January 2008

Editorial

• Fighting the good fight, or slaying the slain? - Ted Nield asks if the Society should follow the Royal Society's lead and put out a statement denouncing Young Earth Creationism.

• Earth Science for Society - Ed de Mulder wishes Geoscientist readers a Happy New International Year of Planet Earth

People

• Carousel; Deaths;
  
• Mapping Mountains exhibition hits Piccadilly

Geonews

• Copper bottomed - John Barnatt and John Bramley on an old Peaks coppermine, rewly reopened to tourists

• Journey to the Centre of the Earth - a new disposal route for a deadly metal, by Emily Baldwin

Society at Large

• Bicentennial bashes

Reviews

• Reviews by Dave Long, John Milsom and Ken Pye

Feature

• Diamond rivers - feature by Brian Bluck and John D Ward on the diamond placers of south west Africa.

Letters 

Crossword

Sticks & Stones

By DUGZ.