Henrik Breuning-Madsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 329682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Henrik Breuning-Madsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Henrik |
| FAMILY NAME | Breuning-Madsen |
| SIGNATURE | BREUNING-MADSEN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Dating Ancient Burial Mounds in Denmark – Revealing Problematic Ancient Charcoal
The National Museum of Denmark and the Department of Geography at the University of Copenhagen have collaborated on a project investigating burial mounds near early Medieval churches. The aim was to identify a possible continuity in cult sites across the shift to Christianity in the late Viking Age. Charcoal samples from 18 mounds were radiocarbon dated but the results showed they were far older than expected. Control dating undertaken on burial …
The hydrology and preservation condition in the flat-topped burial mound – Klangshøj at Vennebjerg in Vendsyssel
Klangshøj is a flat-topped burial mound similar to the Royal Jelling mounds, although smaller. The myths tell that a well has existed on top of the mound as at Jelling and a spring had flown at the base of the mound. In order to verify the myths and a similar hydrology in Klangshøj as found in Jelling, several borings have been carried out in a north-south line across the mound. The investigation showed that Klangshøj is built of sods mainly harv…
The hydrology in huge burial mounds built of loamy tills: A case study on the genesis of perched water tables and a well in a Viking Age burial mound in Jelling, Denmark
For centuries a well was located on the top of one of the two Viking Age royal mounds in Jelling. This indicates that a perched water table had developed in the mounds. Perched water tables are well known in Bronze Age burial mounds due to the development of iron pans in the central part of the mounds, but it is unclear whether the genesis of the perched water table in the Jelling mounds is similar and due to iron pan formation or due to other so…
A method to identify potential cold-climate vine growing sites—a case study from Røsnæs in Denmark
A method for surveying the suitability of cold climate vine growing sites in Denmark is presented with focus on limiting growth parameters. The four most important parameters are identified on the basis of literary studies and discussions with approximately 150 vine growers in Denmark. These are: i) Sum of growing degree days (SDD), ii) Risk of frost damage, iii) Number of sunshine hours during growth season, and iv) Soil drainage. A two-step met…
Influence of perennial colonies of piscivorous birds on soil nutrient contents in a temperate humid climate
During the last decades, the number of perennial colonies of piscivorous birds especially cormorant colonies in North-western Europe has grown rapidly due to protection. Their impact on vegetation has been recognized, as many trees containing perennial colonies of piscivorous birds have collapsed, but the bird’s influence on the soil conditions has only in few cases been studied in detail. In this study the influence of perennial colonies of pisc…
Provenance of pottery determined by soil physicochemical and chemometric methods: A case study from Frederiksgave, Ghana
Geografisk Tidsskrift—Danish Journal of Geography 109(1):69–79, 2009 The suitability of using traditional soil chemical and mineralogical methods combined with chemometrics to trace provenance of archaeological samples was tested on potsherds from Frederiksgave, a former Danish plantation in southern Ghana, inusefrom 1830–1850. Soil and six potsherds from Frederiksgave, together with potsherds from two likely production sites at Ga and Dangme Sha…
Mineralogy of dust deposited during the Harmattan season in Ghana
In Ghana, a dust-laden Harmattan wind blows from the Sahara in the period November to March. Some of the dust is trapped in the vegetation, in lakes and other inland waters, and a little on the bare land, whereas the rest of the dust is blown further away to the Ivory Coast or out into the Atlantic Ocean. In this project, we studied samples of dust and topsoils in various agroecological zones, from the north to the south of Ghana, focussing mainl…
Generating a Danish raster-based topsoil property map combining choropleth maps and point information
Geografisk Tidsskrift, Danish Journal of Geography 107(2):1–12, 2007 The Danish environmental authorities have posed a soil type dependent restriction on the application of nitrogen. The official Danish soil map is a choropleth topsoil map classifying the agricultural land into eight classes. The use of the soil map has shown that the maps have serious classification flaws. The objective of this work is to compile a continuous national topsoil te…
The Role of Termites in Soil Formation in the Tropical Semi-Deciduous Forest Zone, Ghana
Soil Macrofauna especially insects have been recognized as being an important factor in regulating soil processes and thereby the soil profde development. The influence of earthworms is well documented and it is the dominant member of the soil macrofauna influencing the soil formation processes in the temperate zone. In the tropics, termites and ants play the major role in the nutrient recycling and the movement and transportation of soil materia…
