Shell-based chronologies for the Irish Sea

We demonstrate here that the growth increment variability in the shell of the long-lived bivalve mollusc Arctica islandica can be interpreted as an indicator of marine environmental change in the climatically important North Atlantic shelf seas. Multi-centennial (up to 489-year) chronologies were constructed using five detrending techniques and their characteristics compared. The strength of the common environmental signal expressed in the chronologies was found to be fully comparable with equivalent statistics for tree-ring chronologies. The negative exponential function using truncated increment-width series from which the first thirty years have been removed was chosen as the optimal detrending technique. Chronology indices were compared with the Central England Temperature record and with seawater temperature records from stations close to the study site in the Irish Sea. Statistically significant correlations were found between the chronology indices and (a) mean air temperature for the 14-month period beginning in the January preceding the year of growth, (b) mean seawater temperatures for February-October in the year preceding the year of growth (c) late summer and autumn air temperatures and sea surface temperatures for the year of growth and (d) the timing of the autumn decline in SST. Changes through time in the correlations with air and seawater temperatures and changes towards a deeper water origin for the shells in the chronology were interpreted as an indication that shell growth may respond to stratification dynamics.

Medieval India under Mohammedan rule (A.D. 712-1764).

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Penny readings for the Irish people.

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The musical scale of the Arabs. Medieval organ pipes and their bearing on the history of the scale. The natural diatonic scale.

From the Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, v. 48, 1899.

National Potato Grade Labeling Act. Hearings before a subcommittee, Eighty-fifth Congress, first session, on S. 1315 and S. 1393, bills to authorize the National Potato Grade Labeling Act, which provides quality requirements for, and the inspection, certification, and labeling of Irish potatoes. May 21-22, 1957.

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The calendar of the Anglican Church illustrated : with brief accounts of the saints who have churches dedicated in their names, or whose images are most frequently met with in England : the early christian and medieval symbols : and an index of emblems.

Calf, rebacked.

Highlights of church history: early and medieval /

Presented as the first lecture in the 1947 School of Religion for Men held by the Church of the Redeemer, Calvary Church, and the Church of the Ascension, of Pittsburgh.

Letters on the Irish question /

"Letters are ... from the Freeman's Journal."--p. iv.

Irish International Exhibition, 1907.

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Reminiscences of an emigrant Milesian. The Irish abroad and at home; at the court and in the camp; with souvenirs of "The Brigade."

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Inaugural address on the opening of a course of lectures illustrative of Irish art, industry, and science /

Ascribed to Richard Whately.

Sixty Irish songs : for high voice /

For high voice and piano.

First Irish grammar,

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Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy.

Historical abstracts. Part B. Twentieth century abstracts