Browse research from the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
Submissions from 2017
Intravenous injection of unfunctionalized carbon-based nanomaterials confirms the minimal toxicity observed in aqueous and dietary exposures in juvenile rainbow trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss ), David Boyle, Paul A. Sutton, Richard D. Handy, and Theodore B. Henry
Baffin Bay paleoenvironments in the LGM and HS1: Resolving the ice-shelf question, Anne E. Jennings, John T. Andrews, Cofaigh C Ó, Guillaume St-Onge, Simon Belt, Patricia Cabedo-Sanz, Christof Pearce, Claude Hillaire-Marcel, and Campbell D Calvin
Communicating contested geoscience to the public: Moving from ‘matters of fact’ to ‘matters of concern’, Iain S. Stewart and Deirdre Lewis
Spacing the subject: Thinking subjectivity after non-representational theory, Paul Simpson
Dinocyst stratigraphy and palaeoenvironmental interpretation of the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary at Stevns Klint, Denmark, Meriel E.J. FitzPatrick, David A. Forber, and Malcolm B. Hart
Holocene Cyclic Records of Ice-Rafted Debris and Sea Ice Variations on the East Greenland and Northwest Iceland Margins, D. A. Darby, J. T. Andrews, S. T. Belt, A. E. Jennings, and P. Cabedo-Sanz
Rapid fore-arc extension and detachment-mode spreading following subduction initiation, Antony Morris, Mark W. Anderson, Ahmed Omer, Marco Maffione, and Hinsbergen DJJ van
Relative sea-level variability during the late Middle Pleistocene: New evidence from eastern England, N. L.M. Barlow, A. J. Long, W. R. Gehrels, M. H. Saher, R. G. Scaife, H. J. Davies, K. E.H. Penkman, D. R. Bridgland, A. Sparkes, C. W. Smart, and S. Taylor
Analyzing riparian zone ecosystem services bundles to instruct river management, Looy K. Van, Thierry Tormos, Yves Souchon, and David Gilvear
Seismic faults and sacred sanctuaries in Aegean antiquity, Iain S. Stewart
In situ elemental characterisation of marine microplastics by portable XRF., Andrew Turner
An analysis of variable dissolution rates of sacrificial zinc anodes: a case study of the Hamble estuary, UK, Aldous B. Rees, Anthony Gallagher, Sean Comber, and Laurence A. Wright
Effect of soil saturation on denitrification in a grassland soil, GP Matthews, L Cardenas, R Bol, D Lewicka-Szczebak, A Gregory, W Whalley, T Misselbrook, D Scholefield, and R Well
Quantifying the effects of land use and climate on Holocene vegetation in Europe, Laurent Marquer, Marie José Gaillard, Shinya Sugita, Anneli Poska, Anna Kari Trondman, Florence Mazier, Anne Birgitte Nielsen, Ralph M. Fyfe, Anna Maria Jönsson, Benjamin Smith, Jed O. Kaplan, Teija Alenius, H. John B. Birks, Anne E. Bjune, Jörg Christiansen, John Dodson, Kevin J. Edwards, Thomas Giesecke, Ulrike Herzschuh, Mihkel Kangur, Tiiu Koff, Małgorzata Latałowa, Jutta Lechterbeck, Jörgen Olofsson, and Heikki Seppä
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
The interdisciplinary use of “overpressure”, D. C.P. Peacock, M. W. Anderson, A. Rotevatn, D. J. Sanderson, and E. Tavarnelli
Atomic spectrometry update: review of advances in elemental speciation, Robert Clough, Chris F. Harrington, Steve J. Hill, Yolanda Madrid, and Julian F. Tyson
Aeolian sediment fingerprinting using a Bayesian mixing model, Hamid Gholami, Matt W. Telfer, William H. Blake, and Abolhassan Fathabadi
European national government approaches to older people's transport system needs, Rebecca Johnson, Jon Shaw, Jörn Berding, Matthias Gather, and Markus Rebstock
The onset of fabric development in deep marine sediments, M Maffione and A Morris
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
Editorial Introduction: Fourth Planetary Dunes Workshop Special Issue, Matthew Chojnacki and Matt W. Telfer
River terraces and alluvial fans: The case for an integrated Quaternary fluvial archive, A. E. Mather, M. Stokes, and E. Whitfield
Resolving discrepancies between field and modelled relative sea-level data: lessons from western Ireland, Robin Edwards, W. Roland Gehrels, Anthony Brooks, Ralph Fyfe, Katie Pullen, Joseph Kuchar, and Kieran Craven
Monitoring photo-oxidative and salinity-induced bacterial stress in the Canadian Arctic using specific lipid tracers, Rémi Amiraux, Simon T. Belt, Frédéric Vaultier, Virginie Galindo, Michel Gosselin, Patricia Bonin, and Jean François Rontani
Bromine in plastic consumer products - Evidence for the widespread recycling of electronic waste., Andrew Turner and Montserrat Filella
The Role of Omics in the Application of Adverse Outcome Pathways for Chemical Risk Assessment, EK Brockmeier, G Hodges, TH Hutchinson, E Butler, M Hecker, KE Tollefsen, N Garcia-Reyero, P Kille, D Becker, K Chipman, J Colbourne, TW Collette, A Cossins, M Cronin, P Graystock, S Gutsell, D Knapen, I Katsiadaki, A Lange, S Marshall, SF Owen, EJ Perkins, S Plaistow, A Schroeder, D Taylor, M Viant, G Ankley, and F Falciani
