James Goff
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Goff |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Goff |
| SIGNATURE | GOFF J |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9265-8667 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Subsidence on the predominantly strike‐slip Alpine Fault, Aotearoa New Zealand
There has been considerable research both on‐fault and in adjacent wetland environments aimed at understanding the nature and timing of movements on the predominantly strike‐slip Alpine Fault in southern Aotearoa New Zealand. Findings have documented significant horizontal displacement on its western side and uplift to the east but have as yet not reported any vertical land displacement to the west. Here, we report on a recent study of drowned fo…
Reconstructing a palaeotsunami
An understanding of the geomorphological processes instigated by seismic-related catastrophes such as tsunamis is important to our understanding of their potential impacts on both past and present human populations. Due to the relative scarcity of human records of such events in prehistory, it is necessary to rely on the geological record to identify and interpret the environmental changes caused by such catastrophes. A multi-proxy analysis of ge…
Evidence for a mid-Holocene drowning from the Atacama Desert coast of Chile
Landscape archaeology—The value of context to archaeological interpretation
Landscape archaeology is a relatively young subdiscipline that has grown in a multitude of directions, particularly in recent decades. It is strongly multidisciplinary and has borrowed tools from an array of fields, including the archaeological sciences, geology, geography, palaeoecology and geochronology; many landscape archaeologists have backgrounds beyond traditional archaeology sensu stricto. Landscape archaeology has become an important fac…
The Radiocarbon Ages of Different Organic Components in the Mires of Eastern Australia
Radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating is widely used to determine the age of organic material in palaeoenvironmental research. Here we compare 14 C dates (n=17) resulting from macro-charcoal (>250 μm), short-lived plant macrofossils and pollen-rich residues isolated from two mire environments in eastern Australia. In most samples we found that short-lived plant macrofossils were the youngest organic component, the charcoal samples most often fell into the m…
Strongly aligned coastal boulders on Ko Larn island (Thailand)
Recent studies of elevated carbonate boulder deposits on several rock islands near Bangkok have indicated that Thailand's capital city may not be as protected from typhoon strikes as previously thought. Here, new evidence is presented for past high‐energy wave (HEW) events in the form of statistically significant patterns of boulder alignment on exposed rocky shorelines of Ko Larn island. The long‐axis orientations of 193 coastal sandstone boulde…
Major typhoon phases in the upper Gulf of Thailand over the last 1.5 millennia, determined from coastal deposits on rock islands
Prehistoric Coastal Mass Burials
Recent large tsunamis in the twenty-first century have provided graphic reminders of the catastrophic impacts such natural hazards can have upon coastal communities. Death tolls in the thousands give rise to the rapid adoption of coastal mass burials for the interment of the dead. While recognised as a necessary practice in the aftermath of such contemporary tragedies, the paucity of coastal mass burial sites related to earlier tsunamis reported …
A record of local storms and trans-Pacific tsunamis, eastern Banks Peninsula, New Zealand
This study of five sand units at Lavericks Bay, New Zealand, reports on the sedimentary evidence for three trans-Pacific tsunamis and two local storms. The 1868 Arica, 1877 Iquique and 1960 Valdivia tsunamis from Chile were the largest distantly generated events in New Zealand’s history but have never before been identified at the same location. It is also the first time that the 1877 Iquique tsunami deposit has been found in New Zealand. Two fur…
Coastal science for post-tsunami reconstruction
Different political, economic, social and environmental factors are considered in plans for coastline reconstruction following tsunami events. These competing factors inevitably result in a compromise being made with respect to reconstruction policy and practice. Coastline reconstruction may also be constrained by availability of technology, speed of action or decision-making, local political expediency, and external influences such as disaster r…
Big data and the historical sciences
Tsunami databases
Misrepresentation in tsunami warning signage
Deep Charcoal Found at Fagali’i Village, Upolu Island, Samoa
Keywords: C-14charcoalcoastalcontemporaneousLapitaSamoa
Coastal wetlands reveal a non-synchronous island response to sea-level change and a palaeostorm record from 5.5 kyr to present
