Sereno Elisha Payne
Sereno Elisha Payne , 1843-1914, American legislator, b. Hamilton, N.Y. He was admitted to the bar (1866), practiced at Auburn, N.Y., and was active in Republican politics. He served (1883-87, 1889-1914) in Congress and was long a member of the Committee on Ways and Means, becoming chairman in 1899. Payne, a staunch though not extreme protectionist, was active in fostering Republican tariff legislation. He helped draft the McKinley Tariff Act (1890), the Dingley Act (1897), and the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act (1909).
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Denudation rates for the southern Drakensberg escarpment, SE Africa, derived from in-situ-produced cosmogenic 36Cl: Intial results
Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...samples from the Drakensberg escarpment on the SE African passive...these data, the calculated escarpment retreat rate has been 50...flanked by ocean-facing escarpments, are fundamental morphological...estimates of long-term escarpment retreat and summit denudation...
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Town split over use of Niagara escarpment
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 9/25/2000; 583 words
; Town split over use of Niagara escarpment Residents weighing development, preservation...of the geologically significant Niagara Escarpment, known locally as the Ledge. Residents along the escarpment, which runs through northern Fond du...
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Landscape characterization of the Niagara escarpment in Southwestern Ohio by use of geographic information science technology. (Social Science, Environmental, Field Biology Poster Session 02:00 PM-03:00 PM).
Magazine article from: The Ohio Journal of Science; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; BOARD 26 The Niagara Escarpment is an erosional feature formed in...south through eastern Wisconsin. The Escarpment is identified in terms of its geological...Remnant portions of the Niagara Escarpment also exist within southwestern Ohio...
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Age-Dating of Slope Failures on The Sigsbee Escarpment
Magazine article from: Sea Technology; 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...the geologic past along the Sigsbee Escarpment between BP America Inc.'s Atlantis...concerns to field architecture below the escarpment. Numerous age-dating techniques...the sequential failure history of the escarpment for approximately the last 40,000...
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DOING LESS WITH LESS.(Niagra Escarpment Commission survives on low funding)
Magazine article from: Alternatives Journal; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...streamlining has weakened the Niagara Escarpment Commission's ability to protect one...some environmentalists, the Niagara Escarpment Commission (NEC) is still in place...enough to serve its mandate. The Niagara Escarpment is one of only six World Biosphere Reserves...
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Internal tide radiation from Mendocino escarpment
Magazine article from: Journal of Physical Oceanography; 7/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...tides are observed near Mendocino Escarpment in full-depth profile time series...barotropic tide interacting with the escarpment. A baroclinic energy flux of 7 kW m^sup -1^ radiates from the escarpment, corresponding to 3% of the 220...
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Tracing the connections among municipal amalgamation, community identity, and planning for the Niagara Escarpment in Ontario. (Ideas).
Magazine article from: Environments; 11/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...advisors. Current research on the Niagara Escarpment, a world renowned landscape feature...already tenuous circumstances of the Escarpment's legislated protection by constraining...such heritage, including the Niagara Escarpment, will depend on respect for existing...
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Escarpment rocks on.(CAMPAIGNS)(environmental advocacy for Niagara Escarpment through music )(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Alternatives Journal; 7/1/2007; 700+ words
; ...the first time since the Niagara Escarpment Plan came into effect, according...Whitbread, manager of the Niagara Escarpment Commission (NEC), the Ontario...citizen advocacy group, Protecting Escarpment Rural Land, fought the proposal...
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Bifurcation of a coastal current at an escarpment
Magazine article from: Journal of Physical Oceanography; 5/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...coastal current as it encounters an escarpment depends strongly on whether the geometry of the coast and escarpment is right or left "handed," independent...means that when looking across the escarpment from the deep to the shallow side...
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MANLIUS ESCARPMENT LIKELY TO BE DECIDED.(Neighbors East)
Newspaper article from: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY); 2/1/2007; 687 words
; ...will vote on designating the Onondaga Escarpment a critical environmental area after...Frateschi said the town should define the escarpment in the broadest possible way in the...Conservation was consulted on how to define the escarpment's boundaries in the legal notice...
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escarpment
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...of the largest escarpments on Earth is the Great Escarpment of southern Africa...Natal region. Escarpments similar to the Great Escarpment occur along the...eroded from the escarpment face. Even more impressive escarpments can be foun
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Sotho
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement
...Lesotho in the south, to the humid escarpment and hot low veld in the east. In most...in the west and high on the eastern escarpment. Summer months (October to February...of whom are located on or below the escarpment in the low veld. On the edge of the...
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Dogon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...villages along a 145-kilometer stretch of escarpment called the Cliffs of Bandiagara. Plains, escarpment, and plateau represent distinctive features...moved into the region of the Bandiagara escarpment in the fifteenth or sixteenth century...
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Texas
Encyclopedia entry from: Worldmark Encyclopedia of the States
...densely populated region. The Balcones Escarpment (so-called by the Spanish because...from the Blackland Belt to the Cap Rock Escarpment, a natural boundary carved by erosion...also found here. West of the Cap Rock Escarpment are the Great Plains, stretching north...
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morphotectonics
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth
...coastal zone, which is backed by a great escarpment (see escarpments ). The great escarpment is embayed by major valleys, and a belt...the direction from sea to land. The great escarpment retreats and may reach or pass the warp...
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