David Nowell
David Nowell
Geology with Geophysics BSc Liverpool University 1990 first class honours; Open University 1995 M.Phil. thesis on “Gravity studies of two silicic volcanic complexes”: Cambridge University 1999 M.Phil. in Quaternary Science
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The Elm sheet includes part of the Tektonikarena Sardona World Heritage Site surrounding this Alpine peak, featuring the Glarus thrust and other tectonic highlights in starkly glaciated relief. The most spectacular profile is displayed along the Tschingelhörner ridge, to the SW of Piz Segnas, 3099 m, where the darker Permian Verrucano, including vo...
The French geological survey, Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM), has produced a series of guides, often in association with other publishers, in two accessible formats. Firstly, the Guides géologiques with 28 titles published so far as in association with Omniscience, which are 240 or 256 pages long, 13 by 21 cm in size with wipea...
The Swiss continue to publish highly detailed 1:25 000 geological maps and memoirs, coupled with informative cross sections. They are presented in attractive plastic wallets with a geological time scale on their back including stage names for deciphering partly abbreviated keys in whichever regional language. Swisstopo has also put free downloads o...
During the last few years, the Federal Office of Topography in Switzerland has been developing an outstandingly diverse and rich multilingual source of online geodata, historic photographs and digital topographic images. While you have to pay for some data sets, most of this is freely available. Bespoke pdf extracts can be download using the print...
This innovative seismic atlas which follows on from the first volume, outlines the nature of the late Miocene Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC). In just a few years many of the illustrations and depths of colours, have been greatly enhanced, including larger files sizes stored on disk in 3•2 Gb. Still, it is necessary to refer to the much longer intr...
In a radical departure, SNCF, the French state railway company, launched a public consultation in 2016 about the route for the first of a series of piecemeal extensions to the proposed French high‐speed railway (ligne à grande vitesse) LGV network in Provence‐Alpes‐Côte d'Azur. A cheaper proposal to build an inland line, bypassing Marseilles and To...
This 1:100,000 map presents a clear overview of the bedrock forming the Swiss central Alps, from the Doldenhorn, Eiger, Titlis, Tödi mountains along its northwestern flank, to beyond the upper Rhône and the main headwaters of the upper Rhine in the southeast. Along strike the map spans 110 km covering a swath of rugged terrain 30 to 40 km wide, cle...
Swiss Jura 1:25,000 geological maps: Pasquier, F., Burkhard, M., Mojon, P-O. and Gogniat, S. 2013, Feuille 1163 Travers, 148 pp. ISBN 978 3 302 40068 6; Aufranc, J., Jordan, P., Piquerez, A., Hofmann, B., Andres, B. and Burkhalter, R. 2017, Feuille – Blatt 1125 Chasseral, 160 pp. ISBN 978 3 302 40081 5; Aufranc, J., Jordan, P., Piquerez, A., Kälin,...
Since my 2012 feature about British Antarctic Survey (BAS) geological maps, the survey has continued to produce a series of ad hoc maps highlighting the results of their ongoing research, often in collaboration with their international colleagues. Not only has BAS added to their geological mapping series with James Ross Island off the Antarctic Pen...
In a joint enterprise the Geological Survey of Ireland and the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland have developed a fascinating website (www.bgs.ac.uk and follow links to BGS Maps portal) devoted to their historic collections. As the site name suggests it is hosted by the British Geological Survey, which has a parallel website also covering Brita...
Following on from mapping the bedrock topography beneath Antarctica, the British Antarctic Survey has produced a more detailed and higher resolution seamless 1:3,500,000 map of Greenland and its surrounding waters in collaboration with the University of Bristol and University of California, Irvine. The front cover of the folded and cased version sh...
This volume presents a fairly comprehensive account of the geology and ecology of Lake Pavin in the Auvergne mountains of the French Massif Central, 44 Ha in extent and the site of the region's last eruption some 7,000 years ago. This originally formed a volcanic maar with a lake over 100 m deep before the height of its only outlet was reduced seve...
With a great deal of fanfare in March 2016 an Ordnance Survey press release announced 1345 m as the newly rounded height for Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in Scotland. After a series of complex calculations and surveying, new measurements underpinned by geophysical data revealed that the highest point in the United Kingdom had gone up to by only...
This atlas presents a wonderful selection of bathymetric images, shallow seismic sections, and occasional photographs in a series of short contributions forming the main bulk of this volume. The format allows almost 250 scientists to arrange their visual material alongside self-contained pages of fully referenced text outlining these features, in a...
