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How Computer Models Can Integrate Field and Borehole Data to Create Regional Models of Physical Properties SCIENTISTu u GEO VOLUME 27 NO 4 May 2016 WWW.GEOLSOC.ORG.UK/GEOSCIENTIST The Fellowship Magazine of the Geological Society of London UK / Overseas where sold to individuals: £3.95 FIELDWORK & NEW TECHNOLOGY ] [Access & Engagement Special Predicting the subsurface How computer models can integrate field and borehole data to create regional models of physical properties ONLINE SPECIAL: WILLIAM SMITH FIELDWORK & DISABILITY SPANISH GEOLOGY DAYS Two hundred years of geo-modelling Reduced mobility widens one Fieldwork provides the spur celebrated at IAMG17, Freiberg geologist’s horizons to popular outreach Petroleum Group Annual Dinner 2016 Last Dinosaur Dinner Natural History Museum 23rd June 2016 For further information or to book a table for this event, please contact [email protected] GEOSCIENTIST CONTENTS 16 21 10 24 FEATURES 18 GEOLODÍA! IN THIS ISSUE... Ana Maria Alonso-Zarza on Spain’s hugely successful field-based outreach programme ‘Geology day’ REGULARS 05 Welcome Ted Nield believes the debate about fieldwork in geology becomes too easily polarised – and this issue is proof 06 Soapbox Martin Carruthers asks – do we ‘need’ field work because we really need it or because we enjoy it? 10 Society news What your Society is doing at home and ON THE COVER: abroad, in London and the regions 10 White Horse 21 Letters Is field experience really that important to the The Westbury or Bratton White Horse, hydrocarbon industry? on the escarpment of Salisbury Plain, 22 Books and arts Four new books reviewed by Nathan Allen, east of Westbury, England Colin Summerhayes, Mark Griffin and Ted Nield 24 People Geoscientists in the news and on the move 26 Obituary Alec Kenyon-Smith 1932-2015 William Smith, and 200 years of NLINE geo-modelling, celebrated by the 27 Calendar Society activities this month International Association for SPECIALS Mathematical Geology (IAMG) 28 Obituary Albert Ludford 1913-2016 29 Crossword Win a special publication of your choice WWW.GEOLSOC.ORG.UK/GEOSCIENTIST | MAY 2016 | 03 FUGRO TECHNICAL COURSES Cone Penetration Testing (FREE) Wednesday 18th May 2016 – Glasgow Thursday 19th May 2016 – Newcastle Friday 24th June 2016 – Wallingford Friday 14th October 2016 – Bristol Friday 18th November 2016 – Wallingford Friday 16th December 2016 – Manchester Soil and Rock Logging Course by First Steps Ltd (£275 + VAT) Wednesday 13th April 2016 – Wallingford Wednesday 11th May 2016 – Wallingford Wednesday 6th July 2016 – Wallingford Physical Hydrogeology Course by First Steps Ltd (£275 + VAT) Wednesday 27th April 2016 – Wallingford Wednesday 28th September 2016 – Wallingford To apply for a place To apply for the Soil & Rock on the CPT Course Logging and Physical email to s.poulter@ Hydrogeology Courses fugro.com please book online at www.firststeps-geo.co.uk/ course-calendar 04 | MAY 2016 | WWW.GEOLSOC.ORG.UK/GEOSCIENTIST GEOSCIENTIST WELCOME Geoscientist is the ADVERTISING SALES ~ Fellowship magazine of Ollie Kirkman WORK MUST BE DONE BY PEOPLE, PEOPLE HAVE TO LIVE, the Geological Society T 01727 739 184 of London E ollie@centuryone AND IT IS NOT BY (OR FOR) BREAD ALONE THAT WE DO IT publishing.uk Front cover image: Alan Jeffery/Shutterstock.com. All rights reserved. 2016 The Geological Society, ~ Burlington House, Piccadilly, ART EDITOR London W1J 0BG Heena Gudka T +44 (0)20 7434 9944 F +44 (0)20 7439 8975 DESIGN & PRODUCTION E [email protected] Jonathan Coke (Not for Editorial - Please contact the Editor) PRINTED BY Century One Publishing House Publishing Ltd. The Geological Society Publishing House, Unit 7, Copyright Brassmill Enterprise Centre, The Geological Society of Brassmill Lane, Bath London is a Registered BA1 3JN Charity, number 210161. T 01225 445046 ISSN (print) 0961-5628 F 01225 442836 ISSN (online) 2045-1784 Library The Geological Society of London FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK: T +44 (0)20 7432 0999 accepts no responsibility for the views F +44 (0)20 7439 3470 expressed in any article in this publication. All views expressed, except E [email protected] where explicitly stated otherwise, represent those of the author, and not EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The Geological Society of London. All Field versus mouse rights reserved. No paragraph of this Professor Peter Styles publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written EDITOR permission. Users registered with Dr Ted Nield Copyright Clearance Center: the Journal is registered with CCC, 27 Congress his magazine is no (Feature). It expands, rather than E [email protected] Street, Salem, MA 01970, USA. 0961- 5628/02/$15.00. Every effort has been stranger to arguments restricts, the ways we as individuals, EDITORIAL BOARD made to trace copyright holders of about fieldwork. Little and as groups, can experience the Dr Sue Bowler material in this publication. If any rights have been seems to push our readers’ natural