March 2009

Editorial

• Zombie Alert!  Ted Nield is proud to announce the return of the 2004 Great Chicxulub Debate to the Society website
• SPOSH or just tosh?  Darren Wilcox has problems with DEFRA's Soil Guideline Values.

People

• Carousel; Deaths
• Brett's boulders - Alexis Drahos (Sorbonne, Paris) describes the influence of glacial theory on English Pre-Raphaelite painter, John Brett (1831-1902)

 

Geonews

• Core values - the BGS Core Archive is an ideal teaching tool, says Gary Hapson (Imperial College)
• News in Brief - Joe McCall ponders Cosmology, Ediacaransand Impact structures

 

Society at Large

• To CPD, or not to CPD?  That is the question posed by Professional Secretary, Professor David Maning (Newcastle University)
• Possible Piton identified
• Shell London Lectures
• Elections (Fellows Only)

Reviews

• Two book reviews, by John Gaskarth and Mike Rosenbaum

Features

• Border skirmish - Graham Leslie  takes a fresh look at a long-standing and still active controversy in Scottish geology
• Of all places, why here?  Nigel Harris, who won a Society field research grant to go to Mongolia, describes his field visit and asks why there are volcanoes there at all...

Letters

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