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Linking in situ crystallisation and magma replenishment via sill intrusion in the Rum Western Layered Intrusion, NW Scotland (2018)
Journal Article
Gertisser, R. (2018). Linking in situ crystallisation and magma replenishment via sill intrusion in the Rum Western Layered Intrusion, NW Scotland. Journal of Petrology, 1605-1642. https://doi.org/10.1093/petrology/egy073

The construction of layered mafic-ultramafic intrusions has traditionally been attributed to gravity driven accumulation, involving the mechanical settling of crystals onto the magma chamber floor, at the interface between the crystal mush at the bas... Read More about Linking in situ crystallisation and magma replenishment via sill intrusion in the Rum Western Layered Intrusion, NW Scotland.

Scratch circles from the Ediacaran and Cambrian of Arctic Norway and southern Africa, with a review of scratch circle occurrences (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Scratch circles from the Ediacaran and Cambrian of Arctic Norway and southern Africa, with a review of scratch circle occurrences. https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1685

Scratch circles—bedding plane parallel sedimentary structures formed by the passive rotation of a tethered organism into the surrounding sediment—are relatively rare in the geological record. Here new occurrences of scratch circles are described from... Read More about Scratch circles from the Ediacaran and Cambrian of Arctic Norway and southern Africa, with a review of scratch circle occurrences.

A novel population of composite mounds: their initiation, growth and demise. San Emiliano Formation, Cantabrian Mountains, Spain (2018)
Journal Article
Rogers. (2018). A novel population of composite mounds: their initiation, growth and demise. San Emiliano Formation, Cantabrian Mountains, Spain. Journal of Iberian Geology, 225-241. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41513-018-0056-4

Purpose: Mounds from the Pennsylvanian aged San Emiliano Formation (Cantabrian Mountains, Spain) are commonly well exposed. These mounds range from 2 to 50 m in height and are observed to be primary geological features. The mounds are described and c... Read More about A novel population of composite mounds: their initiation, growth and demise. San Emiliano Formation, Cantabrian Mountains, Spain.

Evidence from detrital chrome spinel chemistry for a Paleo-Tethyan intra-oceanic island-arc provenance recorded in Triassic sandstones of the Nakhlak Group, Central Iran (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Evidence from detrital chrome spinel chemistry for a Paleo-Tethyan intra-oceanic island-arc provenance recorded in Triassic sandstones of the Nakhlak Group, Central Iran. Journal of African Earth Sciences, 242-252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jafrearsci.2018.03.006

Detrital chrome spinel (Cr-spinel) is for the first time described from the Nakhlak Group, which is a distinctive Triassic (Late Olenekian??Early Carnian) sedimentary succession in Central Iran. Previously published data from the Nakhlak Group sugges... Read More about Evidence from detrital chrome spinel chemistry for a Paleo-Tethyan intra-oceanic island-arc provenance recorded in Triassic sandstones of the Nakhlak Group, Central Iran.

Tracing ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism at the catchment scale (2018)
Journal Article
(2018). Tracing ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism at the catchment scale. Scientific reports, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-21262-8

Finding traces of ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) metamorphism in the geological record has huge implications for unravelling Earth’s geodynamic evolution, such as the onset of deep subduction. Usually, UHP rocks are identified by specific mineral inclusion... Read More about Tracing ultrahigh-pressure metamorphism at the catchment scale.

Internal dynamics condition centennial-scale oscillations in marine-based ice stream retreat (2017)
Journal Article
(2017). Internal dynamics condition centennial-scale oscillations in marine-based ice stream retreat. Geology, 787-790. https://doi.org/10.1130/G38991.1

Rates of ice stream retreat over decades can be determined from repeated satellite surveys and over millennia by palaeoenvironmental reconstructions. Centennial time scales are an important temporal gap in geological observations of value in process... Read More about Internal dynamics condition centennial-scale oscillations in marine-based ice stream retreat.

Monitoring subsidence to relict salt mines using long-term time-lapse microgravity, Marston, Cheshire, UK (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Pringle. (2017, May). Monitoring subsidence to relict salt mines using long-term time-lapse microgravity, Marston, Cheshire, UK. Presented at Postgraduate Research Symposium of the Near Surface Geophysics Group, Leicester University

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a near-surface geophysical technique, and has been previously used to obtain 3D sedimentary architectures of both modern and ancient fluvial successions. Obtaining multiple 2D profiles behind outcrop exposures should... Read More about Monitoring subsidence to relict salt mines using long-term time-lapse microgravity, Marston, Cheshire, UK.

A preliminary Ground Penetrating Radar study of fluvial architectures at Spireslack, Ayreshire, Scotland (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Pringle. (2017, May). A preliminary Ground Penetrating Radar study of fluvial architectures at Spireslack, Ayreshire, Scotland. Presented at Postgraduate Research Symposium of the Near Surface Geophysics Group, Leicester University

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) is a near-surface geophysical technique, and has been previously used to obtain 3D sedimentary architectures of both modern and ancient fluvial successions. Obtaining multiple 2D profiles behind outcrop exposures should... Read More about A preliminary Ground Penetrating Radar study of fluvial architectures at Spireslack, Ayreshire, Scotland.

