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Brammer, Naomi R., and Mir-Akbar Hessami. "DECENTRALISED GENERATION IN VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR ELECTRICITY SUPPLY RELIABILITY." Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering 33, no. 1 (March 2009): 11–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/tcsme-2009-0003.

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Distributed or decentralised generation (DG) using advanced fossil fuel and renewable energy technologies is an attractive alternative to traditional electricity generation. Over 75% of new generating capacity installed in the Australian state of Victoria between 2000 and 2010 will be DG from gas turbines and wind farms. However, it is uncertain if this new capacity will be sufficient to maintain historic levels of electricity supply reliability. The contribution of DG to Victoria’s electricity supply in 2010 has been assessed, through analysis of modelled supply and demand data and comparisons with data from 2000. While it was assumed that new gas turbines will provide peak load and emergency generation, the role of wind farms was evaluated by considering their equivalent firm capacity estimated using statistical and probabilistic methods. Results show that all DG from gas turbines will contribute to Victoria's electricity supply in 2010, but only 4-30% of installed wind farm capacity can be considered firm or reliable. Technical performance indicators suggest that the new generating capacity will be unable to satisfy increased demand with adequate reliability. Additional base load capacity and demand reduction measures are required to ensure Victoria’s electricity supply reliability is maintained in the future.
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Earp, Clem. "Early Devonian fossils from the Broadford Formation, central Victoria." Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 127, no. 2 (2015): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rs15014.

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The Broadford Formation of central Victoria, Australia, hitherto lacked an identifiable fossil record but has, nevertheless, recently been considered to be wholly Silurian. Shelly fossil localities below and within the Broadford Formation reported in this study have yielded Boucotia australis and other brachiopods, indicating that much of the formation has a maximum age of Early Devonian.
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Bomfleur, Benjamin, Christian Pott, and Hans Kerp. "Plant assemblages from the Shafer Peak Formation (Lower Jurassic), north Victoria Land, Transantarctic Mountains." Antarctic Science 23, no. 2 (November 23, 2010): 188–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102010000866.

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AbstractThe Jurassic plant fossil record of Gondwana is generally meagre, which renders phytogeographic and palaeoclimatic interpretations difficult to date. Moreover, plant fossil assemblages mainly consist of impressions/compressions with rather limited palaeobiological and palaeoecological significance. We here present a detailed survey of new Early Jurassic plant assemblages from the Pliensbachian Shafer Peak Formation, north Victoria Land, Transantarctic Mountains. Some of the well-preserved fossils yield cuticle. The floras consist of isoetalean lycophytes, sphenophytes, several ferns, bennettitaleans, and conifers. In addition, three distinct kinds of conifer shoots and needles were obtained from bulk macerations. The composition of the plant communities is typical for Jurassic macrofloras of Gondwana, which underscores the general homogeneity of Southern Hemisphere vegetation during the mid-Mesozoic. Altogether, the plant fossil assemblages indicate humid and warm temperate conditions, which is in contrast to recent palaeoclimatic models that predict cool temperate climates for the continental interior of southern Gondwana during the Jurassic. However, there is no evidence for notable soil development or peat accumulation. The environmental conditions were apparently very unstable due to intense volcanic activity that resulted in frequent perturbation of landscape and vegetation, hampering the development of long-lived climax communities. Cuticles of bennettitaleans and conifers show xeromorphic features that may have been beneficial for growth in this volcanic environment.
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Kaulfuss, Uwe, and Gennady M. Dlussky. "Early Miocene Formicidae (Amblyoponinae, Ectatomminae, ?Dolichoderinae, Formicinae, and Ponerinae) from the Foulden Maar Fossil Lagerstätte, New Zealand, and their biogeographic relevance." Journal of Paleontology 89, no. 6 (November 2015): 1043–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2015.62.

