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• Anonymous referees August 2006
• Change of Geology Today’s editor December 2003
• Protecting your intellectual property December 2003

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• Books - Some old habits die hard February 2003
• Review of 2002 January 2003

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Web Resources

• Must-have mineral site January 2007
• Write about your favourite fossil November 2006
• Threatening Earth October 2006
• Breathing life into ‘Snowball Earth’ April 2006
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• The Digital earth revolution March 2006
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• Dinosaurs galore August 2003
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• Astronauts’ snaps June 2003
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• “Greenhouse” gas website April 2003
• Digital library of educational web sites March 2003
• Devonian art March 2003
• Frightened by impacts? February 2003
• Volcano Webcams January 2003
• United States geological database January 2003
• Landsat images as art January 2003
• Climate change data from satelites December 2002
• Florida Department of Environmental Protection November 2002

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Anthropology and Geoarchaeology

• A Cretaceous Ice Age? March 2008
• Holocene cold spell and glacial lake burst March 2008
• Neanderthals more ‘human’ than once thought January 2008
• Is human evolution speeding up? January 2008
• Now we can celebrate the ‘Hobbits’! November 2007
• When and where ‘culture’ began November 2007
• Migrations summarised November 2007
• The long reach of the Neanderthals November 2007
• Physiognomy and human origins September 2007
• Earliest gorilla tags hominoid phylogeny September 2007
• Upright posture far older than hominins? July 2007
• No interbreeding with Neanderthals July 2007
• Magmatic link to the Palaeocene-Eocene warming July 2007
• Whizz-bang view of Younger Dryas July 2007
• Do Neanderthals sit next to us on the train? May 2007
• More primate genes May 2007
• Out of Africa, with an ulcer March 2007
• Neanderthal genome on the cards January 2007
• The diet of robust australopithecines January 2007
• Back to Africa January 2007
• ‘Peace’ (Selam) disturbed October 2006
• Drying East Africa October 2006
• Asian migrations reviewed October 2006
• Out of Africa and back again? August 2006
• Implications of a mismatch between hominin genes and bones June 2006
• Hobbit Matters
• Hominid evolution: a line or a bush? May 2006
• Palaeodentistry May 2006
• Climate change and collapse of early civilisations March 2006
• Culture and Himan Evolution January 2006
• Earliest tourism in northern Europe January 2006
• Biogeochemical evidence for vegetation change when hominins evolved January 2006
• The geological sources of myths December 2005
• Growing evidence for ‘hobbits’ November 2005
• Congenital disease, human migration and population growth November 2005
• Climate change and human evolution Octobor 2005
• Has human evolution stopped? August 2005
• Caring among the Erects May 2005
• Changing the World May 2005
• Did the earliest agriculture kick-start global warming April 2005
• The oldest modern humans February 2005
• Did the earliest agriculture kick-start global warming February 2005
• Interbreeding: louse study leads to head scratching January 2005
• Jared Diamond on the Flores “hobbits” December 2004
• Something to chew over November 2004
• A discovery that will run and run? November 2004
• Neanderthals vs moderns: how come we won? November 2004
• The perils of genealogy October 2004
• Anthropological nit picking October 2004
• The little people of Flores, Indonesia October 2004
• The earliest granny factor September 2004
• Black Sea flooding put to test September 2004
• Kennewick Man may not be re-interred February 2004
• Rationalising radiocarbon dating January 2004
• Recognition of African contributions to palaeoanthropology October 2003
• The “Big Daddy” theory of human evolution! October 2003
• Rasta man July 2003
• Elderly South African Australopithecines June 2003
• Tracking migrations with language June 2003
• Ancestral lines squashed? May 2003
• Walking with Slade May 2003
• A genetic key to human evolution? May 2003
• Gut bacteria and human migration April 2003
• Neanderthal review April 2003
• The first volcanologists? April 2003
• Darwinian evolution of humans challenged by Y-chromosome data? March 2003
• Young age for “Mungo Man” March 2003
• More pondering on new discoveries February 2003
• The man who found the oldest hominid January 2003
• Central Asian Y chromosomes and the source of migrating humans December 2002
• Is evolution predisposed to intelligent beings? December 2002
• A considered view November 2002
• Kennewick Man freed for research October 2002
• Protocol wars September 2002
• Bonanza time for Bonzo August 2002
• Nut-cracking chimps provide clues to the origin of tools June 2002
• Homo erectus unification? March 2002
• Taking stock of hominid evolution Febuary 2002
• Fate of the Neaderthals November 2001
• Late Pleistocene mass extinction June 2001
• Far-Eastern control on African climate and hominid evolution May 2001
• Multiregionalists nailed by Y chromosome? May 2001
• Java girl April 2001
• Impacts and human evolution April 2001
• New human evolution web site April 2001
• Skulduggery, migration and confusion March 2001
• Human genome "snips" and our evolution Feb 2001
• Out of Africa hypothesis confounded? Jan 2001
• Discovery of huge primate buttock print Dec 2000
• More molecular evidence for Cro-Magnon migration into Europe Dec 2000
• Human Migration and Sea Food

