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Chemical Physical and Temporal Evolution of Magmatic Systems, SP422, reviewed by Mark Griffin
Science and the City: The Mechanics behind the Metropolis, reviewed by Andrew Robinson
Mineral Resources, Economics and the Environment, reviewed by Carla Leanne Washbourne
Volcano Discoveries - A Photographic Journey around the World, reviewed by Kevin Privett
A Revised Correlation of Tertiary Rocks in the British Isles and adjacent areas of NW Europe, reviewed by Allan Falk
Arsenic: Environmental Geochemistry, Mineralogy, and Microbiology, reviewed by Simon Jowitt
Tertiary Deep-Marine Reservoirs of the North Sea Region, reviewed by Mike Bowman
Chemical Fundamentals of Geology and Environmental Geoscience, reviewed by Mark Griffin
They Do Things Differently There, reviewed by Arthur Tingley
Precambrian Basins of India: Stratigraphic and Tectonic Context, reviewed by Pete Webb
World Mineral Production 2008 – 2012 Centenary Edition reviewed by Peter Wormald
The Invention of Nature - adventures of Alexander von Humboldt by Andrea Wulf, reviewed by Ted Nield
Volcanism & Global Environmental Change by Schmidt et al., reviewed by Sabina Michnowicz
Building Stones & Stone Buildings of Staffordshire by Floyd, reviewed by Gordon Neighbour
Dolaucothi Gold - a vision revisited, & The Dolaucothi Gold Mines by Isaac et al., reviewed by Steve Cribb
Geodiversity - valuing and conserving abiotic nature by Murray Gray, reviewed by Jonathan Larwood
On the Edge - coastlines of Britain by Robert Duck, reviewed by James Montgomery
Upstream Petroleum by Kasriel & Wood, reviewed by Stephen Crabtree
Beyond Governments by Rich & Moberg, reviewed by Richard Haworth
Lost Antarctica: adventures in a disappearing land by James McClintock, reviewed by Dave Brook
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