KENT, Peter Vol1

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Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of SIR PETER KENT FRS (1913 - 1986) Compiled by Timothy E. Powell and Peter Harper VOLUME I List of Contents General Introduction Sections A - E Deposited in the Library, University of Nottingham 1993 All rights reserved University of Bath NCUACS 43/5/93 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 The work of the National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists, and the production of this catalogue, are made possible by the support of the following societies and organisations: British Petroleum plc The Institute of Physics The Royal Society The Wellcome Trust P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 NOT ALL THE MATERIAL IN THE COLLECTION IS YET AVAILABLE FOR CONSULTATION. ENQUIRIES SHOULD BE ADDRESSED IN THE FIRST INSTANCE TO: THE KEEPER OF MANUSCRIPTS HALLWARD LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 LIST OF CONTENTS GENERAL INTRODUCTION SECTION BIOGRAPHICAL SECTION RESEARCH AND SURVEYS B.1-B.505 SECTION DEEP SEA DRILLING PROJECT C.1-C.121 SECTION PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES D.1-D.134 E.1-E.196 SECTION SECTION SECTION VISITS AND CONFERENCES H.1-H.159 SECTION SECTION SOCIETIES AND ORGANISATIONS F.1-F.427 NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL COMMERCIAL CONSULTANCIES AND COMPANIES INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS SCIENTIFIC CORRESPONDENCE P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 GENERAL INTRODUCTION PROVENANCE The bulk of the papers were received in February and August 1990 from Lady (Lorna) Kent. The papers deposited in Nottingham University Library by Sir Peter Kent in 1985 were received from the Library in August 1990. OUTLINE OF THE CAREER OF SIR PETER KENT Percy Edward (from an early age he chose to be called Peter) Kent was born in West Bridgford, Nottingham, in 1913. He was educated at West Bridgford Grammar School and University College, Nottingham, where he read Geology under Professor H.H. Swinnerton. He graduated B.Sc. with first class honours in 1934. He was then awarded a scholarship by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research for research on the stratigraphy of the Lincolnshire Limestone and registered with London University for his Ph.D. Shortly after graduation, however, Kent was recommended to L.S.B. Leakey as geologist for his fourth East African Archaeological Expedition, the original choice K.P. Oakley having withdrawn. The expedition searched for remains of Homo sapiens at Pleistocene sites at Kanam and Kanjera in Kenya following on from Leakey's expedition of 1931-32, and then at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania, but with inconclusive results. central Scotland, and in 1939 to Formby in Lancashire where oil seepages had been discovered. survey work on the south coast of England 1936-37. Kent then returned to Lincolnshire to report on Kent returned to the UK in 1935 and spent the following year writing up his results and resuming his Anticline’ in south east Yorkshire. Kent's survey showed that in fact no anticline existed. In 1938 Iranian Oil Company (later to become British Petroleum) as an Assistant Geologist. He undertook study of Lincolnshire Limestone. On the strength of his work in Lincolnshire Kent joined the Anglo- the geology of the area and was also assigned to check the geology of the ‘Market Weighton Kent was despatched to Scotland where exploration for oil had begun in the carboniferous rocks of the Photo-Intelligence Branch of D section (Industry) of the RAF Central Interpretation Unit based at their geological surveying and he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He was assigned to On the outbreak of war Kent was in a ‘reserved’ occupation and so continued to work for Anglo- Iranian in Nottinghamshire. In 1941, however, he was released by Anglo-lranian as they cut back on P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Medmenham, Buckinghamshire. Kent worked on the assessment of German oil supplies - initially locating oil storage tanks, later identifying synthetic oil plants in which the Germans were converting coal to oil. Kent was seconded to the Mediterranean Allied Air Force in Italy in 1944 and in 1945 he was posted to the Pentagon, Washington DC, to work with G2 Branch of US Army Intelligence on photo-interpretation of Japanese oil installations. For his work on identifying oil plants in Axis held Europe he was awarded the US Legion of Merit in 1946. At the end of the war with Japan Kent was the only non-American to accompany the US Strategic Bombing Survey, assessing the effectiveness of air raids on targets in Japan. After the war Kent rejoined Anglo-lranian and resumed work on oil finds in the Upper Carboniferous rock of the east Midlands, based at Eakring, Nottinghamshire. In 1948 he was posted to Iran for stratigraphic survey work in the Zagros mountains in south east Iran. He returned to the UK in 1951, following the political disturbances in Iran which had resulted in the nationalisation of BP's Iranian interests and so curtailed further survey work. He was almost immediately sent to East Africa, a report having been received that a Kenyan government geologist had found signs of oil. It transpired that no oil was to be found, although the area was geologically promising, and Kent went on to Tanganyika where the prospects of finding oil seemed better. The results of this pioneering geological work were published in 1971 by the Geological Survey as Geology and Geophysics of Coastal Tanzania with Kent as a co-author. involved in surveys in the rain forest and the highlands of Papua. This met with little success despite Northwest Territories and Canadian Arctic islands in 1958. In 1959 BP also began investigating oil prospects in the north of Alaska. BP Exploration (Alaska) was formed with Kent as its first President. In 1955 Kent was posted to Papua New Guinea, first as Deputy Chief Geologist later Chief Geologist, with the Australasian Petroleum Company, a part-owned BP subsidiary. Kent was The work of Kent and his team was to lead to a number of discoveries of oil and gas including the of BP Canada. There was little progress in eastern Canada and work moved westwards to the two huge fields at Prudhoe Bay and Kuparek. In 1970 Kent and two BP colleagues, H.R. Warman the promising geology of the area. Kent was posted to Canada in 1957 as Adviser to the President and A.N. Thomas, were awarded the MacRobert Award of the Council of Engineering Institutions for discoveries possible. the techniques they pioneered for accurate surveying through permafrost which made the P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 From 1961 Kent's duties became more managerial. He was appointed Deputy Chief Geologist of BP in 1961, Regional Manager of BP North and South America in 1962 and Technical and Regional Manager of BP America and the Western Hemisphere a year later. In 1966 Kent was made Chief Geologist and was much involved in operations in the North Sea, particularly the discovery of the Forties field. Kent was appointed Assistant General Manager (Exploration) in 1971. Kent retired from BP in 1973 but continued as a consultant on exploration matters with special reference to Iran, Canada and the UK. Kent had maintained his close connection with oil exploration in Iran through his service from 1965 on the Exploration Advisory Group, a body formed in 1957 to advise oil companies operating in Iran on exploration matters. In 1973 Kent became Chairman of the Group, his continuing membership of the EAG being part of his post-retirement consultancy with BP. The EAG's activities were halted in 1978 by the Islamic revolution and the overthrow of the Shah. On his retirement Kent was appointed Chairman of the Natural Environment Research Council, a post he held until 1977. In 1977 Kent joined the Board of LASMO (London and Scottish Marine Oil). He resigned from the Board in 1983 having seen LASMO develop from a very small investment house into a leading independent British oil company. In 1982 he accepted an invitation to join the Board of Directors of Minworth Ltd, the controlling body of the Minworth Group of companies, and became its Chairman the following year. He also served as Chairman of Strontian Minerals, a follows: ‘Under Professor Swinnerton we may assume that Peter became so familiar with the subsidiary company within the Minworth Group, 1983-86. researches. This was one of the techniques upon which his career was based; the other was the art Kent's numerous contributions to geology were introduced by his Royal Society memorialists as hands; both were employed for the deciphering of the structural history of parts of the Earth's shallow crust, some of them of great economic importance. His work will remain influential in this field of zonal level of the rocks in Lincolnshire and Leicestershire that formed the subjects of his earliest chronostratigraphy of the Jurassic and Cretaceous that he was able to recognize with confidence the of field mapping. Neither of these techniques, however, became an objective in its own right in his 343-373, p.360). structural interpretation; growing from small beginnings in the East Midlands, thence to the North Sea and beyond that to the aseismic continental margins of northern Europe and East Africa’. (N.L. Falcon and Sir Kingsley Dunham, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 33, 1987, P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Kent was accorded many honours for his contributions to geology and to petroleum exploration. He was elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1938 and was awarded the Society's Lyell Fund in 1949 and their Bigsby and Murchison Medals in 1953 and 1969 respectively. He served as President of the Geological Society 1974-76. Kent was elected to the American Association of Petroleum Geologists in 1957 (Honorary Member 1976), the Geological Society of America in 1966 and the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain, of which he was a founder- member in 1965 and which he served as Chairman 1966. He received the MacRobert Award (see above) in 1970. Kent was President of the Yorkshire Geological Society 1965-66 and was awarded its Sorby Medal in 1973. He received Honorary Degrees from the universities of Leicester (1972), Durham (1974), Bristol (1976), Glasgow (1977), Aberdeen (1978), Cambridge (1979), Hull (1981) and Birmingham (1983). Kent was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1966 (serving on Council 1967-69) and was awarded its Royal Medal in 1971. Kent was knighted in 1973. Kent married twice, in 1940 to Margaret Betty Hood, who died in 1974, and in 1976 to Lorna Ogilvie Scott. DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION almost all aspects of Kent's professional career. Section A, Biographical, is substantial. There is Kent's autobiographical account ‘Recollections in miscellaneous personal papers and memorabilia. and his knighthood in 1973. The section also includes diaries 1950-71, family and social The material is presented in the order given in the List of Contents. This large collection covers correspondence, including a sequence of letters home during Kent's period in Iran 1948-51, and retirement’, and records of Kent's student work at University College Nottingham, his membership of with the Anglo-lranian Oil Company/BP. The honours received by Kent are well-documented, including his election to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 1966, the MacRobert Award in 1970 the East African Archaeological Expedition 1934-35, his Second World War service and his career Papua New Guinea and North America, to the North Sea discoveries of the 1960s and 1970s, and exploration work and his own geological research from the first work with Anglo-lranian Oil in Lincolnshire in 1936, through his postwar work for BP in the UK and overseas in Iran, East Africa, Section B, Research and surveys, is the largest in the collection. It documents Kent's survey and oil P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 post-retirement research to 1986. There was a Close relationship between Kent's work for Anglo- lranian/BP and his academic geological research; with the company's goodwill Kent was able to use information from company surveys in his own publications. Kent retained a continuing interest in the geology and oil prospects of areas of the world he had visited and this is reflected in the wide geographical coverage of the papers. The bulk of the material, however, is concerned with the geology of England (particularly the Midland counties) and Iran (including the work of the Exploration Advisory Group). The material, most of which was found in Kent's own folders or envelopes, includes correspondence, manuscript notes (some on pages from ‘filofax' style notebooks), typescript drafts and notes, stratigraphical columns, oil well logs, maps, sections and photographs. There are also a number of notebooks. Section C, Deep Sea Drilling Project, documents Kent's involvement in the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) from the negotiations over British participation in 1973 and the establishment of the International Phase of Ocean Drilling (IPOD) in 1975. The lead agency in the UK was the Natural Environment Research Council, of which Kent was Chairman. Kent served on the Executive Committee of JOIDES, the consortium of member-institutions of the project, 1975-81, and on the UK IPOD Co-ordinating Committee. His involvement continued to the completion of the IPOD in November 1983 and the campaign for British participation in its successor programme, the Advanced Ocean Drilling Project (AODP, later just ODP). Kent played an active part in the research, reviewing series Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. local geological and natural history societies. The latter include Presidential addresses to the Section D, Publications and lectures, brings together material for many of Kent's published papers, 1936-87, and lectures from 1952. The largest single body of material documents his geological (HMSO, 1980). The lectures were chiefly delivered to university and college geological societies or memoir for the Institute of Geological Sciences, Eastern England from the Tees to the Wash the results of Leg 25 of the DSDP, which surveyed the western Indi*n Ocean and contributing to the Yorkshire Geological Society and to the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union. There are also sequences of editorial correspondence and Letters to The Times. the Geology and Geophysics Committee (later Institute of Geological Sciences Advisory Committee) Section E, Natural Environment Research Council, includes papers relating to Kent's service on the broadcast on explorers in which Kent took part. There is an (incomplete) set of Kent's published papers at D.135. At D.134 is material relating to a BBC radio P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 of the NERC 1968-73, his Chairmanship of the NERC 1973-77 and subsequent Council service 1977-80. These activities are poorly documented since, with the exception of his first year as Chairman of the NERC, Kent did not retain many committee papers or official correspondence. The bulk of the papers document Kent's service on Preparatory Group 'A' of the Council, as a member of which Kent served on the Deep Geology Committee and Visiting Groups to the Institutes of Geological Sciences and of Oceanographical Sciences. Section F, Societies and organisations, is the second largest in the collection. It documents Kent's association with 41 British, overseas and international bodies. These include the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, for which Kent acted as adviser in territorial disputes in the North Atlantic Ocean (Rockall) and the English Channel, the Geological Society, of which Kent was President 1974-76, the International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature, the Royal Society and the Watt Committee on Energy. For material relating to the British Geological Survey see the entry for the Institute of Geological Sciences and, specifically relating to the campaign to safeguard the future of the Survey 1984-86, the Institution of Geologists. Also of interest is the material on local geological and natural history societies of which Kent was a member, including the East Midlands and Yorkshire Geological Societies and the Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Trusts for Nature Conservation. BP includes documentation of his later managerial career within BP, but much of it dates from his post-retirement consultancy from 1973. Kent's involvement with LASMO 1977-84 is the best leading independent British oil company. The LASMO material also records the history of Charlton documented component of this section. As a member of the Board and a consultant Kent was very commercial organisations, principally BP, LASMO and the Minworth Group. The material relating to Section G, Commercial consultancies and companies, comprises material relating to Kent's work for Thermosystems Ltd, a small company attempting to market a pioneering heating system, in which LASMO had a close interest. Kent's shorter period of service with the Minworth Group, as Board Closely involved with the operation of this company at a crucial stage in LASMO's development into a 1968 International Geological Congress held in Prague, Kent led the UK delegation. The proceedings Section H, Visits and conferences, presents a chronological sequence, 1951-85, of some of Kent's engagements both in the UK and abroad. member and Chairman of Minworth Ltd and Chairman of Strontian Minerals, is also well- documented. The visit for which most documentation survives is the P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 were cut short by the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia and the Soviet occupation of Prague and the material includes accounts of the events by Kent and his wife, and memorabilia. The section does not present all of Kent's extensive travel and attendance at meetings and conferences. His overseas research and survey work for BP is documented in section B and his visit to East Africa with the East African Archaeological Expedition is documented at A.53-A.102. Section J, Scientific correspondence, is the smallest in the collection. There are no extended sequences of correspondence. Much of Kent's correspondence is to be found in other sections, retained with other material with which it was found. There is, for example, a great deal of scientific correspondence in section B. There is also an index of correspondents. LOCATION OF OTHER MATERIAL An album containing photographs taken during the East African Archaeological Expedition was donated by Kent to the British Museum (Natural History) in January 1977. