Donald Adamson
Biographic Data
| ID | 681947 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald Adamson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald |
| FAMILY NAME | Adamson |
| SIGNATURE | ADAMSON D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Moat Pit Re-Visited
This article is both an update to an earlier article ( Adamson 2008 ) insofar as it considered the Moat Pit coal mine but it is also a study for the first time of the wider coal mining enterprise of the Bruce family in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries at Culross, Fife. The article demonstrates that the previous understanding of where the landward shaft of the Moat Pit was located was incorrect. It moves that entrance westwards to a newly i…
A Coal Mine in the Sea
The article reconsiders the archaeology of the sixteenth-century Moat Pit mining complex at Culross and offers new interpretations of that archaeology. It places the coal mine in a wider context, suggesting a pivotal role in the development of the burgh. The study emphasises the innovative nature of Sir George Bruce's coal mining. The archaeologies of salt and iron working in Culross are considered along with their symbiotic relationships with co…
The enigma of a late Pleistocene wetland in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia
The influence of L.R. Blake, pioneering sub-Antarctic geographer and geologist, on the topographic mapping of Macquarie Island
New biographical information is given about L.R. Blake, surveyor and geologist at Macquarie Island during the 1911–14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Blake's survey of the island yielded maps that in significant respects are more accurate than the current topographic map of 1971, which, with one exception, adopted his height measurements for the 23 named peaks. The more recent height estimates for these peaks are assessed, and it is concluded …
Landform and Vegetation Change in the Greaves Creek Basin
Greaves Creek has cut a hanging valley through the entire Triassic sandstone sequence near Blackheath in the western Blue Mountains, New South Wales. Downstream of Beauchamp Falls, it cuts into Permian strata in the Grose Gorge. The hanging valley has a valley-in-valley structure. The narrow inner valley is bounded by high cliffs and its floor is cut by a deep narrow slot canyon where stream incision has occurred without valley widening. The cour…
Blaise Pascal
This chronological survey explores Pascal's (162362) achievement as mathematician, physicist and religious thinker; it also has a chapter on his life. His work on conic sections, the probability calcu
A ‘God-Inebriated Man’
Pascal’s genius and international scientific renown were well known to Isaac de Saci (560), who appears — from the account left by the latter’s secretary Nicolas Fontaine 2 — to have been somewhat reluctant to take him on. Nevertheless, says Fontaine (561), he ‘could not neglect seeing him, for decency’s sake, especially when asked to do so by M. Singlin’. It is clear that Saci, like no doubt other members of the community, feared and disliked hi…
Subglacial Meltwater Channels at Cape Jones, Obruchev Hills, Antarctica
Subglacial curved and winding meltwater channels, and Sichelwannen are recorded from Cape Jones in the Obruchev Hills. Such channels, sometimes referred to as P‐forms, may have a variety of origins. After briefly considering the origins, it is deduced that those at Cape Jones were formed subglacially while the ice surface of the Denman Glacier became lower and bedrock was exposed The presence of water‐laid glacial deposits on the summit of Cape J…
Former glacial lakes of the Bunger Hills, Antarctica
The Bunger Hills in East Antarctica occupy a land area of approximately 400 km2. They have been exposed by Holocene retreat of the Antarctic ice sheet and its outlet glaciers. The accompanying sea level rise flooded the marine inlets that now separate the northern islands and peninsulas from the major part of the hills. During deglaciation the continental ice sheet margin retreated south‐eastwards with several temporary halts, during which ice‐da…
Pottery tempered with sponge from the White Nile, Sudan
Geological setting of Pliocene rifting and deposition in the Afar Depression of Ethiopia
Late Quaternary environments in the Nile and Darling basins
Audible wind-generated shock waves in Antarctica
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The Physiography of the Central Sudan
The geological history of the Nile in the Sudan has been reviewed comprehensively by Berry and Whiteman (1968), Butzer and Hansen (1968), and more recently by Whiteman (1971). Recent fieldwork by the authors in central Sudan has more than trebled the number of radiocarbon dates available from that region, and has added significant detail to knowledge of the age and origin of the Gezira plain and the late Quaternary history of the Blue and White N…
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
Pottery tempered with sponge from the White Nile, Sudan
The Physiography of the Central Sudan
The geological history of the Nile in the Sudan has been reviewed comprehensively by Berry and Whiteman (1968), Butzer and Hansen (1968), and more recently by Whiteman (1971). Recent fieldwork by the authors in central Sudan has more than trebled the number of radiocarbon dates available from that region, and has added significant detail to knowledge of the age and origin of the Gezira plain and the late Quaternary history of the Blue and White N…
