Due to the ongoing public health risk posed by COVID-19, the London and Bath offices of the Geological Society are currently closed.
The dispatch of books and journals from our warehouse in Bath will resume when the office and warehouse reopen.
How to get in touch
Please email us with any queries and questions - our staff are working remotely and will attend to your query as soon as possible. Please do not telephone, fax or send mail as the office is closed.
If you would like to place an order with us, please download and complete an order form from the catalogues page and send it to us by email. We will hold the order and process it as soon as we can. Please note that some countries have temporarily suspended acceptance of international mail (Royal Mail website).
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Online bookshop orders can be made online and will be dispatched when we re-open - please note that your payment card is charged when you place your order. Online bookshop orders received prior to 23 March 2020 have been dispatched. In case of non-delivery, please first check that the delivery address is open to receive parcels. Please note that some countries have temporarily suspended acceptance of international mail (Royal Mail website).
Other book orders (sent to us by email/fax/mail) received prior to 19 March 2020 have been dispatched. In case of non-delivery, please first check that the delivery address is open to receive parcels. Please note that some countries have temporarily suspended acceptance of international mail (Royal Mail website).
Non-member subscriptions
Payments: Subscription payments made by account transfer or by card will be processed as usual, please contact us for details.
We have been working hard to ease the transition to working from home during this difficult time. Please see the subscriber resources page for more information.
Print copies of journals and Geoscientist
The May edition of Geoscientist was not sent to Bermuda, Fiji, Grenada, India, Jamaica, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Peru, Philippines, South Africa, Taiwan or Zimbabwe. The June edition was not sent to Botswana, Fiji, Iraq, Pakistan, Peru, South Africa, Zambia or Zimbabwe. Geoscientist issues can be viewed online.
Petroleum Geoscience (Volume 26, part 2) was mailed in May. It will not be mailed to Iraq or Pakistan until the mail suspension is lifted and the warehouse re-opens. It can be viewed online on the Lyell Collection.
Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society (Volume 63, part 1) will be mailed to all subscribers in June. It can be viewed online on the Lyell Collection.
Scottish Journal of Geology (Volume 56, part 1) will be mailed to all subscribers in June. It can be viewed online on the Lyell Collection.
The mailings of the May print copies of Journal of the Geological Society (Volume 177, part 3), Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology & Hydrogeology (Volume 53, part 2) and Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis (Volume 20, part 2) have been delayed. These issues are available to subscribers online on the Lyell Collection. This page will be updated when the print mailings have been re-scheduled.
Please email us if you have not received a print copy of a journal. In case of non-delivery, please first check that the delivery address is open to receive mail. Please note that some countries have temporarily suspended acceptance of international mail (Royal Mail website). Claims for print issues will be serviced when the warehouse re-opens.
Browsing the bookshop
- Please use the bookshop search panel to browse the bookshop.
- Follow the new publications link to browse newly published books, and titles coming soon for forthcoming publications.
- For gift ideas, try our Geo Gifts selection.