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS T. E. Powell P. Harper Dr Dorothy Johnston, Keeper of Manuscripts, Nottingham University, for advice and encouragement. We are very grateful to Lady Kent for making the bulk of the papers available and to Lady Kent and BATH 1993 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 SECTION A BIOGRAPHICAL BIOGRAPHICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL A.19-A.52 SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY NOTEBOOKS A.53-A.102 EAST AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION A.103-A.126 SECOND WORLD WAR A.127-A.187 CAREER, HONOURS AND AWARDS A.188-A.209 DIARIES A.210-A.238 A.239-A.268 FAMILY AND PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE MISCELLANEOUS PERSONAL MATERIAL P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical BIOGRAPHICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL Memoir of Kent by N.L. Falcon and Sir Kingsley Dunham, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 33 (1987), 343-373. The Times obituary, 14 July 1986. Application form for non-immigrant visa for USA, completed by Kent for visit to Colorado, 1955. Calendar of postings with Anglo-lranian Oil/BP 1936-61. Copy of Kent's BP 'Staff review form' for 1965. Entry for Who's Who, 1966. Biographical data, possibly for biographical reference book, 1984. Biographical data, 4pp typescript. Compiled by Kent c.1984. ‘Recollections in Retirement’. Contents of Kent's binder divided into thirteen for ease of reference. Unpublished autobiographical account by Kent. The account comprises typescript sections, some with later typescript ‘inserts’, recounting episodes in Kent's life and career. The titles of the sections are reproduced in the catalogue entries, and the material is presented in the order in which it was kept by Kent. African Archaeological Expedition 1934-5". ‘Beginnings’, 'Oh, my Father!’, ‘Four schools’. ‘University days - 1931-34, 1935-36’, 'The family at Friary [Congregational Church]’, ‘Aunts and Uncles’, ‘Basford in the Twenties’. ‘Geology in eastern England’, ‘East Africa 1934-5’, ‘With Leakey's 4th East P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical ‘The later Thirties - early years with BP (1936-1940), ‘Midlands oil’, ‘Scottish interlude 1938-9’, ‘The last summer of peace - Formby 1939 (and after)’, ‘Oil at Eakring, Nottinghamshire, 1939". in the years industry’, ‘War ‘Medmenham'’, ‘intelligence 1945’, ‘Strategic Bombing Survey, Japan, 1945’, ‘Wartime memory - San Severo - an Italian country town (1944)'. ‘Interpreting the Pentagon, Washington D.C., RAFVR’, in the German oil ‘Iran, 1948-1951', ‘Iran - home at Haft Kel, 1949’, ‘Iran - surveys in the Zagros mountains 1948-1951', 'Iran regional geological surveys’. ‘Deep exploration in eastern England’, 'Back to East Africa in the 1950s’. ‘East Africa again, 1952, and afterwards’, ‘Postscript to East Africa’, ‘East African exploration - a narrative history’, 'In jungle country - Papua 1955-57’. ‘Meeting cabinet ministers, 1966-76’. ‘Iran - exploration advice 1965-1978', ‘The high Zagros with the EAG, October 1972 - a diary note’, ‘Diary of the last days in Iran November 1972". ‘Canada - Calgary and the Arctic 1957-1960', ‘Delivered by hand - a letter from Abu Dhabi and Kuwait May 1969’, ‘A visit to Oman, November 1970', ‘A rather special week, November 1971’. ‘Hong Kong at night’. ‘An afternoon with the BBC TV', ‘Without a passport’, 'Singing', ‘A Dutch breakfast’, ‘Strange customs’, ‘Pure lunacy’, ‘The unpredictability of air travel’, ‘Borrowed time’. ‘A new star in the oil industry - LASMO 1977-83', ‘The heat that failed - Charlton Thermosystems Ltd., 1980-1983’, ‘Positive vetting’, ‘Prague 1968’, P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical Lists of publications, to 1971 and 1974, and list of Kent's ‘Reports held by Br ‘Reprints Register’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: tabulated lists of names Arranged alphabetically. receiving 1958-72. reprints, various those of SCHOOL AND UNIVERSITY NOTEBOOKS Labelled on front cover 'P.E. Kent. Practical Chemistry’. Hardback. for accounts of experiments 1 marked on 5 February 1930, 23 February 1930 and 22 July 1931. Used - 46 from 15 October [71929]. The work was Physics’. Used for A.22-A.38 Undergraduate Inscribed inside front cover 'P.E. Kent Hardback. accounts of experiments. Undated. Labelled on front cover 'P.E. Kent Practical Chemistry’ and Hardback. Used for accounts of inscribed inside front cover '...Practical Chemistry II'. experiments 47 - 52. The work was marked on 22 July 1931. Loose at front is July 1931 Chemistry Practical examination paper. 1932. ‘Practical Lab work 1931-34 (possibly worthy of archives as example of H.H.S. [Swinnerton] teaching methods)’. Contents of Kent's large envelope so inscribed: diaries, binders, sketches and notebook. Pocket diaries 1932-34. Used for notes of geological fieldwork. A.22-A.24 A.22 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical (Stratigraphy) + Palaeontology’. Contents of Kent's ring binder so labelled divided into two for ease of reference: ms notes on fossil types. A.27-A.30 Palaeo. Special’. ‘Stratig Contents of Kent's ring binder so labelled divided into four for ease of reference. The binder was used from the front for ms notes principally on stratigraphy (A.27, A.28) and from the back for ms notes on vertebrate palaeontology (A.29, A.30). A.31, A.32 ‘Cret'. Contents of Kent's ring binder so labelled divided into two for ease of reference. Essay on the Tremadoc beds. Ms notes on Cretaceous rocks. Foraminifera Graptoloidea Kent's binder so inscribed. ‘Palaeontology Mollusca’. binder. Brachiopoda Pencil sketches, retained in original Coelentera ‘Palaeontology’. Contents of Kent's binder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference. Duplicated instruction and problem sheets for map making course. Pencil sketches of invertebrata; University of London B.Sc. examination admission card and timetable, June 1934. Pencil sketches of vertebrata. 2 folders. A.34-A.37 A.35, A.36 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical Hardback notebook labelled on front cover 'P.E. Palaeontology of fossils and watercolours of rock specimens. Kent [...] Elementary Mineralogy. Petrology’. Used principally for pencil sketches Hardback notebook labelled on front cover ‘Biogeography Oceanography’. Used from 'Oct 2’ for ms notes. Geophysics Hardback notebook labelled on front cover ‘Geomorphology and Physical Basis..." Used from the front for ms notes on geomorphology, and from the back for ms notes on the ‘Physical basis' of air, water, snow and ice and notes on '2nd Year Geomorph British Isles and Europe’. A little loose intercalated material. Hardback notebook inscribed on spine ‘Jurassic’ and inside front cover ‘Jurassics of contents on first page. Used for ms notes and sketches pasted into the notebook. Inferior Oolite - Purbeckian'. Paginated 1-191 with list Hardback notebook labelled on front cover 'Jurassics' and inside front cover ‘Lower Lias of the British Isles'. Paginated 1-41 (some earlier pages cut from the notebook and later pages not numbered). Used for ms notes. Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Palaeontology’. Used from the front for ms notes on fossils and from the back for ms notes on Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene and the geology of south Shropshire. A little loose intercalated material. matters pasted into the notebook. Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover ‘Abstracts’. Paginated 1-82 (later pages not paginated). Used for ms notes on the literature and newspaper cuttings 1933-34 (from the Manchester Guardian) on geological Hardback notebook labelled on front cover ‘Petrology and Mineralogy’. Used from the front for ms notes on petrology and from the back for ms notes on mineralogy. Hardback notebook inscribed inside front cover 'Stratigraphy’. Paginated 2- 146. Used for ms notes and sketches pasted into the notebook. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical Softback exercise book used from the front for ms notes on fossils and sketches pasted into the notebook, and from the back for bibliographical references (latest reference 1931). Some earlier pages cut from the notebook. A.48-A.50 ‘Field Work’. Contents of Kent's ring binder so labelled divided into four for ease of reference: ms accounts of field work 1932-34 with list of contents on first page. The accounts are individually paginated and some are illustrated by photographs pasted onto the pages. A later ms note by Kent found inside the binder (at A.48) describes it as ‘Probably submitted in B.Sc. original work’. Introductory note with list of contents; ‘The hydraulic Limestones of S. Notts'; ‘A study of the Lincolnshire Limestone’. ‘Geological mapping’; ‘The age of the highest Kimmeridgian of Lincolnshire’; ‘the Northampton district’; 'Easter camp 1932 Bradford on Avon, Wilts’; ‘Easter camp in Shropshire 1933’; 'Isle of Wight August 1933’. ‘Welsh Border Easter '34'; 'Swanscombe' (later brief note on trial work with L.S.B. Leakey prior to East African Archaeological Expedition); photographs and map for 'Notes on river systems and glacial retreat stages in south Lincolnshire’, by Kent, Bibliog. 7, 1939. A later ms note by Kent found attached describes the circumstances behind the draft: ‘This note was written in 1933/4 after a heavy dose of [W.J.] Arkell's book (Jurassic rocks of G.B.) and papers by R.H. Rastall. It incurred the severe disapproval of Prof Swinnerton, who regarded it as an unjustifiable waste of time’. 34. ‘A Charnian Axis in the East Midlands PEK/1933-4'. envelope so inscribed: ms draft + hand-drawn map. Contents of Kent's Ring bound pocket notebook used from the front and from the back for miscellaneous notes, those at front including work at Barnston [Lincs] 1933- P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical EAST AFRICAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPEDITION in 1934 Leakey's After graduation L.S.B. He was archaeological expedition to East Africa on its fourth season. recommended in the place of K.P. Oakley who had withdrawn from the expedition. invited Kent was join to The expedition was to follow up Leakey's expedition of 1931-32 to Kenya, in the course of which Leakey had discovered fragments of a hominid skull at Kanjera and a hominid jaw bone at Kanam. The bones were thought to be from Homo sapiens. Leakey said the jaw had been found in Lower Pleistocene beds, which suggested an earlier date for the appearance of Homo sapiens than had hitherto been supposed, and the skull pieces in Middle Pleistocene. However, Professor P.G.H. Boswell, a leading authority on the Pleistocene, cast doubt on Leakey's claims and Leakey, to prove his case, persuaded the Royal Society to fund Boswell to visit the sites with him on his next expedition to East Africa. The expedition left England on 24 October and arrived in Kenya on 10 November. There was considerable difficulty finding the site of Leakey's main discovery. This, it transpired, was because the photograph purported to be of the site was in fact, as Kent and S. White, the expedition surveyor, discovered, of gullies some distance away. Boswell returned to the UK in January and wrote a Letter to Nature in which he revealed the discrepancy. The matter was complicated by the fact that the photograph was to appear in Leakey's book on his discoveries about to be published by Oxford University Press. Leakey argued that there was no intention to mislead and withdrew the photograph from the book. Further difficulty arose when it became clear that the hominid jawbone had not actually been found in situ by Leakey but collected by a native assistant and that it was quite possible it had slipped down into the Pleistocene bed through cracks in the ground. Kent initially served as assistant to Boswell, but following Boswell's return to the UK in January served as the Expedition Geologist. The first stage of the expedition searched for the sites of Leakey's finds and other evidence of early Homo sapiens at Kanam and Kanjera and other locations in the Kavirondo area of Kenya. In May 1935 the team moved on to Olduvai Gorge (Oldoway) in Tanganyika. Notebooks and maps The material is presented as follows: Kent left Kenya on 8 August 1935. Correspondence and papers See also B.365, D.2. A.88-A.102 A.53-A.87 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical Correspondence and papers A.53-A.66 ‘East Africa. Technical correspondence etc from August 1934' ‘Leakey's monthly reports. Letters from LSBL, Boswell, Wayland, Archdeacon Owen’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into fourteen for ease of reference. Correspondence August - October 1934 re preparations for the expedition. Includes initial letter from Leakey re the possibility of Kent joining the party, 11 August, and correspondence re preparatory field trip to improve Kent's mapping techniques (see A.50). A.54-A.56 Monthly field reports. These duplicated typescript reports were written by Leakey for private circulation among expedition members and other colleagues. They report on the expedition's movements, excavations and discoveries, and include accounts of work carried out by Kent, with Boswell, and independently. 24 October - 23 November 1934. 24 November - 23 December 1934. 24 December 1934 - 23 January 1935. 24 January - 23 February 1935. 24 April - 23 May 1935. 24 February - 23 March 1935. Includes Leakey's first reactions to reports of Boswell's criticisms of his work, published in Nature, 9 March (see A.57), and 'Report on geological work of the month’ by Kent. 24 June - August 1935. 24 March - 23 April 1935. Includes 'Geologist's report’ by Kent. 24 May - 23 June 1935. Includes ‘Geological report’ by Kent. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical the country by ‘Human remains from Kanam and Kanjera, Kenya colony’ by Boswell, Nature 135, 371-2; printed account of journey to Kenya and first impressions of Kent, probably from the West Bridgfordian school magazine; letter from W.E. Owen, 5 April, and correspondence from E.J. Wayland, Director of the Geological Survey of Uganda, July, August 1935; typescript draft of letter from Kent to East African Standard on the newly discovered ruined city at Engaruka, 4 August 1935; hand-drawn maps of Songhor and Olduvai. Correspondence arising from the expedition, October - December 1935. Chiefly with expedition members (including Leakey and Boswell) and E.J. Wayland. Correspondence arising from the Expedition, January - April 1936. W.C. Smith's typescript Manyana 6 correspondence re specimens collected by Kent. [...] igneous rocks from 1936 ‘notes collected exposures’ Kent, April on by Includes Eyasi and and _ other Correspondence arising from the expedition, May 1936 - 1937, 1939. The correspondence 1939 is chiefly re red pebbles from Koru collected by Kent. Correspondence February - May 1941. Includes ‘The recent history and Pleistocene deposits of the plateau north of Lake Eyasi, Tanganyika’ by Kent, 16pp typescript, submitted for publication in the Geological Magazine, 27 February 1941 (Bibliog. 10, 1941). Chiefly re fossil fish from Correspondence October 1940 - January 1941. Miocene and Pleistocene beds. Includes 'A note on Pleistocene deposits near Lake Manyara, Tanganyika’ by Kent, 8pp typescript, submitted for publication in the Geological Magazine, 14 January 1941 (Bibliog. 13, 1942). Correspondence 1942. Chiefly re Kent's articles on Kenyan geology. of Correspondence and papers June - September 1941. ‘Kavirondo Pleistocene mammals’ compiled by A.T. Hopwood, sent to Kent 23 June; ‘The Pleistocene beds of Kanam & Kanjera, Kavirondo, Kenya’ by Kent, 19pp typescript, submitted for publication in the Geological Magazine, 6 July 1941 (Bibliog. 14, 1942); ‘Miocene deposits in Kenya’ by Kent, 2pp typescript, submitted for publication in Nature, 12 July 1941 (Bibliog. 12, 1941). Includes lists P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical Correspondence 1943-45. Includes ‘Contribution to discussion on Dr F. Dixey: "The relation of the main peneplain of Central Africa to sediments of Miocene age" ' by Kent, 2pp typescript, 3 February 1945. from Includes material. press-cutting Miscellaneous the Manchester Guardian, 11 January 1939 of report from W.E. Owen on 'New discoveries in Kavirondo'; hand-drawn illustration of geology of Rusinga island and map of Kokkoth cliffs; ms notes; typescript draft Letter (? to Geological Magazine) on ‘The age and tectonic relationships of East African volcanic rocks’ by Kent, reporting on radiometric assay dating of the hominid bone fragments discovered by Leakey's 1931-32 expedition. nd; two articles K.P. Oakley, 1974 and 1975, by A.67-A.72 six for ease of reference: letters from Kent to Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed ‘Letters from Africa 1934-5'. his family, divided into Includes accounts of principally his mother, October 1934 - July 1935. outward journey and activities in East Africa. At A.72 is miscellaneous material found therewith: 15pp ms notes for talk by Kent on his experiences in East Africa; ‘East African chessboard’ by Kent, 9pp ms draft on relations between Blacks and Whites in East Africa (probably written for the Friary Congregational Church newsletter); magazine photograph of Kent with Leakey and Miss Mary Nicoll (later Mrs Leakey) at Olduvai Gorge. near deposits A.73-A.79 ‘The stratigraphy of the Miocene beds in the vicinity of the Kavirondo Gulf, Kenya (Summary)' by Kent, 27pp typescript + figures, 1934-35; ‘Middle Pleistocene 5pp typescript + maps, 1935. ‘Letters to Africa 1934-35 (family matters) and Leakey’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into seven for ease of reference: letters from family, principally his mother, friends and colleagues, November 1934 - August 1935. Includes correspondence from Boswell, Leakey and E.J. Wayland. At A.79 are ms notes on ?Swahili grammar prepared by Kent. Bibliog. but possibly early version of Bibliog. 15, 1942. Correspondence and papers 1939-43. of fossil mammalia from Miocene deposits at Kavirondo sent to Kent by D.G. Macinnes and brief correspondence from Leakey re drafts sent to him by Kent. ‘Physiographical features of the Kavirondo Gulf of Lake Victoria, Kenya’ by Kent, 16pp typescript found with correspondence at A.80. Not listed in Lake Manyara, Tanganyika’ by Includes lists Kent, P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical ‘Kilimanjaro - an active volcano’ by Kent, 4pp typescript, published as Bibliog. ice cap on Kilimanjaro; ms notes and pages of drafts 'The Uplift of East Africa’ and ‘The cause of the thrust vaulting of Rusinga’ by Kent, nd. 1944, with ms note on the shrinkage of the 19, Miscellaneous material. Includes typescript notes on geology of Kavirondo, photographs, hand-drawn maps of Serengeti and Rusinga Island. Correspondence, 1976-77, principally re photographs of the expedition and identification of localities. Photocopies of pages from Leakey's Luck. The Life of Louis Leakey, 1903- 1972 by S. Cole (1975), with references to Kent underlined, and of front covers of By the Evidence: memoirs, 1931-1951 by Leakey and Disclosing the Past: an autobiography by Mary Leakey (1984). ‘L.S.B. Leakey labelled: correspondence with November 1985. Virginia Morell corresp.' re Morell Contents of Kent's folder so the expedition, May 1984 - relations amongst queries, chiefly concerning Notebooks and maps Morell was writing a book about the Leakey family and wrote to Kent with a number of expedition members. The folder also includes an account by Kent of a ‘Stone tool from Laetoli, Tanzania’ sent by him to the British Museum 1985. Kent describes the circumstances behind his taking the tool into ‘protective custody' during the expedition. November 1934 to 24 January 1935. Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge 'Kanam’'. Used from the front for field notes on work at Kanam and Kanjera, c. December 1934 - January 1935, and at the back for notes on D.G. Macinnes's presentation on Mastodon teeth at East African science meeting, Nairobi, 30 November 1934. Paginated 2-110 (later pages not paginated). Kent worked on the Pleistocene beds at the Kanam and Kanjera sites from Notebooks P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical Hardback notebook inscribed on spine 'Kanam'. Used from the front for notes on sections at Kanam and later notes on Leakey's book Stone Age Races of Kenya (Oxford, 1935) and the Louth - Willoughby anticline, and from the back for notes on sections at Rusinga island. Loose material intercalated includes, at back, 9pp ms draft 'The geology of the Kanam - Kanjera area (Kenya colony)’ in Kent's hand, and sections from Kanam, Kanjera and Rawe. Kent worked on the Miocene beds on Rusinga and nearby islands February - 28 March and 23-30 July 1935. 