enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Underwater logging - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_logging

    There is an ongoing debate to determine whether or not underwater logging is a sustainable practice and if it is more environmentally sustainable than traditional logging. Underwater logging has been introduced in select locations around the world, including Ghana's Lake Volta, [1] the largest reservoir by surface area in the world. A related ...

  3. Logging - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logging

    Logging is the process of cutting ... Harvesting trees from forests submerged by flooding or dam creation is called underwater logging, a form ... Pictorial history ...

  4. Underwater archaeology - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_archaeology

    There are many reasons why underwater archaeology can make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the past. In the shipwreck field alone, individual shipwrecks can be of significant historical importance either because of the magnitude of loss of life (such as the Titanic) or circumstances of loss (Housatonic was the first vessel in history sunk by an enemy submarine).

  5. Archaeological diving - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeological_diving

    Archaeological diving is a type of scientific diving used as a method of survey and excavation in underwater archaeology.The first known use of the method comes from 1446, when Leon Battista Alberti explored and attempted to lift the ships of Emperor Caligula in Lake Nemi, Italy. [1]

  6. Waterlogging (archaeology) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterlogging_(archaeology)

    In archaeology, waterlogging refers to the long-term exclusion of air by groundwater, which creates an anaerobic environment that can preserve artifacts perfectly. Such waterlogging preserves perishable artifacts.

  7. Peter Throckmorton - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Throckmorton

    Edgerton Alvord Throckmorton (July 30, 1928 – June 5, 1990), known as Peter Throckmorton, was an American photojournalist and a pioneer underwater archaeologist. [1] [2]He is best remembered for fusing academia, archaeometry, and diving in 1960 to create responsible underwater archaeology: the excavation of the Cape Gelidonya bronze age wreck site.

  8. Lake Washington sunken forests - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Washington_sunken_forests

    In the early 1990s, Western Wood Lumber, owned by John Tortorelli, was conducting salvage logging operations on sunken logs in Lake Washington that were lost from early 20th century log booms. [6] Tortorelli broke an underwater sewer line and during the investigation of this incident, it was found that he had been salvaging wood from the sunken ...

  9. Category:Logging - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Logging

    This page was last edited on 14 September 2024, at 10:09 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.