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Map Interpretation for Structural Geologists, reviewed by Arthur Tingley
Seismicity, Fault Rupture and Earthquake Hazards in Slowly Deforming Regions, reviewed by Robert Anderson
From Somerset to the Pyrenees – In the Steps of the Reverend William Arthur Jones, Geologist and Antiquary, reviewed by Jeremy Joseph
Belt Basin: Window to Mesoproterozoic Earth, reviewed by Pete Webb
The Archaeological and Forensic Applications of Microfossils - A Deeper Understanding of Human History, reviewed by Clive Waddington
Curbing Catastrophe: Natural Hazards and Risk Reduction in the Modern World, reviewed by Ross Roberts
Soda Lakes of East Africa, reviewed by Rob Bowell
Dictionary of Mathematical Geosciences, reviewed by Gordon Woo
Radioactive Waste Confinement: Clays in Natural and Engineered Barriers, reviewed by Mark Griffin
Energy Science: Principles, technologies, and impacts, reviewed by David Edwards
Asteroids: Astronomical and Geological Bodies, reviewed by Trevor Emmett
Collecting Evolution – the Galapagos Expedition that vindicated Darwin, reviewed by David Edwards
Unearthed: Impacts of the Tellus Surveys of the North of Ireland, reviewed by Tony Bazley
Metals, Energy and Sustainability the Story of Doctor Copper and King Coal, reviewed by Paul L Younger
Volcanoes - An exhibition (Weston Library, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford, 10 February-21 May 2017) reviewed by Andrew Robinson
Mountain - Nature and Culture, reviewed by Chris Carlon
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