Silicification and organic matter preservation in the Anisian Muschelkalk: Implications for the basin dynamics of the central European Muschelkalk Sea (2017)
Journal Article
Montenari. (2017). Silicification and organic matter preservation in the Anisian Muschelkalk: Implications for the basin dynamics of the central European Muschelkalk Sea. Central European Geology, 35-52. https://doi.org/10.1556/24.60.2017.002

Anisian Muschelkalk carbonates of the southern Germanic Basin containing silicified ooidal grainstone are interpreted as evidence of changing pH conditions triggered by increased bioproductivity (marine phytoplankton) and terrestrial input of plant d... Read More about Silicification and organic matter preservation in the Anisian Muschelkalk: Implications for the basin dynamics of the central European Muschelkalk Sea.

Petrogenesis and contrasting eruption styles of peralkaline silicic magmas from Terceira and São Miguel, Azores (2016)
Thesis
Jeffrey, A. J. (2016). Petrogenesis and contrasting eruption styles of peralkaline silicic magmas from Terceira and São Miguel, Azores. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/407274

The petrogenetic processes through which peralkaline silicic magmas are generated in oceanic island environments, as well as the controls on their eruptive behaviour, are not well understood. This study utilises two such systems, Pico Alto and Furnas... Read More about Petrogenesis and contrasting eruption styles of peralkaline silicic magmas from Terceira and São Miguel, Azores.

On the compositional variability of dalyite, K2ZrSi6O15: a new occurrence from Terceira, Azores (2016)
Journal Article
Jeffery, A., Gertisser, R., Jackson, R., O'Driscoll, B., & Kronz, A. (2016). On the compositional variability of dalyite, K2ZrSi6O15: a new occurrence from Terceira, Azores. Mineralogical Magazine, 547-565. https://doi.org/10.1180/minmag.2016.080.018

The rare potassium zirconium silicate dalyite has been identified for the first time on Terceira, Azores, within syenitic ejecta of the Caldeira-Castelinho Ignimbrite Formation. New quantitative analyses of this dalyite were combined with the small n... Read More about On the compositional variability of dalyite, K2ZrSi6O15: a new occurrence from Terceira, Azores.

Fluid-induced breakdown of white mica controls nitrogen transfer during fluid-rock interaction in subduction zones (2016)
Journal Article
Halama, R., Bebout, G., Marschall, H., & John, T. (2016). Fluid-induced breakdown of white mica controls nitrogen transfer during fluid-rock interaction in subduction zones. International Geology Review, 702-720. https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2016.1233834

In order to determine the effects of fluid–rock interaction on nitrogen elemental and isotopic systematics in high-pressure metamorphic rocks, we investigated three different profiles representing three distinct scenarios of metasomatic overprinting.... Read More about Fluid-induced breakdown of white mica controls nitrogen transfer during fluid-rock interaction in subduction zones.

Geophysical and botanical monitoring of simulated graves in a tropical rainforest, Colombia, South America (2016)
Journal Article
Martin Molina, C., Pringle, J. K., Saumett, M., & Evans, G. T. (2016). Geophysical and botanical monitoring of simulated graves in a tropical rainforest, Colombia, South America. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 232-242. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jappgeo.2016.10.002

In most Latin American countries there are significant numbers of missing people and forced disappearances, currently ~74,000 only in Colombia. Successful detection of shallow buried human remains by forensic search teams is currently difficult in va... Read More about Geophysical and botanical monitoring of simulated graves in a tropical rainforest, Colombia, South America.

Evidence for pre-Caledonian discontinuities in the Achnashellach Culmination, Moine Thrust Zone: the importance of a pre-thrust template in influencing fold and thrust belt development (2016)
Journal Article
Cain, T., Leslie, A., Clarke, S., Kelly, M., & Krabbendam, M. (2016). Evidence for pre-Caledonian discontinuities in the Achnashellach Culmination, Moine Thrust Zone: the importance of a pre-thrust template in influencing fold and thrust belt development. Scottish Journal of Geology, 103-109. https://doi.org/10.1144/sjg2015-002

South of the Loch Maree Fault in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland, an unexplained step-wise thickening of Torridon Group strata, from c. 200–1000 m, occurs towards the Loch Maree Fault, within the trailing edges of the stacked thrust sheets of the... Read More about Evidence for pre-Caledonian discontinuities in the Achnashellach Culmination, Moine Thrust Zone: the importance of a pre-thrust template in influencing fold and thrust belt development.

Transitions between explosive and effusive phases during the cataclysmic 2010 eruption of Merapi volcano, Java, Indonesia (2016)
Journal Article
Gertisser. (2016). Transitions between explosive and effusive phases during the cataclysmic 2010 eruption of Merapi volcano, Java, Indonesia. Bulletin of Volcanology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-016-1046-z

Transitions between explosive and effusive activity are commonly observed during dome-forming eruptions and may be linked to factors such as magma influx, ascent rate and degassing. However, the interplay between these factors is complex and the resu... Read More about Transitions between explosive and effusive phases during the cataclysmic 2010 eruption of Merapi volcano, Java, Indonesia.

Heavy minerals and garnet geochemistry of stream sediments and bedrocks from the Almklovdalen area, Western Gneiss Region, SW Norway: Implications for provenance analysis (2016)
Journal Article
(2016). Heavy minerals and garnet geochemistry of stream sediments and bedrocks from the Almklovdalen area, Western Gneiss Region, SW Norway: Implications for provenance analysis. Sedimentary Geology, 96 -105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sedgeo.2015.09.009

Detrital heavy minerals commonly document the geological setting in the source area, hence they are widely used in sedimentary provenance analysis. In heavy mineral studies, the 63–125 and 63–250 µm grain size fractions are most commonly used. Heavy... Read More about Heavy minerals and garnet geochemistry of stream sediments and bedrocks from the Almklovdalen area, Western Gneiss Region, SW Norway: Implications for provenance analysis.