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AbstractThe fossil record of Australasian Formicidae is extremely sparse. It currently comprises two ants in the subfamilies Ponerinae and Dolichoderinae from Plio/Pleistocene strata in Victoria, Australia, 14 as-yet undescribed ants from Cape York amber, and one ant in the subfamily Amblyoponinae from the early Miocene Foulden Maar in southern New Zealand. Here, we report on a diverse myrmecofauna preserved as compression fossils from Foulden Maar and describe Amblyoponinae gen. et sp. indet.,Rhytidoponera waipiatan. sp.,Rhytidoponera gibsonin. sp.,Myrmecorhynchus novaeseelandiaen. sp., andAustroponera schneiderin. sp. Further isolated wings are designated as Formicidae sp. A, B, and C, the former resembling a member of subfamily Dolichoderinae. Fossils ofAustroponeraandMyrmecorhynchusare reported for the first time, whereasRhytidoponera waipiatan. sp. andR.gibsonin. sp. are the first Southern Hemisphere fossil records of this genus.The fossil taxa from Foulden Maar establish the subfamilies Ectatomminae, Formicinae, Ponerinae and, possibly, Dolichoderinae in the Australasian region in the early Miocene and provide evidence that the few native ants in the extant New Zealand fauna are the surviving remnant of taxonomically different, possibly more diverse, warm-temperate to subtropical myrmecofauna.
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Easton, L. C. "Pleistocene Grey Kangaroos from the Fossil Chamber of Victoria Fossil Cave, Naracoorte, South Australia." Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 130, no. 1 (January 2006): 17–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/3721426.2006.10887045.

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Fehse, Dirk. "A new fossil species of Austrocypraea (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) from Red Bluff, Victoria of Australia." Palaeontographica Abteilung A 299, no. 1-6 (June 10, 2013): 115–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/pala/299/2013/115.

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Gastaldo, Robert A. "An explanation for lycopod configuration, ‘Fossil Grove’ Victoria Park, Glasgow." Scottish Journal of Geology 22, no. 1 (May 1986): 77–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/sjg22010077.

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Bell, Phil R., Russell D. C. Bicknell, and Elizabeth T. Smith. "Crayfish bio-gastroliths from eastern Australia and the middle Cretaceous distribution of Parastacidae." Geological Magazine 157, no. 7 (October 30, 2019): 1023–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756819001092.

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AbstractFossil crayfish are typically rare, worldwide. In Australia, the strictly Southern Hemisphere clade Parastacidae, while ubiquitous in modern freshwater systems, is known only from sparse fossil occurrences from the Aptian–Albian of Victoria. We expand this record to the Cenomanian of northern New South Wales, where opalized bio-gastroliths (temporary calcium storage bodies found in the foregut of pre-moult crayfish) form a significant proportion of the fauna of the Griman Creek Formation. Crayfish bio-gastroliths are exceedingly rare in the fossil record but here form a remarkable supplementary record for crayfish, whose body and trace fossils are otherwise unknown from the Griman Creek Formation. The new specimens indicate that parastacid crayfish were widespread in eastern Australia by middle Cretaceous time, occupying a variety of freshwater ecosystems from the Australian–Antarctic rift valley in the south, to the near-coastal floodplains surrounding the epeiric Eromanga Sea further to the north.
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WINTERSCHEID, HEINRICH. "Typifications in fossil-species of Brasenia, Magnolia, Vitis, and Symplocos from the central European Neogene." Phytotaxa 428, no. 2 (January 9, 2020): 113–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.428.2.5.

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The following names of fossil Magnoliidae with some synonyms are typified: Brasenia victoria (syn. Nymphaea doliolum) (Nymphaeaceae), M. ludwigii (syn. Magnolia lignita) and Magnolia cor (syn. Magnolia hoffmannii) (Magnoliaceae), Vitis teutonica (Vitaceae), and Symplocos casparyi (Symplocaceae).
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Greenwood, DR. "Early Tertiary Podocarpaceae - Megafossils From the Eocene Anglesea Locality, Victoria, Australia." Australian Journal of Botany 35, no. 2 (1987): 111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/bt9870111.

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The nomenclature of some Tertiary fossil Podocarpaceae is reviewed. Fossil Podocarpaceae from the Eocene Anglesea locality in Victoria are described and assigned to six species from five modern genera using cuticular and other vegetative morphology. Falcatifolium australis D. R. Greenwood is the first record for this genus in Australia. Dacrycarpus eocenica D. R. Greenwood, Podocarpus platyphyllum D. R. Greenwood and Prumnopitys lanceolata D. R. Greenwood are new species. Decussocarpus brownei (Selling) D. R. Greenwood and Prumnopitys aff. Pr. Tasmanica (Townrow) D. R. Greenwood have previously been recorded as megafossils from the Australian Tertiary. The diversity of Podocarpaceae recorded from Anglesea is far greater than in any modern Australian forests.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Fossil Victoria"

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Weaver, Sarah Anne. "Fossil poetry : Tennyson and Victorian philology." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708871.

