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May 2007

Editorial

Are you receiving us?

Ted Nield is overcome with pride after the successful re-launch of the Society’s new email Newsletter

 

Down your way

Prof. David Manning, Chair of the Regional Groups Coordination Committee, extols the virtue of local action…

 

Geonews

Field works

French scientists bring Earth's core into a laboratory and generate a self-sustaining magnetic field, Amarendra Swarup reports

 

Society News

Desk job

New 1.7 tonne Reception Desk in the reinstated formal entrance from Piccadilly is a novel celebration of the Bicentenary - and much more besides, writes Eric Robinson

 

Features

True confessions - William Smith

In a letter to his niece Anne Phillips, published here for the first time in full, William Smith describes one of the most exciting days of his life - being awarded the Society's first Wollaston Medal. Nina Morgan* reports…

 

Earth on a plate

In the third of her reviews of the great intellectual landmarks of the Society's 200 years, Sue Bowler reports on a Kuhnian revolution

 

Subduction - from the top down

Dougal Jerram and Kathryn Goodenough report on the Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group and Metamorphic Studies Group joint field trip to the islands of Santorini and Syros

 

Books & Arts

Reviews - May 2007

Two books reviewed by Chris Hawkesworth and David Nowell

 

Online Special

New Earth

Astronomers have discovered the most Earth-like planet outside our Solar System to date, writes Emily Baldwin

 

Mercury's molten core

Earth based radar shows Mercury is hiding a molten outer core, Emily Baldwin reports

 

Fuelling the Future

Dawne Riddle reports on the fifth Shell London Lecture

 

Lyell Collection – open to the world

Wednesday 16 May saw the simultaneous opening of the Lyell Room, Burlington House, and the Lyell Collection and Lyell Centre within the Society's new website. Dawne Riddle reports

 

Back to the future!

In his Presidential address to the Society, Richard Fortey FRS wonders what the future will hold for the Earth sciences...

 

Enigmatic Enceladus

Emily Baldwin reports on two complementary explanations for the watery eruptions observed on icy moon Enceladus

 

Mars Ice

The High Resolution Stereo Camera on board ESA’s Mars Express has captured stunning new images of the Deuteronilus Mensae region on Mars, writes Dwain Eldred

 

Ice sheets - mind the gap

Amarendra Swarup reports on a new understanding of how ice sheets melt, and it's not as simple as you might think…

 

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