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View article: Ambulance Transports from NCAA Division 1 Football Games
Ambulance Transports from NCAA Division 1 Football Games Open
Introduction: There is significant public health interest towards providing medical care at mass-gathering events. Furthermore, mass gatherings have the potential to have a detrimental impact on the availability of already-limited municipa…
View article: Notes on Pleistocene and Recent non-marine Mollusca from Zambia
Notes on Pleistocene and Recent non-marine Mollusca from Zambia Open
Pleistocene and Recent non-marine molluscan faunas from Zambia, and from South-Central Africa more generally, are relatively poorly understood. Many extant species have been reported only from single localities, often the type localities f…
View article: Investigating the potential of African land snail shells (Gastropoda: Achatininae) for amino acid geochronology
Investigating the potential of African land snail shells (Gastropoda: Achatininae) for amino acid geochronology Open
Aragonitic calcium carbonate (CaCO3) terrestrial mollusc shells with complex shell microstructures, such as those in the African subfamily Achatininae, have the potential to be used to build amino acid geochronologies across the African co…
View article: An Appreciation: Matthew Alastair Parkes (1961-2020)
An Appreciation: Matthew Alastair Parkes (1961-2020) Open
AN APPRECIATION: MATTHEW ALASTAIR PARKES (1961–2020) NIGEL T. MONAGHAN, MICHAEL J. SIMMS, PATRICK N. WYSE JACKSON and JOHN MURRAY Matthew Parkes was a highly respected geologist and good friend to many who knew him. His legacy is his endur…
View article: On the track of a Scottish impact structure: a detrital zircon and apatite provenance study of the Stac Fada Member and wider Stoer Group, NW Scotland
On the track of a Scottish impact structure: a detrital zircon and apatite provenance study of the Stac Fada Member and wider Stoer Group, NW Scotland Open
The Stac Fada Member of the Stoer Group, within the Torridonian succession of NW Scotland, is a melt-rich, impact-related deposit that has not been conclusively correlated with any known impact structure. However, a gravity low approximate…
View article: First workshop on the Carnian Pluvial Episode (Late Triassic): a report
First workshop on the Carnian Pluvial Episode (Late Triassic): a report Open
In the late early Carnian (Late Triassic) an important, but yet poorly understood, phase of global climate change occurred. This is roughly coincident with a time of major biological turnover. Many important groups diversified or spread du…