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?.

‘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., …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.

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.

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.

Effects of cis-Jasmone Treatment of Brassicas on Interactions With Myzus persicae Aphids and Their Parasitoid Diaeretiella rapae. (2021)
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Ali, J., Covaci, A., Roberts, J., Sobhy, I., Kirk, W., & Bruce, T. (2021). Effects of cis-Jasmone Treatment of Brassicas on Interactions With Myzus persicae Aphids and Their Parasitoid Diaeretiella rapae. Frontiers in Plant Science, 711896 - ?. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.711896

There is a need to develop new ways of protecting plants against aphid attack. Here, we investigated the effect of a plant defence activator, cis-jasmone (CJ), in a range of cultivars of Brassica napus, Brassica rapa and Brassica oleracea. Plants wer... Read More about Effects of cis-Jasmone Treatment of Brassicas on Interactions With Myzus persicae Aphids and Their Parasitoid Diaeretiella rapae..

Characterising New England (United States Of America) Salt Marsh Sediment Heavy Metal Concentration Trends Via Proximity To Anthropogenic Pollution, Seasons, And Vegetation Coverage (2021)
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Anthropogenic Pollution, Seasons, And Vegetation Coverage. https://doi.org/10.21252/873y-hx05

Salt marsh sediment serves an important ecological service by sequestering carbon but is also a repository for several pollutants including heavy metals. Metal uptake in marshes is affected by numerous environmental characteristics such as sediment p... Read More about Characterising New England (United States Of America) Salt Marsh Sediment Heavy Metal Concentration Trends Via Proximity To Anthropogenic Pollution, Seasons, And Vegetation Coverage.

Eruptive Activity of the Santorini Volcano Controlled by Sea Level Rise and Fall (2021)
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Gertisser. (2021). Eruptive Activity of the Santorini Volcano Controlled by Sea Level Rise and Fall. Nature Geoscience, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00783-4

Sea-level change is thought to influence the frequencies of volcanic eruptions on glacial to interglacial timescales. However, the underlying physical processes and their importance relative to other influences (for example, magma recharge rates) rem... Read More about Eruptive Activity of the Santorini Volcano Controlled by Sea Level Rise and Fall.

Numerical modelling of deep coaxial borehole heat exchangers in the Cheshire Basin, UK (2021)
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Brown, C., Cassidy, N., Egan, S., & Griffiths, D. (2021). Numerical modelling of deep coaxial borehole heat exchangers in the Cheshire Basin, UK. Computers and Geosciences, 104752 - 104752. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2021.104752

Few deep geothermal wells have been drilled in the Cheshire Basin resulting in high geological and financial risks of such developments. In recent years the focus of exploiting deep geothermal resources in the UK has moved towards lower risk strategi... Read More about Numerical modelling of deep coaxial borehole heat exchangers in the Cheshire Basin, UK.

Eruption Style, Emplacement Dynamics and Geometry of Peralkaline Ignimbrites: Insights From the Lajes-Angra Ignimbrite Formation, Terceira Island, Azores (2021)
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Gertisser, R. (2021). Eruption Style, Emplacement Dynamics and Geometry of Peralkaline Ignimbrites: Insights From the Lajes-Angra Ignimbrite Formation, Terceira Island, Azores. Frontiers in Earth Science, https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.673686

Ignimbrites are relatively uncommon on ocean island volcanoes and yet they constitute a significant portion of the stratigraphy of Terceira Island (Azores). The Lajes-Angra Ignimbrite Formation (ca. 25 cal ka BP) contains the youngest ignimbrites on... Read More about Eruption Style, Emplacement Dynamics and Geometry of Peralkaline Ignimbrites: Insights From the Lajes-Angra Ignimbrite Formation, Terceira Island, Azores.

Constructive criticism of “Misinterpreting carbon accumulation rates in records from near-surface peat” by Young et al.: Further evidence on charcoal impacts in relation to long-term carbon storage on blanket bog under rotational burn management (2021)
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Heinemeyer, A., & Ashby, M. (2021). Constructive criticism of “Misinterpreting carbon accumulation rates in records from near-surface peat” by Young et al.: Further evidence on charcoal impacts in relation to long-term carbon storage on blanket bog under rotational burn management. https://doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/t4g3m

It is with great interest that we read the recent paper by Young et al. entitled “Misinterpreting carbon accumulation rates in records from near-surface peat”. However, we have some concerns about: (i) the use of an unvalidated deep drainage model to... Read More about Constructive criticism of “Misinterpreting carbon accumulation rates in records from near-surface peat” by Young et al.: Further evidence on charcoal impacts in relation to long-term carbon storage on blanket bog under rotational burn management.

