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Geoscientist GeoscientistThe Fellowship magazine of The Geological Society of London | www.geolsoc.org.uk | Volume 21 No 1 | February 2011 COLORADO RAFTING Teaching teenagers geology in the Grand Canyon GREAT UNWASHED Primordial basalts of Baffin Island follow us on twitter ] [www.twitter.com/geoscientistmag UNDER THE VOLCANO Social volcanology on Merapi AD SPACE CONTENTS GEOSCIENTIST IN THIS ISSUE FEBRUARY 2011 FEATURES 18 ROCK, TIME & TEENAGERS Howard Lee sells himself down the river with the boy scouts of America REGULARS 05 WELCOME Your magazine has undergone 12 COVER FEATURE: MERAPI a transformation writes Editor, Ted Nield Social volcanology on the slopes of 06 SOAPBOX Nina Morgan is looking for a new Indonesia’s deadly mountain road to geological understanding 07 GEONEWS What’s new in the world of geoscientific research 10 SOCIETY NEWS What your Society is doing at home and abroad, in London and the regions 22 LETTERS We welcome your thoughts 23 BOOKS & ARTS Two new books, reviewed by Fellows 24 PEOPLE Geoscientists in the news and on the move 26 OBITUARY Two distinguished Fellows remembered 27 CALENDAR Society activities this month 09 10 29 CROSSWORD Win a Special Publication of your choice FEBRUARY 2011 03 WHEN KNOWLEDGE COUNTS... 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BY NINA MORGAN Nina Morgan* geologist, journalist, historian and creator of our Distant Thunder column, believes she has identified a new road to geological understanding – and, perhaps, of holiday strife… SOAPBOX The British Geological Survey (BGS) is in the standard familiar format with doing a great job in promoting the public geology superimposed along with the understanding of geology by making roads and place names could well be. As Soapbox is open to tremendous amounts of geological an inexpensive vehicle to promote interest contributions from all Fellows. information available free and palatably and understanding among a wide section You can always write a letter to via OpenGeoscience (www.bgs.ac.uk/ of the public at large, a geological road the Editor, of course: but opengeoscience).
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