Carboniferous: oblique-slip basins, intraplate magmatism and the Variscan Orogeny

AA Monaghan, D Millward, TI Kearsey, MAE Browne… - 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The fundamental global changes seen during Carboniferous times are reflected in this
account of the geological record of this Period in Scotland. Following the end-Devonian …

[HTML][HTML] The anatomically preserved Early Carboniferous flora of Pettycur, Fife, Scotland

AC Scott - Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract The Late Viséan (mid-Mississippian) anatomically preserved flora from Pettycur,
Fife, Scotland is one of the most significant plant assemblages (lagerstätte) from this period …

[HTML][HTML] Carboniferous wildfire revisited: Wildfire, post-fire erosion and deposition in a Mississippian crater lake

AC Scott - Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 2024 - Elsevier
Fires have been shown to have been common in many Carboniferous ecosystems
worldwide yet we still have little understanding of the detail of what, where and how such …

Scotland's mineral, water and energy resources: building a low-carbon future

M Smith, P Butler, MR Gillespie, RS Haszeldine… - 2024 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Scotland's Earth resources, which include minerals, hydrocarbons, water and hydro energy,
have for many centuries provided a driver for population and economic growth. The nature …

The robustness of some Carboniferous fossil leaf venation networks to simulated damage

L Mander, HTP Williams - Royal Society Open Science, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Biological networks vary widely in their architecture and functional properties. Branching
networks are good for transportation efficiency, while networks including loops offer good …

Enigmatic fossil plants with three-dimensional, arborescent-growth architecture from the earliest Carboniferous of New Brunswick, Canada

RA Gastaldo, PG Gensel, IJ Glasspool, SJ Hinds… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
The evolution of arborescence in Devonian plants, followed by their architectural radiation in
the Carboniferous, is a transition fundamental to Earth-system processes and ecological …