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Quantifying the contribution of riparian soils to the provision of ecosystem services. (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Quantifying the contribution of riparian soils to the provision of ecosystem services. Science of the Total Environment, 807 - 819. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.12.179

Riparian areas, the interface between land and freshwater ecosystems, are considered to play a pivotal role in the supply of regulating, provisioning, cultural and supporting services. Most previous studies, however, have tended to focus on intensive... Read More about Quantifying the contribution of riparian soils to the provision of ecosystem services..

Reconstruction of linear dunes from ancient aeolian successions using subsurface data: Permian Auk Formation, Central North Sea, UK (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Reconstruction of linear dunes from ancient aeolian successions using subsurface data: Permian Auk Formation, Central North Sea, UK. Marine and Petroleum Geology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2017.12.021

A series of well logs and cores penetrating the predominantly aeolian Auk Formation, Permian Rotliegend Group, Central North Sea, UK, have been evaluated to determine the morphology and style of migratory behaviour of the original dune bedforms, the... Read More about Reconstruction of linear dunes from ancient aeolian successions using subsurface data: Permian Auk Formation, Central North Sea, UK.

Palaeotethys-related sediments of the Karaburun Peninsula, western Turkey: constraints on provenance and stratigraphy from detrital zircon geochronology (2017)
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Loewen, K., Meinhold, G., Gungor, T., & Berndt, J. (2017). Palaeotethys-related sediments of the Karaburun Peninsula, western Turkey: constraints on provenance and stratigraphy from detrital zircon geochronology. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 106(8), 2771-2796. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-017-1458-9

Detrital zircon U–Pb geochronology of 15 Late Palaeozoic to Early Mesozoic siliciclastic sandstones from the Karaburun Peninsula in western Turkey determines maximum sedimentation ages, identifies possible source areas, and anchors the study area wit... Read More about Palaeotethys-related sediments of the Karaburun Peninsula, western Turkey: constraints on provenance and stratigraphy from detrital zircon geochronology.

Determining geophysical responses from burials in graveyards and cemeteries (2017)
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Dick, H. C., Pringle, J. K., Wisniewski, K. D., Goodwin, J., van der Putten, R., Evans, G. T., …Hansen, J. D. (2017). Determining geophysical responses from burials in graveyards and cemeteries. Geophysics, 82(6), B245 - B255 (11). https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2016-0440.1

Graveyards and cemeteries around the world are being increasingly designated as full. There is a growing requirement to identify burial spaces or to exhume and then re-inter burials if necessary. Near-surface geophysical methods offer a potentially n... Read More about Determining geophysical responses from burials in graveyards and cemeteries.

High-resolution seismic imaging of Paleozoic rocks in the Mora area, Siljan Ring structure, central Sweden (2017)
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(2017). High-resolution seismic imaging of Paleozoic rocks in the Mora area, Siljan Ring structure, central Sweden. GFF, 260-275. https://doi.org/10.1080/11035897.2017.1386712

The Late Devonian Siljan Ring structure in Sweden is the largest known impact structure in Europe. The present-day structure comprises a central dome that is about 20–30 km in diameter, which is surrounded by a ring-shaped depression. In this study,... Read More about High-resolution seismic imaging of Paleozoic rocks in the Mora area, Siljan Ring structure, central Sweden.

Engineering investigation and assessment (2017)
Book Chapter
Stimpson. (2017). Engineering investigation and assessment. In Engineering Geology and Geomorphology of Glaciated and Periglaciated Terrains Engineering Group Working Party Report (741-830). https://doi.org/10.1144/EGSP28.7

Ground affected by periglacial and glacial processes can be among the most variable formed by nature. Previous chapters have graphically illustrated this variability and explained the topographic and sedimentary associations to be expected within for... Read More about Engineering investigation and assessment.

A Facies-Independent Trans-European Anisian–Ladinian Marker Horizon?: Significance and Impact for Sequence Stratigraphy and Intra-Tethyan Correlation (2017)
Book Chapter
Götz, A. E., & Montenari, M. (2017). A Facies-Independent Trans-European Anisian–Ladinian Marker Horizon?: Significance and Impact for Sequence Stratigraphy and Intra-Tethyan Correlation. In Advances in Sequence Stratigraphy

Transcontinental correlation of European carbonate systems that developed during the onset of the Mesozoic breakup of Pangaea remains difficult due to pronounced lateral facies variations and in many cases facies-dependent fossil groups used for bios... Read More about A Facies-Independent Trans-European Anisian–Ladinian Marker Horizon?: Significance and Impact for Sequence Stratigraphy and Intra-Tethyan Correlation.

Urban planning and the challenge of super-diversity (2017)
Journal Article
Pemberton. (2017). Urban planning and the challenge of super-diversity. Policy and Politics, 623-641. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557316X14755958613727

Little attention to date has focused on the role of urban planning in responding to migration-related super-diversity. Through a focus on a city (Liverpool, UK) which is becoming increasingly super-diverse, the paper highlights the importance of clas... Read More about Urban planning and the challenge of super-diversity.

Rapid global ocean-atmosphere response to Southern Ocean freshening during the last glacial (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Rapid global ocean-atmosphere response to Southern Ocean freshening during the last glacial. Nature communications, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00577-6

Contrasting Greenland and Antarctic temperatures during the last glacial period (115,000 to 11,650 years ago) are thought to have been driven by imbalances in the rates of formation of North Atlantic and Antarctic Deep Water (the ‘bipolar seesaw’). H... Read More about Rapid global ocean-atmosphere response to Southern Ocean freshening during the last glacial.

