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BOOKS AVAILABLE FROM ROCKWATCH

ROCKWATCH GUIDE NUMBER 1:
A Pocket Guide to the London Clay on the North Shore of the Isle of Sheppey, Kent
by Adrian Rundle
Price £3.50 for members £3.95 for non-members.
ISBN 978 0900717 65 9. Available from the Rockwatch Office.
This, the first Rockwatch field guide, details where to find fossils on the Isle of Sheppey. It has general information on the fossils of the London Clay along with helpful suggestions for collecting. There are sections with short descriptions of fossil types to be found, accompanied by clear, labelled illustrations. A neat pocket guide, easy to use in the field.

Dinosaur Stamps of the World
By Stuart Baldwin & Beverly Halstead
Price £4.00 including P&P.
ISBN 0 9508063 4 X. Available from the Rockwatch Office.
This little gem of a book will appeal to anyone who has the collector’s bug as well as dinosaur enthusiasts and stamp collectors! It’s packed full of superb colour photographs and just enough text to tell you what you want to know about these long extinct beasts. The classification table of amphibians and reptiles, the geological column and timescale and an eclectic reading list, add that extra detail for those who want it.

BOOKS FROM THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM:
All available to buy online from the Natural History Museum bookshop at: www.nhm.ac.uk/shop/

FROM THE BEGINNING
by Katie Edward and Brian Rosen
Price:£7.95 Natural History Museum ISBN No. 0 565 09142 5
This book hurtles through the enormity of time, featuring key events such as the formation of the Earth's crust and oceans, the beginnings and development of life, climate and sea level changes, moving continents and mass extinctions.
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GOLD
by Richard Herrington, Chris Stanley and Robert Symes
Price:£7.95 Natural History Museum ISBN No. 0 565 09141 7
A beautifully illustrated book examining all aspects of this prized metal - its scientific properties and mineralogy: the myths that surround it and history of its exploitation.
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VOLCANOES
by Susanna van Rose and Ian Mercer
Price: £7.95 Natural History Museum ISBN No. 0 565 09138 7
An informative account describing what constitutes a volcano, the different forms they can take, where they occur and what causes volcanic activity.
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GEMSTONES
by Cally Oldershaw, Christine Woodward and Roger Harding
Price:£7.95 Natural History Museum ISBN No. 0 565 09155 7
This book explores the nature of gems from the well-known to the lesser known, how to distinguish the real from the fake, and their use in adornment. It describes how gem minerals form, where they are found and mined, and how they are identified.
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METEORITES
by Sara Russell and Monica Grady
Price:£7.95 Natural History Museum ISBN No. 0 565 09168 9
An introduction to these natural rocks that have fallen to the Earth's surface. This book explores what meteorites are, where they come from, what some of them are made of and how they can give us information about the worlds beyond Earth.
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SEARCH FOR LIFE
by Monica Grady
Price:£9.95 Natural History Museum ISBN No. 0 565 09157 3
This book examines how and where life arose on Earth and the conditions required to sustain life, then looks for similar environments that may harbour traces of life.
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EARTH'S RESTLESS SURFACE
by Deirde Janson-Smith and Gordon Cressey
Price:£6.95 Natural History Museum ISBN No. 0 11 310056 6
An exploration of the dynamic processes that shape our planet, and the evidence of change at its surface. It illustrates how erosion changes the solid landscape, how rocks and materials are recycled at the Earth's surface, and how humans affect global cycles and climate change.
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CRYSTALS
by Gordon Cressey and Ian Mercer
Price:£7.95 Natural History Museum ISBN No. 0 565 09145 X
An up-to-date introduction to the world of crystalline materials, exploring their diversity and highlighting the properties that make them so useful.
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AMBER: THE NATURAL TIME CAPSULE
by Andrew Ross
Price:£7.95 Natural History Museum ISBN No. 0 565 09145 X
An introduction to amber, featuring an unique identification guide to the organisms trapped in amber.
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DINO-BIRDS
by Angela Milner
Price:£5.95 Natural History Museum ISBN No. 0 565 09174 3
What do Tyrannosaurus rex and a common robin have in common? More than you might realise - the robin is a modern dinosaur albeit a small one, but perhaps just as aggressive as its distant giant relative. This book explores the ever-growing evidence supporting the evolution of dinosaurs to birds.
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THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM BOOK OF DINOSAURS
by Tim Gardom and Angela Milner
Price:£14.99 Natural History Museum ISBN No. 1 84222 211 2
For more than 160 million years, dinosaurs were the most successful and varied animals to dominate the Earth. This book is based on the world-famous fossil collections and the permanent 'Dinosaurs' exhibition at the Natural History Museum.
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BOOKS FROM DORLING KINDERSLEY:
All available to buy online from Dorling Kindersley: uk.dk.com/

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF DINOSAURS AND PREHISTORIC LIFE
Price: £19.99 Dorling Kindersley ISBN No. 0 7513 0955 9
A comprehensive new reference book that gives an insight into dinosaurs and other prehistoric beasts. Accessible text that makes the most complex concepts easy to understand. Computer-generated reconstructions show a vast range of creatures.
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1001 FACTS ABOUT ROCKS AND MINERALS
by Sue Fuller
Price £4.99 Dorling Kindersley Backpack Books ISBN No. 0-7513-4419-2
Absolutely bursting with thousands of fascinating facts in encyclopedic and easy-to-understand detail with hundreds of colourful illustrations.
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1001 FACTS ABOUT PLANET EARTH
by Cally Hall and Scarlett O'Hara
Price £4.99 Dorling Kindersley Backpack Books ISBN No. 0-7513-4421-4
Thousands of facts about Earth from how it was formed, continental drift, volcanoes and earthquakes to its rocks and minerals.
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GUIDE TO SAVAGE EARTH - a dramatic journey across the planet
by Trevor Day
Price £12.99 Dorling Kindersley ISBN No. 0-7513-3075-2
An account of our planet's structure and the processes that shape it - often with savage consequences. See how seismic waves turn their stored energy into earthquakes; find out what causes a volcano to erupt and follow the path of a glacier.
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OTHER BOOKS

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