Preservation Within Log Coffins Before and After Barrow Construction
The Chemical Environment in a Burial Mound Shortly after Construction—An Archaeological–Pedological Experiment
A scientific evaluation of the agricultural experiments at Frederiksgave, the Royal Danish Plantation on the Gold Coast, Ghana
In the 1830s agricultural experiments were carried out at the Danish state plantation Frederiksgave at the Danish Gold Coast Establishments, in order to establish an economical sustainable plantation system which could produce export crops to among others the European market. Experiments were made with coffee, tobacco, sugar cane and some other crops and spices, but they failed. Based on climatic data from Frederiksgave for the year 1835 and from…
The South Scandinavian barrows with well-preserved oak-log coffins
Recent archaeological and pedological research on South Scandinavian Bronze Age barrows reveals that the remarkable conditions of preservation in a number of mounds are the result of particular construction techniques or special activities during construction. Augerings indicate that the phenomenon is concentrated within specific groups of barrows with central positions in a hypothetical Bronze Age communication system
Comparison of magnetic particles in airborne dust on Mars and in the Harmattan dust from south of Sahara
The magnetic properties experiments on the Mars Pathfinder mission indicate that Martian airborne dust is slightly magnetic (average saturation magnetisation: σs = 4 Am2 kg−1). For purposes of comparison, similar experiments on the magnetic properties of terrestrial airborne dust on the Earth have been performed at the University of Ghana. The main result of these experiments is that the airborne Harmattan dust in Ghana is substantially less magn…
Recent Studies on the Formation of Iron Pans around the Oaken Log Coffins of the Bronze Age Burial Mounds of Denmark
Soil Forming Processes in and below a Bronze Age Burial Mound at Lejrskov, Southern Jutland
Geografisk Tidsskrift, Danish Journal of Geography 98: 46–55. In the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century archaeological excavations of Bronze Age burial mounds in Jutland occasionally revealed mounds with water saturated cores, in which the conditions of preservation were extraordinary good. The wet areas were totally encapsulated by thin, strongly cemented iron pans, and until 1942 several different theories on the genesis of these pans w…
Soil map of Denmark According to the Revised FAO Legend 1990
Danish Journal of Geography 96: 51–59, 1996. In the first half of the 1990's, a comprehensive EU soil database was established comprising the EU soil map from 1985 published at scale 1:1.000.000, soil attributes and a soil analytical database. The EU soil map was based on a slightly revised FAO 1974 legend. In 1990 FAO published a revised legend to Soil Map of the World, and based on this system Central and Eastern Europe are now constructing soi…
Soil Profile Analytical Database for the European Union
Danish Journal of Geography 95: 49–58, 1995. In 1985 the European Communities now the European Union published a soil map covering all the Community countries. This map has been digitized, but for modelling purposes it was necessary to compile a Soil Profile Analytical Database connected to the European Communities Soil Map. This compilation commenced in 1992 following a decade of expert group meetings concerning European soil and land data. This…
Genesis of Iron Pans in Bronze Age Mounds in Denmark
L'auteur s'interesse aux procedes et reactions chimiques grâce auxquelles une fine couche ferreuse etait formee dans les tumulus danois de l'âge du Bronze, offrant ainsi d'exceptionelles conditions de conservation
Pedological Regional Variations in Well-drained Soils, Denmark
Breuning-Madsen, Henrik & Niels Henrik Jensen: Pedological Regional Variations in Well-drained Soils, Denmark. Geografisk Tidsskrift 92:61–69. Copenhagen 1992. Soil profile investigations were carried out within a national 7 km grid. The profiles were classified according to the 1974 FAO- Unesco Soil Classification System. This paper describes the regional variations in soil profile development and the related dominant soil formation processes
Changes in Soil Profile Development and Nutrient Status due to the Afforestation of Agricultural Land
Leth, Susanne & Breuning-Madsen, Henrik: Changes in Soil Profile Development and Nutrient Status due to the Afforestation of Agricultural Land. Geografisk Tidsskrift 92:70–74. Copenhagen 1992. In the middle of the last century, the recultivation of western Jutland began, and much of the former heathland was converted into agricultural land. Some of this land was too poor to guarantee stable plant production and satisfactory yields. Such land coul…
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The South Scandinavian barrows with well-preserved oak-log coffins