1 Hardback desk diary between sites 20 January - 8 August 1935. been used as an index. for 1935. Used principally to record movement The page for 1 January has Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge 'Koru etc’. Used from the front for field notes on work at Songhor, Muhoroni and Koru, and at the back for ‘General ideas’. Paginated 1-45 (Songhor) and 1-23 (Koru). Kent worked at Songhor 25-29 January and 22-25 April 1935 and at Muhoroni and Koru 6-14 April 1935. The notes on Songhor probably represent work on his first visit there. Kent worked on the Miocene beds at these sites to the north of the Gulf of The later pages of the notebook had ?photographs pasted onto them. some later date these have been torn from the pages. At Hardback notebook inscribed on spine 'Rusinga’. Used for notes on work on Rusinga, Mfanganu and Ngothe islands. Maps pasted into notebook at back. A little loose material intercalated. Kavirondo 15-21 April 1935. Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge 'Rusinga’. Used from the front for field notes on work on Rusinga island, and from the back for notes on Rusinga, Mfanganu and Ngothe islands. Paginated 1-94 (later pages not paginated). Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge ‘Central Kavirondo’. Used for field notes on work at Mariwa, Omba, Maboko island, Majowa bluff and Lela. Most pages not used. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge ‘Oldoway + Eyasi' and on first page ‘Geology in north Tanganyika 1) Oldowai 2) Laitolil and Lake Eyasi'. Used from the front for field notes on work at Olduvai and from the back for field notes on work to north west of Lake Eyasi. Paginated at the back 2-42. The Expedition moved to Olduvai Gorge, in Tanganyika, in May 1935. Kent worked in the Olduvai and Lake Eyasi area 10 May - 7 July. Hardback notebook labelled on front cover 'Oldoway 1935 P.E. Kent’. Used of ‘Sections in the Branch Gorge at Oldoway, from the front Tanganyika’, and from the back for ‘North Western Eyasi'. Paginated at the front 1-47 and at the back 1-89. for draft draft on Loose material intercalated includes maps of Olduvai Gorge and letter to W.G. Aitken, 19 June 1953 re ‘draft script on Oldoway'. Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge ‘Manyara’. Used for field notes on work near Lake Manyara. Most pages not used. Kent worked in this area 7-12 July 1935. Maps Softback pocket notebook cut in half and used as jotter for notes on East Africa and UK geology, addresses, bibliographical references etc. Softback pocket notebook used for miscellaneous ms notes on East African (site unidentified) and UK geology. In the middle of the notebook are brief entries for 1, 2, 17 and 21 August 1935. Most pages not used. and pencil. This map covers the majority of sites at which the expedition worked in Kenya. The sites and some other features have been marked by Kent in ink ‘East Africa [Kenya] Karungu', 1:250,000. 1916. Printed on linen-backed paper. Compiled by Ordnance Survey P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical ‘German Ordnance Survey 1915. Printed on linen-backed paper. [Tanganyika] Eyassi’, Africa East 1:300,000. Compiled by This map covers the Olduvai Gorge and Lakes Eyasi and Manyara. Some of the sites at which the expedition worked have been marked by Kent in ink. ‘German East Africa Kilimanjaro’, 1:300,000. Compiled by Ordnance Survey 1915. Printed on linen-backed paper. Inscribed on front 'Dr Leakey’. SECOND WORLD WAR A.103-A.118 A.103 He joined the Home Guard. ‘RAF Records 1941-46’. Contents of Kent's large envelope so inscribed. At the outbreak of war Kent was in a reserved profession and was therefore exempt from military service. In 1941 he was released from Anglo-lranian as they reduced their geological programme (see A.131). Kent joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve and was assigned to the Photo-Intelligence Branch of D section (Industry) of the RAF Central Interpretation Unit based at Medmenham. He worked on the assessment of initially locating oil storage tanks, later identifying German oil supplies - synthetic oil plants in which the Germans were converting coal to oil. He was seconded to the Mediterranean Allied Air Force in 1944 and in 1945 to the G2 Branch of US Army Intelligence to work on photo-interpretation of Japanese oil installations. For this work he was awarded the Legion of Merit in 1946. At the end of the war with Japan Kent was the only non-American accompanying the US Strategic Bombing Survey to Japan to assessing the effectiveness of air raids. the duties and discipline necessary in a military organisation’. Relates to a memo Kent sent to his commanding officer critical of an order that D section was no longer to estimate oil production figures but only supply the basic data for others to analyse. Kent was reprimanded for the memo, as '...the tone of this memo does not reflect a clear appreciation of ‘Orders papers 1944-46. Survey and subsequent visit to Japan with the Survey. Official corresp.' Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: official Chiefly material re transfer to US Strategic Bombing Memoranda re ‘Conflict with authority! [January] 1944’. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical A.105-A.112 'R.A.F. correspondence’. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled divided into eight for ease of reference: correspondence and papers 1943-46. Charts and plastic measuring cards for photo-interpretation; ‘Hydrogenation practice in Germany’, 4pp typescript; 'The Fischer Tropsch Process’, 2pp typescript + diagram; typescript list of ‘Slides held by Section D of synthetic oil plants’. Travelling expenses 1943-45 and mess bill. Papers re transfer to US Strategic Bombing Survey, 1944-45. ‘Extract from: "A review of the Air Offensive Against Axis Oil Supplies" Combined Strategic Targets Committee, Working Committee (Oil)' report, 21 June 1945, with Kent's letter of 16 July commenting on the report; 'M.I.S. [US Military Intelligence Service] Photo Interpretation’, note written by Kent for use in compilation of official history of the Petroleum Section, 9pp typescript, 12 September 1945; memo from Kent re Blechhammer South oil production plant, 14 September 1945. Correspondence and papers re visit to Japan with Bombing Survey, August - December 1945. Includes ‘Participation in U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey. list of sites visited; Oil and Chemicals Division’ by Kent, 4pp typescript + ‘Nagaski - 1945' by Kent, 2pp typescript account of visit to Nagasaki in October 1945, 5 July 1946. List of photographs taken in USA and Japan, 4pp typescript; memorabilia. Printed material on Axis oil production, 1942 and 1945. limericks, Hot Humorous items: spoof ‘Extract from: Special Survey of Axis Europe Oil April 1944; spoof ‘Functional analysis report’ on Production’ meeting, 1 ‘Henry M. re Japanese oil production, ‘by Peter and Pat’. Noel’; ‘Thoughts on Afternoon’, chiefly a P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical ‘Ploesti Mission 1st August 1943'. Album of photographs compiled by RAF Middle East Intelligence Unit. The raid on Ploesti in Rumania was carried out in daylight by 162 Liberators of the 9th US Air Force, flying without fighter protection, from RAF airfields in the Middle East. 172 tons of bombs were dropped and oil production slumped from 2,850,000 barrels in July 1943 to 1,880,000 for August. By September, however, production had fully recovered. Of this force 108 bombers returned. Further aerial photographs of the effects of the raid are at A.114-A.116, A.119. A.114-A.116 Aerial photographs, principally of Rumanian oil production sites at Ploesti, some showing damage from bombing (see also A.113, A.119). 3 folders. D-Day memorabilia, including printed sketch of ‘Forts [Flying Fortresses] returning from France - seen from Medmenham’. ‘Surplus refinery capacity A.118, A.119 reports on interpretation 12 March 1944, and Austrian oilfields, ‘RAF’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference. Photographs, including aerial photographs of damage to oil production sites at Ploesti (see A.113, A.114-A.116) and photograph of launch of V2 rocket. Copies of memos re secondment to Mediterranean Allied Air Force, Italy, 1944; Bergius at hydrogenation plants’, 8 January 1945; humorous song ‘Christmas Day at Medmenham' and poem ‘The usual channels’. RAFVR in 1958. "RAF: De-mob'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: documents re release from RAFVR duty 1946 and relinquishment of commission in ‘Corresp. re RAFVR/Washington DC 1945-6’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: American colleagues. Also includes notification of award of Legion of Merit to Kent, 22 July 1946. correspondence principally 1945-47 social with P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical Correspondence and papers 1981-82 re Kent's contribution to BBC TV programme ‘Auschwitz and the Allies’. Kent commented on the wartime role of the RAF Central Interpretation Unit. Kent's This programme was broadcast on BBC 2 on 16 September 1982. programme contribution misrepresented the Unit by suggesting it could have known of the existence of a Death Camp at Auschwitz. included was that and the not he felt Photocopies of pages from Evidence in Camera. The story of Photographic Intelligence in World War II by C.B. Smith (1958), The Eye of Intelligence by U. Powys-Lybbe (1983) and Target: Hitler's Oil by R.C. Cooke and R.C. Nesbit (1985), with references to Kent underlined. Kent wrote the Foreword to Target: Hitler's Oil, D.74). Bibliog. 141, 1985 (see A.123-A.126 Printed material. A.123-A.125 ‘Wartime Continental Oil installations Maps extracted from Oxford strategic handbooks’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference. Evidence in Camera, vol.1, no. 1, 19 October 1942. United States Bombing Survey Summary Report, 30 September 1945. Evidence in Camera ‘Special [final] Edition on Photographic Reconnaissance and Photographic Intelligence’, March 1945. The material is pages of data, maps and background information on oil production capacity of European countries, torn from handbooks. Annotated on front cover ‘Proof copy...’ P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical CAREER, HONOURS AND AWARDS Birth Certificate, 18 March 1913. Radcliffe House School, West Bridgford, School Report for Easter 1919. Award of Junior Scholarship by Notts. Education Committee, July 1924. References from Headmaster of West Bridgford County Secondary (later Grammar) School and Minister of Friary Congregational Church, 1929. University of Nottingham. Letter re visit to Stapleford Estate, Wymondham, Leics., 1932; results of University of London B.Sc. Special Examination for External Students, 1934; repayment of loan to University College, Nottingham, 13 January 1939. D.S.1.R. Maintenance Allowance for 1934-36. Appointment with Anglo-lranian Oil Company. Letter to G.M. Lees declining appointment as geologist with the A.I [?Anglo- Iranian Oil Company], 1935. Applications for post of Geologist, Geological Survey and Museum, 1936, 1937. Includes letter from the Notts Education Committee, 2 September 1936, confirming that Kent was not expected to pursue a teaching career in view of the financial support he received at West Bridgford County Secondary School, and was free to apply to the Geological Survey. northern Tanganyika, 4 April 1937. Ms draft of application letter to Anglo-lranian Oil, 16 August 1936, with references from H.H. Swinnerton, W.A. Richardson and P.G.H. Boswell, and letter of appointment, 26 September. Invitation to serve as Expedition Geologist on anthropological expedition to P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical Correspondence and memoranda re work for Anglo-lranian, 1937-41. Includes ms draft ‘Details of Researches’, and letter of 30 January 1940 giving Company approval for Kent's marriage. In May 1941 Anglo-lranian released Kent ‘owing to the restriction of the Geological Programme’. Election as Fellow of the Geological Society of London, March 1938. A.132, A.133 Ph.D. thesis 'The Miocene beds of Kavirondo, Kenya’. Kent was awarded his Ph.D. in December 1939. Thesis (unbound). Letter notifying Kent of the award; letters of congratulation. Military service. Friary Congregational Church, for appointment as Photocopy of ‘Citation for Legion of Merit, Degree of Legionnaire’ This was awarded to Kent in December 1945 for his work in interpreting aerial photographs of Axis oil production installations in Europe. References from G.M. Lees, H.H. Swinnerton and Rev. J.O. Dobson, Minister of Officer; correspondence from Anglo-Iranian re salary arrangements. Offer of Associate Professorship, Pennsylvania State College, March 1949. Correspondence and papers re resumption of career with Anglo-lranian, 1946-48. Post war employment. Application for Chair of Geology, Nottingham University, March 1946. Letter from L.J. Wills re lecturerships at Birmingham University, May 1946. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical Award of moiety of the Lyell Geological Fund of Geological Society of London, 1949. Includes Abstract of Society Proceedings giving Kent's award on pp.74-75, with ms drawings by elder daughter (aged five) at the back. Award of Bigsby Medal of Geological Society of London, 1955. D.Sc., London University, 1959. Appointment as BP America, 1962. Regional Manager (Exploration) North and South A.138-A.142 Election to Royal Society, 1966. A.138 Correspondence re candidature, 1957, 1960, 1964; notice of election in BP Daily News Precis. A.139 A-G A.140 H-N A.141_ P-Y A.139-A.142 Letters of congratulation, in alphabetical order. A.142_ First name and unidentified Offer of Chair of Geology, Durham University, 1966. Appointment as BP Chief Geologist, and long service award, 1966. af This Award consisted of a Gold Medal and prize of £25,000 awarded for ‘an outstanding contribution...in the fields of engineering or the other physical technologies or in the application of the physical sciences, which has enhanced or will enhance the national prestige and prosperity of the United Award of MacRobert Award for Engineering and Technology, 1970. Award of Murchison Medal of Geological Society of London, 1969. A.144-A.150 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical Kingdom’. Kent received this award, in conjunction with his BP colleagues H.R. Warman and A.N. Thomas, for ‘Exploration leading to the discovery of the Prudhoe Bay oilfield’, in particular the development of techniques for surveying through the permafrost of north Alaska. The rules of the award allowed no more than five recipients of the prize and Kent, Warman and Thomas were named as the key senior personnel involved. They recognised the contribution made by other members of the BP team by dividing the £25,000 into 25 shares of £1,000 which were distributed by them to those involved in the Alaska work. Correspondence and papers re BP submission for the award. Award, including press-releases. Newspaper cuttings and transcripts of BBC reports on the award. Arrangements for division of the award including list of recipients, and letters of thanks. A.148, A.149 A.151, A.152 A.148 A-L Correspondence arising, 1971. A.149_ M-W and unidentified Award of Royal Medal of Royal Society, 1971. Letters of congratulation, in alphabetical order. Honorary D.Sc., Leicester University, 1972. Letters of congratulation, in alphabetical order. A.151 Press-release and citation. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical Retirement from BP, 1973. A.155-A.163 Knighthood, 1973. Kent was knighted for services to petroleum exploration. Correspondence re arrangements, including style of address. Kent wished to be styled Sir Peter rather than Sir Percy Kent. knighthood was conferred 24 October. The Newspaper cuttings and features; ‘A commendatory poem’ by E.H. Kent, daughter, in celebration of the knighthood. A.157-A.162 Letters of congratulation, in alphabetical order. A.157 A,B A.160 L-R A.158 C-E A.159 F-K A.161 S-Z A.162_ First name and unidentified Offer of Consultant Professorship, Keele University, 1973. Offer of part-time post, Grant Institute of Geology, Edinburgh, 1973. Correspondence and papers re membership of the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor, 1973-86 and nd. Honorary D.Sc., Durham University, 1974. Appointment as Chairman, Natural Environment Research Council, 1973. Award of Sorby Medal of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 1973. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical Honorary Membership, Geological Society of Bulgaria, 1975. Honorary Membership, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1976. Folder includes biographical account and photograph of Kent. Honorary LL.D., Glasgow University, 1977. Folder includes two mounted photographs of honorary graduands. Honorary D.Sc., Bristol University, 1977. Letter re proposed Peter Kent Medal 'for outstanding work in the field of oil and gas geology’, 8 June 1978. Honorary LL.D., Aberdeen University, 1978. Honorary Sc.D., Cambridge University, 1979. Honorary D.Sc., Hull University, 1981. A.174, A.175 Honorary D.Sc., Birmingham University, 1983. 2 folders. Kent gave the address on behalf of the honorary graduands. Geologists, 1984. Twenty-five years membership of American Association of Petroleum P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical A.177-A.187 Kent's death Kent died on 9 July 1986. Funeral Service, Friary United Reformed Church, West Bridgford, 16 July 1986. Envelope containing slips signed by those attending. Service of Thanksgiving, St James Church, Piccadilly, 19 November 1986. Includes order of service and correspondence. Correspondence and papers re contributions to the Nottingham Hospitals Scanner Appeal. Lady Kent asked that donations be sent for the Appeal, organised through Friary Church, in lieu of flowers. A.181 D-H A.182 |-M A.183 N-S A.180 A-C A.184 T-Y A.180-A.186 A.185_ First name and unidentified First name and unidentified Letters of condolence, arranged alphabetically. Circular letter from Lady Kent re ‘the two memorials set up to December 1987. including a Sir Peter Kent Memorial Plantation. BP Exploration and the Nature Conservancy Council established a Sir Peter and Kent Petroleum Development and Nature Conservation opened an Industrial Archaeology nature trial over the Duke's Wood oilfield, the Nottinghamshire Trust Conservation Book Prize in April 1987, for A.186 Peter’, BP P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 DIARIES Desk diaries Biographical These were used by Kent principally to record survey work for BP. There is material intercalated or pasted to pages of the diaries. This may include photographs, letters and greetings cards, membership cards, newspaper Cuttings, ms jottings, and theatre tickets and other memorabilia 1950. 1955. Photograph of M.B. Kent (wife) pasted into front. Intercalated material includes letter from M.B. Kent. 1956. "Woods Australian Diary’. into front. Photograph of Kent with his wife pasted A.193 A.193-A.205 BP desk diaries 1958-70. Photograph of wife and daughters pasted 1957. ‘Woods Australian Diary’. into front. 1958. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical Photograph of 'Knox United Church Choir, Calgary, November 3rd, 1963. 1963' pasted into front, with key. Kent was a member of the choir. 