And now, the Version of Record of my latest co-authored #scientific #publication led by Juan Ochando is out in #Quaternary Science Reviews:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109025
#Science
#ScienceMastodon #AcademicMastodon
#Paper #OpenAccess
#Archaeology #Paleoecology #Geochemistry #Palynology #Neandertal #Experiment
#Gibraltar #Cave #Hearth #Tar
#Biomarkers #Levoglucosan #PAHs #Retene #BPCAs #PyrogenicCarbon #Pollen #Phytoliths
https://mastodon.world/@nina_davtian/113554601654347588
So I started with 3g of sediment and this is what I have left after an acid bath in HCl to get rid of carbonates, separating out the clays, baking the organics out at 500 degrees C and separating out the silica 
But it’s ok! Gonna have lots of microfossils to look at! #phytoliths #sponges #diatoms #microfossils #PalaeoenvironmentalReconstruction #Science
#Fossil reveals leaf-eating among earliest birds
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-fossil-reveals-leaf-eating-earliest-birds.htmp
Intra-gastric #phytoliths provide evidence for #folivory in basal #avialans of the Early #Cretaceous #JeholBiota https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40311-z
"The #pheasant-sized #Jeholornis, a member of the second most primitive lineage of #birds, has teeth and a long bony tail like its predatory, feathered #dinosaur relatives... It had eaten tree leaves from a group of flowering #plants called #magnoliids."
The latest Daily Spatial news is out! Read it here - https://paper.li/Dragons8mycat/1332611426?edition_id=a3280e80-7415-11ed-9961-fa163e6ccaff #GIS #GEO Stories via @DEMODRIVERS_ERC@twitter.com @vanuatugis@twitter.com @RJGrahamJR@twitter.com #gis #phytoliths
