Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Digital Commons Network™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

2017

Discipline
Institution
Keyword
Publication
Publication Type
File Type

Articles 154171 - 154200 of 160906

Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network

Women Approaching Death And Dying, Victoria Rue Jan 2017

Women Approaching Death And Dying, Victoria Rue

Faculty Publications, Social Sciences

My mother died in 2008 at the age of 84 surrounded by her eight children and our father. As I turn 68, I wonder about the length of my own life and about how I will face my own death. In a feminist body-affirming theology, how do I embrace fear and my body in the death and dying process?At the bedside of hospice patients, I saw the gap in Christian feminist theology between affirming the body and embracing its decay. From these narratives, I suggest that what is needed is a Christian feminist approach to death and dying focused on …

Go to article

Relationship Of Religiosity And Spirituality To Hazardous Drinking, Drug Use, And Depression Among Sexual Minority Women, Laurie Drabble, Cindy Veldhuis, Barth Riley, Sharon Rostosky, Tonda Hughes Jan 2017

Relationship Of Religiosity And Spirituality To Hazardous Drinking, Drug Use, And Depression Among Sexual Minority Women, Laurie Drabble, Cindy Veldhuis, Barth Riley, Sharon Rostosky, Tonda Hughes

Faculty Publications

Using data from Wave 3 of the Chicago Health and Life Experiences of Women (CHLEW) study (N = 699), we explored whether religiosity and spirituality were associated with risk of hazardous drinking, drug use, and depression among sexual minority women (SMW; i.e., lesbian, bisexual) and possible differences by race/ethnicity. Participants were more likely to endorse spirituality than religiosity, and endorsement of each was highest among African American SMW. We found no protective effect of religiosity or spirituality for hazardous drinking or drug use. An association initially found between identifying as very spiritual and past-year depression disappeared when controlling for help-seeking. …

Go to article

Barriers Confronting Parents Reunifying With Children In Foster Care, Amy D'Andrade Jan 2017

Barriers Confronting Parents Reunifying With Children In Foster Care, Amy D'Andrade

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Reed Issue 150, Tobias Wolff, Holly Pekowsky, Laine Cunningham, Au-Co Tran, Vukasin Streker, Andrew Lam, Paula Paige, C.R. Resetarits, James Valvis, Kris Faatz, Barbara Mujica, Cristina García, Fatema Elbakoury, Marrie Stone, Nick Taylor, Arlene Biala, Liz Lampman, Laura Schulkind, Alyssa Hanna, Janet Joyner, Scott Withiam, Robert Demott, Rosemerry Trommer, Jerome Gagnon, Ron Riekki, Steven J. Rogers, Chris Knight, Gwen Mcneir, John F. Buckley, Martin Ott, Arlene Biala, Lauren Coggins, Maja Zmyslowski, Matt Hohner, Lee Landau, Jen Clem, Lesa Le, Richard Tinoco, Camille Miller, Gracie Ct, Dottie Lo Bue, Jean Davis, Julie Barrett, Alex Purdy, Allen Forrest, Michael Katakis, Andrew Irvine, Christopher Woods, Suzanne Rico, Shanee Stepakoff, Sasha Vasilyuk, Stephanie Collier, Rebekah Chan, Jillian Weiss, Vendela Vida, Timothy Corrigan, Alison Townsend, Peter Nathaniel Malae, Sharon Simonson, Kimy Martinez, Gary Singh, Kelly A. Harrison Jan 2017

Reed Issue 150, Tobias Wolff, Holly Pekowsky, Laine Cunningham, Au-Co Tran, Vukasin Streker, Andrew Lam, Paula Paige, C.R. Resetarits, James Valvis, Kris Faatz, Barbara Mujica, Cristina García, Fatema Elbakoury, Marrie Stone, Nick Taylor, Arlene Biala, Liz Lampman, Laura Schulkind, Alyssa Hanna, Janet Joyner, Scott Withiam, Robert Demott, Rosemerry Trommer, Jerome Gagnon, Ron Riekki, Steven J. Rogers, Chris Knight, Gwen Mcneir, John F. Buckley, Martin Ott, Arlene Biala, Lauren Coggins, Maja Zmyslowski, Matt Hohner, Lee Landau, Jen Clem, Lesa Le, Richard Tinoco, Camille Miller, Gracie Ct, Dottie Lo Bue, Jean Davis, Julie Barrett, Alex Purdy, Allen Forrest, Michael Katakis, Andrew Irvine, Christopher Woods, Suzanne Rico, Shanee Stepakoff, Sasha Vasilyuk, Stephanie Collier, Rebekah Chan, Jillian Weiss, Vendela Vida, Timothy Corrigan, Alison Townsend, Peter Nathaniel Malae, Sharon Simonson, Kimy Martinez, Gary Singh, Kelly A. Harrison

Reed Magazine

No abstract provided.

