Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Motoring in a Ford through Venezuela from the seacoast to the Andes, Alfred Kidder, II '33 has discovered valuable archeological material in that hitherto untouched region...
...purposes of the expeditions is to link the undetermined chronologies of these cultures with those of the Antilles and Columbia. This is a difficult task, since little is known about Venezuelan archeology. The Spanish Conquest of this region took place later than it did in other parts of the New World, and the records of the explorers, the only written material available to the archeologists, are woefully inadequate...
...collected hitherto unknown species of flightless mountain beetles, some unusual ground insects, some fine river-living beetles from 3000-4000 feet; some frogs peculiar to the region from 5000 feet to the summit; some reptiles from 3000-5000 feet; and six peripatus, a caterpillar-like insect which lives in damp tropical regions...
...higher above the earth than any balloon has ever ascended lies a series of curved shells of electrified air which scientists call the ionosphere. From this ionized region of upper space radio waves carom and curl around the earth. For two years Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism has had under way a program of ionosphere research mustering a platoon of scientists and ranging from the tropics to the far North. At the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, Dr. Edward Olson Hulburt kept track of the work, conferred with the workers. Last week in the Physical Review...
...region of the two lower layers, E and F¹ (65 and 130 miles up) are not deadly cold but fairly hot. Their temperature seems to be 80° F., with a daily and seasonal variation above & below that point of about...