Here, we describe environmental change on Lord Howe Island (LHI; 31°30′S, 159°05′E) over the last 5500 cal. BP, derived from the analysis of the accumulating sediments in four coastal wetlands. Grain-size analyses, loss on ignition (LOI) and micrometre-resolution x-ray fluorescence (XRF) geochemical data were combined with 10 accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) 14 C dates to determine a chronology of environmental change. Sedimentary coastal feat…
Putting tourists in harms way – Coastal tourist parks and hazardous unpatrolled surf beaches in New South Wales, Australia
Blessed
Deconstructing the Lapita Cultural Complex in the Bismarck Archipelago
Palaeotsunamis in the Pacific Ocean – what is the tsunami hazard for Pacific Island Countries
The two largest regional palaeotsunamis in the SW Pacific over the last Millennium
One hundred and thirty years since Darwin
April 2012 marked the 130th anniversary of the death of Charles Darwin. One of many significant contributions he made to science was the subsidence theory of atoll formation, which he penned on 12 April 1836 during the voyage of the Beagle through the Pacific. Darwin’s elegant theory, founded on the premise of a subsiding volcano and the corresponding upward growth of coral reef, was astonishing for the time considering the absence of an underpin…
Tsunamis and Stranded Vessels
Stranded vessels are large, highly visible components of debris associated with catastrophic tsunamis and storms. In many cases, they attain almost iconic status and are memorable evidence of a particular event. Little attention, however, is given to early historically documented accounts of stranded vessels that have been found inland beyond normal shoreline settings. This is unfortunate because often this type of evidence can provide yet anothe…
Chapter 3
Given what is now known or may be reasonably inferred about the geomorphological development of the northern shoreline of New Guinea—the second-largest island in the world with a land area of about 808,000 km2—this island has played a previously unexpected role in the prehistory of the Pacific, first as “barrier” and then later as “bridge” (or perhaps, more accurately, as “voyaging corridor”) between island Southeast Asia and Oceania. However, ou…
Holy Jumpers
Few movements have been more misunderstood than the late nineteenth-century holiness movement. Despite considerable influence within and outside American denominations, its legacy was ultimately displaced by dissension within its ranks and by the considerably larger imprint left by the subsequent Pentecostal movement. William Kostlevy's book seeks to reclaim the importance of the radical holiness movement by focusing on the fascinating story of t…
How Sweet the Sound
Journal Article How Sweet the Sound: Music in the Spiritual Lives of Americans Get access How Sweet the Sound: Music in the Spiritual Lives of Americans. By Stowe David W.. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xii, 335 pp. $27.95, isbn0-674-01290-9.) James R. Goff, Jr. James R. Goff, Jr. Appalachian State UniversityBoone, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
Deconstructing the Lapita Cultural Complex in the Bismarck Archipelago
Blessed
Large earthquakes and the abandonment of prehistoric coastal settlements in 15th century New Zealand
This paper reports on the effects of large earthquakes and related events, such as tsunamis, on prehistoric coastal settlements in New Zealand. It is based on field observations at several well‐established archaeological sites around the Cook Strait region and on literature reviews. We identify three broad periods of seismic activity in New Zealand since human occupation of the islands: 13th century, 15th century, and the 1750s to 1850s. The most…
The Radiocarbon Ages of Different Organic Components in the Mires of Eastern Australia
Radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating is widely used to determine the age of organic material in palaeoenvironmental research. Here we compare 14 C dates (n=17) resulting from macro-charcoal (>250 μm), short-lived plant macrofossils and pollen-rich residues isolated from two mire environments in eastern Australia. In most samples we found that short-lived plant macrofossils were the youngest organic component, the charcoal samples most often fell into the m…
Landscape archaeology—The value of context to archaeological interpretation
Landscape archaeology is a relatively young subdiscipline that has grown in a multitude of directions, particularly in recent decades. It is strongly multidisciplinary and has borrowed tools from an array of fields, including the archaeological sciences, geology, geography, palaeoecology and geochronology; many landscape archaeologists have backgrounds beyond traditional archaeology sensu stricto. Landscape archaeology has become an important fac…
Putting tourists in harms way – Coastal tourist parks and hazardous unpatrolled surf beaches in New South Wales, Australia
Prehistoric Coastal Mass Burials
Recent large tsunamis in the twenty-first century have provided graphic reminders of the catastrophic impacts such natural hazards can have upon coastal communities. Death tolls in the thousands give rise to the rapid adoption of coastal mass burials for the interment of the dead. While recognised as a necessary practice in the aftermath of such contemporary tragedies, the paucity of coastal mass burial sites related to earlier tsunamis reported …
