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Igneous sills record far-field and near-field stress interactions during volcano construction: Isle of Mull, Scotland (2017)
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Stephens, T., Walker, R., Healy, D., Bubeck, A., England, R., & McCaffrey, K. (2017). Igneous sills record far-field and near-field stress interactions during volcano construction: Isle of Mull, Scotland. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 478, 159-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2017.09.003

Sill emplacement is typically associated with horizontally mechanically layered host rocks in a near-hydrostatic far-field stress state, where contrasting mechanical properties across the layers promote transitions from dykes, or inclined sheets, to... Read More about Igneous sills record far-field and near-field stress interactions during volcano construction: Isle of Mull, Scotland.

The effect of aluminium and sodium impurities on the in vitro toxicity and pro-inflammatory potential of cristobalite (2017)
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Nattrass, C., Horwell, C., Damby, D., Brown, D., & Stone, V. (2017). The effect of aluminium and sodium impurities on the in vitro toxicity and pro-inflammatory potential of cristobalite. Environmental Research, 159, 164-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2017.07.054

Background: Exposure to crystalline silica (SiO2), in the form of quartz, tridymite or cristobalite, can cause respiratory diseases, such as silicosis. However, the observed toxicity and pathogenicity of crystalline silica is highly variable. This ha... Read More about The effect of aluminium and sodium impurities on the in vitro toxicity and pro-inflammatory potential of cristobalite.

Stable strontium isotopic heterogeneity in the solar system from double-spike data (2017)
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Charlier, B., Parkinson, I., Burton, K., Grady, M., Wilson, C., & Smith, E. (2017). Stable strontium isotopic heterogeneity in the solar system from double-spike data. Geochemical perspectives letters, 4, 35-40. https://doi.org/10.7185/geochemlet.1733

Strontium isotopic anomalies in meteorites are important in assessing nucleosynthetic sources to, and measuring the timing of, early solar system processes. However, conventional use of a constant 88Sr/86Sr value in correcting for instrumental mass f... Read More about Stable strontium isotopic heterogeneity in the solar system from double-spike data.

Multiple sources of the Early Mesozoic Gouli batholith, Eastern Kunlun Orogenic Belt, northern Tibetan Plateau: Linking continental crustal growth with oceanic subduction (2017)
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Chen, J., Wei, J., Fu, L., Li, H., Zhou, H., Zhao, X., …Tan, J. (2017). Multiple sources of the Early Mesozoic Gouli batholith, Eastern Kunlun Orogenic Belt, northern Tibetan Plateau: Linking continental crustal growth with oceanic subduction. Lithos, 292-293, 161-178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2017.09.006

Orogenic belts have been among the most important locations to investigate the growth of continental crust (CC). The Eastern Kunlun Orogenic Belt (EKOB), which contains widespread Permian–Triassic granitoids, is volumetrically comparable to the Cenoz... Read More about Multiple sources of the Early Mesozoic Gouli batholith, Eastern Kunlun Orogenic Belt, northern Tibetan Plateau: Linking continental crustal growth with oceanic subduction.

Assessment of the potential respiratory hazard of volcanic ash from future Icelandic eruptions: a study of archived basaltic to rhyolitic ash samples (2017)
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Damby, D., Horwell, C., Larsen, G., Thordarson, T., Tomatis, M., Fubini, B., & Donaldson, K. (2017). Assessment of the potential respiratory hazard of volcanic ash from future Icelandic eruptions: a study of archived basaltic to rhyolitic ash samples. Environmental Health, 16, Article 98. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-017-0302-9

Background: The eruptions of Eyjafjallajökull (2010) and Grímsvötn (2011), Iceland, triggered immediate, international consideration of the respiratory health hazard of inhaling volcanic ash, and prompted the need to estimate the potential hazard pos... Read More about Assessment of the potential respiratory hazard of volcanic ash from future Icelandic eruptions: a study of archived basaltic to rhyolitic ash samples.

A regime shift in the Sun-Climate connection with the end of the Medieval Climate Anomaly (2017)
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Smirnov, D., Breitenbach, S., Feulner, G., Lechleitner, F., Prufer, K., Baldini, J., …Kurths, J. (2017). A regime shift in the Sun-Climate connection with the end of the Medieval Climate Anomaly. Scientific Reports, 7, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-11340-8

Understanding the influence of changes in solar activity on Earth’s climate and distinguishing it from other forcings, such as volcanic activity, remains a major challenge for palaeoclimatology. This problem is best approached by investigating how th... Read More about A regime shift in the Sun-Climate connection with the end of the Medieval Climate Anomaly.

