Earth & Environmental Sciences Theses: Recent submissions
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Monitoring environmental change and ecosystem health using seabird guano chemistry
(University of St Andrews, 2017) - ThesisOne of the first studies to investigate the use of stable isotopes from seabird guano and extracted uric acid for monitoring environmental changes in diet and trophic relationships of seabirds and anthropogenic pollutant ... -
Decrypting the crustal evolution of the Mozambique Belt in Malawi
(University of St Andrews, 2016-06-22) - ThesisGlobal paleogeography exerts a first order control on both the deep and surficial components of the Earth system. Temporal and spatial constraints on the Mozambique Belt of Eastern Africa are needed to understand its crustal ... -
Generation and preservation of continental crust in collisional orogenic systems
(University of St Andrews, 2013-10) - ThesisThe continental crust is the archive of Earth history. Much of what we know about the development of Earth is learned from the continental crust, and it is within the crust that many natural resources are found. Hence, ... -
Dendroclimatic reconstruction of late Holocene summer temperatures in the Scottish Highlands
(University of St Andrews, 2016-06-22) - ThesisThis thesis focuses on reconstructing past temperatures using Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) tree-ring chronologies developed from Scotland. The research aims to fill a spatial and temporal gap in understanding northwest ... -
Trends in alluvial channel geometry and streamflow : an investigation of patterns and controls
(University of St Andrews, 2015-06) - ThesisAlluvial river channels are self-formed by the sediment-laden flow that is supplied to them from upstream and the interactions between this flow and the materials forming the channel bed and banks. Thus, any changes in the ...