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Submarine palaeoenvironments during Emeishan flood basalt volcanism, SW China: Implications for plume-lithosphere interaction during the Capitanian, Middle Permian ('end Guadalupian') extinction event (2015)
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Jerram, D. A., Widdowson, M., Wignall, P. B., Sun, Y., Lai, X., Bond, D. P., & Torsvik, T. H. (2016). Submarine palaeoenvironments during Emeishan flood basalt volcanism, SW China: Implications for plume-lithosphere interaction during the Capitanian, Middle Permian ('end Guadalupian') extinction event. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 441(1), 65-73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.06.009

Plume-induced lithospheric uplift and erosion are widely regarded as key features of large igneous province (LIP) emplacement, as is the coincidence of LIP eruption with major extinction and oceanic anoxic events (OAE). The Emeishan LIP, which erupte... Read More about Submarine palaeoenvironments during Emeishan flood basalt volcanism, SW China: Implications for plume-lithosphere interaction during the Capitanian, Middle Permian ('end Guadalupian') extinction event.

Blurring the boundaries: Prosumption, circularity and online sustainable consumption through Freecycle (2015)
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Eden, S. (2017). Blurring the boundaries: Prosumption, circularity and online sustainable consumption through Freecycle. Journal of Consumer Culture, 17(2), 265-285. https://doi.org/10.1177/1469540515586871

© The Author(s) 2015. This article explores the digital exchange and moral ordering of sustainable and ethical consumption in online Freecycle groups. Through interactive exchanges in digital (online posts) and material (consumer items) modes, Freecy... Read More about Blurring the boundaries: Prosumption, circularity and online sustainable consumption through Freecycle.

The Giant Lavas of Kalkarindji: Rubbly pāhoehoe lava in an ancient continental flood basalt province (2015)
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Marshall, P. E., Widdowson, M., & Murphy, D. T. (2016). The Giant Lavas of Kalkarindji: Rubbly pāhoehoe lava in an ancient continental flood basalt province. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 441(1), 22-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.05.006

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. The Kalkarindji continental flood basalt province of northern Australia erupted in the mid Cambrian (c. 511-505Ma). It now consists of scattered basaltic lava fields, the most extensive being the Antrim Plateau Volcanics (APV) -... Read More about The Giant Lavas of Kalkarindji: Rubbly pāhoehoe lava in an ancient continental flood basalt province.

An abrupt extinction in the Middle Permian (Capitanian) of the Boreal Realm (Spitsbergen) and its link to anoxia and acidification (2015)
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Bond, D. P. G., Beauchamp, B., Blomeier, D. P. G., Grasby, S. E., Joachimski, M. M., Savov, I., Sun, Y., & Wignall, P. B. (2015). An abrupt extinction in the Middle Permian (Capitanian) of the Boreal Realm (Spitsbergen) and its link to anoxia and acidification. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 127(9-10), 1411-1421. https://doi.org/10.1130/B31216.1

The controversial Capitanian (Middle Permian, 262 Ma) extinction event is only known from equatorial latitudes, and consequently its global extent is poorly resolved. We demonstrate that there were two, severe extinctions amongst brachiopods in north... Read More about An abrupt extinction in the Middle Permian (Capitanian) of the Boreal Realm (Spitsbergen) and its link to anoxia and acidification.

Progressive environmental deterioration in northwestern Pangea leading to the latest Permian extinction (2015)
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Bond, D. P. G., Beauchamp, B., Blomeier, D., Galloway, J. M., Grasby, S. E., Piepjohn, K., Reinhardt, L., Talavera, C., & Wignall, P. (2015). Progressive environmental deterioration in northwestern Pangea leading to the latest Permian extinction. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 127(9-10), 1331-1347. https://doi.org/10.1130/b31197.1

Stratigraphic records from northwestern Pangea provide unique insight into global processes that occurred during the Latest Permian Extinction (LPE). We examined a detailed geochemical record of the Festningen Section, Spitsbergen. A stepwise extinct... Read More about Progressive environmental deterioration in northwestern Pangea leading to the latest Permian extinction.

High amplitude redox changes in the late Early Triassic of South China and the Smithian-Spathian extinction (2015)
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Sun, Y. D., Wignall, P. B., Joachimski, M. M., Bond, D. P. G., Grasby, S. E., Sun, S., Yan, C. B., Wang, L. N., Chen, Y. L., & Lai, X. L. (2015). High amplitude redox changes in the late Early Triassic of South China and the Smithian-Spathian extinction. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 427(June), 62-78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.03.038

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. The Early Triassic was a time of remarkably high temperatures, large carbon cycle perturbations and episodes of widespread ocean anoxia. The sediments in the Nanpanjiang Basin of South China provide superb opportunities to examin... Read More about High amplitude redox changes in the late Early Triassic of South China and the Smithian-Spathian extinction.

