Northern Atlantic Islands and the Sea - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Northern Atlantic Islands and the Sea write by Andrew Jennings. This book was released on 2017-05-11. Northern Atlantic Islands and the Sea available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Orkney, Shetland and, to some extent, the Hebrides, share both a Nordic cultural and linguistic heritage, and the experience of being surrounded by the ever-present North Atlantic Ocean. This has been a constant in the islanders’ history, forging their unique way of life, influencing their customs and traditions, and has been instrumental in moulding their identities. This volume is an exploration of a rich, intimate and, at times, terrifying relationship. It is the result of an international conference held in April 2014, when scholars from across the North Atlantic rim congregated in Lerwick, Shetland, to discuss maritime traditions, islands in Old Norse literature, insular archaeology, folklore, and traditional belief. The chapters reflect the varied origins of the contributors. Icelanders are well represented, as are scholars based in Orkney and Shetland, indicating the strength of scholarship in these seemingly isolated archipelagos. Peripheral they may be to the UK, but they lie at the heart of the North Atlantic, at the intersection of British and Nordic cultures. This book will be of interest to scholars of a wide range of disciplines, such as those involved in island studies, cultural studies, Old Norse literature, Icelandic studies, maritime heritage, oceanography, linguistics, folklore, British studies, ethnology, and archaeology. Similarly, it will also appeal to researchers from a wide geographical area, particularly the UK, and Scandinavia, and indeed anywhere where there is an interest in the study of islands or the North Atlantic.
The Northern North Atlantic
The Northern North Atlantic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Northern North Atlantic write by Priska Schäfer. This book was released on 2012-12-06. The Northern North Atlantic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The northern North Atlantic is one of the regions most sensitive to past and present global changes. This book integrates the results of an interdisciplinary project studying the properties of the Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian Seas and the processes of pelagic and benthic particle formation, particle transport, and deposition in the deep-sea sediments. Ice-related and biogeochemical processes have been investigated to decipher the spatial and temporal variability of the production and fate of organic carbon in this region. Isotopic stratigraphy, microfossil assemblages and paleotemperatures are combined to reconstruct paleoceanographic conditions and to model past climatic changes in the Late Quaternary. The Greenland-Iceland-Norwegian Seas can now be considered one of the best studied subbasins of the world`s oceans.
Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes
Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes write by Robert R. Dickson. This book was released on 2008-03-03. Arctic-Subarctic Ocean Fluxes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We are only now beginning to understand the climatic impact of the remarkable events that are now occurring in subarctic waters. Researchers, however, have yet to agree upon a predictive model that links change in our northern seas to climate. This volume brings together the body of evidence needed to develop climate models that quantify the ocean exchanges through subarctic seas, measure their variability, and gauge their impact on climate.
The Northern North Atlantic
The Northern North Atlantic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Northern North Atlantic write by Priska Schafer. This book was released on 2014-01-15. The Northern North Atlantic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic
Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic write by Ramona Harrison. This book was released on 2014-10-08. Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Human Ecodynamics in the North Atlantic: A Collaborative Model of Humans and Nature through Space and Time, Ramona Harrison and Ruth A. Maherhave compiled a series of separate research projects conducted across the North Atlantic region that each contribute greatly to anthropological archaeology. This book assembles a regional model through which the reader is presented with a vivid and detailed image of the climatic events and cultures which have occupied these seas and lands for roughly a 5000-year period. It provides a model of adaptability, resilience, and sustainability that can be applied globally. First, visiting the Northern Isles of Scotland in the Orkney Islands, the reader is taken through the archaeology from the Neolithic Period through World War II in the face of sea-level rise and rapidly eroding coastlines. The Shetland Islands then reveal a deep-time study of one large-scale Iron Age excavation. On to the northern coasts of Norway, where information about late medieval maritime peoples is explained. Iceland explores human–environment interaction and implications of climate change presented from the Viking Age through the Early Modern Era. Rounding out the North Atlantic Region is Greenland, which sheds light on the Norse in the late Viking Age and the Middle Ages.
