Browse research from the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Submissions from 2017
Self-attenuation corrections for Pb-210 in gamma-ray spectrometry using well and coaxial HPGe detectors, A. R. Iurian, G. E. Millward, O. Sima, A. Taylor, and W. Blake
Semi-quantitative reconstruction of early to late Holocene spring and summer sea ice conditions in the northern Barents Sea, Sarah M.P. Berben, Katrine Husum, Alba Navarro-Rodriguez, Simon T. Belt, and Steffen Aagaard-Sørensen
Timing recovery after the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary: evidence from the Brazos River, Texas, USA, Andrew D. Leighton, Malcolm B. Hart, Christopher W. Smart, Melanie J. Leng, and Matthew Hampton
Transfer of ice algae carbon to ice-associated amphipods in the high-Arctic pack ice environment, Thomas A. Brown, Philipp Assmy, Haakon Hop, Anette Wold, and Simon T. Belt
The interdisciplinary use of “overpressure”, D. C.P. Peacock, M. W. Anderson, A. Rotevatn, D. J. Sanderson, and E. Tavarnelli
A Comparison between Four Analytical Methods for the Measurement of Fe(II) at Nanomolar Concentrations in Coastal Seawater, Mark J. Hopwood, Antony J. Birchill, Martha Gledhill, Eric P. Achterberg, Jessica K. Klar, and Angela Milne
Atomic spectrometry update: review of advances in elemental speciation, Robert Clough, Chris F. Harrington, Steve J. Hill, Yolanda Madrid, and Julian F. Tyson
Controls on dryland mountain landscape development along the NW Saharan desert margin: Insights from Quaternary river terrace sequences (Dadès River, south-central High Atlas, Morocco), M. Stokes, A. E. Mather, A. E. Mather, M. R. Geach, and S. J. Boulton
Poverty profiles and coping strategies of the haor (ox-bow lake) households in Bangladesh, MMH Kazal, S Rahman, and MZ Hossain
Editorial Introduction: Fourth Planetary Dunes Workshop Special Issue, Matthew Chojnacki and Matt W. Telfer
Methodological perspectives on the application of compound-specific stable isotope fingerprinting for sediment source apportionment, Hari R. Upadhayay, Samuel Bodé, Marco Griepentrog, Dries Huygens, Roshan M. Bajracharya, William H. Blake, Gerd Dercon, Lionel Mabit, Max Gibbs, Brice X. Semmens, Brian C. Stock, Wim Cornelis, and Pascal Boeckx
River terraces and alluvial fans: The case for an integrated Quaternary fluvial archive, A. E. Mather, M. Stokes, and E. Whitfield
Settling-driven gravitational instabilities associated with volcanic clouds: new insights from experimental investigations, S Scollo, C Bonadonna, and I Manzella
The challenges and opportunities of addressing particle size effects in sediment source fingerprinting: A review, J. Patrick Laceby, Olivier Evrard, Hugh G. Smith, Will H. Blake, Jon M. Olley, Jean P.G. Minella, and Philip N. Owens
Being-in-motion: the everyday (gendered and classed) embodied mobilities for UK university students who commute, Mark Holton and Kirsty Finn
Kinematics of Late Cretaceous subduction initiation in the Neo-Tethys Ocean reconstructed from ophiolites of Turkey, Cyprus, and Syria, M Maffione, Hinsbergen DJJ van, Gelder GINO de, der Goes FC van, and A Morris
Enhancing Productivity and Resource Conservation by Eliminating Inefficiency of Thai Rice Farmers: A Zero Inefficiency Stochastic Frontier Approach, J Liu, S Rahman, S Sriboonchitta, and A Wiboonpongse
Biotic and environmental dynamics through the Late Jurassic-Early Cretaceous transition: evidence for protracted faunal and ecological turnover, Jonathan P. Tennant, Philip D. Mannion, Paul Upchurch, Mark D. Sutton, and Gregory D. Price
Managing sino-ghanaian fishery relations: A political ecology approach, Ryan Penney, Geoff Wilson, and Lynda Rodwell
Numerical modeling of tidal notch sequences on rocky coasts of the Mediterranean Basin, S. Schneiderwind, S. J. Boulton, I. Papanikolaou, M. Kázmér, and K. Reicherter
Trace elements in fragments of fishing net and other filamentous plastic litter from two beaches in SW England, Andrew Turner