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Winter, Diane Marie. "Diatom biostratigraphy and early to mid-Pliocene paleoecology, southern Victoria Land Basin, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica." 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1694433091&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=14215&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2009.
Title from title screen (site viewed July 21, 2009). PDF text: xi, 160 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 5.84 Mb. UMI publication number: AAT 3350458. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.
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Keefe, Rachael Louise. "The Brandy Creek fossil flora." Thesis, 2012. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/26233/.

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A detailed quantitative study of the fossil flora, paleoclimate and paleoecology of the Eocene Brandy Creek fossil site, Bogong High Plains, Victoria, Australia was undertaken. Taxonomic assessment of Leaf macrofossils reveal 18 morphotypes that have affinity with nearest living relatives including Lauraceae genera Cryptocarya, Endiandra and Litsea and the families of Cunoiaceae and Elaeocarpaceae. The pollen and spore record at Brandy Creek reveals 36 paynomorphs, with many of them having affinities with fossil and modern Dicksoniaceae, Araurcariaceae and Proteaceae and Nothofagus.
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Luly, Jonathan Gregory. "A pollen analytical investigation of Holocene palaeoenvironments at Lake Tyrrell, semi-arid Northwestern Victoria, Australia." Phd thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/110282.

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This thesis presents a pollen analytical reconstruction of mallee vegetation history in the vicinity of Lake Tyrrell, a large active salt lake in semi-arid northwestern Victoria. The project combined studies of the modern pollen rain, pollen depositional processes and sedimentological characteristics of lake deposits to provide an analytical framework appropriate to the interpretation of fossil pollen spectra from the novel salt lake setting. Pollen trapping in northwestern Victoria and western New South Wales indicates that the characteristic plant communities of semi-arid southeastern Australia can be identified from the pollen spectra they produce. Mallee heath communities produce spectra containing a diverse array of heathland taxa with limited pollen dispersal capacities, including Banksia, Baeckea behrii, Cryptandra and Calytrix tetragona. Mallee heaths also produce large amounts of Calli tris pollen but can be distinguished from Callitris woodland by the regular presence of pollen from restricted heathland taxa. Pollen spectra from chenopod shrublands are characterised by overwhelming dominance by Chenopodiaceae pollen. Other halophytic taxa often represented include Selenothamnus and Disphyma. Riverine forests produce pollen spectra dominated by Eucalyptus Muehlenbeckia cunninghamii and Amyema pollen occur commonly. It may be possible to identify pollen of Eucalyptus camaldulensis in fossil assemblages allowing this community to be more clearly delineated in the fossil record. Mallee communities can be distinguished from eucalypt dominated communities in moister areas by producing pollen spectra containing relatively high percentages of chenopod pollen and low percentages of grass pollen. Eucalypt woodlands in areas receiving more than 400 mm mean annual rainfall produce pollen spectra containing appreciable quantities of Callitris pollen. No relationship could be discerned between pollen production and rainfall in this study. Pollen trapping at Lake Tyrrell suggests that the majority of pollen arriving at the lake surface is wind borne. Few are washed from the lake margin or imported down Tyrrell Creek. This contrasts strongly with the situation in humid areas where pollen washed from the catchment or carried in creeks are a significant part of a lakes pollen budget. Pollen reaching the surface of Lake Tyrrell are rapidly redistributed and are preferentially deposited in areas marginal to the persistent salt crust. Maximum pollen concentrations occur on relatively high parts of the lake bed, again contrasting strongly with models derived from permanently wet lakes where maximum deposition of pollen occurs in the deepest parts of the basin. The sediments of Lake Tyrrell record a history of hydrological change extending to approximately 10,000 BP. Between 10,000 BP and 6600 BP water in Lake Tyrrell was shallow, saline and probably ephemeral. Water depths and the frequency I duration of flooding were most likely similar to those experienced today but there was no persistent salt crust. Between 6600 BP and 2200 BP the lake was a permanent though fluctuating waterbody. The lake waters were saline throughout this period. Water balance calculations suggest average rainfall in the lake catchment would have been approximately 2.6 times modern levels between 6600 BP and 2200 BP. The lake was dry between 2200 BP and 800 BP. The local groundwater table fell below the lake bed. There was no salt crust until about 800 BP when rainfall increased slightly allowing local watertables to rise and modem salt lake conditions to develop. Changes in vegetation around Lake Tyrrell occur in association with changes in rainfall. Between 10,000 BP and 6600 BP Lake Tyrrell was surrounded by open woodland dominated by Allocasuarina Eucalyptus and Callitris were probably present in limited areas. At 6600 BP mallee communities began to dominate the landscape. It is likely the appearance of mallee reflects the arrival of mallee eucalypts spreading from refugial areas occupied during the last glacial maximum. Callitris patches were a prominent element of the regional vegetation during this the wettest interval in the Holocene record. They appear little affected by the active fire regime of the times. Between 2200 BP and 800 BP mallee persisted and Allocasuarina experienced a modest expansion. Callitris declined drastically. The dense mallee vegetation which surrounded the lake at the time of European settlment was established after 800 BP. The history of Holocene environmental change identified from Lake Tyrrell provides a possible explanation for the patterns of archaeological site distribution observed in the Mallee Districts of northwestern Victoria.
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Books on the topic "Fossil Victoria"

