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Bristow, C.S., Drake, N.A., Armitage, S.J. (in press) Deflation in the dustiest place on Earth: The Bodélé Depression, Chad. Geomorphology.

Stevens, T., Lu, H., Thomas, D.S.G., Armitage, S.J. (2008) Optical Dating of abrupt shifts in the late Pleistocene East Asian Monsoon. Geology, 36, 415-418.

Drake, N.A., ElHawat, A.S., Turner, P., Armitage, S.J., Salem, M.J., White, K.H., McLaren, S. (2008) Palaeohydrology of the Fazzan Basin and Surrounding Regions: The last 7 Million Years. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 263, 131-145.

Mattingley, D.J., Lahr, M.M., Armitage, S.J., Barton, H., Dore, J.N., Drake, N.A., Foley, R.A, Merlo, S., Salem, M.J., Stock, J.T. and White, K. (2007) Desert Migrations: People, environment and culture in the Libyan Sahara. Libyan Studies 38, 115-156.

Willerslev, E., Cappellini, E., Boomsma, W., Nielsen, R., Hebsgaard, M.B., Brand, T.B., Hofreiter, M., Bunce, M., Poinar, H.N., Dahl-Jensen, D., Johnsen, S.,  Steffensen, J.P., Benikke, O., Schwenninger, J-L., Nathan, R., Armitage, S.J., de Hoog, C-J., Alfimov, V., Christl, M., Beer, J., Muscheler, R., Barker, J., Sharp, M., Penkman, K.E.H., Haile, J., Taberlet, P., Gilbert, M.T.P., Casoli, A., Campani, E., Collins, M.J. (2007) Ancient Biomolecules from Deep Ice Cores Reveal a Forested Southern Greenland. Science, 317, 111-114.

Armitage, S.J., Drake, N.A., Stokes, S., El-Hawat, A., Salem, M.J., White, K., Turner, P. and McLaren, S.J. (2007) Multiple phases of North African humidity recorded in lacustrine sediments from the Fazzan Basin, Libyan Sahara. Quaternary Geochronology, 2, 181-186.

Stevens, T., Armitage, S.J., Lu, H. and Thomas, D. (2007) Examining the potential of high-resolution OSL dating of Chinese loess. Quaternary Geochronology, 2, 15-22.

Stevens, T., Thomas, D.S.G., Armitage, S.J., Lunn, H.R. and Lu, H. (2007) Reinterpreting climate proxy records from late Quaternary Chinese loess: A detailed OSL investigation. Earth Science Reviews, 80, 111-136.

Armitage, S.J., Botha, G.A., Duller, G.A.T., Wintle, A.G., Rebêlo, L.P., and Momade, F.J. (2006) The Formation and Evolution of the Barrier Islands of Bazaruto and Inhaca, Mozambique. Geomorphology, 82, 295-308.

Fattahi, M., Walker, R., Hollingsworth, J., Bahroudi, A., Talebian, M., Armitage, S.J., and Stokes, S. (2006) Holocene slip-rate on the Sabzevar thrust fault, NE Iran, determined using Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 245, 673-684.

Stevens, T., Armitage, S.J., Lu, H. and Thomas, D. (2006) Sedimentation and diagenesis of Chinese loess: Implications for the preservation of continuous, high-resolution climate records. Geology. 34, 849-852.

Armitage, S.J. and Bailey, R.M. (2005) The measured dependence of laboratory beta dose rates on sample grain size. Radiation Measurements, 39, 123-127.

Bailey, R.M., Armitage, S.J. and Stokes, S. (2005) Paper II: A laboratory strategy for avoiding dose-rate effects in quartz optical dating: implications for the precision and accuracy of age estimates. Radiation Measurements, 39, 347-359.

Armitage, S.J. and Duller, G.A.T. (2004) A user defined command for pulsed-irradiation on Risø TL-OSL readers. Ancient TL, 22, 9-12.

Botha, G.A., Bristow, C.S., Duller, G.A.T., Porat, N., Armitage, S.J., Roberts, H.M., Clarke, B.M., Kota, M.W. and Schoeman, P. (2003) Dune development and remobilization on the Maputaland coastal plain, South Africa: a ground penetrating radar (GPR) perspective. In Bristow, C.S. and Jol, H.M. (eds) Ground Penetrating Radar in Sediments. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 211, 29-47.

Armitage, S.J., Duller, G.A.T. and Wintle, A.G. (2000) Quartz from southern Africa: Sensitivity changes as a result of thermal pretreatment. Radiation Measurements, 32, 571-577.