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Rapid Holocene thinning of an East Antarctic outlet glacier driven by marine ice sheet instability (2015)
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(2015). Rapid Holocene thinning of an East Antarctic outlet glacier driven by marine ice sheet instability. Nature communications, 8910 -?. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9910

Outlet glaciers grounded on a bed that deepens inland and extends below sea level are potentially vulnerable to 'marine ice sheet instability'. This instability, which may lead to runaway ice loss, has been simulated in models, but its consequences h... Read More about Rapid Holocene thinning of an East Antarctic outlet glacier driven by marine ice sheet instability.

Virtual geology special issue: developing training, teaching and research skillsets for geoscientists (2015)
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Pringle. (2015). Virtual geology special issue: developing training, teaching and research skillsets for geoscientists. Geology Today, 31(6), 213 -215. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12118

Current physical science students and researchers are becoming ever more diverse in their learning needs and styles, in their ways of learning and indeed their scientific backgrounds in the subjects that they study. Current schools, colleges and High... Read More about Virtual geology special issue: developing training, teaching and research skillsets for geoscientists.

Spatial and temporal variability of lake ontogeny in south-western Greenland (2015)
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Law, A. (2015). Spatial and temporal variability of lake ontogeny in south-western Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 1 -16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.08.005

Holocene palaeolimnological records of diatoms and ß carotene (a proxy for aquatic production) from four lakes in the low Arctic region of south-western Greenland were used to investigate the role of climate on lake ontogeny. Two of the lakes are loc... Read More about Spatial and temporal variability of lake ontogeny in south-western Greenland.

Anthropogenic earthquakes in the UK: A national baseline prior to shale exploitation (2015)
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(2015). Anthropogenic earthquakes in the UK: A national baseline prior to shale exploitation. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 1 - 17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2015.08.023

We review the distribution, timing and probable causes of ~8000 onshore UK seismic events between the years 1970–2012. Of 1769 onshore seismic events with local magnitudes (ML) = 1.5, we estimate at least ~21% of these have an anthropogenic origin, a... Read More about Anthropogenic earthquakes in the UK: A national baseline prior to shale exploitation.

The great 1815 eruption of Tambora and future risks from large-scale volcanism (2015)
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Gertisser. (2015). The great 1815 eruption of Tambora and future risks from large-scale volcanism. Geology Today, 132 -136. https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12099

The year 2015 marks the bicentenary of the largest eruption in recent historic times: the 10–11 April 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora, Indonesia. Two hundred years after the eruption, an incomplete or inaccurate record of large eruptions over the past... Read More about The great 1815 eruption of Tambora and future risks from large-scale volcanism.

What classic greywacke (litharenite) can reveal about feldspar diagenesis: an example from Permian Rotliegend sandstone in Hessen, Germany (2015)
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(2015). What classic greywacke (litharenite) can reveal about feldspar diagenesis: an example from Permian Rotliegend sandstone in Hessen, Germany. Sedimentary Geology, 79 -93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2015.07.002

Rotliegend siliciclastic sediments in southern Hessen (Germany) are a good example of dissolution of detrital feldspars, which is a common feature in many sandstones. Dissolution occurred after mechanical compaction of the lithic-rich sandstone, whic... Read More about What classic greywacke (litharenite) can reveal about feldspar diagenesis: an example from Permian Rotliegend sandstone in Hessen, Germany.

Obliquity Control On Southern Hemisphere Climate During The Last Glacial (2015)
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(2015). Obliquity Control On Southern Hemisphere Climate During The Last Glacial. Scientific reports, 11673 -?. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep11673

Recent paleoclimate reconstructions have challenged the traditional view that Northern Hemisphere insolation and associated feedbacks drove synchronous global climate and ice-sheet volume during the last glacial cycle. Here we focus on the response o... Read More about Obliquity Control On Southern Hemisphere Climate During The Last Glacial.