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Flannery, Tim F. The Macropodoidea (Marsupialia) of the early Pliocene Hamilton local fauna, Victoria, Australia. Chicago, Ill: Field Museum of Natural History, 1992.

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International Echinoderm Conference (6th 1987 Victoria, B.C.). Echinoderm biology: Proceedings of the sixth International Echinoderm Conference, Victoria, 23-28 August 1987. Brookfield, The Netherlands: A.A. Balkema, 1988.

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Wellington), International Bryozoology Conference (10th 1995 Victoria University of. Bryozoans in space and time: Proceedings of the 10th International Bryozoology Conference, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, 1995. Wellington, N.Z: NIWA, 1996.

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International Symposium on Ostracoda. (11th 1991 Warrnambool, Victoria). Ostracoda in the earth and life sciences: Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Ostracoda : Warrnambook, Victoria, Australia, 8-12, July 1991. Rotterdam: A.A. Balkema, 1993.

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S, Sarjeant William Antony, ed. The tracks of Triassic vertebrates: Fossil evidence from North-West England. London: The Stationery Office, 1997.

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Congress of the International Council for Archaeozoology. (8th 1998 Victoria, Canada). Dogs through time: An archaeological perspective : proceedings of the 1st ICAZ Symposium on the History of the Domestic Dog : eighth congress of the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ98), August 23-29, 1998, Victoria, B.C., Canada. Oxford: Archeopress, 2000.

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J, Crockford Susan, and International Council for Archaeozoology. Congress, eds. Dogs through time: An archaeological perspective ; proceedings of the 1st ICAZ Symposium on the History of the Domestic Dog ; Eighth Congress of the International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ98), August 23-29, 1998, Victoria, B.C., Canada. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2000.

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Men among the mammoths: Victorian science and the discovery of human prehistory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.

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Stephen, McLoughlin, ed. Early Cretaceous (Neocomian) flora and fauna of the Lower Strzelecki Group, Gippsland Basin, Victoria. Canberra: Association of Australasian Palaeontologists, 2002.

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Lambert, P., Ross David Burke, and P. V. Mladenov. Echinoderm Biology: Proceedings of the Sixth International Echinoderm Conference, Victoria, 23-28 August 1987. Aa Balkema, 1988.

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Hammer, William R. "Takrouna formation fossils of northern Victoria Land." In Geological Investigations in Northern Victoria Land, 243–47. Washington, D. C.: American Geophysical Union, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/ar046p0243.

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Schram, Frederick R., and Stefan Koenemann. "Anaspidacea." In Evolution and Phylogeny of Pancrustacea, 305–22. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195365764.003.0024.

