Geosciences, School of: Recent submissions
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The identification of early lead mining: environmental, archaeological and historical perspectives from Islay, Inner Hebrides, Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 1996)This thesis investigates whether lead mining can be detected using palaeoenvironmental data recovered from freshwater loch and marsh sediment. Using radiometric time-frames and geochernical analyses the environmental ... -
Plant traits as predictors of ecosystem change and function in a warming tundra biome
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-29)The tundra is currently warming twice as rapidly as the rest of planet Earth, which is thought to be leading to widespread vegetation change. Understanding the drivers, patterns, and impacts of vegetation change will be ... -
Global food systems: addressing malnutrition through sustainable system pathways
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-29)Addressing malnutrition (in all its forms) whilst developing a global food system compatible with environmental sustainability remains one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century. The current framing of our ... -
Geographies of botanical knowledge: the work of John Hutton Balfour 1845-1879
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-29)This thesis forms a contribution to the historical geography of botanical knowledge. It examines the writings, teaching and public engagement in botany of John Hutton Balfour (1808-1884), Regius Professor of Botany and ... -
Triggering the Cambrian Explosion: carbon cycle reorganisation and the rise of Metazoans
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-29)Numerous detailed geochemical studies of Ediacaran (~635 – 541 Ma) marine successions provide snapshots into the palaeoenvironmental redox conditions which accompanied examples of the earliest metazoans in the fossil ... -
Ecology and evolution of the marine reptile faunas of the Jurassic sub-boreal seaway
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-29)Jurassic marine ecosystems (ca. 201-145 million years ago) were dominated by three different lineages of reptiles – plesiosaurians, ichthyosaurs and thalattosuchian crocodylomorphs. Stratigraphic and fossil evidence ... -
Provenance-related studies of Triassic-Miocene Tethyan sedimentary and igneous rocks from Cyprus
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-29)Cyprus comprises three tectono-stratigraphic terranes: first, the Troodos Massif made up of Late Cretaceous oceanic lithosphere and its sedimentary cover in the centre of the island; secondly, the Mamonia Complex (and ... -
Fracture-related diagenesis: a record of fluid flow through the Thamama Group, UAE
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-29)Most of the hydrocarbon reservoirs in the world are carbonates, and most of these carbonate reservoirs are fractured. Fractures can form due to tectonic activity, mainly associated with fold and faults, and as a result ... -
Geological risk and reservoir quality in hydrocarbon exploration
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-29)In the next 20 years, the global demand for oil is forecast to grow by 0.7% every year, and the demand for natural gas will increase by 1.6% annually. But as we continue to produce oil and gas, the resources of our current ... -
Disciplinarity, epistemic friction, and the ‘Anthropocene’
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-29)This thesis explores the scientific controversy over the ‘Anthropocene’, a putative new epoch of geological time conceived in 2000 by atmospheric chemist and earth system scientist Paul Crutzen. I trace the conception ... -
Date labelling and the waste of dairy products by consumers
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-29)The objective of this thesis is to advance our understanding of how consumers use date labels and the implications of date-label use for household dairy product waste. It does this by investigating the effect of ... -
Comparing the hydrogeological prospectivity of three UK locations for deep radioactive waste disposal
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-29)The UK has a large and growing inventory of higher activity radioactive waste awaiting safe long term disposal. The international consensus is to dispose of this radioactive and toxic waste within a deep geological ... -
Micromagnetic modelling of imperfect crystals
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-29)In paleomagnetism, practical measurements are rarely made using perfect, isolated, single-phase, ferromagnetic crystals. Experimental observations are typically made using magnetic materials formed by a variety of natural ... -
Dynamics of calcite cementation in response to oil charge and reservoir evolution: Thamama, Group, U.A.E.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-29)Carbonate rocks consider as significant reservoirs for hydrocarbon. More than 60% of the world’s hydrocarbon is placed in carbonate reservoirs. Carbonate rocks are heterogeneous and contain complex pore system. This ... -
Ecosystem-atmosphere interactions in the Arctic: using data-model approaches to understand carbon cycle feedbacks
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-29)The terrestrial CO2 exchange in the Arctic plays an important role in the global carbon (C) cycle. The Arctic ecosystems, containing a large amount of organic carbon (C), are experiencing ongoing warming in recent decades, ... -
Hold the line or give in to the sea? Deliberative citizen engagement in governance to adapt to sea level rise on the shoreline
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-29)Shorelines, including the Inner Forth in Scotland, are facing unprecedented challenges with climate change. Rising sea levels mean that stakeholders need to work closely to deliver adaptation, such as the nature-based ... -
Border enacted: unpacking the everyday performances of border control and resistance
(The University of Edinburgh, 2018-11-29)For over a decade European governments have invested in technological systems to develop new forms of border security in their attempts to regulate migration. Numerous innovations have been designed in order to grant ... -
The Eocene beds of the Kohat district
(The University of Edinburgh, 1938)The Kohat district forms part of the North -West Frontier Province. It is bounded by the river Indus on the east, by part of the Peshawar district in the north-east, by the Tirah along most of its northern border, by ... -
Baluchistan earthquake of the 21st October 1909
(The University of Edinburgh, 1919)As might be expected in a region of folded mountains of comparatively recent or still continuing uplift, Baluchistan is from time to time visited by earthquakes of greater or less severity. Of those recorded the most ... -
Atlas to accompany the soils and agriculture of Hong Kong
(The University of Edinburgh, 1961)