Go to article

2016-2017 Annual Report, Society Of American Archivists Student Chapter Jan 2017

2016-2017 Annual Report, Society Of American Archivists Student Chapter

Annual Reports

No abstract provided.

Go to article

The Sluggs Survey: A Catalog Of Over 4000 Globular Cluster Radial Velocities In 27 Nearby Early-Type Galaxies, Duncan Forbes, Adebusola Alabi, Jean Brodie, Aaron Romanowsky, Jay Strader, Caroline Foster, Christopher Usher, Lee Spitler, Sabine Bellstedt, Nicola Pastorello, Alexa Villaume, Asher Wasserman, Vincenzo Pota Jan 2017

The Sluggs Survey: A Catalog Of Over 4000 Globular Cluster Radial Velocities In 27 Nearby Early-Type Galaxies, Duncan Forbes, Adebusola Alabi, Jean Brodie, Aaron Romanowsky, Jay Strader, Caroline Foster, Christopher Usher, Lee Spitler, Sabine Bellstedt, Nicola Pastorello, Alexa Villaume, Asher Wasserman, Vincenzo Pota

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Go to article

The Sluggs Survey: Revisiting The Correlation Between X-Ray Luminosity And Total Mass Of Massive Early-Type Galaxies, Duncan Forbes, Adebusola Alabi, Aaron Romanowsky, Dong-Woo Kim, Jean Brodie, Giuseppina Fabbiano Jan 2017

The Sluggs Survey: Revisiting The Correlation Between X-Ray Luminosity And Total Mass Of Massive Early-Type Galaxies, Duncan Forbes, Adebusola Alabi, Aaron Romanowsky, Dong-Woo Kim, Jean Brodie, Giuseppina Fabbiano

Faculty Publications

Here we utilize recent measures of galaxy total dynamical mass and X-ray gas luminosities (LX,Gas) for a sample of 29 massive early-type galaxies from the SLUGGS survey to probe LX, Gas–mass scaling relations. In particular, we investigate scalings with stellar mass, dynamical mass within 5 effective radii (Re) and total virial mass. We also compare these relations with predictions from Λ cold dark matter simulations. We find a strong linear relationship between LX, Gas and galaxy dynamical mass within 5Re, which is consistent with the recent cosmological simulations of Choi et al. that incorporate mechanical heating from AGN. We conclude …

Go to article

Extensive Globular Cluster Systems Associated With Ultra Diffuse Galaxies In The Coma Cluster, Pieter Van Dokkum, Roberto Abraham, Aaron Romanowsky, Jean Brodie, Charlie Conroy, Shany Danieli, Deborah Lokhors, Allison Merritt, Lamiya Mowla, Jielai Zhang Jan 2017

Extensive Globular Cluster Systems Associated With Ultra Diffuse Galaxies In The Coma Cluster, Pieter Van Dokkum, Roberto Abraham, Aaron Romanowsky, Jean Brodie, Charlie Conroy, Shany Danieli, Deborah Lokhors, Allison Merritt, Lamiya Mowla, Jielai Zhang

Faculty Publications

We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging of two ultra diffuse galaxies (UDGs) with measured stellar velocity dispersions in the Coma cluster. The galaxies, Dragonfly 44 and DFX1, have effective radii of 4.7 kpc and 3.5 kpc and velocity dispersions of km s−1 and km s−1, respectively. Both galaxies are associated with a striking number of compact objects, tentatively identified as globular clusters: for Dragonfly 44 and for DFX1. The number of globular clusters is much higher than expected from the luminosities of the galaxies but is consistent with expectations from the empirical relation between dynamical mass and globular cluster …

