Special Publications

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TMS004 - Micropalaeontology, Sedimentary Environments and Stratigraphy: A Tribute to Dennis Curry (1912-2001)

Edited by J. E. Whittaker and M. B. Hart; 295 pages.

RRP £90.00 / TMS Member price £45.00 / Geological Society Member price £54.00 

This is the fourth special publication in the TMS series published by the Geological Society Publishing House, 17th September, 2010.

More information is available from the Geological Society bookshop.

Dennis Curry was a remarkable polymath and philanthropist, leading a double-life as one of the UK’s most gifted amateur geologists, whilst at the same time being an extremely successful businessman (as Managing Director of Currys Ltd).  This Festschrift, authored by friends and specialists from Britain and France, pays tribute to his often seminal research as well as exhibiting the wide range of his geological interest.  It contains 12 chapters and covers several differing aspects of micropalaeontology (pteropods, diatoms and especially foraminifera), Strontium Isotope Stratigraphy, Hampshire Basin stratigraphy and palaeogeography, as well as major contributions on English Channel sedimentology and the great faunal turnover affecting mammals at the Eocene-Oligocene boundary.  A scientific appreciation of Dennis Curry, “the professional amateur”, with recollections of former colleagues at University College, London (where he was Visiting Professor), together with an assessment of the valuable collections he established and donated to The Natural History Museum, are also included.  Copiously illustrated, this book is a must for all geologists.

TMS003 - Ostracods in British Stratigraphy

Edited by J. E. Whittaker and M. B. Hart; 496 pages.

RRP £100.00 / TMS Member price £50.00 / Geological Society Member price £60.00 

This is the third special publication in the TMS series published by the Geological Society Publishing House, 9th June, 2009.

This book charts the stratigraphical distribution of ostracods in the Cambrian to Pleistocene deposits of Britain and outlines their utility for dating and correlating rock sequences, as well as indicating aspects of their palaeoenvironmental and palaeogeographical significance.  These small bivalved crustaceans are the most abundant arthropods in the fossil record.  Indeed, the stratigraphy of Britain, which embraces many type-sequences, provides a particularly rich and full record of them, from at least the basal Ordovician, and from the British Cambrian there is a biostratigraphy based on their ‘relatives’, the bradoriids and phosphatocopids.  Ostracod distributions demonstrate the ecological success story of the group, occupying as they do marine, non-marine and even ‘terrestrial’ habitats. Written by current specialists in the field, this book is an authoritative account and will be welcomed by all micropalaeontologists and applied geologists in the industrial and academic world alike. It is richly illustrated with over 80 plates of electron micrographs and specially drawn maps, diagrams and range-charts.

 
TMS002 - Deep-Time Perspectives on Climate Change: Marrying the Signal from Computer Models and Biological Proxies

Edited by M Williams, A M Haywood, J Gregory & D N Schmidt; 600 pages.

TMS Member price £47.50

This is the second special publication in the new TMS series published by the Geological Society Publishing House, 5th December, 2007.

This book unites climate modelling, palaeoceanography and palaeontology to address fundamental events in the climate history of Earth over the past 600 million years. Understanding the 'tipping points’ that have lead to rapid changes in the Earth’s climate is vitally important with the realization that humans modify global climate. In an effort to better understand past and future climate change, general circulation models have become the forerunners of attempts to simulate future climate. Although extraordinarily sophisticated, they remain imperfect tools that require ‘grounding’ in geological data. In this, the study of past major climate transitions like the Palaeozoic icehouse worlds and the extreme greenhouse of the Cretaceous are invaluable. Both the mechanisms that forced changes in the Earth's climate as well as the proxies that track these changes are discussed. The central message of the book is that general circulation models tested with geological data in an iterative 'ground truth' process provide the best estimates of the Earth's ancient climate.

TMS001 - Recent Developments in Applied Biostratigraphy

Edited by A. J. Powell & J. B. Riding. 256 Pages.

TMS Member price £42.50 / $77.00; GSL Member price £51.00 / $92.00

This is the first special publication in the new TMS series published by the Geological Society Publishing House, 25 November, 2005.

The application of biostratigraphy to hydrocarbon exploration and development has become increasingly important both scientifically and economically. The demand for higher stratigraphical resolution in field development studies has resulted in the utilization of new approaches. The aim of this volume is to encourage an exchange of ideas and to seed new research initiatives particularly within integrated multidisciplinary teams. The papers are divided into four main themes which cover a broad range of modern applications of biostratigraphy. The first three themes are: UK North Sea field development; outcrop analogues; and international exploration and development. The final section discusses new methodologies, such as the application of correspondence analysis and multivariate correlation of wells, and palynological processing techniques applicable to the wellsite.