The petrology, mineralogy and geochemistry of the large Fen Carbonatite Complex (Norway) REE-Nb resource, C Marien, AH Dijkstra, and C Wilkins
Eurasian ice-sheet dynamics and sensitivity to subglacial hydrology, E Gudlaugsson, A Humbert, K Andreassen, and et al
Mechanism of adsorption of actives onto microporous functionalised calcium carbonate (FCC), Charlotte L. Levy, G. Peter Matthews, Giuliano M. Laudone, Samuel Beckett, Andrew Turner, Joachim Schoelkopf, and Patrick A.C. Gane
Interpreting flash flood palaeoflow parameters from antidunes and gravel lenses: An example from Montserrat, West Indies, Melanie J. Froude, Jan Alexander, Jenni Barclay, and Paul Cole
A new IUGS Commission for Geoheritage: The ‘ICG’, KN Page and D Pereira
Ash aggregation during the 11 February 2010 partial dome collapse of the Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat, F. A. Burns, C. Bonadonna, L. Pioli, P. D. Cole, and A. Stinton
Complexity confers stability: Climate variability, vegetation response and sand transport on longitudinal sand dunes in Australia’s deserts, Paul P. Hesse, Matt W. Telfer, and Will Farebrother
Estimating bedload transport rates in a gravel-bed river using seismic impact plates: Model development and application, PJ Soar and PW Downs
Evaluating the competing effects of lithology and sediment supply on the erosional dynamics of rivers crossing active faults., A Whittaker, S Boulton, E Kent, J Zondervan, M Hann, S Watkins, R Bell, and S Brooke
Innovative tidal notch detection using TLS and fuzzy logic: Implications for palaeo-shorelines from compressional (Crete) and extensional (Gulf of Corinth) tectonic settings, S. Schneiderwind, S. J. Boulton, I. Papanikolaou, and K. Reicherter
Normal fault growth and linkage in the Gediz (Alasehir) Graben, Western Turkey, revealed by transient river long-profiles and slope-break knickpoints, Emiko Kent, Sarah J. Boulton, Alexander C. Whittaker, Iain S. Stewart, and MC Alcicek
Radiocarbon dating of a multi-phase passage tomb on Baltinglass Hill, Co. Wicklow., R Schulting, A Sheridan, A McClatchie, and et al
Social geology — integrating sustainability concepts into Earth sciences, Iain S. Stewart and Joel C. Gill
The Bothnian Sea ice stream: early Holocene retreat dynamics of the south-central Fennoscandian Ice Sheet, SL Greenwood, CC Clason, J Nyberg, M Jakobsson, and P Holmlund
Validation of the OECD reproduction test guideline with the New Zealand mudsnail Potamopyrgus antipodarum using trenbolone and prochloraz, C Geiß, K Ruppert, C Askem, C Barroso, D Faber, V Ducrot, H Holbech, TH Hutchinson, P Kajankari, KL Kinnberg, L Lagadic, P Matthiessen, S Morris, M Neiman, O-P Penttinen, P Sanchez-Marin, M Teigeler, L Weltje, and J Oehlmann
Mineral assemblages and textures of granite-hosted veins in the Hemerdon W–Sn deposit: constraints from scanning electron microscope chemical X-ray mapping, C Wilkins, B Jeffery, J Speer, AH Dijkstra, and J McFarlane
Rural change in the context of globalization : examining theoretical issues, F Da Silva Machado
Event satisfaction and behavioural intentions: examining the impact of the London 2012 Olympic Games on participation in sport, Graham Brown, Stephen Essex, Guy Assaker, and Andrew Smith
Agricultural Productivity Growth and the Role of Capital in South Asia (1980–2013), A Anik, S Rahman, and J Sarker
KRILLBASE: a circumpolar database of Antarctic krill and salp numerical densities, 1926–2016, Angus Atkinson, Simeon L. Hill, Evgeny A. Pakhomov, Volker Siegel, Ricardo Anadon, Sanae Chiba, Kendra L. Daly, Rod Downie, Sophie Fielding, Peter Fretwell, Laura Gerrish, Graham W. Hosie, Mark J. Jessopp, So Kawaguchi, Bjørn A. Krafft, Valerie Loeb, Jun Nishikawa, Helen J. Peat, Christian S. Reiss, Robin M. Ross, Langdon B. Quetin, Katrin Schmidt, Deborah K. Steinberg, Roshni C. Subramaniam, Geraint A. Tarling, and Peter Ward
