The Alpine orogeny is a consequence of the collision of Africa with Eurasia, which eliminated the Western Tethys Ocean. Processes similar to those that would have taken place early in that collision ...can today be seen operating in the islands of the Indo-Pacific gateway between Southeast Asia and Australia and have the potential to offer insights into the beginnings of orogenesis in the Alps. Studies of the gateway area emphasise the importance of the impact on subduction zones of topography on the downgoing plate, and of the effects of flows in the asthenosphere on lithosphere tectonics.
The article examines the institutionalization of modern bourgeois musical culture in Carniola and Lower Styria during the nineteenth century. This era was characterized by the decline of the old ...aristocracy and the rise of new social classes, including the wealthy bourgeoisie and the lower nobility (ennobled bourgeoisie), collectively referred to as the »Second Society« (Zweite Gesellschaft). Using various examples, this article traces the development of modern bourgeois musical culture from the private sphere to the »semi-public« and finally to the public sphere. It examines the founding of musical societies and their funding, the increased access to musical education and concert life, the transition from amateurism to professionalism in musical practice, and the increasing participation of women in cultural and musical life throughout the nineteenth century in Carniola and Lower Styria.
The purpose of this article is to explore the social and spatial dynamics within the university libraries of the University of Ljubljana and the University of Vienna. The analysis shows that ...university libraries are crucial for shaping the academic environment and culture and play an important role in city-university relations. Understanding these dynamics is essential for planning and developing university spaces that can effectively respond to the needs and activities of their users. The article applies qualitative research methods and uses interviews with professors, students and assistants along with on-site observations to analyse the dynamics and transformative role of university spaces in Ljubljana and Vienna.
Starting from Claire Bishop’s research, expressed in Radical Museology, this text aims to analyze the curatorial approaches pursued by the directors of the Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), the Reina Sofia ...(Madrid) and the MSUM (Ljubljana). Exploring their relation with the local communities, the text reflects upon the museum’s role in our time.
During the Middle Triassic, intensive volcanic activity took place along the eastern margin of Pangea, including the Greater Adria promontory, due to the Neotethyan oceanization. This resulted in the ...formation of various volcanic and volcaniclastic rock types. The region of NW Croatia, acting as a transition zone between the Southern Alps and the Dinarides, showcases the outcrops of these rocks. The present study investigates the facies of volcaniclastic rocks, the distribution of those facies, formation processes, as well as the genesis of the primary magma to gain a better understanding of the complex geodynamics of this region during the Middle Triassic. Six profiles across the Vudelja quarry front were surveyed using drone imaging and samples were collected for detailed petrographic and geochemical analyses. Two groups of volcaniclastic rocks were identified—
mafic
and
intermediate/felsic
. The former is represented by (I) autoclastic effusive facies and (II) resedimented autoclastic facies, while the latter is represented by (III) secondary pyroclastic facies. Mafic volcaniclastics were generated through basaltic effusions in marine environments, fragmentation in contact with seawater, mixing with shallow marine carbonate clasts, and subsequent redeposition in deeper marine areas. The secondary pyroclastic facies (III) consists of a regionally distributed felsic
Pietra Verde
tuff whose deposits may be related to pyroclastic density currents and syn-eruptive resedimentation by turbidite-like currents. Geochemical data indicate that parental magmas responsible for generating the mafic volcaniclastics had a calc-alkaline composition and originated in ensialic and mature arc settings of an active continental margin. The observed chemical composition is likely inherited from older, arc-related lithologies, associated with the subduction of the Paleotethys Ocean. Parental magmas are thought to have formed during continental rifting of the passive Middle Triassic margins of the Greater Adria through (
i
) partial melting of the heterogeneous lithospheric mantle, which had been metasomatized during an earlier Hercynian subduction, and (
ii
) subordinate processes related to the melting of the upper continental crust and subsequent fractionation. Ar/Ar dating on plagioclase separates yielded an age of 244.5 ± 2.8 Ma for mafic volcaniclastics. This aligns well with biostratigraphic ages of felsic tuffs which crop out on a broader regional scale of the Dinarides, the Southern Alps, and the Transdanubian Range. The overlapping ages obtained from radiometric dating of mafic volcaniclastics and biostratigraphic ages of the felsic
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tuffs strongly suggest that the Greater Adria region experienced concurrent bimodal volcanism during the Middle Triassic.
The paper presents the concept of participatory urbanism and analyses its practical implications in the context of the City of Ljubljana. It assesses the potential of participatory methodology for ...physical and social interventions in public spaces through the case-studies of two creative spatial practices: urban community garden Onkraj gradbišča / Beyond the construction site and community-led renovation of Savsko naselje neighbourhood. It indicates how bottom-up initiatives can contribute to sustainable development of an urban area, especially to its environmental and social features. It concludes with the ideas of how cities might engage with bottom-up spatial practices to increase the effectiveness of urban spatial planning, management and administration, and to boost their green creative image.
This study shows the link between land use, landscape changes, and ecosystem services. Two pilot areas were investigated for how land use changes from 1824 to 2013 affect the provision of ecosystem ...services. It was found that low-intensity managed traditional land use is disappearing due to the intensification of agricultural production on the one hand, and the retreat of agriculture from unfavorable areas on the other hand. However, such traditional land use contributes to more diverse and more numerous ecosystem services and helps preserve the cultural landscape. Therefore, intensification and overgrowth should be restricted, and less intensive agriculture should be encouraged. The approach presented can be used as a support tool for decision-making in managing and governing landscapes.
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