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The first species of syncarids described in 1847 were actually fossils from the Coal Age. More fossil species were described, but after 45 years, the first living syncarid was recognized in 1894. Molecule sequences revealed that mountain shrimp have little to do with bathynellaceans. They are classic caridoidans except for the lack of a carapace. Their biogeography indicates a Gondwana pattern—for example, Stygocaris has species in Victoria, New Zealand, and Chile. The fossil Anaspidacea (palaeocaridaceans), largely Carboniferous, were once thought of as a separate order, but recent cladistic analyses locate them within the living order. A Triassic species and a Cretaceous taxon provide a minuscule post-Carboniferous fossil record.
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Rauch, Alan. "The Sins of Sloths: The Moral Status of Fossil Megatheria in Victorian Culture." In Victorian Animal Dreams, 215–27. Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315235073-13.

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Hensley, Nathan K., and Philip Steer. "Ecological Formalism; or, Love Among the Ruins." In Ecological Form, 1–18. Fordham University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823282128.003.0001.

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The current global environmental crisis is an uncanny but perversely material aftereffect of Victorian England, the world’s first fossil-fueled industrial society and its most powerful global empire. Our entanglement with this past challenges current procedures of cultural analysis, requiring a new attention to form and method, and bridging the divide between ecological and postcolonial approaches in nineteenth-century studies. In response we propose an ecological formalism, which focuses on the category of form as a means for producing environmental and therefore political knowledge. The chapters in this volume explore how Victorian writers recognized empire and ecology as posing problems of intellectual scale and recognize that these aesthetic or formal concerns generate challenges of critical methodology.
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"Brooke Foss Westcott." In The Victorian Christian Socialists, 162–81. Cambridge University Press, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511560743.009.

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"Fossils and Faith: Remarkable Creatures, Ever After, and The Bone Hunter." In Science and Religion in Neo-Victorian Novels, 65–88. Routledge, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203383230-9.

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Zalasiewicz, Jan. "Dynasties." In The Earth After Us. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199214976.003.0011.

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Developing a methodology is everything in a science. Once you have it, you can go on to extract information, facts—a narrative—from the natural world. To human scientists and non-scientists alike, the use of fossils as evidence of past events on Earth is now taken for granted, is indeed ingrained into popular culture. Dinosaurs, for instance, stalk through our TV screens and cinemas and shopping malls, as virtual animations and plastic models and soft fluffy toys and comic book covers. An Age of Dinosaurs is widely accepted as a long-vanished era, a world lost within deep time. Our extraterrestrial investigators will, at some stage in their studies, be ready to try to recreate for themselves the eras of long-vanished animal and plant dynasties on this planet, to construct a coherent history out of the scattered relics preserved in the Earth’s abundant strata. By coming to understand the Earth’s marvellously regulated heat-release engine, that drives the tectonic plates, they will appreciate the continuous creation and preservation of strata. By getting to grips with the more subtle puzzle of how sea level has risen and fallen, they will have some idea of the finer controls on the preservation of the stratal record. And, as they grapple with these problems, they would undoubtedly try to put the strata themselves into some sort of order, just as did our Victorian and pre-Victorian predecessors. These pioneering geologists, after all, could recognize a prehistory when they saw one, even as they were still far from divining the workings of the Earth machine that lay at the heart of the story they were pursuing. What kind of strata will be available for study, one hundred million years from now? Many, if not all, of the classic fossil localities that we treasure today will have gone forever, eroded into scattered grains of sedimentary detritus that will ultimately accumulate on sea floors of the future. The Solnhofen Limestone of Germany, that yielded the archaeopteryx, will likely be gone. The Burgess Shale of British Columbia, with its wonderful array of early soft-bodied organisms from the Cambrian Period, half a billion years back, is almost certain to disappear, perched as it is high up a fast-eroding mountainside.
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Rickard, David. "Crystals and Atoms." In Pyrite. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190203672.003.0008.

