scholarly journals A Vertebrate Fauna of the Shetland Islands

Nature ◽  
1900 ◽  
Vol 62 (1595) ◽  
pp. 75-76
Author(s):  
R. L.
Keyword(s):  
Vertebrate Fauna ◽  
Shetland Islands

Contextualisation and typology of disc-headed and trapezoidal gravemarker forms in Scotland

2012 ◽  
Vol 34-35 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
George Thomson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Shetland Islands ◽  
Small Disc

Two distinctive small funerary artefact types, disc-headed and trapezoidal gravemarkers, are described. Both are uncommon in Scotland. Small disc-headed gravemarkers are distributed throughout the country but, with two exceptions, trapezoidal gravemarkers are restricted to the Shetland Islands. All known examples of these objects, including some not previously reported, are detailed and discussed in the context of similar artefacts in the rest of Britain and Europe. The current confusion in the use of names for these marker types and their variants is addressed and, through the construction of two separate typologies, a practical taxonomy is suggested. It is also suggested that both these gravemarker forms may represent examples of convergent cultural evolution.

Shorelines and vertebrate fauna of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, Utah, Idaho, and Nevada

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 181-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Milligan ◽  
H. Gregory McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Salt Lake ◽  
Great Salt Lake ◽  
Lake Levels ◽  
Lake Bonneville ◽  
Vertebrate Fauna ◽  
World Class

Pleistocene Lake Bonneville created many classic examples of lacustrine shoreline landforms, which preserve a wide variety of vertebrate fossils. _is _eld guide provides a review of the published literature for a sampling of the lake’s world-class localities. _is guide also provides a brief overview of modern Great Salt Lake and its microbialites recently exposed by near-record low lake levels. Stops include G.K. Gilbert Geologic View Park, Draper spit, Steep Mountain beach, Point of the Mountain spit, American Fork delta, Stockton Bar, and Great Salt Lake State Park.

VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF THE TRIASSIC-JURASSIC ERG:  INSIGHTS FROM AN EOLIAN LAGERSTATTEN

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
George F. Engelmann ◽  
◽  
Daniel J. Chure ◽  
Brooks B. Britt ◽  
Jesse Dean Scott Shumway
Keyword(s):  
Vertebrate Fauna

Exploring the plant environmental DNA diversity in soil from two sites on Deception Island (Antarctica, South Shetland Islands) using metabarcoding

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Micheline Carvalho-Silva ◽  
Luiz Henrique Rosa ◽  
Otávio H.B. Pinto ◽  
Thamar Holanda Da Silva ◽  
Diego Knop Henriques ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Throughput Sequencing ◽  
Crater Lake ◽  
Environmental Dna ◽  
Food Sources ◽  
South Shetland Islands ◽  
Deception Island ◽  
Shetland Islands ◽  
Operational Taxonomic Units ◽  
First Time ◽  
Impacted Site

Abstract The few Antarctic studies to date to have applied metabarcoding in Antarctica have primarily focused on microorganisms. In this study, for the first time, we apply high-throughput sequencing of environmental DNA to investigate the diversity of Embryophyta (Viridiplantae) DNA present in soil samples from two contrasting locations on Deception Island. The first was a relatively undisturbed site within an Antarctic Specially Protected Area at Crater Lake, and the second was a heavily human-impacted site in Whalers Bay. In samples obtained at Crater Lake, 84% of DNA reads represented fungi, 14% represented Chlorophyta and 2% represented Streptophyta, while at Whalers Bay, 79% of reads represented fungi, 20% represented Chlorophyta and < 1% represented Streptophyta, with ~1% of reads being unassigned. Among the Embryophyta we found 16 plant operational taxonomic units from three Divisions, including one Marchantiophyta, eight Bryophyta and seven Magnoliophyta. Sequences of six taxa were detected at both sampling sites, eight only at Whalers Bay and two only at Crater Lake. All of the Magnoliophyta sequences (flowering plants) represent species that are exotic to Antarctica, with most being plausibly linked to human food sources originating from local national research operator and tourism facilities.

Lithostratigraphy of volcanic and sedimentary sequences in central Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands

1995 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.L. Smellie ◽  
M. Liesa ◽  
J.A. Muñoz ◽  
F. Sàbat ◽  
R. Pallàs ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Debris Flows ◽  
Lower Jurassic ◽  
South Shetland Islands ◽  
Polyphase Deformation ◽  
Magmatic Arc ◽  
Shetland Islands ◽  
Sedimentary Sequences ◽  
Early Mesozoic ◽  
Livingston Island ◽  
Volcaniclastic Rocks

Livingston Island contains several, distinctive sedimentary and volcanic sequences, which document the history and evolution of an important part of the South Shetland Islands magmatic arc. The turbiditic, late Palaeozoic–early Mesozoic Miers Bluff Formation (MBF) is divided into the Johnsons Dock and Napier Peak members, which may represent sedimentation in upper and lower mid-fan settings, respectively, prior to pre-late Jurassic polyphase deformation (dominated by open folding). The Moores Peak breccias are formed largely of coarse clasts reworked from the MBF. The breccias may be part of the MBF, a separate unit, or part of the Mount Bowles Formation. The structural position is similar to the terrigenous Lower Jurassic Botany Bay Group in the northern Antarctic Peninsula, but the precise stratigraphical relationships and age are unknown. The (?) Cretaceous Mount Bowles Formation is largely volcanic. Detritus in the volcaniclastic rocks was formed mainly during phreatomagmatic eruptions and redeposited by debris flows (lahars), whereas rare sandstone interbeds are arkosic and reflect a local provenance rooted in the MBF. The Pleistocene–Recent Inott Point Formation is dominated by multiple, basaltic tuff cone relicts in which distinctive vent and flank sequences are recognized. The geographical distribution of the Edinburgh Hill Formation is closely associated with faults, which may have been reactivated as dip-slip structures during Late Cenozoic extension (arc splitting).

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