/library/oar/handle/123456789/76354 2025-11-15T10:15:03Z 2025-11-15T10:15:03Z Farrugia, Joseph Briguglio, Lino /library/oar/handle/123456789/76567 2021-06-01T07:07:49Z 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: A focus on Gozo Authors: Farrugia, Joseph; Briguglio, Lino Abstract: his is the third volume published by the University of Malta Gozo Centre. The first two books dealt respectively with Tourism and with Culture in Gozo. The present volume contains a selection of papers originally presented in the form of lectures during the course entitled 'A Focus on Gozo', which the Gozo Centre organised in 1994-95. Such is Gozo's small size that one can mistakenly assume that the personality and character of the island are of little significance, and need not be studied and understood. The contents of this volume show otherwise. The title 'A Focus on Gozo', was chosen precisely because the editors felt that it is very worthwhile zooming in on a number of areas related to the island's physical and cultural development, to understand the multifaceted impacts that have shaped the island's character as we know it today. Gozo possesses a character which is distinctly perceptible and intrinsically its own. It is a character rooted in its physical features, its geographical location and abides in the island's geology, insularity, natural territorial features and vegetation.

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Title: Preface Abstract: This is the third volume published by the University of Malta Gozo Centre, since its establishment in 1993. The first two books dealt respectively with Tourism and with Culture in Gozo. The Gozo Centre has now established itself as an important institution in Gozitan life, and its activities and publications are making an important contribution to Gozitan cultural development. This book contains a selection of papers originally presented in the form oflectures during the course entitled A Focus on Gozo, which the Gozo Centre organised in 1994-95. The course, coordinated by Rev. Dr. Joseph Farrugia, was very well attended, and the themes of the talks raised considerable interest among the Gozitan public. The organisers and my Ministry thought it would be good idea if these talks were published in one volume since this permitted the authors to elaborate on the themes of their talks, given that the 45 minute lectures presented a time constraint which restricted the amount of material that could be presented. Moreover, the publication of the lectures in a book adds to the durability of the contributions, since, unlike a lecture which is confined to a specific period of time, a printed paper can be consulted and studied over and over again. In addition, the inclusion ofreference sources in the written version of the papers, render them very useful to students and researchers in matters related to Gozo.

1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Farrugia, Joseph Briguglio, Lino /library/oar/handle/123456789/76565 2022-03-28T07:37:30Z 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Introduction [A focus on Gozo] Authors: Farrugia, Joseph; Briguglio, Lino Abstract: It is arguable whether one may speak of a specifically "Gozitan" culture but there is no doubt that Gozo possesses a soul, a character which is distinctly perceptible and intrinsically its own. It is a character rooted in its physical features, its geographical location and insularity, and abides in the island's geology, natural territorial features and vegetation. It is a cultural character which has drawn from the almost constant presence of man on the island for almost 7000 years. It therefore has had a varied ethnic input which started as far back as the dawn of Mediterranean civilization, and which it now exudes. Gozo's central position in the Mediterranean placed it at the crossroads of many civilizations and this determined the wide cross-fertilization of its culture.

1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Zammit Maempel, George /library/oar/handle/123456789/76564 2021-06-01T07:06:32Z 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The geology of Gozo Authors: Zammit Maempel, George Abstract: In the distant past, all knowledge that did not relate to God was considered mundane and was dumped under the heading Geology (Geos: earth; logia: study of) - in contradistinction to Theology (Theos: God). It was not before the second half of the 16th century that Geology was used in its modern, restricted sense, in a manuscript attributed to Juanelo Turrientes (Lopez de Azcona, 1987: 48). In the printed form, the term 'Geology' appeared a century later when M. P. Escholt published his Geologia Norvegica in 1657. Geology, as we know it today is a science related to the study ofrocks and to the natural processes/forces acting upon them. Broadly speaking the geology ofGozo is not much different from that of Malta, but there are a few sedimentary structures as well as some geomorphogical and tectonic features which are more evident on one island than on the other. Gozo is the second largest and the most northern island of the Maltese archipelago, which lies on a Northwest-Southeast axis, with a slight Northeast tilt. As a result of this gentle tilt to the north-east, we can see, to south-west of Gozo, Ta' Cenc cliffs, made ofrocks from the lowermost Formation on the Maltese Islands, towering to a height of about 140 meters above sea level, whilst on the north, at Marsalforn, the overlying Globigerina Limestone is brought down to sea level. Further westwards on the same coastline, Wied il-Ghasri, excavated in the lowermost geological Formation (Lower Coralline Limestone), is invaded by the sea to form a miniature Fjord.

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