Academic literature on the topic 'Mount Painter Province'

Building on recent suggestions, I argue that the final composition of the Pentateuch in the Persian period was the result of common enterprise or compromise between the province of Samaria and Jerusalem. This is based on an examination of the historical circumstances as well as on the contents and text of the Pentateuch. Contrary to the picture painted in Ezra-Nehemiah, there were good relationships and contacts between the upper classes of the two provinces throughout the period, and it is probable that the priestly staff of the temple of Argarizim, which recent evidence shows was established in the mid fifth century, was closely related to that of Jerusalem. The identities of both holy places are hinted at in the text. The likely original text of Deut 27:2–8 ordains sacrifice to be made and the Torah to be inscribed on Mount Gerizim (v. 4), not on Mount Ebal as in the MT. This either suggested the establishment of the sanctuary there (Kartveit), or was suggested by it (Nihan). On the other hand, Gen 14:18 refers to Jerusalem under the name of Salem. The Torah contains material of northern origin, and some of it, especially the story of Joseph, originated relatively late. The Tabernacle and ritual texts in P do not, as often thought, represent the Jerusalem temple, but an ideal sanctuary, and they are available to reform the practice of both temples. The MT, like the Samaritan Pentateuch, contains revisions away from the common inheritance.

A survey of the Kikori River drainage of the Gulf Province of Papua New Guinea identified four species of freshwater turtle. The pig-nosed turtle Carettochelys insculpta and the southern New Guinea soft-shelled turtle Pelochelys bibroni are riverine species. The New Guinea spotted turtle Elseya novaeguineae lives primarily in the tidal freshwater creeks and streams, flooded sinkholes and swamps of the lowland rainforest. The New Guinea painted turtle Emydura subglobosa resides almost exclusively in forest sinkholes and swamps. Pelochelys bibroni was the least-common species, and is probably locally endangered. Greatest turtle diversity occurred in the Karst Plains of the Kikori sub-basin, where there is a greater diversity of habitat available to turtles. Lowest diversity occurred in the highlands, where turtles were present in very low density as introduced populations, brought in from the Kikori lowlands, Mount Bosavi and the Western Province by visiting relatives. Linguistic diversity concurred with turtle diversity of the regions in which the languages were spoken. C. insculpta nests both on riverine sand beaches and on coastal beaches, sand spits and isolated sand bars where the Kikori River discharges into the Gulf of Papua. Adult females and eggs of C. insculpta are harvested heavily by local people for local consumption.

In 2012, in the village Davidovac situated in south Serbia, 9.5 km south-west from Vranje, archaeological investigations were conducted on the site Crkviste. The remains of the smaller bronze-age settlement were discovered, above which a late antique horizon was later formed. Apart from modest remains of a bronze-age house and pits, a late antique necropolis was also excavated, of which two vaulted tombs and nine graves were inspected during this campaign. During the excavation of the northern sector of the site Davidovac-Crkviste the north-eastern periphery of the necropolis is detected. Graves 1-3, 5 and 6 are situated on the north?eastern borderline of necropolis, while the position of the tombs and the remaining four graves (4, 7-9) in their vicinity point that the necropolis was further spreading to the west and to the south?west, occupying the mount on which the church of St. George and modern graveyard are situated nowadays. All graves are oriented in the direction SW-NE, with the deviance between 3? and 17?, in four cases toward the south and in seven cases toward the north, while the largest part of those deviations is between 3? and 8?. Few small finds from the layer above the graves can in some way enable the determination of their dating. Those are two roman coins, one from the reign of emperor Valens (364-378), as well as the fibula of the type Viminacium-Novae which is chronologically tied to a longer period from the middle of the 5th to the middle of the 6th century, although there are some geographically close analogies dated to the end of the 4th or the beginning of the 5th century. Analogies for the tombs from Davidovac can be found on numerous sites, like in Sirmium as well as in Macvanska Mitrovica, where they are dated to the 4th-5th century. Similar situation was detected in Viminacium, former capital of the roman province of Upper Moesia. In ancient Naissus, on the site of Jagodin Mala, simple rectangular tombs were distributed in rows, while the complex painted tombs with Christian motifs were also found and dated by the coins to the period from the 4th to the 6th century. Also, in Kolovrat near Prijepolje simple vaulted tombs with walled dromos were excavated. During the excavations on the nearby site Davidovac-Gradiste, 39 graves of type Mala Kopasnica-Sase dated to the 2nd-3rd century were found, as well as 67 cist graves, which were dated by the coins of Constantius II, jewellery and buckles to the second half of the 4th or the first half of the 5th century. Based on all above mentioned it can be concluded that during the period from the 2nd to the 6th century in this area existed a roman and late antique settlement and several necropolises, formed along an important ancient road Via militaris, traced at the length of over 130 m in the direction NE-SW. Data gained with the anthropological analyses of 10 skeletons from the site Davidovac-Crkviste don't give enough information for a conclusion about the paleo-demographical structure of the population that lived here during late antiquity. Important results about the paleo-pathological changes, which do not occur often on archaeological sites, as well as the clearer picture about this population in total, will be acquired after the osteological material from the site Davidovac-Gradiste is statistically analysed.

Abstract In 2013 to 2014, Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology excavated a large-sized mural tomb at Jiyuangang in Xinzhou City. It was a brick single-chamber tomb facing south and consisting of the mound on the ground, ramp passage, corridor and the tomb chamber, the full length of which was more than 40m. On the walls of the passage, corridor and tomb chamber, large areas of murals were painted, that of which on the two side walls of the passage were painted into four registers from top to bottom. It is preliminarily inferred that the date of this tomb is the Eastern Wei to the early Northern Qi Dynasties, and the position of its occupant was prominent and glorious, who would be an important role in the ruling group at that time. The murals of this tomb had diversified motifs and rich connotations, many of which cannot be found in other tombs of the same period; they provided valuable materials for the researches on the history, culture, social life and military systems of the Northern Dynasties Period.

