CAPITALISING ON THE FLORISTIC SURVEY AS A NON-DESTRUCTIVE LINE OF EVIDENCE FOR MINERAL POTENTIAL MODELLING: A CASE STUDY OF BAUXITE IN SOUTH-WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Capitalising on the Floristic Survey as a Non-Destructive Line of Evidence for Mineral Potential Modelling: A Case Study of Bauxite in South-Western Australia

While geobotanists have long used plant occurrence to locate subsurface resources, none have utilised floristic surveys as evidence in models of mineral potential.Here, we combine plant species distributions with terrain metrics to produce predictive models showing the probability of bauxite presence.We identified nineteen taxa with statistically s

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The Nile Delta during the Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom periods. Preliminary remarks on the evolution of settlement landscape

The 3rd millennium BC appears to be a key period of development of the historical settlement landscape in ancient Egypt.After the unification of the country, the process of disappearance of the predynastic socio-political structures and settlement patterns associated with them significantly accelerated.Old chiefdoms, along with their centres and el

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