All BGS publications can be obtained via their web site or via their stockists.
Contributions to BGS 1:50,000-scale sheets 104 (Mablethorpe), 116 (Skegness), 129 (The Wash), 145 (King's Lynn), 146 (Fakenham), 159 (Wisbech), 160 (Swaffham), 173 (Ely), 174 (Thetford), 302 (Horsham), 303 (Tunbridge Wells), 304 (Tenterden), 317 (Lewes), 318 (Brighton), 331 (Portsmouth), 326 (Sidmouth), 311 (Wellington) and accompanying memoirs.
Gallois, R. W. 1965. The Wealden District. 4th Edition. British Regional Geology. HMSO, London.
Gallois, R. W. 1975. Cuckield-West Hoathly. 1: 25,000 scale Geological Special Sheet and field notes, Institute of Geological Sciences, London.
Gallois, R. W. 1978. King’s Lynn and The Wash. 1: 50,000 Sheet 145 and part of 129 with Outline of geology. Institute of Geological Sciences, London.
Gallois, R. W. 1988. Geology of the country around Ely. Memoir of the British Geological Survey. Explanation of Sheet 173. HMSO, London.
Cox, F. C., Gallois, R. W. and Wood, C. J. 1989. Geology of the country around Norwich. Memoir of the British Geological Survey. Explanation of Sheet 161. HMSO, London.
Gallois, R. W. and Worssam, B. C. 1993. Geology of the country around Horsham. Memoir of the British Geological Survey. Explanation of Sheet 302. HMSO, London.
Gallois, R. W. 1994. Geology of the country around King's Lynn and The Wash. Memoir of the British Geological Survey. Explanation of Sheet 145 and part 129. HMSO, London.
Gallois, R. W. 1995. Lulworth Cove Area. Holiday Geology Guide. British Geological Survey, Nottingham.
Gallois, R. W. 1998. Isle of Wight: the view from space. Holiday Geology Map. British Geological Survey, Nottingham.
Gallois, R. W. 1999. Isle of Wight. Holiday Geology Guide. British Geological Survey, Nottingham.
Contribution to Anon, 2000. Nomination of the Dorset and East Devon Coast for inclusion in the World Heritage List. Dorset County Council, Dorchester.
Gallois, R. W. 2001. Stonehenge: the secrets in the stones. Holiday Geology Guide. British Geological Survey, Nottingham.
Contribution to Litherland, M. (compiler). 2001. Tourists' rock, fossil and mineral map of Great Britain. British Geological Survey, Nottingham.
Edwards, R. A. and Gallois, R. W. 2005. Geology of the Sidmouth district–a brief explanation of the geological map. Sheet Explanation of British Geological Survey Sheets 326 and 340. British Geological Survey, Nottingham.
Barron, A.J.M.; Sheppard, T.H.; Gallois, R.W.; Hobbs, P.R.N.; Smith, N.J.P. 2011. Geology of the Bath district : a brief explanation of the geological map sheet 265 Bath. British Geological Survey, Nottingham.
Other publications
Some of these can be downloaded as pdfs from the thematic pages. Please email for abstract of those not listed on the thematic pages.
Site investigations
Gallois, R. W. P.207 and Figures 5 and 12 to 40 in Wilson, V. (Ed). 1967a. Report on the geological and geotechnical investigations on the Mundford site, West Norfolk, England. Pp. 201-252 in Sites for the proposed CERN 300GeV proton synchrotron. CERN, Geneva.
Gallois, R. W. 1967b. In Institute of Geological Sciences and Building Research Station The United Kingdom site for the 300 GeV accelerator: geotechnical studies. Science Research Council, London.
Ward, W. D, Burland, J. B. and Gallois, R. W. 1968. Geotechnical assessment of a site at Mundford, Norfolk, for a large proton accelerator. Geotechnique, Vol. 18, 399-431.
Contribution to Knill, J. and others, 1970. The logging of rock cores for engineering purposes. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology. Vol.3, 1-24. 1971.
Gallois, R. W. 1973. Some detailed correlations in the Upper Kimmeridge Clay in Norfolk and Lincolnshire using gamma-ray logging. Bulletin of the Geological Survey, No. 44, 63-75.
Grainger, P., McCann, D. H. and Gallois, R. W. 1973. A seismic refraction technique for assessing fracture patterns in the Middle Chalk at Mundford, Norfolk. Geotechnique, Vol. 23, 219-232.
