Geology Of The Peak District (1999) GA Guide

The Coastal Landforms of West Dorset (1992)

A series of itineraries illustrating the geology and denudational history along the coastline of West Dorset. This most beautiful coast is world famous for its spectacular recurrent landslides and the causes of these are fully explored together with their effects on shingle movement at beach level, the latter and best known being Chesil Beach.

The Yorkshire Coast (1992) by P.F.Rawson & J.K.Wright

The Yorkshire coast provides magnificent exposures of Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks. The coastal area is now firmly established as a standard for comparison with both the less well exposed areas inland and also for the offshore North Sea basins. Although there has been serious overcollecting from many of the best known coastal sites , excellent specimens can be picked up loose at many of the localities described.

Mallorca (1990)
Island of Mallorca by H.C.Jenkyns, B.W.Sellwood and L.Pomar

This guide is primarily designed to be used by those travelling by car, based in Palma. Each of the 6 excursions covering Triassic facies and tectonic style, drowned Carbonate platforms, redeposited Oolites and Jurassic pelagic facies, platform Carbonates, pelagic sediments and black shales, paleogene non-marine Limestones and lower Miocene reefs and Turbidites, Messinian reef facies, proximal redeposited Carbonates and Messinian post-reef oolites and Stromatolites is very full and if taken in the winter may not be completed in daylight!

D-D Landings in Normandy, 1944 (2003)

The only British Guide to the geological controls on the D-Day landings in Normandy. The guide puts into context many of the reasons why the Normandy coast was selected for the invasion, reasons most people are, or were, unaware of. The four itineraries are based on examining the solid (mainly highly fossiliferous Jurassic strata) and superficial (such as Pleistocene loess) geology exposures associated with and adjacent to the main landing areas, Sword, Juno, Gold, Omaha and Utah Beaches, including considering them in terms of water supply, aggregate sources, airfield sites and cross-country movements. A glossary is incorporated.

Hadrian’s Wall (1997)
Geology of Hadrian’s Wall by G.A.L.Johnson

The geology of Hadrian’s Wall falls naturally into three sectors: in the East the wall is over Upper Carboniferous Coal Measures and Millstone Grit; the Central Section is underlain by Lower Carboniferous intruded by the Great Whin Sill and in the Western sector the Wall crosses the New Red Sandstone. Glacial drift is widespread. All three sectors are described with specific sites in detail.

During the last 16 million years (up to recent times) igneous rocks with a variety of compositions have been extruded and then moved E or W of the rift valley which marks the central line of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge The ice sheets and their associated glaciers formed by the accumulation of snow over hundreds of years, occupy 11% of Iceland. The pressure on water trapped in geothermally heated cavities close to the land surface is occasionally relieved generating Geysers. The itineraries in the Guide provide a representative selection of sites of the above.