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October 2019

Editorial

Fossil plastics

Amy Whitchurch on the climatic angle to our plastic problem

 

Society News

News from the Society

What your Society is doing, at home and abroad.

 

Call for nominations to serve on Council

Your Society needs you! The deadline to stand for election to Council is 3 January 2020.

 

Opinion

Plastic and sustainability on site

Geoff Faro calls for a more strategic approach to on-site sampling

 

Features

A plastic ocean: Behind the lens

While making the ground-breaking documentary &l...

 

Geonews

Plastics in the hydrosphere

Jessica Hickie & Fiona Tovey report on the plastic crisis from the perspectives of both geoscientists and non-geoscientists

 

People

Get the picture?

Nina Morgan on Marie Stopes, a formidable force in palaeobotany

 

It’s a 10 from Len!

It's a 10 from Len for Remember a Charity Week

 

Books & Arts

Plastic Soup: An Atlas of Ocean Pollution

The potential usefulness of plastics (synthetic...

 

Symphony in C: Carbon and the Evolution of (Almost) Everything

At school we learnt that carbon is element 6 in...

 

Cratonic Basin Formation: A Case Study of the Parnaiba Basin of Brazil

Cratonic basins—those large, roughly circ...

 

A Code for Geoscientific Fieldwork in Africa

Fieldwork has always been an important part of ...

 

Making Eden: How Plants Transformed a Barren Planet

Many readers will be aware of the popular 2012 ...

 

Rockslides and Rock Avalanches of Central Asia

The mountain ranges of Central Asia, encompassi...

 

Geology of National Parks of Central/Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania

The East African Rift Valley contains some of t...

 

Obituaries

Herbert Basil Sutton Cooke (1915-2018)

A geoscientist of international repute with str...

 

Daniel Francis Merriam 1927-2017

Pioneer of mathematical geology and an authorit...