What a load of rubbish: The impact of anthropogenic litter on urban freshwater diversity. (2025)
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Milner, V. S., Hill, M. J., Gething, K. J., & Cunningham, S. B. (2025). What a load of rubbish: The impact of anthropogenic litter on urban freshwater diversity. Environmental Pollution, 373, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2025.126097

The abundance of anthropogenic litter (AL) in aquatic environments is an increasing global problem. Most research on the effects of AL has focussed on marine environments, with research examining the ecological effects of AL in freshwater ecosystems... Read More about What a load of rubbish: The impact of anthropogenic litter on urban freshwater diversity..

Forensic geoscience on, and in, water (2024)
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Ruffell, A., Pringle, J. K., Powell, N., O'Keefe, A., Wisniewski, K. D., & Hobson, L. (2024). Forensic geoscience on, and in, water. Geology Today, 40(4), 153-158. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12486

Geoscientists are being increasingly asked by law enforcement, environmental agencies and even wildlife trusts to investigate suspected illegal activities in and around water bodies for criminal or civil investigations. Searches and surveys in aquati... Read More about Forensic geoscience on, and in, water.

A new approach to modelling sources of fluorescent organic matter in Antarctic ice cores (2024)
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Harris, M. R. P. A new approach to modelling sources of fluorescent organic matter in Antarctic ice cores. (Thesis). Keele University. https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/853232

Organic matter trapped within the earth’s ice sheets holds a wide array of potential paleoenvironmental information but remains under-investigated. The fraction that exhibits intrinsic fluorescence, known as fluorescent organic matter (FOM), is broad... Read More about A new approach to modelling sources of fluorescent organic matter in Antarctic ice cores.

Bedding into bags: the life histories of materials, makers and the time of making in a case study of fabric upcycling (2022)
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Holdsworth, C. (2022). Bedding into bags: the life histories of materials, makers and the time of making in a case study of fabric upcycling. Social and Cultural Geography, 25(3), 423-440. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2022.2157042

Geographical scholarship on making has established the interrelations between makers, materials and space. With this paper I explore how this scholarship can be developed to incorporate time through paying close attention to the time of making. Drawi... Read More about Bedding into bags: the life histories of materials, makers and the time of making in a case study of fabric upcycling.

Discrimination of thermodynamic and kinetic contributions to the heavy rare earth element patterns in metamorphic garnet (2022)
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Konrad‐Schmolke, M., Halama, R., Chew, D., Heuzé, C., De Hoog, J., & Ditterova, H. (2022). Discrimination of thermodynamic and kinetic contributions to the heavy rare earth element patterns in metamorphic garnet. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 41(4), 465-490. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmg.12703

Variations of rare earth element (REE) concentrations in metamorphic garnet are an important source of information of geodynamic and geochemical processes in the deeper Earth. In order to extract this information, the thermodynamic equilibrium and ki... Read More about Discrimination of thermodynamic and kinetic contributions to the heavy rare earth element patterns in metamorphic garnet.

Origin of Lower Cretaceous quartzose arenites in northern India and the Indus Basins of Pakistan-The result of provenance composition, weathering or diagenesis? (2022)
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Beaumont, H., Burley, S. D., Breitfeld, T., Gould, T., & Clarke, S. M. (2022). Origin of Lower Cretaceous quartzose arenites in northern India and the Indus Basins of Pakistan-The result of provenance composition, weathering or diagenesis?. Basin Research, 35(1), 413-438. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12717

Lower Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) sandstones of the Ghaggar-Hakra Formation in the Barmer Basin of northwest Rajasthan, India, have a complex depositional history which is confusing given they are quartzose arenites. The heavy mineral grains are very... Read More about Origin of Lower Cretaceous quartzose arenites in northern India and the Indus Basins of Pakistan-The result of provenance composition, weathering or diagenesis?.

Determining patterns in the composition of dissolved organic matter in fresh waters according to land use and management (2022)
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Yates, C. A., Johnes, P. J., Brailsford, F. L., Evans, C. D., Evershed, R. P., Glanville, H. C., Jones, D. L., Lloyd, C. E. M., Marshall, M. R., & Owen, A. T. (2023). Determining patterns in the composition of dissolved organic matter in fresh waters according to land use and management. Biogeochemistry, 164(1), 143-162. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10533-022-00964-2

In fresh waters, the origins of dissolved organic matter (DOM) have been found to exert a fundamental control on its reactivity, and ultimately, its ecosystem functional role. A detailed understanding of landscape scale factors that control the expor... Read More about Determining patterns in the composition of dissolved organic matter in fresh waters according to land use and management.

