Earth & Environmental Sciences and Geography & Sustainable Development (Schools of): Recent submissions
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Whodunit? Determining the source and eruptive characteristics of unidentified volcanic eruptions from ice and sediment core archives
(2024-06-13) - ThesisThe most complete records of explosive volcanism from the last 100,000 years are preserved in polar ice cores as deposits of sulfate aerosol and microscopic ash (tephra). These records are essential for reconstructing the ... -
Asylum as artifice : the role of the 'asylum seeker' and the production of the space-time of asylum accommodation in Glasgow, Scotland
(2024-06-14) - ThesisThis thesis explores the relationship between the legal category of the ‘asylum seeker’ and production of asylum accommodation as space-time, through a localised empirical case study in Glasgow, Scotland. Administered by ... -
Investigating the dynamics of Greenland's glacier-fjord systems
(University of St Andrews, 2021-11-30) - ThesisOver the past two decades, Greenland’s tidewater glaciers have dramatically retreated, thinned and accelerated, contributing significantly to sea level rise. This change in glacier behaviour is thought to have been triggered ... -
Air pollution, health, mortality, and ethnicity: analysis of individual-level longitudinal and census data linked to high-resolution spatial data from the United Kingdom
(2023-11-28) - ThesisThis thesis investigates the association between air pollution and health in the UK and examines how this association varies by ethnicity and country of birth. It links high-resolution spatial data on air pollution to ... -
A quantitative classification tool for porphyry Cu alteration systems
(2023-11-28) - ThesisPorphyry copper deposits form from upper crustal H₂O saturated magmatic systems, along ancient and active convergent margins. As the world’s major source of copper, gold and molybdenum, along with minor quantities of other ...