TWO funded PhD projects starting this October.

1. Green Planet:

phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/1972-g…

2. Alternative Earths:

phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/1973-a…

Part of a project to understand the evolution of Earth's surface environment, and planetary surface environments in general.

Please apply!

Plant dispersal in the Devonian world onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pa… Wiley Earth and Space Science

Earth's earliest forest: fossilized trees and vegetation-induced sedimentary structures from the Middle Devonian (Eifelian) Hangman Sandstone Formation, Somerset and Devon. Read more in the Lyell Collection lyellcollection.org/doi/full/10.11…

#Geology #Geoscience #EarthScience #Fossil

Our new review is out today in Nature Geoscience: Human activities have altered the production, transport and fate of mud and associated organic carbon, with important implications for global carbon cycling.

Free link here: rdcu.be/dEcuv James Cook Uni

Join us for our next webinar (10th April, 19:00). David Leather will be guiding us through the Devonian-aged rocks of the Orkney isles, to uncover the story of the Great Orcadian Lake!

Learn more on our website
yorksgeolsoc.org.uk/events

We have a postdoctoral position open in fluvial research at Water & Environment (more in detail, related to river bank erosion modelling). Apply now: aalto.fi/en/open-positi…

The Old Jail in Ross-on-Wye made from even older Old Red Sandstone

A Mastcam Multispectral Investigation of Rock Variability in Gale Crater, Mars: Implications for Alteration in the Clay-Sulfate Transition of Mount Sharp. buff.ly/43I789J Mg‐and Fe‐sulfates are significant in the amorphous component of the clay‐ sulfate transition region.

Possibly the 'darkest blackwater river' on Earth: the Ruki River, a tributary to the Congo in the DRC. Rich in dissolved organic carbon...the Ruki contributes 20% of the Congo River's total organic carbon earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/152578/…

Earth's oldest fossilised #forest has been discovered in #England !😮

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a time when plants began to dominate the landscape almost 400 million years ago🌱

Find out what this ancient forest was like this #FossilFriday 👇
nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…

Good to get a good few minutes of Devonian palaeobotany onto a plant-focussed edition of Inside Science this afternoon, if you can hear me through the man-cold. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

The oldest fossilised forest on Earth - dating from 390 million years ago - has been identified in fossils found along the Somerset and Devon coast, UK. Published in the Journal of the Geological Society, read more cam.ac.uk/stories/earths… Cambridge University #Geology #Geoscience

Scientists from Cambridge Earth Sciences have identified the oldest known fossil forest on Earth, near the site of what is now a Butlin's holiday camp in Somerset.

cam.ac.uk/stories/earths…

The fieldwork leading up to this discovery was superb fun. Earth’s earliest known fossilised forest found in SW England with Seds group & Christopher Berry 390 million years young bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

World’s oldest fossilised trees discovered along Devon and Somerset coast. 35 years searching for the oldest forests and they were only 20 miles away! You live and learn. Great to work with ⁦Seds group⁩ and ⁦William McMahon⁩ on this project. theguardian.com/science/2024/m…

⚠️hot-off-the-press 'Vegetation enhances curvature-driven dynamics in meandering rivers' Nature Communications w/ Mathieu Lapôtre Eli Lazarus Andrea D'Alpaos DavideTognin & others
rdcu.be/dAio4
We show that vegetation makes lateral migration more correlated to curvature
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Check out GSA’s newest book, “Biogeomorphic Responses to Wildfire in Fluvial Ecosystems,” edited by Joan L. Florsheim, Alison P. O’Dowd, and Anne Chin. Available now! store.geosociety.org/Bookstore/Item… #GSAPubs #Geology #Geoscience #wildfires

🌳🌊 Teaming up with Lenka Kuglerová @kuglerovastripe.bsky.social, we've uncovered how large wood in a meandering river shapes ecosystems and landscapes. Our findings highlight LW's key role especially in areas enriched by hardwood forests and beaver activities. ➡️sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Meta-analysis shows that wild large herbivores shape ecosystem properties and promote spatial heterogeneity rdcu.be/dyf4d

Wednesday with #37IMS
The Torridonian field trip is held on 20-23 June and will provide an opportunity to discuss the development and interpretation of fluvial planform styles in the Precambrian and through geological time:
iasaberdeen2024.org/field-trips/
by Neil Davies and Will McMahon