Hydrothermal cooling of the ocean crust: Insights from ODP Hole 1256D, Michelle Harris, Rosalind M. Coggon, Martin Wood, Christopher E. Smith-Duque, Timothy J. Henstock, and Damon A.H. Teagle
Distributions of the Arctic sea ice biomarker proxy IP25 and two phytoplanktonic biomarkers in surface sediments from West Svalbard, Lukas Smik and Simon T. Belt
Rural Citizenship, RB Yarwood
Crude geopolitics: territory and governance in post-peak oil imaginaries, Nichola Harmer
Class Type Separation of the Polar and Apolar Components of Petroleum, William J. Robson, Paul A. Sutton, Paul McCormack, Neil P. Chilcott, and Steven J. Rowland
Examining student's night-time activity spaces: identities, performances and transformations, Mark Holton
Particulate phases are key in controlling dissolved iron concentrations in the (sub)tropical North Atlantic, Angela Milne, Christian Schlosser, Bronwyn D. Wake, Eric P. Achterberg, Rosie Chance, Alex R. Baker, Alex Forryan, and Maeve C. Lohan
Biomarker-based H-Print quantifies the composition of mixed sympagic and pelagic algae consumed by Artemia sp., Thomas A. Brown and Simon T. Belt
Creep of mafic dykes infiltrated by melt in the lower continental crust (Seiland Igneous Province, Norway), Alessandrini G. Degli, L. Menegon, N. Malaspina, A. H. Dijkstra, and M. W. Anderson
The effect of wastewater effluent derived ligands on copper and zinc complexation, C. Constantino, S. D.W. Comber, and M. D. Scrimshaw
Drivers of Production and Efficiency of Onion Cultivation in Bangladesh, AR Anik, MA Salam, and S Rahman
Stability of dissolved and soluble Fe(II) in shelf sediment pore waters and release to an oxic water column, JK Klar, WB Homoky, PJ Statham, AJ Birchill, and et al
Reciprocal elucidation: a student-led pedagogy in multidisciplinary undergraduate research conferences, H Walkington, J Hill, and PE Kneale
Social Memory and the Resilience of Communities Affected by Land Degradation, Geoff A. Wilson, Claire L. Kelly, Helen Briassoulis, Agostino Ferrara, Gianni Quaranta, Rosanna Salvia, Vassilis Detsis, Michiel Curfs, Artemio Cerda, Ahmed El-Aich, Honghu Liu, Costas Kosmas, Concepción L. Alados, Anton Imeson, Ruta Landgrebe-Trinkunaite, Luca Salvati, Sandra Naumann, Hu Danwen, Theodoros Iosifides, Thanassis Kizos, Giuseppe Mancino, Angelo Nolè, Min Jiang, and Pingcang Zhang
Successional changes of epibiont fouling communities of the cultivated kelp Alaria esculenta: predictability and influences, AM Walls, MD Edwards, LB Firth, and MP Johnson
A substantial fraction of phytoplankton-derived DON is resistant to degradation by a metabolically versatile, widely distributed marine bacterium, L Polimene, D Clark, S Kimmance, and P McCormack
Subsequent biotic crises delayed marine recovery following the late Permian mass extinction event in northern Italy, William J. Foster, Silvia Danise, Gregory D. Price, and Richard J. Twitchett
A place for sharing: The emotional geographies of peer-sharing in UK University halls of residences, Mark Holton
A sense of the cycling environment: Felt experiences of infrastructure and atmospheres, Paul Simpson
Ecological risk assessments to guide decision-making: Methodology matters, GJ Piet, AM Knights, RH Jongbloed, and et al
Faunal response to sea-level and climate change in a short-lived seaway: Jurassic of the Western Interior, USA, S Danise and SM Holland
The cold climate geomorphology of the Eastern Cape Drakensberg: A reevaluation of past climatic conditions during the last glacial cycle in Southern Africa, S. C. Mills, T. T. Barrows, M. W. Telfer, and L. K. Fifield
Combined sea-level and climate controls on limestone formation, hiatuses and ammonite preservation in the Blue Lias Formation, South Britain (uppermost Triassic – Lower Jurassic), GRAHAM P WEEDON, HUGH C JENKYNS, and KEVIN N PAGE
The application of geomorphic indices in terrain analysis for ground engineering practice, M. R. Geach, M. Stokes, and A. Hart
