A wintry blast of punishing wind and close to four feet of snow in places pummeled the Northern Plains, stranding unknown numbers of motorists for a day or more and knocking out power to thousands.
In 1972, my peers and I climbed cast-concrete stairs to Annex 11 — "annex" was the word that the school district used for the plain white trailers stranded on the blacktop.
Laboratory tests using a standard plain seven-wire strand and MW9 cable bolts were used to validate this analytical model.
A strand plain extends between Khao Lak and Bang Sak areas (Fig. 1(a)), where our studied area is located (Fujino et al., 2010).
Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data obtained along the coasts of Potter Peninsula (King George Island) show that beach ridges unconformably overlie the prograding strand plain.
The research site in this paper was a strand plain comprising beach ridges, swales on inter-ridges, and peaty backswamps in southeast Thailand.
The beach is composed by a broad strand plain, limited by small dunes dissected by many washover channels, cut by tidal inlets and limited by some secondary tidal channels.
Plant resources presently utilized by local farmers on the strand plain are Melaleuca cajuputi forests on both the peaty backswamps and the beach ridges, and home gardens of tropical fruit trees around settlements.
To establish an agricultural landscape plan encompassing the whole of the strand plain, we studied the land characteristics associated with the landforms and soils, their spatial variability related to landscape evolution, and the status of present plant resources in terms of biomass and species diversity for local farmers on peaty backswamps and beach ridges.
Ecological carrying capacity in terms of biomass of M. cajuputi was not significantly different among soil types in the strand plain, but the growth rate and potential biomass of the species appears to be highest in thick, water-saturated peaty backswamps with acid sulfate soils.
