... with the Argentine government and to facilitate Bruce's wish for Argentina to take over the meteorological station that the Scottish expedition had established on Laurie Island (South Orkney Islands). Moreno was please to provide the necessary assistance and was instrumental in Bruce achieving his ambition...

...Fig. 5. A field camp on the south coast of Laurie Island, September 1903. Glasgow Digital Library, based at the University of Strathclyde. ...

... and, for the hospitality and generous assistance that Moreno arranged for the expedition's leader, William Speirs Bruce ( Fig. 1 ), the presentation of a few rock specimens might seem scant reward, although as an additional mark of respect Bruce named Point Moreno on the expedition's published map of Laurie Island ( Brown...

... © The Society of Canadian Petroleum Geologists 2005 L aurie D avis The 2004 recipient of the award for the Ph.D. that made the most outstanding contribution to Canadian sedimentary and petroleum geology is Laurie Davis. His thesis, entitled “Allostratigraphic Interpretation...

... histories for the information they provide on age and geographical associations. The northwestern part of Tibet is one of Earth's most complex areas geologically, and its early Paleozoic history is particularly difficult to decipher. During the Cambrian, the Qilian Mountains comprised a series of island arc...

..., it is worth mentioning that, between 1995 and 2001, four new seismic stations were installed, namely Ushuaia (USHU, located at Lapataia bay, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina), Orcadas Base (ORCD, located at the Orcadas Permanent Argentinean Antarctic Base, on the Laurie Island on the Laurie Island—South Orkney...

... SOCIETY As this issue of Elements arrives in your mailbox, there is a transitioning of leadership at the Geochemical Society (GS). Vickie Bennett will take the GS helm on 1 January 2020, and I will move into the role of past-president where I will serve for another two years. Laurie Reisberg, who served...

..., 1851 ), P. atavus ( Tullberg, 1880 ) and P. gibbus ( Linnarsson, 1869 ); see Geyer & Shergold (2000) . Lejopyge laevigata is a globally distributed agnostoid trilobite that is used in many areas of the world as a zonal index fossil (e.g. Robison, 1984 ; Laurie, 1989 ; Peng...

.... A biometric re-evaluation of the Silurian brachiopod lineage Stricklandia lens/S. laevis Palaeontology 1986 29 187 205 Baldis B. A. Martinez R. D. Pereyra M. E. Perez A. M. Villegas C. R. Webby B. D. Laurie J. R. Ordovician events in the South American Andean...

... terranes Terra Nova 1992 4 204 209 Johnson R.J.E. van der Pluijm B. A. Van der Voo R. Paleomagnetism of the Moreton's Harbour Group, northeastern Newfoundland Appalachians: evidence for an Early Ordovician island arc near the Laurentian margin of Iapetus Journal of Geophysical...

... (Laurie et al. 1995 ; Jago and McNeil 1997 ). Unfortunately, as Jago and McNeil ( 1997 ) noted, the age of 503 Ma has a large uncertainty of ±8 m.yr. (2σ). Although the biostratigraphic control from the Taylor Formation is not much better, the isotopic age is comparatively precise ( fig. 4...

... curves for the Ashgillian–Llandovery sequence (Upper Ordovician – Lower Silurian) on Anticosti Island and the Merioneth–Tremadocian sequence (Upper Cambrian – Lower Ordovician) in western Newfoundland ( Zhang and Barnes 2002 , 2004 ). The principles of using conodont communities to establish sea-level...

...; Pangaro and Ramos, 2012) and to the east through the Falkland Islands and the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica (Dalziel et al., 2000). The tectonic evolution of the CFB is controversial and often oversimplified (e.g. Milani and de Wit, 2008) due to 3 main competing models, here briefly summarised...

.... Of the three rhinoceros genera present ( Aphelops, Peraceras, Teleoceras ), Teleoceras is arguably the most common and has been found in large numbers in several localities such as the famous Long Island Quarry in Kansas and Mixon's Bone Bed in Florida. The vertebrate remains in these quarries are generally...

... of these brachiopods, ranging from a substantial volcanic island arc (the Bronson Hill-Tetagouche-Lushs Bight Island Arc) close to Laurentia to sites firmly attributable to Avalonia and possibly also Baltica. Thus, unlike most contemporary trilobite faunas, these brachiopods (which are not a homogeneous fauna) had...

... biostratigraphy of the classical Ordovician succession on Langkawi Islands, peninsular Malaysia, showed the presence there of strata coeval with those having the Guttenberg Carbon Excursion (GICE) on the Yangtze Platform. In an effort to establish for the first time the presence of this widespread δ 13 C...

.... Hinz-Schallreuter, 1993 ) and especially Australia (e.g. Jones & Laurie, 2006 ; Topper et al. 2011 ). Bradoriid arthropods are interpreted as benthos and demersal swimmers and favoured well-oxygenated seas, as indicated by their lithofacies distribution (Williams et al...

...Roger M. Wilson; Laurie R. Burgess Copyright © 1952, by the Seismological Society of America * Manuscript received for publication August 3, 1951. A HIGHLY STABLE CATHODE-COUPLED AMPLIFIER FOR SEISMIC RECORDING* By ROGERM. WILSONand LAURIE R. BURGESS AFTER THE disastrous tsunami...

... Island, Fortune Bay. A stratigraphical position within the Cambrian punctuosus Zone in the upper part of the Drumian Stage is indicated. The presence of the oculate eodiscid Pagetide s in late mid-Cambrian rocks, within the Avalon Tectonostratigraphical Zone, is highlighted, because the genus...