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According to one magic crystal website, pyrite is a highly protective stone blocking and shielding you from negative energy. This may originate from Pietro Maria Canepario, who in 1619 cited Avicenna as stating that “if pyrite is worn on an infant’s neck, it defends him from all fear.” Other New Age sources maintain that pyrite can be beneficial when planning large business concepts because placing a piece on the desk energizes the area around it. Pyrite also reduces fatigue and is good for students because it is thought to improve memory and recall and to stimulate the flow of ideas. So you are certainly reading the right book . . . The magical properties of pyrite stem at least partly from the occurrence of pyritized ammonites (Figure 4.1) in ancient Egypt. Ammonites are fossils of coiled mollusks that became extinct at the same time as the dinosaurs at the end of the Mesozoic Era, about 60 million years ago. Ammonites got their name because they resemble coiled ram’s horns and the Egyptian god Amun (or Amon, Ammon, etc.) usually wore ram’s horns. The person responsible for this flight of fancy was Pliny the Elder, who called these fossils ammonis cornua or horns of Ammon. The golden pyritized ammonites were prized as lucky charms and worn as amulets in ancient Egypt. They are common today and may be readily collected from the beach at Charmouth in southern England, particularly after a storm has caused more fresh rock from the cliffs to tumble down onto the beach. The bright golden crystals of pyrite have fascinated humankind through the ages. The crystals display a variety of distinct shapes that make them extremely attractive. Indeed, pyrite may display the greatest variety of crystal forms of any common mineral. The great American mineralogist James Dwight Dana described eighty-five different forms, and the founder of geochemistry, Victor Moritz Goldschmidt, drew line drawings of almost 700 different pyrite crystals. In this chapter I show how the explanation of this extraordinary diversity of pyrite crystal shapes (or habits, formally) has helped reveal the nature of the material universe.
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Caradonna, Jeremy L. "Eco-Nomics." In Sustainability. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199372409.003.0008.

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The environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s overshadows a second, less heralded intellectual development that took place at the exact same time: the birth of “ecological economics.” A cluster of nonconforming economists in this period drew on the fledgling science of ecology to rethink many of the assumptions of neoclassical economics, with its “growthmania,” general indifference toward pollution and ecosystem destruction, and dogmatic belief that “tastes and preferences” are innate in humans rather than culturally shaped. What emerged was a new school of thought that integrated ecological concerns into an essentially capitalist economic framework. These iconoclasts brought together the dual nature of the Greek word “oikos” (literally: household), which is the etymological root of both “economics” and “ecology.” They asserted that the human “household” could not exist without a healthy and functional natural environment. This has become the essential insight of economic sustainability—the second “E” of sustainability: that the world needs economic systems that exist harmoniously with nature (and which promote social equality and justice). Those who practice the economics of sustainability in the present day— William E. Rees, Mathis Wackernagel, Peter Victor, Tim Jackson, Richard Heinberg, and many others—are the heirs of these early critics who challenged the hegemony of business-as-usual economics. First-wave ecological economics shares the readability of the classic environmental works discussed in the previous chapter. The main authors associated with ecological economics—E. J. Mishan, E. F. Schumacher, Kenneth Boulding, Howard T. Odum, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Herman Daly, Amory Lovins, and the members of the shadowy-sounding Club of Rome—went out of their way to write nontechnical books that were meant to appeal to the average-educated reader. Collectively, these authors ask deep and penetrating philosophical questions: What is the point of endless economic growth? What are the environmental costs of a wasteful and fossil-fuel-addicted consumer society? What is the best way to measure the well-being of a society? What is the role of economics in ensuring that human society remains within its ecological limits and avoids overshoot and collapse? How can nature, society, and the economy be studied as a single system?
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Weiner, J. S., and Chris Stringer. "Some others." In The Piltdown Forgery. Oxford University Press, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198607809.003.0014.

