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Discovery of organic matter and palynomorphs from the Neoproterozoic Zor diamictite of the Ramsu Formation in the Ramban District, Jammu and Kashmir, India (2020)
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(2020). Discovery of organic matter and palynomorphs from the Neoproterozoic Zor diamictite of the Ramsu Formation in the Ramban District, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 447-454. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12594-020-1461-9

The presence of medium-grade organic matter confirmed by Raman spectroscopy is reported for the first time from the Zor diamictite of the Ramsu Formation, Tethyan Himalaya. The organic matter has undergone overmature thermal evolution and shows low t... Read More about Discovery of organic matter and palynomorphs from the Neoproterozoic Zor diamictite of the Ramsu Formation in the Ramban District, Jammu and Kashmir, India.

Micro-Scale isotopic analysis of ice facies frozen from supercooled water (2020)
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Shiggins, C. J., Harris, M. R. P., Knight, P. G., & Fogwill, C. J. (2020). Micro-Scale isotopic analysis of ice facies frozen from supercooled water. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography, 102(2), 104-117. https://doi.org/10.1080/04353676.2020.1762364

Subglacial glaciohydraulic supercooling can form basal ice and affect glacier dynamics, sediment transfer and geomorphology. Whilst isotopic analysis (d18O-dD) of basal ice has demonstrated the significance of supercooling, questions remain as to wha... Read More about Micro-Scale isotopic analysis of ice facies frozen from supercooled water.

Constraining the landscape of Late Bronze Age Santorini prior to the Minoan eruption: insights from volcanological, geomorphological and archaeological findings (2020)
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Gertisser, R. (2020). Constraining the landscape of Late Bronze Age Santorini prior to the Minoan eruption: insights from volcanological, geomorphological and archaeological findings. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2020.106911

One of the best known places on Earth where volcanology meets archaeology and history is the volcanic island of Santorini (Thíra), Greece. It is famous for the cataclysmic Late Bronze Age (Minoan) Plinian eruption which destroyed the Minoan culture t... Read More about Constraining the landscape of Late Bronze Age Santorini prior to the Minoan eruption: insights from volcanological, geomorphological and archaeological findings.

Insights into the magma plumbing system of La Fossa di Vulcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy) using oxygen isotopes and clinopyroxene crystal structure (2020)
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Wiltshire, R., Halama, R., Boyce, A., Petrone, C., Nazzareni, S., Gertisser, R., …Lucchi, F. (2020). Insights into the magma plumbing system of La Fossa di Vulcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy) using oxygen isotopes and clinopyroxene crystal structure. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-13433

<p>The presently active La Fossa cone, Vulcano, widely considered the most hazardous volcano in the Aeolian Islands, is characterised by alternating periods of Vulcanian to subplinian explosive events and lava flow effusion. It has for... Read More about Insights into the magma plumbing system of La Fossa di Vulcano (Aeolian Islands, Italy) using oxygen isotopes and clinopyroxene crystal structure.

Significant changes in the magma dynamics of Stromboli steady-state volcano recorded by clinopyroxene crystals. (2020)
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Petrone, C. M., Di Stefano, F., Gertisser, R., Mollo, S., Tommasini, S., Del Bello, E., …Coltorti, M. (2020). Significant changes in the magma dynamics of Stromboli steady-state volcano recorded by clinopyroxene crystals. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-18109

<p>Steady-state volcanic activity implies equilibrium between the rate of magma replenishment and eruption of compositionally homogeneous magmas, lasting for tens to thousands of years in an open conduit system. The Present-day activit... Read More about Significant changes in the magma dynamics of Stromboli steady-state volcano recorded by clinopyroxene crystals..

Sr isotopes indicate millennial-scale formation of metal-rich layers by reactive melt percolation in an open-system layered intrusion (2020)
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Daly, J. S., Hepworth, L., O'Driscoll, B., Johnson, C., Gertisser, R., & Emeleus, C. H. (2020). Sr isotopes indicate millennial-scale formation of metal-rich layers by reactive melt percolation in an open-system layered intrusion. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-20272

<p>In order to test whether the crystal mushes that form layered mafic intrusions can behave as open systems, we investigated mineral-scale textural, chemical and Sr isotopic heterogeneity in the c. 60 Ma Rum intrusion, Scotland. Withi... Read More about Sr isotopes indicate millennial-scale formation of metal-rich layers by reactive melt percolation in an open-system layered intrusion.