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Climate Change and Palaeoclimatology

• Neoproterozoic climate modelling supports a ‘slushball’ Earth January 2008
• Some good news about carbon burial January 2008
• Cyclicity of Neoproterozoic glacial epochs September 2007
• An early Greenland ice cap May 2007
• Climate change and the penguin March 2007
• Clear signs of a north-south climatic linkage January 2007
• Calibrating the deepest ice core November 2006
• Balmy shores of the Precambrian November 2006
• Another blow for ‘Snowball Earth’ October 2006
• Pliocene climate and a lesson for the near future? August 2006
• The Younger Dryas and the Flood June 2006
• Yet further back in the Antarctic ice December 2005
• Milankovich forcing and Early Jurassic methane
• Climate and the end-Permian extinction
• Documenting the Palaeogene transition from ‘hothouse’ to ‘icehouse’ August 2005
• Tracking ocean circulation during the last glacial period May 2005
• Snowball Earth gets a boost May 2005
• Making sense of glacial-interglacial cycles? April 2005
• Warming may have triggered Northern Hemisphere glaciation February 2005
• And was there a mighty wind? January 2005
• Torrid times in the Cretaceous Arctic December 2004
• Update on the "Snowball" November 2004
• How often did it rain? September 2004
• Details of the last interglacial climate September 2004
• For and against “Snowball Earth” September 2004
• Influence of continental weathering on climate boosted February 2004
• Collapse of the continental margin and methane release January 2004
• Super-eruptions and climate January 2004
• High- and low-latitude climate changes almost match October 2003
• “Greenhouse” controls challenged October 2003
• Precambrian CO₂ levels October 2003
• Iron isotopes and ocean evolution August 2003
• The gas-hydrate “gun” July 2003
• Red Sea record links to northern hemisphere climate July 2003
• Broecker reviews climate triggers July 2003
• No glacial refugia in the Amazon Basin? May 2003
• Antarctic melting and northern hemisphere deglaciation April 2003
• When did southern Tibet get so high? March 2003
• Precambrian warmth and methane March 2003
• El Niño in the Eocene March 2003
• How patterned ground forms February 2003
• Freezing the Antarctic February 2003
• Hair trigger for gas hydrates January 2003
• Snowball Earth hypothesis challenged, again December 2002
• Post-apocalypse weathering in the Early Triassic December 2002
• Africa’s first ice core record November 2002
• Reviews of climate and the hydrological cycle October 2002
• Alaskan source proposed for end-Palaeocene warming October 2002
• Long-range forecast: a prolonged interglacial September 2002
• Analogue of Archaean carbon cycle in Black Sea reefs September 2002
• Glacial floods and climate change June 2002
• The Hadean was cool June 2002
• Prolonged Cretaceous hothouse March 2001
• Review of thermohaline circulation February 2001
• Meltdown for Snowball Earth? January 2002
• Strontium load of Himalayan rivers November 2001
• Climate and heavy breathing June 2001
• Carbonates and biofilms June 2001
• Phanerozoic CO₂ levels May 2001
• Methane and escape from Snowball Earth May 2001
• Plant respiration and climate May 2001
• The start of North Atlantic Deep Water formation April 2001
• Astrology and ice April 2001
• Start of Pleistocene environmental change in tropical Africa April 2001
• A Late-Jurassic methane gun April 2001
• Mantle overturn and oxygenation of the atmosphere March 2001
• Siberian role in climate change? Jan 2001
• Mismatches from north to south proven Jan 2001
• Role for tropical weather in last glacial epoch Dec 2000
• No escape from global warming? Nov 2000
• The nudge of noise Nov 2000
• Plankton and the end of the Palaeocene-Eocene global warming Nov 2000
• A new regular pulse in recent climate Nov 2000
• News from the South Nov 2000
• Ups and downs of the "greenhouse" effect Nov 2000
• Milankovic forcing flawed?
• Another nail in the coffin for fossil fuels
• Methane hydrate - more evidence for the 'greenhouse' time bomb
• Silica as a control over atmospheric CO₂ levels

