Charlotte Islands Research Articles

LATE TRIASSIC (LATE NORIAN-RHAETIAN) RADIOLARIANS FROM THE ANTALYA NAPPES, CENTRAL TAURIDES, SOUTHERN TURKEY

The Hocakoy section measured from the Alakircay Nappe (middle nappe) of the Antalya Nappes contain rich radiolarian fauna ranging from late Norian (Late Triassic) to middle-late Cenomanian (mid Cretaceous). At the basal part of the section, the Late Triassic (late Norian-Rhaetian) Gokdere Formation is characterized by gray to beige cherty limestone at the base and pinkish red chert- gray to beige limestone alternation at the top, with moderately to well-preserved radiolarians in the red chert beds. The overlying Jurassic - Middle Cretaceous Hocakoy Radiolarite is mainly represented by chert-mudstone alternations with some limestone interlayers. Radiolarians of the Gokdere Formation can be well correlated with that of the fauna from the Mino Terrane, central Japan and the fauna from the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. Four radiolarian zones from central Japan are recognized in the fauna obtained from Gokdere Formation such as “ Praemesosaturnalis multidentatus Lowest Occurrence Zone (TR8A)” (late Norian), “Praemesosaturnalis pseudokahleri Lowest Occurrence Zone (TR8B)” (late Norian), ? “ Skirt F lowest Occurrence Zone (TR8C)” (late Norian-Rhaetian) and partly “ Haeckelicyrtium breviora Taxon Range Zone (TR8D)” (Rhaetian). In comparison with the Queen Charlotte fauna, the two zones “ Betraccium deweveri Zone” (late Norian) and “ Proparvicingula moniliformis Zone” (early Rhaetian) are also encountered in the Gokdere Formation. Radiolarians of the uppermost part of the Gokdere Formation indicate that “ Globolaxtorum tozeri Zone” defined in Queen Charlotte Islands corresponding to the late Rhaetian, is not present in the section. Five new taxa, Capnuchosphaera okayi , Bistarkum rhaeticum , Praemesosaturnalis heilongjiangensis aksekiensis, P. nobleae , Veghicyclia sanfilippoae were determined within the late Norian-Rhaetian radiolarian fauna of the Gokdere Formation in Hocakoy section.

The Haida Gwaii Diabetes Project: planned response activity outcomes.

A 1992 chart review in the Haida Village of Skidegate, Haida Gwaii/Queen Charlotte Islands, Canada, revealed that 17% of the unscreened population aged 35 or over have been diagnosed with diabetes. The Haida Gwaii Diabetes Project was designed to develop a culturally sensitive community-based participatory action approach to the management of noninsulin-dependent diabetes (NIDDM). Phase One included obtaining community support, conducting a chart review, holding clinics to measure biophysical indicators, conducting focus groups, and planning response activities with the communities. A list of activities was developed, based on the focus group results. In addition, the project team developed a set of operating principles that ensured and reinforced collaboration. Phase Two included implementing and monitoring planned response activities, and holding exit clinics. The best attended activities were trials of traditional herbal medicine and traditional diet, and an exercise programme. While participation levels were not high enough for causal conclusions, a significant decrease in total cholesterol (0.45; P = 0.005) and rise in HDL (-0.097; P = 0.05) was found for participants for whom paired values were available. Diabetes intervention research in First Nations settings involves small numbers of participants, making it difficult to quantitatively assess outcomes. To increase participation it is advisable to open activities to the whole community, to tie planned activities into other scheduled community events, and to share findings concerning managing illnesses of acculturation with other communities.

An earthquake swarm on the Queen Charlotte Islands Fracture Zone

abstract An earthquake swarm occurring on a segment of the ocean ridge system in the northeast Pacific Ocean is investigated by means of standard seismograph records from the western portion of British Columbia, Canada, covering the period from August 27 to September 1, 1967. Five seismograph stations (PHC, ALB, VIC, FSJ and PNT), all located within regional distances, are used as an array to locate 19 of the larger magnitude events; PHC, on the northern end of Vancouver Island less than 200 km from the source area, recorded 217 distinct arrivals in the 5-day period so that statistical properties of the swarm and the magnitude-frequency relationship can be estimated. The Pn and Sn arrivals in western British Columbia show the following time-distance relationships: ( T P n ± 1.00 ) = ( 5.51 ± 0.38 ) + Δ / ( 7.69 ± 0.03 ) ( T S n ± 2.30 ) = ( 10.16 ± 1.25 ) + Δ / ( 4.45 ± 0.03 ) These travel times are consistent with a crust on Vancouver Island greater than 50 km thick. The events in the swarm show a nonrandom distribution in time and the polarity of the first arrival varies with station and with event. The magnitude-frequency relationship for 217 events is determined as ( Log 10 N ± 0 . 2 ) = ( 4.1 ± 0.5 ) − ( 1.3 ± 0.2 ) M L or 2.0 M L 4.0 . All epicenters are located with respect to a regional model of the Earth9s crust which approximates the nature of the crust of the Earth in western British Columbia and the northeast Pacific Ocean. The resulting epicenters for events in the swarm are associated with two distinct tectonic features in the northeast Pacific Ocean—the Explorer Trench and the Queen Charlotte Islands Fracture Zone.