Big data and the historical sciences
Catastrophic seismic-related events and their impact on prehistoric human occupation, coastal New Zealand
The catastrophic 1855 AD Wellington earthquake is used to predict likely environmental impacts of earlier seismic events (earthquake and tsunami) that have been reported for the Cook Strait region in the period following first human settlement 700 years ago. Environmental changes around Palliser Bay in prehistoric Maori times, inferred from archaeological research, parallel those that occurred in 1855 AD. We consider that devastation caused by ea…
Misrepresentation in tsunami warning signage
Natural disasters and cultural change
Reconstructing a palaeotsunami
An understanding of the geomorphological processes instigated by seismic-related catastrophes such as tsunamis is important to our understanding of their potential impacts on both past and present human populations. Due to the relative scarcity of human records of such events in prehistory, it is necessary to rely on the geological record to identify and interpret the environmental changes caused by such catastrophes. A multi-proxy analysis of ge…
Coastal science for post-tsunami reconstruction
Different political, economic, social and environmental factors are considered in plans for coastline reconstruction following tsunami events. These competing factors inevitably result in a compromise being made with respect to reconstruction policy and practice. Coastline reconstruction may also be constrained by availability of technology, speed of action or decision-making, local political expediency, and external influences such as disaster r…
Deep Charcoal Found at Fagali’i Village, Upolu Island, Samoa
Keywords: C-14charcoalcoastalcontemporaneousLapitaSamoa
Coastal dune ridge systems as chronological markers of palaeoseismic activity
A study of two shore-parallel dune ridge sequences in southwest New Zealand shows that tectonic activity has been the primary controlling influence in their formation since at least AD 1450. The timing of dune-building episodes at the mouths of the Haast and Okuru Rivers was determined using the ages of colonizing trees. Episodic dune formation was indicated by clear discontinuities in tree ages, with distinct cohorts having colonized successive,…
Fields White Unto Harvest
Fields White Unto Harvest
Journal Article Fields White Unto Harvest: Charles F. Parham and the Missionary Origins of Pentecostalism. By James R. Goff, Jr. (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1988. xvi + 263 pp. Cloth, $22.00; paper, $12.00.) Get access Donald F. Durnbaugh Donald F. Durnbaugh Elizabethtown College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 1, June 1990, Pages 328–329, http…
The Church of God
Journal Article The Church of God: A Social History. By Mickey Crews. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990. xviii + 252 pp. $32.50.) Get access James R. Goff, Jr. James R. Goff, Jr. Appalachian State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 358–359, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078199 Published: 01 June 1991
Closing Out the Church Age
Aimee Semple McPherson
Journal Article Aimee Semple McPherson: Everybody's Sister. By Edith L. Blumhofer. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993. xiv, 431 pp. Cloth, $24.99, ISBN 0-8028-3752-2. Paper, $14.99, ISBN 0-8028-0155-2.) Get access James R. Goff, Jr. James R. Goff, Jr. Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 82, Issue 1, June 1995, Pages 314–315, htt…
The Limits of Acculturation
Recent Holocene changes in sedimentation in a landslide-dammed lake in the Cascade Mountains, southwestern British Columbia, Canada
Landslide-damming of Silver Lake in the Cascade Mountains took place about 1000BP. Delta growth favoured the faulted west valley side. At the commencement of logging activity in AD 1946 the course of Silverhope Creek was diverted away from access roads. As a consequence, the channel shifted from the west to the east side of the valley, forming a new delta. Six gravity lake cores and SCUBA surveys of lake sediments reveal changes in the deposition…
Estimating vertical tectonic movement using sediment texture
We demonstrate a new method of detecting, and quantifying, vertical sea-floor movements caused by tectonic uplift from a large earthquake, based on grain-size data from two cores from Petone foreshore, Wellington Harbour, New Zealand. An earthquake of magnitude 8+ raised the shores of Wellington Harbour about 2 m in AD 1855, according to historical records. This event has been recognized in two nearshore cores as a sharp decrease in mud content o…
The Rise of Southern Gospel Music
Hours before dark on a lazy summer afternoon in the mid-1990s, cars arrived in a long unbroken line that connected a rural two-lane highway to an unpaved parking lot. Seasonal thunderstorms and churning steel-belted radials combined to turn the meadow for overflow parking into a muddied mess. Still, some six thousand emerged from those vehicles and made their way toward a rustic fairgrounds stage. After displaying a ticket, they chose a spot, set…
