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William John French (1934–2015)
Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 127 (2016) 110–112
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Obituary
William John French (1934–2015)
William John French (17/8/1934–1/11/2015), known as Bill, was a dedicated member of the Geologists’ Association for 57 years, being General Secretary (1978–1982) and President (2002–2004), but he also served on the Councils of the Geological and Mineralogical Societies, thus sustaining and making a major contribution to British earth science organisations. Bill was schooled in Isleworth, Middlesex and entered Nottingham University in 1953 to study geology. He often recounted how, on interview to be admitted, the Head of Department, Prof. W. D. Evans invited him into his laboratory and performed a number of bizarre, spectacular and exciting experiments which convinced him he had applied to the right place! He graduated with a First Class in Honours Geology in 1956 and went to King’s College London (1956–1959) to study for a PhD under W. S. Pitcher as part of the Donegal Granites project. The work involved mapping and researching the numerous lamprophyres, intrusion breccias (French and Pitcher, 1959; French, 1977), appinitic bosses and leucodiorites (French, 1966, 1976a) intruded around the Ardara pluton in Co. Donegal, which he concluded were petrogenetically related to the granite pluton. This deduction has since been confirmed by many other studies of such petrological associations with modern geochronology showing the closely similar ages of associated lamprophyres, appinites and granite plutons. From 1959–1961 Bill was a Research Demonstrator in the Geology Department, Cardiff under Prof. J. G. C. Anderson, during which he completed and obtained his PhD (French, 1960). In general, he did not find writing easy and he was not a prolific http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2016.01.001 0016-7878/
publisher, neither was he an avid field man, but he did have an unusually inquiring mind. In 1961 Bill was appointed to an Assistant Lecturership by Drlater Prof. J. F. Kirkaldy at Queen Mary College, London, (QMC), teaching mineralogy and petrology in the Department of Geology and he remained at QMC until he retired, as a Senior Lecturer, in 1998. In 1963 the Department moved into a newly redesigned and freshly equipped building and Bill successfully designed and equipped a new modern geochemistry laboratory with X-Ray Fluorescence and X-Ray Diffraction equipment and the ability to determine water, ferrous iron and the microanalysis of minerals, by wet methods (French and Adams, 1972, 1973, 1974). He spent some time trying to apply published experimental igneous petrological data to natural rocks, particularly basalts, but little of lasting impact came out of this work (French, 1971, 1976b; Cameron and French, 1977; French and Cameron, 1981). A joint investigation was also made into the volcanic rocks of the Ochils, Stirlingshire (French et al., 1977, 1980) but more important was his Guernsey work. In the early 1970s the British Geological Survey placed a contract with QMC for work towards the publication of the first ‘official’ geological maps of the Channel Islands, and Dr A. Clive Bishop, a colleague at QMC until he moved to the Natural History Museum, and Bill were heavily involved, with Bill supervising several research students and taking responsibility for helping to compile the Bailiwick of Guernsey sheet (Keen et al., 1986). Bill’s Donegal experience fitted him well for studying the meladiorites of Guernsey (Bishop and French, 1982). In the mid-1970s Bill went to the Middle East and became aware of the difficulties of maintaining the integrity of concrete and he began to examine some of the causes of the problems (French, 1980), including the effects of groundwater penetration (French et al., 1982; Fookes et al., 1985). He made a major contribution in this important field of concrete studies, becoming an expert on concrete corrosion and identifying it from petrographic studies, which was a simple and rapid method (French and Howarth, 2000). In particular, he had an enviable reputation for his understanding of the alkali-silica reaction which can occur between certain aggregates containing opaline silica and the cement paste resulting in destructive disintegration of the concrete, in for instance, bridges. Such was his expertise that his advice was regularly sought as an expert witness and his papers (French, 1991, 1992, 2006; Wigum et al., 1997; Howarth and French, 1998) are widely consulted not only to help detect concrete corrosion but also to ensure the rejection of unsuitable aggregates before use. With mainly Drs Alan B. Poole and E. Vivian Tucker at QMC, he set up a firm in 1991 near Billericay (where he lived),
