A remarkable prehistoric site has recently been excavated tn Yorkshire, known as Paddock Hill, Thwtng or simply Thwtng (National Grid Reference TA 030706). It consists of a later neoltthtc-earlter Bronze Age henge monument that was converted into a hillfort tn the later Bronze Age ( 1200 be). The longevity of occupation, over a millennium, gtves rise to a continuous sequence of ceramics from Grooved Ware and Beaker pottery to post DeverelRimbury ceramics. 
In southern England there ts a twenty-five year tradition of analysing ceramics from archaeological excavations, out Yorkshire ts not so fortunate. The complexities of glacial drift have, to a large extent, precluded the use of thin section petrology, and this project was conceived as an attempt to investigate the feasibility of ustng petrological anafysis to provenance prehistoric pottery in a complex geological area. <...>

The main geological results of exploration by the British Petroleum Company Limited since 1945 are outlined, and the general basis of operations described.
In the south of England new data emphasize the progressive development of the Wealden area as a Jurassic depositional basin, on a surface of mainly Devonian and Carboniferous rocks. In the East Midlands and West Yorkshire more information on the relation of Carboniferous basins is now available, and extensive occurrences of contemporary and intrusive basic igneous rocks are described.

Any attempt to summarize 25 years of exploration for petroleum in the UK sector of the North Sea must be a daunting task. The outcome, in terms of the oil and gas fields discovered, is the subject of this volume. This introduction will attempt to outline, very briefly, some of the ups and downs of the exploration history which has led the industry to where it stands today, 25 years on (Fig. 1). <...>

Belemnites were first so named in Germany, in the celebrated work-of Georgius Agricola, of date 154(>, and described by him among the ‘ Eigured Stones’ which then began to attract attention in Europe. In DU 7 they were noticed in England by Dr. Plot (‘ Natural History of Oxfordshire’), and in 167b, by an equally famous pioneer of natural history, Dr. Lister.1 2 Prom this time the well-known controversy regarding their nature— whether they were mere stones, crystals, horns, or shells—was stoutlv maintained bv Grew,3 4 1681, Woodward,3 1695, Lhwycl/ 1699, and others in England, and by many foreign naturalists, until the general progress of zoology and geology left no room for doubt as to their affinity with the shelly supports of other better-known Cephalopoda. <...>

Первый том пятитомного издания, посвященного описанию месторождений важнейших металлических и неметаллических полезных ископаемых Европы. Это издание — первая систематическая сводка по промышленным типам месторождений Европы, обобщающая многочисленные разрозненные сведения о геологии и добыче полезных ископаемых в старейшем горнорудном районе мира. В том 1 включены описания месторождений стран Северо-Западной Европы — Финляндии, Швеции, Норвегии, Дании и о. Гренландия, Великобритании и Ирландии. Описание включает геолого-текто-пический очерк соответствующей страны, сведения о состоянии ее горнорудной промышленности, характеристику основных рудных областей, зон, поясов и наиболее крупных месторождений, геолого-экономические данные, соображения о генезисе месторождений отдельных типов.

Издание рассчитано па геологов-поисковиков, металлогенистов, разведчиков, а также экономистов в области минерального сырья.

В книге собрана информация о месторождениях углеводородов Великобритании, находящихся в Северном море и восточной Атлантике (Ирландское море). Для каждого месторождения приведены данные по истории открытия, стратиграфии, строению, коллекторским свойствам, нефтематеринским породам, количеству запасов углеводородов, системе транспортировки.