Teaching and learning on a transnational education programme: opportunities and challenges for flying faculty in Geography and related disciplines (2017)
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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.

Spherulite formation in obsidian lavas in the Aeolian Islands, Italy (2017)
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Gertisser. (2017). Spherulite formation in obsidian lavas in the Aeolian Islands, Italy. https://doi.org/10.2451/2017PM680

Spherulites in obsidian lavas of Lipari and Vulcano (Italy) are characterised by spatial, textural and geochemical variations, formed by different processes. Spherulites vary in size from <1 mm to 8 mm, are spherical to elongate in shape, and show va...

Tropical forcing of increased Southern Ocean climate variability revealed by a 140-year subantarctic temperate reconstruction (2017)
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(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)
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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.

Provenance of a large Lower Cretaceous turbidite submarine fan complex on the active Laurasian margin: Central Pontides, northern Turkey (2017)
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(2017). Provenance of a large Lower Cretaceous turbidite submarine fan complex on the active Laurasian margin: Central Pontides, northern Turkey. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences, 309 - 329. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jseaes.2016.11.028

The Pontides formed the southern active margin of Laurasia during the Mesozoic. They became separated from mainland Laurasia during the Late Cretaceous, with the opening of the Black Sea as an oceanic back-arc basin. During the Early Cretaceous, a la... Read More about Provenance of a large Lower Cretaceous turbidite submarine fan complex on the active Laurasian margin: Central Pontides, northern Turkey.

Too much of a good thing? The role of detailed UAV imagery in characterising large-scale badland drainage characteristics in South-eastern Spain (2017)
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Nobajas, A., Waller, R., Robinson, Z., & Sangonzalo, R. (2017). Too much of a good thing? The role of detailed UAV imagery in characterising large-scale badland drainage characteristics in South-eastern Spain. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 38(8-10), 2844 - 2860. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2016.1274450

Some arid and semi-arid areas experience high erosion rates as a consequence of their geological and climatic conditions. This can lead to the development of badland environments characterized by very high drainage densities and the occurrence of a r... Read More about Too much of a good thing? The role of detailed UAV imagery in characterising large-scale badland drainage characteristics in South-eastern Spain.

New age constraints for the limit of the British–Irish Ice Sheet on the Isles of Scilly (2017)
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(2017). New age constraints for the limit of the British–Irish Ice Sheet on the Isles of Scilly. Journal of Quaternary Science, 48 -62. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2922

The southernmost terrestrial extent of the Irish Sea Ice Stream (ISIS), which drained a large proportion of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet, impinged on to the Isles of Scilly during Marine Isotope Stage 2. However, the age of this ice limit has bee... Read More about New age constraints for the limit of the British–Irish Ice Sheet on the Isles of Scilly.

Devising quality assurance procedures for assessment of legacy geochronological data relating to deglaciation of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet (2017)
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(2017). Devising quality assurance procedures for assessment of legacy geochronological data relating to deglaciation of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet. Earth-Science Reviews, 232 -250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2016.11.007

This contribution documents the process of assessing the quality of data within a compilation of legacy geochronological data relating to the last British-Irish Ice Sheet, a task undertaken as part of a larger community-based project (BRITICE-CHRONO)... Read More about Devising quality assurance procedures for assessment of legacy geochronological data relating to deglaciation of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet.

Comment on Maravelis et al. “Accretionary prism-forearc interactions as reflected in the sedimentary fill of southern Thrace Basin (Lemnos Island, NE Greece)” (2017)
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(2017). Comment on Maravelis et al. “Accretionary prism-forearc interactions as reflected in the sedimentary fill of southern Thrace Basin (Lemnos Island, NE Greece)”. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 387 -388. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-016-1302-7

This contribution is intended to shed light on the content of the paper by Maravelis et al. (2015) about the evolution of the island of Limnos, a small portion of the Cenozoic Thrace Basin (Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria). Although we appreciate their a... Read More about Comment on Maravelis et al. “Accretionary prism-forearc interactions as reflected in the sedimentary fill of southern Thrace Basin (Lemnos Island, NE Greece)”.

Geothermal Energy from the Main Karoo Basin (South Africa): An Outcrop Analogue Study of Permian Sandstone Reservoir Formations (2016)
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(2016). Geothermal Energy from the Main Karoo Basin (South Africa): An Outcrop Analogue Study of Permian Sandstone Reservoir Formations. Energy Procedia, 186 -193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2016.10.050

The geothermal potential of the Main Karoo Basin has not been addressed in the past. A first assessment of Permian sandstone formations in the Eastern Cape Province, including down-hole temperature data from deep boreholes, and evaluation of groundwa... Read More about Geothermal Energy from the Main Karoo Basin (South Africa): An Outcrop Analogue Study of Permian Sandstone Reservoir Formations.

