Earth Resources Centre Publications 1994 to 1997

1997 Publications

M E Mejia-Amaya
‘The environmental impact of the petroleum industry in Ecuador’, Geoscience and Development, No 5 1997: 12-3.

P Grainger, J R Merefield, G A Duddridge and M J Heath
Soil Gas Surveying at Sellafield. United Kingdom Nirex Limited, Science Report, December 1997. Report no:S/97/010.

P Grainger, J R Merefield, G A Duddridge and M J Heath
‘Gas migration studies at Sellafield, UK’, in G M Reeves ed., Geo-Engineering of Hazardous and Radioactive Waste Disposal, (pre-print) 3rd European Engineering Geology Conference 33rd Annual Conference of the Engineering Group of the Geological Society, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 10-14 September, 1997: 185-202.

M J Heath and M Montoto
‘Rock matrix diffusion as mechanism for radionuclide retardation: natural radio-element migration in relation to the microfractography and petrophysics of fractured crystalline rock : final report’, EC Nuclear Science and Technology, Luxembourg, European Commission, EUR 17121, 1996: 225pp.

R Hodgson
‘Housing and hazards: the Dhaka Workshop and field trials of improved mud-building methods’, Geoscience and Development, No 5 1997: 26-8

P G Kalaugher and P Grainger
‘A photographic method for rapid assessment of landslide displacement’, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology, 30 (3), 1997: 193-196.

J J LaBrecque, P A Rosales, B Evans, J R Merefield and P Grainger
‘Preliminary studies of radon in soils for earthquake risk assessment in the north central region of Venezuela: a cooperative research project between the Earth Resources Centre (UK) and the Laboratory of Atomic and Nuclear Spectroscopy (Venezuela)’, Geoscience and Development, No 5, 1997: 30-31.

J R Merefield and I M Stone
‘Dishing the dirt on pollution’, New Scientist, No 2100, September, 1977: 58.

J R Merefield, I M Stone, J Roberts, A Dean and J Jones
‘Establishing the source of dusts from industrial and urban situations’, Arab News (Science & Technology), June, 1997: 13.

I M Stone and J R Merefield
‘The significance of airborne particulate characterisation for enhanced fugitive emissions monitoring’, Opencast coal mining - can we measure the health effects in local populations? Seminar Proceedings, Torfaen County Borough Council, 10 June, 1997: 22-5.

I M Stone
‘Air pollution by particulates’, Geoscience and Development, No 4/5 1997: 53.

M Stone
‘A Geochemical dichotomy in the Cornubian Batholith’, Proceedings of the Ussher Society, 9 (2) 1997: 206-210.

R Taylor and P Grainger
‘Geological conservation in Devon’, Proceedings of the Ussher Society, 9 (2) 1997: 205.

1996 Publications

N T Awad, J R Merefield, R C Scrivener and M Stone
‘Geochemistry and petrogenesis of volcanic clasts in the Permian breccias around Exeter’. Journal of the Geological Society, London, Vol. 153 1996: 669-72.

M Salih Bayraktutan, J R Merefield, P Grainger, B M Evans, M Yilmaz and E Kalkan
‘Regional gas geochemistry in an active tectonic zone, Erzurum Basin, eastern Turkey’, Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology, 29 1996: 209-18.

K Borecký, A Gabašová, I M Stone and J Roberts
‘First experiences in X-ray diffractometry and scanning electron microscopy of dust samples from an experimental monitoring network in the North Bohemian brown coal basin’, Proceedings of International Symosium on Air Pollution by Particulates, Prague Czech Republic, October 1995, Czech Geological Survey, Prague: 136-43.

T W Chiu, P Grainger, J R Merefield and I M Stone
‘The aerodynamics of the Frisbee dust collectors’. Proceedings of International Symposium on Air Pollution by Particulates, Prague, Czech Republic, October 1995, Czech Geological Survey, Prague: 95-115.