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
Identification of C 25 highly branched isoprenoid (HBI) alkenes in diatoms of the genus Rhizosolenia in polar and sub-polar marine phytoplankton., Simon T. Belt, Thomas A. Brown, Lukas Smik, Agnieszka Tatarek, Józef Wiktor, Gabriele Stowasser, Philipp Assmy, Claire S. Allen, and Katrine Husum
Ocean forcing of Ice Sheet retreat in central west Greenland from LGM to the early Holocene, Anne E. Jennings, John T. Andrews, Cofaigh C Ó, Guillaume St Onge, Christina Sheldon, Simon T. Belt, Patricia Cabedo-Sanz, and Claude Hillaire-Marcel
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
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
Development and validation of an OECD reproductive toxicity test guideline with the mudsnail Potamopyrgus antipodarum (Mollusca, Gastropoda), K Ruppert, C Geiß, C Askem, R Benstead, R Brown, M Coke, V Ducrot, P Egeler, H Holbech, TH Hutchinson, KL Kinnberg, L Lagadic, Page G Le, A Macken, P Matthiessen, S Ostermann, A Schimera, C Schmitt, A Seeland-Fremer, AJ Smith, L Weltje, and J Oehlmann
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
Cadmium, lead and bromine in beached microplastics., Angelo Massos and Andrew Turner
Geomorphology on geologic timescales: Evolution of the late Cenozoic Pacific paleosurface in Northern Chile and Southern Peru, L. A. Evenstar, A. E. Mather, A. J. Hartley, F. M. Stuart, R. S.J. Sparks, and F. J. Cooper
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
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
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
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
Morphodynamics, boundary conditions and pattern evolution within a vegetated linear dunefield, M. W. Telfer, P. P. Hesse, M. Perez-Fernandez, R. M. Bailey, S. Bajkan, and N. Lancaster
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
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
Designing New Zealand’s Emissions Trading Scheme, Tor Håkon Jackson Inderberg, Ian Bailey, and Nichola Harmer
In situ determination of trace elements in Fucus spp. by field-portable-XRF, Andrew Turner, Hiu Poon, Alex Taylor, and Murray T. Brown
Rural Citizenship, RB Yarwood
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
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
Being-in-motion: the everyday (gendered and classed) embodied mobilities for UK university students who commute, Mark Holton and Kirsty Finn
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
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
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
Managing sino-ghanaian fishery relations: A political ecology approach, Ryan Penney, Geoff Wilson, and Lynda Rodwell
Multi-proxy record of orbital-scale changes in climate and sedimentation during the Weissert Event in the Valanginian Bersek Marl Formation (Gerecse Mts., Hungary), Dávid Bajnai, József Pálfy, Mathieu Martinez, Gregory D. Price, Anita Nyerges, and István Főzy
Block and boulder accumulations on the southern coast of Crete (Greece): evidence for the 365 CE tsunami in the Eastern Mediterranean, Sarah J. Boulton and Michael R.Z. Whitworth
The effect of wastewater effluent derived ligands on copper and zinc complexation, C. Constantino, S. D.W. Comber, and M. D. Scrimshaw
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
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
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
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
Crude geopolitics: territory and governance in post-peak oil imaginaries, Nichola Harmer
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
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
Social geology — integrating sustainability concepts into Earth sciences, Iain S. Stewart and Joel C. Gill
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
Coupled changes between the H-Print biomarker and delta N-15 indicates a variable sea ice carbon contribution to the diet of Cumberland Sound beluga whales, T. A. Brown, E. Chrystal, S. H. Ferguson, D. J. Yurkowski, C. Watt, N. E. Hussey, T. C. Kelley, and S. T. Belt
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
Distribution of pelagic phytoplankton-derived lipid biomarkers along a transect from the East Sea to the Bering Sea: insights into their suitability as open-water indicators, J-K Gal, J-H Kim, L Smik, SY Ha, ST Belt, S-I Nam, and K-H Shin
Submissions from 2016
