Dear Editors, I read with interest Obscurity and notability (Geoscientist 36 (2), 10–12) and The lady of Kent’s Cavern (Geoscientist 36 (3), 22–23)...
Anthony John Barber was a Londoner, born in Purley on 10 September 1929. His childhood was disrupted by the death of his father and years in an orphanage,...
Max Edrich Barton read geology at King’s College London (1953-56), then moved to the University of Birmingham for an MSc in Quaternary studies...
Michael Kingsley Howarth was born on 21 January 1932 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. From the local grammar school, he began studying at the University of Manchester...
Why do we choose the fields that we do? Like many geoscientists, I was drawn in by a love of the outdoors, and a drive to better understand the landscapes...
By the 1870’s, much of the world’s coastlines and shallow depths significant to safe navigation of ships had been charted, but almost nothing...
Board games could offer a way to teach children about natural hazards and disaster preparedness, according to research into a new disaster education resource. ...
James Hutton’s ideas about deep time are difficult to grasp: how do we begin to imagine spans of time so vast that even the age of human civilisation...