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Geomaterials Research Services Ltd, with QMC approval, to undertake assessments of bridges and other concrete structures suffering corrosion and requiring remedial action, while retaining his academic post. On retiring in 1998, the firm was given to the employees and later merged with Sandbergs. He also contributed to a QMC MSc course initiated in 1979 as ‘Industrial Petrology’ and later changed to a ‘Geomaterials MSc’ which was directed and mostly carried by Poole. This was highly successful, giving an excellent training and popular with students and industry. However, reorganisation of the teaching of geology in the University of London resulted, in 1983, in the merger of the Geology Departments at QMC and University College on the UC site. Bill and three other staff chose to remain at QMC forming, in Geography, an Applied Earth Science Group with Bill as Director, and moving, in 1988, to the Civil Engineering Department as the Geomaterials Unit and continuing the Geomaterials MSc under Poole. Bill remained Director of the Unit until his resignation in 1992 when Dr Poole took over. Bill gave outstanding service to the Geologists’ Association (GA). He was a member 1958–2015, General Secretary (1978– 1982), President (2002–2004), a recipient of the Foulerton Award (1986), a Council member for 14 years, and a quiet regular donor to the GA. He became General Secretary when Bishop was President at a critical period when rampant inflation and personal difficulties of the Officers threatened the very existence of the Association, as detailed in Leake et al. (2013). He and others worked tirelessly to stabilise the finances and to save the Proceedings, greatly helped by Douglas Grant of Scottish Academic Press. Up to this point the Association had been run by dedicated officers working from home but cheques were being delivered to a previous address of the Treasurer; four different lists of members, none complete, were distributed around the country and some members were still paying the £1 subscription of 1959 in 1978, when it was £8! It was realised that, in the interests of efficiency, this could not continue and Bill was among those who negotiated and oversaw the rental of an office from the Geological Society in 1979 and a paid member of staff. It was a wise move. Such was his grasp of financial matters that he was a most valuable member of the Finance Committee and when the Treasurer, Prof. Bernard E. Leake was teaching in New Zealand in 1999, it was Bill who deputised for him. He also served as Treasurer of the two major Earth Alert Meetings, the first of which was the largest meeting ever run by the GA. He sat on the Publications Committee, the Geology Today Management Group and was a prime mover in establishing the GA Magazine, initially shouldering the burden of editor as well as the computer typesetting, without which it is doubtful if the Magazine would have been launched because the costs had to be kept within those of the previous Circulars, but the larger size necessitated higher postage costs. He was also a long-time member of the Essex local GA Group. Bill was a member of the Mineralogical Society from 1966 and served on the Council from 1976–1979 but he was more involved with the Geological Society, being elected a Fellow in 1957, was a Secretary (1982–1985) and Treasurer (1985–1989). In particular, he contributed greatly to making the Society its own publisher in 1987, not only by visiting, with Dr L. Robin M. Cocks and Leake, possible premises for the Publishing House, eventually agreeing on a location in Bath, but as Treasurer he sanctioned the use of the Curry Fund capital that the previous Treasurer, Leake, had ‘salted away’ for this purpose in 1984. During his time as Treasurer, the Society apartments in Burlington House were, in 1985, first wired for a computer network and the Council Room was re-modelled; in 1986 application was first made for VAT registration (completed in 1987) which resulted in savings of tens of thousands of pounds due
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to members’ journals being zero rated (not exempt), further improvements to the apartments made and in 1987 the decision to set up the Publishing House was made with, in 1988, the purchase of a 999 year lease on premises in Bath for £175,000. He also first acted for the then Treasurer, Leake, in 1993, when he was on sabbatical study leave in Western Australia; an example of his open-hearted helpful nature. When many would have selfishly pursued their own careers, Bill gave generously of his time and talents to the wider furtherance of his profession. Such generosity was typical of him. His warm, open manner made him a delightful colleague and he was greatly respected both by generations of QMC students and by his colleagues in academe and industry. Bill was twice married, first in 1981 to Valerie Vida Davies, who died in 1988 and then, in 1991, to Joan Slaughter who survives him with his son Roland James and daughter Caroline Elizabeth of his first marriage, together with his granddaughters Chloe and Emma.
