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Energy potential of the Ecca Group from the southern Main Karoo Basin, South Africa (2018)
Thesis
Campbell, S. A. (2018). Energy potential of the Ecca Group from the southern Main Karoo Basin, South Africa. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/412302

Energy shortages and sporadic, controlled blackouts have been a defining feature of South Africa’s aging national energy grid for more than a decade. To investigate local energy sources from shale gas, two boreholes were drilled in the southern Main... Read More about Energy potential of the Ecca Group from the southern Main Karoo Basin, South Africa.

A landscape perspective of Holocene organic carbon cycling in coastal SW Greenland lake-catchments (2018)
Journal Article
Law, A. (2018). A landscape perspective of Holocene organic carbon cycling in coastal SW Greenland lake-catchments. Quaternary Science Reviews, 98 -108. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.006

Arctic organic carbon (OC) stores are substantial and have accumulated over millennia as a function of changes in climate and terrestrial vegetation. Arctic lakes are also important components of the regional C-cycle as they are sites of OC productio... Read More about A landscape perspective of Holocene organic carbon cycling in coastal SW Greenland lake-catchments.

On the relationship between K concentration, grain size and dose in feldspar (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). On the relationship between K concentration, grain size and dose in feldspar. Radiation Measurements, 181-187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2018.06.003

Previous work has been unable to establish a relationship between K concentration and De in single-grains of feldspar. Here we use four well-bleached sediments with low external dose rate (typically =1.5 Gy ka-1) to investigate this relationship. Sin... Read More about On the relationship between K concentration, grain size and dose in feldspar.

Palynology and micropalaeontology of the Pliocene - Pleistocene transition in outcrop from the western Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan: Potential links with the Mediterranean, Black Sea and the Arctic Ocean? (2018)
Journal Article
Austin, W., Cage, A., Wonders, A., Marret, F., Pinnington, C., Richards, K., …Stoica, M. (2018). Palynology and micropalaeontology of the Pliocene - Pleistocene transition in outcrop from the western Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan: Potential links with the Mediterranean, Black Sea and the Arctic Ocean?. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 119-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.07.018

New palynological, ostracod and foraminiferal data are presented from a long outcrop section in the Jeirankechmez river valley, Azerbaijan, near the western coast of the Caspian Sea. The interval studied includes the upper part of the Psliocene Produ... Read More about Palynology and micropalaeontology of the Pliocene - Pleistocene transition in outcrop from the western Caspian Sea, Azerbaijan: Potential links with the Mediterranean, Black Sea and the Arctic Ocean?.

Caught in the middle: early career researchers, public health and the emotional production of research (2018)
Journal Article
Lucherini. (2018). Caught in the middle: early career researchers, public health and the emotional production of research. Critical Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2018.1550252

In this short report, I discuss how public health research, its assessment, and its dissemination outside the academy are produced, in part, through emotional circumstances. Using current debates on e-cigarettes as an example, I show that researchers... Read More about Caught in the middle: early career researchers, public health and the emotional production of research.

The Blue Economy approach for sustainability in Seychelles & East Africa. Keele University Institute for Sustainable Futures Discussion Paper 1 (2018)
Book
Moolna. (2018). The Blue Economy approach for sustainability in Seychelles & East Africa. Keele University Institute for Sustainable Futures Discussion Paper 1. https://doi.org/10.21252/b4wm-3598

The Blue Economy approach to ocean and coastal sustainable economic development in Seychelles and across East Africa promises great potential and has emerged to dominate regional attention on sustainability. Yet we contend that a policy consensus pre... Read More about The Blue Economy approach for sustainability in Seychelles & East Africa. Keele University Institute for Sustainable Futures Discussion Paper 1.

