In Four Four: A Sydney Writers\u27 Festival Event

Four very special authors - Barbara Blackman, Brian Castro, Gretchen Miller and Gerry Turcotte - tell their own stories about nights spent dancing. Four extraordinary musicians - Sandy Evans (saxophones), Alister Spence (piano), Brett Hirst (double bass), and Philip South (percussion) - bring the stories to life through music. As the writers tell their stories the musicians respond to the words, weaving lines of emotion and adding layers of meaning. The result is a multi-dimensional performance experience arising from a shifting spiral of text, speech music and sound. Concept, composition and design by Gretchen Miller. Written and performed by Barbara Blackman, Brian Castro, Gretchen Miller and Gerry Turcotte. Music performed by Sandy Evans, Brett Hirst, Phillip South and Alister Spence. Lighting design by Neil Simpson Dramaturgy by Virginia Baxter. A download of this live performance is currently unavailable at ResearchOnline@ND. The Media Release for this performance may be downloaded for further information

Review of Bombing the City: Civilian Accounts of the Air War in Britain and Japan, 1939-1945 by Aaron William Moore

Review of Bombing the City: Civilian Accounts of the Air War in Britain and Japan, 1939-1945 by Aaron William Moore

Review of Life and Death in Captivity: The Abuse of Prisoners during War by Geoffrey P.R. Wallace

Review of Life and Death in Captivity: The Abuse of Prisoners during War by Geoffrey P.R. Wallace

Stable combustion of a high-velocity gas in a heated boundary layer

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The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior: A History of Canadian Internment Camp R (Book Review) by Ernest Robert Zimmerman

Review of The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior: A History of Canadian Internment Camp R by Ernest Robert Zimmerma

Episodic plate tectonics on Venus

Studies of impact craters on Venus from the Magellan images have placed important constraints on surface volcanism. Some 840 impact craters have been identified with diameters ranging from 2 to 280 km. Correlations of this impact flux with craters on the Moon, Earth, and Mars indicate a mean surface age of 0.5 +/- 0.3 Ga. Another important observation is that 52 percent of the craters are slightly fractured and only 4.5 percent are embayed by lava flows. These observations led researchers to hypothesize that a pervasive resurfacing event occurred about 500 m.y. ago and that relatively little surface volcanism has occurred since. Other researchers have pointed out that a global resurfacing event that ceased about 500 MYBP is consistent with the results given by a recent study. These authors carried out a series of numerical calculations of mantle convection in Venus yielding thermal evolution results. Their model considered crustal recycling and gave rapid planetary cooling. They, in fact, suggested that prior to 500 MYBP plate tectonics was active in Venus and since 500 MYBP the lithosphere has stabilized and only hot-spot volcanism has reached the surface. We propose an alternative hypothesis for the inferred cessation of surface volcanism on Venus. We hypothesize that plate tectonics on Venus is episodic. Periods of rapid plate tectonics result in high rates of subduction that cool the interior resulting in more sluggish mantle convection

Mechanisms of crustal deformation in the western US

The deformation processes in the western United States were studied, considering both deterministic models and random or statistical models. The role of the intracrustal delamination and mechanisms of crustal thinning were also examined. The application of fractal techniques to understand how the crust is deforming was studied in complex regions. Work continued on the development of a fractal based model for deformation in the western United States. Fractal studies were also extended to the study of topography and the geoid

Properties of the lithosphere and asthenosphere deduced from geoid observations

Data from the GEOS-3 and SEASAT Satellites provided a very accurate geoid map over the oceans. Broad bathymetric features in the oceans such as oceanic swells and plateaus are fully compensated. It is shown that the geoid anomalies due to the density structures of the lithosphere are proportional to the first moment of the density distribution. The deepening of the ocean basins is attributed to thermal isostasy. The thickness of the oceanic lithosphere increases with age due to the loss of heat to the sea floor. Bathymetry and the geoid provide constraints on the extent of this heat loss. Offsets in the geoid across major fracture zones can also be used to constrain this problem. Geoid bathymetry correlations show that the Hawaiian and Bermuda swells and the Cape Verde Rise are probably due to lithospheric thinning