This impressive guide includes a clear introduction to the bedrock geology with Palaeogene volcanic intrusions dating back to around 56 to 55 million years ago and granitic tors formed by differential weathering which are still rather enigmatic. Produced in a compact 210 by 147 mm format, with a wipeable cover, this well-illustrated colour guide br...
This delightful monograph provides an excellent introduction to the hitherto neglected topic of how volcanic eruptions interact with the cryosphere. The distinctive properties of extensive volcanic deposits were first recognised in Iceland as having occurred during past glaciations. Since then there has been a growing realization of the particularl...
Given the wealth of geological research emanating from the Japanese Islands, it is surprising this is the first large format English language overview for 25 years of the remarkable insights which have been obtained during this time. Coupled with belts of active volcanism, the whole nation is prone to massive earthquakes, tsunamis, and often rapid...
This relatively affordable atlas provides a wealth of information about the physical environment and geology of Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago 60,667 km2 in area between 74º to 81º N and 10º to 35º E, around three fifths of which is still covered in ice, half way between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole. These demilitarized islands have a sp...
In a farsighted development, the British Geological Survey has brought a new lease of life to its historic material by putting its water-coloured map sheets online. This new digital archive (http://www.bgs.ac.uk/data/maps/home.html), with introductory notes and downloads, features mainly one inch to the mile 1 : 63 360 geological maps and their rel...
East Anglia, Fifth edition, British Regional Geology
J. R. Lee, M. A. Woods and B. S. P. Moorlock (editors)
ISBN 978 0 85272 823 9 Softback 273 + xi pages
Published by : British Geological Survey 2016
£18, with 25 % academic discount when ordered from : Sales Desk, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham NG12 5GG Tel : 0115 - 936 3241...
Nefyn and part of Caernarfon 1:50,000 series sheet 118 and part of 105 (England and Wales). Bedrock and Superficial Deposits. British Geological Survey
Situated a few km off the southern coast of Britain, the Isle of Wight is by far England's largest island at around 384 km2. Its beautiful countryside includes outstanding sequences of Cretaceous and Palaeogene sediments, and excellent exposures are provided by the island's later tectonic history resulting in a couple of elegant east-west en echelo...
This innovative geological map of the United Kingdom and Isle of Man is a most welcome tribute to William Smith (1768-1839), the "Father of English Geology", who devised the concept of a coloured map based on his ground-breaking insights about the unique nature of the different strata he came across in his travels - or as he put in the succinct mem...
In March 2015 the Guardian newspaper launched a laudable climate change campaign, and started tagging many of its features and reports with an utterly banal Keep it in the ground tag. Such a divisive approach is utterly counterproductive in a society which is addicted to hydrocarbons and needs fresh resources to replace them. Geologists are assumed...
Book review in
Quaternary of South East Ireland, QRA field guide
Earth Science Ireland, (Issue 20, 13) Autumn 2016
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This posthumous memoir is a fitting tribute to a life time of research on Shetland by Professor Derek Flinn (1922-2012) and his meticulous geological mapping under a Natural Environment Research Council contract with the University of Liverpool. Unst, some 20 km long and up to 10 km wide, including Muckle Flugga just off its tip, is the northernmos...
Though the Derby sheet (125) is not covered by extensive areas of superficial deposits nevertheless this is a key sheet in the English Midlands beyond the limit of the last Devensian glaciation containing remnants of older Anglian material. These older glacial tills are mainly undivided apart from those shown on its southern margin compatible with...
This large format memoir provides an encyclopedic account of these scattered islands just to the north of Sicily. Coupled with a wider series of seamounts, the Aeolian Arc curves around the southern margin of the Tyrrhenian Sea for over 200km off Sicily and Calabria. Ongoing volcanism is related to extension above the Ionian slab sinking below the...
Map review in
Swiss Geology for All on swisstopo maps and Geology of Switzerland book
Earth Science Ireland, (Issue 17, 16-17) Spring 2015
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Having been interested in space and astronomy at primary school, when I went to my local comprehensive I discovered they had a Geology Club run by Mr Wilkins, a geologist. Within a year I had joined the committee which, with some guidance, set out a timetable of lunchtime events and occasional Saturday field trips, plus working on our exhibits for...
In a radical move the IGN has started publishing 1:25,000 maps spanning more than twice the area of the sheets they are replacing. These pairs of maps also indexed with two figure numbers from west to east and north to south to coincide with the 1:50,000 series used by the BRGM for its geological maps. In stark contrast to Britain, while this serie...