Ordovician rhynchonelliformean brachiopods from Co. Waterford, SE Ireland: Palaeobiogeography of the Leinster Terrane (2017)
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Liljeroth, M., Harper, D., Carlisle, H., & Nielsen, A. (2017). Ordovician rhynchonelliformean brachiopods from Co. Waterford, SE Ireland: Palaeobiogeography of the Leinster Terrane. John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119412595

Partitioning of oblique convergence coupled to the fault locking behavior of fold-and-thrust belts: evidence from the Qilian Shan, northeastern Tibetan Plateau (2017)
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Allen, M., Walters, R., Song, S., Saville, C., De Paola, N., Ford, J., …Sun, W. (2017). Partitioning of oblique convergence coupled to the fault locking behavior of fold-and-thrust belts: evidence from the Qilian Shan, northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Tectonics, 36(9), 1679-1698. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017tc004476

Oblique plate convergence is common, but it is not clear how the obliquity is achieved by continental fold-and-thrust belts. We address this problem in the Qilian Shan, northeastern Tibetan Plateau, using fieldwork observations, geomorphic analysis a... Read More about Partitioning of oblique convergence coupled to the fault locking behavior of fold-and-thrust belts: evidence from the Qilian Shan, northeastern Tibetan Plateau.

‘From the mouths of babes’: a subadult dietary stable isotope perspective on Roman London (Londinium) (2017)
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Redfern, R., Gowland, R., Millard, A., Powell, L., & Gröcke, D. (2018). ‘From the mouths of babes’: a subadult dietary stable isotope perspective on Roman London (Londinium). Journal of Archaeological Science, 19, 1030-1040. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.08.015

Londinium (48–410 CE) was the focus for Roman administration and trade in Britain; it was established and inhabited by people from across the Empire who continued to practice their diverse food-ways. Roman London was a unique settlement, whose fluctu... Read More about ‘From the mouths of babes’: a subadult dietary stable isotope perspective on Roman London (Londinium).

Iron and silicon isotope behaviour accompanying weathering in Icelandic soils, and the implications for iron export from peatlands (2017)
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Opfergelt, S., Williams, H., Cornelis, J., Guicharnaud, R., Georg, R., Siebert, C., …Burton, K. (2017). Iron and silicon isotope behaviour accompanying weathering in Icelandic soils, and the implications for iron export from peatlands. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 217, 273-291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.08.033

Incipient warming of peatlands at high latitudes is expected to modify soil drainage and hence the redox conditions, which has implications for Fe export from soils. This study uses Fe isotopes to assess the processes controlling Fe export in a range... Read More about Iron and silicon isotope behaviour accompanying weathering in Icelandic soils, and the implications for iron export from peatlands.

Cyclic magmatic-hydrothermal evolution in porphyry systems: High-precision U-Pb and Re-Os geochronology constraints from the Tibetan Qulong porphyry Cu-Mo deposit (2017)
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Li, Y., Selby, D., Condon, D., & Tapster, S. (2017). Cyclic magmatic-hydrothermal evolution in porphyry systems: High-precision U-Pb and Re-Os geochronology constraints from the Tibetan Qulong porphyry Cu-Mo deposit. Economic geology and the bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists, 112(6), 1419-1440. https://doi.org/10.5382/econgeo.2017.4515

We present high-precision chemical abrasion-isotope dilution-thermal ionization mass spectrometry (CA-IDTIMS) U-Pb zircon and isotope dilution-negative-thermal ionization mass spectrometry (ID-N-TIMS) Re-Os molybdenite geochronology of the world-clas... Read More about Cyclic magmatic-hydrothermal evolution in porphyry systems: High-precision U-Pb and Re-Os geochronology constraints from the Tibetan Qulong porphyry Cu-Mo deposit.

Weathering fluxes and sediment provenance on the SW Scottish shelf during the last deglaciation (2017)
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Arosio, R., Crocket, K. C., Nowell, G. M., Louise Callard, S., Howe, J. A., Benetti, S., …Clark, C. D. (2018). Weathering fluxes and sediment provenance on the SW Scottish shelf during the last deglaciation. Marine Geology, 402, 81-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2017.08.017

The reconstruction of past ice sheet dynamics can shed a light on long-term ice stream activity, and in turn provide constraints on the response of modern ice sheets to climate change. The Hebrides Ice Stream (HIS) flowed across part of the western S... Read More about Weathering fluxes and sediment provenance on the SW Scottish shelf during the last deglaciation.

Direct monitoring of active geohazards: emerging geophysical tools for deep-water assessments (2017)
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Clare, M., Vardy, M., Cartigny, M., Talling, P., Himsworth, M., Dix, J., …Belal, M. (2017). Direct monitoring of active geohazards: emerging geophysical tools for deep-water assessments. Near Surface Geophysics, 15(4), 427-444. https://doi.org/10.3997/1873-0604.2017033

Seafloor networks of cables, pipelines, and other infrastructure underpin our daily lives, providing communication links, information, and energy supplies. Despite their global importance, these networks are vulnerable to damage by a number of natura... Read More about Direct monitoring of active geohazards: emerging geophysical tools for deep-water assessments.