References Bishop, A.C., French, W.J., 1982. Nature and origin of meladiorite layers in northern Guernsey, Channel Islands. Mineralogical Magazine 46, 301–321. Cameron, E.P., French, W.J., 1977. The relationship of the order of crystallization of basalt melts to their classification and to the definition of rock series. Mineralogical Magazine 41, 239–251. Fookes, P.G., French, W.J., Rice, S.M.M., 1985. The influence of ground and groundwater geochemistry on construction in the Middle East. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology 18, 101–128. French, W.J., 1960. Appinitic intrusions associated with the granodioritic pluton of Ardara, County Donegal. PhD thesis, University of London. French, W.J., 1966. Appinitic intrusions clustered around the Ardara pluton, County Donegal. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 64B, 303–322. French, W.J., 1971. The correlation between ‘anhydrous’ crystallisation temperatures and rock composition. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 31, 154–158. French, W.J., 1976a. The origin of leucodiorites associated with appinitic intrusions of County Donegal. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 41, 107– 125. French, W.J., 1976b. Rock composition, density and a variation diagram. Geological Magazine 113, 371–376. French, W.J., 1977. Breccia pipes associated with the Ardara pluton, County Donegal. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 77B, 101–117. French, W.J., 1980. Reactions between aggregates and cement paste. An interpretation of pessimum. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology 13, 231–247. French, W.J., 1991. Concrete petrography: a review. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology 24, 17–48. French, W.J., 1992. The characterisation of potentially reactive aggregates, 339–46; Comparison of the Canadian and British Standard Concrete prism tests and the effect of reduced permeability on the results, 347–52. 9th International Conference on alkali-aggregate reaction in concrete. Concrete Society Publication No. CS104. French, W.J., 2006. Why concrete cracks—geological factors in concrete failure. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 118, 89–106. French, W.J., Adams, S.J., 1972. A rapid method for the extraction and determination of iron (II) in silicate rocks and minerals. Analyst 97, 828–831. French, W.J., Adams, S.J., 1973. Polypropylene bottles in the decomposition of silicate rocks. Analytica Chimica Acta 62, 324–328. French, W.J., Adams, S.J., 1974. The use of tiron in the microchemical analysis of minerals. Analyst 99, 551–554. French, W.J., Cameron, E.P., 1981. Calculation of the temperature of crystallisation of silicates from basaltic melts. Mineralogical Magazine 44, 19–26. French, W.J., Hassan, M.D., Westcott, J.E., 1977. A celadonite-vermiculite series from the volcanic rocks of the Ochils, Stirlingshire. Mineralogical Magazine 41, 481–485. French, W.J., Hassan, M.D., Westcott, J.E., 1980. The petrogenesis of Old Red Sandstone volcanic rocks of the western Ochils, Stirlingshire. In: Harris, A.L., Holland, C.H., Leake, B.E. (Eds.), The Caledonides of the British Isles – Reviewed. Geological Society of London Special Publication 8, 635–642. French, W.J., Howarth, R.J., 2000. The petrographic diagnosis of potentially deleterious aggregates. In: Be´rube´, M.A., et al. (Eds.), Alkali-Aggregate Reactions in Concrete. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Alkali-Aggregate Reactions in Concrete. Centre de Recherche Interuniversitaire sur le Beton, Quebec City, pp. 315–324. French, W.J., Pitcher, W.S., 1959. The intrusion-breccia of Dunmore. County Donegal. Geological Magazine 96, 69–74. French, W.J., Poole, A.B., Ravenscroft, P., Khiabani, M., 1982. Results of preliminary experiments on the influence of fabrics on the migration of groundwater and
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water-soluble minerals in the capillary fringe. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology 15, 187–199. Howarth, R.J., French, W.J., 1998. A statistical study of aggregate testing data with respect to engineering judgement. In: Latham, J.P. (Ed.), Advances in Aggregates and Armourstone Evaluation. Geological Society Engineering Geology Special Publication 13, 169–183. Keen, D.H., et al., 1986. Guernsey Geological Map (Solid & Drift) 1:25,000 (Channel Islands, Sheet 1). British Geological Survey. Leake, B.E., Bishop, A.C., Howarth, R.J., 2013. The Wyley History of the Geologists’ Association in the years 1958-2008. Geologists’ Association, London 137pp. Wigum, B.J., French, W.J., Howarth, R.J., Hills, C., 1997. Accelerated tests for assessing the potential exhibited by concrete aggregate for alkali-aggregate reaction. Cement and Concrete Composites 19, 451–476.