Legend of the Fin-Back Whale Crest of the Haidas, Queen Charlotte's Island, B. C.

Legend of the Fin-Back Whale Crest of the Haidas, Queen Charlotte's Island, B. C.

The Story of the Bear and His Indian Wife. A Legend of the Haidas of Queen Charlotte's Island, B. C.

The Story of the Bear and His Indian Wife. A Legend of the Haidas of Queen Charlotte's Island, B. C.

What Befell the Slave-Seekers. A Story of the Haidahs on Queen Charlotte's Island, B. C.

What Befell the Slave-Seekers. A Story of the Haidahs on Queen Charlotte's Island, B. C.

Aboriginal Art in California and Queen Charlotte's Island

IN the fourth volume, recently issued, of the Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences there is a valuable article by Dr. W. J. Hoffman on “Aboriginal Art in California and Queen Charlotte's Island.” In the summer of 1884 Dr. Hoffman visited the Pacific coast for the purpose of continuing his researches on primitive art, and he was fortunate enough to find a number of localities in which there are painted and “etched” records, of considerable interest, made by Indians belonging to tribes now unknown. These records occur in groups. One group, the first described by Dr. Hoffman, is in the neighbourhood of Santa Barbara. The best preserved paintings in this series are in a cavity which measures about twenty feet wide and eight feet high. The rock consists of gray sandstone, but the ceiling and back portion of the cave have a yellowish appearance. The colours employed were red ochre, white, and bluish black. Some of the paintings Dr. Hoffman takes to be representations of gaudily-coloured blankets. In several instances a grotesque human figure is drawn over or in front of what seems to be a blanket, as if the latter were intended as a body blanket or serape. In the Azuza cañon, about thirty miles north-east of Los Angeles, Dr. Hoffman examined a second series of painted records. Rudely sketched human figures are represented a pointing in certain directions, and the intention evidently was that they should serve as guides to travelling parties. For instance, the left arm of a figure on a white granitic boulder points towards the north-east. The precipitous walls of the cañon make egress in that direction impossible, but two hundred yards further on the cañon makes a sharp turn towards the north-east, and in rounding the point of land to the right the traveller comes to another boulder, on which are numerous faint drawings of various kinds. This boulder is on the line of an old trail leading from the country of the Chemehuevi, on the north of the mountains, down to the valley settlements of San Gabriel and Los Angeles. A third series of records was found in the southern part of Owens Valley, California, between the White Mountains on the east and the Benton Range on the west. They are “etched,” not painted. The most common characters in this group are circles, either plain, nucleated, bisected, concentric, or spectacle-shaped, by pairs or threes, with various forms of interior ornamentation. This group resembles etchings in the Canary Islands so closely that the illustrations given by Dr. Hoffman serve for both localities. On one of his plates he presents a number of circles with ornamented interiors, from a simple bisection to the stellate and cruciform varieties. Similar circles bearing cross-lines occur at Grevinge, Zeeland; and other forms resembling some at Owens Valley are found at Slieve-na-Calliagh, Grange, and Dowth, in Ireland. The spectacle-shaped variety resembles the mysterious symbol on some Scottish monuments which has given rise to so much vague speculation. The reversed Z, however, is wanting in the Californian examples. Of the various outlines of the human form presented by Mr. Wallace from Brazil, and referred to more recently by Prof. Richard Andree in “Ethnographische Parallelen und Vergleiche,” a considerable number are almost identical with etchings in the Owens Valley series. Many of the characters in these three Californian groups are similar to, and some are indistinguishable from, those made by the Moki and other tribes of the Shoshonian linguistic stock. Further research on the same Jines may, therefore, enable anthropologists to determine the former geographical area of the Shoshonian family, as has already been done in the case of the Algonkian tribes.

Description of a Village of the Hydah Indians, Near Skedigate Bay in Graham Island, One of the Queen Charlotte's Islands, Off British Colombia, from "The Sea of Mountains; an Account of Lord Dufferin's Tour Through British Columbia in 1876."

Description of a Village of the Hydah Indians, Near Skedigate Bay in Graham Island, One of the Queen Charlotte's Islands, Off British Colombia, from "The Sea of Mountains; an Account of Lord Dufferin's Tour Through British Columbia in 1876."

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