This innovative map showing the estimated extent of the ice cover in and around Switzerland during the last glacial maximum has been published as part of the eclectic ‘Once and Today’ series produced by the Swiss topographic service. Other sheets in the series are rather more conventional compilations comparing historic maps and aerial photographs...
Exploring the landscape of The National Forest – A walkers’ guide to the landscape and natural environment of The National Forest by Keith Ambrose, Annette McGrath, Gill Weightman, Poul Strange, Sam Lattaway, Graham Lott, David Barrett, Stephen Dean and Peter Liddle 2012 £6.95p ISBN : 978-085272687-7, 106 pages and 1:50,000 walkers geological map (...
Seismic Atlas of Messinian Salinity Crisis markers in the Mediterranean and Black Seas by Johanna Lofi, Jacques Déverchère, Virginie Gaullier, Hervé Gillet, Christian Gorini, Pol Guennoc, Lies Loncke, Agnès Maillard, Françoise Sage and Isabelle Thinon 2011 € 20 ISBN 2-85363-097-8 Commission for the Geological Map of the World / Société Géologique d...
The Ullapool sheet (101E) follows the publication of the Summer Isles sheet explanation (Quaternary Newsletter No. 130, 74-75). This pivotal 19 by 29 km half sheet includes varied thrusted Precambrian terrains, Cambrian and Ordovician sediments plus a Silurian igneous pluton. These strongly influenced local topography including the magnificent Suil...
While reviewing the 1:1,100,000 geological map of Italy (Geoscientist 22.09, October 2012, p.23), I discovered a wealth of online material related to the work of the Geological Survey of Italy (Servizio Geologico d’Italia), on the website of the Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA - Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la R...
Saint-Malo – carte géologique et notice explicative de la feuille (207) à 1/50,000 € 35 ISBN : 978-2-7159-1207-6, 200 pages brgm 2009 and Saint-Geniez-d’Olt – carte géologique et notice explicative de la feuille (861) à 1/50,000 € 35 ISBN : 978-2-7159-1861-0, 185 pages brgm 2009.
David Nowell writes French geological mapping continues as it moves...
Magazine of the Geologists Association (Vol. 13 (1), 9-11) March 2014
As the often ill-informed and increasingly polarized debate about fracking hots up, the British Geological Survey released a well illustrated report on the Carboniferous shale gas potential of northern England, commissioned by the Department of Energy and Climate Change: along w...
This magnificent coffee-table book provides a superb introduction to the geology of France in full colour with magnificent illustrations –including numerous geological map extracts, diagrams, aerial and satellite images, physiographic maps and countless stunning photographs. This is done regionally in ten geologically defined chapters, so that some...
This colourful geological guide provides a really good introduction to this area through a series of ten itineraries, supported by general two-page spreads between each chapter covering some important details that otherwise would get overlooked. It focuses on the department (administrative county) of the Jura, rather than the whole mountain chain s...
These 1:50,000 geological maps, each covering approximately 29 by 19 km, will be some of the last to be published as the product of ongoing surveys since the foundation of the BGS in 1835. This is not to say that this mapping, including inshore waters, is nearly complete, even before considering future developments in how stratigraphic units can be...
The sheet explanation for the Summer Isles, off the northwest coast of Scotland, has appeared ahead of the intended 1:50,000 special sheet including offshore geology and surrounding mainland which, judging by the pharse “under review” in the 2012 BGS catalogue for the Kirkby Longsdale map (sheet 49, England and Wales) due to replace the 1892 editio...
Josef Emanuel Hibsch (1852-1940), the original author of this series of remarkably detailed geological maps, was born locally at Homole u Panny (then Hummel) in the České středohoří hills in northern Bohemia and is sometimes called the “son of the volcanic range”. Like many locals at the time, he was a German speaker, and aged twelve he was sent aw...
Map review in
3D French 1:25,000 cartography on disks - Géorando
Earth Science Ireland, (Issue 14, 36) Autumn 2013
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During the last ice age the landscape of what became the island of Anglesey (Ynys Môn) was shaped by the flow of ice, and so in light of this the British Geological Survey has produced three large (1189 by 841 mm) print on demand posters about its glacial landforms in both English and Welsh versions, given the high proportion of the local populatio...
Given the effort that goes into producing often beautifully drafted national and regional geological maps which bring together the efforts of countless geologists over many generations, it is sad when they are impractically folded so they cannot be easily read while travelling and overlooking the landscape in question, or simply be inspected far mo...