History of TMS Special Publications

The first Special Publication of TMS (then the BMS) was A Stratigraphical Index of British Ostracoda (edited by Ray Bate and Eric Robinson) which appeared in 1978 and was published as a Special Issue of Geological Journal. Subsequent volumes have been published as a series, commencing with the Stratigraphical Atlas of Fossil Foraminifera (edited by Graham Jenkins and John Murray) in 1980. Since then, ten further Special Publications have been published for the BMS by Ellis Horwood Ltd. and from 1990 to 2001 three were published by Chapman Hall/Kluwer. During this time, stratigraphical indices or atlases have been produced for ostracods, foraminifera (2 editions), nannofossils, conodonts and dinoflagellate cysts, as well as a number of thematic volumes. Our Special Publications are now being handled by the Geological Society Publishing House.

The following volumes can still be purchased direct from Springer (was Kluwer):

• Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy Paul R. Bown. Hardbound, ISBN 0-412-78970-1, August 1998. Price: 92.50 GBP
• Early Evolutionary History of Planktonic Foraminifera M.K. BouDagher-Fadel, F.T. Banner, J.E. Whittaker, M.D. Simmons. Hardbound, ISBN 0-412-75820-2, November 1997. Price: 107.50 GBP
• Micropalaeontology and Hydrocarbon Exploration in the Middle East M.D. Simmons. Hardbound, ISBN 0-412-42770-2, June 1994 Price: 134.50 GBP
• A Stratigraphic Index of Dinoflagellate Cysts A.J. Powell. Hardbound, ISBN 0-412-36280-5, November 1991. Price: 168.50 GBP
• Ostracoda and Global Events R. Whatley, C. Maybury, Hardbound, ISBN 0-412-36300-3, July 1990. Price: 191.50 GBP

The following volumes are out of print.

• Stratigraphical Atlas of Fossil Foraminifera (Second Edition) D.G. Jenkins and J.W. Murray (editors), 1989. 593 pp. ISBN 0-13-852187-5. OUT OF PRINT
• Micropalaeontology of Carbonate Environments M.B. Hart (editor), 1987. 296 pp. ISBN 0-13-584137-2. OUT OF PRINT
• Nannofossils and their Applications J.A. Crux and S.E. van Heck (editors), 1989. 356 pp. ISBN 0-13-609215-2. OUT OF PRINT
• Northwest European Micropalaeontology and Palynology D.J. Batten and M.C. Keen (editors), 1989. 356 pp. ISBN 0-13-626821-8. OUT OF PRINT

Field Guides

Note: These field guides were produced for the pre-and post-Symposium field excursions but are all now out of print. Please try appropriate libraries or second hand book dealers for copies.

• 1. Mesozoic and Cenozoic Stratigraphical Micropalaeontology of the Dorset Coast and Isle of Wight, Southern England - edited by A.R. Lord and P.R. Bown (produced for the European Microplaeontological Colloquium of 1987)
• 2. The Lower Palaeozoic of the Northern Welsh Borderland and South Wales D.J. Siveter, 1988. 47 pp.
• 3. The Jurassic and Cretaceous of Eastern England R.H. Bate and I.P. Wilkinson, 1988. 71 pp.
• 4. Cretaceous Ostracoda of the Weald D.J. Horne, 1988. 42 pp.
• 5. An Introductory Guide to the Neogene and Quaternary of East Anglia for Ostracod workers A.R. Lord, D.J. Horne and J.E. Robinson, 1988. 11 pp.
• 6. The Mesozoic and Tertiary of Southern England: the Dorset Coast and Isle of Wight M.C. Keen, A.R. Lord, R.C. Whatley, 1988. 79 pp.
• 7. Recent Freshwater Ostracoda of the Lake District D.J. Horne, 1988. 28 pp.
• 8. Recent and Quaternary Ostracoda of the Firth of Clyde, S.W. Scotland J.E. Whittaker, 1988. 50 pp.
• 9. St. Davids and Recent Marine and Estuarine Ostracoda of the Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire Coasts R.C. Whatley and C.A. Maybury, 1988. 8 pp.
• 10. In the footsteps of T.R. Jones: Lower Palaeozoic of Shropshire and the Post-Palaeozoic of Avon, Dorset and Kent D.J. Siveter & A.R. Lord (Editors). Field Guide for the Thirteenth International Symposium on Ostracoda, Chatham 1997. 64pp