Recent archaeological and pedological research on South Scandinavian Bronze Age barrows reveals that the remarkable conditions of preservation in a number of mounds are the result of particular construction techniques or special activities during construction. Augerings indicate that the phenomenon is concentrated within specific groups of barrows with central positions in a hypothetical Bronze Age communication system
Preservation Within Log Coffins Before and After Barrow Construction
Recent Studies on the Formation of Iron Pans around the Oaken Log Coffins of the Bronze Age Burial Mounds of Denmark
The Chemical Environment in a Burial Mound Shortly after Construction—An Archaeological–Pedological Experiment
Soil Forming Processes in and below a Bronze Age Burial Mound at Lejrskov, Southern Jutland
Geografisk Tidsskrift, Danish Journal of Geography 98: 46–55. In the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century archaeological excavations of Bronze Age burial mounds in Jutland occasionally revealed mounds with water saturated cores, in which the conditions of preservation were extraordinary good. The wet areas were totally encapsulated by thin, strongly cemented iron pans, and until 1942 several different theories on the genesis of these pans w…
Soil Profile Analytical Database for the European Union
Danish Journal of Geography 95: 49–58, 1995. In 1985 the European Communities now the European Union published a soil map covering all the Community countries. This map has been digitized, but for modelling purposes it was necessary to compile a Soil Profile Analytical Database connected to the European Communities Soil Map. This compilation commenced in 1992 following a decade of expert group meetings concerning European soil and land data. This…
The hydrology in huge burial mounds built of loamy tills: A case study on the genesis of perched water tables and a well in a Viking Age burial mound in Jelling, Denmark
For centuries a well was located on the top of one of the two Viking Age royal mounds in Jelling. This indicates that a perched water table had developed in the mounds. Perched water tables are well known in Bronze Age burial mounds due to the development of iron pans in the central part of the mounds, but it is unclear whether the genesis of the perched water table in the Jelling mounds is similar and due to iron pan formation or due to other so…
Soil map of Denmark According to the Revised FAO Legend 1990
Danish Journal of Geography 96: 51–59, 1996. In the first half of the 1990's, a comprehensive EU soil database was established comprising the EU soil map from 1985 published at scale 1:1.000.000, soil attributes and a soil analytical database. The EU soil map was based on a slightly revised FAO 1974 legend. In 1990 FAO published a revised legend to Soil Map of the World, and based on this system Central and Eastern Europe are now constructing soi…
Pedological Regional Variations in Well-drained Soils, Denmark
Breuning-Madsen, Henrik & Niels Henrik Jensen: Pedological Regional Variations in Well-drained Soils, Denmark. Geografisk Tidsskrift 92:61–69. Copenhagen 1992. Soil profile investigations were carried out within a national 7 km grid. The profiles were classified according to the 1974 FAO- Unesco Soil Classification System. This paper describes the regional variations in soil profile development and the related dominant soil formation processes
Dating Ancient Burial Mounds in Denmark – Revealing Problematic Ancient Charcoal
The National Museum of Denmark and the Department of Geography at the University of Copenhagen have collaborated on a project investigating burial mounds near early Medieval churches. The aim was to identify a possible continuity in cult sites across the shift to Christianity in the late Viking Age. Charcoal samples from 18 mounds were radiocarbon dated but the results showed they were far older than expected. Control dating undertaken on burial …
The Role of Termites in Soil Formation in the Tropical Semi-Deciduous Forest Zone, Ghana
Soil Macrofauna especially insects have been recognized as being an important factor in regulating soil processes and thereby the soil profde development. The influence of earthworms is well documented and it is the dominant member of the soil macrofauna influencing the soil formation processes in the temperate zone. In the tropics, termites and ants play the major role in the nutrient recycling and the movement and transportation of soil materia…
A scientific evaluation of the agricultural experiments at Frederiksgave, the Royal Danish Plantation on the Gold Coast, Ghana
In the 1830s agricultural experiments were carried out at the Danish state plantation Frederiksgave at the Danish Gold Coast Establishments, in order to establish an economical sustainable plantation system which could produce export crops to among others the European market. Experiments were made with coffee, tobacco, sugar cane and some other crops and spices, but they failed. Based on climatic data from Frederiksgave for the year 1835 and from…
Changes in Soil Profile Development and Nutrient Status due to the Afforestation of Agricultural Land