Go to article

Human-Centered Authentication Guidelines, Jeremiah Still, Ashley Cain, David Schuster Jan 2017

Human-Centered Authentication Guidelines, Jeremiah Still, Ashley Cain, David Schuster

Faculty Publications

PurposeDespite the widespread use of authentication schemes and the rapid emergence of novel authentication schemes, a general set of domain-specific guidelines has not yet been developed. This paper aims to present and explain a list of human-centered guidelines for developing usable authentication schemes.Design/methodology/approachThe guidelines stem from research findings within the fields of psychology, human–computer interaction and information/computer science.FindingsInstead of viewing users as the inevitable weak point in the authentication process, this study proposes that authentication interfaces be designed to take advantage of users’ natural abilities. This approach requires that one understands how interactions with authentication interfaces can be improved and …

Go to article

Situation Awareness, Sociotechnical Systems, And Automation In Emergency Medical Services: Theory And Measurement, David Schuster, Dan Nathan-Roberts Jan 2017

Situation Awareness, Sociotechnical Systems, And Automation In Emergency Medical Services: Theory And Measurement, David Schuster, Dan Nathan-Roberts

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Translanguaging: Definitions, Implications, And Further Needs In Burgeoning Inquiry, Luis E. Poza Jan 2017

Translanguaging: Definitions, Implications, And Further Needs In Burgeoning Inquiry, Luis E. Poza

Faculty Publications

The term translanguaging has appeared with growing frequency in research about the education of linguistic minority students. Amid increasing application of the term, concern emerges regarding the consistency of its definitions and characterizations, specifically with respect to the term’s social justice implications, which risk dilution. Early instances (García, 2007, 2009a) position the term as both a pedagogical strategy for supporting multilingual learners and a critique of existing conceptualizations of language and bilingualism that have historically marginalized particular speech communities. In this review of recent literature, I analyze 53 texts published between 1996 and 2014 for their definitions, exemplifications, and attributed …

Go to article

The “Vagabond Black” Renaissance, Pamela L. Caughie Jan 2017

The “Vagabond Black” Renaissance, Pamela L. Caughie

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

A paper presented as part of the "The Harlem Renaissance after the Transnational Turn" panel at the Modern Language Association Convention, January 2017.

Go to article

Grammars And Rhetorics, Ian Cornelius Jan 2017

Grammars And Rhetorics, Ian Cornelius

English: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Grammar and rhetoric were the disciplines charged with teaching correct and effective use of language in antiquity. In the Middle Ages, these disciplines served to maintain Latin as a language of culture, religion, and administration over much of Europe. Grammatical studies flourished in medieval England following the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. Subsequent developments in grammatical and rhetorical studies in Britain in the Middle Ages track deep changes in the social conditioning of literacy and social demands upon literacy. Among the medieval English innovations in these disciplines were the teaching of Latin as a foreign language, the cultural accommodation …

Go to article

Governmental Tort Liability For Disclosure Of Flood Hazard Information (Legal Fact Sheet Ctsg-17-04), Audrey Elzerman Jan 2017

Governmental Tort Liability For Disclosure Of Flood Hazard Information (Legal Fact Sheet Ctsg-17-04), Audrey Elzerman

Sea Grant Law Fellow Publications

Local governments and governmental entities, their employees, and members of their boards and commissions may be subjected to lawsuits in connection with municipal activities.This fact sheet reviews claims that may arise against them under tort law for negligence related to coastal management actions.

Go to article

Wealth Inequality As Explained By Quantitative Easing And Law's Inertia, John J. Chung Jan 2017

Wealth Inequality As Explained By Quantitative Easing And Law's Inertia, John J. Chung

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Franchise Tax Board Of California V. Hyatt: A Split Court, Full Faith And Credit, And Federal Common Law, Jonathan M. Gutoff Jan 2017

Franchise Tax Board Of California V. Hyatt: A Split Court, Full Faith And Credit, And Federal Common Law, Jonathan M. Gutoff

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Environmental Factors Correlated With Culturable Enterococci Concentrations In Tropical Recreational Waters: A Case Study In Escambron Beach, San Juan, Puerto Rico, A. E. Laureano-Rosario, E. M. Symonds, Digna Rueda-Roa, Daniel B. Otis, Frank E. Muller-Karger Jan 2017