Gallois, R. W. 1974. Wash Feasibility Study: Geological report on the inland investigations. British geological Survey Report for the Water Resources Board, London.
Contribution to Price, D. and others, 1977. Second report by Geological Society working party on the logging of rock cores for engineering purposes. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology, Vol. 10, 45-52.
Gallois, R. W. 1978. Geological investigations for the Wash Water Storage Feasibility Study. Report of the Institute of Geological Sciences, No. 78/19, 1-78.
Gallois, R. W. and Horton, A. 1982. Field investigation of British Mesozoic and Tertiary mudstones. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology, Vol. 14, 311-323.
Contribution to Code of Practice for Site Investigations, BS 5930, 1981. British Standards Institution, London.
Gallois, R. W. and Worssam, B. C. 1983. The stratigraphy of the Harwell boreholes. Report of the Institute of Geological Sciences, FLPU 83/14.
Penn, I. E, Cox, B. M. and Gallois, R. W. 1986. Towards precision in stratigraphy: geophysical log correlations of Upper Jurassic (including Callovian) strata of the Eastern England Shelf. Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol. 143, 381-410.
Gallois, R. W. 1990. Overviews, field logging and mechanical properties. 11-13 in Chalk, Burland, J. B. and others (editors). Thomas Telford, London.
Gallois, R. W. and Allen, P. M. 1992. Recent developments in geological mapping in the United Kingdom. Commission for the Geological Map of the World, Bulletin No. 41, 159-163.
Harrison, D. J. and Gallois, R. W. 1994. Limestone as a resource and its alternatives. Pp.1-16 in Raymond, W. (Ed.). Mendip Limestone Quarrying: a conflict of interests. Somerset Books, Tiverton.
Smedley, P. L., Gallois, R. W., Edmunds, W. M. and Shand, P. 1995. Trace elements in Anglian Water Lower Cretaceous aquifers. British Geological Survey Technical Report WD/95/45R.
Gallois, R. W. and Davis, G. M. 2001. Saving Lyme Regis from the sea: the results of recent geological site investigations. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 10, 183-189.
Brereton, N. R., Gallois, R. W. and Whittaker, A. 2001. Enhanced lithological description of some British mudrock sequences using geophysical wireline logs. Petroleum Geology, Vol. 7, 315-320.
Brereton, N. R., Gallois, R. W. and Whittaker, A. 2001. Improved lithological
descriptions from downhole geophysical log data. Proceedings of the Mittelungen der Österreichschen Mineralogischen Gesellschaft, Vol. 146, 42-44.
Gallois, R. W. 2004. Large-scale dissolution features in the Upper Greensand (Cretaceous) in south-west England. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 11, 30-36.
Gallois, R. W. 2005. Large-scale partial dissolution of the Chalk of the Devon coast and its engineering significance. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 11, 123-131.
Gallois, R. W. 2006. Report on the geology of the area between Devonshire Head and the River Lim, Lyme Regis, Dorset. West Dorset District Council Technical Services Report No. 06/01.
Gallois, R. W. and Howe, P. 2006. Report on the Geological monitoring of the Phase II excavations at Lyme Regis, Dorset. West Dorset District Council Technical Services Report No. 06/02.
Gallois, R. W. 2010. The stratigraphy of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Jurassic) of the Isle of Portland, Dorset, UK. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 12, 201-208.
Gallois, R. W. 2010. Large-scale periglacial creep folds in Jurassic mudstones on the Dorset coast. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 12, 223-232.
Landslides
Gallois, R. W. 2001. Field excursion to examine the geology and landforms of the Charmouth-Lyme Regis area. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 10, 243-246.
Grainger, P. and Gallois, R. W. 2001. A comparison between the stability and stratigraphy of the Triassic mudrock cliffs of the Devon coast (abstract only). Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 10, 247.
Gallois, R. W. 2007. A recent landslide on the east Devon coast, UK. Quaternary Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology, Vol. 40, 29-34.
Gallois, R.W. 2008. Geological controls on the failure mechanisms within the Black Ven-Spittles landslip complex, Lyme Regis, Dorset. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 12, 9-14.
Gallois, R. W. 2009. A recent large landslide at The Spittles, Lyme Regis, Dorset and its implications for the stability of the adjacent urban area. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 12, 101-109.
Gallois, R. W. 2010. Report on the landslide movements in the Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliffs National Nature Reserve in FY 2009-2010. Natural England Report No. Galgeol 2010/1.
Gallois, R. W. 2010. Large-scale periglacial creep folds in Jurassic mudstones on the Dorset coast. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 12, 223-232.