world (Soapbox). We need Mr Steve Branch omitted, the publishers offer their Dr Robin Cocks apologies. buttons more effectively both. Enthusiasm for one does not Prof. Tony Harris T than a perceived threat to the mean denying the other. Using Dr Howard Falcon-Lang No responsibility is assumed by the Publisher for any injury and/or damage Dr Jonathan Turner to persons or property as a matter of primacy of looking at rocks, in the virtual technology, the better to Dr Jan Zalasiewicz products liability, negligence or field – ‘the geologist’s laboratory’. assimilate real data, is not equivalent otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions Anyone daring to suggest that to walking blindly through life with Trustees of the or ideas contained in the material Geological Society herein. Although all advertising material (perhaps) fieldwork might have had your nose in an iPhone. (At least, not of London is expected to conform to ethical Prof David Manning (medical) standards, inclusion in this its day, or is no longer attractive, unless you let it.) publication does not constitute a (President); Mrs Natalyn Ala guarantee or endorsement of the quality soon feels the walking-boot being Fieldwork, and a love of the (Secretary, Professional or value of such product or of the claims Matters); Mr Rick made by its manufacturer. put in good and proper in outdoors, initially attracted many of Brassington; Mr Malcolm correspondence and, once down, the us to geology. But even in this Subscriptions:All correspondence Brown (President relating to non-member subscriptions final killing blow to the head from increasingly indoor age, the call of designate); Miss Liv Carroll; should be addresses to the Journals Dr Nigel Cassidy; Dr Angela Subscription Department, Geological H H Read’s famous dictum about the the wild persists for millions of Society Publishing House, Unit 7 Coe; Mr Jim Coppard; Mrs Brassmill Enterprise Centre, Brassmill best geologist being the one who has people (Second Feature), helping to Jane Dottridge; Mr Chris Lane, Bath, BA1 3JN, UK. Tel: 01225 Eccles (Vice president); 445046. Fax: 01225 442836. Email: seen the most rocks. draw large numbers onto geological Dr Marie Edmonds [email protected]. The subscription This may all be good knockabout excursions, and so afford them the (Secretary, Science); price for Volume 26, 2016 (11 issues) to institutions and non-members will be stuff, but these arguments usually opportunity to learn about landscape Mr Graham Goffey £139 (UK) or £159/$319 (Rest of (Treasurer); Mrs Tricia World). end up artificially pitting virtuous while at the same time enjoying Henton; Mr David Hopkins; © 2016 The Geological Society fieldwork against evil virtual reality, simply being out in it. And that is Mr David Jones (Vice pres- of London ident); Dr Jennifer as though the world ever presented our chance to demonstrate how McKinley; Prof David Geoscientist is printed on FSC® mixed us with such an either/or. But in much more pleasure is to be had by Norbury; Dr Colin North credit - Mixed source products are a blend of FSC 100%, Recycled and/or doing so we succumb to bad looking with an understanding eye. (Secretary, Publications); Controlled fibre. Certified by the Forest Prof Christine Peirce; Stewardship Council®. reasoning – the false polarisation of Finally, yes – sometimes we may in Dr Katherine Royse; Mr Keith Seymour; complex issues towards non- our enthusiasm over-state our claims Dr Lucy Slater; Mr Michael alternatives. This issue of for fieldwork, simply because we like Young (Secretary, Foreign & External Affairs) Geoscientist, I believe, perfectly doing it and will resist any attempt illustrates how impoverishing such to diminish our quality of life by Published on behalf of the posturing is. allowing Mr Gradgrind to think that Geological Society of London by Nobody is seriously suggesting maybe the bottom line could do just Century One Publishing that fieldwork is totally passé. as well without it (Letters). But so Alban Row, 27–31 Verulam Road, St Albans, Herts, Nobody really believes we can what? In the end, work must be AL3 4DG replace the real with the virtual. The done by people, people have to live, T 01727 893 894 F 01727 893 895 truth is that new technology offers and it is not by (or for) bread alone E enquiries@centuryone new ways to interpret real data that we do it. publishing.uk W www.centuryone DR TED NIELD, EDITOR - [email protected] @TedNield @geoscientistmag publishing.uk WWW.GEOLSOC.ORG.UK/GEOSCIENTIST | MAY 2016 | 05 GEOSCIENTIST SOCIETY NEWS What your society is doing SOCIETYNEWS at home and abroad, in London and the regions Geological Society Club The Geological Society Club, successor to the body that gave birth to the Society in 1807, meets monthly (except over the field season!) at 18.30 for 19.00 in the Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall, or at another venue, to be confirmed nearer the date. Once a year there is also a buffet dinner at Burlington House.
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