May 2010

Editorial

• Pincer movement - Academics face threats to their freedom from the combined blights of both public and private sectors, says Ted Nield
• Frozen on the beach - Robin Bailey discusses uniformitarianism, and the rare untypical events that allow us to apply it to the sedimentary record

People

• The great American incognitum - Alexis Drahos investigates Charles Willson Peale's work as painter and palaeontologist
• Distant Thunder - Nina Morgan discovers that procrastination rules, even when you are John Phillips, reviewing proofs for Sir Roderick Murchison.
• Obituaries
• Carousel (print issue only)

Geonews

• Cover Story: Dino discovery - a student at UCL, partly funded by the Society, has discovered a new species of dinosaur
• In Brief - Joe McCall's roundup of the news.  See also Online Specials.

Opinion

• One new review, by Malcolm McClure, of Paleoclimates by Thomas Cronin
• Back to the future with climate change - Jonathan Cowie on the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum and its implications for global warming today.  See also Online Specials.

Features

• Slip-slidin' away - to coincide withthe publication of a thematic set of papers in the Journal of the Geological Society, Rob Butler explores the not-so peaceful world of the passive continental margin.

Society at Large

• President's Day 2010, AGM and Awards Ceremony
• Rare book of the month - Michael McKimm discusses Francesco Serao's 1740 description of the eruption of Vesuvius.

From the regions

• Bang goes communication - Sarah Day visits the 2010 Big Bang Fair in manchester and discovers that communicating "climate change" could start by defining its terms.
• O.T. Who? - Ted Nield attends a South Wales Regional Group schools event at a Cardiff High School, bringing together year 12/13 pupils from across South Wales.

Online Specials

• The Geoblogosphere - Michael Welland reviews what's out there in the land of the geological blog.
• Preview next month's Main Feature - Hambrey et al. reply to Cliff Ollier's accusations of "alarmism"
• GIT Feeling - Joe McCall suspects the Great Impact Theory of the origin of the Earth-Moon System has had its day and proposes a theory of his own...
• Back to the future with Climate Change - read a longer version of this piece by Jonathan Cowie

Letters

Sticks & Stones
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