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Riddling traditions in eastern Indonesia and East Timor: some preliminary notes
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Local Languages, Local Malay, and Bahasa Indonesia; a Case Study From North Maluku
Many small languages from eastern Indonesia are threatened with extinction. While it is often assumed that ‘Indonesian' is replacing the lost languages, in reality, local languages are being replaced by local Malay. In this paper I review some of the reasons for this in North Maluku. I review the directional system in North Maluku Malay and argue that features like the directionals allow those giving up local languages to retain a sense of local linguistic identity. Retaining such an identity makes it easier to abandon local languages than would be the case if people were switching to ‘standard' Indonesian
Petroleum generation and migration in the Cambro-Ordovician Laurentian margin succession of NW Scotland
NERC are thanked for continued funding of the Argon Isotope Facility, which is housed at SUERC. We are grateful to B. Fulton, J. Johnston and C. Taylor for skilled technical help. DM was in receipt of a NERC PhD studentship. A.G. Leslie and H. Volk provided critical comments that helped to improve the manuscript.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Simultaneous and rapid asphaltene and TAN determination for heavy petroleum using an H-cell
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Metalliferous Biosignatures for Deep Subsurface Microbial Activity
Acknowledgments We thank the British Geological Survey (BGS) for the provision of samples and the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) grant (ST/L001233/1) for PhD funding which aided this project. Research on selenium in reduction spheroids was also supported by NERC grants (NE/L001764/1 and NE/ M010953/1). The University of Aberdeen Raman facility was funded by the BBSRC. We also thank John Still for invaluable technical assistance.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
Subsurface biodegradation of crude oil in a fractured basement reservoir, Shropshire, UK
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