October 2009

Ted Nield writes:  We are very sorry that, due to circumstances far beyond the control of the editoriat, the print issue will be late arriving on Fellows' doormats this month.

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Editorial

• Snow time - 50 years after "The Two Cultures" Ted Nield asks if there is a right kind of Snow.
• Pond Life - Marine geophysicist and screenwriter Alan Fleet has no regrets about taking a road much travelled...

People

• Distant Thunder - Rose Hill: Alfred Russel Wallace's house in Dorking has been rediscovered

Geonews

• Torrid times - Ted Nield reports from the Meteoritical Society on the biggest meteorite strike ever to hit the British Isles

Opinion

• The two other cultures - Mike Price wonders if the real "two cultures" can be traced back to our evolutionary past...

Society at Large

• London Basin Forum - Mike deFreitas and Katharine Royse say geologists and engineers from all backgrounds can now contribute to revealing the nature of London's complex subsurface...

 

Reviews

• Two new book reviews, by Tony Spencer and Joe McCall

Features

• Deadly Geology - Lena Z Evins investigates a Large Igneous Province that might have caused the first mass extinction to afflict Phanerozoic life
• Charles Darwin: geologist in Argentina - Peter Rawson and M Beatriz Aguirre-Urreta explore the great evolutionist's contributions to the geology of Argentina

Letters

Crossword
Sticks & Stones