“Some do and some doesn’t”: Verbal concord variation in the north of the British Isles

2005 ◽  
pp. 125-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lukas Pietsch
Keyword(s):  
British Isles ◽  
The North

Grenadiers of the World Oceans: Biology, Stock Assessment, and Fisheries

2008 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Deep Water ◽  
Stock Assessment ◽  
Data Availability ◽  
Biological Knowledge ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
British Isles ◽  
The North ◽  
Mid Atlantic Ridge ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
A Minor

<em>Abstract</em>.—The biology and fisheries of macrourid species in the NE Atlantic are reviewed. Of about 30 species that occur within that area, the roundnose grenadier <em>Coryphaenoides rupestris </em>is one of the main target species of deep-water fisheries. Roughhead grenadier <em>Macrourus berglax </em>is a minor bycatch of other deep-water fisheries and an occasional target of some small fisheries. Other macrourid species are not commercially exploited because they are too small and/or in too deep waters, but some are also taken as accidental bycatch. There are three main fisheries for roundnose grenadier: north and west of the British Isles, Skagerrak, and Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The Skagerrak fishery is mainly for fish meal while the others are for human consumption. Due to data availability, a range of assessment methods has been trialled primarily for stocks to the north and west of the British Isles. Although uncertain, these assessments provide evidence that the stock has been severely depleted. Fisheries were largely unregulated until the early 2000s, but following repeated International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) advice, total allowable catches were introduced in 2003 together with effort and capacity regulations. Roundnose grenadier is the most studied species. It lives more than 50 years, compared to 30 years or more for roughhead grenadier. The limited knowledge of other species suggests a contrasting picture of maximum age ranging from 10 to 40 years. Taking into account the limited biological knowledge for these species, the pros and cons of the current management regime are discussed.

scholarly journals Moho depth of the British Isles: a probabilistic perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 221 (2) ◽  
pp. 1384-1401
Author(s):  
A Licciardi ◽  
R W England ◽  
N Piana Agostinetti ◽  
K Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Receiver Function ◽  
Moho Depth ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Data Types ◽  
The North ◽  
Data Driven Approach ◽  
Porcupine Basin ◽  
Reconstructed Surface ◽  
Surrounding Areas

SUMMARY We present a new Moho depth model of the British Isles and surrounding areas from the most up-to-date compilation of Moho depth estimates obtained from refraction, reflection and receiver function data. We use a probabilistic, trans-dimensional and hierarchical approach for the surface reconstruction of Moho topography. This fully data-driven approach allows for adaptive parametrization, assessment of relative importance between different data-types and uncertainties quantification on the reconstructed surface. Our results confirm the first order features of the Moho topography obtained in previous work such as deeper Moho (29–36 km) in continental areas (e.g. Ireland and Great Britain) and shallower Moho (12–22 km) offshore (e.g. in the Atlantic Ocean, west of Ireland). Resolution is improved by including recent available data, especially around the Porcupine Basin, onshore Ireland and Great Britain. NE trending features in Moho topography are highlighted above the Rockall High (about 28 km) and the Rockall Trough (with a NE directed deepening from 12 to about 20 km). A perpendicular SE oriented feature (Moho depth 26–28 km) is located between the Orkney and the Shetland, extending further SW in the North Sea. Onshore, our results highlight the crustal thinning towards the N in Ireland and an E–W oriented transition between deep (34 km) and shallow (about 28 km) Moho in Scotland. Our probabilistic results are compared with previous models showing overall differences around ±2 km, within the posterior uncertainties calculated with our approach. Bigger differences are located where different data are used between models or in less constrained areas where posterior uncertainties are high.

VIII.—Instances of Orientation in Prehistoric Monuments of the British Isles

Archaeologia ◽  
1923 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 193-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boyle Somerville
Keyword(s):  
British Isles ◽  
North West ◽  
The North

The occurrence of orientation in prehistoric structures has long been noticed. It has not, however, received from investigators much more than a passing comment, such as ‘the barrow is directed to the eastward’, or ‘the entrance to the chamber faces the north-west’. If a definite bearing is given, it is rarely stated whether it is ‘Magnetic’ (such as is obtained from a prismatic compass), or a True Bearing, i. e. an azimuth.

The meteoric stone seen to fall near Crumlin, Co. Antrim, on September 13, 1902

1921 ◽  
Vol 19 (93) ◽  
pp. 149-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lazarus Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
British Association ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Lough Neagh ◽  
The North ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Village

On Saturday, September 18, 1902, at 10.30 a.m. (Irish time), a stone coming from the sky struck the earth (let. 54° 88' 20" N., long. 6° 12' 10" W. of Greenwich) at a farm, belonging to Mr. Andrew Walker, situated in the district termed Crossbill, a mile to the north of the village of Crumlin, in which there is a station of the same name on the line of railway between Lisburn and Antrim. The place of fall is 3½ miles east of Lough Neagh, the largest lake in the British Isles, and I2 miles almost due west of Belfast, in which city nearly two thousand members of the British Association were then assembled for the annual meeting (September 10-17).

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.

