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Localized bank collapse or regional event? (2021)
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Leslie, A., Regis, A., Clarke, S., Priddy, C., & Dodd, T. (2021). Localized bank collapse or regional event?. https://doi.org/10.31711/giw.v8.pp27-44

This study presents a detailed synopsis of the sedimentological and structural features displayed within an underdescribed enigmatic facies observed in the basal Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation of the Colorado Plateau. The facies comprises pebble to... Read More about Localized bank collapse or regional event?.

Distribution and correlation of Sabellidites cambriensis (Annelida?) in the basal Cambrian on Baltica (2021)
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(2021). Distribution and correlation of Sabellidites cambriensis (Annelida?) in the basal Cambrian on Baltica. Geological Magazine, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756821001187

Sabellidites cambriensis is a tubular non-mineralized metazoan that appears as compressed ribbon- shaped imprints with transverse wrinkling, thick walls and an even tube diameter of up to 3 mm. The distribution of Sabellidites is investigated in thre... Read More about Distribution and correlation of Sabellidites cambriensis (Annelida?) in the basal Cambrian on Baltica.

Combining topology and fractal dimension of fracture networks to characterise structural domains in thrusted limestones (2021)
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Grodner, M., Clarke, S., burley, S., Leslie, G., & Haslam, R. (2021). Combining topology and fractal dimension of fracture networks to characterise structural domains in thrusted limestones. Journal of Structural Geology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2021.104468

Fractures in limestones of the Palaeocene Lockhart Formation in the hanging wall of the Himalayan Main Boundary Thrust north of Islamabad are examined, and the data analysed using a combination of topology and fractal dimension to characterise fractu... Read More about Combining topology and fractal dimension of fracture networks to characterise structural domains in thrusted limestones.

‘Block and basin’ style rift basins: sedimentological insights from the Mississippian Fell Sandstone Formation (2021)
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Howell, L. P., Priddy, C., Mitten, A. J., Jeffery, A. J., Egan, S. S., Leslie, G., …Kearsey, T. I. (2021). ‘Block and basin’ style rift basins: sedimentological insights from the Mississippian Fell Sandstone Formation. Journal of the Geological Society, 179(4), jgs2021 - 083. https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2021-083

The block and basin tectonostratigraphic framework for the northern Pennine (rift) Basin, within which buoyant granite intrusions core intra-basin fault-bounded blocks, has long held traction. However, many of the elements of this framework are roote... Read More about ‘Block and basin’ style rift basins: sedimentological insights from the Mississippian Fell Sandstone Formation.

Optimized Energy Management Schemes for Electric Vehicle Applications: A Bibliometric Analysis towards Future Trends (2021)
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(2021). Optimized Energy Management Schemes for Electric Vehicle Applications: A Bibliometric Analysis towards Future Trends. Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.3390/su132212800

Concerns over growing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and fuel prices have prompted researchers to look into alternative energy sources, notably in the transportation sector, accounting for more than 70% of carbon emissions. An increasing amount of re... Read More about Optimized Energy Management Schemes for Electric Vehicle Applications: A Bibliometric Analysis towards Future Trends.

Garnet major-element composition as an indicator of host-rock type: a machine learning approach using the random forest classifier (2021)
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(2021). Garnet major-element composition as an indicator of host-rock type: a machine learning approach using the random forest classifier. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00410-021-01854-w

The major-element chemical composition of garnet provides valuable petrogenetic information, particularly in metamorphic rocks. When facing detrital garnet, information about the bulk-rock composition and mineral paragenesis of the initial garnet-bea... Read More about Garnet major-element composition as an indicator of host-rock type: a machine learning approach using the random forest classifier.

Late Ediacaran occurrences of the organic-walled microfossils Granomarginata and flask-shaped Lagoenaforma collaris gen. et sp. nov. (2021)
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(2021). Late Ediacaran occurrences of the organic-walled microfossils Granomarginata and flask-shaped Lagoenaforma collaris gen. et sp. nov. Geological Magazine, 1 - 22. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756821001096

Abstract New occurrences of flask-shaped and envelope-bearing microfossils, including the predominantly Cambrian taxon Granomarginata, are reported from new localities, as well as from earlier in time (Ediacaran) than previously known. The stratigrap... Read More about Late Ediacaran occurrences of the organic-walled microfossils Granomarginata and flask-shaped Lagoenaforma collaris gen. et sp. nov..