Relative stability on a tectonically active coast
Catastrophic seismic-related events and their impact on prehistoric human occupation, coastal New Zealand
The catastrophic 1855 AD Wellington earthquake is used to predict likely environmental impacts of earlier seismic events (earthquake and tsunami) that have been reported for the Cook Strait region in the period following first human settlement 700 years ago. Environmental changes around Palliser Bay in prehistoric Maori times, inferred from archaeological research, parallel those that occurred in 1855 AD. We consider that devastation caused by ea…
Close Harmony
Close Harmony
Large earthquakes and the abandonment of prehistoric coastal settlements in 15th century New Zealand
This paper reports on the effects of large earthquakes and related events, such as tsunamis, on prehistoric coastal settlements in New Zealand. It is based on field observations at several well‐established archaeological sites around the Cook Strait region and on literature reviews. We identify three broad periods of seismic activity in New Zealand since human occupation of the islands: 13th century, 15th century, and the 1750s to 1850s. The most…
Close Harmony
Close Harmony: A History of Southern Gospel. By James R. Goff, Jr. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Pp. xiv, 394. Preface, introduction, illustrations, conclusion, notes, index. $45.00, cloth; $24.95, paper.) As the author of Close Harmony says, and its predecessors, despite their enormous cultural influence in the United States, have received very little scholarly attention (treatments have mostly been by industry insiders…
Natural disasters and cultural change
Portraits of a Generation
Coastal dune ridge systems as chronological markers of palaeoseismic activity
A study of two shore-parallel dune ridge sequences in southwest New Zealand shows that tectonic activity has been the primary controlling influence in their formation since at least AD 1450. The timing of dune-building episodes at the mouths of the Haast and Okuru Rivers was determined using the ages of colonizing trees. Episodic dune formation was indicated by clear discontinuities in tree ages, with distinct cohorts having colonized successive,…
A. J. Tomlinson
Journal Article A. J. Tomlinson: Plainfolk Modernist Get access A. J. Tomlinson: Plainfolk Modernist. By Robins R. G.. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. x, 316 pp. $45.00, isbn0-19-516591-8.) James R. Goff, Jr. James R. Goff, Jr. Appalachian State UniversityBoone, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 92, Issue 4, March 2006, Page 1467, https://doi.org/1…
How Sweet the Sound
Journal Article How Sweet the Sound: Music in the Spiritual Lives of Americans Get access How Sweet the Sound: Music in the Spiritual Lives of Americans. By Stowe David W.. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xii, 335 pp. $27.95, isbn0-674-01290-9.) James R. Goff, Jr. James R. Goff, Jr. Appalachian State UniversityBoone, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
Chapter 3
Given what is now known or may be reasonably inferred about the geomorphological development of the northern shoreline of New Guinea—the second-largest island in the world with a land area of about 808,000 km2—this island has played a previously unexpected role in the prehistory of the Pacific, first as “barrier” and then later as “bridge” (or perhaps, more accurately, as “voyaging corridor”) between island Southeast Asia and Oceania. However, ou…
Holy Jumpers
Few movements have been more misunderstood than the late nineteenth-century holiness movement. Despite considerable influence within and outside American denominations, its legacy was ultimately displaced by dissension within its ranks and by the considerably larger imprint left by the subsequent Pentecostal movement. William Kostlevy's book seeks to reclaim the importance of the radical holiness movement by focusing on the fascinating story of t…
Palaeotsunamis in the Pacific Ocean – what is the tsunami hazard for Pacific Island Countries
The two largest regional palaeotsunamis in the SW Pacific over the last Millennium
One hundred and thirty years since Darwin
April 2012 marked the 130th anniversary of the death of Charles Darwin. One of many significant contributions he made to science was the subsidence theory of atoll formation, which he penned on 12 April 1836 during the voyage of the Beagle through the Pacific. Darwin’s elegant theory, founded on the premise of a subsiding volcano and the corresponding upward growth of coral reef, was astonishing for the time considering the absence of an underpin…
Geography (24 works) · Geology (21 works) · Archaeology (20 works) · History (20 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (16 works) · Oceanography (15 works) · History (13 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (13 works) · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies (12 works) · Art (10 works)