October 2010

Editorial

• Climate scientists are innocent. OK? Not necessarily, says Ted Nield.
• Not so jolly hockey-stick - Bob Ward criticises a recent Geoscientist book review for being too lenient

People

• Distant Thunder - Nina Morgan on a female pioneer who proved she was more than equal to her male colleagues
• Obituaries - In this month's print issue - Mauro Beltrandi 1921-2009 and Roger Iain Holt Williamson 1961-2010
• Captain Jack's century - Prof. John Mackie of Otago is 100 this year.
• Carousel (print issue only)

Geonews

• Earth's Oxygen highs.  TedNield reports on new research based on fossil charcoal that can help establish the oxygen content of past atmospheres
• Burning of the leaves.  Ian Randall reports on a suggestion that cultivating broad-leaved plants could prove a practical precaution against climate change
• In Brief - Joe McCall describes some more news that has streaked across his firmament recently...

Opinion

• Two new reviews - by Sean Mulshaw and Ken Hollywood
• Beyond the deep water horizon - GSL President Dr Bryan Lovell takes a longer-term view of the Macondo-1 disaster.

Features

• The Great Divide - Bruce Menzies and Geoff Davis explain how detailed geological understanding now literally underpins the resort of Lyme Regis, plaged for ever by landslippage.
• Le Cachot de Cyparis - Holiday Geology 1.  Ted Nield visits Martinique and the cell of the world's most famous survivor.

Society at Large

• Nominations for Society Awards and Honorary Fellows invited (Print only)
• Dates of future OGM and Council meetings (Print only)
• Fellows encouraged to renew online by Direct Debit (Print only)
• Rare book of the month - All librarians have tales about the things they have found in returned books.  Michael McKimm reveals one of ours - a letter from Gladstone.

Letters
Sticks & Stones
Crossword