Plastic habitats: Algal biofilms on photic and aphotic plastics (2021)
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Law, A. (2021). Plastic habitats: Algal biofilms on photic and aphotic plastics. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hazl.2021.100038

Plastic pollution is abundant in aquatic environments worldwide and many of its detrimental impacts are well documented, but it also represents a novel substrate available to a diversity of organisms. Biofilms – assemblages of bacteria, algae, and fu... Read More about Plastic habitats: Algal biofilms on photic and aphotic plastics.

Re-assessment of ammonoid specimens from the Early Carboniferous Protocanites Beds of the Badenweiler-Lenzkirch Zone (Schwarzwald, Central Variscan Belt): Age constraints for a lithostratigraphic key bed (2021)
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Montenari, Korn, D., & Montenari, M. (2023). Re-assessment of ammonoid specimens from the Early Carboniferous Protocanites Beds of the Badenweiler-Lenzkirch Zone (Schwarzwald, Central Variscan Belt): Age constraints for a lithostratigraphic key bed. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 97(4), 761-768. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-021-00577-4

Abstract The Protocanites Beds of the Black Forest Massif (Germany) form an important lithostratigraphic key bed, as the index fossils contained in this formation enable correlation within large areas of the internal Zone of the central Variscan Belt... Read More about Re-assessment of ammonoid specimens from the Early Carboniferous Protocanites Beds of the Badenweiler-Lenzkirch Zone (Schwarzwald, Central Variscan Belt): Age constraints for a lithostratigraphic key bed.

Evaluation and characterisation of metal sorption and retention by drinking water treatment residuals (WTRs) for environmental remediation (2021)
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Arab, K., Thompson, D., & Oliver, I. (2021). Evaluation and characterisation of metal sorption and retention by drinking water treatment residuals (WTRs) for environmental remediation. International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13762-021-03674-8

Drinking water treatment residuals (WTRs) are wastes generated when water is clarified using aluminium or iron salts. They are increasingly being considered as a resource with potential reuse value, particularly in relation to soil or water remediati... Read More about Evaluation and characterisation of metal sorption and retention by drinking water treatment residuals (WTRs) for environmental remediation.

Mineralogical and geochemical changes in subsurface shales straddling the Ordovician–Silurian boundary in the eastern Kufra Basin, Libya (2021)
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(2021). Mineralogical and geochemical changes in subsurface shales straddling the Ordovician–Silurian boundary in the eastern Kufra Basin, Libya. Journal of African Earth Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2021.104378

This paper reports on the elemental geochemistry of 47 shale samples from the uppermost Hirnantian-lowermost Rhuddanian Tanezzuft Formation, collected from drill core (depth interval 20.8-73.2 m) from borehole JA-2 at the eastern Kufra Basin, SE Liby... Read More about Mineralogical and geochemical changes in subsurface shales straddling the Ordovician–Silurian boundary in the eastern Kufra Basin, Libya.

Exploring Renewable Energy Potential To Electrify Remote Schools In India: A Literature Review (2021)
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(2021). Exploring Renewable Energy Potential To Electrify Remote Schools In India: A Literature Review. https://doi.org/10.21252/70xz-yc73

The Indian government is yet to achieve the goal of providing electricity to schools all over the country, and the illiteracy rate seems to emerge from the schools with inadequate infrastructure. Rural schools do not have access to electricity due to... Read More about Exploring Renewable Energy Potential To Electrify Remote Schools In India: A Literature Review.

Characterising New England (United States Of America) Salt Marsh Sediment Heavy Metal Concentration Trends Via Proximity To Anthropogenic Pollution, Seasons, And Vegetation Coverage (2021)
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Anthropogenic Pollution, Seasons, And Vegetation Coverage. https://doi.org/10.21252/873y-hx05

Salt marsh sediment serves an important ecological service by sequestering carbon but is also a repository for several pollutants including heavy metals. Metal uptake in marshes is affected by numerous environmental characteristics such as sediment p... Read More about Characterising New England (United States Of America) Salt Marsh Sediment Heavy Metal Concentration Trends Via Proximity To Anthropogenic Pollution, Seasons, And Vegetation Coverage.