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Economic and Applied Geology

• Hydrocarbons from the mantle: was Gold right? March 2008
• Monster C-isotope excursion dated September 2007
• More on earliest signs of Earthly life thwarts Mars fans September 2007
• Trilobite evolution more rapid among the most variable species September 2007
• And now, the sea anemone genome... September 2007
• The return of the Malthusians July 2007
• Deep-sea mining July 2007
• Review of energy issues March 2007
• Gold rush November 2006
• The gold bugs defence October 2006
• How the Amazon formed June 2006
• Exploration for water on the Moon May 2006
• Deep-sea mining to realise its promise? January 2006
• BIFs and bacteria December 2005
• Irish mineralising fluids
• Oxygen and mammalian evolution
• Did oil and gas fields form during the Precambrian? August 2005
• Two sides to reducing carbon emissions May 2005
• Drilling into the San Andreas Fault? February 2005
• Prize for solving the world arsenic crisis February 2005
• Grow your own bridge, hill or fortress November 2004
• Onshore gas hydrate reserves close to recovery February 2004
• Supergiant hydrocarbon field just leaked away December 2003
• Background to globalisation of water resources December 2003
• Titanic solution to unpalatable water August 2003
• Hydrological madness July 2003
• Water resources and bullocks June 2003
• Wars in the Congo and physical resources April 2003
• Microgravity and diamonds October 2002
• Exploration licence lepton by physicists August 2002
• Forensic geochemistry to foil "fencing" of conflict diamonds June 2002
• Slime to the rescue Dec 2000
• Rhenium fever drives miners into the volcano Nov 2000
• 20 percent more oil in the ground
• Water resources under threat

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Environmental Geology and Geohazards

• Tsunamis: is there worse to come in the Bay of Bengal? November 2007
• Signs of ancient tsunamis July 2007
• An iron age for climate engineering? July 2007
• Animals and earthquakes March 2007
• Tsunamis in the Mediterranean January 2007
• Arsenic contamination drags on January 2007
• Evidence for strain build up along faults in southern California August 2006
• Supervolcanoes August 2006
• San Francisco centenary May 2006
• Discoverer of arsenic in Bengal’s water supply speaks out April 2006
• Timely review of nuclear waste disposal April 2006
• Early warning of earthquakes December 2005
• The fluoride saga October 2005
• A tsunami’s reach October 2005
• Arsenic removal no cure August 2005
• Legendary events at the Gibraltar Straits August 2005
• Yet more Indian Ocean earthquakes? Sadly, yes April 2005
• World Conference on Disaster Reduction: words or action? January 2005
• After the tsunamis January 2005
• Bacterial reduction of arsenic contamination December 2004
• Archaeology and fluorine poisoning November 2004
• Deep-sea drilling project financed Liberian carnage December 2003
• Wildfires and uplift chronology December 2003
• Low-cost disaster monitoring from satellites October 2003
• Cosmogenic nuclides and tropical erosion August 2003
• Remote signs of earthquakes August 2003
• Arsenic threat widens August 2003
• Senile dementia and copper August 2003
• Radon emissions and earthquakes July 2003
• Long-term prediction of volcanic activity June 2003
• Modelling the duration and extent of mining contaminants June 2003
• Volcanic hazard assessment May 2003
• Letting Cameroon’s soda-pop lakes go flat March 2003
• More confusion over Bangladesh arsenic crisis December 2002
• Seismic bathymetry and Mediterranean debris flows December 2002
• Prediction of earthquake periodicity founders October 2002
• British Geological Survey sued over arsenic October 2002
• Collapsing islands March 2001
• Is volcanic eruption predictable? January 2002
• Taming Lake Nyos, Cameroon March 2001
• Giant tsunamis Nov 2000
• Danger of CO₂ release in Cameroon

