November 2009

Editorial

• Cast out - Ted Nield applauds the plucky extra-mural Earth Science tutors at Bristol University
• This tape will self-destruct - Adler deWind wonders what geo-pedagogues will do without the tape recorder

People

• Distant Thunder - The mysterious Mrs Smith.  Nina Morgan on William's woeful wife.
• Space & Time - Sarah Day attends two Society-sponsored events at the British Science Association Festival

Geonews

• North Sea bares teeth
• In Brief - Ussher in a new era: Joe McCall finds a political hot potato in a grain of sand

Opinion

• Pacific rise - Postgraduate student Iain Neill (Cardiff University) refutes James and Lorente's assertions that the Pacific origin paradigm is in trouble.

Society at Large

• Glossop Lecture and award 2009

Reviews

• Three new book reviews - by Martin Broderick, Ken Pye and John Milsom

Features

• Pressures beyond rubies - Alan Wright on the "Star of Tanzania"
• A filling for the dentist - Andrew Brown on how he blocked his dentist's fissure

Letters

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