June 2008

Editorial

• Sincerity is everything - if you can fake it , you're made - or possibly dead, says Ted Nield
• Free the data! Richard Hughes, BGS Director of Information and Knowledge Exchange, explains how recent changes mean better access to more free data

People

• Carousel; Deaths
• Distant Thunder by Nina Morgan
• Female mentoring a success, by Alison Douglas, Fellowship Services Mgr.
• Say Yes to YES, by Akela Silverton
• Petroleum Group prizes 2008 by Kerri Deegan
• Kirkaldy remembered

Geonews

• Anti-creationist statement issued
• Earthlearningidea - update
• In Brief: Ice in a Greenhouse - Carancas fall - Trouble with Pangaea by Joe McCall
  

Society at Large

• Persons of distinction
• Shell London lectures
• Archbishop Ussher and the Age of the Earth - Burlington House Lecture 13 June

Reviews

• Book reviews by Tim Needham and Joe McCall

Opinion

• The Proof in the Puddingstone - first slice: The Pudding. Bryan Lovell looks back over a life in sandstones and oil and ponders the significance of events at 55Ma

Feature

• Faults of the Pharaohs. Peter Cobbold, John Watkinson and John Cosgrove think the Theban Plateau is not as geological stable as the Pharaohs believed...

Letters

Crossword
Sticks & Stones
By DUGZ.