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Geobiology, Palaeontology, and Evolution

• Life perked up by repeated impacts March 2008
• An old bat from Wyoming March 2008
• Last common ancestor of all the primates was a flying lemur January 2008
• Planet of the beetles January 2008
• Mammal evolution makeover January 2008
• Permian shark bites fish-biting amphibian January 2008
• Feared dinosaur probably feathered November 2007
• Robot shows how fishes walked out of water May 2007
• Ancient protein May 2007
• Ediacaran fauna reviewed May 2007
• Fossil embryos debunked? March 2007
• Microbial carbonate secretion Marhc 2007
• Our relationship with sea urchins January 2007
• Oxygen and the explosion of large, soft animals January 2007
• Global warming, sour gas and mass extinctions January 2007
• Gliding mammal of the Jurassic January 2007
• Fossil bee: the right place and the right time November 2006
• Near-pristine traces of life before Earth’s surface became oxidising August 2006
• Pocket sauropods August 2006
• A fish-quadruped missing link May 2006
• Gaia: the ultimate frontier April 2006
• Methane, methanogens and early climate control April 2006
• Faster recovery after mass extinctions March 2006
• Is the Cambrian Explosion real evidence for an evolutionary burst? March 2006
• Yet more on the end-Permian extinction January 2006
• Fig leaves over Palaeocene-Eocene boundary December 2005
• Dinosaur dung, the Deccan Trap and grass December 2005
• Clay minerals and the origin of life December 2005
• Photosynthesis during a ‘Snowball’ epoch
• New twist for end-Permian extinctions May 2005
• Evolutionary rhythms April 2005
• No graphite in Akilia apatites, no sign of life? February 2005
• Age range of early fossil treasure trove February 2005
• New predators on the Mesozoic block January 2005
• Evidence goes against end-Permian impact January 2005
• Iron isotopes enter the Archaean life debate December 2004
• Another large igneous province implicated in mass extinction December 2004
• A volcanic role in the origin of life? October 2004
• Tighter link of end-Permian extinction with Siberian Traps September 2004
• Ancient baby penis worm hits the news January 2004
• Fossil hamster’s food cache December 2003
• The selectivity of mass extinctions December 2003
• Another K-T row October 2003
• Gamma-ray bursts and mass extinctions October 2003
• Fossil oddities – a golfing trilobite and the ox-sized rodent October 2003
• Setting the fossil record to rights August 2003
• Origins of the vertebrates August 2003
• Iron and nickel in life’s origins July 2003
• Extinction at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary June 2003
• “Snowball Earth” and evolutionary diversification: Australians speak out June 2003
• Microbes showed no sign of change following a “Snowball Earth” May 2003
• Homing in on the great end-Permian extinction May 2003
• Flying feathers April 2003
• Squirrels and tectonics April 2003
• The Early Cretaceous lagerstätten of NE China March 2003
• Did terrestrial life emerge later than geochemists think? March 2003
• The chemical conditions for life February 2003
• A possible fuse for the Cambrian Explosion January 2003
• Mitochondria, oxygen toxicity and the quahog December 2002
• Land plants at the P-Tr boundary November 2002
• Dinosaurs did urinate November 2002
• Continents colonised a billion years ago November 2002
• Conodonts and late Devonian mass extinction October 2002
• The Malnourished Earth hypothesis - evolutionary stasis in the mid-Proterozoic September 2002
• Isotopic evidence for early life may be from metamorphic processes September 2002
• Rise of the dinosaurs after the Tr-J event June 2002
• Gigantic claims for "geogenomics" June 2002
• Too much iron, too little phosphorus delayed an oxygen-rich atmosphere June 2002
• And now the Tr-J boundary
• Earlier date for first suspected animals March 2002
• Extinctions by impacts: smoking artillery February 2002
• Dinosaur digest February 2002
• Extremophiles and possibilities for extraterrestrial life February 2002
• Land vertebrates snuffed at the end of the Permian
• Mesozoic fossil hunting in Madagascar
• The simplest living ecosystem January 2002
• Whizz-bang at the end of Permian November 2001
• Dinosaur update June 2001
• Doubts cast on the increase in diversity with time June 2001
• Life on Earth even luckier than we thought? May 2001
• Late-Palaeocene red tides? May 2001
• A broader view of the Permian-Triassic mass extinction May 2001
• Surviving in salt? April 2001
• Bacterial sulphides from the Archaean March 2001
• "Piltdown" bird March 2001
• Cretaceous water lilies March 2001
• When modern corals emerged March 2001
• The earliest ecosystems Feb 2001
• Buckyballs and the end-Palaeozoic extinction Feb 2001
• BSE in reverse? Feb 2001
• Cretaceous owl? Feb 2001
• China's fossil treasure house Jan 2001
• Oh Dear, another weird dinosaur! Jan 2001
• Fossil fish stole votes from Gore Dec 2000
• The undead Nov 2000
• Fish ears at the Eocene-Oligocene boundary Nov 2000
• Primordial slime Nov 2000
• Eve never met Adam Nov 2000
• End-Permian devastation of land plants Nov 2000 Nov 2000
• Molecular 'fossils' and the emergence of photosynthesis Nov 2000
• Cashing in on T. rex Nov 2000
• Carbon isotopes of individual microfossils
• Flood basalt events and mass extinctions
• Putting numbers on ecological effects
• Cretaceous beetle attack
• The Ducks of Death
• Fossil moths
• Our feathered friends
• The K-T event is back for the death of the dinosaurs
• Life Sneaked Through 'Snowball Earth'
• Quality of the Fossil Record Through Time
• Timing the End–Triassic Mass Extinction
• Delayed Biological Recovery from Mass Extinctions
• Were the Dinosaurs Fried by Ultraviolet light?
• Plant Roots Go Deeper?
• Reptile Relations

