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Life, death and fighting at high latitudes: a review
Read more of: Life, death and fighting at high latitudes: a reviewIn earth’s history, having two frozen polar regions is unusual. Not only do these regions experience extreme light climates and associated primary productivity, but freezing sea temperatures and seasonally intense […]
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Nd and Sr isotopic signatures of metasedimentary rocks around the South Pacific margin and implications for their provenance
Read more of: Nd and Sr isotopic signatures of metasedimentary rocks around the South Pacific margin and implications for their provenanceAn Nd-Sr isotope database, including c. 200 new analyses, is presented for Palaeozoic and Mesozoic metasedimentary successions extending through southeastern Australia, New Zealand, West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula to […]
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The scientific case for human space exploration
Read more of: The scientific case for human space explorationIan Crawford and Charles Cockell report on a wide-ranging RAS Discussion Meeting putting the broad scientific case for people in space, at the Linnean Society on 10 December 2004. Despite […]
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The ultraviolet radiation environment of Earth and Mars: past and present
Read more of: The ultraviolet radiation environment of Earth and Mars: past and presentExactly 130 years passed between the discovery by Isaac Newton that white light was composed of colors [1] and the discovery of ultraviolet radiation by Johann Wilhelm Ritter, a German […]
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A benchmark study for glacial-isostatic adjustment codes
Read more of: A benchmark study for glacial-isostatic adjustment codesThe study of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) is gaining an increasingly im-portant role within the geophysical community. Understanding the response of the Earth to loading is crucial in various contexts, […]
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Echinoderm faunas from the lower Cretaceous (Aptian–Albian) of Alexander Island, Antarctica
Read more of: Echinoderm faunas from the lower Cretaceous (Aptian–Albian) of Alexander Island, AntarcticaStrata assigned to the Fossil Bluff Group on Alexander Island, Antarctica, contain Aptian to Albian highlatitude echinoderm faunas that lived at palaeolatitudes greater than 60 degrees south. The Pluto Glacier […]