Treatise on Geochemistry - updated edtion now available

We now have online access to the second edition of Treatise on Geochemistry published in 2014.

Browse and search it via ScienceDirect at
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/9780080983004

Great for your geochemistry modules!

New section on the Earth & Planetary Sciences subject guide - video/image resources

There is a new section on the Library subject guide for Earth & Planetary Sciences http://bbk.libguides.com/earthandplanetarysciences giving links to some video and image resources, including:

• BOB (Box of Broadcasts) National (a streaming TV and radio service for universities)
• JISC MediaHub (academic video, image and audio),
• Earth Science World Image Bank 

and more. There is also a search box for image searches via Credo Reference. Take a look at this new page, and the others on the guide today!

In pictures: 25 years of Hubble

The BBC are celebrating 25 years of Hubble on their web site with some beautiful pictures:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-32388337

New journal for Earth Sciences

 We now have access to the Journal of the Geological Society from 1971 up to present via the eLibrary.

Journal of the Geological Society (JGS) is the Geological Society of London's flagship journal, publishing only the most topical and highest quality articles covering the full range of the Earth sciences. The Journal features short communications, interdisciplinary articles and reviews in key areas, and is one of the key titles for researchers in the geosciences.

You can access it via this link with your Birkbeck IT account 
http://bit.ly/1D5gKtq

Interview with Professor Ian Crawford

Professor Ian Crawford of Birkbeck's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences was interviewed on "Is Moon mining economically feasible?" at space.com http://www.space.com/28189-moon-mining-economic-feasibility.html

Read some of Prof. Crawford's recent publications about the Moon via the Birkbeck eLibrary:

• Lunar exploration: opening a window into the history and evolution of the inner Solar System (at Arxiv.org)
• Western Oceanus Procellarum as seen by C1XS on Chandrayaan-1 
• Numerical modeling of lava-regolith heat transfer on the Moon and implications for the preservation of implanted volatiles
• Scientific preparations for lunar exploration
• Back to the Moon: The scientific rationale for resuming lunar surface exploration 
• Geology, geochemistry, and geophysics of the Moon: Status of current understanding
• A brief review of chemical and mineralogical resources on the Moon and likely initial in situ resource utilization (ISRU) applications

Your Birkbeck IT account is needed for access to most of these.

Latest Nature Insight articles - Exoplanets

The latest Nature Insight is on Exoplanets

Almost 20 years after the discovery of the first exoplanet this Insight brings together a selection of reviews discussing our current theoretical understanding of exoplanets and their atmospheres, the missions that led to exoplanet discovery and the instruments, both present and future, that characterize planetary atmospheres.

Access the Insight online:

http://links.ealert.nature.com/ctt?kn=5&ms=NDcwMDMyNzIS1&r=MTc3MTMxNzQxMwS2&b=2&j=NTIyMjQ4NjU1S0&mt=1&rt=0

Latest Research from Birkbeck Earth & Planetary Sciences researchers

BIROn - Birkbeck Institutional Research Online - is a database of research papers deposited by Birkbeck researchers and academics. Here are some recent papers, available in full text, that have been uploaded by members of staff from the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences. 

Click on the links to see the full papers, but bear in mind that some of these may be the author manuscripts, not the final published versions. You will need your ITS account to log in.

 

You can also follow BIRON on Twitter to get the latest additions: https://twitter.com/BIROnbbk

• de Gosson, M. and Hiley, Basil (2013) Short-time quantum propagator and Bohmian trajectorie. Physics Letters A 377 (42), pp. 3005-3008. ISSN 0375-9601. (In Press)
• Seghedi, I. and Downes, Hilary (2011) Geochemistry and tectonic development of Cenozoic magmatism in the Carpathian–Pannonian region. Gondwana Research 20 (4), pp. 655-672. ISSN 1342-937X.
• Upton, B.G.J. and Downes, Hilary and Kirstein, L.A. and Bonadiman, C. and Hill, P.G. and Ntaflos, T. (2011) The lithospheric mantle and lower crust-mantle relationships under Scotland: a xenolithic perspective. Journal of the Geological Society 168 (4), pp. 873-886. ISSN 0016-7649.
• Hudson-Edwards, Karen A. and Wright, K. (2011) Computer simulations of the interactions of the (012) and (001) surfaces of jarosite with Al, Cd, Cu2+ and Zn. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 75 (1), pp. 52-62. ISSN 0016-7037.
• Attal, M. and Cowie, P.A. and Whittaker, A.C. and Hobley, D. and Tucker, G.E. and Roberts, Gerald P. (2011) Testing fluvial erosion models using the transient response of bedrock rivers to tectonic forcing in the Apennines, Italy. Journal of Geophysical Research 116 (F2005), ISSN 0148-0227.
• Hudson-Edwards, Karen A. and Archer, J. (2011) Geochemistry of As-, F- and B-bearing waters in and around San Antonio de los Cobres, Argentina, and implications for drinking and irrigation water quality. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 112 , pp. 276-284. ISSN 0375-6742.
• Joy, K.H. and Crawford, Ian A. and Russell, S.S. and Kearsley, A.T. (2010) Lunar meteorite regolith breccias: an in situ study of impact melt composition using LA-ICP-MS with implications for the composition of the lunar crust. Meteoritics & Planetary Science 45 (6), pp. 917-946. ISSN 1086-9379.
• Seghedi, I. and Maţenco, L. and Downes, Hilary and Mason, P.R.D. and Szakács, A. and Pécskay, Z. (2010) Tectonic significance of changes in post-subduction Pliocene-Quaternary magmatism in the south east part of the Carpathian-Pannonian Region. Tectonophysics 502 (1-2), pp. 146-157. ISSN 0040-1951.
• Barrett, J.E. and Taylor, K.G. and Hudson-Edwards, Karen A. and Charnock, J.M. (2010) Solid-phase speciation of Pb in urban road dust sediment: a XANES and EXAFS study. Environmental Science & Technology 44 (8), pp. 2940-2946. ISSN 0013-936X.
• Cvetkovic, V. and Downes, Hilary and Hock, V. and Prelevic, D. and Lazarov, M. (2010) Mafic alkaline metasomatism in the lithosphere underneath East Serbia: evidence from the study of xenoliths and the host alkali basalts. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 337 , pp. 213-239. ISSN 0305-8719.