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Evolution of the Palaeotethys in the Eastern Mediterranean: A multi-method approach to unravel the age, provenance and tectonic setting of the Upper Palaeozoic Konya Complex and its Mesozoic cover sequence (south-central Turkey) (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Evolution of the Palaeotethys in the Eastern Mediterranean: A multi-method approach to unravel the age, provenance and tectonic setting of the Upper Palaeozoic Konya Complex and its Mesozoic cover sequence (south-central Turkey). International Geology Review, https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2019.1616619

Thirteen siliciclastic sediments from the Upper Palaeozoic Konya Complex and its Mesozoic cover were studied by a multi-method approach combining thin-section petrography, bulk-rock geochemistry, mineral chemistry of rutile, and U–Pb geochronology of... Read More about Evolution of the Palaeotethys in the Eastern Mediterranean: A multi-method approach to unravel the age, provenance and tectonic setting of the Upper Palaeozoic Konya Complex and its Mesozoic cover sequence (south-central Turkey).

Evaluating the Response of Geothermal Reservoirs in the Cheshire Basin: A Parameter Sensitivity Analysis (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Griffiths, D., Cassidy, N., Egan, S., & Brown, C. (2019, May). Evaluating the Response of Geothermal Reservoirs in the Cheshire Basin: A Parameter Sensitivity Analysis. Presented at 2019 AAPG Annual Convention and Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas

Deep geothermal reservoirs (>2 km) from both low- to medium-enthalpy resources are considered as an alternative energy source to fossil fuels in the UK. Geothermal energy can be explored using existing technology from the oil industry and, unlike oth... Read More about Evaluating the Response of Geothermal Reservoirs in the Cheshire Basin: A Parameter Sensitivity Analysis.

Understanding Transience and Participation in University Student-Led Food Gardens (2019)
Journal Article
Pedersen, R., Robinson, Z., & Surman, E. (2019). Understanding Transience and Participation in University Student-Led Food Gardens. Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.3390/su11102788

In an increasingly mobile world, transience is becoming the norm. Sustainable community food initiatives, therefore, must organise to withstand high turnover of volunteers. Using a case study of the United Kingdom’s National Union of Students’ food g... Read More about Understanding Transience and Participation in University Student-Led Food Gardens.

Representing diabetes: ‘Brightside’ and ‘chaos’ in autobiography (2019)
Journal Article
Lucherini. (2019). Representing diabetes: ‘Brightside’ and ‘chaos’ in autobiography. Emotion, Space and Society, 10-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2019.02.004

This paper examines six autobiographical sources written by people with type 1 diabetes. In seeking to improve the understanding of diabetic lifeworlds; some of the autobiographies present heroic stories of ‘overcoming’ diabetes while others present... Read More about Representing diabetes: ‘Brightside’ and ‘chaos’ in autobiography.

Spatialities of Dog Theft: A Critical Perspective (2019)
Journal Article
Peacock, A., Arathoon, J., & Allen, D. (2019). Spatialities of Dog Theft: A Critical Perspective. Animals, 209 - 209. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani9050209

Dogs are considered property under U.K. law, while current discourses of pet ownership place canine companions as part of an extended family. This means sentences for those who steal dogs are not reflective of a dogs’ sentience and agency, rather in... Read More about Spatialities of Dog Theft: A Critical Perspective.

Rural Regeneration in the UK (2019)
Book
Pemberton. (2019). Rural Regeneration in the UK

A key objective of the book is to highlight how, and to what extent, rural regeneration policy and governance are responsive to an increasingly differentiated and uneven rural economy and society.

Hydrological and geochemical responses of fire in a shallow cave system (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Hydrological and geochemical responses of fire in a shallow cave system. Science of the Total Environment, 180 - 191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.102

The influence of wildfire on surface soil and hydrology has been widely investigated, while its impact on the karst vadose zone is still poorly understood. A moderate to severe experimental fire was conducted on a plot (10 m × 10 m) above the shallow... Read More about Hydrological and geochemical responses of fire in a shallow cave system.