Gallois, R. W. 2010. The failure mechanism of the 1839 Bindon Landslide, Devon: almost right first time. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 12, 188-197.
Gallois, R. W. 2011. A fossil landslide preserved offshore at Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 12, 329-334.
Gallois, R.W. 2013. Landslide mechanisms in the Mercia Mudstone (Triassic) of the east Devon coast. Geoscience in south-west England, Vol. 12, 172-182.
Coastal erosion
Gallois, R. W. and Davis, G. M. 2001. Saving Lyme Regis from the sea: the results of recent geological site investigations. Geoscience in South-West England , Vol. 10, 183-189.
Gallois, R. W. 2011. Natural and artificial influences on coastal erosion at Sidmouth, Devon, UK. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 12, 304-312.
Gallois, R.W. 2012. The influence of reactivated fault movements on river development and coastal evolution: examples from the Devon-Dorset coast, UK. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 13, 77-83.
Oil shales
Gallois, R. W. 1976. Coccolith blooms in the Kimmeridge Clay and the origin of North Sea Oil. Nature, Vol. 259, 473-475.
Gallois, R.W. 1978. A pilot study of oil shale occurrences in the Kimmeridge Clay. Report of the Institute of Geological Sciences. No.78/13. 1-26.
Gallois, R. W. 1978. What price oil shales? New Scientist, Vol. 77, 490-493.
Gallois, R. W. 1979. Oil shale resources in Great Britain. 2 vols. Institute of Geological Sciences for Department of Energy, London.
Brereton, N. R., Gallois, R. W. and Whittaker, A. 2001. Enhanced lithological description of some British mudrock sequences using geophysical wireline logs. Petroleum Geoscience, Vol. 7, 315-320.
Weedon, G. P, Coe, A. L. and Gallois, R. W. 2004. Cyclostratigraphy, orbital tuning and inferred productivity for the type Kimmeridge Clay (late Jurassic), southern England. Journal of the Geological Society, London, Vol. 161, 655-666.
Gallois, R. W. 2011 The Norfolk oil-shale rush 1916-1922. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, Vol. 123, 64-73.
Gallois, R. W. 2013. Fracking for shale gas: coming to a field near you soon? Dorset Geologists’ Association Group, Newsletter December 2013.
Hot springs
Gallois, R. W. 2006. The geology of the hot springs at Bath Spa, Somerset. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 11, 168-173.
Gallois, R. W. 2007. The formation of the hot springs at Bath Spa, UK. Geological Magazine, Vol. 144, 741-747.
Triassic
Gallois, R. W. 2001. The lithostratigraphy of the Mercia Mudstone Group (mid and late Triassic) of the south Devon coast. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 10, 195-204.
Gallois, R. W. 2003. The distribution of halite (rock salt) in the Mercia Mudstone Group (mid to late Triassic) in south-west England. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 10, 383-389.
Gallois, R. W. 2004. The junction of the Mercia Mudstone Group and Otter Sandstone Formation (Triassic) at Pennington Point, Sidmouth, Devon. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 11, 51-58.
Gallois, R. W. 2005 The stratigraphy of the Mercia Mudstone Group succession (mid to late Triassic) proved in the Wiscombe Park boreholes, Devon. British Geological Survey Technical Report IR/05/143.
Gallois, R. W. 2005. Correlation of the Triassic and Jurassic successions proved in the Lyme Regis (1901) Borehole with those exposed on the nearby Devon and Dorset coasts. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 11, 99-105.
Gallois, R. W. 2006. Report on the geology of the Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliffs National Nature Reserve. Part 1: Triassic and Jurassic rocks. English Nature Report No. Galgeol 2006/1.
Gallois, R.W. and Porter, R. J. 2006. The stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Dunscombe Mudstone Formation (late Triassic) of south-west England. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 11, 174-182.
Gallois, R. W. 2007. The stratigraphy of the Mercia Mudstone Group succession (mid to late Triassic) proved in the Wiscombe Park boreholes, Devon. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 11, 280-286.
Gallois, R. W. 2007. The stratigraphy of the Penarth Group (Late Triassic) of the East Devon coast. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 11, 287-297.
Porter, R. J. and Gallois, R. W. 2008. Identifying fluvio-lacustrine intervals in thick playa-lake successions: an integrated sedimentology and ichnology of arenaceous members in the mid-late Triassic Mercia Mudstone Group of south-west England, UK. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 270, 381-398.
