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The rough guide to Mallorca & Menorca
\"TRAVEL & HOLIDAY GUIDES. The Rough Guide to Mallorca & Menorca - now in full colour throughout - gets behind the sun, sex, booze and high-rise hotels cliches to reveal the surprising delights of these Balearic islands. Away from the handful of mega-resorts, discover the bustle of Mallorca's capital, Palma, the craggy mountains and medieval monasteries of the north coast, and the charming towns of the central plain. Menorca, lying to the east, boasts an interior of rollingfields and wooded ravines in between its capital Mao, and the beautifully preserved town of Ciutadella, while a chain of conservation areas protect the pristine coves and beaches that are Menorca's real treasures. Stunning photos, potential itineraries, day hike routes, colour-coded maps and trustworthy hotel and restaurant reviews, not to mention all the practical information you need, will help you enjoy the very best of both these islands. Make the most of your holiday with The Rough Guide to Mallorca & Menorca.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Between Gaza and Minorca
Christianity generated new sites of the articulation of the boundary between the self-styled majority (the new Christian commonwealth) and its minorities, be they pagans, Jews, barbarians, heretics, or Samaritans. The process of domesticating a newly empowered creed involved the neutralization of other creeds and of other people.¹ To graft its rituals over the rich panoply of paganism and Judaism, late ancient Christianity spawned a political discourse that set minorities apart from the rest of humanity. The vision of a universal-imperial Christianity entailed the vanquishing, or at least the silencing, of the bearers of difference.
Heterogeneity, the hallmark of Roman history,
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Mallorca, Menorca & Ibiza
\"This guide to the Balearic Islands will help you find your way around each of these ... islands, and help you decide exactly where to visit\"--Amazon.com.
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A DEPOSITIONAL MODEL AND PALEOECOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION OF THE LOWER TORTONIAN DISTALLY STEEPENED RAMP OF MENORCA (BALEARIC ISLANDS, SPAIN)
In carbonate depositional environments, sediment is mostly produced by different groups of organisms. Ecological parameters, thus, play a major role controlling carbonate production. In the present work, carbonate-producing biota, especially foraminifers, are studied to construct a depositional model and paleoecological interpretation of the lower Tortonian distally steepened ramp of Menorca (Balearic Islands, Spain). This carbonate platform corresponds to a highstand systems track prograding and aggrading over a Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and, locally, lower Tertiary basement. Outcrops are excellently exposed in the southern part of the island. Five facies associations are observed, which, in downdip direction, correspond to inner ramp, middle ramp, ramp slope, toe of the slope, and outer ramp. Samples have been studied using point counting of 102 thin sections. Six foraminiferal assemblages have been distinguished. Eight microfacies are identified (IR.1, IR.2, MR, URS, LRS, TS.1, TS.2, and OR), based on the abundance and ecological significance of the foraminifers (large benthic foraminifers, epiphytics, low-oxygen indicators, and planktonics) and other carbonate-producing organisms (echinoids, mollusks, barnacles, bryozoans, serpulids, coral genus Porites, and green and red algae). Seagrass meadows in the inner ramp correspond to the euphotic carbonate factory, whereas red algae and large benthic foraminifers dominate the oligophotic carbonate factory in the middle ramp and upper ramp slope. Microfacies composition verified intense sediment-transport processes from inner and middle ramp down to lower ramp slope, toe of the slope, and outer ramp. Finally, microfacies analysis also indicates that carbonate-production took place in warm-water conditions, in oligotrophic-to-mesotrophic waters.
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Relevance of genetics for conservation policies: the case of Minorcan cork oaks
Background and Aims: Marginal populations of widely distributed species can be of high conservation interest when they hold a significant or unique portion of the genetic diversity of the species. However, such genetic information is frequently lacking. Here the relevance of genetic surveys to develop efficient conservation strategies for such populations is illustrated using cork oak (Quercus suber) from Minorca (Balearic Islands, Spain) as a case study. Cork oak is highly endangered on the island, where no more than 67 individuals live in small, isolated stands in siliceous sites. As a consequence, it was recently granted protected status. Methods: Two Bayesian clustering approaches were used to analyse the genetic structure of the Minorcan population, on the basis of nuclear microsatellite data. The different groups within the island were also compared with additional island and continental populations surrounding Minorca. Key Results: Very high genetic diversity was found, with values comparable with those observed in continental parts of the species' range. Furthermore, the Minorcan oak stands were highly differentiated from one another and were genetically related to different continental populations of France and Spain. Conclusions: The high levels of genetic diversity and inter-stands differentiation make Minorcan cork oak eligible for specific conservation efforts. The relationship of Minorcan stands to different continental populations in France and Spain probably reflects multiple colonization events. However, discrepancy between chloroplast DNA- and nuclear DNA-based groups does not support a simple scenario of recent introduction. Gene exchanges between neighbouring cork oak stands and with holm oak have created specific and exceptional genetic combinations. They also constitute a wide range of potential genetic resources for research on adaptation to new environmental conditions. Conservation guidelines that take into account these findings are provided.
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Time Series Analysis of the Epidemiological Transition in Minorca, 1634–1997
Autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models provide a powerful tool for detecting seasonal patterns in mortality statistics. The strength of ARIMA models lies in their ability to reveal complex structures of temporal interdependence in time series. Moreover, changes in model parameters provide an empirical basis for detecting secular trends and death seasonality patterns. This approach is illustrated by our analysis of changes in the mortality patterns of the population of the town of Es Mercadal on the island of Minorca between 1634 and 1997. These data reveal a transition from an early mortality pattern requiring a complex ARIMA model that accounts for a strong seasonal death pattern and periodic epidemic-related mortality crises to a much simpler 20th-century pattern that can be described by a simple single-parameter ARIMA model. These same data were also analyzed using standard seasonality tests. The results show that the reduction in the number of parameters required to fit the Es Mercadal mortality data coincides with the epidemiological transition in which the predominant causes of morbidly and mortality shift from infectious to degenerative causes.
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Trace fossil tiering within event beds and preservation of frozen profiles; an example from the Lower Carboniferous of Menorca
The recognition of habitat partitioning in ancient marine sedimentary sequences, via the development of a tiering profile, is an important part of the reconstruction of paleocommunities. Such tiering profiles are often established on the basis of either the cross-cutting relationships displayed by ichnofauna, or, the maximum, or characteristic, depths of their occurrence. However, a complete tiering profile may be preserved as a frozen profile. A change in the environmental conditions, for example upon rapid deoxygenation of the sediment profile, may result in the evacuation of the profile by the infauna and thus the production of a frozen profile. An alternative method of producing a frozen profile within event beds as a result of the nature of the depositional regime is proposed. The paleoichnocoenosis preserved in a sequence of inter-channel deposits from a middle-fan environment in the Lower Carboniferous of eastern Menorca provides an example of this latter method; a simple, two-tiered profile is preserved as a frozen profile. The upper tier is a thoroughly bioturbated layer, dominated by Nereites delpeyi Bourrouilh, 1973; this is underlain by a partially bioturbated layer characterized by Dictyodora liebeana (Geinitz, 1867), and Arthrophycus minoricensis (Bourrouilh, 1973). After initial colonization of the event bed and establishment of a tiering profile by the infauna, no succession of tiers occurred because the thickness of inter-event bed deposits was minimal. Deposition of the succeeding event bed resulted in rapid relocation of the infauna, leaving the previous tiering profile preserved as a frozen profile. This frozen profile is preserved intact because the thickness of the succeeding event bed was greater than the depth from the sediment/water interface to the base of the lower tier.
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