large dams represent complex social-ecological systems, perhaps the most complicated projects among large infrastructures. Nowadays, developing and developed countries consider large dams as a viable solution to provide low-cost energy production and flood control for agriculture production. READ MORE

  5. 24. Tracing Upper Palaeolithic People in Caves : Methodological developments of cave space analysis, applied to the decorated caves of Marsoulas, Chauvet and Rouffignac, southern France

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Arkeologi

    Author : Linn Haking; [2014]
    Keywords : Palaeolithic cave art; Practice; Cave space analysis; Traces of human activity;

    Abstract : Upper Palaeolithic cave art research has tended to focus on the images themselves, rather than the physical and social circumstances of their production. This dissertation explores and develops new practice-based ways of investigating cave art. READ MORE

  6. 25. Investigations of a stalactite from Al Hota cave in Oman and its implications for palaeoclimatic reconstructions

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

    Author : Donna Bou-Rabee; [2013]
    Keywords : vätskeinneslutningar; droppstenar; Arabien; Oman; Al Hota; monsoon; speleothem; cave; isotope; climate; monsun; ITCZ; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Speleothems and other cave sediments have proven to be valuable tools for climate reconstructions. They allow to reconstruct the changes of temperatures and precipitation over time even in arid areas where other types of sedimentary archives are scarce or even non-existent. READ MORE