Coastal ecosystems are among the most heavily affected by climate change and anthropogenic activities, which impacts their diversity, productivity and functioning and puts many of the key ecosystem services they provide ...

This thesis examines charcoal methods in relation to archaeological sites and woodland resource usage using a variety of anthracological and palaeoecological approaches as well as literary evidence at different spatial and ...

This thesis examines and considers the processes which led to magmatic layering and associated planar and linear fabrics in mafic and ultramafic rocks of four igneous centres of the British (and Irish) Palaeogene Igneous ...

Social insect colonies provide model systems for the examination of conflicts among parties with different genetic interests. As such, they have provided the best tests of inclusive fitness theory. However, much remains ...

A rapid method for local-scale radon risk assessment using in situ radon soil-gas measurements and a national-scale soil permeability data set have been evaluated. We test and validate our approach in a case study on the ...

Olivine is a widely occurring mineral that offers great potential for improving our understanding of geological processes. Olivine is present across a range of geologically significant settings, occurring in stony-iron ...

Attention to value, exchange and circulation has long been a central feature of trade flow analyses. More recently, scholars have sought to extend these frames to examine the ongoing movements of end-of-life goods; essentially ...

The interaction of rare earth bearing (La, Nd, Dy) aqueous solutions with calcite crystals at ambient and hydrothermal conditions (25–220 °C) results in the solvent-mediated surface precipitation and subsequent pseudomorphic ...

Background: Planum Boreum, the north polar plateau of Mars, displays four extensive low-albedo regions covered with widespread se dimentary deposits that are thick enough to partly or completely suppress the signature ...