Ice-free areas Antarctica reveal a multi-million year history of landscape evolution, but most attention up to now has focused on the Transantarctic Mountains. The Amery Oasis in the northern Prince Charles Mountains borders ...

Human activities have doubled the pre-Industrial supply of reactive nitrogen on Earth, and future rates of increase are expected to accelerate. Yet, little is known about the capacity of the biosphere to buffer elevated ...

Sheep Creek tephra (SCt) consists of inflated, rhyolitic pumice with abundant plagioclase and hornblende, lesser amounts of ferrian ilmenite and magnetite, and trace quantities of basaltic hornblende, augite, quartz, ...

Wonderkrater is a spring mound consisting entirely of peat in excess of 8 m thick. It has yielded a pollen record extending back over 35,000 years, which has provided one of the very few proxy climatic records for the ...

Woodchip corrals are increasingly used as cost effective means of over-wintering livestock in temperate regions but there is little information on their potential environmental impact. Four woodchip, corrals of varying ...

This study investigates sediment transport processes and sediment-landform development at two small valley glaciers of contrasting basal thermal-regime. A range of innovative techniques are applied to characterize and ...

Avulsions are most characteristic of aggrading fluvial systems, but along the Klip River, subhumid eastern South Africa, abandonment and re-establishment of meander belts occurs under conditions of negligible vertical ...

This paper argues that the concept of the 'pedagogical state' (Hunter 1994, Kaplan 2007) can be employed to better understand the cultural practices of governing through pedagogical means, and the evolving pedagogical ...