Gallois, R. W. 2009. The stratigraphy of the Penarth group of the Severn Estuary area. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 12, 71-84.
Gallois, R.W. 2013. Possible tetrapod burrows in the Mid Triassic Otter Sandstone Formation at Sidmouth, Devon, U.K. Geoscience in south-west England, Vol. 13, 208-215
Jurassic
Gallois, R. W. 1973. Some detailed correlations in the Upper Kimmeridge Clay in Norfolk and Lincolnshire using gamma-ray logging. Bulletin of the Geological Survey, No. 44, 63-75.
Gallois, R. W and Cox, B. M. 1974. The stratigraphy of the Upper Kimmeridgian of the Wash area. Bulletin of the Geological Survey, No. 46, 1-28.
Contribution to Rhys, G. H. (Compiler), 1974. The stratigraphy of the southern North Sea. Report of the Institute of Geological Sciences, No. 74/8.
Gallois, R. W. 1976. Coccolith blooms in the Kimmeridge Clay and the origin of North Sea Oil. Nature, Vol. 259, 473-475.
Gallois, R. W. and Cox, B. M. 1976. The stratigraphy of the Lower Kimmeridgian of Eastern England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Vol. 41, 13-26.
Gallois, R. W. 1978. Geological investigations for the Wash Water Storage Feasibility Study. Report of the Institute of Geological Sciences, No. 78/19, 1-78.
Gallois, R. W and Cox, B. M. 1978. The stratigraphy of the Middle and Upper Oxfordian sediments of Fenland. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Vol. 88, 207-228.
Gallois, R. W. and Medd, A. W. 1979. Coccolith marker bands in the English Kimmeridge Clay. Geological Magazine, Vol. 116, 247-260.
Cox, B. M. and Gallois, R. W. 1981. The Kimmeridge Clay of the Dorset type area and its correlation with other Kimmeridgian sequences. Report of the Institute of Geological Sciences, No. 80/4, 1-44.
Gallois, R. W. 1983. The stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous rocks of Norfolk. Unpublished PhD thesis, London.
Gallois, R. W. and Worssam, B. C. 1983. The stratigraphy of the Harwell boreholes. Report of the Institute of Geological Sciences, FLPU 83/14.
Penn, I. E, Cox, B. M. and Gallois, R. W. 1986. Towards precision in stratigraphy: geophysical log correlations of Upper Jurassic (including Callovian) strata of the Eastern England Shelf. Journal of the Geological Society of London, Vol. 143, 381-410.
Gallois, R. W. and Cox, B. M. 1994. The Kimmeridge Clay and underlying strata (Upper Jurassic) at Swindon, Wiltshire. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Vol. 105, 99-110.
Cox, B. M., Gallois, R. W and Sumbler, M. G. 1994. The stratigraphy of the BGS Hartwell Borehole, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Vol. 105, 209-224.
Gallois, R. W. 2000. The stratigraphy of the Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Upper Jurassic) in the RGGE Project boreholes at Swanworth Quarry and Metherhills, south Dorset. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Vol. 111, 265-280.
Gallois, R. W and Etches, S. 2001. The stratigraphy of the youngest part of the Kimmeridge Clay (late Jurassic) of the Dorset type area. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Vol. 112, 169-182.
Gallois, R. W. 2004. The Kimmeridge Clay: the most intensively studied formation in Britain. Open University Geological Society Journal, Vol. 25, 33-38.
Weedon, G. P, Coe, A. L. and Gallois, R. W. 2004. Cyclostratigraphy, orbital tuning and inferred productivity for the type Kimmeridge Clay (late Jurassic), southern England. Journal of the Geological Society, London, Vol. 161, 655-666.
Gallois, R. W. 2005. On the Kimmeridgian successions of the Normandy coast, northern France. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Vol. 116, 33-43.
Gallois, R. W. 2005. Correlation of the Kimmeridgian successions of the Normandy coast, northern France with those of the Dorset type area, southern England. Comptes Rendus de L’Académie des Sciences, Vol. 337, 347-255.
Gallois, R. W. 2005. The geology of Church Cliffs and adjacent areas, Lyme Regis, Dorset. West Dorset District Council Technical Services Report No. 05/01.
Gallois, R. W. 2006. Report on the geology of the area between Devonshire Head and the River Lim, Lyme Regis, Dorset. West Dorset District Council Technical Services Report No. 06/01.
Gallois, R. W. 2006. Report on the geology of the Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliffs National Nature Reserve. Part 1: Triassic and Jurassic rocks. English Nature Report No. Galgeol 2006/1.