The sedimentology, architecture and depositional setting of the fluvial Spireslack 1 Sandstone of the Midland Valley, Scotland: insights from Spireslack surface coal mine. (2018)
Journal Article
Ellen, R., Browne, M., Mitten, A., Clarke, S., Leslie, A., & Callaghan, E. (2018). The sedimentology, architecture and depositional setting of the fluvial Spireslack 1 Sandstone of the Midland Valley, Scotland: insights from Spireslack surface coal mine. Geological Society Special Publications, https://doi.org/10.1144/SP488.2

Spireslack surface coal mine exposes a section in the Carboniferous Lawmuir Formation (Brigantian) into the Upper Limestone Formation (Arnsbergian). This paper describes the stratigraphy exposed at Spireslack for the first time and, in so doing, name... Read More about The sedimentology, architecture and depositional setting of the fluvial Spireslack 1 Sandstone of the Midland Valley, Scotland: insights from Spireslack surface coal mine..

Student Centred Design of a Learning Analytics System (2018)
Conference Proceeding
De Quincey, E., Briggs, C., Kyriacou, T., & Waller, R. (2018). Student Centred Design of a Learning Analytics System. In LAK19: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge. https://doi.org/10.1145/3303772.3303793

Current Learning Analytics (LA) systems are primarily designed with University staff members as the target audience; very few are aimed at students, with almost none being developed with direct student involvement and undertaking a comprehensive eval... Read More about Student Centred Design of a Learning Analytics System.

Peralkaline felsic magmatism of the Atlantic islands (2018)
Journal Article
Gertisser. (2018). Peralkaline felsic magmatism of the Atlantic islands. Frontiers in Earth Science, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2018.00145

The oceanic-island magmatic systems of the Atlantic Ocean exhibit significant diversity in their respective sizes, ages, and the compositional ranges of their eruptive products. Nevertheless, almost all of the Atlantic islands and island groups have... Read More about Peralkaline felsic magmatism of the Atlantic islands.

Machine-learning Approaches to Exoplanet Transit Detection and Candidate Validation in Wide-field Ground-based Surveys (2018)
Journal Article
Schanche, N., Collier Cameron, A., Hébrard, G., Nielsen, L., Triaud, A. H. M. J., Almenara, J. M., …Wheatley, P. J. Machine-learning Approaches to Exoplanet Transit Detection and Candidate Validation in Wide-field Ground-based Surveys. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty3146. Manuscript submitted for publication

Since the start of the Wide Angle Search for Planets (WASP) program, more than 160 transiting exoplanets have been discovered in the WASP data. In the past, possible transit-like events identified by the WASP pipeline have been vetted by human inspec... Read More about Machine-learning Approaches to Exoplanet Transit Detection and Candidate Validation in Wide-field Ground-based Surveys.

Provenance information recorded by mineral inclusions in detrital garnet (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Provenance information recorded by mineral inclusions in detrital garnet. Sedimentary Geology, 32-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2018.07.009

Garnet single-grain analysis is an often used and well established tool in sedimentary provenance studies, especially when metamorphic source rocks are involved. So far, however, solely the geochemical composition of detrital garnets is considered to... Read More about Provenance information recorded by mineral inclusions in detrital garnet.

The cryptotephra record of the Marine Isotope Stage 12 to 10 interval (460–335 ka) at Tenaghi Philippon, Greece: Exploring chronological markers for the Middle Pleistocene of the Mediterranean region (2018)
Journal Article
Gertisser. (2018). The cryptotephra record of the Marine Isotope Stage 12 to 10 interval (460–335 ka) at Tenaghi Philippon, Greece: Exploring chronological markers for the Middle Pleistocene of the Mediterranean region. Quaternary Science Reviews, 313-333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.09.019

Precise chronologies that allow direct correlation of paleoclimate archives are a prerequisite for deciphering the spatiotemporal characteristics of short-term climate variability. Such chronologies can be established through the analysis of tephra l... Read More about The cryptotephra record of the Marine Isotope Stage 12 to 10 interval (460–335 ka) at Tenaghi Philippon, Greece: Exploring chronological markers for the Middle Pleistocene of the Mediterranean region.

