Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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Technische fiches van natuursteen gebruikt in België (Arkose van Waimes. Emsiaankwartsiet. Gileppezandsteen).
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Maastricht limestone: a regionally significant building stone in Belgium and The Netherlands. Extremely weak, yet time-resistant.
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Pre-Silesian
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The underground quarries of Hinnisdael at Vechmaal (Municpality Heers, Belgian Limburg): geology, mining, risks, geoheritage.
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Carboniferous
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Permian
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The first record of Early Devonian ammonoids from Belgium and their stratigraphic significance
- The first ammonoids from the Lower Emsian (Devonian) of Belgium are described. They belong to the Anetoceratinae, which show the most plesiomorphic characters of all ammonoids. This is the second report of Early Emsian ammonoids within the Rhenish facies of the Rhenish Slate Mountains (Belgium, Germany), in this case from the Belgian part of the Eifel (Burg Reuland). It highlights the possible importance of ammonoids for the correlation of the Emsian in its traditional German sense and the Emsian in the global sense as delimited by the GSSPs. Newly collected, age-significant brachiopods of the genera Arduspirifer and Euryspirifer and other previously reported fossils indicate a middle or late Early Emsian (Singhofen or Vallendar) age (in German sense) for this locality. We extend the range of Ivoites schindewolfi outside of the Hunsrück Basin and further corroborate an age younger than Ulmen for parts of the Hunsrück Slate.
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Ammonites from the Dababiya Quarry Corehole: Taxonomic notes and age assessment
- We describe a small collection of ammonites from the Dababiya Quarry corehole. It is almost entirely composed of heteromorph ammonites, in particular of scaphitids and baculitids. The presence of Indoscaphites pavana (Forbes 1848),which is for the first time reported from Egypt, points to a late to possibly latest Maastrichtian age for the interval DBD 80.36–DBD 99.11 of the Dababiya Quarry core. This is corroborated by preliminary data on planktonic foraminifera.
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Early Eocene frogs from Vastan Lignite Mine, Gujarat, India
- The Ypresian Cambay Shale Formation of Vastan Lignite Mine in Gujarat, western India, has yielded a rich vertebrate fauna, including the earliest modern mammals of the Indian subcontinent. Here we describe its assemblage of four frogs,including two new genera and species, based on numerous, diverse and well−preserved ilia and vertebrae. An abundant frog, Eobarbourula delfinoi gen. and sp. nov., with a particular vertebral articulation similar to a zygosphene−zygantrum complex, represents the oldest record of the Bombinatoridae and might have been capable of displaying the Unken reflex. The large non−fossorial pelobatid Eopelobates, known from complete skeletons from the Eocene and Oligocene of Europe, is also identified at Vastan based on a single nearly complete ilium. An abundant “ranid” and a possible rhacophorid Indorana prasadi gen. and sp. nov. represent the earliest records of both families. The Vastan pelobatids and ranids confirm an early worldwide distribution of these families, and the bombinatorids and rhacophorids show possible origins of those clades on the Indian subcontinent.
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Variability in specific-absorption properties and their use in a semi-analytical ocean colour algorithm for MERIS in North Sea and Western English Channel Coastal Waters.
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In situ variability of mass-specific beam attenuation and backscatting of marine particles with respect to particle size, density and composition.
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Ocean-colour observations from a geostationary orbit.
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Optimization and quality control of suspended particulate matter concentration measurements using turbidity measurements.
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Ammonieten uit Drügendorf: Malm gamma 1
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Shastasaurid ichtyosaurs and other lost critters from the French Rhaetian
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Environmental Roots of the Late Bronze Age Crisis.
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A bioarchaeological investigation of three late Chalcolithic pits at Ovçular Tepesi (Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan)
- Socio-economic organisation, subsistence strategies and environmental exploitation still remain largely open questions for the Late Chalcolithic period (ca. 4500–3500 BC) in southern Caucasus even though they are of prime importance for understanding the development of post-Neolithic societies in these semi-arid and mountainous areas. Interdisciplinary bioarchaeological research can, however, provide valuable new insights into these issues. In the Late Chalcolithic occupation layers at Ovçular Tepesi (Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan), the fills of pits, composed mainly of domestic refuse, proved to contain the richest and most diverse assemblages of biological remains at the site. These remains, retrieved by the use of flotation and sieving techniques, therefore constitute ideal assemblages for understanding subsistence strategies and the exploitation of natural resources. It is shown here that the agricultural economy at Late Chalcolithic Ovçular Tepesi was based mainly on the cultivation of cereals and pulses and the herding of sheep and goat. The river and its surroundings provided wood fuel and fish. The results of the bioarchaeological study further suggest that the Late Chalcolithic village was occupied permanently as shown by the development of commensal populations of small mammals.
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Evidence of sun-dried fish at Mleiha (S.-E. Arabia) in antiquity
- A concentration of fish remains found in a single room of a fortified building at Mleiha (United Arab Emirates) is presented here. Part of it was probably the filling of a bag or an organic container that fell from a bench onto the floor of the room. The various species recovered from these contexts, dating to the second to mid-third centuries AD, are briefly described. Particular attention is paid to the skeletal elements by which the fish are represented and to the corresponding lengths of the animals, as these allow the proposition that the fish had been dried on the seashore before being carried to the site inland. The data from building H will be compared to those from previously studied contexts at Mleiha (Gautier & Van Neer 1999; Mashkour & Van Neer 1999). In addition the ichthyofauna from ed-Dur (Van Neer & Gautier 1993), a coastal site that is partially contemporaneous with the contexts from building H, will be considered.
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Een dijk en een woonplatform uit de Romeinse periode in Stene (Oostende)
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Garum. Een geil gerechje
- Sinds chef-koks televisieberoemdheden werden, brengt ook hun taalgebruik vernieuwing in de keuken. Zo mag een culinaire bereiding nu zonder schroom een geil gerechje genoemd worden. Je hoeft niet eens Sergio Herman te heten om daar mee weg te komen. Of een Zeeuwse tongval te hebben, waardoor de eind-t uit een verkleinwoord verdwijnt. En het concept is niet eens nieuw. Het geilste van de geile gerechjes is al eeuwenoud en staat bekend als ‘garum’. Of vissaus.