The evolution of a coastal carbon store over the last millennium (2021)
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Smeaton, C., Cui, X., Bianchi, T., Cage, A., Howe, J., & Austin, W. (2021). The evolution of a coastal carbon store over the last millennium. Quaternary Science Reviews, 1- 12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107081

Fjord sediments are recognized as hotspots for the burial and storage of organic carbon, yet little is known about the long-term drivers of significant terrestrial organic carbon (OC) transfers into these coastal carbon stores. The mid-latitude fjord... Read More about The evolution of a coastal carbon store over the last millennium.

Nitrogen loss and isotopic fractionation during granulite-facies metamorphism in the lower crust (Ivrea Zone, NW Italy) (2021)
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Halama, R., Bebout, G., & Bea, F. (2021). Nitrogen loss and isotopic fractionation during granulite-facies metamorphism in the lower crust (Ivrea Zone, NW Italy). Chemical Geology, 120475 - 120475. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2021.120475

The Ivrea Zone, exposed in the Southern Alps, affords an examination of nitrogen mobilization and storage in deep continental crust, in rocks spanning the amphibolite to granulite facies transition and that experienced multiple devolatilization react... Read More about Nitrogen loss and isotopic fractionation during granulite-facies metamorphism in the lower crust (Ivrea Zone, NW Italy).

Eruptive Activity of the Santorini Volcano Controlled by Sea Level Rise and Fall (2021)
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Gertisser. (2021). Eruptive Activity of the Santorini Volcano Controlled by Sea Level Rise and Fall. Nature Geoscience, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00783-4

Sea-level change is thought to influence the frequencies of volcanic eruptions on glacial to interglacial timescales. However, the underlying physical processes and their importance relative to other influences (for example, magma recharge rates) rem... Read More about Eruptive Activity of the Santorini Volcano Controlled by Sea Level Rise and Fall.

The emerging norms of e-cigarette use among adolescents: A meta-ethnography of qualitative evidence (2021)
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Smith, H., Lucherini, M., Amos, A., & Hill, S. (2021). The emerging norms of e-cigarette use among adolescents: A meta-ethnography of qualitative evidence. International Journal of Drug Policy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103227

While qualitative research has indicated that adolescents’ motivation for e-cigarette use is different than adults’, this body of literature has not yet been brought together and synthesised. We reviewed qualitative evidence on perceptions and uses o... Read More about The emerging norms of e-cigarette use among adolescents: A meta-ethnography of qualitative evidence.

Rapid charging provision, multiplicity and battery electric vehicle (BEV) mobility in the UK (2021)
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Pemberton, S., Nobajas, A., & Waller, R. (2021). Rapid charging provision, multiplicity and battery electric vehicle (BEV) mobility in the UK. Journal of Transport Geography, 95, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2021.103137

This paper provides significant new insights into the spatial heterogeneity of public rapid charging provision for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) in the UK. In particular, the paper makes three new and original contributions to our understanding of... Read More about Rapid charging provision, multiplicity and battery electric vehicle (BEV) mobility in the UK.

Numerical modelling of deep coaxial borehole heat exchangers in the Cheshire Basin, UK (2021)
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Brown, C., Cassidy, N., Egan, S., & Griffiths, D. (2021). Numerical modelling of deep coaxial borehole heat exchangers in the Cheshire Basin, UK. Computers and Geosciences, 104752 - 104752. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2021.104752

Few deep geothermal wells have been drilled in the Cheshire Basin resulting in high geological and financial risks of such developments. In recent years the focus of exploiting deep geothermal resources in the UK has moved towards lower risk strategi... Read More about Numerical modelling of deep coaxial borehole heat exchangers in the Cheshire Basin, UK.

Eruption Style, Emplacement Dynamics and Geometry of Peralkaline Ignimbrites: Insights From the Lajes-Angra Ignimbrite Formation, Terceira Island, Azores (2021)
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Gertisser, R. (2021). Eruption Style, Emplacement Dynamics and Geometry of Peralkaline Ignimbrites: Insights From the Lajes-Angra Ignimbrite Formation, Terceira Island, Azores. Frontiers in Earth Science, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.673686

Ignimbrites are relatively uncommon on ocean island volcanoes and yet they constitute a significant portion of the stratigraphy of Terceira Island (Azores). The Lajes-Angra Ignimbrite Formation (ca. 25 cal ka BP) contains the youngest ignimbrites on... Read More about Eruption Style, Emplacement Dynamics and Geometry of Peralkaline Ignimbrites: Insights From the Lajes-Angra Ignimbrite Formation, Terceira Island, Azores.