December 2007

Editorial

• Shibboleth - Ted Nield on "Doris's Crack" and the issue of the difference between the question "why" and the question "how".
• Strength to Strength - Tony Watts (Science Secretary) on the year ahead for the Society's meetings.

People

• Carousel; Deaths;
  
• Mapping Mountains exhibition hits Piccadilly
• 2009 "Barbican" lainched - Dawne Riddle reports on the inception of PGCVII.

Geonews

•   All aboard the Warming Express - Adler deWind reports on the Paleocene/Eocene Thermal Maximum, now arriving at a Eurostar cutting at Scaler's Hill.
• Kryptonite no - Serpentinite possibly.  Dwain Eldred gets down on the San Andreas active zone

Opinion

• Time Machine - Jan Zalasiewicz has the ideal stocking filler for the Christnmas Season.  Trouble is, you'd need a kilometre-long sock.

Society at Large

• Shell Essay winner announced

Reviews

• Reviews by Ted Nield, Rick Brassington and Alan Bowden
  

Feature

•   Skaergaard, Everest and more.  Geoff Glasby reflects on the life and work of Lawrence Wager, one of the greatest geologists and climbers of the 20th Century.
  

Letters 

Crossword

Sticks & Stones

By DUGZ.