This most welcome geological map of Italy is the first new edition since 1961 and is extremely well drafted so that it packs in an incredible amount of information. The excellent base map is clear to read, with rivers and lakes in blue, plus brown contours at 100, 200 and then 500 m intervals along with offshore bathymetry at 100 and then 200 m int...
In a bold move the British Antarctic Survey has published the naturally fragmentary results of their ongoing geological mapping and research programme in the Antarctic Peninsula and offshore islands, plus South Georgia. The later is classified as a United Kingdom overseas territory, along with the volcanically active South Sandwich Islands just nor...
Following the award of World Heritage status to the ''Jurassic Coast'' between near Exmouth and Studland by UNESCO in December 2001, plans for a memoir covering the recently remapped Weymouth and Swanage 1:50,000 sheets (341–3) were put on hold. This would have succeeded the classic editions by Arkell (1947) and Strahan (1898), so a decade later it...
Just to show how much more mainstream geology can be on the other side of the Channel, the organizers of the Tour de France have taken to putting a bilingual description and geological map of each day’s stage on their website along with other cultural information in their tourist guide pages under the heading the eye of the geologist
The fairly mountainous Loch Doon (8E) sheet in the Southern Uplands is centred on the granitic Loch Doon Pluton where the highest ground is formed of the country rocks either side of the intrusion, with Merrick reaching 843 m on its western side and to the east the Rhinns of Kells 814 m high. In between a heavy glaciated valley is party blanked by...
For those who can afford it the BGS has produced three large (1189 by 841 mm) posters about the glacial landforms of the Isle of Anglesey (Ynys Môn) in North Wales, in both English and Welsh versions. Anglesey and the smaller Holy Island to the west are about 735 km2 in area, and was overrun by the Irish Sea ice stream during the last ice age. The...
After a hiatus of nearly two decades since the British Geological Survey completed a series of ten United Kingdom offshore regional reports, this publication heralds a new era of hydrocarbon exploration on the Atlantic margins. The original reports complemented the series of 1:250,000 maps produced to include the continental shelf, apart from the r...
Following the award of World Heritage status to the “Jurassic Coast”, between near Exmouth and Studland by UNESCO in December 2001, plans for a memoir covering the recently remapped Weymouth and Swanage 1:50,000 sheets (341-3) were put on hold. This would have succeeded the classic editions by Arkell (1947) and Strahan (1898), so a decade later it...
With the publication of these British Geological Survey 1:50,000 geological maps covering three diverse districts, the whole of lowland Britain apart from the Aylsham sheet (147) in Norfolk now has some sort of basic coverage at this key national scale. Though a few sheets are still published at one-inch-to-the-mile 1:63,360, they have a kilometre...
While historic topographic maps are interesting in their own right, they can also be used to estimate the rate of erosion over a hundred and fifty years on the Holderness coast of East Yorkshire. Though reproductions of early one-inch to the mile (1:63,360) maps have been available for decades, a series showing the first Ordnance Survey maps enlarg...
Following the report in the February issue (74) of Down to Earth, I hope some further information and clarification about the likely origin of the underwater chalk formation some 32 km in length found just off the Norfolk coast will be of interest.
The erroneous reports about this feature being hidden for 300 million years was probably made by a...
Thirty years ago much of North Wales and the whole of Mid-Wales had no published geological maps at one-inch-to-the-mile (1:63,360) or 1:50,000 (its modern metric replacement), as most of these areas were last surveyed in Victorian times. Thus only 24 sheets, including Anglesey, were published out of around 54 British Geological Survey sheets cover...
This is the latest edition in the long-running British Regional Geology series originally designed to complement the regional displays in the newly opened Museum of Practical Geology in South Kensington, London. These regions have remained largely unchanged since the 1930s, apart from a recent unified memoir for Wales.
This large 255 by 180 mm bo...
As the debate rumbles on about a few peripheral errors, plus citing non-peer-reviewed sources in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - IPCC 2007 assessment report, a further source of evidence for unprecedented melting is now easily to hand in the form of the latest detailed French topographic maps. The excellent 1:25,000 Institut Geograp...
The Cushendall sheet (14) fills a significant gap in the coverage of the Antrim coast, even if the out of print Giant’s Causeway (7) and Ballycastle (8) sheets require remapping with photogeological interpretation and ground checking - as demonstrated by this newly published map for this neighbouring district. Over more than four decades since thos...
feedback The chalk substrate off Norfolk Following the report in DtoE 74, I hope some further information and clarification about the likely origin of the underwater chalk for-mation some 32 km in length found just off the Norfolk coast will be of interest. The erroneous reports about this feature being hidden for 300 million years was probably mad...