Key future directions for research on turbidity currents and their deposits (2015)
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Talling, P. J., Allin, J., Armitage, D. A., Arnott, R. W., Cartigny, M. J., Clare, M. A., Felletti, F., Covault, J. A., Girardclos, S., Hansen, E., Hill, P. R., Hiscott, R. N., Hogg, A. J., Clarke, J. H., Jobe, Z. R., Malgesini, G., Mozzato, A., Naruse, H., Parkinson, S., Peel, F. J., …Xu, J. (2015). Key future directions for research on turbidity currents and their deposits. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 85(2), 153-169. https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2015.03

Turbidity currents, and other types of submarine sediment density flow, redistribute more sediment across the surface of the Earth than any other sediment flow process, yet their sediment concentration has never been measured directly in the deep oce... Read More about Key future directions for research on turbidity currents and their deposits.

What does Ophiomorpha irregulaire really look like? (2015)
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Leaman, M., McIlroy, D., Herringshaw, L., Boyd, C., & Callow, R. (2015). What does Ophiomorpha irregulaire really look like?. Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology, 439, 38-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.01.022

Ophiomorpha irregulaire is a surprisingly poorly characterised ichnotaxon given its common occurrence in hydrocarbon reservoir facies. Current debate surrounds the ichnotaxobases suitable for ichnospecific-level identification and also the palaeogeog... Read More about What does Ophiomorpha irregulaire really look like?.

Re-Os isotope and platinum group elements of a FOcal ZOne mantle source, Louisville Seamounts Chain, Pacific ocean (2015)
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Tejada, M. L. G., Hanyu, T., Ishikawa, A., Senda, R., Suzuki, K., Fitton, G., & Williams, R. (2015). Re-Os isotope and platinum group elements of a FOcal ZOne mantle source, Louisville Seamounts Chain, Pacific ocean. Geochemistry, geophysics, geosystems G³, 16(2), 486-504. https://doi.org/10.1002/2014GC005629

The Louisville Seamount Chain (LSC) is, besides the Hawaiian-Emperor Chain, one of the longest-lived hotspot traces. We report here the first Re-Os isotope and platinum group element (PGE) data for Canopus, Rigil, and Burton Guyots along the chain, w... Read More about Re-Os isotope and platinum group elements of a FOcal ZOne mantle source, Louisville Seamounts Chain, Pacific ocean.

Building a green economy? Sustainability transitions in the UK building sector (2015)
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Gibbs, D., & O'Neill, K. (2015). Building a green economy? Sustainability transitions in the UK building sector. Geoforum, 59(February), 133-141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2014.12.004

This paper explores the interest by policy makers to encourage and develop a green economy, with a particular focus on UK government attempts to engender a shift in the mainstream building and construction sector towards adopting green building metho... Read More about Building a green economy? Sustainability transitions in the UK building sector.

A combined Y/Ho, high field strength element (HFSE) and Nd isotope perspective on basalt weathering, Deccan Traps, India (2014)
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Babechuk, M. G., Widdowson, M., Murphy, M., & Kamber, B. S. (2015). A combined Y/Ho, high field strength element (HFSE) and Nd isotope perspective on basalt weathering, Deccan Traps, India. Chemical Geology, 396, 25-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2014.12.017

High-precision high field strength element (HFSE: Zr, Hf, Nb, Ta, Th, U, W, Mo), Y/Ho, and Nd isotope chemostratigraphy of two contrasting Deccan Traps weathering profiles - an ancient, deeply weathered laterite, and a younger (Quaternary), more mode... Read More about A combined Y/Ho, high field strength element (HFSE) and Nd isotope perspective on basalt weathering, Deccan Traps, India.

Natural fractures in a United Kingdom shale reservoir analog, Cleveland Basin, northeast England (2014)
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Imber, J., Armstrong, H., Clancy, S., Daniels, S., Herringshaw, L., McCaffrey, K., Rodrigues, J., Trabucho-Alexandre, J., & Warren, C. (2014). Natural fractures in a United Kingdom shale reservoir analog, Cleveland Basin, northeast England. AAPG Bulletin, 98(11), 2411-2437. https://doi.org/10.1306/07141413144

Faults and fractures within the well-exposed Lower Jurassic Cleveland Ironstone and Whitby Mudstone Formations may provide insights into the tectonic history of gas-prospective, Mississippian shale in northern England. Subvertical opening mode fractu... Read More about Natural fractures in a United Kingdom shale reservoir analog, Cleveland Basin, northeast England.

The green economy, sustainability transitions and transition regions : a case study of Boston (2014)
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Gibbs, D., & O'Neill, K. (2014). The green economy, sustainability transitions and transition regions : a case study of Boston. Geografiska annaler. Series B, Human geography, 96(3), 201-216. https://doi.org/10.1111/geob.12046

This paper is focused upon exploring the development of the green economy in particular locations, with the aim of identifying why some cities and regions have been successful in engendering green growth. To date we have little idea where the green e... Read More about The green economy, sustainability transitions and transition regions : a case study of Boston.

