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	Summary: Inselbergs/Hills/Knobs
		Inselbergs eroded in crystalline rocks are generally smoothly rounded, whereas inselbergs eroded in sedimentary rocks tend to have blocky slopes.
		Inselbergs formed by erosion of a plateau have the same composition as rocks exposed in the cliffs of the adjacent, parent plateau; they show the same structural characteristics, such as horizontal, tilted, folded, or fractured beds.
		The presence of inselbergs on an otherwise flat desert plain usually indicates proximity to a plateau or highland or to highland remnants.
	www.tec.army.mil /research/products/desert_guide/lsmsheet/lsinsel.htm (471 words)

	Monadnock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A monadnock or inselberg is an isolated hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain.
		The word "inselberg" is German for "island mountain"; the name was originally coined to describe the abundant such features found in southern Africa.
		Inselbergs are typically, though not only, formed in tropical areas.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Inselberg (287 words)

	Aims of the Project
		Inselbergs are rocky outcrops consisting of granites and gneisses that are millions of years old, on which organic substrates are generally very poorly developed.
		Inselbergs can be regarded both microclimatically and edaphically as arid islands that support a quite different type of vegetation to the surrounding landscape.
		The inselberg project is concerned with themes that are at the heart of biodiversity research, such as the relative importance of deterministic and stochastic processes for the composition and diversity of vegetation.
	www.biologie.uni-rostock.de /abt/botanik/inselbergs/en-projekt.html (189 words)

	Caithness inselberg
		Inselbergs may be divided somewhat arbitrarily into those of position and those of resistance.
		Inselbergs of position have become isolated as erosion has led to the retreat of a major escarpment - Monument Valley in Utah presents classic examples.
		The inselbergs of Morven, Smean and the Maiden Pap are developed in a Devonian conglomerate rich in rounded pebbles of quartzite and granite.
	www.fettes.com /caithness/inselberg.htm (334 words)

	Classic Landforms of the World (IAG/AIG)
		Inselbergs are defined as "prominent steep-sided hills of solid rock, rising abruptly from a plain of low relief" (Whittow, 1984).
		Further on, Whittow remarks that inselbergs are characteristic for tropical landscapes, particularly for the savanna zone.
		Later on, Selby (1982) provided the geomechanical context for the analysis of the inselbergs in the Namib and, using the rock mass strength approach, demonstrated that their slopes are adjusted to the geological structure and there is no necessity to invoke deep weathering as being antecedent to bornhardt formation.
	www.geomorph.org /gt/regional/nam.html (2437 words)

	Current (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Despite the widespread occurrence of granite inselbergs throughout all climatic and vegetational zones, their remarkably rich plant life was largely neglected in the recent literature.
		The extreme environmental conditions on inselbergs are described in depth as well as specific adaptive traits of rock outcrop plants including their morphological, anatomical and physiological responses.
		The diversity and structure of inselberg plant communities are examined on a global scale with detailed regional accounts for different tropical and temperate zones.
	www.biologie.uni-rostock.de /abt/botanik/inselbergs/en-aktuell.html (121 words)

	Monadnock Information
		A monadnock or inselberg is an isolated hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain.
		The word "inselberg" is German for "island mountain"; the name was originally coined to describe the abundant such features found in southern Africa.
		Inselbergs are typically, though not only, formed in tropical areas.
	www.bookrags.com /Inselberg (247 words)

	Deserts and Wind
		Inselbergs are steep sided hills that rise above a surrounding relatively flat plain.
		Once an inselberg forms, it sheds water due to its steep slopes, and its steep slopes tend to not develop soil.
		Inselbergs are common in desert regions, although they can also occur in other areas where differential erosion takes place.
	www.tulane.edu /~sanelson/geol111/deserts.htm (1729 words)

	SKEP - Succulent Karoo Ecosystem Programme
		The Bushmanland Inselberg area is located on the northeast margin of the Succulent Karoo Hotspot, just south of the Orange River and the border between Namibia and South Africa.
		The area is dominated by a plain of desert grasslands and peppered by Inselbergs, ancient rocky outcrops in irregular patterns.
		These Inselbergs are important refugia for plants and animals and act as stepping-stones for rock-loving species migrating east west across the sand-covered plains of Bushmanland.
	www.skep.org /bushmanland_inselbergs.html (280 words)

	Mozambique - WWF - Expeditions in Conservation - Dispatch 7
		The crops are fairly close to the village to keep away crop-raiding elephants and minimize the chances of predators.
		As we crest the hill, there in front of us is a dramatic inselberg erupting out of the forest below and rising about 2,000 feet into the air.
		Inselbergs, German for island mountains, often occur where mountain ranges have eroded.
	www.worldwildlife.org /expeditions/mozambique/dispatch7.htm (452 words)