Environmental Factors Correlated With Culturable Enterococci Concentrations In Tropical Recreational Waters: A Case Study In Escambron Beach, San Juan, Puerto Rico, A. E. Laureano-Rosario, E. M. Symonds, Digna Rueda-Roa, Daniel B. Otis, Frank E. Muller-Karger

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Enterococci concentration variability at Escambron Beach, San Juan, Puerto Rico, was examined in the context of environmental conditions observed during 2005–2015. Satellite-derived sea surface temperature (SST), turbidity, direct normal irradiance, and dew point were combined with local precipitation, winds, and mean sea level (MSL) observations in a stepwise multiple regression analyses (Akaike Information Criteria model selection). Precipitation, MSL, irradiance, SST, and turbidity explained 20% of the variation in observed enterococci concentrations based upon these analyses. Changes in these parameters preceded increases in enterococci concentrations by 24 h up to 11 days, particularly during positive anomalies of turbidity, SST, and 480–960 …

Go to article

Evolving Academic Culture To Meet Societal Needs, Kateryna Wowk, Larry Mckinney, Frank E. Muller-Karger, Russell Moll, Susan Avery, Elva Escobar-Briones, David Yoskowitz, Richard Mclaughlin Jan 2017

Evolving Academic Culture To Meet Societal Needs, Kateryna Wowk, Larry Mckinney, Frank E. Muller-Karger, Russell Moll, Susan Avery, Elva Escobar-Briones, David Yoskowitz, Richard Mclaughlin

Marine Science Faculty Publications

Given today's complex societal challenges, academia should work better with government, industry and others in offering innovative solutions that benefit our society, economy and environment. Researchers across disciplines must work together and with decision-makers to understand how science can have better on-The-ground impacts toward longer-Term, resilient societal outcomes. This includes, for example, by working with end-users in problem formation and throughout research projects to ensure decision-making needs are being met, and by linking physical science to additional fields like economics, risk communication or psychology. However, persistent barriers to collaborating across disciplines and with external decision-makers remain. Despite decades of studies …

Go to article

A Qualitative Exploration Of Children’S Experiences Of Role-Play In Two Pack-Away Early Childhood Settings., Zenna Mary Kingdon Jan 2017

A Qualitative Exploration Of Children’S Experiences Of Role-Play In Two Pack-Away Early Childhood Settings., Zenna Mary Kingdon

Plymouth Institute of Education Theses

In this thesis, I explored children’s experiences of role-play in relation to notions of self. The research took place in two pack-away settings in the Private, Voluntary and Independent (PVI) sector of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). The experiences of eight children, aged between three-year-three months and four-years one month, were investigated over a period of seven months. I used an adaptation of The Mosaic Approach (Clark and Moss 2001) combined with a reflective lenses approach (Brookfield 1995) to create a three-dimensional view of the children’s experiences. The children and I used a range of tools to gather data …

Go to article

Underground Britain: Public Perceptions Of The Geological Subsurface, Hazel Laura Gibson Jan 2017

Underground Britain: Public Perceptions Of The Geological Subsurface, Hazel Laura Gibson

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Geoscience operates at the boundary between two worlds; the visible and the invisible. Increasingly, new geological technologies such as hydraulic fracturing, carbon capture and storage (CCS) and radioactive waste disposal are drawing the public’s attention to the ‘invisible’ world of the geological subsurface. This presents unique communication challenges because these technologies exist in a realm that can never be physically seen. This thesis addresses this issue by examining the psychological perceptions of residents in three villages in the south west of England. A representative sample from each village was qualitatively interviewed and mental models were constructed from the resultant data …

Go to article

Tectono-Stratigraphic Evolution Of The Offshore Benin Basin, Sw Nigeria, Israel Aruoriwo Abiodun Etobro Jan 2017

Tectono-Stratigraphic Evolution Of The Offshore Benin Basin, Sw Nigeria, Israel Aruoriwo Abiodun Etobro

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

This thesis presents an evaluation of the tectonic and stratigraphic evolution of the offshore Benin Basin based on the analysis of 2D and 3D seismic data, in addition to exploration well data of four closely-spaced wells. To date, little has been published on this part of the African Equatorial Atlantic margin because of the lack of publicly available datasets, and this is the first academic study to be provided with 3D seismic data from this basin. The aims of the study were to establish a tectono-sequence stratigraphic framework for the basin, and to establish the timing, distribution, and nature of …

