A5073000865- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Geological formations and processes
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Landslides and related hazards
- Climate change and permafrost
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Geological Studies and Exploration
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Archaeology and Natural History
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
- Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
- Geography Education and Pedagogy
- Marine and environmental studies
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
University of Gloucestershire
2013-2024
Royal Holloway University of London
2003-2004
Sillasoo, Ü., Mauquoy, D., Blundell, A., Charman, Blaauw, M., Daniell, J. R. G., Toms, P., Newberry, J., Chambers, F M. & Karofeld, E. 2007 (January): Peat multi‐proxy data from Männikjärve bog as indicators of late Holocene climate changes in Estonia. Boreas , Vol. 36, pp. 20–37. Oslo. ISSN 0300–9483. As part a wider project on European change over the past 4500 years, 4.5‐m peat core was taken lawn microform bog, Several methods were used to yield proxy‐climate data: (i) quadrat and...
Abstract Dating of ancient permafrost is essential for understanding long-term stability and interpreting palaeoenvironmental conditions but presents substantial challenges to geochronology. Here, we apply four methods from the megaslump at Batagay, east Siberia: (1) optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating quartz, (2) post-infrared infrared-stimulated (pIRIR) K-feldspar, (3) radiocarbon organic material, (4) 36 Cl/Cl ice wedges. All chronometers produce stratigraphically consistent...
Abstract The field properties, micromorphology, grain-size, geochemistry, and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) ages of two late Quaternary sections have been used to reconstruct the sequence pedosedimentary processes provide insights into landscape evolution in part Northern Pampa Argentina. Paleosols developed paludal sediments adjacent Paraná river at Baradero loess Lozada can both be correlated linked other sites, thus enabling for first time tentative recognition tracing a...
Abstract Ulakhan Sular provides one of the largest natural stratigraphic sections through ancient permafrost deposits in Batagay–Betenkes region Yana Uplands western Beringia, but their depositional environment, age, and paleoenvironmental significance are uncertain. To address these uncertainties, we report results reconnaissance observations stratigraphy, sedimentology, paleosols soil-like bodies, plant insect macrofossils, geochronology at stratotype section Formation. Sedimentologically,...
Abstract Methods for mapping and determining the condition of archaeological resources while they are still underground have been in development nearly half a century. The authors here offer an example from frontiers art: application package remote sensing procedures not only designed to locate sites but model valley deposits which contain cover them. variation success different methods offers guide design evaluation projects on sand gravel terrain everywhere.
This paper considers recent patterns of departmental change in the management G eography UK universities. It notes increasingly multidisciplinary since mid‐1990s. Various measures this trend are explored and discussed. The also problematic accommodation Geography within faculty structures institutions. These findings speak a identity for discipline institutional context. goes on to consider some impacts these trends practice higher education.
This study compares age estimates of recent peat deposits in 10 European ombrotrophic (precipitation-fed) bogs produced using the 14 C bomb peak, 210 Pb, 137 Cs, spheroidal carbonaceous particles (SCPs), and pollen. At 3 sites, results different dating methods agree well. In 5 cores, there is a clear discrepancy between peak Pb estimates. upper layers profiles, are agreement. However, with increasing depth, difference appears to become progressively greater. The evidence from sites featured...
ABSTRACT Excavations across a source‐bordering dune overlooking the Hawkesbury River in north‐west Sydney, Australia, suggest initial occupation of region by at least 36 ka, with variable but uninterrupted use until early Holocene; following abandonment, site was then re‐occupied ∼3 ka. Along handful other sites, results provide earliest reliable evidence permanent regional populations within south‐eastern and support model which colonizers followed coastal fringe forays along main river...
Abstract The field properties, magnetic susceptibility, particle size, calcium carbonate content, soil micromorphology and optical luminescence ages of the upper 6.1 m lowermost 4.7 45 loess–palaeosol sequence at El Lambedero in Tafí del Valle region Tucumán Province (Sierras Pampeanas, northwest Argentina) have been used to set up a partial stratigraphy chronology, as well basic pedosedimentary model loess accumulation, palaeosol development, reworking erosion for site. minimum derived from...
The synthesis of paleoclimatic archives provided by loess and alluvial sequences central Argentina has been hindered the lack a cohesive lithostratigraphic framework extending across Chaco–Pampean plains catchments Rios Desaguadero, Colorado, Negro. This condition originates in part from dearth absolute chronological controls. occurrence discrete tephra layers this region may provide an opportunity to address deficiency if tephrochronological can be established. potential such project is...
Abstract This paper reports the discovery of a rare partial skeleton woolly rhinoceros ( Coelodonta antiquitatis Blumenbach, 1799) and associated fauna from low Pleistocene terrace River Tame at Whitemoor Haye, Staffordshire, UK. A study sedimentary deposits around rhino organic‐rich clasts containing pollen, plant arthropod remains suggests that animal was rapidly buried on braided river floodplain surrounded by predominantly treeless, herb‐rich grassland. Highlights include oldest British...
This study compares age estimates of recent peat deposits in 10 European ombrotrophic (precipitation-fed) bogs produced using the 14C bomb peak, 210Pb, 137Cs, spheroidal carbonaceous particles (SCPs), and pollen. At 3 sites, results different dating methods agree well. In 5 cores, there is a clear discrepancy between peak 210Pb estimates. upper layers profiles, are agreement. However, with increasing depth, difference appears to become progressively greater. The evidence from sites featured...
Abstract River confluences can be metastable and contain valuable geological records of catchment response to decadal- millennial-scale environmental change. However, in alluvial reaches, flood stratigraphies are particularly hard date using 14C. In this paper, we use a novel combination optically stimulated luminescence multiproxy sedimentological analyses provide record for the confluence Rivers Severn Teme (United Kingdom) over past two millennia, which compare with independent European...
Salvage excavations of 25 m2 on a levee adjacent to the Hawkesbury River near Pitt Town, New South Wales, identified 1.5 m deep sand body containing three discrete artefact assemblages, collectively designated as site PT12. Six optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) ages provide chronology for body, which began forming >50 ka. Peak numbers two lowest assemblages were centred ca 15 ka and 11 ka, had Capertian (pre-Bondaian) characteristics. These included amorphous pebble tools manuports...
Geoarchaeological research as part of the AHRC funded Living with Monuments (LwM) project investigated upper Kennet river system across Avebury World Heritage landscape. The results demonstrate that in early–mid-Holocene ( c. 9500–1000 bc ) there was very low erosion disturbed soils into floodplain, floodplain deposits confined to a naturally forming bedload fluvial deposit aggrading shallow channel inter-linked deeper pools. At time Neolithic monument building 4th–early 3rd millennium ,...