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Teilhard de Chardin was by no means the first helper in the search. Very probably the first person to hear of Dawson’s original fossil find, the piece handed to him by the labourer, was his friend of many years’ standing, Mr. Sam Woodhead, a schoolmaster at Uckfield, who combined his teaching duties with the post of Public Analyst. Woodhead had carried out the analysis of the natural gas reported by Dawson to the Geological Society in 1898. He shared the first excitement of the finds at Piltdown, and went back to Barkham Manor with Dawson a few days after the first find to look for more fragments, but, as Dawson has told us, their search was fruitless. Woodhead maintained his connection with the investigation, and it was he who carried out a chemical analysis of the skull at some time before 1912. He remained at Uckfield till 1916, the year of Dawson’s death. He was a man of considerable attainments, becoming a Doctor of Science and a Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry. He became Public Analyst for Brighton and Hove, and in 1916 went to live at Barcombe, the scene of Dawson’s third discovery of human remains. He was among those who attended Dawson’s funeral in Lewes in 1916. Woodhead often spoke of his early connections with the famous event to his wife and son and to others, such as Mr. Essex, another teacher, at Uckfield. Mr. A. J. Smith of Leamington remembers in a conversation in about 1925 that, in telling of the event, Woodhead chuckled over his ‘truancy’ from school that day when he helped Mr. Dawson in the pit, as he did on subsequent occasions. These visits in 1908 are well remembered by Mrs. Sam Woodhead. During the years from 1908 to 1911 Dawson showed one or more of the thick pieces of cranium to others among his friends and colleagues. Mr. Ernest Victor Clark4 was given the privilege of a private view of the fragments when he and his wife were dining with the Dawsons in Lewes, at some time in the autumn of 1911 or early in 1912.
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Conference papers on the topic "Fossil Victoria"

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Hendry, Cindy L., Kirsten E. Jenkins, Peter Li, Lauren A. Michel, and Kieran P. McNulty. "GIS INTERPRETATION OF FOSSIL DISTRIBUTION OF AN EKEMBO BEARING SITE FROM THE EARLY MIOCENE, RUSINGA ISLAND, LAKE VICTORIA, KENYA." In GSA Annual Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA - 2018. Geological Society of America, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2018am-320831.

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Cheng, Rui, Jian Dong, and Zuomin Dong. "Modeling and Simulation of a Multiple-Regime Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle." In ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2013-13619.

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In recent years, the automotive industry has devoted considerable resources to the research and development of hybrid vehicles. Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) present to be the next generation hybrid vehicles that offer the advantages in reducing fossil fuel consumption and lowering emissions without sacrifice vehicle performance, and the ability to utilize renewable energy through charge from the electric grid. In this work, the powertrain model of a series-parallel, multiple-regime plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (SPMR-PHEV) was introduced. As one of the several parallel powertrain modeling, simulation and control system design approaches at University of Victoria, the presented SPMR-PHEV model was developed using rule-based load-leveling energy management strategy (EMS) under the MATLAB/Simulink and SimDriveline environment. In order to validate the model and evaluate the fuel consumption and performance of SPMR-PHEV, a Simulink based Prius model and two different PHEV powertrain models have also been built using Autonomie — a vehicle simulation tool developed by DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory, using the default control logics. Fuel consumption from the three different models were compared using a test drive case consisting of eight times of the US06-City drive cycle. Under the static modeling and simulation method and different control strategies, the SPMR-PHEV model in Simulink/SimDriveline and rule-based load-leveling EMS showed 12.02% fuel economy and powertrain efficiency improvements over the Autonomie model. The new powertrain system model developed using Simulink and SimDrivline could also be used as a generic, modular and flexible vehicle modeling platform to support the integration of powertrain design and control system optimization.
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Martin, Tony, Melissa Lowery, Michael Hall, Thomas H. Rich, Steven Morton, Lesley Kool, Peter Swinkels, and Patricia Vickers-Rich. "CRETACEOUS POLAR ARTHROPODS ON WALKABOUTS: NEWLY DISCOVERED ARTHROPOD TRACE FOSSILS FROM THE WONTHAGGI FORMATION (BARREMIAN), VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA." In GSA Connects 2021 in Portland, Oregon. Geological Society of America, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2021am-364259.

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Davis, John C., Mike Jones, and John Roderique. "Planning for Greater Levels of Diversion That Including Energy Recovery for the Mojave Desert and Mountain Recycling Authority, California Region." In 17th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/nawtec17-2342.