Brief Communication: Evidence of a developing Polynya off Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica, triggered by grounding of iceberg (2016)
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(2016). Brief Communication: Evidence of a developing Polynya off Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica, triggered by grounding of iceberg. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2603-2016

The dramatic calving of the Mertz Glacier tongue in 2010, precipitated by the movement of iceberg B09B, reshaped the oceanographic regime across the Mertz Polynya and Commonwealth Bay, regions where high-salinity shelf water (HSSW) – the precursor to... Read More about Brief Communication: Evidence of a developing Polynya off Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica, triggered by grounding of iceberg.

Brief communication: Impacts of a developing polynya off Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica, triggered by grounding of iceberg B09B (2016)
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(2016). Brief communication: Impacts of a developing polynya off Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica, triggered by grounding of iceberg B09B. Cryosphere, 2603 -2609. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2603-2016

The dramatic calving of the Mertz Glacier tongue in 2010, precipitated by the movement of iceberg B09B, reshaped the oceanographic regime across the Mertz Polynya and Commonwealth Bay, regions where high-salinity shelf water (HSSW) - the precursor to... Read More about Brief communication: Impacts of a developing polynya off Commonwealth Bay, East Antarctica, triggered by grounding of iceberg B09B.

Impacts of marine instability across the East Antarctic Ice Sheet on Southern Ocean dynamics (2016)
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(2016). Impacts of marine instability across the East Antarctic Ice Sheet on Southern Ocean dynamics. Cryosphere, 2317 -2328. https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-10-2317-2016

Recent observations and modelling studies have demonstrated the potential for rapid and substantial retreat of large sectors of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS). This has major implications for ocean circulation and global sea level. Here we exami... Read More about Impacts of marine instability across the East Antarctic Ice Sheet on Southern Ocean dynamics.

The ‘Roxolany Tephra’ (Ukraine) – new evidence for an origin from Ciomadul volcano, East Carpathians (2016)
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Gertisser. (2016). The ‘Roxolany Tephra’ (Ukraine) – new evidence for an origin from Ciomadul volcano, East Carpathians. Journal of Quaternary Science, 565-576. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2879

We present major element glass data and correlations for the ‘Roxolany Tephra’ - a so far geochemically unconstrained volcanic ash layer previously described in last glacial (Marine Isotope Stage 2) loess deposits of the Roxolany loess–palaeosol comp... Read More about The ‘Roxolany Tephra’ (Ukraine) – new evidence for an origin from Ciomadul volcano, East Carpathians.

The ‘Roxolany Tephra’ (Ukraine) – new evidence for an origin from Ciomadul volcano, East Carpathians (2016)
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Gertisser. (2016). The ‘Roxolany Tephra’ (Ukraine) – new evidence for an origin from Ciomadul volcano, East Carpathians. Journal of Quaternary Science, 565-576. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2879

We present major element glass data and correlations for the ‘Roxolany Tephra’ - a so far geochemically unconstrained volcanic ash layer previously described in last glacial (Marine Isotope Stage 2) loess deposits of the Roxolany loess–palaeosol comp... Read More about The ‘Roxolany Tephra’ (Ukraine) – new evidence for an origin from Ciomadul volcano, East Carpathians.

Geothermal energy from the Main Karoo Basin? New insights from borehole KWV-1 (Eastern Cape, South Africa) (2016)
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(2016). Geothermal energy from the Main Karoo Basin? New insights from borehole KWV-1 (Eastern Cape, South Africa). Geothermal Energy, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40517-016-0051-y

Deep sedimentary basins are currently being assessed globally with respect to their geothermal energy resources. So far, the utilization of deep geothermal energy has not been addressed or included in any renewable energy scheme of South Africa. Howe... Read More about Geothermal energy from the Main Karoo Basin? New insights from borehole KWV-1 (Eastern Cape, South Africa).

Geothermal energy from the Main Karoo Basin? New insights from borehole KWV-1 (Eastern Cape, South Africa) (2016)
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(2016). Geothermal energy from the Main Karoo Basin? New insights from borehole KWV-1 (Eastern Cape, South Africa). Geothermal Energy, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40517-016-0051-y

Deep sedimentary basins are currently being assessed globally with respect to their geothermal energy resources. So far, the utilization of deep geothermal energy has not been addressed or included in any renewable energy scheme of South Africa. Howe... Read More about Geothermal energy from the Main Karoo Basin? New insights from borehole KWV-1 (Eastern Cape, South Africa).

Reconstruction of the East Africa and Antarctica continental margins (2016)
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(2016). Reconstruction of the East Africa and Antarctica continental margins. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 4156 -4179. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JB012776

The Early Jurassic separation of Antarctica from Africa plays an important role in our understanding of the dispersal of Gondwana and Pangea. Previous reconstruction models contain overlaps and gaps in the restored margins that reflect difficulties i... Read More about Reconstruction of the East Africa and Antarctica continental margins.