G Etiope, S Lombardi, G A Duddridge, P Grainger, V Chiantore, F Gera, R Pensieri P Grindrod and M Impey
‘The refinement of soil gas analysis as a geological investigative technique: conclusive results of gas migration field studies’, Project on effects of gas in underground storage facilities for radioactive waste (Pegasus project). Proceedings of a progress meeting held in Rapolano Terme, Italy, 14 and 15 June 1995. EUR 16746 EN, European Commission, Brussels, 1995: 151-66.

B Evans and J R Merefield
‘A lightweight probe for soil gas sampling’ Institute of Science Technology, No 38 1996: 2-7.

S D Flint, M Hartmanova, J S Jones, R C T Slade
‘Microstructure of Ca-doped barium cerate electrolytes BaCe1-xCaxO3-a (x = 0, 0.02, 0.05. 0.10 and 0.15)’, Solid State Ionics, 86-88, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1996: 679-683.

P Grainger and P G Kalaugher
‘Photographic technique for detection and monitoring of ground movements associated with mining and quarrying’, -Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, Vol.105 1996: 223-39.- ‘Photographic monitoring of cliff recession at Watchet, Somerset’, -Proceedings of the Ussher Society, Vol.9 (1) 1996: 17-20.

P Grainger, P G Kalaugher and S Kirk
‘The relation between coastal landslide activity at Pinhay, East Devon and rainfall and groundwater levels’, -Proceedings of the Ussher Society, Vol.9 (1) 1996: 12-16.

R L P Hodgson, P Grainger and P G Kalaugher
‘Progressive weathering and degradation of mudstone in a coastal landslide’, -Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology, Vol. 29 1996: 57-65.

T R Lineham, P J Nash, W R Rodwell, J Bolt, V M B Watkins, P Grainger, M Heath and J R Merefield
‘Gas migration in fractured rock: results and modelling of a helium gas injection experiment at the Reskajeage Farm test site, SW England’, _Journal of Contaminant Hydrology 21, 1996: 101-13.

S Lombardi, G Etiope, M Guerra, G Ciotoli, P Grainger, G A Duddridge, F Gera, V Chiantore, R Pensieri, P Grindrod and M Impey
‘The refinement of soil gas analysis as a geological investigation technique’, Final report, EUR 16929 EN, European Commission, Brussels, 1996: 1-193.

J R Merefield, I M Stone, J Roberts, A Dean and J S Jones
‘Dust fingerinting’, Central Office of Information, F/943/5. 1996: 1-3. P Grainger, G A Duddridge and S Lombardi
‘Soil gases as fault tracers in clay basins. Two case histories: The Bovey (UK) and Siena (I) Basins’, in P Lalieux and B Haijtink eds., Fluid Flow Through Fractures in Argillaceous Formations, Proceedings of a joint NEA/EC Workshop Berne, Switzerland 1996: 177-8.

J Roberts, I M Stone, J R Merefield, A. Dean and J Jones
‘Monitoring opencast coal site development through air particulate impact.’ Proceedings of International Symposium on Air Pollution by Particulates, Prague, Czech Republic, Prague, October 1995, Czech Geological Survey, Prague: 166-74.

I M Stone, J R Merefield, J Roberts, A Dean and J Jones
‘A particulate characterisation approach to TEOM, PM10 and TSP samplers.’ Proceedings of International Symposium on Air Pollution by Particulates, Prague, Czech Republic, October 1995, Czech Geological Survey, Prague: 116-24.

J Tate, T Pless-Mulloli, D Howel, I M Stone and J R Merefield
‘Measuring the association between dust exposure and health in children living near to opencast coalmining sites - lessons from a pilot study.’ Proceedings of International Symposium on Air Pollution by Particulates, Prague, Czech Republic, October 1995, Czech Geological Survey: 211-19.

1995 Publications

S C Dominy, G S Camm, M A Bussell, R C Scrivener and C Halls
‘A review of tin stockwork mineralization in the South-West England orefield’, Proceedings of the Ussher Society, 8 (4) 1995: 368-78.

