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London’s Foundations: protecting the geodiversity of the capital - Contents
(Front cover)
Contents
Title page and preliminaries
Mayor's foreword
Summary
Contents
1 Introduction
Aims
2 Understanding geodiversity
What is it and why is it important? Relationship with biodiversity Geodiversity and spatial planning
3 Geological conservation
Statutory designations
Non-statutory designations
4 London's geological heritage
Evolution
Bedrock geology
Quartenary deposits
Fossils and palaeontology
5 Geological resources and built heritage
Mineral resources
Water resources
6 Evaluating London's geodiversity
Review of geodiversity guidance and assessment criteria
Geodiversity auditing
Project GIS
7 Geodiversity audit results and recommendations
Criteria for selection of RIGS and LIGS
Audited SSSIs
Recommended RIGS
Potential LIGS
8 Geodiversity guidance to boroughs
Policy
Geodiversity and the wider landscape
Implementation
9 Geodiversity Action Planning
Appendices
Appendix 1 Sites selected for geodiversity auditing
Appendix 2 Site selection criteria
Appendix 3 Field audit recording sheet
Appendix 4 GIS datasets used in geodiversity audit
Appendix 5 Site assessment sheets
GLA 1 Abbey Wood
GLA 2 Avenue House
GLA 3 Beckenham Place Park
GLA 4 Chelsfield Gravel
GLA 5 Chingford Hatch
GLA 6 Croham Hurst
GLA 7 Crystal Palace Dinosaurs
GLA 8 Dog Rocks
GLA 9 Dry Valley
GLA 10 Dulwich Mill Pond
GLA 11 Finchley Till
GLA 12 Finsbury Gravel
GLA 13 Friday Hill
GLA 14 Gilbert's Pit
GLA 15 Hainault Forest Country Park
GLA 16 Hale End London Clay Hillock
GLA 17 Happy Valley
GLA 18 Harrow Weald
GLA 19 Hornchurch Cutting
GLA 20 Horsenden Hill
GLA 21 Islington Terrace Gravels
GLA 22 Keston Common
GLA 23 Loats Pit
GLA 24 Old Gravel Pit
GLA 25 Putney Heath
GLA 26 Rose and Crown Pit
GLA 27 Sundridge Park Golf Course 1
GLA 28 Sundridge Park Golf Course 2
GLA 29 The Gravel Pits
GLA 30 Cray Valley Golf Course Sand Pit
GLA 31 North End Pit
GLA 32 High Elms Dene Hole
GLA 33 Elmstead Pit
GLA 34 Harefield Pit
GLA 35 Wansunt Pit
GLA 36 Pinner Chalk Mines
Appendix 6 Summary of geological strata of sites
Glossary
References and resources