Gallois, R. W. 2008. The lithostratigraphy of the Shales-with-Beef Member of the Charmouth Mudstone Formation, Lower Jurassic. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 12, 32-40.
Gallois, R.W. 2008. Geological controls on the failure mechanisms within the Black Ven-Spittles landslip complex, Lyme Regis, Dorset. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 12, 9-14.
Gallois, R. W. & Paul, C. R. C. 2009. Lateral variation in the topmost part of the Blue Lias and basal Charmouth Mudstone formations (Lower Jurassic) on the Devon and Dorset coast. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 12, 125-133.
Gallois, R. W. and Etches, S. M. 2010. The distribution of ammonite Gravesia (Salfeld, 1913) in the Kimmeridge Clay Formation (late Jurassic) in Britain. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 12, 240-249.
Gallois, R. W. 2011. A revised description of the lithostratigraphy of the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian and Kimmeridgian-Volgian boundary beds at Kimmeridge, Dorset, UK. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 12, 288-294.
Gallois, R.W. 2012. Reply to Dr Wimbledon’s comments on A revised description of the lithostratigraphy of the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian and Kimmeridgian-Volgian boundary beds at Kimmeridge, Dorset. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 13, 132-134.
Cretaceous
Casey, R. and Gallois, R. W. 1973. The Sandringham Sands of Norfolk. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Vol. 40, 1-22.
Gallois, R. W. and Morter A. A. 1982. The Stratigraphy of the Gault of East Anglia. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Vol. 93, 351-368.
Gallois, R. W. 1983. The stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous rocks of Norfolk. Unpublished PhD thesis, London.
Gallois, R. W. 1984. The Late Jurassic to Mid Cretaceous rocks of Norfolk. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Norfolk, Vol. 34, 3-64.
Mortimore, R. N., Wood, C. J. and Gallois, R. W. 2001. British Upper Cretaceous Stratigraphy. Geological Conservation Review Series, No. 24. Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough.
Gallois, R. W. 2004. The lithostratigraphy of the Upper Greensand (Albian, Cretaceous) of south-west England. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 11, 21-29.
Gallois, R. W. 2004. Large-scale dissolution features in the Upper Greensand (Cretaceous) in south-west England. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 11, 30-36.
Gallois, R. W. 2005. Large-scale partial dissolution of the Chalk of the Devon coast and its engineering significance. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 11, 123-131.
Gallois, R. W. 2007. Report on the geology of the Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliffs National Nature Reserve. Part 2: Cretaceous rocks. Natural England Report No. Galgeol 2007/1.
Gallois, R. W. and Goldring, R. 2007. Trace fossils at the basal Upper Greensand (Albian, Cretaceous) unconformity surface in east Devon (south-west England) and the nature of the unconformity surface. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Vol. 118, 265-275.
Quaternary
Gallois, R. W. 1978. Geological investigations for the Wash Water Storage Feasibility Study. Report of the Institute of Geological Sciences, No. 78/19, 1-78.
Gallois, R. W. 1978. The Pleistocene history of west Norfolk (Presidential address for 1977). Bulletin of the Geological Society of Norfolk, Vol. 30, 3-38.
Gallois, R. W. 1999. Pre-glacial drainage of Fenland. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, Vol. 110, 257-258.
Gallois, R.W. 2006. The evolution of the rivers of east Devon and south Somerset, UK. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 11, 205-213.
Gallois, R. W. 2009. Report on the geology of the Axmouth to Lyme Regis Undercliffs National Nature Reserve. Part 3: Tertiary and Quaternary deposits. Natural England Report No. Galgeol 09/1.
Gallois, R. W. 2009. The origin of the Clay-with-flints: the missing link. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 12, 153-161.
Gallois, R. W. 2010. Large-scale periglacial creep folds in Jurassic mudstones on the Dorset coast. Geoscience in South-West England, Vol. 12, 223-232.
Gallois, R. W. 2011. Hercules: my part in the restitution of his manhood. Newsletter of the History of Geology Group of the Geological Society of London, No. 42, 19-21.
Gallois, R.W. 2013. A concealed sea cliff and low-stand wave-cut platform on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, UK, Geoscience in south-west England, Vol. 13, 222-227.
Specialist in the application of Mesozoic, Tertiary and Quaternary geology and geological processes to engineering problems related to ground stability, landslides, coastal erosion and the potential effects of global warming; and to alternative hydrocarbon and geothermal energy resources
