Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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DNA barcoding poorly documented Afrotropical vertebrate faunas: Prospects fro conservation and one health
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The genetic and behavioural basis of female amte recognition in sympatric Opthamotilapia species
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What is the genetic basis of the speciation in (cichlid) fishes?
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Relict and refuge altitude forest of the Albert Lake escarpement (RAFALE): a paradise lost at the edge of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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The Challenges of Oil Exploitation in African Great Lakes Region
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A close relative of the Amazon river dolphin in marine deposits: a new Iniidae from the late Miocene of Angola
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A critical revision the fossil record, stratigraphy and diversity of the Neogene seal genus Monotherium (Carnivora, Phocidae)
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Stratigraphy, structure and evolution of the European continental margins
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Kolossen uit de Maas: ijsschotszwerfstenen als getuigen van de geologische opbouw van het Ardeense en Lotharingse stroomgebied van de Maas
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Two odd ones: Mediterranean ballast stones and Italian maritime connections in the medieval Bruges’ harbor system.
- Excavations in the Bruges’ Medieval outer ports of Hoeke and Monnikerede, located along the Zwin tidal inlet, revealed numerous rounded cobbles of exotic geological provenance among which were two specimens of remarkable mineralogical composition. An interdisciplinary study combining archeological, geological, petrographic-geochemical, and historical research has demonstrated their Mediterranean, i.e., Italian, provenance. A first stone is identified as Carrara marble originating from the alluvial fans of the Apuan Alps, deposited along the Versilian coast near the Renaissance towns of Lucca, Pisa, and Genoa. The second cobble is determined as a bioclastic calcarenite limestone from the Apulian shores. Both finds are interpreted as part of the non-saleable ballast once put in the holds of Italian carracks and galleys that touched the Flemish ports during the late thirteenth to fifteenth centuries. As such, both seemingly ordinary objects constitute a rare material and lithological testimony of an important late Medieval commercial network between the Mediterranean and North Sea coasts. Furthermore, the very rare occurrence of these Mediterranean cobbles compared to thousands of Scando-Baltic and Anglo-Scottish ballast stones in the whole of the Bruges outer harbor area can be related to differences in maritime traffic frequency and sheer commercial volumes. Also, the nature of the ballast itself and the ballasting procedures are important, the whole making Mediterranean ballast stones considerably less detectable in the Bruges’ harbors than their North-European equivalents.
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Provenance analysis of the natural stones in funerary monuments from the western part of the civitas Tungrorum.
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De grafsteen van abt Wiric Van Stapel: relict van een 12e eeuwse mozaïekvloer met Romeinse marmers in Sint-Truiden (prov. Limburg).
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Rome à la Campagne: les décors en pierre de la villa de la Grande Boussue à Nouvelles, (Mons, Belgique)
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Reloading basic environmental monitoring of offshore wind farms in Belgium: Phase II.
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Offshore renewable energy development in the Belgian part of the North Sea – 2016
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Do wind farms favour introduced hard substrate species?
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The effects of high intensity impulsive sound on young European seabass Dicentrarchus labrax, with special attention to pile driving.
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Bird radar study in the Belgian part of the North Sea: Developments to improve bird detection
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Seasonal and interannual patterns in the presence of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in Belgian waters from 2010 to 2015 as derived from passive acoustic monitoring
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Animal remains and human-animal-environment relationships at Early Neolithic Bestansur and Shimshara