Bleaching of the post-IR IRSL signal from individual grains of K-feldspar: Implications for single-grain dating (2015)
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(2015). Bleaching of the post-IR IRSL signal from individual grains of K-feldspar: Implications for single-grain dating. Radiation Measurements, 33 -42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2015.06.003

Post-IR IRSL (pIRIR) signals from K-feldspar grains measured at elevated temperatures are increasingly being used for dating sediments. Unfortunately the pIRIR signal from K-feldspars bleaches more slowly than other signals (e.g. OSL from quartz) upo... Read More about Bleaching of the post-IR IRSL signal from individual grains of K-feldspar: Implications for single-grain dating.

A new R function for the Internal External Uncertainty (IEU) model (2015)
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(2015). A new R function for the Internal External Uncertainty (IEU) model

A new function (calc IEU) is now available in the latest version of the R Luminescence package (version 0.4.2). The calc IEU function can be used to calculate an equivalent dose (De)value for a given dose distribution using the Internal External Unce... Read More about A new R function for the Internal External Uncertainty (IEU) model.

Geophysical surveys to help map buried igneous intrusions, Snowdonia, North Wales, UK (2015)
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Moseley, D., Pringle, J., Haslam, R., Egan, S., Rogers, S., Gertisser, R., Cassidy, N., & Stimpson, I. (2015). Geophysical surveys to help map buried igneous intrusions, Snowdonia, North Wales, UK. Geology Today, 109 -115 (6). https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12096

The geology of the Snowdonia National Park in North Wales comprises a mixture of Lower Palaeozoic shallow marine sediments, acidic igneous rocks and basic intrusions of the Welsh Basin that were subsequently deformed during the Caledonian Orogeny. Th... Read More about Geophysical surveys to help map buried igneous intrusions, Snowdonia, North Wales, UK.

Geothermal reservoir potential of volcaniclastic settings: The Valley of Mexico, Central Mexico (2015)
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(2015). Geothermal reservoir potential of volcaniclastic settings: The Valley of Mexico, Central Mexico. Renewable Energy, 423 -429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2014.12.034

The geothermal potential of the Valley of Mexico has not been addressed in the past, although volcaniclastic settings in other parts of the world contain promising target reservoir formations. An outcrop analogue study of the thermophysical rock prop... Read More about Geothermal reservoir potential of volcaniclastic settings: The Valley of Mexico, Central Mexico.

Seismic monitoring and vibrational characterization of small wind turbines: A case study of the potential effects on the Eskdalemuir International Monitoring System Station in Scotland (2015)
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(2015). Seismic monitoring and vibrational characterization of small wind turbines: A case study of the potential effects on the Eskdalemuir International Monitoring System Station in Scotland. Near Surface Geophysics, 115-126. https://doi.org/10.3997/1873-0604.2015001

This paper presents a case study of the ground-borne vibrations generated by small wind turbines. This is of particular importance for assessing the possible impact on the detection capabilities of the International Monitoring System seismic array at... Read More about Seismic monitoring and vibrational characterization of small wind turbines: A case study of the potential effects on the Eskdalemuir International Monitoring System Station in Scotland.

Diffusive equilibrium in thin-films (DET) provides evidence of suppression of hyporheic exchange and large-scale nitrate transformation in a groundwater-fed river (2015)
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(2015). Diffusive equilibrium in thin-films (DET) provides evidence of suppression of hyporheic exchange and large-scale nitrate transformation in a groundwater-fed river. Hydrological Processes, 1385-1396. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.10269

The hyporheic zone of riverbed sediments has the potential to attenuate nitrate from upwelling, polluted groundwater. However, the coarse-scale (5 – 10?cm) measurement of nitrogen biogeochemistry in the hyporheic zone can often mask fine-scale (<1?cm...