Go to article

Social Resilience In Cornish Fishing Communities, Huw Thomas Jan 2017

Social Resilience In Cornish Fishing Communities, Huw Thomas

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Rural Cornish coastal fishing communities express, and have expressed, varying degrees of ability to develop and retain social resilience capacity, or the ability to withstand ‘shock’ over both ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ onset events in social, political, economic and natural domain terms (Wilson, 2012a). Endogenous and exogenous influences may include natural changes in resources and resource dependency resulting in the loss or depletion of community livelihoods associated with a decline in fishing activities (Brookfield, 2005; Marshall, 2007a), issues of tourism driven change and notions of ‘community’. Four capitals are initially conceptually considered, those of natural, political, social and economic capitals driving …

Go to article

The Role Of Sound Recordings In The Revitalisation Of Minority Languages Of The Ainu People (Japan) And The West Frisians (The Netherlands), Malgorzata Fryzlewicz Jan 2017

The Role Of Sound Recordings In The Revitalisation Of Minority Languages Of The Ainu People (Japan) And The West Frisians (The Netherlands), Malgorzata Fryzlewicz

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

This thesis explores the use of sound recordings in the revitalisation of two minority languages – the Ainu (Japan) and the West Frisian (the Netherlands). Over the last few decades, a growing concern about linguistic diversity in the world has led to an increasing awareness of minority languages, which are endangered by loss. The concept of language revitalisation calls for work which will affect the vitality of these languages. The nature of these revitalisation efforts is inscribed into place-related processes and the interpretations of the relationships between language speakers and the place they live in. Sound recordings can afford language …

Go to article

Testing The Late-Holocene Climate Signal From Ombrotrophic Bogs In Southernmost Chile And The Falkland Islands: A Multi-Proxy, Multi-Profile And Multi-Site Approach, Emma May Rice Jan 2017

Testing The Late-Holocene Climate Signal From Ombrotrophic Bogs In Southernmost Chile And The Falkland Islands: A Multi-Proxy, Multi-Profile And Multi-Site Approach, Emma May Rice

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

Peatlands in Southern South America (SSA), in the path of the Southern Westerly Wind belt (SWW), offer the potential of reliable palaeoclimate archives. This investigation aimed to test the late-Holocene climate signal related to variability of the SWW. Three sites were investigated: San Juan and Karukinka bog, southernmost Chile and San Carlos, a Sphagnum dominated bog, discovered in the Falkland Islands, to form a regional comparison. A multi-proxy approach was used, combining both palaeoecological and stable isotopic methods. At one site, Karukinka, intra-site replicability was tested across three profiles located along a microtopographical gradient. A low number of statistically significant …

Go to article

North Atlantic Deep Water Formation Inhibits High Arctic Contamination By Continental Perfluorooctane Sulfonate Discharges, Xianming Zhang, Yanxu Zhang, Clifton Dassuncao, Rainer Lohmann, Elsie M. Sunderland Jan 2017

North Atlantic Deep Water Formation Inhibits High Arctic Contamination By Continental Perfluorooctane Sulfonate Discharges, Xianming Zhang, Yanxu Zhang, Clifton Dassuncao, Rainer Lohmann, Elsie M. Sunderland

Graduate School of Oceanography Faculty Publications

Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) is an aliphatic fluorinated compound with eight carbon atoms that is extremely persistent in the environment and can adversely affect human and ecological health. The stability, low reactivity, and high water solubility of PFOS combined with the North American phase-out in production around the year 2000, make it a potentially useful new tracer for ocean circulation. Here we characterize processes affecting the lifetime and accumulation of PFOS in the North Atlantic Ocean and transport to sensitive Arctic regions by developing a 3-D simulation within the MITgcm. The model captures variability in measurements across biogeographical provinces (R2 …

Go to article

An Intergenerational Perspective On Migrant Senses Of Identity And Belonging: The Case Of Greek-Cypriot Families In South West England, Uk, Gina Kallis Jan 2017

An Intergenerational Perspective On Migrant Senses Of Identity And Belonging: The Case Of Greek-Cypriot Families In South West England, Uk, Gina Kallis

