Dear Editor, I, and perhaps and a significant portion of the Geological Society of London, do not wish to join Martin Lack’s faux science bandwagon (Join the decarbonisation bandwagon, Geoscientist 29 (3), 9, April 2019), nor wish him to use the GSL to promote baseless, alarmist Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) thinking that it is less than 12 years to the 6th mass extinction event. This i...
Parent Paper: Zircon dating ties NE Atlantic sill emplacement to initial Eocene global warming.
H. SVENSEN, S. PLANKE & F. CORFU
Appearing in Journal of the Geological Society, Vol. 167, Part 3, May 2010, pp. 433 - 436.
U-Pb data is provided in a pdf file.
U-Pb data for zircon and baddeleyite
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UK bidding to host 38th IGC in Glasgow in 2028
11 March 2024
We have partnered with British Geological Survey and the Scottish Geology Trust to bid to host the next International Geological Congress – the longest-running meeting place for Eart...
The threat to humanity is clear: such a disappearance of living space (with some 100 million people living within less than 1 metre above present sea level) would represent a virtually impossible burden to a human population that is already struggling to feed itself, and is set to add another three billions to its numbers this century. We note that it may not be the amount of sea level ris...
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UK bidding to host 38th IGC in Glasgow in 2028
11 March 2024
We have partnered with British Geological Survey and the Scottish Geology Trust to bid to host the next International Geological Congress – the longest-running meeting place for Eart...
Weather Catastrophes and Climate Change - Is there still hope for us?
Pfister, C; Schellnuber, H J; Ramstorf, S and Graßl, H (eds)
Publication date: 2005
Published by: Munich Re Group
ISBN: 3-937624-81-3
List price: €29.90
264 pp
www.munichre.com
Global warming is a reality. Over 80% of natural catastrophes are the result of extreme weather events. Economic loses from these events...
Dry Store Room No. 1 – The secret life of the Natural History Museum
Richard Fortey
Published by: Harper Press
Publication date: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-00-720988-0
List price: £20.00
338 pp
www.harpercollins.com
Geologists maturing in years, shall we say, often exhibit an alarming tendency to disappear into a shed and write their memoirs. This is not so surprising, perhaps – many g...
The Incredible Human Journey
Alice Roberts
Published by: Bloomsbury
ISBN: 978-1-4088-0288-5
Publication date: April, 2010
List price: £9.99
376 pp
www.bloomsbury.com
Dr Alice Roberts is quite well known for her TV work in connection with Coast and for her own series Don’t Die Young, which drew on her expertise as medical doctor and anatomist based at Bristol Univers...
SUP18440 (Fjord Systems and archives; a review. Appearing in Geological Society Special Publication 344, ‘Fjord Systems and Archives’, November 2010, pp. 5-15)
SUP18437 ( The characteristics of rare earth elements in bulk precipitation, throughfall, foliage and lichens in the Lesní potok catchment and its vicinity, Czech Republic. Appearing in Geochemistry: Exploration, Envi...
An Evening Devoted To African Water Resources
Meeting at Loughborough University on 19 January 2012
Report by Geoffrey Jago
The introduction used by the Two Ronnies of “and in a packed programme tonight” came to mind at our meeting at Loughborough University which featured no less than three expert speakers, all preceded by our Group’s Annual General Meeting.
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