Provenance of the upper Miocene–Pliocene Red Clay deposits of the Chinese loess plateau (2014)
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Nie, J., Peng, W., Möller, A., Song, Y., Stockli, D. F., Stevens, T., Horton, B. K., Liu, S., Bird, A., Oalmann, J., Gong, H., & Fang, X. (2014). Provenance of the upper Miocene–Pliocene Red Clay deposits of the Chinese loess plateau. Earth and planetary science letters, 407, 35-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.09.026

© 2014 Elsevier B.V. A clear understanding of the provenance of late Cenozoic Chinese loess and the underlying Red Clay deposits will shed light on the history and mechanisms of Asian aridification. Although much progress has been made in understandi... Read More about Provenance of the upper Miocene–Pliocene Red Clay deposits of the Chinese loess plateau.

Experimental study of dense pyroclastic density currents using sustained, gas-fluidized granular flows (2014)
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Rowley, P. J., Roche, O., Druitt, T. H., & Cas, R. (2014). Experimental study of dense pyroclastic density currents using sustained, gas-fluidized granular flows. Bulletin of volcanology, 76(9), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00445-014-0855-1

We present the results of laboratory experiments on the behaviour of sustained, dense granular flows in a horizontal flume, in which high-gas pore pressure was maintained throughout the flow duration by continuous injection of gas through the flume b... Read More about Experimental study of dense pyroclastic density currents using sustained, gas-fluidized granular flows.

A geological explanation for intraplate earthquake clustering complexity: The zeolite-bearing fault/fracture networks in the Adamello Massif (Southern Italian Alps) (2014)
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Dempsey, E. D., Holdsworth, R. E., Imber, J., Bistacchi, A., & Di Toro, G. (2014). A geological explanation for intraplate earthquake clustering complexity: The zeolite-bearing fault/fracture networks in the Adamello Massif (Southern Italian Alps). Journal of Structural Geology, 66, 58-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2014.04.009

Interconnected networks of faults and veins filled with hydrothermal minerals such as zeolite are widespread in many orogenic terrains. These fractures commonly form at relatively low temperatures (e.g.

Earth's youngest known ultrahigh-temperature granulites discovered on Seram, eastern Indonesia (2014)
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Pownall, J. M., Hall, R., Armstrong, R. A., & Forster, M. A. (2014). Earth's youngest known ultrahigh-temperature granulites discovered on Seram, eastern Indonesia. Geology, 42(4), 279-282. https://doi.org/10.1130/G35230.1

Episodes of ultrahigh-temperature (UHT, ≥900 °C) granulite metamorphism have been recorded in mountain belts since the Neoarchean. However, evidence for the tectonic mechanisms responsible for the generation of such extreme thermal conditions is rare... Read More about Earth's youngest known ultrahigh-temperature granulites discovered on Seram, eastern Indonesia.

Oil and gas wells and their integrity: implications for shale and unconventional resource exploitation (2014)
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Davies, R. J., Almond, S., Ward, R. S., Jackson, R. B., Adams, C., Worrall, F., Herringshaw, L. G., Gluyas, J. G., & Whitehead, M. A. (2014). Oil and gas wells and their integrity: implications for shale and unconventional resource exploitation. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 56, 239-254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2014.03.001

Data from around the world (Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, the Netherlands, Poland, the UK and the USA) show that more than four million onshore hydrocarbon wells have been drilled globally. Here we assess all the reliable datasets (25)... Read More about Oil and gas wells and their integrity: implications for shale and unconventional resource exploitation.

Structural characteristics and Re-Os dating of quartz-pyrite veins in the Lewisian Gneiss Complex, NW Scotland: Evidence of an Early Paleoproterozoic hydrothermal regime during terrane amalgamation (2014)
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Vernon, R., Holdsworth, R., Selby, D., Dempsey, E., Finlay, A., & Fallick, A. (2014). Structural characteristics and Re-Os dating of quartz-pyrite veins in the Lewisian Gneiss Complex, NW Scotland: Evidence of an Early Paleoproterozoic hydrothermal regime during terrane amalgamation. Precambrian research, 246, 256-267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.precamres.2014.03.007

In the Archaean basement rocks of the Assynt and Gruinard terranes of the mainland Lewisian Complex in NW Scotland, a regional suite of quartz-pyrite veins cross-cut regional Palaeoproterozoic (Badcallian, ca. 2700. Ma; Inverian, ca. 2480. Ma) fabric... Read More about Structural characteristics and Re-Os dating of quartz-pyrite veins in the Lewisian Gneiss Complex, NW Scotland: Evidence of an Early Paleoproterozoic hydrothermal regime during terrane amalgamation.

Temporal and spatial evolution of a waxing then waning catastrophic density current revealed by chemical mapping (2014)
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Williams, R., Branney, M. J., & Barry, T. L. (2014). Temporal and spatial evolution of a waxing then waning catastrophic density current revealed by chemical mapping. Geology, 42(2), 107-110. https://doi.org/10.1130/G34830.1

We reconstruct the behavior of a catastrophic sustained radial pyroclastic density current as it waxed then waned during its brief lifespan. By subdividing the deposit into 8 time slices using a chemical tracer, we show that the sustained current ini... Read More about Temporal and spatial evolution of a waxing then waning catastrophic density current revealed by chemical mapping.