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Dr Ted Nield, Editor, Geoscientist, The Geological Society of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, LONDON W1J 0BG.
Books currently available for review by Fellows
(Fellows of the Society only please!)
- NEW! Energy Science - principles, technologies and impacts by John Andrews & Nick Jelley. Oxford UP 2017508pp, sbk (3rd edn)
- NEW! The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China - the flowering of Early Animal Life by Hou-Xiang Guang et al, 2nd Ed., 311pp, Wiley Blackwell hbk
- NEW! Principles of Radiometric Dating by Kunchithipadam Gopalan Cambridge UP207pp hbk
- NEW! Atlas of Trace Fossils in Well Core: Appearance, Taxconomy & Interpretation by Dirk Knaust 2017 Springer Verlag209pp, hbk.
- NEW! Water Wells & Boreholes (2nd Edn) by Misstear, Banks and Clark. Wiley 2017518pp hbk
- NEW! Geochemistry and Geophysics of Active Volcanic Lakes by Ohba et al. GSL Publishing SP#437 295pp, hbk
- Silver - nature & culture by Lindsay Shen. 2017 Reaktion Books 208pp flexicover.
- Rocks, Ice and Dirty Stones - diamond histories by Marcia Pointon. 2017 Reaktion books 257pp hbk
- Anomalies - pioneering women in Petroleum Geology 1917-2017 by Robbie Gries. Jewel Publishing 2017 405pp, hbk
- Salt Tectonics - principles & practice by Jackson PA and Huden MR. Cambridge University Press 2017 498pp, hbk
- Chesapeake perspectives - decoding the deep sediments: Ecological History of Chesapeake Bay by Grace Brush. 2017 Maryland Sea Grant 63pp sbk
- Tectonics of the Deccan Large Igneous Province by Mukherjee et al. (Eds), 2017. Geol Soc Spec Pub #445 363pp, hbk
- The Mountains of Iron - a history of iron mining industry in Mid Antrim by Kevin J O'Hagan. 2017 140pp sbk
- Seismicity, Fault Rupture and Earthquake Hazards in Slowly Deforming Margins by Landgraf et al (eds) 2017 Geological Society 261pp hbk
- Land Surface remote Sensing, by Baghdadi N and Zribi M (eds). Elsevier 2017 342pp hbk
- Integrated Environmental modelling to Solve Real World Problems. Geol Soc Spec pub #408, 2017 by Riddick et al (eds)
- Petroleum Geoscience of the West Africa Margin. Geol Soc Spec. pub. #438, 2017 by Sabato Ceraldi et al (eds)
- Waves, Particles and Storms in Geospace by Balasis et al. 2016 Oxford University Press 448pp hbk
- Lake Pavin - history, geology, biogeochemistry and sedimentology of a deep meromictic maar lake, by Sime-Ngando et al., (Eds) 2016 Springer. 421pp, hbk
- Soda Lakes of East Africa by Michael Schagerl (Ed) 2016 Springer. 4-8pp, hbk.
- A History of the Solar System by Claudio Vita-Finzi. Springer Verlag 2016 100pp sbk
- Lake Bonneville - a scientific update edited by Oviatt and Shroder 2016 Elsevier, 659pp hbk
- Subsurface Flow and Imaging by Donald Wyman Vasco and Akhil Datta-Gupta 2016 Cambridge UP., 354pp, hbk
- Source to Sink Fluxes in undisturbed Cold Environments, by Beylich et al., (eds) 2016 Cambridge UP., 4-8pp, hbk
- Palaeomagnetism in fold and thrust belts - new perspectives Edited by Pueyo et al. 2016 Geological Society Special Publication #424. hbk
- River-dominated shelf sediments of East Asian seas. Edited by Clift et al. 2016 Geological Society Special Publication #429. hbk
- Ecological Climatology - concepts & Applications by Gordon Bonan (3rd Edn) 2016 CUP 692pp Hbk
- Stochastic Analysts of Scaling Time Series - from turbulence theory to applications by Schmitt FG and Huang Y. Cambridge UP 2016 204pp hbk
- Volcanic Geology of Sao Miguel Island (Azores Archipelago) by Gaspar et al (Eds) Geological Society Memoir #44, 2015 hbk 309pp
- Precession, Nutation and Wobble of the Earth by Dehant and Mathews 2015. Cambridge University Press, 536pp, hbk.
- From Somerset to the Pyrenees - in the steps of William Arthur Jones, Geologist and Antiquary by David Rabson. Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society 2015109pp, sbk.
- Fundamental Controls on Fluid Flow in Carbonates by Agar et al., Geological Society Special Publication #406
- The Use of Palaeomagnetism and Rock Magnetism to Understand Volcanic Processes by Ort et al. Geological Society of London Special Publication #396