	INSELBERG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Ein Inselberg ist ein lokalisierter Hügel, ein Drehknopf, eine Kante oder ein kleiner Berg, der unerwartet leicht von sich neigen oder praktisch von einer waagerecht ausgerichteten umgebenden Ebene steigt.
		Inselbergs werden gewöhnlich in den tropischen Bereichen gebildet.
		Bemerkenswerte inselbergs schließen Zuckerlaib-Berg in Rio de Janeiro, Brasilien, Uluru und Kata Tjuta in Australien und im Mulanje Massif in Malawi mit ein.
	www.faktedon.com /wiki/de/in/Inselberg.htm (150 words)

	Summary: Boulders/Tors/Inselbergs/Domes
		a large granite-gneiss inselberg associated with the second cycle of erosion in a rejuvenated desert region.
		A high isolated crag, pinnacle, or rocky peak; or a pile of rocks, much jointed and usually granitic, exposed to intense weathering, and often assuming peculiar and fantastic shapes, e.g., the granite rocks standing as prominent masses on the moors of Devon, and Cornwall, England.
		The shapes and sizes of the residual boulders, tors, inselbergs and domes are initially established by the spacing and orientation of the joint and fault systems.
	www.tec.army.mil /research/products/desert_guide/lsmsheet/lsbould.htm (909 words)

	SIGGRAPH 2002 Notes -- Stewart Dickson
		The redeeming quality of the lecture was that professor Inselberg supplied numerous anecdotal instances in which understanding is gleaned from high-dimensional datasets.
		Inselberg's technique of visual data mining within a multi-dimensional data set is to employ a parallel coordinate system, defined as follows:
		Inselberg then introduces the concept of dualism in the projective plane, which also resurfaces again in a later SIGGRAPH course.
	www.cs.unca.edu /~dickson/Dickson_S2002_notes.html (1700 words)

	Dr Ingrid Parmentier - Staff - School of Geography
		She described the inselberg vegetation in Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Cameroon and the spatial structure of the inselberg flora.
		Due to their edaphic properties, inselbergs in the rain forest landscape are xeric "habitat islands".
		I identify the relative contributions of environmental determinism, dispersal limitation and historical factors in the spatial structure of the inselbergs flora at the local and regional scales.
	www.geog.ox.ac.uk /staff/iparmentier.php (757 words)

	South African Journal of Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Plant communities and plant species diversity of four Namibian inselberg landscapes were investigated across the Nama Karoo biome to elucidate biogeographical patterns, the role of inselbergs as refugia of plant species, and environmental variables determining local and regional species patterns in inselberg landscapes.
		The inselbergs investigated are conservation islands with a high 're-colonization potential' and biodiversity value and contribute to regional and landscape-level species pools.
		Linkages between inselbergs and their surroundings existed in the form of gene flow and nutrient flow from inselbergs to lowlands.
	www.nrf.ac.za /sajs/abnov02n.stm (292 words)

	Lewis
		Inselberg (see below) is situated in a prime viewing site for this, and most visitors view the eclipse several times.
		Unfortunately the small hospital at Inselberg would be swamped with all the victims, but Tukera offered to ship anyone in need of medical assistance, to Patnir, the nearest star system with adequate medical facilities.
		Inselberg is not the only resort on the planet.
	www.downport.com /bard/bard/opal/opal9500.html (3013 words)

	Parallel Coordinates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Parallel coordinates is a technique pioneered in the 1970s which has been applied to a diverse set of multidimensional problems (Inselberg et al.
		Inselberg, A., Tuval, C. and Reif, M. Convexity algorithms in parallel coodinates.
		Inselberg, A., Dimsdale, B. Parallel coordinates: a tool for visualizing multidimensional geometry.
	www.evl.uic.edu /aej/526/kyoung/Training-parallelcoordinate.html (354 words)

	Genetic structure of the saxicole Pitcairnia geyskesii (Bromeliaceae) on inselbergs in French Guiana -- Sarthou et al. ...
		Genetic structure of the saxicole Pitcairnia geyskesii (Bromeliaceae) on inselbergs in French Guiana -- Sarthou et al.
		Genetic structure of the saxicole Pitcairnia geyskesii (Bromeliaceae) on inselbergs in French Guiana
		1998 Diversity and ecology of saxicolous vegetation mats on inselbergs in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest.
	www.amjbot.org /cgi/content/full/88/5/861 (4016 words)

	Biotope of dendrobates ventrimaculatus at the Inselberg at French Gyana for www.poison-frogs.com
		Biotope of dendrobates ventrimaculatus at the Inselberg at French Gyana for www.poison-frogs.com
		One of these habitats is an Inselberg in the Nouragues reserve of French Guyana.
		Inselbergs are rocky outcrops of several hundred meters high and reach out over the canopy of the primary forest.
	www.poison-frogs.nl /e020401.html (597 words)