Leth, Susanne & Breuning-Madsen, Henrik: Changes in Soil Profile Development and Nutrient Status due to the Afforestation of Agricultural Land. Geografisk Tidsskrift 92:70–74. Copenhagen 1992. In the middle of the last century, the recultivation of western Jutland began, and much of the former heathland was converted into agricultural land. Some of this land was too poor to guarantee stable plant production and satisfactory yields. Such land coul…
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Anmeldelser
Pedological Regional Variations in Well-drained Soils, Denmark
Breuning-Madsen, Henrik & Niels Henrik Jensen: Pedological Regional Variations in Well-drained Soils, Denmark. Geografisk Tidsskrift 92:61–69. Copenhagen 1992. Soil profile investigations were carried out within a national 7 km grid. The profiles were classified according to the 1974 FAO- Unesco Soil Classification System. This paper describes the regional variations in soil profile development and the related dominant soil formation processes
Changes in Soil Profile Development and Nutrient Status due to the Afforestation of Agricultural Land
Leth, Susanne & Breuning-Madsen, Henrik: Changes in Soil Profile Development and Nutrient Status due to the Afforestation of Agricultural Land. Geografisk Tidsskrift 92:70–74. Copenhagen 1992. In the middle of the last century, the recultivation of western Jutland began, and much of the former heathland was converted into agricultural land. Some of this land was too poor to guarantee stable plant production and satisfactory yields. Such land coul…
Genesis of Iron Pans in Bronze Age Mounds in Denmark
L'auteur s'interesse aux procedes et reactions chimiques grâce auxquelles une fine couche ferreuse etait formee dans les tumulus danois de l'âge du Bronze, offrant ainsi d'exceptionelles conditions de conservation
Soil Profile Analytical Database for the European Union
Danish Journal of Geography 95: 49–58, 1995. In 1985 the European Communities now the European Union published a soil map covering all the Community countries. This map has been digitized, but for modelling purposes it was necessary to compile a Soil Profile Analytical Database connected to the European Communities Soil Map. This compilation commenced in 1992 following a decade of expert group meetings concerning European soil and land data. This…
Soil map of Denmark According to the Revised FAO Legend 1990
Danish Journal of Geography 96: 51–59, 1996. In the first half of the 1990's, a comprehensive EU soil database was established comprising the EU soil map from 1985 published at scale 1:1.000.000, soil attributes and a soil analytical database. The EU soil map was based on a slightly revised FAO 1974 legend. In 1990 FAO published a revised legend to Soil Map of the World, and based on this system Central and Eastern Europe are now constructing soi…
Recent Studies on the Formation of Iron Pans around the Oaken Log Coffins of the Bronze Age Burial Mounds of Denmark
Soil Forming Processes in and below a Bronze Age Burial Mound at Lejrskov, Southern Jutland
Geografisk Tidsskrift, Danish Journal of Geography 98: 46–55. In the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century archaeological excavations of Bronze Age burial mounds in Jutland occasionally revealed mounds with water saturated cores, in which the conditions of preservation were extraordinary good. The wet areas were totally encapsulated by thin, strongly cemented iron pans, and until 1942 several different theories on the genesis of these pans w…
Comparison of magnetic particles in airborne dust on Mars and in the Harmattan dust from south of Sahara
The magnetic properties experiments on the Mars Pathfinder mission indicate that Martian airborne dust is slightly magnetic (average saturation magnetisation: σs = 4 Am2 kg−1). For purposes of comparison, similar experiments on the magnetic properties of terrestrial airborne dust on the Earth have been performed at the University of Ghana. The main result of these experiments is that the airborne Harmattan dust in Ghana is substantially less magn…
The Chemical Environment in a Burial Mound Shortly after Construction—An Archaeological–Pedological Experiment
A scientific evaluation of the agricultural experiments at Frederiksgave, the Royal Danish Plantation on the Gold Coast, Ghana
In the 1830s agricultural experiments were carried out at the Danish state plantation Frederiksgave at the Danish Gold Coast Establishments, in order to establish an economical sustainable plantation system which could produce export crops to among others the European market. Experiments were made with coffee, tobacco, sugar cane and some other crops and spices, but they failed. Based on climatic data from Frederiksgave for the year 1835 and from…
The South Scandinavian barrows with well-preserved oak-log coffins
Recent archaeological and pedological research on South Scandinavian Bronze Age barrows reveals that the remarkable conditions of preservation in a number of mounds are the result of particular construction techniques or special activities during construction. Augerings indicate that the phenomenon is concentrated within specific groups of barrows with central positions in a hypothetical Bronze Age communication system
Preservation Within Log Coffins Before and After Barrow Construction
The Role of Termites in Soil Formation in the Tropical Semi-Deciduous Forest Zone, Ghana