Evidence for increased expression of the Amundsen Sea Low over the South Atlantic during the late Holocene (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Evidence for increased expression of the Amundsen Sea Low over the South Atlantic during the late Holocene. Climate of the Past Discussions, 1727-1738. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2018-11

The Amundsen Sea Low (ASL) plays a major role in the climate and environment of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, including surface air temperature and sea ice concentration changes. Unfortunately, a relative dearth of observational data across the... Read More about Evidence for increased expression of the Amundsen Sea Low over the South Atlantic during the late Holocene.

Evidence for increased expression of the Amundsen Sea Low over the South Atlantic during the late Holocene (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Evidence for increased expression of the Amundsen Sea Low over the South Atlantic during the late Holocene. Climate of the Past, 1727 -1738. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-14-1727-2018

The Amundsen Sea Low (ASL) plays a major role in the climate and environment of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, including surface air temperature and sea ice concentration changes. Unfortunately, a relative dearth of observational data across the... Read More about Evidence for increased expression of the Amundsen Sea Low over the South Atlantic during the late Holocene.

Provenance and tectonic setting of Carboniferous–Triassic sandstones from the Karaburun Peninsula, western Turkey: A multi-method approach with implications for the Palaeotethys evolution (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Provenance and tectonic setting of Carboniferous–Triassic sandstones from the Karaburun Peninsula, western Turkey: A multi-method approach with implications for the Palaeotethys evolution. Sedimentary Geology, 232-255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.11.006

Carboniferous–Triassic siliciclastic sediments of the Karaburun Peninsula in western Turkey were studied to unravel their provenance and the tectonic setting of depositional basins within the Palaeotethyan realm. A set of complementary techniques inc... Read More about Provenance and tectonic setting of Carboniferous–Triassic sandstones from the Karaburun Peninsula, western Turkey: A multi-method approach with implications for the Palaeotethys evolution.

Provenance of sandstones in Ethiopia during Late Ordovician and Carboniferous-Permian Gondwana glaciations: petrography and geochemistry of the Enticho Sandstone and the Edaga Arbi Glacials (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Provenance of sandstones in Ethiopia during Late Ordovician and Carboniferous-Permian Gondwana glaciations: petrography and geochemistry of the Enticho Sandstone and the Edaga Arbi Glacials. Sedimentary Geology, 188-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.10.006

We compare Ethiopian glaciogenic sandstone of the Late Ordovician and Carboniferous–Permian Gondwana glaciations petrographically and geochemically to provide insight into provenance, transport, and weathering characteristics. Although several studie... Read More about Provenance of sandstones in Ethiopia during Late Ordovician and Carboniferous-Permian Gondwana glaciations: petrography and geochemistry of the Enticho Sandstone and the Edaga Arbi Glacials.

A multivariate discrimination scheme of detrital garnet chemistry for use in sedimentary provenance analysis (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). A multivariate discrimination scheme of detrital garnet chemistry for use in sedimentary provenance analysis. Sedimentary Geology, 14-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2017.11.003

Garnet chemistry provides a well-established tool in the discrimination and interpretation of sediment provenance. Current discrimination approaches, however, (i) suffer from using less variables than available, (ii) subjective determination of discr... Read More about A multivariate discrimination scheme of detrital garnet chemistry for use in sedimentary provenance analysis.

Alkaline magmas in zones of continental convergence: The Tezhsar volcano-intrusive ring complex, Armenia (2018)
Journal Article
Sokol, K., Halama, R., Meliksetian, K., Savov, I., Navasardyan, G., & Sudo, M. (2018). Alkaline magmas in zones of continental convergence: The Tezhsar volcano-intrusive ring complex, Armenia. Lithos, 172-191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2018.08.028

Alkaline igneous rocks are relatively rare in settings of tectonic convergence and little is known about their petrogenesis in these settings. This study aims to contribute to a better understanding of the formation of alkaline igneous rocks by an in... Read More about Alkaline magmas in zones of continental convergence: The Tezhsar volcano-intrusive ring complex, Armenia.