This book is written as a practical field manual to be used by geologists engaged in mineral exploration. It is also hoped that it will serve as a text and reference for students in Applied Geology courses of universities and colleges. The book aims to outline some of the practical skills that turn the graduate geologist into an explorationist:. It is intended as a practical 'how to' book, rather than as a text on geological or ore deposit theory. An explorationist is a professional who searches for ore bodies in a scientific and structured way. Although an awkward and artificial term, this is the only available word to describe the totality of the skills which are needed to locate and define economic mineralization.

Understanding the relationships between strata forms the basis for much geological knowledge – and these patterns are displayed on geological maps. Dominique Frizon de Lamotte and colleagues from the CY Cergy Paris Université, on the outskirts of Paris, have put together this lavishly illustrated manual to assist in these endeavors. As they note, the observation, interpretation and construction of 3D models lies at the heart of applied geology and has driven many of the great discoveries in the science. This book is about structural geology – especially interpreting the geometry of layered strata where they become folded and faulted. The starting point is the geological map, and the challenge – understanding and communicating this understanding to others – has been at the forefront of the skill set required by geologists since the birth of the science. <...>

The purpose of this book is to recount the lives and achievements of some of the great geologists and geomorphologists who have studied the Jurassic Coast, England’s only natural World Heritage Site, and have made it the Mecca that it has become for all those interested in Earth Science since the late seventeenth century. We classify these individuals into six groups: the earliest investigators, the fossil collectors, the geologists of the so-called Golden Age, the geological mappers, gifted stratigraphers and palaeontologists, and remarkable amateurs and some other stars.

This edited volume compiles the state of the art in research on the geological record of tsunamis and other extreme-wave events and guides the reader in designing goaland site-specific research. It has evolved from an initial idea, first explored by the editors in early 2016, to final publication online and in print in mid-2020. The motivation for developing a handbook-type compendium on this topic was driven by the observation that such a unifying volume devoted to this particular discipline, which lies at the crossroads between sedimentology and tsunami science, was missed by the scientific community.