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Geosciences, Volume 11, Issue 2

February 2021 - 69 articles

Cover Story: How do you tell the story of ancient volcanoes in Ireland when the surviving outcrops have no obvious volcanic geomorphology and may be relatively inaccessible? This paper gives an overview of a selection of primarily Palaeozoic volcanic County Geological Sites, some located within UNESCO Global Geoparks, in the Republic of Ireland. With reference to Northern Ireland’s volcanic Palaeogene features that are so clearly visible in the iconic Giant’s Causeway World Heritage Site, storytelling methods are explored, from information panels to apps, and the most effective messages, from geoscience to mythology, to capture public imagination in Ireland’s older volcanic sites. View this paper.
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Articles (69)

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,402 Views
18 Pages

Thoracic Fraction (PM10) of Resuspended Urban Dust: Geochemistry, Particle Size Distribution and Lung Bioaccessibility

  • Christine Levesque,
  • Clare L. S. Wiseman,
  • Suzanne Beauchemin and
  • Pat E. Rasmussen

A fluidized bed aerosol generator was connected to a 13-stage cascade impactor (nanoMOUDI) for the size fractionation of urban dust (<10 µm), followed by the gravimetric analysis of loaded PTFE filter samples. This method was used to characterize...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,762 Views
25 Pages

The First 40 Million Years of Planktonic Foraminifera

  • Felix Gradstein,
  • Anna Waskowska and
  • Larisa Glinskikh

We provide a biochronology of Jurassic planktonic foramininfera, using first order linkage to ammonite and nannofossil stratigraphy and geochronology. This enigmatic and understudied group of microfossils occurred from middle Toarcian through Tithoni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,058 Views
21 Pages

LLUNPIY Simulations of the 1877 Northward Catastrophic Lahars of Cotopaxi Volcano (Ecuador) for a Contribution to Forecasting the Hazards

  • Valeria Lupiano,
  • Paolo Catelan,
  • Claudia R. Calidonna,
  • Francesco Chidichimo,
  • Gino M. Crisci,
  • Valeria Rago,
  • Salvatore Straface and
  • Salvatore Di Gregorio

LLUNPIY (lahar modeling by local rules based on an underlying pick of yoked processes, from the Quechua word “llunp’iy“, meaning flood) is a cellular automata (CA) model that simulates primary and secondary lahars, here applied to replicate those tha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,231 Views
19 Pages

Construction below the ground surface and underneath the groundwater table is often associated with groundwater leakage and drawdowns in the surroundings which subsequently can result in a wide variety of risks. To avoid groundwater drawdown-associat...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,553 Views
27 Pages

Characterization of Organic Matter of the Laptev Sea Eroded Coastal Sediments: A Case Study from the Cape Muostakh, Bykovsky Peninsula

  • Andrey A. Grinko,
  • Ivan V. Goncharov,
  • Nikolay V. Oblasov,
  • Elena V. Gershelis,
  • Michail V. Shaldybin,
  • Natalia E. Shakhova,
  • Alexey G. Zarubin,
  • Alexey S. Ruban,
  • Oleg V. Dudarev and
  • Maxim A. Veklich
  • + 2 authors

The article provides new data about characteristics of the organic matter and mineralogical composition of the Cape Muostakh sediments related to intense permafrost degradation (thermoerosion processes). The sedimentary material has been investigated...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,561 Views
24 Pages

Reconsidering the Variscan Basement of Southern Tuscany (Inner Northern Apennines)

  • Enrico Capezzuoli,
  • Amalia Spina,
  • Andrea Brogi,
  • Domenico Liotta,
  • Gabriella Bagnoli,
  • Martina Zucchi,
  • Giancarlo Molli and
  • Renzo Regoli

The Pre-Mesozoic units exposed in the inner Northern Apennines mostly consist of Pennsylvanian-Permian successions unconformably deposited on a continental crust consolidated at the end of the Variscan orogenic cycle (Silurian-Carboniferous). In the...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,918 Views
12 Pages

Forest roads are often subject to intense runoff and erosion, and the rates can be increased by other disturbance factors, such as wildfires. Since scarce literature exists on the effects of wildfires on rill erosion of forest roads, this study prese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
9,955 Views
23 Pages

Tectonic Setting of the Kenya Rift in the Nakuru Area, Based on Geophysical Prospecting

  • Paolo Conti,
  • Marco Pistis,
  • Stefano Bernardinetti,
  • Alessio Barbagli,
  • Andrea Zirulia,
  • Lisa Serri,
  • Tommaso Colonna,
  • Enrico Guastaldi and
  • Giorgio Ghiglieri

In this paper, we present results of tectonic and geophysical investigations in the Kenya Rift valley, in the Nakuru area. We compiled a detailed geological map of the area based on published earlier works, well data and satellite imagery. The map wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,473 Views
23 Pages

Mass Balance of Austre Grønfjordbreen, Svalbard, 2006–2020, Estimated by Glaciological, Geodetic and Modeling Aproaches

  • Nelly Elagina,
  • Stanislav Kutuzov,
  • Ekaterina Rets,
  • Andrei Smirnov,
  • Robert Chernov,
  • Ivan Lavrentiev and
  • Bulat Mavlyudov

Glacier mass balance measurements, reconstructions and modeling are the precondition for assessing glacier sensitivity to regional climatic fluctuations. This paper presents new glaciological and geodetic mass balance data of Austre Grønfjordbreen lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,090 Views
21 Pages

In this work, the directionality effects during the MW 7.8 earthquake, which occurred in Muisne (Ecuador) on 16 April 2016, were analyzed under two perspectives. The first one deals with the influence of these effects on seismic intensity measures (I...

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