Eustatic sea-level controls on the flushing of a shelf-incising submarine canyon (2017)
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Allin, J. R., Hunt, J. E., Clare, M. A., & Talling, P. J. (2017). Eustatic sea-level controls on the flushing of a shelf-incising submarine canyon. GSA Bulletin, 130(1-2), 222-237. https://doi.org/10.1130/b31658.1

Turbidity currents are the principal processes responsible for carving submarine canyons and maintaining them over geological time scales. The turbidity currents that maintain or “flush” submarine canyons are some of the most voluminous sediment tran... Read More about Eustatic sea-level controls on the flushing of a shelf-incising submarine canyon.

Gas venting that bypasses the feather edge of marine hydrate, offshore Mauritania (2017)
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Li, A., Davies, R. J., Mathias, S., Yang, J., Hobbs, R., & Wilson, M. (2017). Gas venting that bypasses the feather edge of marine hydrate, offshore Mauritania. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 88, 402-409. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2017.08.026

Methane can be released from the vast marine hydrate reservoirs that surround continents into oceans and perhaps the atmosphere. But how these pathways work within the global carbon cycle now and during a warmer world is only partially understood. He... Read More about Gas venting that bypasses the feather edge of marine hydrate, offshore Mauritania.

From slow to fast faulting: recent challenges in earthquake fault mechanics (2017)
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Nielsen, S. (2017). From slow to fast faulting: recent challenges in earthquake fault mechanics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 375(2103), Article 20160016. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2016.0016

Faults—thin zones of highly localized shear deformation in the Earth—accommodate strain on a momentous range of dimensions (millimetres to hundreds of kilometres for major plate boundaries) and of time intervals (from fractions of seconds during eart... Read More about From slow to fast faulting: recent challenges in earthquake fault mechanics.

Evaluating roughness scaling properties of natural active fault surfaces by means of multi-view photogrammetry (2017)
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Corradetti, A., McCaffrey, K., De Paola, N., & Tavani, S. (2017). Evaluating roughness scaling properties of natural active fault surfaces by means of multi-view photogrammetry. Tectonophysics, 717, 599-606. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2017.08.023

Fault roughness is a measure of the dimensions and distribution of fault asperities, which can act as stress concentrators affecting fault frictional behaviour and the dynamics of rupture propagation. Studies aimed at describing fault roughness requi... Read More about Evaluating roughness scaling properties of natural active fault surfaces by means of multi-view photogrammetry.

The role of pre-existing structures during rifting, continental breakup and transform system development, offshore West Greenland (2017)
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Peace, A., McCaffrey, K., Imber, J., van Hunen, J., Hobbs, R., & Wilson, R. (2018). The role of pre-existing structures during rifting, continental breakup and transform system development, offshore West Greenland. Basin Research, 30(3), 373-394. https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12257

Continental breakup between Greenland and North America produced the small oceanic basins of the Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay, which are connected via the Davis Strait, a region mostly comprised of continental crust. This study contributes to the deba... Read More about The role of pre-existing structures during rifting, continental breakup and transform system development, offshore West Greenland.

Molecular signatures of dissolved organic matter in a tropical karst system (2017)
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Lechleitner, F., Dittmar, T., Baldini, J., Prufer, K., & Eglinton, T. (2017). Molecular signatures of dissolved organic matter in a tropical karst system. Organic Geochemistry, 113, 141-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2017.07.015

Karst areas are widespread landforms present on all continents, formed by the dissolution of carbonate or evaporite host rock. Little is known about the composition and nature of dissolved organic matter (DOM) as it moves through karst systems, altho... Read More about Molecular signatures of dissolved organic matter in a tropical karst system.

The iron-catalysed surface reactivity and health-pertinent physical characteristics of explosive volcanic ash from Mt. Etna, Italy (2017)
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Horwell, C., Sargent, P., Andronico, D., Lo Castro, M., Tomatis, M., Hillman, S., …Fubini, B. (2017). The iron-catalysed surface reactivity and health-pertinent physical characteristics of explosive volcanic ash from Mt. Etna, Italy. Journal of Applied Volcanology, 6(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13617-017-0063-8

Mount Etna is Europe’s largest and most active volcano. In recent years, it has displayed enhanced explosive activity, causing concern amongst local inhabitants who frequently have to live with, and clean up, substantial ashfall. Basaltic volcanic as... Read More about The iron-catalysed surface reactivity and health-pertinent physical characteristics of explosive volcanic ash from Mt. Etna, Italy.