OH defects in quartz as monitor for igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary processes (2017)
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(2017). OH defects in quartz as monitor for igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary processes. American Mineralogist, 1832 -1842. https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2017-6107

Oriented sections of more than 500 quartz grains from sediments, igneous, and metamorphic rocks from different localities in Sweden, Austria, Germany, and South Africa were analyzed by FTIR spectroscopy, and their OH defect content was determined wit... Read More about OH defects in quartz as monitor for igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary processes.

Multidisciplinary Investigations at P.O.W. Camp 198, Bridgend, S. Wales: Site of a Mass Escape in March 1945 (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Multidisciplinary Investigations at P.O.W. Camp 198, Bridgend, S. Wales: Site of a Mass Escape in March 1945. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, https://doi.org/10.1080/15740773.2017.1357900

The largest escape of German Prisoner of War (P.O.W.) in WW2 was in March 1945 from Camp 198, situated in Bridgend, South Wales, UK. Since camp closure the site has become derelict, and has not been scientifically investigated. This paper reports on... Read More about Multidisciplinary Investigations at P.O.W. Camp 198, Bridgend, S. Wales: Site of a Mass Escape in March 1945.

Multi-disciplinary investigations at PoW Camp 198, Bridgend, S. Wales: site of a mass escape in March 1945 (2017)
Journal Article
Rees-Hughes, L., Pringle, J., Russill, N., Wisniewski, K., & Doyle, P. (2017). Multi-disciplinary investigations at PoW Camp 198, Bridgend, S. Wales: site of a mass escape in March 1945. Journal of Conflict Archaeology, 11(2-3), https://doi.org/10.1080/15740773.2017.1357900

The largest escape of German Prisoner of War (P.O.W.) in WW2 was in March 1945 from Camp 198, situated in Bridgend, South Wales, UK. Since camp closure the site has become derelict, and has not been scientifically investigated. This paper reports on... Read More about Multi-disciplinary investigations at PoW Camp 198, Bridgend, S. Wales: site of a mass escape in March 1945.

Teaching and learning on a transnational education programme: opportunities and challenges for flying faculty in Geography and related disciplines (2017)
Journal Article
Szkornik. (2017). Teaching and learning on a transnational education programme: opportunities and challenges for flying faculty in Geography and related disciplines. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 521-531. https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2017.1337735

Within the context of the internationalization of UK higher education, an increasing number of UK-based institutions are developing collaborative degree programmes with overseas institutions, of which partnerships with institutions in China are the m... Read More about Teaching and learning on a transnational education programme: opportunities and challenges for flying faculty in Geography and related disciplines.

Franz Kossmat: Subdivision of the Variscan Mountains - a translation of the German text with supplementary notes (2017)
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(2017). Franz Kossmat: Subdivision of the Variscan Mountains - a translation of the German text with supplementary notes. History of Geo- and Space Sciences, 29 -51. https://doi.org/10.5194/hgss-8-29-2017

This work is in honour of Franz Kossmat (1871–1938) and his esteemed paper the Gliederung des varistischen Gebirgsbaues published 1927 in Abhandlungen des Sächsischen Geologischen Landesamts, Volume 1, pages 1 to 39. It constitutes the foundation of... Read More about Franz Kossmat: Subdivision of the Variscan Mountains - a translation of the German text with supplementary notes.

Tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperate reconstruction (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperate reconstruction. Climate of the Past Discussions, 231-248. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-13-231-2017

Occupying about 14?% of the world's surface, the Southern Ocean plays a fundamental role in ocean and atmosphere circulation, carbon cycling and Antarctic ice-sheet dynamics. Unfortunately, high interannual variability and a dearth of instrumental ob... Read More about Tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperate reconstruction.

The youngest volcanic eruptions in East- Central Europe—new findings from the Ciomadul lava dome complex, East Carpathians, Romania (2017)
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Gertisser. (2017). The youngest volcanic eruptions in East- Central Europe—new findings from the Ciomadul lava dome complex, East Carpathians, Romania. Geology Today, 62 -67. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12181/full

Violent explosive eruptions occurred between c. 51 and 29 thousand years ago—during the Last Glacial Maximum in East-Central Europe—at the picturesque volcano of Ciomadul, located at the southernmost tip of the Inner Carpathian Volcanic Range in Roma... Read More about The youngest volcanic eruptions in East- Central Europe—new findings from the Ciomadul lava dome complex, East Carpathians, Romania.

EPOS Thematic Core Service Anthropogenic Hazards for SHEER project: maintain, process and manage your project research data (2017)
Journal Article
Orlecka-Sikora, B., Lasocki, S., Staszek, M., Olszewska, D., Urban, P., Jaroslawski, J., …Isherwood, C. (2017). EPOS Thematic Core Service Anthropogenic Hazards for SHEER project: maintain, process and manage your project research data

The main objective of the “Shale gas exploration and exploitation induced risks - SHEER” project (Horizon 2020, call LCE 16-2014) is to develop a probabilistic methodology to assess and mitigate the short- and the long-term environmental risks associ... Read More about EPOS Thematic Core Service Anthropogenic Hazards for SHEER project: maintain, process and manage your project research data.