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24 June 2013
Earth surface landforms are shaped by geomorphological processes that are either erosive or depositional in nature. Therefore, there is a strong link between landscape morphology and sedimentology, allowing interpretation of landforms and their preserved sediments to determine how they formed. Several studies have used Landscape Evolution Models (LEMs) to reconstruct palaeoenvironmental histories, but such studies have largely been based on morphological reconstructions, without... |
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3 June 2013
Researchers from the Department of Geography, University of Southampton (Pete and Cath Langdon) are currently using the ITRAX to investigate the environment of Mesolithic man at Star Carr in North Yorkshire. Star Carr is a world renown archaeological site notable for the diverse range of artefacts found preserved in the peat, which include barbed points made from antler, beads and stag antler head-dresses dating from 8460-8770 B.C. In Mesolithic times, the site was a lake with human... |
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13 December 2012
Jenny Morris (University of Sheffield) visits BOSCORF today to view our ITRAX core scanner. Jenny is working with John Marshall (University of Southampton) on Devonian soils from New York State. During the Devonian, the first terrestrial plants spread across the globe and by the end of the period, there had been a veritable explosion in plant groups and growth forms. This research aims to investigate early soil formation and the effects of early plants on this. We hope to run... |
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6 December 2012
Kelly Hogan from the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, is subsampling JR142 Barents Sea cores for radiocarbon dating and clay mineral analyses to determine sediment provenance east of the Svalbard archipelago since the last glaciation.
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