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Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology and Volcanology

• What becomes of all the sediments? March 2008
• The first whiffs of abundant oxygen November 2007
• Large-scale mantle melting and episodes of continental growth November 2007
• Non-plume model for continental flood basalts September 2007
• Pulsed formation of continental crust: support from helium May 2007
• Magmas from the mantle and recycled crust May 2007
• Breakthrough in the origin of granites March 2007
• Movement of partial melts January 2007
• Microbial alteration of oceanic crust November 2006
• Oxygen in the atmosphere: why the delay? November 2006
• Confused by radiocarbon ages? Hopefully, not anymore October 2006
• Is the idea of Hadean continental crust bunkum? October 2006
• Acasta gneiss and another old zircon May 2006
• Getting to the matter of the root May 2006
• Arc-like andesites from the ocean floor January 2006
• Sulphides in the ocean September 2004
• A “Whoops” moment for geochemists? February 2004
• Mantle and core do not mix January 2004
• Archaean sea-floor hydrothermal fluids October 2003
• Geochemistry of the vanishingly tiny June 2003
• Potassium in the core June 2003
• Silica in BIFs March 2003
• BIFs and bacteria February 2003
• Phanerozoic marine strontium record throws spanners in the works February 2003
• Water recycling in the mantle January 2003
• Changing composition of seawater December 2002
• Deep carbon cycling, and gold mineralization December 2002
• Empirical geochemistry points to continents’ role in mantle dynamics November 2002
• Detrital platinum-group grains and “plum pudding” mantle heterogeneity November 2002
• Sea level fluctuations and large igneous provinces October 2002
• Flood basalts of Siberian Traps doubled at a stroke August 2002
• Earth's earliest events
• Extraterrestrial Gases in Buckyballs

