Tag Archives: fossils

Publishing maps: a cautionary tale

Posted on March 4, 2013 by

Visitors to the building may notice an addition to the Lower Library – a display about the fortunes and misfortunes of one the UK’s most famous geologists never to be a Fellow, William Smith. Smith’s most celebrated achievement, the first … Continue reading →

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A tale of three meetings

Posted on December 13, 2012 by

The Geological Society’s meeting room has changed a lot in the last century. Until a refurb in the seventies, it looked very much how it had done for most of its life – raked rows of benches standing opposite each … Continue reading →

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Murchison’s Peacetime Map of Siluria

Posted on November 19, 2012 by

Sir Roderick Impey Murchison spent much of the early 1830s stomping round Wales and the West Midlands immersed in an oceanic world of metre-long sea scorpions. A world which later gave rise to both leeches and creatures with backbones.  Above the … Continue reading →

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Earth Science Week 2012 – Palaeocast

Posted on October 19, 2012 by

There’s a huge range of career options for Earth scientists, from academia to communications. All week, in honour of Earth Science Week, we’ve been featuring geologists who have taken their careers in more unusual directions. In our final blog, we … Continue reading →

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Balancing act

Posted on May 30, 2012 by

Sarah Day visits the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival and meets local artist Adrian Gray, whose amazing stone balancing sculptures have audiences on the beach enthralled. Originally published in Geoscientist Online, 30 May 2012 ‘Balance is intuitive. You have to stop … Continue reading →

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Survivors: Nature’s indestructible creatures

Posted on January 23, 2012 by

An ex – President of the Geological Society is bound to be one of the survivors. But starting on Tuesday 24th at 9  p.m. I am fronting a BBC4 series about different kinds of survivors – animals and plants whose … Continue reading →

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All in a whorl

Posted on December 13, 2011 by

We knew we were in for it when we chose a picture library image of an unidentified ammonite for the cover of the November issue of Geoscientist.  So far reactions have been of two kinds – compliments on the graphic … Continue reading →

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What a carve-up!

Posted on November 3, 2011 by

Not far from Burlington House stands Economist Plaza, home to the famous magazine of that name, and known to architects as the first building in the UK to be faced with the Portland Roach.  That’s the limestone full of distinctive hollows … Continue reading →

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Earth Science Week 2011 – Fossil map of the UK

Posted on October 10, 2011 by

The UK’s first Earth Science Week begins today! Earth Science Week has been happening in the USA annually since 1998, organised by the American Geological Institute, and we’re very pleased to host the first UK week alongside.

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