In this month's issue

Editorial

• Ozymandias Remembered - Ted Nield has thoughts about legacies
  
• Severn pillars - William Stanton thinks the Severn Barrage is a bore
  

People

• Carousel; Deaths
• Distant Thunder by Nina Morgan

Geonews

• Messages from Mercury - Emily Baldwin reports on the latest pictures.
• Is the Spider a Caldera?  Joe McCall thinks the official interpretation is incorrect

Society at Large

• Your Planet Earth - Mike Benton describes a forthcoming contribution to the International Year of Planet Earth by the GA, co-sponsored by the Society
  

Reviews

• Reviews by David James, Wishart Mitchell and David Nowell
  

Opinion

• Giant's Causeway - science and superstition battle it out on Finn MacCool's big project
  

Feature

• Basalt and the bits in between - Simon Passey describes a recent multidisciplinary meeting held on Shetland to consider oil reservoir potential in volcanic rocks
• Ludlovian wetlands - Jerry Davies, Rob Hillier and Dick Walters report from the Ludlow Research Group's field meeting in central Wales, and a unique facies of the ORS

Letters 

Crossword

Sticks & Stones