1966. Includes newspaper cuttings re election to the Royal Society. BP Pocket diaries A.206 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical FAMILY AND PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE Family A.210 Brief ms and typescript notes on family members. Annie Scott Kent, née Woodward, mother. One letter only, 6 April 1937. See also A.67-A.71 and A.73-A.79. A.212-A.222 Margaret Betty Kent, née Hood, first wife. Kent married M.B. Hood in 1940. Letter, 2 November 1945. A.214 A.218 Nd A.219-A.222 A.213-A.218 A.216 1951 A.217 1951 A.213 1948, 1949 January-April May-December 1950 January-April It includes messages to A.215 1950 October-December Correspondence 1948-51. These letters were sent home by Kent during his period in Iran 1948-51 and East Africa in 1951. his daughters and a few miscellaneous letters and memorabilia. First name and unidentified Letters of condolence etc on death of M.B. Kent, June 1974, arranged alphabetically. A.221 N-W A.219 A-F A.220 G-M A.222_ P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical A.223, A.224 Lorna Ogilvie Kent, née Scott, second wife. Kent married L.O. Scott in 1976. Material re wedding; photograph of L.O. Kent. Family correspondence to L.O. Kent, from July 1986. For letters of condolence on Kent's death see A.180-A.186. Judith Ann Kent, elder daughter. School project ‘Calgary to Banff. A geographical appraisal’, c.1959-60. Letter, 2 April 1978. Edward Woodward, uncle Letter re Estate, 1948. Obituary, 1977. Arranged chronologically. Personal correspondence Charles Frederick Hickling, cousin. Includes contents of Kent's personal correspondence file for 1964-67. Nd A.228 1957, 1962, 1964 1984 June-December A.229 1965, 1966 A.227 1933, 1937 1980-82 1983 1984 January-May A.230 1967-69 A.231 1973 A.232 1974-79 1985, 1986 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical MISCELLANEOUS PERSONAL MATERIAL A.239-A.252 Church, clubs and charities A.253-A.256 — Passports A.257-A.263 Social occasions A.264-A.268 | Memorabilia Church, clubs and charities Friary Congregational (later United Reformed) Church Kent became a member of the church in 1931. He met his first wife through the church (she became Secretary in 1956) and retained his links throughout his working life. In 1982 he agreed to be elected an Elder of the church. 1979, 1982, 1983. Medmenham Club 1937, 1971, 1974, 1975. March 1974', 7pp typescript with ms additions. Includes Kent's 'Sermon for Friary Church 17th Correspondence and papers 1937-86. 1984-86, nd. Includes letter to K.H. Clarke MP re Sunday shop opening, 13 February 1986. Membership lists 1954, 1979 and amendments. The Medmenham Club was open to those who served in Photographic Interpretation during the Second World War. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical Newsletters 1966-85. Not a complete sequence. Miscellaneous Includes correspondence from U. Powys-Lybbe re her book The Eye of Intelligence (see A.122). correspondence 1977-85. papers and English Club, Zanzibar Rule book, sent to Kent on his election as a Full Member, 16 January 1954. Old West Bridgfordians Association Kent was a pupil at West Bridgford Grammar School 1925-31. 1966, 1974, 1980. 1966 item is extract from ‘The West Bridgfordian' with brief account by Kent of developments in the search for natural gas beneath the North Sea. 1985, 1986. Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge 1982. Correspondence and papers re West Bridgford School Prize-Giving, 29 November. Kent presented the prizes. Kent was Guest of Honour at the 1979 Degree Ceremony. 1971, 1975-86. Chiefly re dining rights. Luton College of Higher Education Degree ceremonies 1978 and 1979. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical Rushcliffe Liberal Association Membership, 1985. Charities and appeals Various dates 1972-86. Passports A.253 1934-39. Memorabilia re marriage pasted onto p.5, photographs of wife and daughters c.1956 and ?childhood photograph of Kent loose at p.27. 1953-58. Photographs of Kent loose at pp.13 and 25. 1957-67. Social occasions A.257 Royal Garden Party, Buckingham Palace, 14 July 1964. Diary of trip; memorabilia from pre-Naming Ceremony functions. The British Explorer was the first of seven 200,000 ton oil tankers built for BP by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. Kent travelled to Japan with his wife and attended various functions in conjunction with the Naming Ceremony. A.258-A.260 Naming Ceremony of SS British Explorer, Nagasaki, 26 March 1970. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical Memorabilia from Naming Ceremony. Photographs. Luncheon, Buckingham Palace, 21 May 1974. Includes Kent's ms account of the occasion, 3pp ms. Opening of British Antarctic Survey Building by the Duke of Edinburgh, Cambridge, 7 May 1976. Elizabethans of Distinction Banquet, Savoy Hotel, London, 1 December 1977. Inauguration of Magnus oilfield by the Prime Minister, 14 September 1983. Memorabilia A.264 1966, 1973-75. A.264, A.265 Newspaper cuttings on Kent's life and career. Nottingham Guardian 22 November, picture of Kent with part of an 1933. ichthyosaurus communis fossil he found at Barnstone Quarries. 1935. Nottingham Guardian 15 November, feature on Kent (in East Africa) and R. Bentham, also a University College Nottingham geology student (in Arctic region). Airey Neave MP at British Association meeting, Guildford. 1947, Item 1975 sketch from New Scientist of Kent (speaking), fellow chairmen of Research Councils, Sir Bernard Lovell and P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Biographical ‘Early flights’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: maps of USA and Pacific ocean with Kent's flight and voyage 1945 and flights 1955 marked thereon. Miscellaneous memorabilia, 1945-81. Includes photograph of Kent 1954. Miscellaneous memorabilia, nd. Includes copy of ‘Arctic and Bush Survivat'. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 SECTION B RESEARCH AND SURVEYS The papers in this section document Kent's survey work for the Anglo-lranian Oil Company (later BP) and subsidiary companies, and Kent's own geological research. The two are closely related. With the company's goodwill Kent was able to use information from company surveys to further his own geological research, and his survey work itself represents a considerable geological achievement. A list of the over 90 reports Kent prepared for BP is at A.17 The material dates from Kent's first work with Anglo-lranian Oil in Lincolnshire in 1935, through his postwar work for BP in the UK and overseas in Iran, East Africa, Papua New Guinea and North America, to the North Sea discoveries of the 1960s and 1970s, and post-retirement research to 1986. The geographical coverage is thus very wide, although the bulk of the papers are concerned with the geology of England (particularly the Midland counties) and Iran. number of notebooks. There are also a The material is presented as follows: At the end of the section is a little material The material has been arranged by geographical area. reflecting Kent's concern with wider energy issues, such as the gasification of coal. Much of the material was found in Kent's own folders or envelopes, usually with the title inscribed thereon. These titles have been reproduced in the catalogue entries. The folders or envelopes may contain material spanning many decades, reflecting Kent's continuing interest over an extended period in certain areas of the UK and of the world - such as Lincolnshire, East Africa and Iran. This material includes ms notes (some on pages from ‘filofax' style notebooks), typescript drafts and notes, stratigraphical columns, oil well logs, maps, sections and photographs. Nottinghamshire B.1-B.225 UNITED KINGDOM B.53-B.122 Lincolnshire B.1-B.7 England general B.8-B.52 Midlands general B.123-B.131 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys B.132-B.136 Leicestershire B. 137-B.142 Derbyshire B.143-B.145 East Anglia B.146-B.163 Souther England B.164-B.182 Yorkshire B.183-B.186 Scotland B.187-B.225 North Sea B.226-B.353 IRAN B.226-B.229 Kazerun Survey B.230-B.251 B.291-B.339 B.252-B.277 Fars-Laristan Survey B.278-B.290 Salt Plugs Behbehan-Kazerun Survey Exploration Advisory Group PAPUA NEW GUINEA B.340-B.353 General B.354-B.407 EAST AFRICA B.408-B.427 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys B.428-B.456 NORTH AMERICA B.457-B.469 GULF STATES B.457-B.463. Kuwait B.464-B.469 Oman B.470-B.485 OTHER AREAS AND MISCELLANEOUS B.486-B.505 ENERGY ISSUES B.486-B.491 General Coal B.501-B.503 Oil shales B.492-B.500 B.504,B.505 Other energy resources Research and surveys P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 UNITED KINGDOM England general B.1-B.4 ‘England General’. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled divided into four for ease of reference. ‘Note on the structure of the Ollerton district [Notts]' by Kent, 5pp typescript + maps, 11 April 1938; typescript notes on Millstone Grit, April 1940; ‘The underground stratigraphical conditions of 5pp typescript + map and section, c.October 1940; ‘A structure contour map of the base of the Mesozoic rocks of England’ by Kent, 7pp typescript, 4 December 1940. Norfolk' North Kent, by ‘Explanatory note to accompany a geological map of central and southem England and two cross sections showing a possible reconstruction of pre- Permian strata and a discussion on the prospects of oil discovery’ by G.M. Lees, 10pp typescript + 3pp data, map and sections, June 1944; covering letter from Lees to Kent; 'Sub-surface structure of S. Eastern England’ by Kent responding to Lees's paper, 3pp typescript, 25 October 1944. and N.E. Contour map of the ‘Palaeozoic surface of England and the Channel coast'; map of England’; ‘Palaeographical map of [of England and Wales]... by L.J. Wills, 1975. in lower Palaeozoic floor ‘Permian the diagram development Typescript memos by Kent ‘Structure of the Kirkleatham - Redcar area [Yorks]', 2pp + contour map, 27 June 1946 and 'A reconnaissance of the Nunthorpe area [...] Yorkshire’, 2pp + contour map; typescript note on ‘Huntingdon Borings', 1 October 1965. List of exploration wells in England and Wales, 1918-84. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: maps showing ‘UK Licenses’. production, mining and prospecting licenses granted to oil companies, 1962- 67 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys ‘Interim maps for the Wolfson Geochemical Atlas of England and Wales’, Applied Geochemistry Research Group, Imperial College London, July 1974. Hardback pocket notebook paginated 1-116 (top right hand corner) and 169- 237 (bottom right hand corner), later pages not numbered. Used for notes, maps (pasted onto pages) and data from well logs 1940-c.1971. A little intercalated material. Midlands B.8-B.11 ‘Lias corresp’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: correspondence and papers 1935-78, chiefly re Lias of Leicestershire and Lincolnshire. 1935-37. Includes Stanton Ironworks Company information on Holwell mine [Leics]. 1940-47. Correspondence 1940-41 chiefly re ammonites from lower Lias in the Vale of Belvoir, Leics, and the River Till, Lincs. Ring bound pocket notebook used by Kent from the front chiefly for notes on sea-shells and on sites in the Midlands where they were found. Latest 1965-78. typescript, published in Ironstone’ by M.K. Howarth, 3pp typescript, sent to Kent 17 April 1974. Includes 'A lower Lias section in the River Till’ by Kent, 2pp Bibliog. 93, 1974, and 'The age of the Frodingham 1951-64. Includes typescript notes ?by Kent on ‘The Mesozoic rocks of Bornholm’, 23 October 1962 and ‘The basal Lias near Long Bennington [Lincs]', 23 November 1962. bibliographical reference 1936. Ring binder made by Kent and used to file ms and typescript notes on sites in the Midlands in an alphabetical sequence. Various dates 1935-1968. Some loose intercalated material. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys Pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge ‘East Midlands’ and on first page ‘Lancashire, Lincolnshire & Leicestershire’. Used from the front for notes on sites 1937-46 and from the back for notes on sites and on first aid. Loose at front is personal note from younger daughter (Elizabeth) Helen following visit to Kent in Port Moresby (c.1955-57). B.15-B.17 ‘Geophysical data’. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled divided into three for ease of reference. Driller's Tour Reports from bore-holes in Lincolnshire, June 1938. D'Arcy Exploration Co. and other maps: D'Arcy Exploration was a subsidiary of Anglo-iranian Oil operating in the UK. Structure Contour map of the base of the Lincolnshire Limestone, Lincs, 1937. Seismic Refraction Survey of Lincs and Notts, c.1940 (2 maps). Seismic Refraction Survey of Lincs and Notts, 1951. Seismic Survey of area south of Lincoln, nd. Magnetic Survey of Lincs, nd. Charts from ‘East Lincs. Magnetic Survey’, nd. Refraction survey of Foston-Bourne-Thistleton area, Lincs, 1946. Reflection Seismograph Survey of Log Clawson-Widerpool-Bunny area, Lincs and Notts, 1943 (3 maps). Kent's hand; etc. ‘Misc. Mids Jurassic Well data’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: notes and data from wells at Spital [Berks], Wysall [Notts], Sproxton [Leics], Blankney [Lincs] and Stixwould [Lincs]; 'A re-examination and study of Northampton sands samples from Lincs Test Wells' 3pp typescript, 16 January 1945; ‘Revision of Sheet 142 - Melton Mowbray’, 6pp ms not in Hardback pocket notebook inscribed inside front cover '1939'. notes on sites in Midlands. Many pages have been removed. Used for P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys B.20, B.21 E. Eng. Graphic Logs’. ‘Jurassic - Contents of Kent's folder so labelled divided into two for ease of reference: D'Arcy Exploration Co. well logs 1940s. Long Bennington G.1 and G.2 [Lincs], Bottesford 1 and 2 [Leics], Claypole 1 [Lincs], Gulf Exploration Co. Cleveland Hills 1 [Yorks], Foston 1 [Lincs]. Nocton 2, 6 and 7, Spital 1, Sproxton 1, Stixwould 1 [Lincs]. B.22, B.23 ‘1" well logs E. Midlands’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference. D'Arcy Exploration Co. well logs 1940s: Eakring 1 and 146 [Notts], Long Clawson 1 [Leics], Widmerpool 1 [Notts]. BP Exploration Co. well logs 1950s: Colston Bassett North 1 and South 1, Cropwell Butler 1, Langar 1 [Notts]. ‘from Sections north Leicestershire (Vale of Belvoir) syncline’ by Kent, with covering memos April and May 1946. Breedon to Widmerpool' ‘across and the the ‘Sections + misc. reports E. Midlands’. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled: typescript notes by Kent ‘Mesozoic structure of western Norfolk’, 4pp, 6 May 1946 and ‘The structure of the Haughton - Perlethorpe area [Notts]', 2pp + map, 6 August 1946; draft ‘Deep borings in Lincolnshire’ by Kent, 5pp ms, nd; ‘Appendix. Notes on Geological Survey [of the Lincoln area]' ?by Kent, 6pp typescript, nd; Seismic Refraction Survey map of Notts and Lincs heavily annotated by Kent, 1951. programme: East Midlands’, 2pp, 20 July 1953; ms notes. Typescript 20 September 1951 + later map, ‘Compilation and publication of U.K. drilling results’, 3pp, 28 September 1951, ‘Bottesford [Notts], recommendation for additional test’, 3pp, 1948 with covering note 28 September 1951', ‘The structure of Caunton [Notts]', 1p + map, 15 April 1953, ‘Forward seismic ‘Structure of East Midlands’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference. ‘East Midlands drilling prospects’, B.25-B.27 notes by Kent 2pp, P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys Maps. ‘Geological structure contour map' of Notts and S. Yorks, 1940. Annotated by Kent. ‘Relations of the Midlands coalfields' by Kent, 1 September 1947. ‘Farley's Wood' by Kent, 13 October 1947. Isochron map of area south of Lincoln, 25 September 1949. ‘lsopachs of the lower and middle coal measures (Millstone Grit to Top Marine Band) in the North East Midlands’, 21 November 1951. (6 maps). Isochrons of deep refractors in Notts and Lincs, Shrops and Staffs, Lancs and N. Yorks, nd. (4 maps). Lincolnshire Limestone, nd. ‘Belt for reflection survey' in Lincs, nd. of and ‘Rhaetic correspondence’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference: material re ‘The Rhaetic beds of the North East Midlands’ by Kent, Bibliog. 34, 1953 (see also B.33-B.35) and other work on Rhaetic. Midlands' and ‘Rhaetic drafts North East the beds B.28-B.32 ‘Comments on Dr Kent's Rhaetic paper by N.L. Falcon, 30 October 1951; correspondence re Rhaetic 1952-53, 1955. Notes and data from bore-holes at Thorney, Scotter Wood, Pilham [Lincs] and Billesdon [Leics], c.1940; ‘The deposition of the Rhaetic bone beds' ?by Kent, 4pp typescript, latest bibliographical reference 1944; correspondence 1948 with M.R.W. Johnson and S.G. Clift re data on Rhaetic of Bunny area [Notts]. notes, tables and figures. ‘Details of sections’, typescript and ms draft of part of Kent's article; ms P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys Map of Rhaetic in the Midlands by Kent, 1961; 'U-shaped burrows in the Rhaetic of Nottinghamshire’ by Kent, 2pp typescript + figures, revised 1960s, relates to 'Problems of the Rhaetic in the East Midlands’, Bibliog. 76, 1970; ‘The stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Rhaetic (Triassic) beds of Barnstone, Nottinghamshire’ by J.H. Sykes and J.S. Cargill, 44pp typescript + figure, 10 November 1969. Typescript notes on the Rhaetic in the north Midlands, Lincs, Yorks, and the North Sea, c.1970, possibly prepared for the Stratigraphy Committee of the Geological Society, with comments on Kent's 'Rhaetic. Draft account for Geol. Soc. Strat. Committee’, November 1970 (see F.101); charts of Rhaetic development in Lincs and Yorks by Kent, 1970; correspondence various dates 1971-86 and nd. B.33-B.35 ‘Rhaetic drafts’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference: chiefly re ‘The Rhaetic beds of the North East Midlands’ (see also B.28-B.32). ‘The Rhaetic beds of the North East Midlands’ by Kent, 23pp typescript with ms correction; ‘Sections in the Jurassic beds of the East Midlands’ by Kent, 29pp typescript, latest bibliographical reference 1946. Figures for the article, illustrating Rhaetic outcrops in the N.E. Midlands. B.36, B.37 ‘Rhaetic’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference. Correspondence re article 1952-53 and later work on the Rhaetic beds of the Midlands 1961, ms and typescript notes. Ms notes on Torksey well 1, c.1962; correspondence 1964, 1977, 1978. Ms notes on Bunny [Notts] sent to Kent 14 April 1946; ms draft ‘The Rhaetic thicknesses in relation to structure’ by Kent, 4pp, c.1940s; map of 'Rhaetic thicknesses in the Northeast Midlands’ by Kent, 1961; correspondence and typescript notes on Rhaetic beds of Wilkesley bore-hole [Ches] from C.J. Stubblefield, January 1962. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys ‘Lias & Rhaetic (Source rocks +)'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: letter re ‘specimen of an Acanthodian jaw', 4 January 1956; ‘Type sections of Bathonian, Portlandian and Purbeckian stages, and the problem of the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary’ by P.C. Syivester-Bradley, 7pp duplicated typescript sent to Kent for comment 8 June 1962; ms notes. ‘Lower/Middle Lias Paper Lias Working Data’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: 3pp ms draft ‘The basal Lias near Long Bennington’ (see B.10); references; maps; etc. 1960s. ‘The lower and middle Lias sequence in the North-East Midlands’ by Kent, 32pp typescript, 'Redraft dated March '63'. Contents of Kent's envelopes inscribed with map number (Ordnance Survey 1 inch:1 mile series) and area covered. The envelopes may contain ms and typescript notes and data, sections and maps chiefly relating to shot-points and bore-holes in the area. 1963-83 and nd. ‘Sheet 80 Shotholes sections re South Cave, Lincs, 1975. Lias N. Lincs’. Notes and correspondence ‘Sheets 89-90 Scunthorpe/Brigg [Lincs]'. 1962-73. ‘Sheets 71-72 Market Weighton [Yorks]'. Includes ‘The earlier Lias of North-West Lincolnshire’ by Kent, 3pp typescript ‘2nd draft’, nd. ‘Sheet 127 (with 126) Grantham [Lincs]'. c.1950-72. ‘Sheet 114-115 Lincoln - Rasen 81. Includes well log from Welton well 1, 1981. ‘Sheets 102-103 Saxilby - Market Rasen [Lincs]'. 1964, 1973. Riseholme - Bishop Norton Brant Broughton - Thorney [Lincs]'. 1964- P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys ‘Sheet 141 Loughborough [Leics]'. Notes on Bunny, Notts, March 1978. ‘Sheet 142 Melton Mowbray [Leics]'. Chiefly re Old Dalby. 1946-73. ‘Sheet 143 Bourne Woolsthorpe - Mkt Overton [Leics]'. 1966, 1972. ‘Sheet 157 Stamford [Lincs] Greetham - Wansford [Cambs]'. 1964-73. Hardback pocket notebook used for notes on sites in East Midlands 1968- 71. Pages at front removed. Spiral bound notebook. Used for notes on sites in Lincs and Leics, 1975-76. Most pages not used. Lincolnshire B.53-B.57 ‘North Staffs sections etc. | Maps 1965’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: ‘South Midlands’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: miscellaneous material 1954, 1958, 1968. Includes well log from Noke Hill G.1, and note by Kent commenting on ‘Oil prospects of the Staffordshire basin’ by 2J.1. Gillespie, 1 May 1958. Muir-Wood re specimens for the British Museum (Natural History). 