Thanks to their coastal location on what is now an island on the continental shelf, the two early Middle Palaeolithic sites of La Cotte à la Chèvre and La Cotte de St Brelade are especially sensitive to environmental change. The former is a small sea-cave cut during a...
Jersey’s Geodiversity
Geodiversity as a discipline is increasingly being included in the assessment and management of natural and cultural environments (Zwolinski, 2017). It has a strong influence on biodiversity (Hjort, Heikkinen and Luoto, 2012; Gray, Gordon and Brown, 2013) and is...
A quantative assessment of Jersey’s Geodiversity
Geodiversity is an effective new tool in land management and conservation. It generally consists of four principle components: geology, geomorphology, pedology (soils) and hydrology. This study quantified and displayed the spatial distribution of Jersey’s geodiversity...