Geology TodayPub Date : 2025-06-03DOI: 10.1111/gto.12515
S. Kenneth Donovan
{"title":"Retro review: Directory of British Fossiliferous Localities","authors":"S. Kenneth Donovan","doi":"10.1111/gto.12515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12515","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We all have books on the shelves of our personal libraries, not collecting dust, but regularly being pulled down and referred to despite their age. I have several that are still there and being used almost 50 years after I bought them, all wise investments, indeed. <i>Directory of British Fossiliferous Localities</i> is particularly cherished, capturing the flavour of geological fieldwork in a time now sadly lost.</p>","PeriodicalId":100581,"journal":{"name":"Geology Today","volume":"41 3","pages":"114-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144197149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Geology TodayPub Date : 2025-06-03DOI: 10.1111/gto.12514
Tony Waltham
{"title":"Geology and resources of diamonds","authors":"Tony Waltham","doi":"10.1111/gto.12514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12514","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A brief review of diamond mining covers the succession of dominating resources, from India to South Africa, to elsewhere in Africa and then to Russia and Canada. Kimberlite pipes have come to be recognized as the explosive transporters of diamonds upwards from their high-pressure sources in the deep crust and upper mantle of Archaean cratons.</p>","PeriodicalId":100581,"journal":{"name":"Geology Today","volume":"41 3","pages":"103-113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144197148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Geology TodayPub Date : 2025-06-03DOI: 10.1111/gto.12513
Kent Brooks
{"title":"Greenland: a treasure trove of natural resources?","authors":"Kent Brooks","doi":"10.1111/gto.12513","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12513","url":null,"abstract":"<p>President Trump's announcement of his desire to buy or annex Greenland—if necessary by military force—has projected this hitherto little-known territory into the international headlines. This article looks briefly at Greenland's widely quoted promise of hitherto untapped, but fabulously rich natural resources, examining America's history of land acquisition and its claim to Greenland. It provides a brief overview of the geography of Greenland, followed by its history and a description of geopolitical factors, before taking an overview of its possible exploitable mineral resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":100581,"journal":{"name":"Geology Today","volume":"41 3","pages":"95-102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144197147","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Geology TodayPub Date : 2025-06-03DOI: 10.1111/gto.12516
Joe Stembridge-King, Jack Thomas Rhodes Wilkin
{"title":"The lifestyle of Spinosaurus","authors":"Joe Stembridge-King, Jack Thomas Rhodes Wilkin","doi":"10.1111/gto.12516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12516","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The mid-Cretaceous Kem Kem beds of Morocco contains an overabundance of giant theropod dinosaurs, including <i>Spinosaurus</i> and <i>Carcharodontosaurus—</i>both longer than <i>Tyrannosaurus</i>. Compared to modern and other Mesozoic continental ecosystems, in which herbivores represent most of the vertebrate biomass, predators are overrepresented in the mid-Cretaceous of North Africa. The reason is thought to be niche partitioning, with <i>Spinosaurus</i> being semi or perhaps even fully aquatic with other large theropods having a more traditional lifestyle. These conclusions are based on evidence from stable isotopes, skeletal anatomy and biomechanical studies which we will discuss in this article.</p>","PeriodicalId":100581,"journal":{"name":"Geology Today","volume":"41 3","pages":"118-122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gto.12516","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144197152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Geology TodayPub Date : 2025-03-19DOI: 10.1111/gto.12507
Stephen K. Donovan
{"title":"The significance of traces and trace fossils: trails, burrows and borings","authors":"Stephen K. Donovan","doi":"10.1111/gto.12507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12507","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Traces and trace fossils are the spoor of organisms, such as tracks, trails, burrows, borings and coprolites. They provide a unique suite of data for geology, including stratigraphy, sedimentology and palaeontology.</p>","PeriodicalId":100581,"journal":{"name":"Geology Today","volume":"41 2","pages":"56-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143646284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Geology TodayPub Date : 2025-03-19DOI: 10.1111/gto.12508
Stephen K. Donovan
{"title":"Club-shaped borings: Gastrochaenolites","authors":"Stephen K. Donovan","doi":"10.1111/gto.12508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12508","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Borings are traces that can be transported easily within clasts and shells. One of the commonest recent borings around the British Isles is the club-shaped <i>Gastrochaenolites</i> Leymerie. In the Mesozoic and younger, <i>Gastrochaenolites</i> was commonly a boring of bivalves, sometimes preserved <i>in situ</i>, but it extends back to the Ordovician with no evidence of the producer.</p>","PeriodicalId":100581,"journal":{"name":"Geology Today","volume":"41 2","pages":"61-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143646276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Geology TodayPub Date : 2025-03-19DOI: 10.1111/gto.12509
Stephen K. Donovan
{"title":"Small round holes","authors":"Stephen K. Donovan","doi":"10.1111/gto.12509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12509","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Small round holes in shells—the trace fossil <i>Oichnus</i> Bromley—range throughout the Phanerozoic and were doubtless the spoor of diverse invertebrates. Their function may have been predatory, parasitic or a domicile, but how do we tell which from the fossil evidence?</p>","PeriodicalId":100581,"journal":{"name":"Geology Today","volume":"41 2","pages":"65-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143645862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Geology TodayPub Date : 2025-03-19DOI: 10.1111/gto.12510
James Barnet
{"title":"How tiny foraminifera can play a massive role in understanding past climates","authors":"James Barnet","doi":"10.1111/gto.12510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gto.12510","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Foraminifera comprise a group of heterotrophic zooplankton, which inhabit all depths within the world's oceans from the sunlit surface ocean to the depths of the abyssal plains. Many species build a shell of calcium carbonate (predominantly calcite), which records vital geochemical information from the oceans as it grows. Studies based on microscopic foraminifera are often at the forefront of pioneering research by palaeoclimatologists into Cretaceous–Cenozoic climates. In this feature, I summarize how foraminifera are obtained from the deep ocean and describe how rapidly evolving planktic foraminifera species can be used to date marine sediments. I then explain how benthic foraminifera can be used to reconstruct high-resolution long-term climate records, focusing on the use of stable oxygen isotopes to elucidate deep ocean temperatures from the greenhouse climate of the late Paleocene–early Eocene.</p>","PeriodicalId":100581,"journal":{"name":"Geology Today","volume":"41 2","pages":"71-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gto.12510","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143645863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}