Geoscientist Online

Welcome to the online version of the Geological Society's Fellowship magazine. As well as the online magazine, these pages feature news and updates from the Society and the geoscience community.

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Many, if not most, instances of "cyclic sedimentation" are statistical anomalies, neither stratigraphically useful nor sedimentologically meaningful, says Simon Vaughan

Mark Tyrer reviews the looming shortages of strategic metals and minerals and poses the question - can this be both a challenge and an opportunity to developed nations?

Joe McCall is bewitched, bothered and bewildered by the sheer quantity of iron meteorites encountered on Mars by the Opportunity Rover, and has an intriguing theory...