Ovummuridae (calcareous microfossils) from the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, Shropshire, UK (2022)
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Hussain, R., Rogers, S., & Blackburn, J. (2022). Ovummuridae (calcareous microfossils) from the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, Shropshire, UK. https://doi.org/10.26879/1222

Ovummuridae are calcareous, egg-shaped microfossils with an unknown taxonomic affinity. Their limited observation is due to their occurrence only within exceptionally preserved carbonate rocks that have undergone little to no diagenesis or aggrading... Read More about Ovummuridae (calcareous microfossils) from the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation, Shropshire, UK.

The hopes of memorial remaking: Product, process, and the temporal rhythms of making (2022)
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Holdsworth, C. (2022). The hopes of memorial remaking: Product, process, and the temporal rhythms of making. Geographical Journal, 188(4), 559-570. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12467

The individual and social therapeutic benefits of spending time making have received both popular and academic endorsement. These testimonials often promote the sentiment that the benefits of making are experienced in the doing rather than what is ma... Read More about The hopes of memorial remaking: Product, process, and the temporal rhythms of making.

George Perry (c.1718-1771): industrialist, cartographer and naturalist (2022)
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(2022). George Perry (c.1718-1771): industrialist, cartographer and naturalist. Archives of Natural History, 102 - 116. https://doi.org/10.3366/anh.2022.0761

George Perry (c.1718–1771) is known for his involvement in the development of the iron and engineering industries of Coalbrookdale, Ironbridge Gorge, Shropshire and Liverpool, and also for his ambition to publish a history together with new maps of L... Read More about George Perry (c.1718-1771): industrialist, cartographer and naturalist.

Portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) Analysis of Heavy Metal Contamination in Graveyards with Contrasting Soil Types (2022)
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Madden, C., Pringle, J., Jeffery, A., Wisniewski, K., Glanville, H., Heaton, V., Stimpson, I., Dick, H., Eeley, M., Goodwin, J., & Oliver, I. (2022). Portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) Analysis of Heavy Metal Contamination in Graveyards with Contrasting Soil Types. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 29, 55278–55292. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-19676-z

Human remains have been interred in burial grounds since historic times. Although the re-use of graveyards differs from one country, region or time-period to another, over time graveyard soil may become contaminated or enriched with heavy metal eleme... Read More about Portable X-Ray Fluorescence (pXRF) Analysis of Heavy Metal Contamination in Graveyards with Contrasting Soil Types.

Thermal and Economic Analysis of Heat Exchangers as Part of a Geothermal District Heating Scheme in the Cheshire Basin, UK (2022)
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Brown, C. S., Cassidy, N. J., Egan, S. S., & Griffiths, D. (2022). Thermal and Economic Analysis of Heat Exchangers as Part of a Geothermal District Heating Scheme in the Cheshire Basin, UK. Energies, 15(6), https://doi.org/10.3390/en15061983

Heat exchangers are vital to any geothermal system looking to use direct heat supplied via a district heat network. Attention on geothermal schemes in the UK has been growing, with minimal attention on the performance of heat exchangers. In this stud... Read More about Thermal and Economic Analysis of Heat Exchangers as Part of a Geothermal District Heating Scheme in the Cheshire Basin, UK.

The sedimentary record of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism: a perspective review (2022)
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(2022). The sedimentary record of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism: a perspective review. Earth-Science Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2022.103985

Tracing ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphism of crustal rocks through the geological record is a key for understanding the evolution of plate tectonics on Earth due to the linkage with deep subduction processes. Until recently, UHP research was almo... Read More about The sedimentary record of ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism: a perspective review.

A sensitivity analysis of a single extraction well from deep geothermal aquifers in the Cheshire Basin, UK (2022)
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Cassidy, N. J., Egan, S. S., Griffiths, D., & Brown, C. S. (2022). A sensitivity analysis of a single extraction well from deep geothermal aquifers in the Cheshire Basin, UK. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 55(3), Article qjegh2021-131. https://doi.org/10.1144/qjegh2021-131

Deep hot sedimentary aquifers (HSAs) are targeted for geothermal exploitation in the Cheshire Basin, UK. In this study, a single extraction well targeting the Collyhurst Sandstone Formation was modelled on MATLAB coupling heat and fluid flux. The Col... Read More about A sensitivity analysis of a single extraction well from deep geothermal aquifers in the Cheshire Basin, UK.

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

<jats:p>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 p... Read More about Localized bank collapse or regional event?.

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., Pettigrew, R. P., Clarke, S. M., & 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.

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.

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.