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Library Book Sale – Summer 2018 Geological Society of London Library Burlington House, Piccadilly, LONDON W1J 0BG e-mail: [email protected] Library Book Sale – Summer 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 Française des pétroles • SEPM CD-Roms General Titles 1. 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) 2. Advances in physical geochemistry Volume 2 / S.K. Saxena, ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1982 Sale Price: £3.00 (Ex-Library copy) 3. Advances in reservoir geology / M. Ashton, ed. (Geological Society Special Publication 69) London: Geological Society, 1993 Sale Price: £5.00 GSL Library Book Sale – Page 1 of 36 4. 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) 5. 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) 6. Applied geophysics / W.M. Telford et al. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976 Sale Price: £10.00 7. 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) 8. 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) 9. Artificial recharge of the London basin I: hydrogeology Reading: Water Resources Board, 1972 Sale Price: £30.00 (incl. 6 folded col. Plates of maps) 10. Artificial recharge of the London basin II: electrical analogue model studies Reading: Water Resources Board, 1973 Sale Price: £10.00 11. Artificial recharge of the London basin III: economic and engineering desk studies Reading: Water Resources Board, 1974 Sale Price: £10.00 12. Artificial recharge of the London basin IV: pilot recharge works in the Lee Valley Reading: Water Resources Board, 1974 Sale Price: £10.00 13. 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) 14. A bibliography of the geology & geomorphology of Cumbria / R. A. Smith The Cumberland Geological Society, 1974 Sale Price: £5.00 15. 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) GSL Library Book Sale – Page 2 of 36 16. 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) 17. Biological and geological perspectives of dinoflagellates / J.M. Lewis et al., eds. London: The Geological Society, 2013 Sale Price: £25.00 (Ex-Library copy) 18. British and foreign marbles and other ornamental stones: a descriptive catalogue of specimens in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge / J. Watson Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1916 Sale Price: £20.00 (Ex-Library copy) 19. Cambridgeshire geology: a sketch for the use of students / T.G. Bonney Cambridge: Deighton, Bell & Co., 1875 Sale Price: £25.00 (Ex-Library copy) 20. Carbonate sediments and their diagenesis / R.G.C. Bathurst (Developments in Sedimentology 12) Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1971 Sale Price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy) 21. 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) 22. 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) 23. A century in oil: the “Shell” Transport and Trading Company 1897 – 1997 / S. Howarth London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997 Sale Price: £10.00 24. 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 25. 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) 26. 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: £10.00 27. Chromium: its physiochemical behaviour and petrologic significance: papers from a Carnegie Institution of Washington Conference, Geophysical Laboratory / T.N. Irvine Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1976 Sale Price: £10.00 (Ex-Library copy) GSL Library Book Sale – Page 3 of 36 28. Chronology of Venezuelan oil / A.R. Martinez London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd., 1969 Sale Price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy) 29. Cirencester in stone: a town trail / J. McCall & P. Copestake Kingston Bagpuize, Oxon: Gloucestershire Geology Trust, 2008 Sale Price: £ 5.00 30. Classification of carbonate rocks: a symposium / W.E. Ham Tulsa: AAPG, 1962 Sale Price: £5.00 31. 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) 32. 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: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy) 33. 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) 34. A dictionary of physical sciences / John Daintith ed. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1978 Sale Price: £3.00 35. Directory of British fossiliferous localities London: Palaeontographical Society, 1954 Sale Price: £20.00 36. A discussion on the geology of the English Channel / K. Dunham & A.J. Smith, eds. (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences Vol. 279 No 1288) London: The Royal Society, 1975 Sale Price: £10.00 (Ex-Library copy) 37. A discussion on the measurement and interpretation of changes of strain in the Earth / A.H. Cook et al., eds. (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences Vol. 274 No 1239) London: The Royal Society, 1973 Sale Price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy) 38. A discussion on problems associated with the subsidence of southeastern England / K.C. Dunham & D.A. Gray, eds. (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences Vol. 272 No 1221) London: The Royal Society, 1972 Sale Price: £10.00 (Ex-Library copy) 39. The Dumfries Basin aquifer / N.S. Robins & D.F Ball, eds. (BGS Research Report RR/06/02) Keyworth: British Geological Survey, 2006 Mint condition, £20.00 on label Sale Price: £10.00 (Ex-Library copy) GSL Library Book Sale – Page 4 of 36 40. Durham coalfield regional survey report (Northern ‘B’ Region) London: His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1945 Sale Price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy) 41. Dynamic sedimentation in forearc basins: results from the Choshi and Sagara drilling projects / H. Kitazato et al., eds.) (Island Arc Vol. 15 Issue 3) Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006 Sale Price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy) 42. The Earth’s core: its structure, evolution and magnetic field / S.K. Runcorn et al., eds. (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences Vol. 306 No. 1492) London: The Royal Society, 1982 Sale Price: £10.00 (Ex-Library copy) 43. Earth materials: introduction to mineralogy and petrology 2nd edition / C. Klein & A. Philpotts Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017 Sale Price: £30.00 (Mint condition) 44. Earthquake: nature and culture / A. Robinson London: Reaktion Books, 2012 Sale Price: £5.00 45. Earthquakes & mountains, 2nd edition / H. Jeffreys London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1950 Sale Price: £5.00 46. Earth system history / S.M. Stanley New York: W.H. Freeman & Co., 1999 Sale Price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy; includes CD Rom) 47. Earth system history. 2nd edition / S.M. Stanley New York: W.H. Freeman & Co., 2005 Sale Price: £5.00 (Ex-Library copy; loose page) 48. Economic geological investigation of NE Volgelkop (Western New Guinea) / F.C.
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