Sources for finding out about the Geology of Portsdown Hill

I used many sources, including web-based, text-books and the expertise of many people.
My own knowledge is largely that gained through following Earth Science courses with the Open University and reading around the subject.

Sources are grouped as follows:

• General
• Palaeogeography
• Cretaceous
• Fossils
• Rocks
• Chalk
• Coccoliths
• Flints
• Sponges
• Structure
• Water
• Energy
• Stratigraphy
• Geological Time
• Taxonomy and Evolution
• Milankovich

General Sources

• Many text books from Open University Earth Science studies, mainly detailed below
• "Dictionary of Earth Sciences (2nd edition)" - Allaby and Allaby - Oxford - 1999
• "Rocks and Fossils - the Ultimate Guide to the Earth" - Busbey et al - Collins - 1996

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Palaeogeography

• "Continents in Collision" - Russell Miller - from the "Plaenet Earth" Time and Life series - 1983
• "The Atlas of the Prehistoric World" - Douglas Palmer - "Discovery Channel" - 19xx
• Various Open University publications, including the "Geological History of the British Isles" - SXR260 Course Team - Open University - 2001

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Cretaceous

• "The Cretaceous World" - S369 Course Team - Open University - 2002
• "Evolving Life and the Earth" - S269 Course Team - Open University - 1997

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Fossils

• "Surface Processes" - S260 Course Team - Open University - 2002
• "Rocks and Fossils - the Ultimate Guide to the Earth" - Busbey et al - Collins - 1996

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Rocks

Chalk

• "Carbonate Sediments and Rocks" - Terence P Scoffin - Blackie - 1987
• "Petrology of the Sedimentary Rocks (7th Edition)" - JY Greensmith - Unwin Hyman Ltd. - 1989
• "Chemistry and Technology of Limestone (2nd Edition)" - Robert S.Boynton - Wiley-Interscience - 1980

Coccoliths

• The "home page" of Emiliania huxleyi at "http://www.soes.soton.ac.uk/staff/tt/"
• The Natural History Museum coccolith pages at "http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/ina/CODENET/index.html"
• Masses of images at "http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/ina/CODENET/GuideImages/COcocco/index.htm"
• Speculations on the functions of coccoliths at "http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/Quarterdeck/QD5.2/shatto-slowey2.html"
• Part of a lecture about "Ice Cores and Atmospheric Composition" from the Wesleyan University at "http://soconnell.web.wesleyan.edu/ees123/lectures/8_9_ees123_ice/sld044.htm"

Flints

• A French site describing paramoudra, at http://www.univ-lehavre.fr/cybernat/pages/paramoud.htm
• "Flint Meal" by Mike Horne, an article in the 'Humberside Geologist' - 1992 - at "http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/ecolodge/25/flintmeal.htm"

Sponges

• A comprehensive site all about sponges at http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/porifera/porifera.html
• A variety of other online sites about sponges as follows:
• http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/dees/ees/life/slides/phyla/porifera.html
• http://www.seasky.org/reeflife/sea2a.html
• http://mbgnet.mobot.org/salt/animals/sponges.htm
• http://www.musei.unina.it/Zoologia/eng/4.2.2.1.htm

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Stratigraphy

• "Minerals, Rocks and Fossils" - WR Hamilton, AR Woolley, AC Bishop - Country Life Guides - 1974
• "British Upper Cretaceous Stratigraphy" - R.N.Mortimore, C.J.Wood, R.W.Gallois - Joint Nature Conservation Committee - 2001
• "A Phanerozoic Time Scale", F.M. Gradstein and J. Ogg - 1997 "http://www.iamg.org/cqs/cqsarticle1.htm"

Energy

• "Energy 2 - Nuclear and Alternatives". A course book of - "Physical Resources and Environment" S268 Open University - 1995
• "Green energy provider solves scaling problems" - a case study submitted to "Engineering talk" on 15 March 2002, from Environmental Treatment Concepts http://www.engineeringtalk.com/news/enh/enh103.html

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Geological Time Periods

• The Mesozoic section of the International Stratigraphic Chart at "http://www.micropress.org/stratigraphy/tscale.htm"
• A 'Geologic Time Scale' lesson, at "http://www.geo.wvu.edu/~kammer/g3%5CLec5Text.htm"
• History of the International Geological Congress at "http://www.iugs.org/iugs/history/history.htm"

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Taxonomy and Evolution

• "Invertebrate Palaeontology and Evolution (4th edition)" - E.N.K. Clarkson - Blackwell Sciences - 1998

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Milankovich

• "The Dynamic Earth" - S269 Course Team - Open University - 1997
• The Palaeoclimatology program at "http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/milankovitch.html"
• The University of Oklahoma College of Geosciences "Daisyworld and Glaciation" research project at "http://geosciences.ou.edu/~jgriggs/intro2.htm"

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For any comments, suggestions or contributions, please e-mail me at: portsdown@bbm.me.uk