Geoffrey Walton led a distinguished career as a mining geologist and geotechnical engineer in the extractive industry. He founded two independent geo-consultancy...
A quarter of all properties across Great Britian sit above an abandoned coalfield. The water in these flooded old coal mines could potentially be used...
Many academic books tend to be either highly specialised and advanced or elementary and focused on fundamentals, rarely achieving a balance between the...
If readers will forgive the pun, eustasy—the study of global sea-level change—has had its ups and downs in geoscientific thinking, particularly in...
A layperson might be surprised to learn that the rocks at outcrop and in the subsurface of the Arabian Peninsula contain palaeontological riches....
When Worlds Quake takes readers on a fascinating journey through the world of earthquakes, from the basics of seismology and calculating magnitude to...
I once saw a slogan on a T-Shirt that read “Buy land—they don’t make it anymore”. That phrase still resonates with me years later and feels...
Understanding the polar regions is becoming increasingly important with the current trends of polar ice melting and sea level rise. In addition to their...
