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A field guide to Barbados (Part 6): Central Barbados
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A field guide to Barbados (Part 6): Central Barbados

06/02/2021

Stephen K Donovan (The Netherlands) Stop 1. Waterford District, near Codrington Agricultural Station (approx. 59º 36’ 8” W 13º 6’ 49” N; Fig. 1) The area considered in the final part of this guide is outlined in A field guide to Barbados (Part 1): Introduction (Donovan & Harper, 2010, fig.… … Read More

A field guide to Barbados (Part 5): The Scotland District
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A field guide to Barbados (Part 5): The Scotland District

30/01/2021

Stephen K Donovan (The Netherlands) Stop 1. Chalky Mount (approximately 59º 33’ 15” W 13º 13’ 55” N; Fig. 1) The area considered in this part of the guide is outlined in Donovan & Harper (2010, fig. 1d) and Figs. 1 and 2. As with other articles in this series,… … Read More

A field guide to Barbados (Part 4): Bridgetown and the South Coast
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A field guide to Barbados (Part 4): Bridgetown and the South Coast

23/01/2021

Stephen K Donovan (The Netherlands) The area considered in this part of the guide is outlined in Donovan & Harper (2010, fig. 1C) and Fig. 1 of this article. As in other articles in this series, the starting point is Bridgetown.  Stop 1: The Barbados Museum The Barbados Museum and… … Read More

A field guide to Barbados (Part 3): Northern Barbados
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A field guide to Barbados (Part 3): Northern Barbados

16/01/2021

Stephen K Donovan (The Netherlands) Stop 1: Arawak Cement Quarry The area considered in this part of the guide is outlined in Donovan & Harper (2010, Fig. 1b) and Fig. 1. As with other articles in this series, the starting point is Bridgetown. Drive north from the Bridgetown area on… … Read More

A field guide to Barbados (Part 2): The coastal geology of southeast Barbados
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A field guide to Barbados (Part 2): The coastal geology of southeast Barbados

09/01/2021

Stephen K Donovan (The Netherlands) and David AT Harper (Denmark) Introduction This article is the second part of a field guide to Barbados, the first part of which is A field guide to Barbados (Part 1): Introduction. The areas visited by different the excursions outlined in Parts 2 to 6… … Read More

A field guide to Barbados (Part 1): Introduction
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A field guide to Barbados (Part 1): Introduction

01/01/2021

Stephen K Donovan (The Netherlands) This is the first of six articles that will introduce the geology of the Antillean island of Barbados. It is an expanded and more detailed guide derived from two earlier publications (Donovan & Harper, 2005, 2009). The structure of the guide will include a summary… … Read More

Palaeontology and caves in Jamaica
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Palaeontology and caves in Jamaica

19/07/2020

Stephen K Donovan (The Netherlands). Although it has a rock record that only extends back to the Early Cretaceous, the geology of Jamaica is sufficiently diverse to satisfy most appetites (Donovan & Jackson, 2012a, b). It lies within the North Caribbean Plate Boundary Zone and displays a range of geological… … Read More

Book review: Dominican Amber Spiders: A comparative palaeontological-neontological approach to identification, faunistics, ecology and biogeography, by David Penney
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Book review: Dominican Amber Spiders: A comparative palaeontological-neontological approach to identification, faunistics, ecology and biogeography, by David Penney

13/05/2020

Dr David Penney, founder and owner of the excellent Siri Scientific Press (whose books I have frequently reviewed in this magazine), has writen about Miocene spider inclusions in amber from deposits of the Dominican Republic.

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Geology of islands
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Geology of islands

06/07/2017

 Stephen K Donovan (The Netherlands) Islands are attractive places to visit, not just for geologists. Nonetheless, for us, they provide three advantages that favour collecting and research in the Earth Sciences. One of the attractions of an island is its small size in comparison with continents. The corollary of this… … Read More

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Windmills and building stones: Antigua, West Indies
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Windmills and building stones: Antigua, West Indies

03/11/2016

Stephen K Donovan (The Netherlands), David AT Harper (UK) and Roger W Portell (USA) In his latest book, Ted Nield (2014) reflects on building stones and what they tell the geologist about where they are. Once upon a time, building stones in Britain were derived locally and told the informed… … Read More

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Rival theories by English amateurs: Matley, Trechmann and the geological origin of Jamaica
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Rival theories by English amateurs: Matley, Trechmann and the geological origin of Jamaica

04/12/2015

Stephen K Donovan (The Netherlands) The two most significant geologists to visit Jamaica and study its geology between the two World Wars were both British: Charles Alfred Matley (1866-1947) and Charles Taylor Trechmann (1885-1964). Both had active research programmes in Jamaica and the Antilles in the 1920s and 1930s, mainly… … Read More

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