The 'filling in' of community-based planning in the devolved UK? (2015)
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Peel, D., Lloyd, G., & Pemberton, S. (2015). The 'filling in' of community-based planning in the devolved UK?. Geographical Journal, 6 - 15. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12075

Political devolution in the UK has afforded opportunities for studying policy differences and similarities in relation to local-level community-based planning initiatives in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Organised around the concepts... Read More about The 'filling in' of community-based planning in the devolved UK?.

Retrograde metasomatic effects on phase assemblages in an interlayered blueschist-greenschist sequence (Coastal Cordillera, Chile) (2015)
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Halama, R., & Konrad-Schmolke, M. (2015). Retrograde metasomatic effects on phase assemblages in an interlayered blueschist-greenschist sequence (Coastal Cordillera, Chile). Lithos, 31 -47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2014.12.004

Interlayered blueschists and greenschists of the Coastal Cordillera (Chile) are part of a Late Palaeozoic accretionary complex. They represent metavolcanic rocks with oceanic affinities based on predominantly OIB-type REE patterns and immobile trace... Read More about Retrograde metasomatic effects on phase assemblages in an interlayered blueschist-greenschist sequence (Coastal Cordillera, Chile).

Geology and regional significance of the Sarnoo Hills, eastern rift margin of the Barmer Basin, NW India (2015)
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Clarke, S., Beaumont, H., Bladon, A., & Burley, S. (2015). Geology and regional significance of the Sarnoo Hills, eastern rift margin of the Barmer Basin, NW India. Basin Research, 636 -655. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12093

The Barmer Basin is a poorly understood rift basin in Rajasthan, northwest India. Exposures in the Sarnoo Hills, situated along the central eastern rift margin of the Barmer Basin, reveal a sedimentary succession that accumulated prior to the main Ba... Read More about Geology and regional significance of the Sarnoo Hills, eastern rift margin of the Barmer Basin, NW India.

Identifying spatial and temporal dynamics of proglacial groundwater-surface-water exchange using combined temperature-tracing methods (2015)
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Tristram, D., Krause, S., Levy, A., Robinson, Z., Waller, R., & Weatherill, J. (2015). Identifying spatial and temporal dynamics of proglacial groundwater-surface-water exchange using combined temperature-tracing methods. Freshwater Science, 34(1), 99 -110. https://doi.org/10.1086/679757

The effect of proglacial groundwater systems on surface hydrology and ecology in cold regions often is neglected when assessing the ecohydrological implications of climate change. We present a novel approach in which we combined 2 temperature-tracing... Read More about Identifying spatial and temporal dynamics of proglacial groundwater-surface-water exchange using combined temperature-tracing methods.

Long-term variability of proglacial groundwater-fed hydrological systems in an area of glacier retreat, Skeioararsandur, Iceland (2014)
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Levy, A., Robinson, Z., Krause, S., Weatherill, J., & Waller, R. (2015). Long-term variability of proglacial groundwater-fed hydrological systems in an area of glacier retreat, Skeioararsandur, Iceland. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 40(7), 981 -994. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.3696

Proglacial groundwater-fed features, such as seeps, substantially impact proglacial geomorphology, hydrology, and ecology. However, there is a paucity of research on the impacts of climate change and glacier retreat on the extent of these important f... Read More about Long-term variability of proglacial groundwater-fed hydrological systems in an area of glacier retreat, Skeioararsandur, Iceland.

Complex rift geometries resulting from inheritance of pre-existing structures: Insights and regional implications from the Barmer Basin rift (2014)
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Burley, S., Bladon, A., & Clarke, S. (2014). Complex rift geometries resulting from inheritance of pre-existing structures: Insights and regional implications from the Barmer Basin rift. Journal of Structural Geology, 136 - 154. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2014.09.017

Structural studies of the Barmer Basin in Rajasthan, northwest India, demonstrate the important effect that pre-existing faults can have on the geometries of evolving fault systems at both the outcrop and basin-scale. Outcrop exposures on opposing ri... Read More about Complex rift geometries resulting from inheritance of pre-existing structures: Insights and regional implications from the Barmer Basin rift.