Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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Sur la faune ichthyologique d'un falun dans l'Argile de Flandres près de Courtrai (Belgique)
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Stratigraphie des Formations du Panisel et de Den Hoorn (Eocène belge)
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Deuxième note sur les téléostéens des Sables de Lede (Eocène belge)
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Sur la faune ichthyologique des formations du Panisel et de Den Hoorn
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Les otolithes du Calcaire Grossier à Fercourt (Eocène du Bassin de Paris)
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Sur les otolithes des Sables de Grimmertingen (Oligocène Inférieur de Belgique)
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Mollusken uit het marien Kwartair te Meetkerke (West Vlaanderen, België)
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Les poissons fossiles de la Formation d'Auvers (Eocène du Bassin de Paris)
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Révision des types d'otolithes de poissons fossiles décrites par F. Priem en 1906
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Two fatal autochthonous cases of airport malaria, Belgium, 2020
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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.
