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Lead Mineralisation Within The Stublick Fault System At Church Burn And Wolf Hills, Haltwhistle, Northumberland (2020)
Journal Article
Young, B., Clarke, S., Hopkirk, A., Forbes, I., & Smith, F. (2020). Lead Mineralisation Within The Stublick Fault System At Church Burn And Wolf Hills, Haltwhistle, Northumberland. The Journal of The Russell Society, 23(2-4), 75-85

Two hitherto unreported small clusters of lead-bearing veins and associated workings at Church Burn and Wolf Hills, south of Haltwhistle, described here, add to the group of mineral deposits within the main Tyne Valley, sometimes collectively referre... Read More about Lead Mineralisation Within The Stublick Fault System At Church Burn And Wolf Hills, Haltwhistle, Northumberland.

Sedimentology and isotope geochemistry of transitional evaporitic environments within arid continental settings: From erg to saline lakes (2020)
Journal Article
Pettigrew, R., Claire, M., Priddy, C., Clarke, S., Warke, M., & Stüeken, E. (2020). Sedimentology and isotope geochemistry of transitional evaporitic environments within arid continental settings: From erg to saline lakes. Sedimentology, 907-942. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12816

Arid continental basins typically contain a spectrum of coeval environments that coexist and interact from proximal to distal. Within the distal portion, aeolian ergs often border playa, or perennial, desert lakes, fed by fluvial incursions or elevat... Read More about Sedimentology and isotope geochemistry of transitional evaporitic environments within arid continental settings: From erg to saline lakes.

Assessing shale gas reservoir potential using multi-scaled SEM pore network characterizations and quantifications: The Ciñera-Matallana pull-apart basin, NW Spain (2020)
Book Chapter
Montenari. (2020). Assessing shale gas reservoir potential using multi-scaled SEM pore network characterizations and quantifications: The Ciñera-Matallana pull-apart basin, NW Spain. In Carbon Isotope Stratigraphy, Volume 5 (677-755). https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.sats.2020.07.001

In recent years, unconventional hydrocarbon reservoirs (UHRs), specifically shale gas plays, have become a vast source of economically viable hydrocarbons, in response to better drilling and stimulation techniques. To further improve recovery, more d... Read More about Assessing shale gas reservoir potential using multi-scaled SEM pore network characterizations and quantifications: The Ciñera-Matallana pull-apart basin, NW Spain.

(Re-)negotiating the process of staying in superdiverse places (2020)
Journal Article
Pemberton. (2020). (Re-)negotiating the process of staying in superdiverse places. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2020.1822157

Little attention has been focused on how the differing features of ‘superdiverse’ neighbourhoods shape the demographic process of ‘staying’. Through drawing on research conducted in two different superdiverse neighbourhoods in the city of Birmingham,... Read More about (Re-)negotiating the process of staying in superdiverse places.

U-Pb dating of calcite in ancient carbonates for age estimates of syn- to post-depositional processes: a case study from the upper Ediacaran strata of Finnmark, Arctic Norway (2020)
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(2020). U-Pb dating of calcite in ancient carbonates for age estimates of syn- to post-depositional processes: a case study from the upper Ediacaran strata of Finnmark, Arctic Norway. Geological Magazine, 1367-1372. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756820000564

Results of in situ U-Pb dating of calcite spherulites, cone-in-cone (CIC) calcite and calcite fibres from a calcareous concretion of the upper Ediacaran of Finnmark, Arctic Norway, are reported. Calcite spherulites from the innermost layers of the co... Read More about U-Pb dating of calcite in ancient carbonates for age estimates of syn- to post-depositional processes: a case study from the upper Ediacaran strata of Finnmark, Arctic Norway.

Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal (2020)
Journal Article
Weber, M., Ellis, B., Thomas, Z., Montenari, M., Cage, A., Harris, M., …Rivera, A. (2020). Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal. Nature Geoscience, 489-497. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-020-0587-0

The Southern Ocean occupies some 14% of the planet’s surface and plays a fundamental role in the global carbon cycle and climate. It provides a direct connection to the deep ocean carbon reservoir through biogeochemical processes that include surface... Read More about Southern Ocean carbon sink enhanced by sea-ice feedbacks at the Antarctic Cold Reversal.

Pinched between the plates: Armenia's voluminous record of volcanic activity (2020)
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Halama, R., Meliksetian, K., Savov, I., Sugden, P., & Sokół, K. (2020). Pinched between the plates: Armenia's voluminous record of volcanic activity. Geology Today, 101 - 108. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12309

Located in the heart of the Lesser Caucasus mountains, where the Arabian and Eurasian tectonic plates collide, Armenia occupies an exceptional geological position shaped through millions of years of subduction and collision. It is a unique place on t... Read More about Pinched between the plates: Armenia's voluminous record of volcanic activity.

Geophysical site assessment of an active urban development site, South Eastern Suburb of Cairo, Egypt (2020)
Journal Article
Medhat, N. I., Atya, M., Ragab, E. A., El-Kenawy, A. A., Abdel Zaher, M., & Pringle, J. (2020). Geophysical site assessment of an active urban development site, South Eastern Suburb of Cairo, Egypt. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, 54(1), Article ARTN qjegh2018-151. https://doi.org/10.1144/qjegh2018-151

There has been significant structural damage of newly-built residential buildings in Quarter-27 District in the South of Cairo, Egypt. The proximity of an active limestone quarry may also be affecting ground stability. This paper shows how a near-sur... Read More about Geophysical site assessment of an active urban development site, South Eastern Suburb of Cairo, Egypt.

Constraining the landscape of Late Bronze Age Santorini prior to the Minoan eruption: insights from volcanological, geomorphological and archaeological findings (2020)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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

<jats:p> &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;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... 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

<jats:p> &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;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... 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

<jats:p> &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;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, Scotlan... Read More about Sr isotopes indicate millennial-scale formation of metal-rich layers by reactive melt percolation in an open-system layered intrusion.

Tipping elements and amplified polar warming during the Last Interglacial (2020)
Journal Article
(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

<jats:p> &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;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 phase... 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)
Journal Article
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.

Controls on the deposition and preservation of architectural elements within a fluvial multi-storey sandbody (2020)
Journal Article
Mitten, A., Howell, L., Clarke, S., & Pringle, J. (2020). Controls on the deposition and preservation of architectural elements within a fluvial multi-storey sandbody. Sedimentary Geology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2020.105629

Architectural elements of fluvial multi-storey sandbodies provide principal controls on the distribution of meso-scale (100–101?m scale) heterogeneity and reservoir quality. Consequently, it is valuable to understand the deposition and preservation o... Read More about Controls on the deposition and preservation of architectural elements within a fluvial multi-storey sandbody.

Trialling water treatment residuals in the remediation of former mine site soils: investigating improvements achieved for plants, earthworms and soil solution. (2020)
Journal Article
Arab, K., Thompson, D., & Oliver, I. (2020). Trialling water treatment residuals in the remediation of former mine site soils: investigating improvements achieved for plants, earthworms and soil solution. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 1277-1291. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.4706

During clarification processes of raw water a vast amount of by-product known as drinking water treatment residuals (WTRs) are produced, being principally composed of hydroxides of the Al or Fe salts added during water treatment plus the impurities t... Read More about Trialling water treatment residuals in the remediation of former mine site soils: investigating improvements achieved for plants, earthworms and soil solution..