Aims: Harput is one of the first settlement places in Anatolia, Turkey, and its history dates back to 2000 B.C. So, Harput has experienced many invasions throughout its history. In this study, urban design and the protection concepts of historical heritages of Harput Township are...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/27206
Yearly, the federal and various state governments allocate stated amounts of money in their annual budget to capital projects. Most of these projects involve renovation or development of new infrastructural facilities. Availability of infrastructure in contrast to accessibility i...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/27675
Soil erosion is one of the serious forms of land degradation in the Auchi area in Edo State. Efforts have been made to control the phenomenon but these have met with limited successes. Part of the problem is a poor understanding of the dynamics of the phenomenon in time and space...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26459
This question appears to be anachronistic in the sense that, as at today, Geography – both physical and human - has fully embraced and adopted Positivism as a philosophy and methodology of acquiring valid knowledge. Therefore, it is no longer a question of inevitability but rathe...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/28000
Nowadays, the dynamics of the Senegal river delta ecosystem has attracted the attention of the authorities because of the profound changes which it is subject. This study aims to analyze the relationship between the dynamics of land use units and natural and anthropogenic factors...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/27909
120 sediment samples collected along a 47 km transect from Ikot Abasi to Eket, Akwa Ibom State were subjected to granulometric analysis to determine their textural characteristics and depositional processes. Standard sedimentological methods involving sieve analysis were utilized...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/27919
Total anthropogenic greenhouse gases have continued to increase with municipal solid waste dumpsites contributing immensely to the high concentrations of greenhouse gases with high warming potentials. This study is aimed at determining the global warming potentials of municipal s...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/24126
In the physical sciences, attempts to describe processes, events, and phenomena upon the basis of problematic paradigms can be wholly incorrect and lead to physically impossible consequences, e.g., the ultraviolet catastrophe of radiation physics, and/or can necessitate ad hoc as...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26454
The study was commissioned by the Kenya Water Towers Agency (KWTA) to provide information that would guide the agency in achieving one of its key strategic objectives of providing community livelihood support for sustainable management of water towers. The focus of the study was...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26620
This paper proposes and analyzes a possible scenario of preparation and development of Caldera-forming eruptions of Yellowstone. As a physical mechanism of eruption the imbalance between the column of liquid (magma in the chamber and the conduit) and closed volume of gas (fluid a...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/27330
Aims: The purpose of this study is to detect land surface deformation in the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone using persistent scatterers interferometric synthetic aperture radar technique. Study Design: This study employed persistent scatterers interferometric synthetic aperture r...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26110
This paper examined the various socio-economic attributes of residents such as gender, age, income, length of stay, occupation, household size among others in Seme border settlements of Nigeria using data collected from a survey of 329 randomly selected residents’ in the study...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/25397
The mafic and ultramafic rocks of southwest Obudu, Nigeria are located within the Paleoproterozoic granulites facies rocks of the Bamenda Massif. These mafic and ultramafic rocks were not subjected to high level deformation and metamorphism which the surrounding rocks experienced...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/25536
This paper aims to find out the regional pattern of hypsometric curve (HC) and hypsometric integral (HI) over the Kushkarani river basin, a Chhottanagpur plateau fringe low relief basin. The paper also attempted to know how far different driving factors control HI. From the resul...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26588
Sedimentary facies description and sedimentology of parts of the Coastal Swamp Depobelt have been studied using well logs and core data. Five wells designated FABI 001, 002, 003, 004, and 005 were correlated to establish the lateral continuity of the H7000 sand across the field,...
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Research Article10.9734/JGEESI/2016/26405