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Article Reference The Laccophilinae Gistel, 1848 of Belize (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)
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Article Reference The lanternflies of the Penthicodes (Ereosoma) atomaria + species group in Thailand: new records and host plants (Hemiptera: Fulgoridae)
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2018
Article Reference The Lanternfly genus Polydictya (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae) from Sulawesi and neighbouring islands, with the description of three new species
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Article Reference The Lanternfly genus Pyrops in Vietnam: A new species from Central Vietnam, taxonomic changes, checklist, identification key (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Fulgoridae)
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Article Reference The Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) lambeosaurine dinosaur Charonosaurus jiayinensis from north-eastern China
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Article Reference The Macquenoise sandstone (Devonian – Lochkovian), a suitable raw material for ancient querns and millstones: quarries, properties, manufacture and distribution in France and Belgium
ABSTRACT. For some years, a French-Belgian team of archaeologists and geologists is investigating the provenance of ancient quern-stones and millstones. Their study revealed the frequent occurrence of particular coarse sandstones derived from Lower Devonian strata in the Ardenne region, known as either the “Arkose of Haybes” by geologists or the “Arkose of Macquenoise” by archaeologists. Material for Late Iron Age and Roman quern-stones and millstones was quarried from open pits located west of the border between France and Belgium, between the Belgian village of Macquenoise (Commune of Momignies, Province of Hainaut) and the French town of Hirson (Aisne Department, Hauts-de-France region). This paper describes the raw materials, presents the different types of grindstones produced through historical times and provides a detailed diffusion map of the millstones. KEYWORDS: arkose, Lochkovian, milling stone, Gallo-Roman quarry, distribution area, geoheritage.
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Article Reference The Magdalenian upper horizon of Goyet and the late Upper Palaeolithic recolonisation of the Belgian Ardennes
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Inproceedings Reference The map of the Brabant Massif for offshore Belgium
The cartographic boundary of the Brabant Massif in the northwest is the North Sea, which is an observational limit. Nevertheless the Lower Palaeozoic rocks continue as part of a larger unit, referred to as the Anglo-Brabant Deformation Belt. Maps of the Brabant Massif largely rely on borehole data. The latest map of the Brabant Massif (Piessens et al., 2005) uses structural concepts and direct information, rather than geophysical information. Nevertheless, an aeromagnetic survey and gravimetric data corroborate the large scale distribution of the units. This map is extrapolated to the off-shore territory of Belgium. Direct information from drillings is not available for the off-shore region, and it is therefore not possible to draw this map at the same stratigraphic resolution. The formations are therefore grouped into Cambrian, Ordovician and Silurian units. Magnetic susceptibility is high for the Cambrian, which allows tracing their continuation from on-shore to off-shore. The formations at subcrop level along the central axis of the Brabant Massif are on-shore Cambrian in age, but young in a WNW direction. Also the magnetic pattern becomes less intense, likely corresponding to an increasing depth of the more magnetic lower Cambrian units. This trend continues off-shore, indicating that the Cambrian units disappears at subcrop level. Superimposed on this general trend an aeromagnetic anomaly about 15 km off-shore of Ostend marks the probable local reappearance of the Tubize Formation. A secondary and less continuous Cambrian axis passes near Diksmuide. A second isolated off-shore aeromagnetic anomaly, indicative of the Cambrian unit, lies along the trace of this secondary axis. The gravimetric map shows a low gravimetric anomaly of which the circular shape suggests a genetic link with the chain of gravimetric lows that underlie the southern part of the on-shore part of the Brabant Massif. The higher densities in the northern part of the off-shore territory confirm, in continuation of the on-shore formation boundaries, the presence of the Silurian unit. The validity of the inferred distribution of the stratigraphic units was verified with the structural 3D concept that was developed for the on-shore part of the Brabant Massif, concluding that the inferred distribution of the geological units is in agreement with the structural model derived on-shore. It for example explains the positions of the two magnetic anomalies relative to each another. A central element in the structural model is the Asquempont Detachment System of which a limited number of possible traces is possible.
Located in Library / RBINS Staff Publications 2016
Inproceedings Reference The massive Mousny Quartz Occurrence (High-Ardenne slate belt, Belgium), a late-orogenic dilatational jog?
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Article Reference The Middle Devonian plant assemblage from Dechra Aït Abdallah (Central Morocco) revisited
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