Thesis (B. Sc.(Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology, 1992.
National grid reference SH54 - 6737-2. One coloured folded map in pocket inside back pocket. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (B. Sc.(Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1994.
National grid reference: Yudnamutana sheet (SH-54) 6737 I. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 22-24).

Thesis (B. Sc.(Hons.))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, 1992.
Two coloured folded maps in pocket inside back cover. "National grid reference (S1-54) 6737-1." Includes bibliographical references (leaves [8-10]).

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The Wooltana Volcanics experienced a pervasive low grade hydrothermal alteration prior to the Delamerian. The timing of this event is poorly constrained. However the available evidence is consistent with the metasomatism occurring during the active stretching thought to have caused the uplift related refrigeration responsible for the formation of the Merinjina Tillite. This study confirms the proposals of previous workers that the Wooltana Volcanics, Beda Volcanics and Gairdner Dyke Swarm are temporal equivalents, although this study has shown the Gairdner Dyke Swann to be a systematically fractionated end member. The Wooltana Volcanics are very like the Parana low-Ti CFB of Brazil and also the dolerites from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Both are associated with magmatic events immediately preceding the first openings of the Atlantic Ocean. The occurrence of the Port Pirie Volcanics within Burra Group sediments suggests a reoccurrence of mantle decompression due to lithospheric stretching further to the south.
Thesis (B.Sc.(Hons)) -- University of Adelaide, School of Physical Sciences, 1992

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The Mount Painter Province in the Northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia is composed of Palaeoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic basement overlain by 7-12 kilometres of Neoproterozoic to Cambrian sedimentary rocks and is associated with high lateral geothermal gradients. During the Early Paleozoic, deformation and metamorphism reached greenschist to amphibolite facies during the ~500 Ma Delamerian Orogeny. This study focuses on the subsequent thermal history of the area by studying an E-W profile through the Mount Painter Province using the widely used techniques of structural mapping, micro-structural analysis and 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology to characterise and date deformation and cooling (as a proxy for exhumation). The E-W trending profile, known as the Hamilton Fault, is south dipping oblique slip with a normal and dextral component overprinted by younger brittle structures and brecciation which is seen in the structural and micro-structural analysis.. It is proposed to have a very active past and there is evidence of movement in the Adelaidean due to an apparent formation offset of ~600 m. The regional context of the Hamilton Fault having a dextral and normal component suggests an ε3 uplift, an ε2 extension SW to NE and ε1 NW-SE shortening. This is similar in character to the N-S shortening which is seen in the Alice Springs Orogeny (ASO). Results from the 40Ar/39Ar thermochronology show the basement metasedimentary rocks have cooling ages of around ~350 Ma between 300 to 400 °C and 312 Ma at 150 °C. Interestingly, the younger Adelaidean metasedimentary rocks have an older cooling age of 390 Ma between 300 to 400 °C. The thermochronology data suggests differential cooling has occurred. The observations suggest that exhumation is driven following the Delamerian folding event and forced the earlier cooling of shallower samples at a slower rate and later cooling of the deeper samples at a faster rate, a process caused by differential tilting. The cooling paths are well represented in this example as shown by converging cooling paths. Overall I attribute this subsequent thermal history and structural similarity to the ASO, a major widespread dramatic orogenic event which has not been widely recognized as a significant tectonic event in the Adelaide Fold Belt.
Thesis (B.Sc.(Hons)) -- University of Adelaide, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2010

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The rift and deformational evolution of the Adelaide Fold Belt’s northern-most extent, the northern Flinders Ranges, has received comparatively little attention than that of the southern Adelaide Fold Belt. The Arkaroola area, located in the mid-north northern Flinders Ranges, exposes the lowermost Adelaidean stratigraphy of this rift complex, the Callanna and lower Burra Groups, in a near complete sedimentary sequence. The rift history of this stratigraphy is complex, with deposition being largely controlled by the northeast-southwest orientated Paralana Fault and similarly orientated local growth faults. Locally, the Paralana Fault deviates from its regional orientation and forms a north-south striking segment, which under a considered sinistral strike-slip regime during extension would potentially create localised transtension in a ‘releasing bend’ environment. Rifting in the Arkaroola area is therefore considered to be analogous to the formation of a pull-apart basin. U-Pb dating of detrital zircons from the Paralana Quartzite, Humanity Seat Formation and Blue Mine Conglomerate from the Callanna and lower Burra groups yields ages that are comparable to local source regions the Gawler Craton, Mount Painter Basement Complex and the Curnamona Province, and suggest proximal derivation during early rift phases. Sm-Nd bulk rock analysis on the finer grained Woodnamoka Formation implies derivation from the Mount Painter Basement Complex or the upper Willyama Supergroup of the Curnamona Province, the latter of which potentially suggests a more distal provenance region outside of the Australian continent. Deformation in the northern Flinders Ranges has previously been largely ascribed to the ca. 500 Ma Delamerian Orogeny. However, the Arkaroola area exhibits complex deformation not observed in the directly overlying gently folded stratigraphy. Reactivation of pull-apart rift structures during transpression is considered a possible mechanism for producing and localising such deformation. The possibility of an early Neoproterozoic deformational event occurring prior to deposition of the lesser-deformed overlying stratigraphy is also considered, but in lieu of an unequivocal orogenic unconformity, cannot be confidently ascribed. Temporal constraints defined by this study are too broad to accurately define the timing of deformation, and therefore its timing and potential relationship to the Delamerian Orogeny remains largely enigmatic.
Thesis (B.Sc.(Hons)) -- University of Adelaide, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, 2011