1938-41. re stratigraphical nomenclature in the Lincolnshire Limestone and with H.M. 1934-36. Includes typescript list of ‘Lincolnshire Inferior Oolite Brachipoda. Collected by P.E. Kent, 1932-1936’ and ms list of those specimens missing. Palaeo & stratig'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed for ease of reference: correspondence and papers re ‘Oolites - Corresp. divided into Lincolnshire Limestone 1934-79. five Includes 1941 correspondence with L. Richardson P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys Includes correspondence re specimens for 1946-47. British Museum (Natural History) and H.L. Hawkins, Reading University, and 1p ms note on ‘Section at South Ferriby, Lincolnshire’, 8 July 1947. 1952-60. Includes ‘The nomenclature and subdivisions of the Lincolnshire Limestone’ by Kent, 8pp typescript + references and figures, with comments from Muir-Wood 20 May 1955. 1961-79. Includes correspondence 1968-69 re ‘the Clipsham ammonite’. B.58-B.60 ‘Lincolnshire - Limestone structure’. divided into three for ease of reference. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled ‘Report of a study of the Lincolnshire Limestone’ by Kent (‘Prelim. Report to D.S.I.R. north Northamptonshire’ by Kent, 5pp typescript, November 1936. typescript structure 1936’), figure; 19pp + ‘The of ‘The geology of north Lincolnshire’ by Kent, ms and typescript draft with ms corrections and additions, February 1938. ‘Report of a study of the Lincolnshire Limestone’ by Kent, 20pp typescript, September 1936. This report is a revised version of that at B.58 above. It is annotated 'Report to DSIR under terms of research grant...’ Typescript notes by Kent ‘Revised structural contour interpretation of Lincolnshire Seismic Survey’, 7pp, 2 April 1941; "Report on the occurence of pure Limestone, suitable for large scale quarrying, in Lincolnshire’, 3pp, nd; ‘Deep borings in Lincolnshire’, 3pp, nd; 'The Jurassic beds’, 4pp, nd. Figures. ‘Geological Report P.E.K. 1. Report on the geology of Lincolnshire’ by Kent, May 1937. This was Kent's first report for Anglo-lranian Oil. 24pp typescript + 6pp appendix and errata. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys Miscellaneous maps found with figures: ‘Revised structure contour map of the base of the Lincolnshire Limestone near Lincoln’ by Kent, 31 May 1938. ‘Surface contour map of the upper surface of the interior Oolite near Grantham, Lincolnshire’ by Kent, 3 June 1938. ‘Thicknesses of Jurassic rocks near Grantham’ by Kent, 3 June 1938. ‘Structural contour map of the upper surface of the Lincolnshire Limestone’ by Kent, ‘Revised November 1940’. Exercise book inscribed on front cover ‘Previous literature Lincs. Limestone’, and with business card printed 'P.E. Kent, B.Sc. Research Student...’ pasted to Most pages have been removed, those remaining are loose. Miscellaneous ms notes. inside front cover B.66-B.70 ‘Well logs. N & E Lincolnshire’. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled divided into five for ease of reference. Chiefly 1930s. Reeds Winteringham, Winterton Holmes, Worlaby, Wrawby, Wressle. Scothern, Scotney Warren, Island, Risby Farm, Kirton Lindsay, Records, sections and notes of wells or borings. Appleby, Barnetby, Broughton, Burton upon Stather, Caenby. Clapgate, Haverholme, Hibaldstow, Howsham, Kettleby, North Lincoln. strata above Frodingham Ironstone. List of ‘Ammonites from the Frodingham Ironstone of the Scunthorpe district. Collected by P.E. Kent...January 1938', 2pp typescript with ms annotation; list of 'Frodingham Ironstone - deep exploration borings’; ‘Plan showing Frodingham Ironstone exploration area’; section from Worlaby showing ‘Appleby - Brigg area 3" index to [water and exploratory] borings’; ‘Borehole records’ collected by A.M. Cobban; etc. Scotter, P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys B.71, B.72 ‘Well logs. Lincs. Wolds’. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled divided into two for ease of reference. Chiefly 1930s. Typescript data from Beelsby, Cadbourn, Caistor, Croxby, Grasby, Great Limber, Kelstern, Nettleton, Somerby, Tealby, Thoresway, Walesby, Wold Newton. Records of wells or borings from Addlethorpe, Alford, Burgh le Marsh, Calcethorpe, Donington, Grimoldby, Louth, Maltby le Marsh, Melton Ross, Sutton on Sea, Tathwell, Welton le Marsh, Willoughby, Wold Newton; miscellaneous data. B.73-B.77 ‘Well logs. C + S Lincs’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference. Chiefly 1930s. B.73-B.76 Records of wells or borings. B.73 Pilsgate, Fineshade Gosberton, Branston, Burton Canwick, Clipsham Little Bytham, Metheringham, Miningsby, Hanworth, Sempringham, Shelford, Sleaford, South Witham, Spalding. Normanton, Sapperton, Ropsiey, Preston, Scampton, [Northants], Folkingham, Ancaster, Anwick, Bainton, Benefield, Cottesmore [Leics], Billingborough, Braceby, [Rut], Digby, Donington, Dorrington, Dowsby, Easton Colsterworth, Cranwell, [Northants], Edenham, Evedon, Ewerby Waithe. Pedwardine, Faldingworth, Great Casterton [Leics], Great Ponton, Grimsthorpe, Hacconby, Haydor, Horbling, Kingscliffe [Northants], Kirkby Underwood, Langworth, Laxton, Lincoln. 1940; ms notes. Spanby, Spridlington, Stamford, Stanion [Northants], Swaton, Swayfield, Swineshead, Swinstead, Thorpe Tilney, Threckingham, Tickencote [Leics], Waddington, Wansford, Wilsford, Wittering, Wymondham [Leics]. Correspondence 1936, 1941; sections of Eagle and Thorney bore-holes, Potter Scopwick, P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys ‘Seismic Wells - Lincoln 1938-9'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: ms notes on refraction surveys carried out in area south of Lincoln; map of area surveyed. ‘Seismic Wells Notts, S. Lincs, Leics 1940-43'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: ms and typescript notes on refraction surveys. Softback pocket notebook inscribed on front cover ‘Lincoln 1937 Used for notes on sites lying south and south east of Lincoln. Lincs’. Hardback pocket notebook inscribed on front cover ‘Central Lincs May 1938’. Used for notes on sites lying east and south of Grantham. Pocket notebook inscribed on front cover P.E. Kent N. Lincolnshire, 1938’. Used for notes on sites east and south-east of Brigg. B.83 + of the Ironstone’, 11pp B.83-B.85 B.84, B.85 Frodingham ‘Stratigraphy Figures. 2 folders. ‘The geology of North Lincolnshire’ by Kent, February 1938. 39pp typescript typescript appendix and ‘Note on the Brigg district’, 2pp typescript. Kent's folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference. Correspondence and papers, 1940-67 and nd, found with preceding. Includes typescript notes by Kent 'Boreholes at Winterton and Scotney, North Lincolnshire’, with covering letter to C.H. Dinham, 24 January 1940, ‘Ammonites from the Kim[mleridge Clay of the Lincolnshire Fens’, 18 June North 1940, ‘An ammonite from the Lincolnshire’, 8 November 1961 retreat stages in south Lincolnshire’ by Kent, nd. Spilsby Sandstone of Elsham , and ‘River systems and glacial ‘South Lincolnshire Reports. area Underground structure of Grantham - Stamford area (1946)'. 1. Surface structure of Grantham - Sleaford 3. Contents of Long Benington district. Surface structure (1938). of 2. B.87-B.89 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys ‘On the geology of the Grantham district’, by Kent, 6pp typescript + figures, 7 October 1938. "Report on the underground structure of the county between Grantham and Stamford’ by Kent, 4pp typescript + figures; 2 July 1946; ‘Sections of South Lincolnshire’, 27 July 1946. ‘A borehole to basement rocks at Glinton, near Peterborough, Northants’ by Kent, 6pp typescript, for meeting of Geological Society 13 December 1961 (Bibliog. 47); 'Glinton no.1 Geological completion report’ by M.F. Ridd, 22pp photostat copy, October 1961; note on ‘Material from Glinton No. 1 borehole’ by R. Walls, 2pp typescript, 24 November 1961; etc. Miscellaneous material re Glinton well. of rock samples from the well. Includes four mounted photographs B.91, B.92 ‘Columnar secns'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference. B.93, B.94 Claypole, Lincoln, Nocton, Ruskington, Spital, ‘Report on the Long Bennington structure’ by Kent, 8pp typescript, 1942; miscellaneous ms sections; maps; exchange with R.J. Firman re Long Bennington bore-holes, October 1962. [The lias of the north east Midlands] Part two: the Lias and Oolites’, 14pp typescript + appendix; typescript data 1948 from test borings at Blankney, Bottesford, Sproxton, Stixwould, Sturton by Stow; 'Palynological report on chipping samples from BP...borehole at Claypole, 16 June 1971. Bibliographical references; figures; outline list of contents ?for brochure. ‘Lincolnshire Brochure (revision)'. divided into two for ease of reference. Correspondence, Limestone, 1941-45. Contents of Kent's box file so labelled African geology and chiefly re East Lincolnshire P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys Spiral bound notebook used from the front for notes on sites in Lincs 'pre- 1945’ and from the back for draft ‘Outline of stratigraphy’. Most pages not used. Hardback pocket notebook inscribed on front cover ‘Lincolnshire 1946’. Used for notes on Hibaldstow boring 28 June 1946. Most pages not used. B.97, B.98 ‘Lincs Seismic Holes 1948'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference. Ms data from shot-points at Aubourn, Blankney, Brandon, Brauncewell, Claypole, Coleby, Digby, Dorrington, Gelston, Haddington, Kettlethorpe, Nocton, North Hykeham, Potter Hanworth, Scopwick, Stubton, Wellingore Hand-drawn maps indicating positions of bore-holes; section from Carr Lane bore-hole, Hibaldstow. Hardback pocket notebook used from the front and from the back for notes on sites in Lincs, earliest date 3 July 1950. Most pages not used. ‘Lexicon of Stratigraphy. 1955. Retained in original binder. Jurassic Rocks of Lincolnshire’ by Kent, March Miscellaneous material 1940s: map of Trent and sites to the east 1941; section of area from Eakring - Dunston 1943; map of Long Clawson; ms note 'A lateral change in the Red Chalk [of north Lincolnshire}’. (Bibliog. 39); ms and typescript notes and pages of drafts. Correspondence and papers found with preceding. The correspondence is principally with J.E.Hemingway, 1955, responsible for recording the Jurassic entries. ‘M[iddle] + U[pper] Lias & Oolites'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: 'A borehole at Welton, near Lincoln’ by Kent, 3pp typescript, 31 January 1955 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys ‘Northerly estuarine’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: typescript accounts of sections at Fillingham and Ingham Cliff, 1964; report on Welton borehole, 3pp typescript. ‘The earlier Lias of north-west Lincolnshire’ by Kent, 2pp typescript, 24 September 1964. ‘Tetney Lock No. 1'. Tetney Lock 1; typescript notes, c.1964; sample descriptions. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: well log from Hand-drawn sections by Kent 1964, some from 1930s data, others from data from trenches dug by East Midlands Gas Board: Blyborough, Clipsham, Denton, Colsterworth, Fillingham, Glentworth, Hibaldstow, Ingham Cliff, Leadenham, Scampton, Spital, Waltham, Welton. B.109, B.110 ‘Fenland Graphic Logs’. into two for ease of reference. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided BP log for Bardney well 1, 1966. London Palaeontological Notes by F.C. Dilley, 1965, ‘Microfaunas from Jurassic (chiefly Liassic) surface samples from Lincolnshire’ and 'Microfauna from the Jurassic of Tetney Lock No. 1 Well, with 2pp typescript comments by Kent 25 June 1965. Notes and data on wells at Wisbech and Wittering 1971; well logs from Ruskington 1, 1955, Helpringham 1, 1969, Brigg 1, 1981. Elsham trench section’ by Kent, 3pp typescript, November 1973. Contents of Kent's envelope: miscellaneous correspondence and papers, 1971-73. Includes ms ‘field notes & sketches’ and typescript data from 1971 Gas Council trench in north west Lincs; log and typescript data from Nettleton well 1 1972; and ‘The Cretaceous - Jurassic contact in the 1973 Miscellaneous material 1960s: correspondence re borings 1962; typescript note on ‘Trench sections at Westborough, Lincs' 71966; sketches by Kent of geology at Castle Quarry, Ancaster and Leadenham Quarry, 1969; sections. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys Contents of Kent's folder: correspondence and papers 1973-76 re second edition of ‘The geology of Lincolnshire’, by Kent and H.H. Swinnerton (Bibliog. 105, 1976). River Brant Brant ‘The and Stragglethorpe, mid-Lincs. 1973' by Kent, 5pp typescript + ‘Brant section near Stragglethorpe 1.2.74’. Broughton Skinnand, between section J.A.D. Dickson sections’. ‘Oolites Kent's envelope so inscribed: sections from the Great Hale bore-hole sent to Kent January 1974. Contents of Inferior Oolite isopach maps of area east of Lincoln, sent to Kent by R.J.M. Dixie 22 March 1974. ‘Lincs. Palaeontology (Lias - ex-I.G.S.) B.M.'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: 16pp list of identifications of Lincolnshire fossils presented by Kent to Institute of Geological Sciences 1968-72, sent to Kent 4 April 1974. ‘Ewerby (Sleaford) Boreholes’. ‘basic strata logs’ for four bore-holes sunk by Anglian Water 1985-86. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: ‘Nettleham #1 Logs’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed. 1982. Hardback pocket notebook used from the front and from the back for notes on sites in north Lincs. Nd. Miscellaneous ms notes and sections. Richardson's Strat. Columns’. Contents of Kent's envelope so ‘Lincs Lst. inscribed. Nd. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Nottinghamshire Research and surveys B.123 ‘Land Utilisation inscribed: hand-drawn map. Aug. 1941 Fisketon’. Content of Kent's envelope so Report UK 137 ‘Geology of South Nottinghamshire’ by Kent, December 1947, retained in original binder. Some later material has been added within the binder at back of report. Material found loose is at B.125. Correspondence, papers, photographs and maps found loose at back of B.124. 1969 correspondence is principally re Widmerpool Gulf. B.126, B.127 ‘South Notts. 1951 Draft’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference 13pp typescript with ms correction + ms list of illustrations and title page, with covering letter 1954. A note on the title page states: 'Draft of paper, written 1951 revised 1955, intended for eventual publication’. Contents of Kent's envelope so _ inscribed: ‘South Notts draft maps’. annotated well log for Widmerpool 1. ‘Notts - Air photos’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference. Some labelled or inscribed with identification on verso. 1941 and nd. Kent's envelope so inscribed. Leicestershire B.132 ‘Leicestershire Lower Carboniferous Field records 1939’. Contents of Figures. B.129-B.131 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys ‘Plungar [Leics]'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: ‘Note on the Plungar structure’ by Kent, 1p typescript, 27 January 1954; draft on the Middle and Upper Lias, 4pp typescript; D'Arcy Exploration Co. well logs for Plungar 1 and 2 and Barkeston 1; maps of Plungar area; etc. Report UK 357 (PEK 68) ‘The Melton Mowbray Prospect’ by Kent, July 1961, retained in original binder. Some later ms notes loose at back. ‘Oolites sections’. notes, sections etc 1969-73, chiefly re Sproxton. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled: miscellaneous Miscellaneous material various dates 1964-84. papers re Asfordby bore-holes sunk by National Coal Board. 1984 correspondence and Derbyshire B.137-B.141 five for prepared for the Derbyshire Silica ‘Derbyshire’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into ease of reference. Correspondence and papers 1946-71. Chiefly re ‘Triassic relics and the 1,000-foot surface in the 1957-59. southern Pennines’ by Kent (Bibliog. 42, 1957). Includes draft of article, 12pp typescript and of 6pp typescript ‘Postscript note’ arising from work of C. Yorke, and related correspondence. 1946-50. Chiefly re geological examination of silica pits in Newhaven area. Includes Kent's report on ‘The location of silica deposits on the Derbyshire plateau’ Firebrick Company, 3pp typescript, 3 January 1947 and ‘The Mesozoic history of the southem Pennines' by Kent, 4pp ?incomplete typescript with ms correction and annotation, latest reference 1947. Typescript and ms notes on the literature. 1961-71. Includes photocopies of letters of F.W. Shotton to C. Yorke, 1961- 62, re Derbyshire blue clays. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys Ms notes, tables etc. ‘UK exploration - Land Licenses, South Derbyshire’ by Kent, 1p typescript note to H.R. Warman, 22 November 1973, with map showing area for which Kent recommended a License should be sought. East Anglia B.143, B.144 ‘East Anglia’. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled divided into two for ease of reference. ‘Seismic investigations of East Anglia and their geological implications’ by Kent and J.E.R. Wood, 2pp duplicated typescript resumé of presentation to British "Seismic investigations of East Anglia [...]" ' by T.F. Gaskell, 4pp photostat typescript, 23 November 1961, with response from J.E.R. Wood. meeting August Association 'Notes paper 1961; on East Anglia [...]', 13pp B.146-B.151 Southern England Revised version of ‘Seismic investigations of typescript, October 1962. Contents of Kent's folder: logs from North Creake well 1, South Creake well 1 and Somerton well 1; Superior Oil Co. summaries of logs for Ellingham, Four Ashes, Lakenheath, Ashwell, Little Chishill, Tring 1965-66; ms and typescript notes. 1 [Dorset], 29 March 1939. ‘Geological Progress Report for March 1937' by A.H. Taitt, 3pp typescript; data from Worbarrow Bay, Mupe Bay and Lulworth Cove [Dorset], October 1937, with ms diagrams and notes found therewith; data from Chaldon well 'S. England’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into six for ease of reference P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys ‘Choice of a deep drilling location for Mesozoic oil in Southern England’ by Kent, 4pp typescript + covering memo, 20 May 1946; ‘Draft Memo to Mr Seamark. A recommendation for a boring at Sandown, Isle of Wight’ by G.M. Lees, 10pp typescript, sent to Kent for comment 6 June 1946; notes on ‘Kimmeridge oil shale development’ by Kent, 4pp typescript + covering memo, 8 October 1947; memo to N.L. Falcon on ‘Corallian prospects of the Dorset coast’, 2pp typescript, 29 December 1947. Correspondence and papers re 1952; typescript list various rocks, nd. fossils in Isle of Wight Carstone, October of chief or characteristic ammonites to be found in Well logs from Brightling 1 [Sussex], Fordingbridge 1 [Hants], Grove Hill [Sussex], Portsdown 1[Hants], Poxwell 1 [Dorset], Willesden 1 [Mddx]. 1 Annotated chart of data from logs of wells in Sussex, Hants and Isle of Wight; BP geological maps of southern England showing gas and oil production, June 1970. B.152, B.153 Contents of Kent's folder so labelled ‘Dorset reports. September 1937'. divided into two for ease of reference. Two cross-sections ‘across the |.o.W. structure’, sent to Kent 27 September 1974; correspondence re geology of Ham and Kingsclere [Hants], 1979; material re bore-holes at Marchwood [Hants] and Winterborne Kingston [Dorset]; etc. [Dorset]. Memo from P.T. Cox to A.H. Taitt 5 May 1937 (includes note that 'Mr Kent will report to you as Resident Geologist, Poxwell, on Friday 14th May’); notes by W.J. Arkell, July 1937 on ‘Thickness of Kim[meridge] Clay’, 5pp 1. the Lulworth district’; ‘Poxwell No. typescript and ‘Oil prospects in Completion ‘Report on excavations on the Poxwell structure’ by Kent, 2pp typescript + sections. ‘Note on the Bincombe, Sutton Poyntz, Poxwell and Chaldon structures of S. Dorset’ by Taitt, 4pp typescript + figures, with copy of comments by Arkell; ‘Note on the succession penetrated at Broadbench, Kim[mleridge Bay’ by Kent, 4pp typescript + log; well logs of Kimmeridge 1 and Radipole 1 Report’ by Kent, 8pp typescript + section; P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys Sutton Poyntz & shot holes’. ‘Dorset Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: includes annotated map of Sutton Poyntz area, correspondence re specimens, May 1948, and sections through Chaldon Herring anticline, 1955. B.155-B.157 ‘Kingsclere [Hants] Boring’. divided into three for ease of reference. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed ‘The Kingsclere boring’ by R.V. Melville, 24pp typescript + table, sent to Kent for comment 20 September 1949, with related correspondence including later draft for letter to Melville asking 'Now that you are facing retirement, would you like to take it up again?’ ‘Underground storage prospects’ by Kent, 4pp typescript + covering memo and figure, May 1953. Log and data from Kingsclere well 1. ‘Dorset stratigraphy’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: letter to Kent from M. Adcock, 26 December 1939; ms and typescript drafts of ‘The origin of Ptygmatic folding’ by Kent; data from wells at Eakring, Caunton and Kelham [Notts]. ‘Vale of Wardour’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: letters from B.H. Mottram re the Poxwell Fault, and Mere Fault and Wardour Fold, December 1953; ms draft ‘The structure of the Vale of Wardour’; ms notes; maps of vale of Wardour area. arising. ‘UK oil prospects - West Dorset Mesozoic’ by Kent, 2pp typescript, 28 November 1973. 'R. Stoneley - Wessex Basin’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: draft ‘On the structural development of the Wessex Basin’ by Stoneley, 13pp typescript + figures, sent to Kent for comment 6 January 1981, with letter P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys B.162, B.163 ‘Oil in Dorset’. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled divided into two for ease of reference. 1985 BP celebrated fifty In Kimmeridge in Dorset. profile of operations in the 1930s. and production at They asked Kent to assist in the compilation of a exploration years of Draft profile of Kimmeridge operations by D.J.T. Smale, with covering letter to Kent, 24 July 1985. ‘The Kimmeridge story’ by Kent, 9pp typescript with ms correction and annotation, 31 July 1985; background information including copy of ‘Oil in Dorset’ by Kent, New Scientist, 16 July 1959, 84-85 (not listed in Bibliog.). Yorkshire B.164 P.E. Kent B.166, B.167 ‘The Market Weighton Anticline’ by Kent, 26pp typescript + figures, with ms annotation and correction, May 1938, retained in original binder. Also enclosed in the binder is contemporaneous correspondence from H.D. Thomas and a ‘Comment on the results of the Beverley Seismic Survey - Report UK. 204' by Kent, 3pp typescript,15 February 1955. Correspondence and papers re ‘The Market Weighton structure’ by Kent, (Bibliog. 41, 1955). Hand-made paper-back pocket notebook inscribed on front cover ‘Market Weighton district 1938'. Used for notes chiefly on South Cave and Millington. comments on the paper following its presentation. Includes J.E. Hemingway, 22 March 1955, who read the paper to the Yorkshire Geological Society in Kent's absence in New Guinea; 5pp typescript transcript of correspondence 35pp typescript. re paper, including comments from P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys ‘Yorkshire Rhaetic’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: correspondence 1946, 1952, 1953; well logs from Cleveland Hills 1, Eskdale 2, Moordale 1; ms notes. Composite structure contour map of the Cleveland Hills by Kent, 18 March 1947. B.170-B.172 ‘NE & SE Yorks'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference. ‘Potential gas-bearing structures in East Yorkshire’ by Kent, 3pp typescript, 11 September 1953; list of Yorkshire wells with depths and thicknesses of Lias of Middlesbrough and Humber areas. Permo-Trias, 1952-53 Gravity Survey maps and nd; UK Maps, including: Map of east Yorkshire by Kent, 10 February 1954. B.173 B.173-B.176 Geological sketch map of north east Yorks. Contents of Kent's folder divided into four for ease of reference. Typescript and ms data from Eskdale bore-holes; maps of the area. Gas Exploration Proposed Seismic Programme map of Lincs and east Yorks. Ms and typescript notes on sites in Givendale area, 1973, 1975, 1980-82. Account of ?East Midlands Geological Society field to north east Yorkshire, 15-18 October 1965, with illustrative material found therewith; London Palaeontological Note 'Ostracod dating of Pre-Cretaceous strata, Market Weighton area’ by R.A. Field, 11 December 1968. Miscellaneous correspondence and papers 1966-79. trip P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys Correspondence and Howsham and Scalla Moor, 1974. interim reports re bore-holes at Brown Moor, ‘Yorkshire Deep Wells’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: well logs from Cleveland Hills (extension), Crayke 1, Fordon 1 (extension), Harisey 1, Whitwell on the Hill 1 (extension). Latest date 1965. B.178, B.179 ‘East Yorks. Bore-hole Secns'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: well logs, notes, data and correspondence with F.C. Dilley 1971-74. Barmston 1, Eskdale 2 and 12, Fordon 1. Great Hatfield 1, Hornsea 1, Millington Pasture shot-hole, Risby 1, Robin Hood's Bay 1, South Cliffe 1. "‘Winestead No. 1 log, data and notes, c.1972. S. Yorks’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: well ‘Howardian Hills’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: ms notes, some dated June 1977. Contents of Kent's envelope so ‘E. Yorks. and Humberside B.H.s'. inscribed: map of Hull area with sites of bore-holes indicated; well log from Kirkleatham 2; 10pp typescript list of thicknesses and depths of strata for bore-holes in Aclam area, sent to Kent 9 September 1975; etc. Glasgow, 6-11 June 1938. Scotland ‘D'Arcy Exploration Company's search for petroleum in Scotland’ by B.K.N. Wyllie, of Petroleum Conference, of presentation at pre-print Institute B.183 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 B.184, B.185 Research and surveys ‘North-West Scotland 1968 Kent's folder so labelled divided into two for ease of reference. Applecross Gruinard Bay, Skye’. Contents of Field notes and typescript notes June 1968; letter to Kent from M.G. Collett re samples from Applecross, 23 July 1969. Geological Survey of Scotland map of Applecross. ‘Rhaetic etc Scotland’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: notes on Trias succession at Rudha na 1972; unidentified sections. Leac, Raasay, sent Kent 7 April to North Sea B.187 ‘Jurassic and Cretaceous reservoirs in the North Sea basin' by Kent, 4pp typescript + figure, 2 July 1962. A covering note has been annotated by Kent ‘Largely misleading’. B.188-B.191 ‘North Sea - General’. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled divided into four for ease of reference: papers re North Sea oil prospects 1963-67. ‘How good are North Sea offshore oil prospects?’ by J.A. Kornfeld, World Oil, 1 February 1963, 47-51; ‘The search for oil and gas in the North Sea’ by J.S. Royds, 9pp typescript pre-print + figures, 'Nov. 1965'; ‘A summary of the geology and geophysics of the British North Sea’ by M. Holmes, 9pp typescript + 3pp typescript 'File Note’ and table, December 1965. 1964'. See H.12. Programme for 14th Inter-University Congress on the Geology of Shelf Seas, Hull, January 1967, with Kent's ms notes on proceedings. See H.19. ‘The basis of North Sea exploration’ by Kent and A.F.M. Matthews, 12pp typescript, 'For oral presentation at the A.A.P.G. Convention, Toronto - May Figures, possibly illustrations for Kent's contribution above. 2 folders. B.190, B.191 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys London Palaeontological Note ‘Foraminifera from BP (North Sea) 48/6/3, incorporating a Zonal Scheme for the Lias and its application to Hamilton’ by F.C. Dilley, 1 December 1966. B.194, B.195 ‘North Sea: General 1967-'. into two for ease of reference. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided Exchange with D.T. Donovan re nomenciature of North Sea features, February 1967; papers re discussion with Board of Inquiry into a North Sea submarine pipeline, 1970; etc. Memos etc. 1972. B.196-B.200 ‘North Sea Logs and Summaries 1/500’. inscribed divided into five for ease of reference. Latest date 1968. Contents of Kent's envelope so Wells 47/3-1 and 47/9-1. Well 47/15-1x. Wells 47/18-1 and 47/25-2. Well 48/6-5. Well 48/6-10. Wells A339/-1, 38/29-1, 41/8-1, 41/20-1. ‘North Sea Wells’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into eight for ease of reference: well logs and summaries etc. Latest date 1973. Lists of oil companies and their wells; maps of oil fields and wells. B.201-B.208 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys Wells 41/24A, 42/23-1, 42/29-1, 44/11-1, 44/21-1. Wells 47/3-1, 47/9-1, 47/13-1, 47/15. Wells 47/18-1, 47/20-1, 47/25-2, 47/29A-1. Wells 48/6-1, 48/6-5, 48/6-10. Wells 48/21-2, 49/13-1, 49/17-1, 49/22-1, 49/26-1, 53/10-1. 'N. Sea Lias Zonal Chart’. 'N. Sea - Cretaceous Sub-crop envelope so inscribed: data. J. Butler 1975’. Contents of Kent's Softback notebook inscribed on first page ‘North Sea data 1974-'. from the front and from the back for notes 1974-75. Used Softback notebook inscribed on fore edge ‘North Sea 1978’. Used for notes on wells in block 47. Most pages not used. 1980. Softback notebook inscribed on fore edge ‘North Sea Lancaster Gate 1979 1980 83’. Used for notes on organisation of British National Oil Corporation and its Exploration Department; Conference on Petroleum Geology of the Continental Shelf of North-West Europe, March 1980 (see H.111, H.112); Geological Society meeting 1983. Institute of Geological Sciences North Sea Survey ‘Equalised Stack’ data. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys Institute of Geological Sciences North Sea Survey ‘Relative Amplitude Stack' data. 1980. B.215-B.217 Background material re North Sea pockmarks, sent to Kent 19 October 1982. 3 folders. B.218-B.225 North Sea figures and maps. 8 folders. Some of presentations and articles on the North Sea. material used was this as illustrative material for Kent's Kent. Here he Kent's first overseas posting with Anglo-lranian/BP was to Iran. was involved in studying the geology of the outer mountains of the Zagros range. Kent was involved in three major surveys; of Kazerun 1948-49, and then of Bebehan-Kazerun 1949-50 and Fars-Laristan 1950-51 both of which were led by In 1951 BP was expelled from Iran when foreign owned oil companies were nationalised. For Kent's letters home to his family in this period see A.213-A.218. With the restoration of the monarchy in Iran BP were able to resume their activities. In 1957 a consortium of western oil companies operating in Iran, including BP, established the Exploration Advisory Group, to advise on exploration matters. Later it reported to OSCO - the Oil Service Company - a joint concern of western oil companies serving as a direct contractor to the National Iranian Oil Company. Kent became a member of the EAG in 1965, replacing N.L. Falcon as the BP representative. In 1973 Kent became Chairman of the Group in succession to H.D. Hedburg, his continuing membership of the EAG being part of his post-retirement consultancy with BP. EAG activity comprised visits to Teheran to receive briefings from staff on the ground followed by field trips, chiefly to the oilfields and the Zagros mountains area. The party would then return to Teheran to draft its report. The EAG made its last visit in 1978; its activities were halted by the Islamic revolution and the overthrow of the Shah. in the Fars province. interest plugs dated to his survey work in the Zagros Kent's salt Salt plugs are more numerous and better seen in mountains in 1948-51. In February 1968 this region of Iran than in any other area of the world. Kent was a member of a party which conducted a minor survey of salt plugs in P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Kazerun Survey Research and surveys The material is presented as follows: B.226-B.229_ Kazerun Survey B.230-B.251 | Behbehan-Kazerun Survey B.252-B.277 __ Fars-Laristan Survey B.278-B.290 Salt Plugs B.291-B.339 Exploration Advisory Group B.340-B.353 General B.226 B.227, B.228 Maps prepared during Kazerun survey. 2 folders. Hardback pocket notebook used for notes on Iran 1948-49, and UK Midland sites 1970s. Appendices to 'Kazerun Survey - 1948/49' by Kent, August 1949. Retained in original binder. typescript, 7November 1949. Correspondence and memos re organisational and logistical arrangements, August - November 1949; Progress Report for September; ‘Note on the Bingistan Barytes deposits’ by Kent, J.F. Watson and H.R. Warman, 5pp ‘Bebehan-Kazerun Survey 1949-50 of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into seven for ease of reference. Monthly and Interim reports’. Contents Behbehan-Kazerun Survey B.230-B.236 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys Progress Reports for October and November 1949. Progress Reports for December 1949 and January 1950. Correspondence and papers January, July 1950. re samples from Tang-i-Shahen fissure, Correspondence and memos February 1950; Progress Report for February 1950. Progress Reports for March and April 1950. Miscellaneous material. B.237-B.242 B.243, B.244 ‘Bebehan-Kazerun Survey. Palaeontologists' Reports’. folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference. Contents of Kent's Reports by J.A. Douglas on fossils collected during the survey, June 1950 and January 1951. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed ‘Bebehan-Kazerun Strat Columns’. divided into six for ease of reference: stratigraphical sections, dated October 1949 - April 1950. B.230. ‘The Bingistan Barytes deposits by Kent, 2pp duplicated typescript + plates and figure, 11 July 1950. Supplementary Note [to Report PEK 35]' See Preliminary palaeontological reports July - September 1950. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys B.246-B.249 ‘Mamatain'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference. Report PEK 36 'An examination of the Mamatain Limestones' by Kent, J.F. Watson and H.R. Warman, August 1950. Retained in original binder. B.247-B.249 Material found with preceding. 3 folders. B.247 Memos, notes and sections re Mamatain Limestone; humorous verse ‘To Editor, H.K. [Haft Kel] News’. 1:253,440 topographical maps of Kazerun, Basht and Haft Kel areas, 1940s; 1:253,440 geological maps of Kazerun and Beheban, 1920s. linch: Yanile map of ‘The lower Fars stage 3. Secondary Limestones of Mamatain’, March 1949; Anglo-iranian Oil Co. ‘Panorama of Iran showing the oil operations’ annotated by Kent with 1949-50 survey route; ms sketches ‘Samples of Gach-Limestone transitions’; miscellaneous ms figures etc. B.250, B.251 Part I. Report PEK 37 ‘The Behbehan - Kazerun Survey 1949-50' by Kent, J.F. Watson, H.R. Warman and D.G.F. Bailey, c.September 1950. Retained in original binders. ‘1’. ‘Book 1 Surmeh to Asalu'. Used from October 1950. Series of three hardback pocket notebooks inscribed 'P. Laristan' on fore edge and numbered on front cover. E. Kent Fars- Fars-Laristan Survey B.252-B.254 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys ‘2’. ‘Book 2 Khiaru to Chiru’. Used from December 1950. ‘3'. 'Book 3 Kalat to Chah Kazimah’. Used from February 1951. B.255-B.257 ‘Kuh-i-Surmeh (Fars-Laristan Survey)’. so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference: material re Report PEK 39. The report itself was not found. Contents of Kent's folder Progress Reports for October and November 1949 and February 1950 (prior to Kent joining the Survey). Correspondence and memos 1950-52. Includes reports on fossils collected. Well logs and sections from Kuh-i-Surmeh; photographs; ms figures; ms notes. B.258-B.260 October, November, December 1950, January 1951. February, March, April 1951. ‘Monthly repts 1950-51 Fars Laristan’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference. Ms notes on work December 1950 - April 1951; correspondence and memos April, September - October 1951; typescript notes on Cenomanian Mars; maps and ms figures. 1950 - April 1951. ‘Fars-Laristan Stratig Sections'. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: stratigraphical sections dated October B.261, B.262 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys B.263-B.269 ‘Pal Data & specimens’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into seven for ease of reference: papers re samples sent for analysis. B.263, B.264 Macrofossils field data sheets, numbered 1- 60. 2 folders. B.265, B.266 Memos re data sheets and cans of fossil samples returned for examination, October 1950 - July 1951, with lists of samples. 2 folders. B.267, B.268 Reports by J.A. Douglas on macrofossils collected during the survey, 1951. 2 folders. Correspondence and memos January 1951-1952. B.270-B.277 Material re report PEK 40 ‘The Fars - Laristan Survey, 1950-51' by Kent, A. McGugan, H.R. Warman and E.K. Cullingham, c. September 1952. B.270, B.271 plugs’ by Kent, Sections and photographs for report PEK 40; etc. Contents of Kent's envelope divided into two for ease of reference: papers re report PEK 40. Memos 1951-52; letter to C.J. Stubblefield re Kalat Cambrian trilobites, 20 June 1952; 'Salt 11pp typescript with ms _ correction; typescript notes on 'Gach-i-turushes on Kuh-i-Gavbut', ‘Eocene landslip within the Bakhtiri conglomerates of Kuh-i-Safid (Janna)’. Part |. Typescript draft of text with ms correction and annotation. B.273, B.274 Final report. Retained in original binders. B.273 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys Il Part accompanied Part Il may be at B.271. (incomplete). Some of the sections and photographs which B.275, B.276 Papers re the Report found loose at back of B.274. B.275 Chart of horizontal sections from the survey. Miscellaneous material. Includes draft ‘Appendix A - The Knemiceras Beds’, App typescript + figure. ‘Fars Laristan Survey 1950-51. Appendix A’. Retained in original binder. Salt Plugs B.278-B.283 ‘Salt Plugs’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into six for ease of reference. Includes correspondence re ‘The Correspondence 1951, 1959, 1963-65. origin and movement of Salt Domes in S.W. Persia’ by Kent, presentation to Leicester University Geological Society, 1964. See also D.100. Includes ‘The temperature conditions of Salt Correspondence 1966-69. Dome intrusions’ by Kent, 2pp typescript Letter to Nature, Lond., 1966, and correspondence with H.D. Hedberg re ‘Fars Salt Plugs minor survey’ (see B.280). Plugs of southern Iran’ (Bibliog. 121, 1979, see D.44, D.45). Report on 'Fars Salt Plugs minor survey February 23rd - 28th, 1968', 8pp typescript + lists of specimens. Correspondence 1971, 1975-85, nd. Chiefly re ‘The emergent Hormuz Salt P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys ‘lran November 1969 - Revised list of PEK samples’; ms note by Kent on ‘Piercement Salt Plugs of the Southern Gulf’; sketches of salt plugs by Kent. Maps, sections, etc. B.284, B.285 ‘Iran etc Salt Plugs. SP diagrams’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: miscellaneous maps and figures. B.286-B.290 ‘Salt Plugs Lit{erature] Other Countries’. inscribed divided into five for ease of reference. Contents of Kent's folder so Off-print ‘Internal structure of the Grand Saline salt dome, Van Zandt County, Texas’ by W.R. Muehlburger, University of Texas, 1959. Pasted into back of the notebook are Kent's ms notes on visit to Grand Saline and page of programme from American Association of Petroleum Geologists Conference, March 1959. Correspondence 1980-81. Exploration Advisory Group (EAG) 1965 B.289, B.290 Miscellaneous material. 