Bernard Elgey Leake* A. Clive Bishop Alan B. Poole School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, United Kingdom *Corresponding author E-mail address: [email protected] (B.E. Leake) Available online 21 January 2016
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Obituary
William John French (1934–2015)
William John French (17/8/1934–1/11/2015), known as Bill, was a dedicated member of the Geologists’ Association for 57 years, being General Secretary (1978–1982) and President (2002–2004), but he also served on the Councils of the Geological and Mineralogical Societies, thus sustaining and making a major contribution to British earth science organisations. Bill was schooled in Isleworth, Middlesex and entered Nottingham University in 1953 to study geology. He often recounted how, on interview to be admitted, the Head of Department, Prof. W. D. Evans invited him into his laboratory and performed a number of bizarre, spectacular and exciting experiments which convinced him he had applied to the right place! He graduated with a First Class in Honours Geology in 1956 and went to King’s College London (1956–1959) to study for a PhD under W. S. Pitcher as part of the Donegal Granites project. The work involved mapping and researching the numerous lamprophyres, intrusion breccias (French and Pitcher, 1959; French, 1977), appinitic bosses and leucodiorites (French, 1966, 1976a) intruded around the Ardara pluton in Co. Donegal, which he concluded were petrogenetically related to the granite pluton. This deduction has since been confirmed by many other studies of such petrological associations with modern geochronology showing the closely similar ages of associated lamprophyres, appinites and granite plutons. From 1959–1961 Bill was a Research Demonstrator in the Geology Department, Cardiff under Prof. J. G. C. Anderson, during which he completed and obtained his PhD (French, 1960). In general, he did not find writing easy and he was not a prolific http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2016.01.001 0016-7878/
publisher, neither was he an avid field man, but he did have an unusually inquiring mind. In 1961 Bill was appointed to an Assistant Lecturership by Drlater Prof. J. F. Kirkaldy at Queen Mary College, London, (QMC), teaching mineralogy and petrology in the Department of Geology and he remained at QMC until he retired, as a Senior Lecturer, in 1998. In 1963 the Department moved into a newly redesigned and freshly equipped building and Bill successfully designed and equipped a new modern geochemistry laboratory with X-Ray Fluorescence and X-Ray Diffraction equipment and the ability to determine water, ferrous iron and the microanalysis of minerals, by wet methods (French and Adams, 1972, 1973, 1974). He spent some time trying to apply published experimental igneous petrological data to natural rocks, particularly basalts, but little of lasting impact came out of this work (French, 1971, 1976b; Cameron and French, 1977; French and Cameron, 1981). A joint investigation was also made into the volcanic rocks of the Ochils, Stirlingshire (French et al., 1977, 1980) but more important was his Guernsey work. In the early 1970s the British Geological Survey placed a contract with QMC for work towards the publication of the first ‘official’ geological maps of the Channel Islands, and Dr A. Clive Bishop, a colleague at QMC until he moved to the Natural History Museum, and Bill were heavily involved, with Bill supervising several research students and taking responsibility for helping to compile the Bailiwick of Guernsey sheet (Keen et al., 1986). Bill’s Donegal experience fitted him well for studying the meladiorites of Guernsey (Bishop and French, 1982). In the mid-1970s Bill went to the Middle East and became aware of the difficulties of maintaining the integrity of concrete and he began to examine some of the causes of the problems (French, 1980), including the effects of groundwater penetration (French et al., 1982; Fookes et al., 1985). He made a major contribution in this important field of concrete studies, becoming an expert on concrete corrosion and identifying it from petrographic studies, which was a simple and rapid method (French and Howarth, 2000). In particular, he had an enviable reputation for his understanding of the alkali-silica reaction which can occur between certain aggregates containing opaline silica and the cement paste resulting in destructive disintegration of the concrete, in for instance, bridges. Such was his expertise that his advice was regularly sought as an expert witness and his papers (French, 1991, 1992, 2006; Wigum et al., 1997; Howarth and French, 1998) are widely consulted not only to help detect concrete corrosion but also to ensure the rejection of unsuitable aggregates before use. With mainly Drs Alan B. Poole and E. Vivian Tucker at QMC, he set up a firm in 1991 near Billericay (where he lived),
