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Everything about Ulex
Genus of flowering plant in the legume family
Ulex is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. The genus comprises about twenty species of thorny evergreen shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae. The species are native to parts of western Europe and northwest Africa, with the majority of species in Iberia. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: UlexA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: The debate concerning the origin of the Whin Sill of NE England during the early and mid-nineteenth centuryInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Collected poems, 1905-1925The most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Stress corrosion and acoustic emission during tensile crack propagation in Whin Sill dolerite and other basic rocksCited 143 times
- Go sideways: Ulex galliiA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Ulex europaeusA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Gorse; furze (Ulex spp.).
Noun The plant woad-waxen (Genista tinctoria).
Noun Whinstone.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Stress corrosion and acoustic emission during tensile crack propagation in Whin Sill dolerite and other basic rocks
1994 REPORT ON WHIN SILL DOLERITE WS‐E FROM ENGLAND AND PITSCURRIE MICROGABBRO PM‐S FROM SCOTLAND: ASSESSMENT BY ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR INTERNATIONAL LABORATORIES
Palaeomagnetism of the Great Whin Sill
The age of the Whin Sill
The age and composition of the Whin Sill and the related dikes of the north of England
The importance of heating duration for Raman CM thermometry: evidence from contact metamorphism around the Great Whin Sill intrusion, UK
Emplacement mechanism of the Great Whin and Midland Valley dolerite sills
New palaeomagnetic results from the Whin Sill complex: evidence for a multiple intrusion event and revised virtual geomagnetic poles for the late Carboniferous for the British Isles
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Collected poems, 1905-1925Wilfrid Wilson Gibson · 1925
Winsor McCayWinsor McCay · 2003
WhinWilfrid Wilson Gibson · 1918- 📕WhinWilfrid Wilson Gibson · 2023
- 📕The whins on KnockattanAnne Thomasine Casserley · 1928
Whin bushes in long grassesBrian Smeaton · 2006
Wh-In Situ Licensing in Questions and SluicingJun Abe · 2022
Duncan & Jamieson's directory for Stirling, St. Ninians, Cambusbarron, Whins of Milton, Bannockburn, Bridge of Allan, Dunblane, Doune, Deanston, and Callander, 1868-69Duncan & Jamieson (Firm) · 1988
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