Hydrological and geochemical responses of fire in a shallow cave system. (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Hydrological and geochemical responses of fire in a shallow cave system. Science of the Total Environment, 180 - 191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.01.102

The influence of wildfire on surface soil and hydrology has been widely investigated, while its impact on the karst vadose zone is still poorly understood. A moderate to severe experimental fire was conducted on a plot (10?m?×?10?m) above the shallow... Read More about Hydrological and geochemical responses of fire in a shallow cave system..

Revised records of atmospheric trace gases CO2, CH4, N2O, and d13C-CO2 over the last 2000 years from Law Dome, Antarctica (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Revised records of atmospheric trace gases CO2, CH4, N2O, and d13C-CO2 over the last 2000 years from Law Dome, Antarctica. Earth System Science Data, 473 -492. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-473-2019

Ice core records of the major atmospheric greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, N2O) and their isotopologues covering recent centuries provide evidence of biogeochemical variations during the Late Holocene and pre-industrial periods and over the transition to... Read More about Revised records of atmospheric trace gases CO2, CH4, N2O, and d13C-CO2 over the last 2000 years from Law Dome, Antarctica.

Rating and rewarding Higher Education for Sustainable Development research within the marketised higher education context: experiences from English universities (2019)
Journal Article
Bessant, S., & Robinson, Z. (2019). Rating and rewarding Higher Education for Sustainable Development research within the marketised higher education context: experiences from English universities. Environmental Education Research, 548-565. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2018.1542488

This paper explores one key aspect of marketisation in English universities, the quality-related research funding (QR) system, which central government in the United Kingdom uses to allocate funds to Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), based on a s... Read More about Rating and rewarding Higher Education for Sustainable Development research within the marketised higher education context: experiences from English universities.

A postcolonial framing of international commercial gestational surrogacy in India: Re-orientalisms and power differentials in Meera Syal’s The House of Hidden Mothers (2019)
Journal Article
Mendes, A., & Lau, L. (2019). A postcolonial framing of international commercial gestational surrogacy in India: Re-orientalisms and power differentials in Meera Syal’s The House of Hidden Mothers. Interventions, 318-336. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2018.1558094

The branding and marketing of post-millennial India as a global service provider has been relentless. Indian cities have now been de-exoticized from their previous association to elephants, snake-charmers, and slums, and are now being marketed as the... Read More about A postcolonial framing of international commercial gestational surrogacy in India: Re-orientalisms and power differentials in Meera Syal’s The House of Hidden Mothers.

Eruptive history of the Late Quaternary Ciomadul (Csomád) volcano, East Carpathians, part II: magma output rates (2019)
Journal Article
Gertisser, R. (2019). Eruptive history of the Late Quaternary Ciomadul (Csomád) volcano, East Carpathians, part II: magma output rates. Bulletin of Volcanology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-019-1287-8

This study, which builds on high-precision unspiked Cassignol-Gillot K-Ar age determinations, presents an advanced DEMbased volumetrical analysis to infer long-term magma output rates for the Late Quaternary Ciomadul (Csomád) dacitic lava dome comple... Read More about Eruptive history of the Late Quaternary Ciomadul (Csomád) volcano, East Carpathians, part II: magma output rates.

Eruptive history of the Late Quaternary Ciomadul (Csomád) volcano, East Carpathians, Part I: Timing of lava dome activity (2019)
Journal Article
Gertisser. (2019). Eruptive history of the Late Quaternary Ciomadul (Csomád) volcano, East Carpathians, Part I: Timing of lava dome activity. Bulletin of Volcanology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-019-1286-9

Located at the southern tip of the Intra-Carpathian Volcanic Range in Romania, and composed of a dozen dacitic lava domes, the Ciomadul (Csomád) volcanic complex is the youngest eruptive centre of the Carpatho-Pannonian Region. Whereas, in the last d... Read More about Eruptive history of the Late Quaternary Ciomadul (Csomád) volcano, East Carpathians, Part I: Timing of lava dome activity.

