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LGM-Holocene environmental change in SE Asia »
The lowland tropics of Wallacea in south-east Asia represent some of the most diverse, biogeographically significant forests globally. Long-term ecological data for this region are however scarce, making it difficult to predict vegetation response to future drivers of change.
A Memory of Ice: the Antarctic Voyage of the Glomar Challenger »
Liz will give us her highlights from her new book "A Memory of Ice: the Antarctic Voyage of the Glomar Challenger"
Rheological structure of plate boundary strike-slip faults »
The boundaries of tectonic plates cover ~15% of Earth’s surface and constitute areas of significant natural hazards, including earthquakes. As ~40% of Earth’s population lives along plate boundaries, it is critical to understand what aspects of lithospheric deformation control earthquakes in interplate settings....
Challenges with identifying crustal assimilants at an intermediate-composition arc volcano »
A central objective of petrogenetic studies is to determine the proportions of crystallised magma to assimilated country-rock. In assimilation-fractional crystallisation (AFC) calculations, this is represented by the “r-value”. To calculate assimilation/crystallisation proportions, it is necessary to know the...
The Significance of Serpentine »
The mineral serpentine is the result of low-grade metamorphic reactions between ultramafic rocks and water. Given that the rocky envelopes of the terrestrial planets and moons are mainly ultramafic, and water is a common molecule, especially on the outside of these bodies, serpentine assumes a position of...
Glacial sea ice variability in the Norwegian Sea during abrupt climate changes 32–40 ka »
The last glacial period was marked by pronounced millennial-scale climate changes that were first documented in Greenland ice core records and thereafter in numerous ocean and climate records from around the world. This so-called Dansgaard-Oeschger (D-O) climate variability comprises one of the most pronounced and...