After encounters: Revealing patients’ unseen work through their pathways to care (2020)
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Samerski, S., Padilla, B., Pemberton, S., Humphris, R., & Brady, H. (2020). After encounters: Revealing patients’ unseen work through their pathways to care. International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, 173-187. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMHSC-07-2019-0066

Research has long focused on the notion of access and the trajectory towards a healthcare encounter but has neglected what happens to patients after these initial encounters. This paper focuses attention on what happens after an initial healthcare en... Read More about After encounters: Revealing patients’ unseen work through their pathways to care.

Geophysical monitoring of simulated homicide burials for forensic investigations (2020)
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Pringle, J., Stimpson, I., Wisniewski, K., Davenward, B., Heaton, V., Mirosch, N., …Jervis, J. (2020). Geophysical monitoring of simulated homicide burials for forensic investigations. Scientific reports, 10, Article 7544. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64262-3

Finding hidden bodies, believed to have been murdered and buried, is problematic, expensive in terms of human resource and currently has low success rates for law enforcement agencies. Here we present, for the first time, ten years of multidisciplina... Read More about Geophysical monitoring of simulated homicide burials for forensic investigations.

Rapid depletion of dissolved organic sulphur (DOS) in freshwaters (2020)
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(2020). Rapid depletion of dissolved organic sulphur (DOS) in freshwaters. Biogeochemistry, 105 - 113. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-020-00669-4

Sulphur (S) is a key macronutrient for all organisms, with similar cellular requirements to that of phosphorus (P). Studies of S cycling have often focused on the inorganic fraction, however, there is strong evidence to suggest that freshwater microo... Read More about Rapid depletion of dissolved organic sulphur (DOS) in freshwaters.

Acritarchs from the Duolbagáisá Formation (Cambrian Series 2–Miaolingian) on the Digermulen Peninsula, Finnmark, Arctic Norway: towards a high-resolution Cambrian chronostratigraphy (2020)
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(2020). Acritarchs from the Duolbagáisá Formation (Cambrian Series 2–Miaolingian) on the Digermulen Peninsula, Finnmark, Arctic Norway: towards a high-resolution Cambrian chronostratigraphy. Geological Magazine, 2051-2066. https://doi.org/10.1017/S001675682000031X

New information on acritarchs from the Duolbagáisá Formation, Digermulen Peninsula, Arctic Norway, enable recognition of the three Cambrian Series 2 acritarch-based zones: the Skiagia ornata–Fimbriaglomerella membranacea, Heliosphaeridium dissimilare... Read More about Acritarchs from the Duolbagáisá Formation (Cambrian Series 2–Miaolingian) on the Digermulen Peninsula, Finnmark, Arctic Norway: towards a high-resolution Cambrian chronostratigraphy.

Magmatic and metasomatic effects of magma-carbonate interaction recorded in calc-silicate xenoliths from Merapi volcano (Indonesia) (2020)
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Halama, R., Gertisser, R., Whitley, S., Preece, K., Deegan, F., & Troll, V. (2020). Magmatic and metasomatic effects of magma-carbonate interaction recorded in calc-silicate xenoliths from Merapi volcano (Indonesia). Journal of Petrology, https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egaa048

Magma-carbonate interaction is an increasingly recognised process occurring at active volcanoes worldwide, with implications for the magmatic evolution of the host volcanic systems, their eruptive behaviour, volcanic CO2 budgets, and economic mineral... Read More about Magmatic and metasomatic effects of magma-carbonate interaction recorded in calc-silicate xenoliths from Merapi volcano (Indonesia).

Rapid crystallization of precious-metal-mineralized layers in mafic magmatic systems (2020)
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Gertisser, Hepworth, L. N., Daly, J. S., Gertisser, R., Johnson, C. G., Emeleus, C. H., & O’Driscoll, B. (2020). Rapid crystallization of precious-metal-mineralized layers in mafic magmatic systems. Nature Geoscience, 13(5), 375–381. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0568-3

The solidified remnants of mafic magmatic systems host the greatest concentrations of platinum-group metals in the Earth’s crust. Our understanding of precious-metal mineralization in these intrusive bodies is underpinned by a traditional view of mag... Read More about Rapid crystallization of precious-metal-mineralized layers in mafic magmatic systems.

Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Energy Storage Arbitrage With Accurate Lithium-ion Battery Degradation Model (2020)
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Healey, & Fan. (2020). Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Energy Storage Arbitrage With Accurate Lithium-ion Battery Degradation Model. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 4513-4521. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSG.2020.2986333

Accurate estimation of battery degradation cost is one of the main barriers for battery participating on the energy arbitrage market. This paper addresses this problem by using a model-free deep reinforcement learning (DRL) method to optimize the bat... Read More about Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Energy Storage Arbitrage With Accurate Lithium-ion Battery Degradation Model.

Tipping elements and amplified polar warming during the Last Interglacial (2020)
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(2020). Tipping elements and amplified polar warming during the Last Interglacial. Quaternary Science Reviews, 106222 - 106222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106222

Irreversible shifts of large-scale components of the Earth system (so-called ‘tipping elements’) on policy-relevant timescales are a major source of uncertainty for projecting the impacts of future climate change. The high latitudes are particularly... Read More about Tipping elements and amplified polar warming during the Last Interglacial.

Controls on jökulhlaup-transported buried ice melt-out at Skeiðarársandur, Iceland: Implications for the evolution of ice-marginal environments (2020)
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Blauvelt, D. J., Russell, A. J., Large, A. R., Tweed, F. S., Hiemstra, J. F., Kulessa, B., …Waller, R. I. (2020). Controls on jökulhlaup-transported buried ice melt-out at Skeiðarársandur, Iceland: Implications for the evolution of ice-marginal environments. Geomorphology, 360, Article 107164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2020.107164

High-magnitude jökulhlaups, glacier margin position and ice-thickness have been identified as key controls on sandur evolution. Existing models however have focused primarily on observations made during short windows of time and often do not account... Read More about Controls on jökulhlaup-transported buried ice melt-out at Skeiðarársandur, Iceland: Implications for the evolution of ice-marginal environments.

Investigating H2O contents in clinopyroxene from explosive versus effusive eruption products from Merapi volcano, Indonesia (2020)
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Dimitriou, D., Troll, V., Weis, F., Seraphine, N., Deegan, F., Skogby, H., …Gertisser, R. (2020). Investigating H2O contents in clinopyroxene from explosive versus effusive eruption products from Merapi volcano, Indonesia

<p>The 2010 eruption of Merapi produced pyroclastic deposits and lava flows that are compositionally very similar, raising the question as to the underlying reason of the differences in eruptive styles between the various phases of the... Read More about Investigating H2O contents in clinopyroxene from explosive versus effusive eruption products from Merapi volcano, Indonesia.

Heavy minerals as provenance indicator in glaciogenic successions: An example from the Palaeozoic of Ethiopia (2020)
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(2020). Heavy minerals as provenance indicator in glaciogenic successions: An example from the Palaeozoic of Ethiopia. Journal of African Earth Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2020.103813

We use heavy minerals and rutile and garnet chemical compositions to constrain the provenance of two glaciogenic sandstone formations that build up the Palaeozoic succession in Ethiopia. The heavy mineral assemblage of the Upper Ordovician–Lower Silu... Read More about Heavy minerals as provenance indicator in glaciogenic successions: An example from the Palaeozoic of Ethiopia.

Boron isotope insights into the origin of subduction signatures in continent-continent collision zone volcanism (2020)
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Sugden, P., Savov, I., Agostini, S., Wilson, M., Halama, R., & Meliksetian, K. (2020). Boron isotope insights into the origin of subduction signatures in continent-continent collision zone volcanism. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116207

We present the first boron abundance and delta B-11 data for young (1.5-0 Ma) volcanic rocks formed in an active continent-continent collision zone. The delta B-11 of post-collisional volcanic rocks (-5 to +2 parts per thousand) from the Armenian sec... Read More about Boron isotope insights into the origin of subduction signatures in continent-continent collision zone volcanism.