Predicting copper speciation in estuarine waters – Is dissolved organic carbon a good proxy for the presence of organic ligands?, Holly B.C. Pearson, Sean D.W. Comber, Charlotte Braungardt, and Paul J. Worsfold
Bulk-carbonate and belemnite carbon-isotope records across the Pliensbachian-Toarcian boundary on the northern margin of Gondwana (Issouka, Middle Atlas, Morocco), Fatima Zahra Ait-Itto, Gregory D. Price, Addi A Ait, Driss Chafiki, and Imane Mannani
New multiproxy record of the Jenkyns Event (also known as the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event) from the Mecsek Mountains (Hungary): Differences, duration and drivers, Tamás Müller, Gregory D. Price, Dávid Bajnai, Anita Nyerges, Dóra Kesjár, Béla Raucsik, Andrea Varga, Katalin Judik, József Fekete, Zoltán May, and József Pálfy
Interplay between stress permutations and overpressure to cause strike-slip faulting during tectonic inversion, David C.P. Peacock, Enrico Tavarnelli, and Mark W. Anderson
A tale of two gyres: Contrasting distributions of dissolved cobalt and iron in the Atlantic Ocean during an Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT-19), Rachel U. Shelley, Neil J. Wyatt, Glenn A. Tarran, Andrew P. Rees, Paul J. Worsfold, and Maeve C. Lohan
Bedrock structural control on catchment scale connectivity and alluvial fan processes, High Atlas Mountains, Morocco., Anne E. Mather and Martin Stokes
Developing and evaluating ‘PlymTour’ a new mobile online educational resource for students on Plymouth’s people and places, Mark Holton, Nichola Harmer, and Rebecca Vickerstaff
Eco-efficiency of high-yielding variety rice cultivation after accounting for on-farm environmental damage as an undesirable output: an empirical analysis from Bangladesh, N-E Sabiha, R Salim, and S Rahman
Longitudinal Study of Sustainably Educated Graduates, Paul Warwick and Wendy Miller
Novel use of field-portable-XRF for the direct analysis of trace elements in marine macroalgae., Annie Bull, Murray T. Brown, and Andrew Turner
Sonic affects and the production of space: ‘Music by handle’ and the politics of street music in Victorian London, Paul Simpson
Tectonic and lithological controls on fluvial landscape development in Central-Eastern Portugal: Insights from long profile tributary stream analyses, AA Martins, João Cabral, Pedro P. Cunha, Martin Stokes, José Borges, Bento Caldeira, and AC Martins
Submissions from 2016
The Importance of Geosites and Heritage Stones in Cities—a Review, P De Wever, F Baudin, D Pereira, and et al
Evaluating models of Coulomb stress transfer: Is variable fault geometry important?, Zoe K. Mildon, Shinji Toda, Walker JP Faure, and Gerald P. Roberts
Bromine soil/sediment enrichment in tidal salt marshes as a potential indicator of climate changes driven by solar activity: New insights from W coast Portuguese estuaries, J Moreno, F. Fatela, E. Leorri, F Moreno, M. C. Freitas, T. Valente, M. F. Araújo, J. J. Gómez-Navarro, L. Guise, and W. H. Blake
Tapping the archives: The sterol composition of marine sponge species, as determined non-invasively from museum preserved specimens, reveals biogeographical features, SK Lengger, J Fromont, and K Grice
Bioaccessibility of U, Th and Pb in solid wastes and soils from an abandoned uranium mine, Michael Foulkes, Geoffrey Millward, Samuel Henderson, and William Blake
Could this be a concrete solution to biodiversity loss?, LB Firth, A Evans, AM Knights, R Nash, and et al
Controls on the early Holocene collapse of the Bothnian Sea Ice Stream, CC Clason, SL Greenwood, N Selmes, JM Lea, and et al
Assessing the effectiveness of sustainable land management policies for combating desertification: A data mining approach, A. Colantoni, L. Salvati, C. Kosmas, O. Kairis, C. Karavitis, S. Acikalin, A. Belgacem, A. Solé-Benet, M. Chaker, V. Fassouli, C. Gokceoglu, H. Gungor, R. Hessel, H. Khatteli, A. Kounalaki, A. Laouina, F. Ocakoglu, M. Ouessar, C. Ritsema, M. Sghaier, H. Sonmez, H. Taamallah, L. Tezcan, J. de Vente, C. Kelly, and M. Carlucci
