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Library Book Sale – Spring 2018 the Following Items Are Available to Purchase. Postage & Packaging Will Be Added to the Co Geological Society of London Library Burlington House, Piccadilly, LONDON W1J 0BG e-mail: [email protected] Library Book Sale – Spring 2018 The following items are available to purchase. Postage & Packaging will be added to the cost of the items purchased, unless collected from the Library. We accept payment by cheque or card, or cash if collecting from the Library. Pre-payment will be required from non-members. E-mail [email protected] to order/check availability. Items are second-hand unless otherwise stated. Items marked Ex-Library copy will have library stamps/markings. • General Titles • JAPEC Course Notes • British Geological Survey Memoir series • British Regional Geology series • GeoArabia • Geologists’ Association guides • Geological Society of America Special Papers • International Geological Congress publications • Notes et mémoires. Compagnie Franç aise des pétroles • SEPM CD-Roms General Titles 1. Accretion and evolution of an Archaean high-grade grey gneiss-amphibolite complex: the Fiskefjord area, southern west Greenland / A.A. Garde (Geology of Greenland Survey Bulletin 177) Copenhagen: Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, 1997 Sale Price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy) 2. Actes du Colloque International sur les Correlations du Precambrian, Agadir, Rabat, 3 – 23 Mai, 1970 (Notes et Memoires du Service Geologique No. 236) Rabat: Editions du Service Geologique du Maroc, 1972) Sale Price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy) 3. AD 1995: NW Europe’s hydrocarbon industry / K.W. Glennie & A. Hurst, eds. London: The Geological Society, 1996 Sale Price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy) GSL Library Book Sale – Page 1 of 42 4. Advances in physical geochemistry Volume 2 / S.K. Saxena, ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1982 Sale Price: £3.00 (Ex-Library copy) 5. Advances in reservoir geology / M. Ashton, ed. (Geological Society Special Publication 69) London: Geological Society, 1993 Sale Price: £5.00 6. Afrique occidentale: Socle précambrien et Zones mobiles / G. Choubert & A. Faure-Muret (extract from Tectonique de l’Afrique. Unesco 1971, Sciences de la terre no. 6) Sale price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy) 7. Age and isotope studies on the arena granites of S.W. Uganda / V.E. Vernon-Chamberlain & N.J. Snelling + A comparison of the ages of granites of S.W. Uganda with those of the Kibaran of central Shaba (Katanga), Rep. Zaire, with some new isotopic and petrogenetical data / L. Cahen et al. (Annales Musee Royal de l’Afrique Centrale No. 73) Tervuren: Musee Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, 1972 Sale Price: £15.00 (Ex-Library copy) 8. Amphiboles and other hydrous pyriboles – mineralogy / D.R.Veblen, ed. (Reviews in Mineralogy Volume 9A) Washington, D.C.: Mineralogical Society of America, 1981 Sale Price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy) 9. The analysis of surface subsidence resulting from gas production in the Groningen area, the Netherlands / J. van Kesteren et al. (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Nederlands geologisch mijnbouwkundig Genootschap Deel 28) [S.l.]:[S.n], 1973 Sale Price: £10.00 (Ex-Library copy) 10. Anti-Atlas Occidental et Central / G. Choubert & A. Fauvre-Muret (Notes et Memoires du Service Geologique No. 229) Rabat: Editions du Service Geologique du Maroc, 1970 Sale Price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy; cover loose) 11. Applied geophysics / W.M. Telford et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976 Sale Price: £10.00 12. The Archaean Limpopo granulite belt: tectonics and deep crustal processes / D.D. van Reenen et al., eds. (Precambrian Research Vol 55 Nos 1-4) Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1992 Sale Price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy) 13. Archaeocyatha Volume 1 (Second edition revised and enlarged) / C. Teichert et al., eds. (Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part E) Boulder: Geological Society of America, 1972 Sale Price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy) 14. The archaeological and forensic applications of microfossils: a deeper understanding of human history / M. Williams et al., eds. (Micropalaeontological Society Special Publication) London: The Geological Society, 2017 Sale Price: £40.00 (Mint condition) 15. Artificial recharge of the London basin I: hydrogeology Reading: Water Resources Board, 1972 Sale Price: £30.00 (incl. 6 folded col. Plates of maps) GSL Library Book Sale – Page 2 of 42 16. Artificial recharge of the London basin II: electrical analogue model studies Reading: Water Resources Board, 1973 Sale Price: £10.00 17. Artificial recharge of the London basin III: economic and engineering desk studies Reading: Water Resources Board, 1974 Sale Price: £10.00 18. Artificial recharge of the London basin IV: pilot recharge works in the Lee Valley Reading: Water Resources Board, 1974 Sale Price: £10.00 19. Art, science and human progress: the Richard Bradford Trust Lectures given between 1975 and 1978 under the auspices of the Royal Institution / R.B. McConnell, ed. London: John Murray, 1983 Sale Price: £5.00 (Signed by the editor) 20. Aspects of applied hydrogeology in the Middle East (Papers from the meeting of the Hydrogeological Group at Burlington House 26 June 1980) AND Membranes