BOOKS (out of print books can be obtained through Essex Library Service)



ESSEX ROCK - A look beneath the Essex Landscape
by Gerald Lucy

A jargon-free account of Essex geology

Over 80 photographs and illustrations

Published by the Essex Rock and Mineral Society

Price: £6.95

Available from Essex Wildlife Trust visitor centres or by sending an order to info@essexrigs.co.uk


Bridgland, D.R. The Quaternary of the Thames. Chapman and Hall. 1994.

Bridgland, D.R., Allen, P. and Haggart, B.A. (editors) The Quaternary of the Lower Reaches of the Thames: Field Guide. Quaternary Research Association. 1995.

Christy, M. and Thresh, M. A History of the Mineral Waters and Medicinal Springs of the County of Essex. Essex Field Club Special Memoirs-Vol. 4.1910.

Collinson, M.E. Fossil Plants of the London Clay. Palaeontological Association. 1983.

Forrest, A.J. Masters of Flint. Terence Dalton. 1983.

George, W.H. Sir Antonio Brady (1811-1881) Civil Servant, Fossil Collector and Philanthropist of West Ham, Essex. W.H. George Publications. 1999.

Gibbard, P.L. Pleistocene History of the Lower Thames Valley. Cambridge University Press. 1994.

Haining, P. The Great English Earthquake. Robert Hale. 1976.

King, C. The Stratigraphy of the London Clay and Associated Deposits.
(Tertiary Research Special Paper No. 6). Backhuys (Rotterdam). 1981.

Knell, S. and Taylor, M. Geology and the Local Museum. HMSO. 1989.

Lister, A. and Bahn, P. Mammoths. Boxtree. 1995.

Meldola, R. and White, W. Report on the East Anglian Earthquake of April 22nd 1884. Essex Field Club Special Memoirs-Vol. 1. 1885.

Moorlock, B. and Smith, A. S W Essex- M25 Corridor: Applied Geology for Planning and Development. British Geological Survey. 1991.

Musson, R.M.W. A Catalogue of British Earthquakes. British Geological Survey. 1994.

Natural History Museum. British Caenozoic Fossils. 1975

Natural History Museum. British Mesozoic Fossils. 1983

Page, W. (editor) Victoria History of the County of Essex. Vol. I (geology) 1903 and Vol. 2 (industries) 1907.

Smith, A.B. (editor) Fossils of the Chalk. Palaeontological Association. 1987.

Stuart, A.J. Life in the Ice Age. Shire Publications. 1988.

Sumbler, M.G. British Regional Geology: London and the Thames Valley. HMSO. 1996



JOURNAL ARTICLES (obtainable through Essex Library Service)

Allen, P. 1998. The geological history of the Lower Thames in Essex - A Review. Essex Naturalist. 15. (New Series). 5-21.

Allen, P. 1998.The Anglian Cold Stage in Essex - A Review. Essex Naturalist. 16. (New Series). 83-100.

Allsop, J.M. and Smith, N.J.P. 1988. The deep geology of Essex. Proc. Geol. Assoc. 99(4). 249-260.

Anon. 1884.
In memoriam : Sir Antonio Brady. Transactions of the Essex Field Club. 3. 94-101.

Bridgland, D.R. 1988. The Pleistocene fluvial stratigraphy and palaeogeography of Essex. Proc. Geol. Assoc. 99(4). 291-314.

Bristow, C.R. et al. 1980. The Claygate Beds of Essex. Proc. Geol. Assoc. 91(4). 261-277.

Ellison, R.A. 1983. Facies distribution in the Woolwich and Reading Beds of the London basin. Proc. Geol. Assoc. 94(4). 311-319.

George, W.H. 1997. An Ipswichian interglacial site at Wrabness, Essex. Essex Field Club Newsletter. No. 21. 4-6.

George, W.H. 1997. Prospecting for Pleistocene macro-mammalian remains at
Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex in the nineteenth century.
Essex Field Club Newsletter. No. 20. 3-6.

George, W.H. and Vincent, S. 1976. Some river exposures of London Clay in Suffolk and Essex. Tertiary Research. 1(1). 25-28.

Hancock, J.M. 1975. The petrology of the Chalk. Proc. Geol. Assoc. 86(4). 499-535.

Hey, R.W. 1976. Provenance of far-travelled pebbles in the pre-Anglian Pleistocene of East Anglia. Proc. Geol. Assoc. 87(1). 69-81.

Knox, R.W. and Ellison, R.A. 1979. A Lower Eocene ash sequence in south-east England. Quarterly Journal of the Geol. Soc. 136. 251-253.

Mathers, SJ. and Zaiasiewicz, J.A. 1988. The Red Crag and Norwich Crag formations of southern East Anglia. Proc. Geol. Assoc. 99(4). 261-278.

Potter, J.F. 1987. Geological traces of Saxon churches in the London basin. Geology Today. 3(5). 164-168.

Redknap, M. and Currant, A. 1985. 'Another day's elephant hunting in Essex' : recently excavated fossil remains from Ilford. Essex Journal. 20(1). 8-10.

Roper, IJ. 1988. The origin of chalky boulder clay - a provenance exercise. Geology Teaching. 13(2). 84-86.

Salter.A.E. 1914. Sarsen, basalt and other boulders in Essex. Essex Naturalist. 17. 186-199.

Turner, C. 1970. The Middle Pleistocene deposits at Marks Tey, Essex. Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. London. Series B. Vol 257. 373-440.

Walker, H. 1880. A day's elephant hunting in Essex. Transactions of the Essex Field Club. 1. 27-58.

Ward, G.R. 1978. London Clay fossils from the M11 motorway, Essex. Tertiary Research. 2(1). 17-21.

Warren, S.H. 1924. The elephant bed of Clacton-on-Sea. Essex Naturalist. 21. 32-40.

Whiteman, C.A. 1992. The palaeogeography and correlation of the pre-Anglian glaciation terraces of the River Thames in Essex and the London basin. Proc. Geol. Assoc. 103(1). 37-56.

Wire, A.P. 1890. Essex Worthies. 1. Memoir of the late John Brown, F.G.S., of Stanway. Essex Naturalist. 4.158-168.

Woodward, A.S. 1925. Primitive mammals in the London Clay of Harwich. Essex Naturalist. 21.97-103.



OTHER RESOURCES


Regional Memoirs (Published by the British Geological Survey)

Geology of the Country Around: Braintree. HMSO. 1986.
Geology of the Country Around Chelmsford. HMSO. 1985.
Geology of the Country Around Epping. HMSO. 1987.
Geology of the Country Around Great Dunmow. HMSO. 1990.
Geology of the Country near Saffron Walden. HMSO. 1932
Geology of the Country Around Southend and Foulness. HMSO. 1986
Geology of the Country Around Sudbury (Suffolk). HMSO. 1993.

Geological Maps (Published by the British Geological Survey)

1:625 000 scale (approx. one inch to ten miles).
Geological Map of the United Kingdom (south sheet)
(solid or drift editions).

1:50 000 scale (approx. one and a quarter inches to the mile).
205 Saffron Walden
206 Sudbury (includes part of Essex)
222 Great Dunmow
223 Braintree.
240 Epping.
241 Chelmsford.
257 Romford.
258/259 Southend and Foulness.
271 Dartford (includes part of Essex)

1:25 000 scale (approx. two and a half inches to the mile).
TL81 Witham.