The Life and Work of Professor J.W. Gregory FRS (1864-1932): Geologist, Writer and Explorer
>Gregory’s remarkable career and his scientific work are detailed and critically assessed. Accounts of his heroic 1893 expedition to the Rift Valley (a term he coined) in Kenya (now the Gregory Rift), his first crossing of Spitzbergen, and his resignation as Leader of the first British Antarctic Expedition of 1901, when racing to the Pole under Scott became the priority, draw on unpublished letters.
Military Aspects of Hydrogeology
This book contains 20 papers from authors in the UK, USA, Germany and Austria. Historically, it gives examples of the influence of groundwater on battlefield tactics and fortress construction; describes how groundwater was developed for water supply and overcome as an obstacle to military engineering and cross-country vehicular movement by both sides in World Wars I and II; and culminates with examples of the application of hydrogeology to site boreholes in recent conflicts, notably in Afghanistan.
Now out: HoGG publication on Geology and Medicine
The historical links between Geology and Medicine are surprisingly numerous and diverse. This, the first ever volume dedicated to the subject, contains contributions from an international authorship of geologists, historians and medical professionals.
Strata: The Remarkable Life Story of William Smith, the Father of English Geology – John L Morton
William Smith was the first man to realise that rock strata extended right across the country – that fossils found in Dorset were the same as those in Yorkshire because the rocks were of the same age. In 1797, he drew up a list of twenty-eight rock strata beneath the town of Bath from the […]
King of Siluria: How Roderick Murchison Changed the Face of Geology – John L Morton
From joining The Geological Society in 1825, Roderick Impey Murchison became its President only seven years later! He went about his investigation of older rocks in Wales and Eastern Europe with boundless energy and was the first to differentiate and name the Silurian, Devonian and Permian periods of geological time. After extensive research, John L. […]
Strata: The Remarkable Life Story of William Smith, the Father of English Geology – John L Morton
William Smith was the first man to realise that rock strata extended right across the country – that fossils found in Dorset were the same as those in Yorkshire because the rocks were of the same age. In 1797, he drew up a list of twenty-eight rock strata beneath the town of Bath from the […]
King of Siluria: How Roderick Murchison Changed the Face of Geology – John L Morton
From joining The Geological Society in 1825, Roderick Impey Murchison became its President only seven years later! He went about his investigation of older rocks in Wales and Eastern Europe with boundless energy and was the first to differentiate and name the Silurian, Devonian and Permian periods of geological time. After extensive research, John L. […]
The Making of the Geological Society of London – CLE Lewis and SJ Knell (eds), 2009.
Founded in 1807, the Geological Society of London became the world’s first learned society devoted to the Earth sciences.
Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building: The Legacy of Peach and Horne – R D Law, R W H Butler, R E Holdsworth, M Krabbendam and R A Strachan, 2010.
The world’s mountain ranges are the clearest manifestations of long-term deformation of the continental crust.
Dinosaurs and Other Extinct Saurians: A Historical Perspective – R T J Moody, E Buffetaut, D Naish and D M Martill (eds), 2010.
The papers in this collection go beyond the familiar tales about famous ‘fossil hunters’ and focus on relatively little-known episodes in the discovery and interpretation (from both a scientific and an artistic point of view) of dinosaurs and other inhabitants of the Mesozoic world.