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

This thesis takes an intergenerational perspective to investigate how senses of identity and belonging are constructed in a Greek-Cypriot community in the UK. This aim is particularly necessary given increasing rates of migration and mobility worldwide, which has resulted in growing acknowledgment across a number of disciplines of the need to explore the everyday lives of migrants and how ethnic identities are reconstituted across all generations. Despite this acknowledgment, research on the third-generation remains limited. This thesis addresses this gap by exploring how three generations of Greek-Cypriot migrants express feelings of identity and belonging and engage with translocal spaces. It …

Go to article

Holocene Sea-Level Changes In The Falkland Islands: New Insights Into Accelerated Sea-Level Rise In The 20th Century, Thomas Lee Newton Jan 2017

Holocene Sea-Level Changes In The Falkland Islands: New Insights Into Accelerated Sea-Level Rise In The 20th Century, Thomas Lee Newton

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

This thesis investigates sea-level changes in order to test the hypothesis that the main contribution to early 20th century sea-level rise was Northern Hemisphere land-based ice melt. Multiproxy sea-level reconstructions were established for the Falkland Islands, a location where models suggest sea-level rise from Northern Hemisphere ice melt produces the largest signal. The Falklands reconstruction indicated sea levels in the early 20th century accelerated compared to the long-term rate, synchronous with accelerations observed globally. The magnitude of the acceleration in the Falklands reconstruction was greater than Northern Hemisphere rates, consistent with the spatial pattern from a Northern Hemisphere melt source, …

Go to article

Foundations In Wisconsin: A Directory [36th Ed. 2017], Marquette University - Funding Information Center, John Brick, Mary Frenn, Brittany Carloni, Jeremy Cluth, Kathryn Hendrickson, Sarah Holland, Davis Wetherell Jan 2017

Foundations In Wisconsin: A Directory [36th Ed. 2017], Marquette University - Funding Information Center, John Brick, Mary Frenn, Brittany Carloni, Jeremy Cluth, Kathryn Hendrickson, Sarah Holland, Davis Wetherell

Foundations in Wisconsin: A Directory

The 2017 edition of Foundations in Wisconsin is the 36th production of the print directory and the 17th year of the web-based database (www.wifoundations.org) The directory is designed as a research tool for grantseekers interested in locating information on private, corporate, and community foundations registered in Wisconsin. Each entry in this new edition has been updated or reviewed to provide the most current information available. Most of the data was drawn from IRS 990-PF tax returns filed by the foundations. Additional information was obtained from surveys, foundation websites, and annual reports.

Go to article

Copper And Zinc Speciation In The Tamar Estuary, Holly Beverley Clare Pearson Jan 2017

Copper And Zinc Speciation In The Tamar Estuary, Holly Beverley Clare Pearson

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

The chemical speciation of trace metals controls their potential bioavailability and therefore toxicity to exposed organisms. Despite previous studies demonstrating the ameliorative effects of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) on metal toxicity, the effectiveness of ligands from varying sources and of potentially variable composition in controlling speciation has not been studied in detail in estuarine waters. In addition, the effect of DOC on radionuclide contaminants in combination with trace metals has not been investigated in any waters. This is of particular interest in the estuarine environment, where both anthropogenic and natural ligands, and contaminants that pose a potential threat to ecosystem …

Go to article

Stratigraphic And Geochemical Expression Of Early Cretaceous Environmental Change In Arctic Svalbard, Madeleine Larissa Vickers Jan 2017

Stratigraphic And Geochemical Expression Of Early Cretaceous Environmental Change In Arctic Svalbard, Madeleine Larissa Vickers

School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Theses

The Arctic is climatically sensitive to global change and therefore climate records from this region are of key importance. Little, however, is known of the state of the Arctic in the traditionally “greenhouse” period of the Cretaceous. Climate conditions are often assumed to have been warm-temperate as evidenced by the presence of conifers and dinosaur trackways on Svalbard and other Arctic localities. However, isotopic evidence for cooling episodes, sequence stratigraphic evidence for interpreted glacio-eustatic sea-level falls, and the presence of more enigmatic deposits such as dropstones and glendonites has led to a re-evaluation of the question of climatic dynamism during …

Go to article

First Prev Next Last