2 folders. ‘Emplacement of the Arctic Gypsum Diapirs' by Kent, 6pp typescript, 16 June 1960; 16pp typescript notes on 'Petrographical examination of Erratic rocks associated with Gypsum Diapirs from the NW Territories’; 'Evaporite Piercement structures in the northern Richardson mountains' by Kent and W.A.C. Russell, 11pp typescript + references (Bibliog. 46, 1961). 1965 visit, 21 November - 6 December. Note re recommendations of 1964 report; correspondence and papers re P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys Programme and ms notes. ‘Recommendations of the Members Exploration Advisory Group December 1965". 1967 Programme and ms notes of 1967 visit, 19 November - 4 December. Hardback pocket notebook used from the front for notes on EAG visits to lran 1967 and 1971 and from the back for notes on 1967 visit. Draft ‘Recommendations of Members Exploration Advisory Group December 1967'. The draft is annotated by Kent 'Unexpurgated draft. To be retained!’ 1968 1969 draft report of EAG meeting, London 10-12 Correspondence re and February, and 1969 visit. ‘Report of [Consortium] Committee on Reserves under the Chairmanship of Mr [M.M.] Pennell’, 25 June. Report of EAG December 1969. Retained in original binding. Programme and ms notes of 1969 visit, 21 November - 4 December. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys 1971 Correspondence, papers, annotated programme and ms notes re 1971 visit, 1-15 March. Report of EAG March 1971. Retained in original binding. ‘Exploration Presentation to Members’ Technical Representatives November 1971’. 1972 Correspondence and papers re 1972 visit, 29 September - 13 October. ‘Summary of technical papers for presentation to Members Exploration Advisory Group in Teheran, October 1972’. Annotated by Kent. Programme and ms notes of 1972 visit. Report of EAG October 1972. Retained in original binding. ‘Exploration Advisory Group Meeting October 1972 Field Excursion Notes’. December. Correspondence arising, including correspondence re Kent's succession as Chairman, etc. 1973 Correspondence re Chairmanship and 1973 visit, 30 November - 13 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys Programme and field excursion notes; ms notes of visit. Report of EAG December 1973. Retained in original binding. ‘Geological map of South-West Iran’, 1:1,000,000. 1974 Correspondence, chiefly re structure of anticlinal cores. Persian Gulf oil well summaries, August and September - October. 1975 Programme and ms notes of first 1975 visit, 3-19 January. Geological maps of Dezful and Ahwaz, 1:250,000. Report of EAG January 1975. Retained in original binding. B.317, B.318 ‘1975 E.A.G. field trip maps and sections Kent's folder so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference. Dezful Embayment'. Contents of Drafts by EAG members of sections of the January 1975 recommendations. meeting. ‘Dalan prospect. Proposed Bangestan, Khami and Permian Test Well Proposal Summary’, sent to Kent 20 February; notes by Kent for second 1975 EAG meeting, [3-18] October; brief correspondence. Loose-leaf pocket notebook containing programme and ms notes of October P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys Report of EAG October 1975. Retained in original binding. 1976 Report of EAG October 1976. Retained in original binding. Correspondence November 1976. Iranian oil potential’ by Kent. Includes 2pp typescript ‘Appraisal of 1977 Letter re meeting of OSCO Geophysical Advisory Group, 3 May; exploration drilling results, August 1976 - September 1977; annotated programme of visit; etc. Report of EAG October 1977. Retained in original binding. 1978 Report of EAG October 1978. Retained in original binding. Correspondence; annotated programme of visit; attendance list for EAG de- brief meeting, 10 November. applications’ by G. Orbell, technical note 2/1976, April 1976. 2 folders. OSCO Geological and Exploration Division reports and technical notes. See also B.350, B.351. ‘The post-Asmari formations of South Iran' by G. December 1974. 3 folders. B.332, B.333 ‘The geothermal gradient map of S.W. Iran and adjacent areas and its B.329-B.339 B.329-B.331 Favre, report 1220, P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys ‘The Mesozic sequence in soutwest Setudehnia, report 1248, August 1976. Iran and adjacent areas' by A. B.335, B.336 ‘Synsedimentary tectonics in the Bangestan of Kharg' by H. Bolz, report 1275, January 1978. 2 folders. B.337-B.339 ‘The geology of the Bandar Abbas hinterland, South Fars’ by P. Verral, report 1286, August 1978. 3 folders. General B.340-B.344 ‘Iran - General’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference: correspondence and papers 1964-75, nd. Includes material re research on oil recovery techniques in Iran and 1964. 3pp typescript memo by Kent ' S.W. Iran - Reservoir data’, 24 November. Used from the 1967-70. 1971-75 and nd. 1965. Includes papers re crude oil from Kharg oil wells. 1971. Includes material re proposed research on the Zagros Crush Zone. front and from the back for notes on visit to |ran 1964. Paginated up to p.53. Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge ‘Iran 64'. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys B.346-B.353 Contents of Kent's envelope divided into eight for ease of reference: maps, stratigraphical columns and sections. B.346-B.348 Stratigraphical columns. 1960s. 3 folders. Seismic sections, c.1976. B.350, B.351 Figures for OSCO Exploration Division technical note 3/1977 on Kuh-e Darang area. 2 folders. See B.329-B.339. B.352, B.353 Miscellaneous. 2 folders. EAST AFRICA Also includes a little material relating to oil prospects in northem Africa which Kent visited during his time in East Africa. For material relating to Kent's work on the East African Archaeological Expedition of 1934-35 see A.53-A.102. For material relating to work arising from the Deep Sea Drilling Project for which Kent reviewed the results of Leg 25 drilling in the western Indian Ocean, see C.117-C.121. Kent was posted to East Africa very shortly after his return from Iran in 1951, initially to investigate a report that oil had been found in Kenya. No oil was found but Kent remained in East Africa principally surveying the geology of Tanganyika where the prospect of finding oil seemed better. He left The final results of Kent's Africa in 1955 but made several later visits. geological work in East Africa were only published in 1971 in Bibliog. 80. ‘Northern Kenya’. Used for notes and sketches 11-27 June. Softback pocket notebook inscribed on first page ‘Kenya - Northern Frontier Dist. 1951 Uganda - Albert visit’. Used from the front for notes on sites 23 May - 7 July 1951, and notes on expenses, itineraries etc, October - December. B.355-B.357 Series of three hardback pocket notebooks used 1951, dated and identified by inscription on front cover. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys ‘Coastal Tanganyika’. 22 November. At the entry for 26 October on the Tanga district are stapled later notes on Tanga, February 1953. Used for notes and sketches 25 October - ‘Mafia-Zanzibar' and on first page ‘Voyage of the "Burgan"'. Used for notes and sketches 24 November - December. At entry for 7 December are pasted later notes on shot-point 39 in Zanzibar, 16 November 1954. Hardback pocket notebook inscribed on front cover ‘Tanganyika flights Nairobi 1951'. Used to record observations made during flights 14-21 October 1951. At front are stapled later notes on flight to and visit at Dodoma, Tanganyika, June 1953. Uganda Af. 'E. correspondence and papers chiefly re sulphurous soil samples, 1952-53. Seepages'. envelope Contents Kent's so _ of inscribed: cover ‘Tunisia 1952’. Used for notes and Hardback pocket front Paginated (incomplete) 1-32 on left-hand pages. sketches 15-27 September 1952. Most pages not used. notebook inscribed on Figures. B.361, B.362 21pp typescript + 1p appendix. Report PEK 45 'A reconnaissance of Eastern Tunisia’ by Kent, September 1952. 1952. ‘Geology Kenya...by B.M. Ayers...With appendices on fossils collected in the area’. The appendices are by Kent although published anonymously. Retained in original binding. Material found with preceding report. A.N. Thomas, 6pp typescript + figure, 15 October 1952. Includes ‘Oil prospects of Algeria’ by Wajir-Mandera district, North-East the of P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys Geological Survey of Tanganyika Report no. PEK/1 ‘Sections in the branch gorge at Olduvai’ by Kent. Retained in original binding. c.1953. The report is based on work done while the East African Archaeological Expedition was at Olduvai during 1935. B.366-B.370 Series of five hardback pocket notebooks used 1953, numbered, dated and identified by inscription on front cover. ‘1. Mafia Bagamoyo [Tanganyika]'. Used for notes January - February. ‘2. Zanzibar Pemba’. Used for notes February - March. ‘3. Smaller Islands Lindi Uganda’. Used March and May. ‘4. Pemba Mafia island September 1954. _Miscell'. Used October - December and for further notes on ‘5. Madagascar’. (incomplete). B.372-B.375 Used September - October 1953. Paginated 1-68 Report PEK 48 'A visit to western Madagascar by Kent, September 1953. Retained in original binding. Series of four hardback pocket notebooks used 1954, dated and identified by inscription on front cover. Used for recording observations made during flights, and site notes and sketches. ‘British Somaliland October...Flight over Somalia’. "Tanganyika...With Arusha - Nairobi flight 30.6.54’. Used June - August. ‘Kenya’. Used August - October. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys ‘Kilwa Mtwala [Tanganyika]'. Used October - November. ‘Somaliland’. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled: draft of Report PEK 54 'A brief visit to British Somaliland’ by Kent, November 1954, retained in original binding; ms notes; printed material re oilfield at Dagah Shabell, British Somaliland 1958 and 1959. Memos and photograph re bitumen extracts from Karoo sands from Madagascar, 1955. Hardback notebook inscribed on front cover ‘Tanganyika 1957’. notes and sketches during visit October. Most pages not used. Used for Duplicated typescript ‘Comments’ by Kent on: ' “Geology of the Western J. Matumbi Hills, Tanganyika” by “The sediments of coastal Kenya..." by R.G. Maclean’, 4 November 1957; ‘The stratigraphic sequence at Zanzibar’, 24 March 1958. Spence’, 29 October 1957; R.E. Linton and ' Hardback pocket notebook inscribed on first page ‘Libya Jan-Feb 1960’. Used for notes during visit 27 January - 20 February. Hardback notebook inscribed on fore edge ‘Fr. N. Africa’. Used during visit June 1961. Most pages not used. Technical note PEK 5 ‘Earth movements in inland East Africa’ by Kent, 20 March 1958. Retained in original binding. May 1962' by R.E. Linton. Proposed programme, 18 May 1961, and 8pp duplicated typescript list of ‘General objectives’; 4pp typescript notes on ‘Visit of Dr. P.E. Kent - 22nd ‘East Africa 1962’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into six for ease of reference. B.383-B.388 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys Material re 1961-65 East African drilling programme; ms notes etc. Maps of Pugo area and Pemba island. Maps of Tanganyika showing BP operations etc. Stratigraphical columns from East African bore-holes. ‘Part Ill' of draft on Tanzania by J.A. Hunt: figures sent for information, 30 September 1965. B.389-B.393 ‘Geophysical data book 1965’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into five for ease of reference. Figures for preceding. Figures for preceding. ‘Geophysical data book for Tanganyika, including Mafia’ by M.J. Laws and R.C + appendices. Sbresni, Mombasa, January 1965, 42pp duplicated typescript ‘Geophysical data book for Zanzibar and Pemba’ by M.J. Laws, Mombasa, January 1965, 13pp duplicated typescript + appendices. pages not used. A little loose material intercalated. ‘Appendix "C" Southern Somalia’ to Geophysical data book for Kenya (not found), sent 2 March 1965, 4pp duplicated typescript; annotated BP map of Somalia, March 1968, showing oil exploration concessions with ms notes on bore-holes. Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge '1967 East Africa’. Most P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys Letter from R. Walters to Kent, 4 August 1967, enclosing 'some of the photographs...taken on our flying visit to Kilifi and Matasade on July 22nd, together with quick tracings as an aid to memory’; ms sketches of Matasade and Dogogicha islands; ms notes. Ms notes on ‘Tanzania Geophys 18/10/70'; typescript note ‘Northeast Africa: geology of the Afar triangle’ by Kent, 2pp typescript, 9 January 1973. AGIP Visit, 1970' and ‘East Africa BP Exploration Development Co. Report 'Geology and oil prospects of the western Indian Ocean Region’, by Kent, September 1973. Retained in original binding. B.398-B.407 Maps. B.398 1:4,000,000 geological map of East Africa, March 1949. 1:2,000,000 geological map of East Africa, 1952. 1:1,000,000 topographical map of Dar es Salaam, 1946. Kent. Annotated by 1:2,000,000 topographical maps of Abyssinia, June 1943, and Kenya, 1933 and 1950. geological information and both are annotated by Kent. 1:1,000,000 topographical maps of Marsabit (Kenya) and Uganda, 1915 and 1919. The area on both maps round Lake Rudolf has been coloured in with 1:1,000,000 geological map of Tanganyika, March 1962. 1:1,000,000 geological map of Mombasa - Nairobi, November 1942. 1:1,000,000 topographical map of Mombasa - Nairobi, 1946. Annotated by Kent. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys 1:1,000,000 aeromagnetic survey map of Kenya, May 1963. 1:1,000,000 map of Kenya, showing Bouguer gravity contours, basement depth contours and seismic features, nd. Miscellaneous geological maps of Kenya. BP maps of Mombasa. B.406, B.407 ‘Tanzania figures’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: maps and stratigraphical columns. PAPUA NEW GUINEA B.408-B.412 Series of five spiral bound reporters notebooks inscribed with topics and dates on front cover. ‘Orie visit June 1955’. Used for notes 18-23 June, with map of area of survey pasted into notebook. Loose at front is copy of letter re arrangements for Kent's arrival and the Orie survey. Kent’ was posted to Papua New Guinea in 1955, first as Deputy Chief Geologist, later Chief Geologist, with the Australasian Petroleum Company, a part-owned BP subsidiary. Kent was involved in searching for signs of oil in the rain forest and the highlands of New Guinea. This met with little success despite the promising geology of the area. in England 1974. ‘Port Moresby flight 6 July 1955 and ?Baimuru to Bwata survey. Misc. 1955 Bwata visit 1956'. Includes notes on Pio-Purari ‘Highlands visit 1956’. Used for notes 5-9 April, and for later notes on sites P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys ‘Misc. Recce flights 1957 1971'. Used for notes on flights November 1956 and January 1957, with map of area of later flight pasted into notebook, and for notes '1971 Highland Recce + [at back] Mananda with D.A.L. Jenkins 10+11 Nov’. Pasted to back cover of notebook is envelope containing two scaled squares used for calculating on a map distances covered by aircraft travelling at various speeds. ‘Melbourne visit’. Miscellaneous notes, nd. B.413-B.422 Australasian Petroleum Co. Reports. B.413-B.415 Report XG 'The stratigraphy of the Neogene rocks of Papua’ by Kent and J.O. Zehnder, July 1956. B.413, B.414 32pp duplicated typescript + figures. 2 folders. Plates. B.416, B.417 B.418-B.420 23pp duplicated typescript. Plates. Report XE Part Il 'A review of the Mesozoic stratigraphy of Australian New Guinea’ by F.K. Rickwood, August 1956. Plates and photographs. Report LW ‘Report on the Pio Purari Survey, 1955’ by Kent and Rickwood, August 1956. B.418, B.419 46pp duplicated typescript + figures. 2 folders. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys Report XH ‘The stratigraphy of Oligocene) of Papua’ by Kent, April 1957. figures and plates. Retained in original binding. the older tertiary rocks (Eocene and 2ipp duplicated typescript + Report XK ‘The pleistocene volcanoes of Papua’ by Kent, ‘issued February 1958’. 14pp typescript + map. Hardback pocket notebook inscribed on first page ‘Fiji 1956’. Used for notes and sketches 29 September - 6 October. ‘List of samples collected [by Kent in Fiji] Sept/October 1956’; ‘Addendum to London Palaeontological Note no.171 Fiji islands’, 15 October 1964; map of Viti Levu. on fifteen samples from the Hardback pocket notebook inscribed on etc...Puri 1957'. the notebook. first page ‘Papuan Volcanoes Used chiefly for sketches, some of which are pasted into of NORTH AMERICA ‘Papua General maps’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed: list samples from Pio-Purari survey; hand-drawn map; map of western Papua. ‘Summary of a geological history of Eastern New Guinea’ by J.E. Thompson, 7pp duplicated typescript prepared for 'A.P.E.A. Conference, Sydney, March 1967' (see H.17). Annotated by Kent. August 1958. Kent was posted to Canada in 1957 as Adviser to the President of BP Exploration (Canada). In 1959 he was appointed as the first President of BP Exploration (Alaska). The material includes papers relating to BP policy in Alaska and northern Canada. Hardback notebook inscribed on first page '1. Athabasca (Mildred Lake) 2. Hay River Used for notes and sketches June and 3. Spray Lake area’. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge 'NWT Canada’. Used for notes on visit to survey party 16, July 1958 and ‘Visit to Canadian Arctic’ 21- 24 July 1958. Paginated 5-34. Report on ‘Visit to Mackenzie District, Northwest Territories, Canada July, 1958' by Kent. Retained in original binding. Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge 'NWT Canada’ and on first page ‘June 1959 Aklavit Visit’. Used for notes and sketches c.20-26 June. Paginated 3-85. Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge ‘1959 N. Canada 1969, 70’, and on first page ‘1959 Visit to Monkman area 1969 Visit to Liard, Herschel Id, Inuvik and Ft Good Hope _ 1971 Arctic islands reconnaissance incl. Barrow Dome + Isachsen [shot-point]'. 1970 Arctic Islands visit pocket inscribed Russell ‘An Kent's folder so labelled: Contents of on 1959 1964 Visit to Sadlerochit Mtns [at back] ‘Alaska page first Softback Reconnassance flight, Susitna area 1969 Visit to North Slope’. notebook Softback pocket notebook inscribed on first page ‘Arctic visit Aug. 1959’. Used for notes on visits to Arctic islands 14-21 August. Paginated 1-95. At back is index of islands visited and pasted inside back cover is map of route taken. ‘Arctic Gypsum Plugs’. chiefly correspondence re analysis of gypsum samples, and paper by Kent and W.A.C. northem Richardson Mountains’, delivered at 1st International Symposium on Arctic Geology, Calgary, 11-13 January 1960. of paper, 5pp typescript + figures, Bibliog. 46, 1961 (see also D.99). notes on Alaska and flights over Canada June 1960. Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge ‘Alaska 1960'. piercement structure Includes draft evaporite in the Used for P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys ‘Alaska Yak[utat]'. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: material re possible agreement with Colorado Oil and Gas re collaboration in Yakutat Development Contract, 1960, including papers for 10th meeting of Board of Directors of BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., 20 October. ‘Gulf of Alaska’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: BP Exploration (Alaska) maps of southern Alaska, 1961, 1962. Contents of Kent's envelope: ms ‘Notes on Kern [California] - St Helens Sept 1961'; ms itineraries: ‘San Francisco & Calgary 1962’, 'Los Angeles Houston New Orleans Mar/Ap 1963', ‘Calgary & Edmonton Oct/Nov 1963’, N-Y, Pittsbg, Toronto, Calgy May 1964’, '1965 Trinidad and US’, 'Visit to NY, St Louis, LA 1966’, 'Visit to Calgary & Australia Feb/March 1967’. Miscellaneous ms notes on Canadian and US oil matters November 1963, July 1964, November 1965 and February 1967. ‘Alaska 1966 1968 1972’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: notes re BP policy May 1966, November 1968, May 1972 and nd. ‘International Symposium on the Devonian System. Guidebook for Canadian Cordillera Field Trip Sept. 1967' by P.A. Ziegler, 81pp duplicated typescript. 