September 2008

 

Editorial

• Hopping is not always mad - Ted Nield writes from the 2008 EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) about "discipline-hopping" grants...
  
• A bigger Earth - Stephen Foster thinks new data demand a revival of the Expanding Earth theory
  

People

• Carousel; Deaths
• Distant Thunder by Nina Morgan - a tale of two cities and bad lodgings

Geonews

• Microtektites from Antarctica - Joe Mcall on a shower of glass from the sky
• Fossilised - in colour.   Palaeontologists find pigment, writes Dwain Eldred
• New Online! News in Brief - Ted Nield on vandalism in Comley Quarry and some Bear necessities in Kamchatka.

Society at Large

• Chartership - a new approach - David manning, Professional Secretary with news about changes to the CGeol procedure
• Accreditation news - the latest university courses to get the thumbs up from the Society
• PERC up your ears - Stephen Henley introduces the Pan European Reserves reporting Committee's new code
• Shifting a GEEA - Another Society journal makes the Lyell Collection, writes Neal Marriott
• Shell London lectures

Reviews

• Special review by Joe McCall of Carbonatite Occurrences of the World

Feature

• Testing classical enigmas - John Underhill reports on testing the validity of "Strabo's Channel" on the Greek island of Kefalonia, and the possible resolution of one of literature's greatest enigmas - the true location of Homer's Ithaca.
  

Letters

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Sticks & Stones
By DUGZ.