Mercian Geologist v17 (2)

Mercian Geologist - Volume 17 part 2 Contact the Secretary

This publication includes the following -

Front cover: A newly cleared exposure alongside the railway at Colwick Woods, Near Nottingham, with inter-bedded red shales and siltstones of the Gunthorpe Formation, part of the Triassic Mercia Mudstone Group.

Contents
Profile - Tim Colman
From the Archives
Geobrowser
The Record

Jonathan D.Radley
The geological evolution of Warwickshire

Michael J.Czajkowski
Amber from the Baltic

Trevor D. Ford and Bernard O'Connor
A vanished industry: coprolite mining

Christopher J. Duffin
Records of warfare...embalmed in the everlasting hills: a history of early coprolite research

Peter Worsley
The physical geology of beavers

Reports
Members' Evening, 2008
Nottingham's Castle Rock: Tony Waltham
Nag's Head caves: Tony Waltham
Cave rock fall: Tony Waltham & Chris Rayner
Great Fen Project: Tony Waltham
Wollaton Hall Museum: Neil Turner
Lecture - Salt terrains in Iran: Tony Waltham
Crags of Sutton Knoll: Richard Hamblin
Book Reviews

Supplement
Geological Setting of the Lead Mines in Lathkill Dale and the Wye Valley by Trevor D. Ford