Problems of post-Glacial refugia

1965 ◽  
Vol 161 (984) ◽  
pp. 324-330 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sand Dunes ◽  
Glacial Refugia ◽  
Glacial Till ◽  
British Isles ◽  
North West ◽  
Last Glaciation ◽  
Pollen Zone ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ice Retreat ◽  
Organic Deposits

As the result of investigations into the coleopteran remains contained within organic deposits which were laid down after the maximum of the last glaciation I have tentatively reviewed the late- and post-Glacial faunal history of the British Isles (Pearson 1963). In corroboration of the work of botanists and palynologists (Godwin 1940, 1949, 1956, 1961) it was suggested that the stenothermal arctic element finally disappeared from the lowland fauna during a period of some 1600 years in pollen zone I. Subsequently the more thermophilous elements entered the region in some 3000 years during pollen zones IV to VII. At the time of the ice-retreat, when these faunal changes began, the landscape of north-west Europe differed considerably from the topography which we know today. The differing degrees of resistance of the various substrata to erosion would have resulted in the removal of relatively soft rocks and the formation of steep bluffs and cliffs (Piggott & Walters 1954). Accompanying the scouring out of interglacial deposits the deposition of out-wash gravels and glacial till provided habitats which were more comparable with sand-dunes and loess steppe than with those of late post-Glacial lowland soils (Pearson 1962 a ).

III.—The Pre-Cambrian Rocks of Wales

1893 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 396-401
Author(s):  
Henry Hicks
Keyword(s):  
Recent Article ◽  
British Isles ◽  
The West ◽  
British Geological Survey ◽  
England And Wales ◽  
North West ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lithological Character

In a recent article on the Pre-Cambrian Rocks of the British Isles in the Journal of Geology, vol. i., No. 1, Sir Archibald Geikie makes the following statement: “There cannot, I think, be now any doubt that small tracts of gneiss, quite comparable in lithological character to portions of the Lewisian rocks of the North-West of Scotland, rise to the surface in a few places in England and Wales. In the heart of Anglesey, for example, a tract of such rocks presents some striking external or scenic resemblance to the characteristic types of ground where the oldest gneiss forms the surface in Scotland and the West of Ireland.” To those who have followed the controversy which has been going on for nearly thirty years between the chiefs of the British Geological Survey and some geologists who have been working amongst the rocks in Wales, the importance of the above admission will be readily apparent; but as it is possible that some may be unable to realize what such an admission means in showing geological progress in unravelling the history of the older rocks in Wales during the past thirty years, a brief summary of the results obtained may possibly be considered useful.

Into the Archipelago

2020 ◽  
pp. 255-278
Author(s):  
Nicholas Allen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Bodleian Library ◽  
British Isles ◽  
North West ◽  
Far North ◽  
History Of ◽  
Collective Enterprise

This chapter reads the twelve issues of the journal Archipelago, which was first published in 2007. Launched from the unlikely port of the Bodleian Library, it carried a complement of writers and artists whose coastal work was not thought previously to be part of a collective enterprise. Under Andrew McNeillie, the writer, editor, and provocateur, the twelve issues of Archipelago created a tilted framework through which to interpret the cultural history of the formerly, and temporarily, British Isles. This much is evident from the journal’s cover, which features an illustration of Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales, and the very tip of France from the far north-west perspective of a gannet’s plunge. This is a composite vision, geographic, ecological, and prophetic, a manifesto sketched in the unfamiliar outlines of an archipelago whose borders the journal navigates in a journey that proceeds in sequences of association.

Late Quaternary Palaeoecology of Wyrie Swamp, Southeastern South Australia

1977 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Dodson
Keyword(s):  
Major Element ◽  
Late Quaternary ◽  
Sand Dunes ◽  
South Australia ◽  
European Settlement ◽  
Last Glaciation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Postglacial Expansion ◽  
Preceding Period ◽  
Open Woodland

Pollen analysis of two radiocarbon-dated cores provides a history of Wyrie Swamp and the surrounding vegetation, and the result compares with other palynological data from southeastern South Australia. Eucalypt (Eucalyptus) forest or woodland with a scrub understory was the major element before about 50,000 years BP, between ca. 40,000 and 30,000 BP, and after ca. 11,000 BP. More open woodland prevailed between ca. 50,000 and 40,000 BP, and between ca. 26,000 and 11,000 BP. Casuarina stricta, common on sand dunes, migrated to the area about 10,500 years ago and remained as a dominant species until the time of European settlement at about 1840 ad . Postglacial expansion of this species implies that the climate since 10,500 years ago has been warmer than in the preceding period. It probably was drier during the period from 50,000 to 10,500 BP than in the Holocene. The driest period was from 26,000 to 11,000 BP, perhaps corresponding to the time of the last glaciation in Australia. The site is archaeologically important, as a number of wood and stone artifacts that date between 10,200 and 8000 BP have been recovered from the swamp sediments.

Illustrations and the genesis of Barrett and Yonge's Collins pocket guide to the sea shore (1958)

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 274-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Publishing History ◽  
Biological Station ◽  
Marine Biological ◽  
Illustrated Text ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Twenty nine items of correspondence from the mid-1950s discovered recently in the archives of the University Marine Biological Station Millport, and others made available by one of the illustrators and a referee, shed unique light on the publishing history of Collins pocket guide to the sea shore. This handbook, generally regarded as a classic of its genre, marked a huge step forwards in 1958; providing generations of students with an authoritative, concise, affordable, well illustrated text with which to identify common organisms found between the tidemarks from around the coasts of the British Isles. The crucial role played by a select band of illustrators in making this publication the success it eventually became, is highlighted herein. The difficulties of accomplishing this production within commercial strictures, and generally as a sideline to the main employment of the participants, are revealed. Such stresses were not helped by changing demands on the illustrators made by the authors and by the publishers.

The Oxford History of Historical Writing

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Korean Peninsula ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
North West ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

How was history written in Europe and Asia between 400–1400? How was the past understood in religious, social, and political terms? And in what ways does the diversity of historical writing in this period mask underlying commonalities in narrating the past? The volume tackles these and other questions. Part I provides comprehensive overviews of the development of historical writing in societies that range from the Korean Peninsula to north-west Europe, which together highlight regional and cultural distinctiveness. Part II complements the first part by taking a thematic and comparative approach; it includes chapters on genre, warfare, and religion (amongst others) which address common concerns of historians working in this liminal period before the globalizing forces of the early modern world.

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