Structural and geodynamic modelling of the influence of granite bodies during lithospheric extension: application to the Carboniferous basins of northern England (2019)
Journal Article
Howell, L., Egan, S., Leslie, G., & Clarke, S. (2019). Structural and geodynamic modelling of the influence of granite bodies during lithospheric extension: application to the Carboniferous basins of northern England. Tectonophysics, 47-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2019.02.008

Intra-basinal highs within classic ‘block and basin’ style tectonic frameworks are underpinned by large granite bodies. This is widely believed to relate to the relative ‘rigidity’ and ‘buoyancy’ of granite in relation to accommodating basement. It h... Read More about Structural and geodynamic modelling of the influence of granite bodies during lithospheric extension: application to the Carboniferous basins of northern England.

Pleistocene glacial history of the New Zealand subantarctic islands (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Pleistocene glacial history of the New Zealand subantarctic islands. Climate of the Past, 423-448. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-15-423-2019

The New Zealand subantarctic islands of Auckland and Campbell, situated between the Subtropical Front and the Antarctic Convergence in the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean, provide valuable terrestrial records from a globally-important climatic r... Read More about Pleistocene glacial history of the New Zealand subantarctic islands.

Primary and secondary control in DC microgrids: a review (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Primary and secondary control in DC microgrids: a review. Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, 227 -242. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40565-018-0466-5

With the rapid development of power electronics technology, microgrid (MG) concept has been widely accepted in the field of electrical engineering. Due to the advantages of direct current (DC) distribution systems such as reduced losses and easy inte... Read More about Primary and secondary control in DC microgrids: a review.

Ecotoxicological assessments of biochar additions to soil employing earthworm species Eisenia fetida and Lumbricus terrestris. (2019)
Journal Article
Elliston, T., & Oliver, I. (2019). Ecotoxicological assessments of biochar additions to soil employing earthworm species Eisenia fetida and Lumbricus terrestris. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 33410-33418. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-019-04542-2

Biochar is the degradation-resistant product generated by the pyrolysis of organic materials and is produced for the intended use of land application in order to promote carbon sequestration and soil improvement. However, despite the many potential b... Read More about Ecotoxicological assessments of biochar additions to soil employing earthworm species Eisenia fetida and Lumbricus terrestris..

The Thickness of the Mantle Lithosphere and Collision-related Volcanism in the Lesser Caucasus (2019)
Journal Article
Sugden, P., Savov, I., Wilson, M., Meliksetian, K., Navasardyan, G., & Halama, R. (2019). The Thickness of the Mantle Lithosphere and Collision-related Volcanism in the Lesser Caucasus. Journal of Petrology, 199-230. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egy111

The Lesser Caucasus mountains sit on a transition within the Arabia-Eurasia collision zone between very thin lithosphere (< 100?km) to the west, under Eastern Anatolia, and a very thick lithospheric root (up to 200?km) in the east, under western Iran... Read More about The Thickness of the Mantle Lithosphere and Collision-related Volcanism in the Lesser Caucasus.

Introduction: Advances in Palaeogeography (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Introduction: Advances in Palaeogeography. Geological Magazine, 179-181. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756818000390

This special issue of Geological Magazine is dedicated to the memory of Dr Alan Gilbert Smith, Fellow of St John's College and Emeritus Reader in Geology at the University of Cambridge, who passed away on 13 August 2017 at the age of 80. I first met... Read More about Introduction: Advances in Palaeogeography.

Magmatic evolution and textural development of the 1739 CE Pietre Cotte lava flow, Vulcano, Italy (2019)
Journal Article
Bullock, L. A., Gertisser, R., O'Driscoll, B., & Harland, S. (2019). Magmatic evolution and textural development of the 1739 CE Pietre Cotte lava flow, Vulcano, Italy. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 372, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2019.01.017

Textural evidence from occurrences of mingled magmas in lava flows often yields insights into chemical and thermal disequilibrium between multiple magma batches at depth. An understanding of these interactions is key as they can occur on short timesc... Read More about Magmatic evolution and textural development of the 1739 CE Pietre Cotte lava flow, Vulcano, Italy.