Former glacial lakes of the Bunger Hills, Antarctica
The Bunger Hills in East Antarctica occupy a land area of approximately 400 km2. They have been exposed by Holocene retreat of the Antarctic ice sheet and its outlet glaciers. The accompanying sea level rise flooded the marine inlets that now separate the northern islands and peninsulas from the major part of the hills. During deglaciation the continental ice sheet margin retreated south‐eastwards with several temporary halts, during which ice‐da…
Geological setting of Pliocene rifting and deposition in the Afar Depression of Ethiopia
Late Quaternary environments in the Nile and Darling basins
T. S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot
The Physiography of the Central Sudan
The geological history of the Nile in the Sudan has been reviewed comprehensively by Berry and Whiteman (1968), Butzer and Hansen (1968), and more recently by Whiteman (1971). Recent fieldwork by the authors in central Sudan has more than trebled the number of radiocarbon dates available from that region, and has added significant detail to knowledge of the age and origin of the Gezira plain and the late Quaternary history of the Blue and White N…
Audible wind-generated shock waves in Antarctica
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Late Quaternary environments in the Nile and Darling basins
Pottery tempered with sponge from the White Nile, Sudan
Geological setting of Pliocene rifting and deposition in the Afar Depression of Ethiopia
Subglacial Meltwater Channels at Cape Jones, Obruchev Hills, Antarctica
Subglacial curved and winding meltwater channels, and Sichelwannen are recorded from Cape Jones in the Obruchev Hills. Such channels, sometimes referred to as P‐forms, may have a variety of origins. After briefly considering the origins, it is deduced that those at Cape Jones were formed subglacially while the ice surface of the Denman Glacier became lower and bedrock was exposed The presence of water‐laid glacial deposits on the summit of Cape J…
Former glacial lakes of the Bunger Hills, Antarctica
The Bunger Hills in East Antarctica occupy a land area of approximately 400 km2. They have been exposed by Holocene retreat of the Antarctic ice sheet and its outlet glaciers. The accompanying sea level rise flooded the marine inlets that now separate the northern islands and peninsulas from the major part of the hills. During deglaciation the continental ice sheet margin retreated south‐eastwards with several temporary halts, during which ice‐da…
Blaise Pascal
This chronological survey explores Pascal's (162362) achievement as mathematician, physicist and religious thinker; it also has a chapter on his life. His work on conic sections, the probability calcu
A ‘God-Inebriated Man’
Pascal’s genius and international scientific renown were well known to Isaac de Saci (560), who appears — from the account left by the latter’s secretary Nicolas Fontaine 2 — to have been somewhat reluctant to take him on. Nevertheless, says Fontaine (561), he ‘could not neglect seeing him, for decency’s sake, especially when asked to do so by M. Singlin’. It is clear that Saci, like no doubt other members of the community, feared and disliked hi…
The enigma of a late Pleistocene wetland in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia
The influence of L.R. Blake, pioneering sub-Antarctic geographer and geologist, on the topographic mapping of Macquarie Island
New biographical information is given about L.R. Blake, surveyor and geologist at Macquarie Island during the 1911–14 Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Blake's survey of the island yielded maps that in significant respects are more accurate than the current topographic map of 1971, which, with one exception, adopted his height measurements for the 23 named peaks. The more recent height estimates for these peaks are assessed, and it is concluded …
Landform and Vegetation Change in the Greaves Creek Basin
Greaves Creek has cut a hanging valley through the entire Triassic sandstone sequence near Blackheath in the western Blue Mountains, New South Wales. Downstream of Beauchamp Falls, it cuts into Permian strata in the Grose Gorge. The hanging valley has a valley-in-valley structure. The narrow inner valley is bounded by high cliffs and its floor is cut by a deep narrow slot canyon where stream incision has occurred without valley widening. The cour…
A Coal Mine in the Sea
The article reconsiders the archaeology of the sixteenth-century Moat Pit mining complex at Culross and offers new interpretations of that archaeology. It places the coal mine in a wider context, suggesting a pivotal role in the development of the burgh. The study emphasises the innovative nature of Sir George Bruce's coal mining. The archaeologies of salt and iron working in Culross are considered along with their symbiotic relationships with co…
The Moat Pit Re-Visited
This article is both an update to an earlier article ( Adamson 2008 ) insofar as it considered the Moat Pit coal mine but it is also a study for the first time of the wider coal mining enterprise of the Bruce family in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries at Culross, Fife. The article demonstrates that the previous understanding of where the landward shaft of the Moat Pit was located was incorrect. It moves that entrance westwards to a newly i…
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