The application of geomorphic indices in terrain analysis for ground engineering practice, M. R. Geach, M. Stokes, and A. Hart
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
Biomarker-based H-Print quantifies the composition of mixed sympagic and pelagic algae consumed by Artemia sp., Thomas A. Brown and Simon T. Belt
Evaluating models of Coulomb stress transfer: Is variable fault geometry important?, Zoe K. Mildon, Shinji Toda, Walker JP Faure, and Gerald P. Roberts
Sea-ice dynamics in an Arctic coastal polynya during the past 6500 years, J Knies, I Pathirana, P Cabedo-Sanz, A Banica, K Fabian, TL Rasmussen, M Forwick, and ST Belt
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
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
Interplay between stress permutations and overpressure to cause strike-slip faulting during tectonic inversion, David C.P. Peacock, Enrico Tavarnelli, and Mark W. Anderson
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
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
Trace elements in fragments of fishing net and other filamentous plastic litter from two beaches in SW England, Andrew Turner
Fluvial archives, a valuable record of vertical crustal deformation, A. Demoulin, A. Mather, and A. Whittaker
A place for sharing: The emotional geographies of peer-sharing in UK University halls of residences, Mark Holton
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 data on the chronology of the Vale do Forno sedimentary sequence (Lower Tejo River terrace staircase) and its relevance as a fluvial archive of the Middle Pleistocene in western Iberia, Pedro P. Cunha, António A. Martins, Jan Pieter Buylaert, Andrew S. Murray, Luis Raposo, Paolo Mozzi, and Martin Stokes
Spatializing Climate Justice: Justice Claim Making and Carbon Pricing Controversies in Australia, Ian Bailey
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
Diversity and carbon storage across the tropical forest biome, Martin J.P. Sullivan, Joey Talbot, Simon L. Lewis, Oliver L. Phillips, Lan Qie, Serge K. Begne, Jerôme Chave, Aida Cuni-Sanchez, Wannes Hubau, Gabriela Lopez-Gonzalez, Lera Miles, Abel Monteagudo-Mendoza, Bonaventure Sonké, Terry Sunderland, Steege H ter, Lee J.T. White, Kofi Affum-Baffoe, Shin Ichiro Aiba, Almeida EC de, Oliveira EA de, Patricia Alvarez-Loayza, Esteban Álvarez Dávila, Ana Andrade, Luiz E.O.C. Aragão, Peter Ashton, Gerardo A. Aymard, Timothy R. Baker, Michael Balinga, Lindsay F. Banin, Christopher Baraloto, Jean Francois Bastin, Nicholas Berry, Jan Bogaert, Damien Bonal, Frans Bongers, Roel Brienen, José Luís C. Camargo, Carlos Cerón, Victor Chama Moscoso, Eric Chezeaux, Connie J. Clark, Álvaro Cogollo Pacheco, James A. Comiskey, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Eurídice N.Honorio Coronado, Greta Dargie, Stuart J. Davies, Canniere C De, Marie Noel Djuikouo, Jean Louis Doucet, Terry L. Erwin, Javier Silva Espejo, Corneille E.N. Ewango, Sophie Fauset, Ted R. Feldpausch, Rafael Herrera, Martin Gilpin, Emanuel Gloor, Jefferson S. Hall, David J. Harris, Terese B. Hart, Kuswata Kartawinata, Lip Khoon Kho, Kanehiro Kitayama, SGW Laurance, WF Laurance, Miguel E. Leal, Thomas Lovejoy, Jon C. Lovett, Faustin Mpanya Lukasu, Jean Remy Makana, Yadvinder Malhi, Leandro Maracahipes, Beatriz S. Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon Junior, Andrew R. Marshall, Paulo S. Morandi, John Tshibamba Mukendi, Jaques Mukinzi, Reuben Nilus, Percy Núñez Vargas, Nadir C.Pallqui Camacho, Guido Pardo, Marielos Peña-Claros, and N/A Pétrone
Spectral and chromatographic characterisation of the onoceroid, ambrane: A potential novel biological marker, Paul A. Sutton and Steven J. Rowland
Rapid mantle-driven uplift along the Angolan margin in the late Quaternary, R. T. Walker, M. Telfer, RL Kahle, M. W. Dee, B Kahle, J. L. Schwenninger, R. A. Sloan, and A. B. Watts
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
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
Our evolving understanding of aeolian bedforms, based on observation of dunes on different worlds, Serina Diniega, Mikhail Kreslavsky, Jani Radebaugh, S Silverstro, Matt Telfer, and Daniela Tirsch
Clockwise rotation of the entire Oman ophiolite occurred in a suprasubduction zone setting, Antony Morris, Matthew Meyer, Mark W. Anderson, and Christopher J. MacLeod
A sense of the cycling environment: Felt experiences of infrastructure and atmospheres, Paul Simpson
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
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
Novel use of field-portable-XRF for the direct analysis of trace elements in marine macroalgae., Annie Bull, Murray T. Brown, and Andrew Turner