Data were collected from a priori designated disturbed, moderate, and pristine zones along 27 stream sections exhibiting a length-wise disturbance gradient.
The new scheme is supposed to make development follow the design of the State Development and Redevelopment Plan, which carves the state into population centers, farming areas, pristine zones and buffers.
Thus, the petrologically more pristine zones might have provided a temporary site for organics to sublime and survive heating.
In the case of pristine GNR, zone-folded effects give rise to nondegenerated bands for α- and β-spin states, and the corresponding spin bands shift upward and downward with respect to the CNP, respectively.
To reduce impacts on land subsidence by pumping, zones of pristine groundwater quality with minimizing pumping drawdown were the optimal locations to extract groundwater for domestic uses.
Then, the groundwater flow model, MODFLOW, was adopted to simulate groundwater drawdown for specified pumping rates arranged in determined candidate zones with pristine groundwater quality during a six-month drought period.
Across the country, fracking has contaminated drinking water sources, made nearby residents sick, turned pristine landscapes into industrial zones, and caused air and global warming pollution.
-Marathon Oil Corp. FACT: While drilling rigs come and go, the surrounding infrastructure of fracking -- including pipelines, access roads, compressor stations, and processing plants -- permanently turn pristine landscapes into industrial zones.
Our study design combined systematic mosquito sampling in different habitat types, including pristine rainforest, forest border zones, agricultural crop land, and human settlements, with screening for viral infections followed by specific testing of mosquitoes from all habitats for any of the isolated viruses.
With the potential of future development looming, land managers can use the zones of pristine-to low-levels of disturbance to begin monitoring programs and justify mitigation and land management decisions.
On its colorful maps, the zones closest to pristine pop out as patches of leafy green.