This guide is the third in a series of interactive guides to the deep geology of Britain. It covers most of Scotland from the Mull of Kintyre and Cheviot Hills northwards (apart from the western fringes of the Outer Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland Islands) and is produced by the British Geological Survey as a CD. The disk is designed to run by using...
The recent publication of the Coalville 1:50,000 England and Wales sheet 155 and ther accompanying British Geological Survey sheet expla-nation completes BGS' updated cover-age of Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, with some of the Midland's most significant geological sites, including ancient volcanic rocks easily accessible on the M1 motorway from...
The first of these guides mostly concentrates on Cenozoic volcanism in France, including a few post-glacial events after the end of the last ice-age, along with a few older examples thrown in for good measure, while the other one deals with those remaining French overseas possessions which happen to be volcanic islands. These colourful books in Fre...
Following the publication in 2004 of a British Geological Survey Earthwise simplified map and guide to Assynt, in the Highlands of northwest Scotland, the BGS have produced a completely revised 1:50,000 map. This replaces the classic one-inch to the mile (1:63,360) special sheet of the area based on the pioneering work of Ben Peach and John Horne a...
The Ardnamurchan peninsular in Scotland, the westernmost point on the British mainland at 6º 13½′ west, some half a degree further west than Land’s End in Cornwall (at the southwestern tip of Britain), is now covered by clearly drawn 1:25,000 geological map. This sheet (Ardnamurchan Central Complex 1: 25,000 Bedrock and Superficial Deposits geologi...
The French topographic survey, the Institut Geographique National (IGN) has launched a new 1:100,000 regional series with distinct lime green covers to completely overhaul and replace the old series published on different sheet lines, so that it has better overlaps and more consistent coverage than before. Given that most of France has a significan...
The coastal Ayr (14W) sheet has been completely resurveyed and offshore geology added, even if the uncoloured Jura Formation simply blankets the seabed on which the simplified pre-Quaternary bedrock geology is shown without any underwater depth contours, while an insert map merely defines a deeper water zone where these undivided late glacial depos...
The southern half of the Newtonmore (64W) sheet covers the central portion of the Gaick Plateau in the Grampian Mountains, and its northeastern corner includes a portion of the River Spey and its tributary the River Truim, which is part of the Badenoch area, while the headwaters in the southernmost Atholl part of the sheet drain southwards towards...
84 pp. ISBN: 978 085272586 3 (SB), £10 or £15 in pack with folded map. Since the first pair of geological maps at roughly ten miles to an inch (1:625,000) was published in 1948 including the 10 km national grid, there have been considerable refinements in our knowledge of the bedrock underlying our landscape, even if the familiar outlines of the ma...
Since these maps were first published in 1948, with indispensable 10 km grid lines, there have been considerable advances in our unstanding of the bedrock stripped bare of any superficial Quaternary deposits. The maps have been completely overhauled and many faults have been added to give a sense of tectonic grain without becoming overwhelming. Fur...
This useful overview of the geology of Wales has been published as part of the ongoing regional geology series. This started as a series of twenty slim volumes that first appeared in the 1930's to accompany a series of exhibits in the Geology Musuem, in South Kensington, which was run by the Geological Survey. Since then such informative and detail...
Though William Smith, the first winner of the Wollaston medal, stands alongside Charles Darwin as a recipient of the most prestigious accolade awarded by the Geological Society, most researchers omit geological maps from their cited references. Had the publishers of his proposed book not gone bankrupt, he might well have appeared on British banknot...
When it comes to North Sea Oil, the question of who it belongs to within the United Kingdom has either been ignored or played up for political purposes since the first exploration licenses were issued in 1964. This has been aided by lazy economists who have overlooked the geographical distribution of oil and gas fields before allocating them within...
A splendid pair of introductory maps and guides to the eastern and western Mendips has been produced by the British Geological Survey with funds from the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund. Though the first pack in this series for Assynt in the Highlands of northwest Scotland, was produced in 2004 with generous support from BP Exploration, the fol...
The Glen Affric (72E) sheet covers a portion of the Scottish Highlands between Inverness and the Isle of Skye with rugged topography ranging from 120 m above sea level in Glen Moriston to the 1183 m high Carn Eige. Unsurprisingly this area has been intensely glaciated and the extensive Superficial Deposits mainly consist of hummocky glacial materia...
