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Fanny Copeland and the geographical imagination
Raised in Scotland, married and divorced in the English south, an adopted Slovene, Fanny Copeland (1872 ā 1970) occupied the intersection of a number of complex spatial and temporal conjunctures. A Slavophile, she played a part in the formation of what subsequently became the Kingdom of Yugoslavia that emerged from the First World War. Living in Ljubljana, she facilitated the first āforeign visitā (in 1932) of the newly formed Le Play Society (a precursor of the Institute of British Geographers) and guided its studies of SolÄava (a then āremoteā Alpine valley system) which, led by Dudley Stamp and commended by Halford Mackinder, were subsequently hailed as a model for regional studies elsewhere. Arrested by the Gestapo and interned in Italy during the Second World War, she eventually returned to a socialist Yugoslavia, a celebrated figure. An accomplished musician, linguist, and mountaineer, she became an authority on (and populist for) the Julian Alps and was instrumental in the establishment of the Triglav National Park. Copelandās role as participant observer (and protagonist) enriches our understanding of the particularities of her time and place and illuminates some inter-war relationships within G/geography, inside and outside the academy, suggesting their relative autonomy in the production of geographical knowledge
Svet mineralov
V knjigi so predstavljeni najrazliÄnejÅ”i primerki iz znanih svetovnih nahajaliÅ”Ä - predstavniki vseh mineralnih razredov, ki jih opredeljuje Strunzeva klasifikacija. V pregledu mineralov, ki sledi uvodnim razlagam o njihovem nastanku, kristalih, sistematiki, dragih in okrasnih kamnin, ponaredkih, zbirateljstvu in Å”e Äem, so zbrani primerki, ki kažejo razliÄnost barv, barvitost, njihovo spreminjanje, lepoto in popolnost kristalov. Posamezen opis zakljuÄujejo podatki o uporabnosti minerala in njegovem pojavljanju v slovenskem prostoru
The earthquake of 12 July 2004 in Upper SoÄa territory (NW Slovenia) ā preliminary geological and seismological characterstics
After six years on July 12, 2004 a new earthquake shook again the most seismic dangerous part of Slovenia ā the upper SoÄa valley. This earthquake was about ten times weaker then the earthquake from April 12, 1998. The earthquake was triggered at 14:04 UTC or at 15:04 according the local time. Preliminary epicentre coordinates were 46,32 N and 13,63 E. The focal depth was around 8 km deep. The earthquake with magnitude 4,9 caused the highest effects of VI to VII intensity according to EMS-98 in the settlement CezsoÄa and in the surroundings of Bovec. The seismic data are preliminary and is now in the phase of supplementing. This is the reason that the most part of the paper is focused on the consequences of the earthquake on natural surroundings. The local increment of the intensity, connecting with geological conditions, was somewhere surprising high and exceed one degree of EMS. Many phenomena of the shallow failures released on steep slopes. Rock falls were the most frequent. Also some opening of existent and new cracks on the surface and sliding at the edge of the terraces were observed. We analysed 44 rock falls, only five of them were a bit larger, so the intensity of the earthquake was to low to activate sliding of the rock blocks on deeper weak planes under the surface. We described in paper also the events of very long cracks along the edge of the terraces, which have resulted somewhere on the damage of the buildings. It was luck that the intensity of the earthquake was relatively low so the both very big landslides in Log pod Mangartom and in Kosec didnāt react on the earthquake tremors