This study examines the relationships among variables influencing
solar access in the Portland-Vancouver Metropolitan Area. The
analysis is based on a random sample of approximately 400 single-family
homes in 21 local jurisdictions outside the city limits of Portland.
Relationships between percentage of available sunlight and selected
variables were examined by...
Pleistocene drainage basin integration led to progressive excavation of
Tertiary-Quaternary sedimentary basins along the Yellow River in the northeastern Tibetan
Plateau. Cosmogenic burial dating of ancestral river deposits and basin fill from two key
watershed divides confirms a fluvial connection between basins at 0.5–1.2 Ma, prior to excavation
by the...