Clockwise rotation of the entire Oman ophiolite occurred in a suprasubduction zone setting, Antony Morris, Matthew Meyer, Mark W. Anderson, and Christopher J. MacLeod
Evaluating the success of a marine protected area: A systematic review approach., J. Gallacher, N. Simmonds, H. Fellowes, N. Brown, N. Gill, W. Clark, C. Biggs, and L. D. Rodwell
Slip-partitioned surface ruptures for the Mw 7.0 16 April 2016 Kumamoto, Japan, earthquake, Shinji Toda, Heitaro Kaneda, Shinsuke Okada, Daisuke Ishimura, and Zoë K. Mildon
Spectral and chromatographic characterisation of the onoceroid, ambrane: A potential novel biological marker, Paul A. Sutton and Steven J. Rowland
Variation in stem mortality rates determines patterns of above‐ground biomass in Amazonian forests: implications for dynamic global vegetation models, Michelle O. Johnson, David Galbraith, Manuel Gloor, Deurwaerder H De, Matthieu Guimberteau, Anja Rammig, Kirsten Thonicke, Hans Verbeeck, Randow C von, Abel Monteagudo, Oliver L. Phillips, Roel J.W. Brienen, Ted R. Feldpausch, Gonzalez G Lopez, Sophie Fauset, Carlos A. Quesada, Bradley Christoffersen, Philippe Ciais, Gilvan Sampaio, Bart Kruijt, Patrick Meir, Paul Moorcroft, Ke Zhang, E Alvarez‐Davila, de Oliveira A Alves, Ieda Amaral, Ana Andrade, Luiz E.O.C. Aragao, A Araujo‐Murakami, Eric J.M.M. Arets, Luzmila Arroyo, Gerardo A. Aymard, Christopher Baraloto, Jocely Barroso, Damien Bonal, Rene Boot, Jose Camargo, Jerome Chave, Alvaro Cogollo, Valverde F Cornejo, da Costa AC Lola, Fiore A Di, Leandro Ferreira, Niro Higuchi, Euridice N. Honorio, Tim J. Killeen, SG Laurance, WF Laurance, Juan Licona, Thomas Lovejoy, Yadvinder Malhi, B Marimon, BH Marimon, Darley C.L. Matos, Casimiro Mendoza, David A. Neill, Guido Pardo, M Peña‐Claros, Nigel C.A. Pitman, Lourens Poorter, Adriana Prieto, H Ramirez‐Angulo, Anand Roopsind, Agustin Rudas, Rafael P. Salomao, Marcos Silveira, Juliana Stropp, Steege H ter, John Terborgh, Raquel Thomas, Marisol Toledo, A Torres‐Lezama, der Heijden GMF van, Rodolfo Vasquez, Vieira IC Guimarães, Emilio Vilanova, Vincent A. Vos, and Timothy R. Baker
Ice-flow and meltwater landform assemblages in the Gulf of Bothnia, SL Greenwood, CC Clason, and M Jakobsson
Integrating geodiversity and biodiversity conservation: Strategic and site-based approches, KN Page
Coastal ocean and shelf-sea biogeochemical cycling of trace elements and isotopes: lessons learned from GEOTRACES, Matthew A. Charette, Phoebe J. Lam, Maeve C. Lohan, Eun Young Kwon, Vanessa Hatje, Catherine Jeandel, Alan M. Shiller, Gregory A. Cutter, A Thomas, Philip W. Boyd, William B. Homoky, Angela Milne, H Thomas, Per S. Andersson, Don Porcelli, Takahiro Tanaka, Walter Geibert, Frank Dehairs, and Jordi Garcia-Orellana
High-resolution carbon cycle and seawater temperature evolution during the Early Jurassic (Sinemurian–Early Pliensbachian), Gregory D. Price, Sarah J. Baker, Justin VanDeVelde, and Marie Emilie Clémence
Linking hydraulic traits to tropical forest function in a size-structured and trait-driven model (TFS v.1-Hydro), Bradley O. Christoffersen, Manuel Gloor, Sophie Fauset, Nikolaos M. Fyllas, David R. Galbraith, Timothy R. Baker, Bart Kruijt, Lucy Rowland, Rosie A. Fisher, Oliver J. Binks, Sanna Sevanto, Chonggang Xu, Steven Jansen, Brendan Choat, Maurizio Mencuccini, Nate G. McDowell, and Patrick Meir
Surface faulting during the August 24, 2016, Central Italy earthquake (Mw 6.0): preliminary results, Franz A. Livio, A. M. Michetti, E. Vittori, L. Gregory, L. Wedmore, L. Piccardi, E. Tondi, G. Roberts, ITALY EARTHQUAKE W.G. CENTRAL, A. M. Blumetti, L. Bonadeo, F. Brunamonte, V. Comerci, P. Dimanna, M. F. Ferrario, J. Faure Walker, C. Frigerio, F. Fumanti, L. Guerrieri, F. Iezzi, G. Leoni, K. McCaffrey, Z. Mildon, R. Phillips, E. Rhodes, R. J. Walters, and M. Wilkinson