Exploring Welfare Bricolage in Europe’s Superdiverse Neighbourhoods (2021)
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Pemberton. (2021). Exploring Welfare Bricolage in Europe’s Superdiverse Neighbourhoods. (1). Taylor and Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003111504

Migration-driven diversity means European cities are becoming increasingly superdiverse. Some European neighbourhoods have become places where newcomers arrive from across the world, speaking many different languages, from a range of socio-economic b... Read More about Exploring Welfare Bricolage in Europe’s Superdiverse Neighbourhoods.

EU migrant retention and the temporalities of migrant staying: A new conceptual framework (2021)
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Pemberton, S., Hof, H., & Pietka-Nykaza, E. (2021). EU migrant retention and the temporalities of migrant staying: A new conceptual framework. Comparative Migration Studies, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-021-00225-5

Challenges of weak economic growth, population decline, and labour shortages led many countries across the world to introduce immigration policy changes in order to attract foreign migrants. This paper focuses on Japan (Tokyo) and the UK (Birmingham,... Read More about EU migrant retention and the temporalities of migrant staying: A new conceptual framework.

‘Staying’ as climate change adaptation strategy: a proposed research agenda (2021)
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Pemberton, S., Tripathy Furlong, B., Scanlan, O., Koubi, V., Guhathakurta, M., Hossain, M., …Roth, D. (2021). ‘Staying’ as climate change adaptation strategy: a proposed research agenda. Geoforum, 192-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.02.004

This paper brings work on mobility and ‘staying’ together with theoretical ideas of resilience to consider responses to climate change. To date, the majority of work that has explored the impacts of climate change on human populations has taken a mig... Read More about ‘Staying’ as climate change adaptation strategy: a proposed research agenda.

Spatial variation in the sedimentary architecture of a dryland fluvial system (2021)
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Priddy, C. L., & Clarke, S. M. (2021). Spatial variation in the sedimentary architecture of a dryland fluvial system. Sedimentology, 68(6), 2887-2917. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12876

Ancient dryland terminal fluvial systems are often recognised within the rock record for having a progressive downstream decrease in the size and amalgamation of channel elements and systematic downstream increase in sheet and overbank elements, alon... Read More about Spatial variation in the sedimentary architecture of a dryland fluvial system.

Towards framing the global in Global Development: prospects for development geography (2021)
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McKay, D. (2021). Towards framing the global in Global Development: prospects for development geography. Area, 54(2), 185-194. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12718

This paper examines data in the public sphere on the global scope of geography’s UKRI Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) projects. Building on decolonial critiques of development research, I argue that geography should frame ‘the global’ of globa... Read More about Towards framing the global in Global Development: prospects for development geography.

Comparative analysis of six common foraminiferal species of the genera Cassidulina, Paracassidulina, and Islandiella from the Arctic–North Atlantic domain (2021)
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Pieńkowski, A., Jennings, A., Knudsen, K., Seidenkrantz, M., & Cage, A. (2021). Comparative analysis of six common foraminiferal species of the genera Cassidulina, Paracassidulina, and Islandiella from the Arctic–North Atlantic domain. Journal of Micropalaeontology, 37 - 60. https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-40-37-2021

Morphologically similar benthic foraminiferal taxa can be difficult to separate. Aside from causing issues in taxonomy, incorrect identifications complicate our understanding of species-specific ecological preferences and result in flawed palaeoenvir... Read More about Comparative analysis of six common foraminiferal species of the genera Cassidulina, Paracassidulina, and Islandiella from the Arctic–North Atlantic domain.

The implications of the recently recognized mid-20th century shift in the Earth system (2021)
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(2021). The implications of the recently recognized mid-20th century shift in the Earth system. Anthropocene Review, https://doi.org/10.1177/2053019621995526

Satellite observations offering detailed records of global environmental change are only available from 1979. Emerging studies combining high-quality instrumental and natural observations highlight that the Earth system experienced a substantial shif... Read More about The implications of the recently recognized mid-20th century shift in the Earth system.

Life-cycle analysis of coesite-bearing garnet (2021)
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(2021). Life-cycle analysis of coesite-bearing garnet. Geological Magazine, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756821000017

Detrital coesite-bearing garnet is the final product of a complex geological cycle including coesite entrapment at ultrahigh-pressure conditions, exhumation to Earth’s surface, erosion, and sedimentary transport. In contrast to the usual enrichment o... Read More about Life-cycle analysis of coesite-bearing garnet.