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Geomorphology

• Watermills and meanders March 2008
• Deltas of the Arctic Ocean September 2007
• Isolating Britain September 2007
• Frost shattering January 2007
• Is weathering due to the weather? November 2006
• Climate moves mountains October 2006
• Hydrogen isotopes test uplift hypotheses August 2006
• Exactly how does life shape landforms? March 2006
• Catastrophic erosion in Tibet September 2004
• Tectonics and climate, and the rate of mountain erosion January 2004
• Catastrophic floods and denudation May 2003

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Geophysics

• Deep geothermal processes March 2008
• Modelling the core August 2005
• How the core controls Earth’s magnetic field May 2005

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Planetary, Extraterrestrial Geology, and Meteoritics

• Astronomical connection for the K-T event November 2007
• Hadean diamonds September 2007
• Light element in Earth’s core likely to be silicon July 2007
• Magnetic field present for at least 3.2 billion years May 2007
• Earth-like planet in Libra? May 2007
• The tune that Earth hums March 2007
• Long-term stability of the magnetic poles November 2006
• Bad news for lunar base November 2006
• So, farewell planet Pluto… October 2006
• Accretion and core formation reviewed August 2006
• Has Dune been discovered? June 2006
• Mantle behaviour and the influence of minerals May 2006
• Puffing up the Moon April 2006
• Yet another weird world April 2006
• Zircons and early continents no longer to be sneezed at March 2006
• Vanished Martian sea or not? January 2006
• Helium and how the Earth convects January 2006
• A dialogue concerning world-shattering events
• Where do impactors come from? October 2005
• Martian methane: a bit of a blow October 2005
• Ejecta from the Sudbury impact May 2005
• Curiously low-velocity material at the core-mantle boundary (CMB) April 2005
• Plotting meteorite falls January 2005
• Mars, planet of 2004 January 2005
• Mars in Science and Nature December 2004
• Bedout end-Permian “impact” hammered October 2004
• Linking seismic tomography to chemical mantle heterogeneity October 2004
• Mars issue of Science September 2004
• The creators of worlds February 2004
• Perspective on the Moon and Mars January 2004
• Recent snowfall on Mars December 2003
• Case for Martian rainfall strengthens October 2003
• Glaciers of Mars August 2003
• Divine intervention? July 2003
• Middle Devonian extinction and impactite layer July 2003
• Chromium isotopes and Archaean impacts April 2003
• Triggering core formation at the microscopic level April 2003
• Carbon dioxide and Martian channels February 2003
• Mantle avalanches and length of the day? January 2003
• Britain's own impact December 2002
• Bizarre impact structure beneath North Sea September 2002
• Evidence builds for major impacts in Early Archaean September 2002
• Very early differentiation of planetary bodies September 2002
• Water on Mars August 2002
• Tungsten and Archaean heavy bombardment August 2002
• Early Argentines did not witness a meteorite impact June 2002
• The mantle's breath and Earth's early evolution June 2002
• A basaltic metorite, but from where? May 2002
• Interstellar carbonates and “fossils” from Mars March 2002
• Erosion on Mars May 2001
• How the Earth works: “mega-blobs” in the mantle April 2001
• Atmospheric oxygen: yet more April 2001
• Ganymede's water volcanism March 2001
• Loss of Martian atmosphere Feb 2001
• And now, Martian glaciers Feb 2001
• Pushing back the "vestige of a beginning" Jan 2001
• Early life survived lunar cataclysm Dec 2000
• More evidence for water on early Mars? Dec 2000
• Earth’s core Nov 2000
• Near-miss for Australian town
• Water on Mars June 2000
• Atmosphere linked to Earth's rotation
• A 'treasure map' for asteroids
• Not a drop
• Blind leading the blind
• Planet seen at last

