| RefNo | JRLA |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Papers of John Robert Lawrence Allen, geologist and archaeologist |
| Creator | Allen; John Robert Lawrence (1932 - 2020); geologist |
| Date | 1950s-2010s |
| Description | Material covering the career of Professor John Allen as a geologist specialising in sedimentation and geoarchaeology. Collection comprises:
Files concerning field research in the Niger Delta (1950s), Allen's first and only major overseas fieldwork.
Research files including extensive photographic material, mostly aerial photography of research sites in the UK, especially Wales and the Welsh borders including Herefordshire and Monmouthsire, Pembrokeshire, Anglesey, Wells and Norfolk. Much of the material from the 1980s relates to Allen's study of the Severn Estuary.
Experiment and field notebooks containing large data sets and experimental results as well as working notes on theories.
Teaching materials comprising lecture notes and 35mm slides.
Draft materials for publications including journal papers and the monograph 'Current ripples: their relation to patterns of water and sediment motion' (1968).
Records of geoarchaeological work on churches, church yards and urban landscape in the latter part of his career, including Hampshire churches and Reading curbsides.
Oversize material, largely charts and maps.
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| Language | English |
| Extent | 16 large deepstore boxes
1 A3 manuscript box |
| AccessStatus | Closed |
| AccessConditions | Closed whilst cataloguing in progress, please contact library@royalsociety.org if you wih to view these papers |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA3938 | Allen; John Robert Lawrence (1932 - 2020); geologist | 1932 - 2020 |