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Geomaterials Research Services Ltd, with QMC approval, to undertake assessments of bridges and other concrete structures suffering corrosion and requiring remedial action, while retaining his academic post. On retiring in 1998, the firm was given to the employees and later merged with Sandbergs. He also contributed to a QMC MSc course initiated in 1979 as ‘Industrial Petrology’ and later changed to a ‘Geomaterials MSc’ which was directed and mostly carried by Poole. This was highly successful, giving an excellent training and popular with students and industry. However, reorganisation of the teaching of geology in the University of London resulted, in 1983, in the merger of the Geology Departments at QMC and University College on the UC site. Bill and three other staff chose to remain at QMC forming, in Geography, an Applied Earth Science Group with Bill as Director, and moving, in 1988, to the Civil Engineering Department as the Geomaterials Unit and continuing the Geomaterials MSc under Poole. Bill remained Director of the Unit until his resignation in 1992 when Dr Poole took over. Bill gave outstanding service to the Geologists’ Association (GA). He was a member 1958–2015, General Secretary (1978– 1982), President (2002–2004), a recipient of the Foulerton Award (1986), a Council member for 14 years, and a quiet regular donor to the GA. He became General Secretary when Bishop was President at a critical period when rampant inflation and personal difficulties of the Officers threatened the very existence of the Association, as detailed in Leake et al. (2013). He and others worked tirelessly to stabilise the finances and to save the Proceedings, greatly helped by Douglas Grant of Scottish Academic Press. Up to this point the Association had been run by dedicated officers working from home but cheques were being delivered to a previous address of the Treasurer; four different lists of members, none complete, were distributed around the country and some members were still paying the £1 subscription of 1959 in 1978, when it was £8! It was realised that, in the interests of efficiency, this could not continue and Bill was among those who negotiated and oversaw the rental of an office from the Geological Society in 1979 and a paid member of staff. It was a wise move. Such was his grasp of financial matters that he was a most valuable member of the Finance Committee and when the Treasurer, Prof. Bernard E. Leake was teaching in New Zealand in 1999, it was Bill who deputised for him. He also served as Treasurer of the two major Earth Alert Meetings, the first of which was the largest meeting ever run by the GA. He sat on the Publications Committee, the Geology Today Management Group and was a prime mover in establishing the GA Magazine, initially shouldering the burden of editor as well as the computer typesetting, without which it is doubtful if the Magazine would have been launched because the costs had to be kept within those of the previous Circulars, but the larger size necessitated higher postage costs. He was also a long-time member of the Essex local GA Group. Bill was a member of the Mineralogical Society from 1966 and served on the Council from 1976–1979 but he was more involved with the Geological Society, being elected a Fellow in 1957, was a Secretary (1982–1985) and Treasurer (1985–1989). In particular, he contributed greatly to making the Society its own publisher in 1987, not only by visiting, with Dr L. Robin M. Cocks and Leake, possible premises for the Publishing House, eventually agreeing on a location in Bath, but as Treasurer he sanctioned the use of the Curry Fund capital that the previous Treasurer, Leake, had ‘salted away’ for this purpose in 1984. During his time as Treasurer, the Society apartments in Burlington House were, in 1985, first wired for a computer network and the Council Room was re-modelled; in 1986 application was first made for VAT registration (completed in 1987) which resulted in savings of tens of thousands of pounds due
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to members’ journals being zero rated (not exempt), further improvements to the apartments made and in 1987 the decision to set up the Publishing House was made with, in 1988, the purchase of a 999 year lease on premises in Bath for £175,000. He also first acted for the then Treasurer, Leake, in 1993, when he was on sabbatical study leave in Western Australia; an example of his open-hearted helpful nature. When many would have selfishly pursued their own careers, Bill gave generously of his time and talents to the wider furtherance of his profession. Such generosity was typical of him. His warm, open manner made him a delightful colleague and he was greatly respected both by generations of QMC students and by his colleagues in academe and industry. Bill was twice married, first in 1981 to Valerie Vida Davies, who died in 1988 and then, in 1991, to Joan Slaughter who survives him with his son Roland James and daughter Caroline Elizabeth of his first marriage, together with his granddaughters Chloe and Emma.