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The Mojave Desert and Mountain Recycling Authority is a California Joint Powers Authority (the JPA), consisting of nine communities in California’s San Bernardino County high desert and mountain region. In August 2008 the JPA contracted with Gershman, Brickner & Bratton, Inc. (GBB) to prepare the Victor Valley Resource Management Strategy (Resource Management Strategy). Working with RRT Design and Construction, Inc. (RRT), GBB prepared a coordinated forward-looking strategy to guide the JPA’s future program and facilities decisions. The Resource Management Strategy focused on the Town of Apple Valley, population 70,092, and the City of Victorville, population 107,408, the two largest JPA member communities, which have a combined total of more than 130,000 tons per year of material entering the JPA’s recycling system and the Victorville Landfill. The Resource Management Strategy is underpinned by a characterization of waste loads delivered to the Victorville Landfill. A visual characterization was carried out by RRT in September/October 2008. RRT engineers identified proportions of materials recoverable for recycling and composting among all loads collected from residential and non-residential generators for a full week, nearly 300 loads total. The JPA financed and manages the operations contract for the highly automated Victor Valley Material Recovery Facility (MRF). The MRF today receives and processes an average of 130 tons per day (tpd), five days per week, of single stream paper and containers and recyclable-rich commercial waste loads. The waste characterization indicated that as much as 80 percent of loads of residential and commercial waste currently landfilled could be processed for recycling and composting in a combination manual and automated sorting facility. Residue from the MRF, which is predominated by paper, would provide potential feedstock for an energy recovery project; however, the JPA has two strategies regarding process residue. The first strategy is to reduce residue rates from existing deliveries, to optimize MRF operations. An assessment of the MRF conducted by RRT indicated that residue rates could be reduced, although this material would continue to be rich in combustible materials. The second strategy is to increase recovery for recycling by expanding the recyclable-rich and organics-dense waste load deliveries to the MRF and/or a composting facility. The Resource Management Strategy provided a conceptual design and cost that identified projected capital and operations costs that would be incurred to expand the MRF processing system for the program expansion. Based on the waste composition analysis, residue from a proposed system was estimated. This residue also would be rich in combustible materials. The December 2008 California Scoping Plan is the roadmap for statewide greenhouse gas emission reduction efforts. The Scoping Plan specifically calls out mandatory commercial recycling, expanded organics composting (particularly food residue), and inclusion of anaerobic digestion as renewable energy. The Resource Management Strategy sets the stage for JPA programs to address Scoping Plan mandates and priorities. California Public Resources Code Section 40051(b) requires that communities: Maximize the use of all feasible source reduction, recycling, and composting options in order to reduce the amount of solid waste that must be disposed of by transformation and land disposal. For wastes that cannot feasibly be reduced at their source, recycled, or composted, the local agency may use environmentally safe transformation or environmentally safe land disposal, or both of those practices. Moreover, Section 41783(b) only allows transformation diversion credit (10 percent of the 50 percent required) if: The transformation project uses front-end methods or programs to remove all recyclable materials from the waste stream prior to transformation to the maximum extent feasible. Finally, prior to permitting a new transformation facility the California Integrated Waste Management Board is governed by Section 41783(d), which requires that CIWMB: “Hold a public hearing in the city, county, or regional agency jurisdiction within which the transformation project is proposed, and, after the public hearing, the board makes both of the following findings, based upon substantial evidence on the record: (1) The city, county, or regional agency is, and will continue to be, effectively implementing all feasible source reduction, recycling, and composting measures. (2) The transformation project will not adversely affect public health and safety or the environment.” The Resource Management Strategy assessed two cement manufacturers located in the high desert region for their potential to replace coal fuel with residue from the MRF and potentially from other waste quantities generated in the region. Cement kilns are large consumers of fossil fuels, operate on a continuous basis, and collectively are California’s largest source of greenhouse gas emissions. The Resource Management Strategy also identified further processing requirements for size reduction and screening to remove non-combustible materials and produce a feasible refuse derived fuel (RDF). A conceptual design system to process residue and supply RDF to a cement kiln was developed, as were estimated capital and operating costs to implement the RDF production system. The Resource Management Strategy addressed the PRC requirement that “all feasible source reduction, recycling and composting measures” are implemented prior to approving any new “transformation” facility. This planning effort also provided a basis for greenhouse gas reduction analysis, consistent with statewide initiatives to reduce landfill disposal. This paper will report on the results of this planning and the decisions made by the JPA, brought current to the time of the conference.
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