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Remote Sensing

• Mapping iron minerals – on Mars September 2007
• An unfortunate mistake September 2007
• Ice age mass deficit over Canada November 2006
• Is Mars a better place to do geology? November 2006
• Detecting, mapping and understanding ancient soils November 2006
• ASTER data and earthquakes October 2006
• Mineral mapping and the history of Mars' rocks and water May 2006
• State of the art seismic imaging November 2005
• Mineral maps of Mars April 2005
• The triumph of the old on Mars April 2005
• Remote sensers now employable January 2004
• Imaging radar and WMD August 2003
• Landsat to be privatised, once more? October 2002
• Experimental satelite to have extended mission November 2001
• Mapping with geophysical data May 2001
• Hands–on planetology Jan 2001
• Petals unfolding on ASTER Dec 2000
• Geology from Orbit
• SRTM and ASTER

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Sedimentology and Stratigraphy

• Epoch, Age, Zone or Nonsense March 2008
• A shocking discovery January 2008
• Clays and the rise of an oxygenated atmosphere April 2006
• Sea level bonanza December 2005
• A record of the Palaeoproterozoic lunar cycle November 2004
• Tying down the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary November 2004
• When the Mediterranean dried up May 2003
• Biofilms and BIFs September 2002
• Hydrocarbon source rocks and ocean anoxia events March 2002
• Measuring erosion rates March 2002
• Bacteria and dolomites Jan 2001
• Unravelling Neoproterozoic environments Nov 2000
• Inglorious mudstones

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Tectonics

• Is plate tectonics a turn-on or a turn-off? March 2008
• Pacific plate about to split? March 2008
• Supercontinents of the past and future November 2007
• Lightened load speeded up India’s drift November 2007
• The oldest ophiolite May 2007
• How the asthenosphere loses its strength January 2007
• Evidence supporting mantle plumes January 2007
• Clues to Archaean tectonics October 2006
• Detection of rifting due to dyke emplacement August 2006
• Folds in the mantle June 2006
• Tibetan uplift: looking a gift horse in the mouth May 2006
• When did Tibet rise? March 2006
• Earth’s biggest ‘bull’s eye’ August 2005
• Detecting the effects of slab to wedge fluid transfer in subduction zones August 2005
• Erosion and plate tectonics May 2005
• The boys on the black stuff November 2004
• Mantle dripping off mountain roots September 2004
• Quantifying motions inside continents February 2004
• Geoscience consensus challenged December 2003
• More, or less plumes December 2003
• Wetting oceanic lithosphere October 2003
• Zircons that wander August 2003
• Setting up subduction July 2003
• Wandering hot spots July 2003
• Rodinia muddles July 2003
• Plume debates June 2003
• Hydrogeology of sea-floor cooling March 2003
• Eskola’s mantled gneiss domes revisited February 2003
• Archaean tectonics was different February 2003
• Mantle recycling January 2003
• Beowulf and mapping the mantle January 2003
• Orphan terranes and tectonic names December 2002
• Slab pull versus subduction suction November 2002
• Continental insulation at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary November 2002
• The lost world of the Galápagos hotspot track November 2002
• Cunning means of estimating uplift November 2002
• Evidence for slab break-off in subduction zones September 2002
• Seismic tomography and the African superplume August 2002
• Subduction metamorphism and earthquakes August 2002
• Continental roots August 2002
• Serpentine: the Vaseline of subduction June 2002
• Mantle motions from seismic tomography
• Continental growth and strike-slip tectonics March 2002
• New Japanese tectonics research centre February 2002
• Vertical tectonics and formation of Archaean crust February 2002
• EarthScope November 2001
• Where do subducted slabs go? June 2001
• Between a rock and a hard place June 2001
• Conferring strength to cratons May 2001
• Partially melted zones beneath Tibet May 2001
• Brazilian input to the growth of Gondwana May 2001
• The origin of microcontinental terranes April 2001
• African roots Jan 2001
• Subducted slab being torn apart Dec 2000
• Chinese crust in miraculous escape Nov 2000
• Heads or tails? Nov 2000
• The guts of a sea-floor spreading system
• Timing the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau
• Subduction
• Geodynamics
• Differential Motion in the Earth's Core

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Geological Resources and Education

• Geology on the Internet

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Ethics

• The etymology of Gaia hypothesis

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