On the systematics and ecology of interstitial ciliates of sandy beaches in North Yorkshire

1977 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 735-760 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eike Hartwig ◽  
James G. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Marine Sediments ◽  
Sandy Beaches ◽  
British Isles ◽  
The North ◽  
Ciliate Species

The ciliates are considered to be the dominant protozoan group in the lacunar system of marine sediments and the important role which they play in the benthic ecosystem has been emphasized (Fenchel, 1969). More than 7500 ciliate species have been described (Corliss, 1974 a) and their distribution is worldwide (Agamaliev, 1967 a; Burkovsky, 1970c; Dragesco, 1960, 1965a; Kahl, 1930–35; Petran, 1967; Raikov, 1962). However, only two surveys of the interstitial ciliates of the British Isles have been carried out (El Maghraby & Perkins, 1956; Lackey & Lackey, 1963). This paper describes a study of the systematics and ecology of interstitial ciliates of the North Yorkshire coast.

scholarly journals Coastal archaeologies: settlement on the changing North Sea littoral

Antiquity ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 91 (358) ◽  
pp. 1095-1097
Author(s):  
Hans Peeters
Keyword(s):  
Sea Level ◽  
North Sea ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Prehistoric Archaeology ◽  
Sea Floor ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
The Many ◽  
Rising Sea Level

Over the past decade or so, the submerged prehistoric archaeology and landscapes in the area that is known to us today as the North Sea have received increasing attention from both archaeologists and earth scientists. For too long, this body of water was perceived as a socio-cultural obstacle between the prehistoric Continent and the British Isles, the rising sea level a threat to coastal settlers, and the North Sea floor itself an inaccessible submerged landscape. Notwithstanding the many pertinent and pervasive problems that the archaeology of the North Sea still needs to overcome, recent research has made clear that these rather uninspiring beliefs are misplaced.

Clay mineralogy of the Tertiary onshore and offshore strata of the British Isles

Clay Minerals ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. M. Huggett ◽  
R. W. O'B. Knox
Keyword(s):  
North Sea ◽  
Volcanic Ash ◽  
Middle Miocene ◽  
Clay Mineralogy ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Subsequent Increase ◽  
The North ◽  
Clay Deposits ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Clay Formation

AbstractTertiary sediments are of restricted occurrence in the onshore British Isles but occur extensively offshore, attaining thicknesses of ~4 km in the Faroe—Shetland Basin and ~3 km in the North Sea Basin. Clay mineral stratigraphic studies of the North Sea Paleocene to Lower Miocene successions show a dominance of smectite (and smectite-rich illite-smectite) with minor illite, kaolin and chlorite. Abundant smectite in the Paleocene and Eocene reflects alteration of volcanic ash derived from pyroclastic activity associated with the opening of the North Atlantic between Greenland and Europe. However, the persistence of high smectite into the Oligocene and Middle Miocene indicates that smectite-rich soils on adjacent land areas may also have been an important source of detrital clays. An upwards change to illite-dominated assemblages in the Middle Miocene reflects higher rates of erosion and detrital clay supply, with a subsequent increase in chlorite reflecting climatic cooling. The persistence of smectite-rich assemblages to depths of >3000 m in the offshore indicates little burial-related diagenesis within the mudstone succession, possibly as a consequence of over-pressuring. Despite the importance of Paleocene and Eocene sandstones as hydrocarbon reservoirs in the North Sea and Faroe-Shetland basins, there are few published details of the authigenic clays. The principal clay cements in these sandstones are kaolin and chlorite, with only minor illite reported.The offshore successions provide a valuable background to the interpretation of the more intensively studied, but stratigraphically less complete, onshore Tertiary successions. The most extensive onshore successions occur in the London and Hampshire basins where sediments of Paleocene to earliest Oligocene age are preserved. Here clay assemblages are dominated by illite and smectite with subordinate kaolin and chlorite. The relatively large smectite content of these successions is also attributed primarily to the alteration of volcanic ash. Associated non-smectitic clays are largely detrital in origin and sourced from areas to the west, with reworking of laterites and “china clay” deposits developed over Cornish granites. Authigenic clays include glauconite (sensu lato), early diagenetic kaolin that has replaced muscovite (principally in the London Clay Formation of the London Basin) and smectite that has replaced ash. Pedogenesis has extensively modified the assemblages in the Reading Formation and Solent Group. Tertiary sediments are largely missing from onshore northern and western Britain, but clays and sands of Eocene and Oligocene age are locally preserved in small fault-bounded basins. Here, clay assemblages are dominated by kaolin with minor illite.

On Occurrences of Riebeckite in Britain

1891 ◽  
Vol 9 (43) ◽  
pp. 222-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grenville A. J. Cole
Keyword(s):  
British Isles ◽  
The West ◽  
The North ◽  
First Time

In the summer of 1890, in the company of Mr. L. W. Fulcher, I again visited Mynydd Mawr, on the west of the Snowdon area, in the hope of obtaining specimens of Riebeckite larger than those on which Mr. Harker and Professor Bonney based their observations in 1888, when they independently pointed out the occurrence of this mineral for the first time in the British Isles. Previous traverses of the dome-shaped mass had shown how uniform in structure and how minutely crystalline the rock of Mynydd Mawr was over all its surface; we accordingly examined the columnar cliffs on the north and west, paying especial attention to the great western hollow, where denudation allows one to stand almost in the centre of the intrusive neck. But even here we were somewhat disappoinied, and our specimens are only slightly coarser in grain than those studied with such striking results by Professor Bonney.

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