Just in time for the City of Liverpool becoming European capital of culture in 2008, the British Geological Survey has published a completely resurveyed pair of 1:50,000 geological maps accompanied by a brief sheet explanation. In addition to the central half of the city, this sheet covers most of the Wirral peninsular and Dee estuary plus a signif...
Following the renewed interest in William Smith (1768-1839), the father of English geology, the Geological Society of London has produced this excellent CD-ROM about his revolutionary geological map of England, Wales and Scotland south of Perth (Geology Today, v.21, p.119, 2005) to mark the bicentenary of the world's oldest geological society found...
At first sight a review about William Smith (1768-1839), the father of English geology, and his revolutionary geological map of England, Wales and Scotland south of Perth (Geology Today, v.21, p.119, 2005) might seem a little out of place if it were not for the extras contained on this excellent CD-ROM, which requires a computer with Windows XP/200...
This concise book is the same price as the hefty 318 page regional memoir for Northern Ireland produced in a similar format, as this is considered to be a rather more specialist publication, even though it should have wide appeal as a colourful field guide. As the title suggests, it deals with the evidence left during the final stages of the last i...
These maps cover the northern half of the Isle of Skye along with Raasay, the largest island in the Inner Sound between Portree and the mainland. All these sheets have been compiled by BGS staff from academic sources and published papers rather than being derived from a primary survey which, apart from Raasay, was published as the Northern Skye one...
Just in time for the City of Liverpool becoming European capital of culture in 2008, the British Geological Survey has published a completely resurveyed pair of 1:50,000 geological maps accompanied by a brief sheet explanation. In addition to the central half of the city, this sheet covers most of the Wirral peninsular and Dee estuary plus a signif...
When dealing with the bulk qualities of different rock types the concept of density is often confused with whether an object is relatively light or heavy, which is merely its weight. In its simplest form the weight of a given volume of material can be compared to the same volume of water to get its specific gravity. This can be quoted without any u...
These geophysical compact disks are the first of four that will cover the whole of Britain and its surrounding waters. Through a series of gravity and magnetic maps and models they provide a compelling guide to the hidden structures and tectonic fabric beneath our landscape. These disks are designed to be viewed like a web site with the aid of a br...
Only a generation ago one-inch to the mile (1:63,360) and later 1:50,000 geological maps covering England and Scotland stopped dead at the border between them, rather than having at least some overlap, as do most continental maps straddling international frontiers. Strangely, now that Scotland has a devolved parliament in Edinburgh a fine pair of s...
In that last few years the Geological Survey of Ireland have completed their national 1:100,000 provisional map series, and have now produced a completely revised 1:500,000 geological map of Ireland. In addition an introductory textbook has been published (Understanding Earth Processes, Rocks and the Geological History of Ireland 2004, Andrew Sleem...
Following the Solway West special sheet (QN 109, 58) the eastern sheet of this pair has now been published. Like the other sheet it covers a large 25 km by 40 km area around Langholm extending southwards down the River Esk to Gretna, and across the Solway Firth to Carlisle and the area adjacent to the western end of Hadrian's wall along the Cumbria...
As many former geology students will know, Torbay is a classic location for many field trips, so this completely revised map and its accompanying publications will provide valuable new insights into what this corner of south Devon has to offer. The north of this sheet includes the coastal resort of Torquay, on the English Riviera, along with the fi...
Following on from her two best sellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel has returned with a popular account of our solar system and its history of discovery from ancient times to space exploration. While you might expect such a popular account to tell you how the planets were originally viewed and how these perceptions changed as new di...
The Upper Cretaceous Chalk hills of the South Downs form the southern flank of the Wealden anticline in south-east England, with older Wealden and Purbeck sediments exposed at its core. With prominent chalk escarpments on each side of it, this major structure is up to 70 km wide, and extends eastwards for over 200 km from eastern Hampshire to the a...
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This looks a really good idea, would the group like some ideas when first draft of my next paper is being circulated and I have time to comment? Just written a very long review of Quaterny newslatter and much of this can be applied to the netire landscape of the English Channel through all the different glacial cycles which it has experanced , so that I might even be willing to refine my ideas as to the compleat time of how the Isle of Wight became an island over at least two galcail cycles, Would such evidence even show up in pollen from very deep cores in the Bembriege, area on the Isle of Wight - the marshland gats very deep from the area of my very first paper toward the modern habour. And I would love to see if some of you were willing to take a series of cores from deep boreholes every 100 m or so as I need time off my caring for the father, given this has become a real strain the the rest of my faimly time I should work unpaid dow this rather than enjoying some excellent field geology.
