Research interests: stratigraphy, geological mapping and geological processes and their application to regional and international correlation, and to their practical application to site investigation, landslides, coastal erosion, alternative hydrocarbon and geothermal energy resources, and the potential effects of global warming. Extensive experience of all aspects of the geology of Mesozoic, Tertiary and Quaternary successions in eastern and southern England including acting as geological advisor to the successful East Devon-Dorset Coast World Heritage Site nomination. This last, popularly known as the Jurassic Coast WHS, contains some of the best exposures of the Triassic and Cretaceous in Europe.
Sea stacks in Triassic Otter Sandstone, Ladram Bay, Devon.
Triassic-Jurassic boundary beds, Charton Bay, Lyme Regis, Dorset.
Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay cliffs viewed from Houns-tout, Dorset.
Triassic mudstones faulted against Cretaceous sandstones, White Cliff, Seaton, Devon.
Cliffs in Upper Cretaceous Chalk, Beer, Devon.
Clay-with-flints resting on Chalk, Salcombe Regis, Devon.
Mer de Glace, Chamonix, France, 1832.
Mer de Glace, 2008. Global-warming? Perhaps, perhaps not.
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References
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. 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. 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. 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.
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.
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. 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. & 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. 2009. The stratigraphy of the Penarth Group of the Severn Estuary area. Geoscience in south-west England, Vol. 12, 71-84.
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. 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.
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.