G A Duddridge, E M Durrance, P Grainger, J R Merefield and T R Lineham
‘Gas injection experiments with soil gas analysis: a method for the characterisation of potential gas migration pathways from radioactive waste repositories to the surface’, in C Dubois, ed., Gas Geochemistry. Northwood, Science Reviews, 1995: 369-89.

E M Durrance and M J Heath
‘Radon in West Cornwall’, in C Dubois, ed., Gas Geochemistry. Northwood, Science Reviews, 1995: 31-4.

K J Edworthy
‘Various effects of mining on groundwater quality and resources’, in A G Paithankar, ed., The Impact of Mining on the Environment: Problems and Solutions. New Delhi, AA Balkema, Oxford and IBH, 1994: 113-6.

G Etiope, S Lombardi, G A Duddridge, P Grainger, V Chiantore, F Gera, R Pensieri, P Grindrod, J P Humm and M D Impey
‘Soil-gas surveys and injection tests as tools for gas migration studies in real geological scenarios’, Project on the effects of gas in underground storage facilities for radioactive waste (Pegasus project). Proceedings of a progress meeting held in Exeter, UK, 26 and 27 May 1994. Luxembourg, European Commission, EUR 16001, 1995: 129-48.

P Grainger and P G Kalaugher
‘Renewed landslide activity at Pinhay, Lyme Regis’, Proceedings of the Ussher Society, 8 (4) 1995: 421-5.

T Harper
‘Dead or alive: two concepts of rock behaviour’, Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 66 1995: 43-64.

M J Heath
‘Mineral development and environment: impact of mining on the environment - problems and solutions, Nagpur, India: 11-16 January 1994’, Geoscience and Development 2, 1995: 29-30. ‘Rock matrix diffusion as a mechanism for radionuclide retardation: natural radioelement migration in relation to the microfractography and petrophysics of fractured crystalline rock (Report on Phase 1)’, CEC Nuclear Science and Technology, Luxembourg, European Commission, EUR 15 977, 1995. 128pp.

R L P Hodgson
‘Housing improvements: disaster response or hazard mitigation?’, Built Environment 21, (2/3) 1995: 154-63.

P G Kalaugher, P Grainger and R L P Hodgson
‘Tidal influence on the intermittent surging movements of a coastal mudslide’, Proceedings of the Ussher Society, 8 (4) 1995: 416-20.

T R Lineham, P J Nash, W R Rodwell, J Bolt, V M B Watkins, P Grainger, M J Heath and J R Merefield
‘Gas migration in fractured rocks: results and modelling of a helium gas injection experiment at the Reskajeage Farm Test Site, SW England, UK’, 4th International Conference on Chemistry and Migration Behaviour of Actinides and Fission Products in the Geoshpere (Migration 1993), Charleston, USA, 12-17 December 1993, Radiochemica Acta, 66/67 1994: 757-64.

S Lombardi, G Etiope, G Ciotoli, G A Duddridge, P Grainger, M Guerra, V Chiantore and M D Impey
‘The refinement of soil gas analysis as a geological investigation technique: Annual Report 1994’, Community’s research and development programme on radioactive waste management and storage, shared-cost action (1990-94). Annual progress report, 1994. Luxemboug, European Commission, EUR 16548, 1995: 359-67.

M T Ménager, M J Heath, M Ivanovich, C Montjotin, R Barillon, J Camp and S E Hasler
‘Migration of uranium from uranium-mineralised fractures into the rock matrix in granite: implications for radionuclide transport around a radioactive waste repository’, 4th International Conference of Chemistry and Migration Behaviour of Actinides and Fission Products in the Geosphere (Migration 1993), Charleston, USA, 12-17 December 1993, Radiochimica Acta, 66/67 1994: 47-83.

J R Merefield
‘Chemical geology in assessing the environmental impact of metalliferous mining’,in J C Alexander and J Menon, eds., Trends in Chemical Geology, 1. Trivandrum, India, Research Trends, 1994: 1-15. ‘Sediment mineralogy and the environmental impact of mining’, in I D L Foster, A M Gurnell and B W Webb, eds., Sediment and Water Quality in River Catchments. London, Wiley, 1995: 145-60.

