Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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7 mission reports on work travels made during 2012
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Development of a internet tool for the follow-up of NBSAPs
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“Vernaculair” gebruik van witstenen in Oost-Vlaanderen
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Les Géosciences en Belgique : formations et emploi
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Characterizing the hypersiliceous rocks of Belgium used in (pre-)history: a case study on sourcing sedimentary quartzites
- Abstract Tracking raw material back to its extraction source is a crucial step for archaeologists when trying to deduce migration patterns and trade contacts in (pre-)history. Regarding stone artefacts, the main rock types encountered in the archaeological record of Belgium are hypersiliceous rocks. This is a newly introduced category of rock types comprising those rocks made of at least 90% silica. These are strongly silicified quartz sands or sedimentary quartzites, siliceous rocks of chemical and biochemical origin (e.g. flint), very pure metamorphic quartzites and siliceous volcanic rocks (e.g. obsidian). To be able to distinguish between different extraction sources, ongoing research was started to locate possible extraction sources of hypersiliceous rocks and to characterize rocks collected from these sources. Characterization of these hypersiliceous rocks is executed with the aid of optical polarizing microscopy, optical cold cathodoluminescence and scanning-electron microscopy combined with energy-dispersive x-ray spectrometry and with back-scatter electron imaging. In this paper, we focus on various sedimentary quartzites of Paleogene stratigraphical level.
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Darwininitium – a new fully pseudosigmurethrous orthuretran genus from Nepal (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Cerastidae)
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Geologische wandelroute Bokrijk. Natuursteen in het Openluchtmuseum … gebouwen anders bekeken !
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Waarom is het orchideeënrijke grassland in Opleeuw zo uitzonderlijk soortenrijk?
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Identifying insects with incomplete DNA barcode libraries, African fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) as a test case.
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Waarom is het orchideeënrijke grassland in Opleeuw zo uitzonderlijk soortenrijk?
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Duivelsstenen in Limburg: zwerfstenen, megalieten of getuigenstenen?
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Carboonlandschappen – Carboniferous landscapes
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Geoheritage in Belgium: unknown, unloved?
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Challenges to geoheritage conservation and sustainable development in Belgium. In: H. Van den Ancker, coord. Geoheritage – learning from the past to inform the future.
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Dispersal and gene flow in free-living marine nematodes
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La géologie du Bocq et du Samson.
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Les formations lithostratigraphiques du Bocq et du Samson et leur intérêt dans l'industrie extractive
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Les filons et amas plombo-zincifères de la carrière ud cimetière à Seilles
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Biographie d'Ivan de Magnée
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Les gisements plombo-zincifères de la région d'Andenne : Andenelle, Ben, Fond de Jottée, Héron, Landenne, Lavoir, Lovegnée, Marsinne, Moha, Roua, Sarts, Sissoule, Velaine, Tramaka et Vezin