in Ground Engineering (Papers from the meeting of the Engineering Group held at Burlington House on 10 February 1981) (Quaterly Journal of Engineering Geology Volume 15 1982) London: The Geological Society, 1982 Sale Price: £10.00 (Ex-Library copy) 21. Attrition tests of British road-stones / E.J. Lovegrove London: HMSO, 1929 Sale Price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy) 22. A bibliography of the geology & geomorphology of Cumbria / R. A. Smith The Cumberland Geological Society, 1974 Sale Price: £5.00 23. Bibliography and index of the geology of west Malaysia and Singapore / D.J. Gobbett (Bulletin Geological Society of Malaysia No. 2) Kuala Lumpur: Kesatuan Kajibumi Malaysia, 1968 Sale Price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy) 24. Bibliography on Himalayan geology part 1: bibliography / S. K. Kapoor, D. K. Bhattacharya, A. R. Chakravarty & Namita De comps. (Geological Survey of India Miscellaneous Publication No. 28) Geological Survey of India, 1976 Sale price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy) 25. Biological and geological perspectives of dinoflagellates / J.M. Lewis et al., eds. London: The Geological Society, 2013 Sale Price: £25.00 (Ex-Library copy) 26. Carbonates intertropicaux: actes de la Reunion specialisee de la Societe geologique de France, 3 et 4 mai 1993, en hommage au Professeur Gabriel Lucas Paris: Societe Geologique de France, 1993 Sale Price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy) 27. Caribbean geological investigations / H.H. Hess et al., eds. (Memoir Geological Society of America 98) New York: Geological Society of America, 1966 Sale Price: £25.00 (Ex-Library copy; contains three geological maps: Santo Domingo, St Croix and Eastern Carabobo, Venezuela) GSL Library Book Sale – Page 3 of 42 28. Caribbean geophysical, tectonic and petrologic studies / T.W. Donnelly, ed. (Memoir Geological Society of America 130) Boulder, CO.: Geological Society of America, 1971 Sale Price: £10.00 (Ex-Library copy) 29. A catalogue of specimens deposited in the palaeontological collections of the British Geological Survey: 11. Kimmeridgian and Portlandian (Late Jurassic) Ostracoda / I.P. Wilkinson Keyworth: British Geological Survey, 2008 Sale Price: £3.00 (Ex-Library copy; printed copy in plastic binding) 30. A century in oil: the “Shell” Transport and Trading Company 1897 – 1997 / S. Howarth London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997 Sale Price: £10.00 31. The chalk aquifer of the North Downs / B.Adams, ed. (British Geological Survey Research Report RR/08/02) Keyworth: British Geological Survey, 2008 Sale Price: £10.00 (Ex-Library copy) 32. The chalk aquifer of the South Downs / H. K. Jones & N. S. Robins eds. (British Geological Survey Hydrogeological Report Series) Keyworth: British Geological Survey, 1999 Sale Price: £10.00 33. The chalk aquifer system of Lincolnshire / E.J. Whitehead & A.R. Lawrence (British Geological Survey Research Report RR/06/03) Keyworth: British Geological Survey, 2006 Sale Price: £10.00 (Ex-Library copy) 34. The chalk aquifer of Yorkshire / I. N. Gale & H. K. Rutter eds. (British Geological Survey Research Report RR/06/04) Keyworth: British Geological Survey, 2006 Sale Price: £20.00 35. Challenges to chemical geology: abstracts of the 10th Meeting of Association of European Geological Societies / M. Novak et al., eds. (Journal of the Czech Geological Society Vol. 42 No.3) Prague: Czech Geological Society, 1997 Sale Price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy) 36. The complete ISRM suggested methods for rock characterization, testing and monitoring: 1974-2006 / R. Ulusay & J.A. Hudson, eds. [s.l.]: Commission on Testing Methods, International Society for Rock Mechanics, 2007 Sale Price: £40.00 37. Contribution a l’etude des Echinides fossils du Maroc (Jurassique et Cretace) / M-L Petitot (Notes et Memoires du Service Geologique no. 146) Rabat: Editions du Service Geologique du Maroc, 1959 Sale Price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy) 38. A correlation of Triassic rocks in the British Isles / G. Warrington et al. (Geological Society Special Report 13) London: The Geological Society, 1980 Sale Price: £10.00 39. Curbing catastrophe: natural hazards and risk reduction in the modern world / T.H. Dixon Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017 Sale Price: £10.00 (Mint condition) GSL Library Book Sale – Page 4 of 42 40. Dating the past: an introduction to geochronology / F.E. Zeuner London: Methuen & Co., 1946 Sale Price: £10.00 (Ex-Library copy) 41. Deep geology of the Midland Valley of Scotland and adjacent regions. Bicentenary symposium (Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Earth Sciences Vol. 75 Part 2) Edinburgh: Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1984 Sale Price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy) 42. Deltaic sedimentation: modern and ancient / J.P. Morgan, ed. (SEPM Special Publication 15) Tulsa: SEPM, 1970 Sale Price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy) 43. Description du sondage de Dekese / L. Cahen et al. (Annales du Musee Royal du Congo Belge Vol. 34) Tervuren: Musee Royal du Congo Belge, 1960 Sale Price: £15.00 (Ex-Library copy) 44. The Devonian-carboniferous boundary / E. Paproth & M. Streel eds. (Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 67) Frankfurt: Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft, 1984 Sale Price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy) 45.
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