Dear Editor, Has the Geological Society finally given up science in favour of propaganda? It would certainly seem so from April’s Soapbox (Join the decarbonisation bandwagon, Geoscientist 29 (3), 9, April 2019) where Martin Lack is permitted to make the case for decarbonisation by a mixture of unsubstantiated hearsay, hyperbole and innuendo.
To take a couple of examples:
Martin claims tha...
Applied Geophysics in Periglacial Environments
Hauck, C and Kneisel, C (eds)
Published by: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2008
ISBN: 978-0-521-88966-7 (hbk)
List price: £70.00
240 pp
www.cambridge.org
The book is divided into two parts, the first dealing with four specific types of geophysical method (electrical, electromagnetic, refraction seismic and Ground Pe...
At its Bicentenary Conference in London the Geological Society announced a new initiative to help developing countries benefit from access to the digitised content of the Lyell Collection.
Geoscientist Online 18 October 2007
The Geological Society of London used the occasion of its Bicentennial Conference on 12 September to announce that all the current and archival content from its digitis...
Arctic Russia is rich in resources, sparsely populated and politically significant. Now environmental change is opening up this area to mineral exploration and exploitation. Geoff Glasby and Yuri Voytekhovsky* explore the potential of this vast region, remote even from Moscow.
Geoscientist 20.8 August 2010
Few people will have missed the news on 1 August 2007, when Russia used two Mir ...
Vanished Ocean – How Tethys reshaped the world
Dorrik Stow
Published by: Oxford University Press
Publication date: May 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-921428-0 (hbk)
List price: £16.99
300 pp
www.oup.com
Tethys was perhaps the most prodigious sea the Earth has ever seen. Born amid the worst mass extinction in history, Tethys witnessed the subsequent recovery, the dinosaurs&rsqu...
Geological Fluid Dynamics
O M Phillips
Published by: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-521-86555-5
List price: £40.00
285 pp
www.cambridge.org
Geological fluid dynamics (GFD) is not a new field, but there is a scarcity of books on the subject. Owen Phillips’ volume fills this void with an excellent text that will likely become a mainstay ...
London, England
Opened in 1984, the Thames Barrier is an impressive civil engineering achievement. Extending across the river at Woolwich Reach, the barrier is part of London‘s defences against the risk of flooding and comprises a series of giant movable gates which can be closed when an exceptional high tide is expected.
The level of high tides in the Thames Estuary has been steadily...
The Earth’s oceans are on their biggest acid trip for 55 million years. Ian Randall reports.
Geoscientist Online 15 February 2010
The world’s oceans are acidifying at their fastest rate for 55 million years, scientists say, with unknown consequences for the most basic elements of the food chain, the plankton. Models devised by researchers from the University of Bristol, which com...
Simon Passey* describes a recent multidisciplinary conference where oil industry met volcanology to explore the potential for reservoirs within continental flood basalts.
Geoscientist 18.4 April 2008
In 2004, and to a great deal of surprise, Chevron with partners Statoil, OMV and Dong made an oil and gas discovery within a Palaeogene volcanic sequence in the Faroe-Shetland Basin. The reservoir ...
Geology and Geophysics of the United Arab Emirates
These 12 volumes and the accompanying maps with descriptions produced by the BGS for the UAE Ministry of Energy provide a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the geology, geophysics, resources and geological hazards of the UAE.
Three volumes are likely to be of interest to the general reader: one on the geology and evolution of the western par...