€15 million of government and EU funding was spent on geophysical and geochemical sampling surveys in the north of Ireland between 2004 and 2013. This was a concerted national investment in the terrestrial earth sciences in Ireland, intended both to stimulate mineral exploration
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The Palaeogene Mourne Mountains Complex in County Down is a potential geothermal energy resource due to the high levels of radioactivity in its granitic rocks. The regional Tellus geochemical and geophysical surveys mapped the radioelement distribution of the rocks at surface. Fo
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The Tellus high-resolution airborne magnetic and radiometric maps define previously unmapped zones within the Newry Igneous Complex, County Down. High-precision uranium–lead zircon dating of nine rock samples from different parts of the complex provides a robust set of age constr
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The Tyrone Igneous Complex of Northern Ireland has been a target for base and precious metal exploration since the 1970s. Historic exploration was hampered by poor exposure and consequently a limited understanding of the local geology. Extensive new field mapping, utilising the h
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The Tellus airborne geophysical survey revealed sets of narrow, linear, north-east to southwest, mostly parallel electrical conductivity (electromagnetic – EM) anomalies in the Longford–Down area. Subsequent geological mapping and ground geophysics have demonstrated that the anom
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Detailed digital mapping of the Tellus aero-magnetic data set has revealed the extent and timing of igneous activity in the north of Ireland during the Palaeogene period (c.66–23 million years). These data have provided a unique opportunity to constrain the geometry, scale and de
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The variation of pH of pasture soils across the Tellus and Tellus Border survey area has been analysed. Geostatistical methods allow us to quantify the uncertainty in mapped soil pH and its implications for the health and management of pasture soils. Soil pH indicates that there
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With increasing recognition of the value of wetlands, there is an increased need to acquire baseline information on their status in Ireland. Using Tellus soil geochemistry data, in conjunction with a range of other data already available from a variety of sources, we collated inf
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Geological heterogeneity across the border counties of Ireland leads to variable levels of resilience in groundwater-dependent ecosystems (GWDEs). In a review of 26 catchments, with contrasting land-use and geology, we investigated the roles that soil and subsoil geochemistry may
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The Tellus airborne radiometric data have enabled assessments of environmental radioactivity levels in unprecedented detail across the north of the island of Ireland. Both the natural (geological) and man-made (industrial) contributions to public exposure from ionising terrestria
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The Tellus airborne geophysical data sets provide impetus to many new lines of research. The radiometric data, conventionally used for bedrock investigations, have recently been used to support regional mapping of peat extent and thickness, and thus contribute to refining our est
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Social and labour historian Pádraig Yeates, author of A City in Wartime Dublin 1914 – 1918: The Easter Rising, 1916, uses a wide variety of public objects and private memorabilia related to the Rising, and to global events, to reveal the wider stories of 1916 Ireland.
Ireland--History--Easter Rising, 1916 | Curated Collection--The Rising and Beyond | Military pensions
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