Soil Macrofauna especially insects have been recognized as being an important factor in regulating soil processes and thereby the soil profde development. The influence of earthworms is well documented and it is the dominant member of the soil macrofauna influencing the soil formation processes in the temperate zone. In the tropics, termites and ants play the major role in the nutrient recycling and the movement and transportation of soil materia…
Mineralogy of dust deposited during the Harmattan season in Ghana
In Ghana, a dust-laden Harmattan wind blows from the Sahara in the period November to March. Some of the dust is trapped in the vegetation, in lakes and other inland waters, and a little on the bare land, whereas the rest of the dust is blown further away to the Ivory Coast or out into the Atlantic Ocean. In this project, we studied samples of dust and topsoils in various agroecological zones, from the north to the south of Ghana, focussing mainl…
Generating a Danish raster-based topsoil property map combining choropleth maps and point information
Geografisk Tidsskrift, Danish Journal of Geography 107(2):1–12, 2007 The Danish environmental authorities have posed a soil type dependent restriction on the application of nitrogen. The official Danish soil map is a choropleth topsoil map classifying the agricultural land into eight classes. The use of the soil map has shown that the maps have serious classification flaws. The objective of this work is to compile a continuous national topsoil te…
Provenance of pottery determined by soil physicochemical and chemometric methods: A case study from Frederiksgave, Ghana
Geografisk Tidsskrift—Danish Journal of Geography 109(1):69–79, 2009 The suitability of using traditional soil chemical and mineralogical methods combined with chemometrics to trace provenance of archaeological samples was tested on potsherds from Frederiksgave, a former Danish plantation in southern Ghana, inusefrom 1830–1850. Soil and six potsherds from Frederiksgave, together with potsherds from two likely production sites at Ga and Dangme Sha…
Influence of perennial colonies of piscivorous birds on soil nutrient contents in a temperate humid climate
During the last decades, the number of perennial colonies of piscivorous birds especially cormorant colonies in North-western Europe has grown rapidly due to protection. Their impact on vegetation has been recognized, as many trees containing perennial colonies of piscivorous birds have collapsed, but the bird’s influence on the soil conditions has only in few cases been studied in detail. In this study the influence of perennial colonies of pisc…
A method to identify potential cold-climate vine growing sites—a case study from Røsnæs in Denmark
A method for surveying the suitability of cold climate vine growing sites in Denmark is presented with focus on limiting growth parameters. The four most important parameters are identified on the basis of literary studies and discussions with approximately 150 vine growers in Denmark. These are: i) Sum of growing degree days (SDD), ii) Risk of frost damage, iii) Number of sunshine hours during growth season, and iv) Soil drainage. A two-step met…
The hydrology in huge burial mounds built of loamy tills: A case study on the genesis of perched water tables and a well in a Viking Age burial mound in Jelling, Denmark
For centuries a well was located on the top of one of the two Viking Age royal mounds in Jelling. This indicates that a perched water table had developed in the mounds. Perched water tables are well known in Bronze Age burial mounds due to the development of iron pans in the central part of the mounds, but it is unclear whether the genesis of the perched water table in the Jelling mounds is similar and due to iron pan formation or due to other so…
The hydrology and preservation condition in the flat-topped burial mound – Klangshøj at Vennebjerg in Vendsyssel
Klangshøj is a flat-topped burial mound similar to the Royal Jelling mounds, although smaller. The myths tell that a well has existed on top of the mound as at Jelling and a spring had flown at the base of the mound. In order to verify the myths and a similar hydrology in Klangshøj as found in Jelling, several borings have been carried out in a north-south line across the mound. The investigation showed that Klangshøj is built of sods mainly harv…
Dating Ancient Burial Mounds in Denmark – Revealing Problematic Ancient Charcoal
The National Museum of Denmark and the Department of Geography at the University of Copenhagen have collaborated on a project investigating burial mounds near early Medieval churches. The aim was to identify a possible continuity in cult sites across the shift to Christianity in the late Viking Age. Charcoal samples from 18 mounds were radiocarbon dated but the results showed they were far older than expected. Control dating undertaken on burial …
Geography (18 works) · Geology (15 works) · Archaeology (12 works) · Geology (11 works) · Environmental Science (9 works) · Soil water (8 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (7 works) · Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction (7 works) · Soil Science (7 works) · Soil Science (7 works)