	Inselberg
		Der Artikel Inselberg gehört zur Kategorie: Geographischer Begriff, Wortexport
		Eine Unterteilung in zonale und azonale Inselberge wäre treffender.
		Teilweise wird in der Literatur auch der Zeugenberg als Inselberg genannt, ist viel eher aber eine Strukturform, der I. in erster Linie ein Skulpturform.
	www.adam-riese.de /Inselberg.html (248 words)

	Pildappa Rock - Eyre Peninsula - Nullarbor Travel Guide Australia
		Geologists refer to Pildappa Rock and other inselbergs in the area as belonging to the Hiltaba suite of rocks - basically orthoclase rich pink granites dating from Eyre Peninsula's Precambrian age.
		As an inselberg Pildappa Rock's outstanding feature is a unique wave form or "flare" structure extending for perhaps 100 metres.
		In terms of height the flared structure is perhaps 2 to 3 storeys tall.
	www.nullarbornet.com.au /themes/pildappaRock.html (647 words)

	Features of Deserts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		A canyon is a deep gorge of a river, often one flowing through a desert, but fed by water from outside.
		An inselberg is a steep, isolated hill with a narrow summit.
		A mesa is a flat-topped, steep-sided plateau of horizontal strata capped by erosion-resistant rock.
	www.innvista.com /science/earth/geology/desfeat.htm (269 words)

	MET, Namibia: Programmes - National Biodiversity - Nama karoo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Are inselbergs potential sources to re-colonise degraded areas in the surrounding?
		Properties of soil pockets on arid Nama Karoo inselbergs - The effect of geology and derived landform.
		Determinants of inselberg floras in arid Nama Karoo landscapes.
	www.met.gov.na /programmes/biodiversity/inselberg.htm (198 words)

	Rock Art in Relation to Landscape Features (Case Study iii)
		The images cluster together in obvious positions lining both sides of the pass in association with unmistakeable landscape features, particularly at the base of projections of the east and west faces of the escarpment and at the base and summit of inselbergs (isolated, rocky outcrops) in the floor of the pass.
		Again, images representing several thousand years of activity are concentrated in the same locations.
		The rock-art sites are intervisible and are positioned so that the engravings face into the pass.
	www.libyarockart.com /case3.htm (241 words)

	The Rivers of Guianas - Dispatch 6, cont. - WWF - Expeditions in Conservation
		Although not uncommon in this region, the cock-of-the-rock lives almost exclusively at the base of inselbergs and other rock formations amid liana forests.
		This bird is a prized item in the wildlife trade industry, and Ted points out where trappers have previously set nets in the area.
		The crevices and hollows in the rock atop these massifs hold unique plant and animal communities, sometimes isolated entirely to an individual inselberg - but more often restricted more broadly to these incredible formations across the region.
	www.worldwildlife.org /expeditions/rivers/dispatch6a.htm (344 words)

	The Dynamic Parallel Coordinate Plot: Visualizing Multivariate Geographic Data
		Emphasis will be placed on the introduction of a dynamic parallel coordinate plot, using techniques of parallel coordinate geometry introduced by Inselberg [1981], and its application for the visualization of automated multivariate classification of climate data.
		Keim and Kriegel [1996] concur that the integration of the human, and his or her "unmatched abilities of perception" is especially important, and that visual representation of the multidimensional data is required to allow the efficient retrieval of information from the system.
		The humidity variables (see Figure 1, third and fourth axes from left) are perhaps surprising by their lack of correlation: high humidity at the surface does not (nor should it) necessarily imply high humidity in the mid-levels of the atmosphere.
	www.geovista.psu.edu /publications/JSM99/paper.htm (4340 words)

	Parallel Coordinates Module for DX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Parallel Coordinates is a method of displaying multivariate data pioneered by Al Inselberg (formerly of IBM).
		Given an N-dimensional data set, N evenly spaced vertical axes are created, where the top of an axis corresponds to the maximum value for that dimension and the bottom corresponds to the minimum.
		Each data point is manifested as a polyline spanning all N axes, where the intersection point on each axis is proportional to the value in that dimension and how it relates to the minimum and maximum.
	www.cs.wpi.edu /Research/DataExplorer/contrib/parcoord (370 words)

	ellison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		We lived at the foot of a granitic inselberg (a large rock outcropping) called Buur Heybe, which was famous for its potters.
		Women filled their aashuuns in the inselberg's natural cisterns to get fresh water for their homes.
		I learned from friends that this area was devastated by forces fighting in Somalia's civil war, and that many of the people we had worked with were killed.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~silveray/connections/ellison.html (308 words)

	DBLP: Alfred Inselberg
		Alfred Inselberg, Tova Avidan: Classification and visualization for high-dimensional data.
		Alfred Inselberg, Georges G. Grinstein, Ted Mihalisin, Hans Hinterberger: Visualizing multidimensional (multivariate) data and relations (Panel).
		Alfred Inselberg, Tuval Chomut, Mordechai Reif: Convexity algorithms in parallel coordinates.
	www.informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/i/Inselberg:Alfred.html (143 words)

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