As we enter a new era, the Anthropocene, the two largest threats that face humanity are the climate crisis and biodiversity collapse (Monastersky, 2015). In recent decades, human populations have risen exponentially, placing increased pressure on natural resources....
The brown seaweeds of Jersey: An intertidal blue carbon assessment
With expanding human populations and rising consumer demands driving the climate crisis, there has never been a greater need for innovative climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies. Although a relatively new science, blue carbon has become increasingly...
The Wolf Cave Gabbro – alkaline olivine basaltic magmatism in Jersey, Channel Islands
An 8m thick coarse-grained olivine dolerite dyke, with well-developed chilled margins, trending NNE-SSW and occupying a steep-sided cove on the north Jersey coast, may show evidence for some flow differentiation. Texturally, the dyke is remarkable for the pronounced...
Basement weathering at the Lower Palaeozoic unconformity in the Channel Islands and northern Brittany
Deep weathered profiles are developed in igneous basement rocks immediately beneath the Lower Palaeozoic elastic sequences of Alderney, Jersey and northern Brittany. The weathering features are interpreted to have developed during the early Palaeozoic. In western...
Performing Jurisdictional Politics in the Bailiwick of Guernsey: A Study of Anthems and Stamps
The Bailiwick of Guernsey is a British jurisdiction in the Channel Islands comprising several islands and forming a binary with the neighbouring Bailiwick of Jersey. The Bailiwick is an archipelago of administrative similitude and island-based jurisdictional...
“Origin of appinitic pockets in the diorites of Jersey, Channel Islands”
Isolated pockets of pegmatitic appinite characterized by hollow-shell, prismatic amphiboIes are common in the Pre-Cambrian metagabbros and metasomatic diorites of Jersey. Field relationships and petrography indicate a liquid phase in the formation of these appinitic...