J R Merefield, I M Stone, P Jarman, G Rees, J Roberts, J Jones and A Dean
‘Environmental dust analysis in opencast mining areas’, in M K G Whateley and D A Spears, eds., European Coal Geology. London, The Geological Society, Special Publication 82 1995: 181-8.

J R Merefield, I M Stone, J Roberts, A Dean and J Jones
‘Monitoring airborne dust from quarrying and surface mining operations’, Transactions Institution Mining and Metallurgy (Sect. A: Mining industry), 104 1995: A76-8.

E Sinclair
‘Painting the past’, The Architects Journal, February 1995: 41-2.[1/1, A12] ‘The Polychromy of Exeter and Salisbury Cathedrals: a preliminary comparison’, in A Wallert, E Hermens and M Peek, eds., Historical Painting Techniques, Materials and Studio Practice, Preprints of a Symposium, University of Leiden, the Netherlands, The Getty Conservation Institute 1995: 105-10.

M Stone
‘The main Dartmoor granites: Petrogenesis and comparisons with the Carmenellis and Isles of Scilly granites’, Proceedings of the Ussher Society, 8 (4) 1995: 379-84.

1994 Publications

G A Duddridge
‘Observations on soil gas variations in the Bovey Basin’, Proceedings of the Ussher Society, 8 1994: 331-35.

R L P Hodgson
‘Housing and hazards: study of the resistance of indigenous housing to natural hazards’, AGID News, 76 May 1994: 4.

R L P Hodgson and D J C Laming
‘Permian breccias and Pleistocene in temporary exposures around Tiverton, Devon and their stratigraphical context’, Proceedings of the Ussher Society, 8 (3) 1994: 321-24.

M J Heath, J R Merefield, I M Stone, A G Paithankar and I L Muthreja
‘Impact of mining on tropical forest, central India: signposts to future development strategies in environmentally sensitive regions’, in A G Paithankar, ed., The Impact of Mining on the Environment: Problems and Solutions, Proceedings of an International Symposium, Nagpur, India, January, 1994, New Delhi, AA Balkema, Oxford and IBH, 1994: 435-40. ‘Environmental protection strategies for mineral development’, Mining Environmental Management, 2 (2) June 1994: 24-5.

S Lombardi, G Etiope, F. Gera, V Chiantore, R Pensieri, P Grainger, G A Duddridge and P Grindrod
‘The refinement of soil gas analysis as a geological investigation technique: preliminary comparison between soil-gas, structural and geophysical studies’, in B Haijtink and T McMenamin, eds., Project on Effects of Gas in Underground Storage Facilities for Radioactive Waste (Pegasus project). Proceedings of a progress meeting, Cologne, 3-4 June, 1993; EUR 15734 EN: 171-89.

J R Merefield, D Duffy and B M Evans
‘Landfill monitoring: a must for your rubbish’, The Devon County Farmer, July 1994: 13.

J R Merefield, I M Stone, P Jarman, J Roberts, J S Jones and A Dean
‘Fugitive dust characterisation in opencast mining areas’, in A G Paithankar, ed., The Impact of Mining on the Environment: Problems and Solutions. Proceedings of an International Symposium, Nagpur, India, January, 1994, New Delhi, AA Balkema, Oxford and IBH, 1994: 3-10.

J R Merefield, I M Stone, I Rees, J Roberts, A Dean and J S Jones
‘Mineralogy and provenance of airborne dust in the opencast coal mining area of South Wales’, Proceedings of the Ussher Society, 8 1994: 313-16.

F Reichmann and P Grainger
‘Impact of mining on the environment of the Czech Republic’, in A G Pathankar ed., The Impact of Mining on the Environment: Problems and Solutions. Proceedings of an International Symposium, Nagpur, India, January, 1994, New Delhi, AA Balkema, Oxford and IBH, 1994: 267-74.

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