References Bishop, A.C., French, W.J., 1982. Nature and origin of meladiorite layers in northern Guernsey, Channel Islands. Mineralogical Magazine 46, 301–321. Cameron, E.P., French, W.J., 1977. The relationship of the order of crystallization of basalt melts to their classification and to the definition of rock series. Mineralogical Magazine 41, 239–251. Fookes, P.G., French, W.J., Rice, S.M.M., 1985. The influence of ground and groundwater geochemistry on construction in the Middle East. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology 18, 101–128. French, W.J., 1960. Appinitic intrusions associated with the granodioritic pluton of Ardara, County Donegal. PhD thesis, University of London. French, W.J., 1966. Appinitic intrusions clustered around the Ardara pluton, County Donegal. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 64B, 303–322. French, W.J., 1971. The correlation between ‘anhydrous’ crystallisation temperatures and rock composition. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology 31, 154–158. French, W.J., 1976a. The origin of leucodiorites associated with appinitic intrusions of County Donegal. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 41, 107– 125. French, W.J., 1976b. Rock composition, density and a variation diagram. Geological Magazine 113, 371–376. French, W.J., 1977. Breccia pipes associated with the Ardara pluton, County Donegal. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 77B, 101–117. French, W.J., 1980. Reactions between aggregates and cement paste. An interpretation of pessimum. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology 13, 231–247. French, W.J., 1991. Concrete petrography: a review. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology 24, 17–48. French, W.J., 1992. The characterisation of potentially reactive aggregates, 339–46; Comparison of the Canadian and British Standard Concrete prism tests and the effect of reduced permeability on the results, 347–52. 9th International Conference on alkali-aggregate reaction in concrete. Concrete Society Publication No. CS104. French, W.J., 2006. Why concrete cracks—geological factors in concrete failure. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 118, 89–106. French, W.J., Adams, S.J., 1972. A rapid method for the extraction and determination of iron (II) in silicate rocks and minerals. Analyst 97, 828–831. French, W.J., Adams, S.J., 1973. Polypropylene bottles in the decomposition of silicate rocks. Analytica Chimica Acta 62, 324–328. French, W.J., Adams, S.J., 1974. The use of tiron in the microchemical analysis of minerals. Analyst 99, 551–554. French, W.J., Cameron, E.P., 1981. Calculation of the temperature of crystallisation of silicates from basaltic melts. Mineralogical Magazine 44, 19–26. French, W.J., Hassan, M.D., Westcott, J.E., 1977. A celadonite-vermiculite series from the volcanic rocks of the Ochils, Stirlingshire. Mineralogical Magazine 41, 481–485. French, W.J., Hassan, M.D., Westcott, J.E., 1980. The petrogenesis of Old Red Sandstone volcanic rocks of the western Ochils, Stirlingshire. In: Harris, A.L., Holland, C.H., Leake, B.E. (Eds.), The Caledonides of the British Isles – Reviewed. Geological Society of London Special Publication 8, 635–642. French, W.J., Howarth, R.J., 2000. The petrographic diagnosis of potentially deleterious aggregates. In: Be´rube´, M.A., et al. (Eds.), Alkali-Aggregate Reactions in Concrete. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Alkali-Aggregate Reactions in Concrete. Centre de Recherche Interuniversitaire sur le Beton, Quebec City, pp. 315–324. French, W.J., Pitcher, W.S., 1959. The intrusion-breccia of Dunmore. County Donegal. Geological Magazine 96, 69–74. French, W.J., Poole, A.B., Ravenscroft, P., Khiabani, M., 1982. Results of preliminary experiments on the influence of fabrics on the migration of groundwater and
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water-soluble minerals in the capillary fringe. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology 15, 187–199. Howarth, R.J., French, W.J., 1998. A statistical study of aggregate testing data with respect to engineering judgement. In: Latham, J.P. (Ed.), Advances in Aggregates and Armourstone Evaluation. Geological Society Engineering Geology Special Publication 13, 169–183. Keen, D.H., et al., 1986. Guernsey Geological Map (Solid & Drift) 1:25,000 (Channel Islands, Sheet 1). British Geological Survey. Leake, B.E., Bishop, A.C., Howarth, R.J., 2013. The Wyley History of the Geologists’ Association in the years 1958-2008. Geologists’ Association, London 137pp. Wigum, B.J., French, W.J., Howarth, R.J., Hills, C., 1997. Accelerated tests for assessing the potential exhibited by concrete aggregate for alkali-aggregate reaction. Cement and Concrete Composites 19, 451–476.
Bernard Elgey Leake* A. Clive Bishop Alan B. Poole School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, United Kingdom *Corresponding author E-mail address: [email protected] (B.E. Leake) Available online 21 January 2016