1-3, Flight notes for visit to Yukon and Northwest Territories 9-10 April 1969 by M.C. Pick, 12pp duplicated typescript + figures. 1970. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled: material re Prudhoe Bay ‘Alaska’. operations. Includes BP press-releases, September - October 1969; article from World Petroleum September 1969 re conditions at Prudhoe; 5pp typescript ‘Alaskan Exploration and the development of the Prudhoe Bay Oilfield’, December Contents of Kent's envelope: ms notes on visit to Canada and Alaska 1969. BP to Geological of presentation by Society on P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys January 1970 issue of BP Shield devoted to Alaska. into Alaska’ is at pp.5-9 (Bibliog. 75). Article by Kent ‘Entry Contents of Kent's envelope so ‘Canadian Minerals 1970 inscribed: ms notes re activities of Canadian Minerals (?subsidiary of BP Minerals) chiefly uranium. 1972’. 1971 ‘The status of Arctic Islands exploration’ by Kent, 6pp typescript, 30 July 1971. ‘Exploring Canada's Arctic Islands' by Kent, 7pp typescript, 3 August 1971. Contents of Bathurst Island, Canada, collected by Kent, 1971. Kent's folder: material re graptolites from Twilight Creek, ‘Canada 1971 etc’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: ms notes on Canadian oil matters various dates 1968-71. to Canada May 1972. ‘Canada Jan 1972’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: ms notes on Canadian oil matters. Softback notebook inscribed on first page 'Canada 1975': ms notes during visit Includes notes on briefing by BP Canada, University of Calgary Extension course and visit to Geological Survey of Canada. three for ease of reference. September 1975 issue of BP Shield International devoted to Alaska. B.454-B.456 ‘Arctic Islands - maps’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys ‘Bathymetric chart of Arctic Ocean as of 1956 (approx.) compiled from Soviet sources’. Canadian Southern Petroleum Ltd map of Arctic islands showing distribution of drilling concessions. B.455, B.456 Geological Survey of Canada 1:506,880 maps of Arctic islands. 2 folders. GULF STATES Kuwait B.457 ‘Kuwait Oil Company Limited Geological Summary: May 1961'. Annotated by Kent. Loose material found at end of report is at B.458. Ms notes on ‘Geological History of Kuwait’, February 1968; map of oil field development in Kuwait area, 1968; etc. B.459, B.460 ‘Kuwait notes 1968 etc’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: chiefly material re visits to Kuwait, 1968, 1970 Loose material found at end of B.457: letter from P.T. Cox, Managing Director BP Exploration, re exploration programme in Kuwait, 26 May 1961; ms notes; maps. correspondence and memos arising. Programme for and ms notes on visit to Kuwait March 1970; ‘Kuwait’, 3pp typescript draft 8 June 1971; ‘Deep structure of Burgan and Ahmadi’ by Kent, 3pp typescript, 20 November 1972. B.461-B.463 ‘Kuwait’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference. Programme for and ms notes on visit to Kuwait January - February 1973, P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys B.462, B.463 Material re visit to Kuwait, February 1976. 2 folders. Kent visited Kuwait as a Consultant to Kuwait Oil Co. to advise on deep exploration of the Burgan dome. Softback pocket notebook inscribed on first page ‘Visit to Oman November 1970’. Used for notes and sketches during visit. B.465-B.467 ‘Oman’. Contents of Kent's folder so inscribed divided into three for ease of reference. Programme for visit to Oman, November 1970; correspondence 1970, 1972, 1977, nd. List of Kent's samples from Oman; ms sketches and maps; 'Oman Mountain Geology - Comments by K.W. Glennie...on some aspects raised by Dr Kent’, 4 February 1971. BP report ‘Structure of Oman’ by Kent, February 1971. Retained in original binding. Report 'A reconnaissance of salt plugs in Oman’ by Kent, November 1972. Includes ‘Low-grade metamorphic rhyolites, porphyrites, and marbles from Qarn Sahma Salt Dome, Miscellaneous background information. tuffs, Oman [collected] By F.J. Fitch’, 5 September 1955. Retained in original binding. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys OTHER AREAS AND MISCELLANEOUS This material is principally brief ms notes from filofax style notebooks on areas visited for a few days, or in some cases just flown over. Arranged ina chronological sequence. University College Nottingham hardback notebook used from the front for miscellaneous notes c.1940s, and from the back for records of distribution of off-prints on British and African geology from 1941 (Bibliog. 10) to 1958 (Bibliog. 43). Pages at front have been cut from the notebook. Much loose intercalated material dating from 1937 to 1958. B.471, B.472 Hardback notebooks used for notes on visit to Australia and New Zealand 1962. New Zealand, February. A little loose material at back of notebook. Ms notes on Colombia, 8 April 1963. Ms notes during visit to Trinidad 1965. Ms notes 1968. Headings include ‘Berlin’ and ‘Germany - Misc’. Australia, February-March. At back is draft by Kent on 'Papua: Visit of Prof S.W. Carey + G.A.V. Stanley to the Purari area’. Contents of 'Filofax'-style loose-leaf pocket notebook: ms notes 1962. Arranged alphabetically from ‘Alaska’ to 'UK'. The entries are in diary form and principally cover the period April - August. and Bulgaria September 1971. Bulgaria’. Used for Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge ‘Italy notes and sketches during visits to Italy October 1968 and September 1969, P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge 'S. Germany France’. Used for notes and sketches during visits to Germany September 1970, and France 17-20 April 1972. ‘Port Moresby - Melbourne - Perth 1971‘. inscribed: ms notes. Contents of Kent's envelope so Ms notes during visit flight over East Asia, 21 July 1971. Headings include: ‘Thailand’, ‘Burmah’, ‘India’, 'W. Pakistan/Afghanistan’. 'Filofax'-style loose-leaf pocket notebook containing notes during visits c.1972-73. Headings include: ‘Arctic Inst’, ‘BOC Perth’, ‘BP New Zealand’ etc. At back is pocket containing miscellaneous memorabilia. Contents of 'Filofax'-style loose-leaf pocket notebook: ms notes 1973. Includes notes on visit to Iran December, Nature Conservancy meeting, 12 September and Natural Environment Research Council business. Ms and typescript notes from visit to Thailand and Far East, March 1973. Stratigraphical columns from Hudbay Oil (Australia) Ltd, 1981. Softback pocket notebook inscribed on fore edge ‘North Atlantic’. Principally used for notes on symposium on the International Programme of Ocean Drilling, Geological Society, May 1981. Most pages not used. Miscellaneous undated ms notes. Softback pocket notebook inscribed on front cover 'Greece’. Used for notes and sketches, nd. Most pages not used. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 ENERGY ISSUES General B.486-B.489 Research and surveys ‘Energy and Reserves’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into four for ease of reference: press-cuttings, photocopied information etc re energy reserves 1972-74. the Club of Rome; incomplete copy of 1972. Typescript drafts of Kent's comments on ‘The Limits to Growth’ report of Times Higher Educational Supplement, 31 March, featuring ‘The Limits to Growth’. Kent's comments are on p.11. 1973(1). and world supplies, 28 February. Extract from Hansard, House of Lords debate on energy policy 1973(2). in the 1980s organised by Kent. See H.69. Includes report from Nature on Royal Society meeting on Energy B.490, B.491 1977. Text of speech by Tom King MP, Opposition spokesman on energy, ‘Energy’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into two for ease of reference: miscellaneous information on energy reserves 1977-80. 5 November. Annotated by Kent ‘mostly quite sensible...’ P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Coal B.492-B.495 Research and surveys ‘Underground Coal Gasification + N.C.B. [National Coal Board] general’. Contents of Kent's folder so labelled divided into four for ease of reference. ‘Underground Gasification of Coal’ by Kent, 5pp typescript, 1973, sent to NCB Mining Department recommending NCB/BP collaboration, November 1973, with brief correspondence arising; press-cuttings. ‘Coal reserves and resources, with particular reference to those in Britain’ by A.M. Clarke, Chief Geologist of NCB, 23pp duplicated typescript draft, 1977. ‘A note on the new concept of national reserves...’ by A.M. Clarke, 32p duplicated typescript + summary etc, sent to Kent 15 May 1981 with covering letter chiefly re the Flowers Commission on Energy and the Environment. on gasification from the New Scientist, 18 February Correspondence re NCB proposals 1976-78. Correspondence and papers re NCB proposal to develop Vale of Belvoir coalfield 1976-82. Article 1982; ‘Economically recoverable coal reserves’ by A.M. Clarke, 9pp duplicated typescript, November 1983, with covering letter to R.J. Price re conclusions; Letters to The Times by Sir Kingsley Dunham (‘Keeping coal for the future’) and Kent (‘Conserving coal stocks') 22 June and 5 July 1984. See also D.97. Commission. ‘Coal reports’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed divided into two for Papers re the Coal Study Paper of the Flowers ease of reference. Ms notes on NCB investigations of sites 1974; press-cuttings 1976 and 1982. Stratigraphical columns of shafts in Vale of Belvoir; maps. B.496-B.498 B.499, B.500 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Research and surveys ‘Coal reports 1979-1980': copies of submissions to the Commission. Chart of ‘Measuring performance in the management of national coal resources’ drawn by A.M. Clarke; letter from Kent to P.T. Warren, Deputy Executive Secretary of Royal Society, re Royal Society's ad hoc group on the coal study paper, January 1979. Oil shales In September 1973 Kent wrote to the Institute of Geological Sciences suggesting there was 'a strong case for assessing the available reserves [of oil shales] in U.K. to enable the Government to review policy on this long- term hydrocarbon reserve’. The IGS began a survey of UK oil shales in conjunction with the Department of Energy. Its report was released in 1981. Correspondence re possible IGS investigation of Also includes photocopy of minutes of informal meeting on Kimmeridge shale at the Ministry of Supply, London, 6 October 1947. oil shales 1973. oil shales 1974-75, 1981. IGS reports on information oil shales in England and Scotland sent to Kent for Correspondence and papers re Includes typescript notes by Kent 'UK oil shale investigation’, 2pp and 'UK oil shales prospects: Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Norfolk: Kimmeridgian shales’, 4pp, with extensive ms correction. energy development. ‘Geothermal’. Contents of Kent's envelope so inscribed: proof copy of ‘Geothermal energy. Review of Geothermal energy - Resources, production, stimulation...’ by Kent (Bibliog. 96, 1975); material re Italian geothermal Press-cuttings on nuclear energy, 1974, 1977-79; ‘Social responsibility and the Atom’ by Kent, 2pp typescript draft, 10 March 1978, responding to British Council of Churches decision to oppose reprocessing at Windscale. Other energy resources B.504 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 SECTION C DEEP SEA DRILLING PROJECT C.1-C.121 The Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) began in August 1968 as an 18 month project drilling off the eastern coast of Florida. The success of this first phase led to 30 and 36 month extensions and widening of the geographical scope. During the period 1968-75 the Project concentrated on making an extensive reconnaissance of the sedimentology of the ocean floor. The Project had been financed by the US National Science Foundation and operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, for a consortium of universities called the Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling (JOIDES). In 1973 with the end of the reconnaissance drilling in sight it was proposed the DSDP be internationalised and in the autumn of 1975 the UK, France, West Germany, the USSR and Japan joined the Project in the International Phase of Ocean Drilling (IPOD). The lead agency in the UK was the Natural Environment Research Council, of which Kent was Chairman. The IPOD was to drill fewer boreholes but to greater depths than previously feasible. The IPOD ended in November 1983 after 15 years when its drilling ship the D/V Glomar Challenger required an overhaul. A successor 10 year programme was put forward by JOIDES, the Advanced Ocean Drilling Project (AODP, later just ODP). The UK was involved in the planning stage of AODP and, after some difficulty raising the requisite funds, joined the Project in December 1985. hydrocarbon exploration’. support the theory of continental drift. In a letter of 31 January 1984 (C.47) J.C. Bowman wrote to Kent describing the project as ‘remarkably successful in exploring the geology of the ocean floor, both in terms of the basic knowledge gained and its application in other fields such as mineral and In addition to his service on the Executive Committee of JOIDES, 1975-81, and on the UK IPOD Co- ordinating Committee, Kent played an active part in the research. He reviewed the results of Leg 25 discovery of oil in the Gulf of Mexico at a depth of 12,000 feet, and its findings have been used to The DSDP was considered to be a highly successful enterprise. Among its practical results was the and contributed a chapter to /nitial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (Bibliog. 91, 1974). of the DSDP, which surveyed the western Indian Ocean, particularly the area around Madagascar P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Deep Sea Drilling Project The material is presented as follows: C.1-C.5 ESTABLISHMENT OF IPOD JOIDES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE C.57-C.82 UK IPOD CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE C.83-C.116 LEG REPORTS, SITE SUMMARIES ETC C.117-C.121 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 ESTABLISHMENT OF IPOD Deep Sea Drilling Project Kent was very keen that the UK should participate in IPOD. His advice was sought by the JOIDES Planning Committee Working Group on Oceanic Margins while preparing its proposal for IPOD to drill in continental margins to test the plate tectonics theory. ‘Global Ocean Research’. aspects of international ocean research, 1 June 1969. Report of a joint working party on the scientific Papers Margins, 1973. re JOIDES Planning Committee Working Group on Oceanic Invitation to contribute, 16 March, with note on 'Proposed research programs of IPOD'; copy of Kent's contribution, 2pp typescript, 3 April. Working Group papers sent to contributors, 23 April. ‘Draft Scientific Narrative for an International Program of Ocean Drilling’, sent to Kent 20 July. Retained in original binding. ‘Deep Sea Drilling Project’ by Kent, 2pp typescript note sent to W. Reed, Advisory Board for the Research Councils, setting out the technological case for UK involvement in IPOD, 19 April 1973; letter re IPOD from G.V. Wood, 17 May 1973; background information. Lees JOIDES EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Kent was UK delegate on the JOIDES Executive Committee 1975-81. He was succeeded by J.C. Bowman. Correspondence and papers principally re meetings of Executive Committee 1978-84. Also includes papers of JOIDES Planning Committee, Panels and Working Groups, and general documents re DSDP activities. Much of the P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Deep Sea Drilling Project material is concerned with proposals and planning re the projected AODP. C.6 C.7 C.8 C.9 1978 June (1) 1978 June (2) C.32 1981 December (1) C.33 1981 December (2) 1978 December C.34 1982 April 1979 January C.35 1982 May C.10 1979 April C.11 1979 May C.12 1979 July C.36 1982 August C.37 1982 September (1) C.38 1982 September (2) C.13 1979 August (1) C.39 1982 September-November C.14 1979 August (2) C.40 1983 January, April C.15 1979 October C.41 1983 January C.16 1979 November C.42 1983 June C.17 1979 December C.43 1983 July C.44 C.21 1980 July C.23 C.24 C.25 C.45 1983 September C.47 1984 January C.19 1980 March (1) C.22 1980 August C.18 1980 February C.46 1983 November 1980 November (1) C.20 1980 March (2) C.48 1984 February-March C.49 1984 March-April 1983 August, September 1980 September, October 1985, nd C.53 1984 September (1) 1984 September (2) 1980 November (2) C.50 1984 June (1) C.28 1981 August (1) C.26 1981 March, April C.51 1984 June (2) C.52 1984 June-July 1981 November (1) C.29 1981 August (2) 1981 November (2) C.27 1981 June C.54 1984 October P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Deep Sea Drilling Project UK IPOD CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE between The terms of reference of this Committee were defined in a paper presented to its seventh meeting on 2 December 1983 (C.69) as to coordinate UK policy on the IPOD programme and the JOIDES planning structure, to ensure adequate consultation between scientific and technological interests and organisations participating in IPOD, to secure a proper balance between scientifc and technological interests in IPOD, to appoint, or nominate, and brief delegates to JOIDES Committees, and to appoint such sub-Committees as are necessary and to receive reports from them. Kent was Chairman of the Committee for the period 1975-82, being succeeded by M.G. Audley- Charles. He served thereafter as Royal Society representative. government academic, industrial and Papers re meetings of Co-ordinating Committee from 1978, including many papers from JOIDES Committees and Panels circulated to the Committee. papers 1984-85 The non- participation) in the AODP. It includes a paper by Kent on 'Deep Sea Drilling Results - Industrial Applications’, presented to a meeting held to discuss UK participation in the ODP on 2 March 1984 (C.70). participation chiefly British relate (or to C.57 1978-79 C.70 1984 March (1) C.60 C.62 C.63 C.64 C.71 C.58 C.74 C.75 C.61 1980 August C.59 1980 July (2) 1980 July (3) C.73 1984 March (4) C.76 1985 1980 July (1) C.72 1984 March (3) 1981 November 1980 November 1984 March (2) 1984 March-August 1981 February, May 1984 November-December ‘UK Newsletter about IPOD', nos 4-8 (1976-80). 1983 February, June 1983 December (1) 1983 December (2) 1986 March-April 1982 April, June 1982 November 1986 May, June C.78 1986 February C.80 1986 March C.77 1986 January C.79 C.81 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Deep Sea Drilling Project LEG REPORTS, SITE SUMMARIES ETC Papers reporting on progress of DSDP investigations carried out from the drill-ships D/V Glomar Challenger 1970-83 and the JOIDES Resolution 1985-86. It comprises The material is presented in chronological order 1970-86. site scientific summaries and operation resumés, press-releases, summaries of Legs 13-110 (not a complete sequence) of the DSDP sent to the JOIDES Executive and Planning Committees and to the UK IPOD Co- ordinating Committee. and Legs 13 (Mediterranean Sea, 1970), 15 (Caribbean Sea, 1970-71), 16 and 17 (Pacific Ocean, 1971). Legs 19 (northern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, 1971), 20 (Pacific Ocean, 1971), 21 (Coral Sea and Tasman Sea, 1971-72). Legs 22, 1972 (Indian Ocean, 1972), 23 (Arabian Sea and Red Sea, 1972). Legs 27 (eastern Indian Ocean, 1972), 28 (Antarctic, 1972-73). Leg 48 (northern Atlantic Ocean, 1976). Leg 69 (Caribbean Sea, 1979). Legs 24, 26 (Indian Ocean, 1972). For Leg 25 see C.117-C.121. 1980). Legs 70 (southern Pacific Ocean, 1979), 71 1980). Legs 72 (northern Atlantic Ocean, 1980), 73 (southern Atlantic Ocean, (southern Atlantic Ocean, P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Deep Sea Drilling Project C.92 Legs 74, 75 (southern Atlantic Ocean, 1980). Legs 76 (northern Atlantic Ocean, 1980), 77 (Gulf of Mexico, 1980-81), 78A (Caribbean Sea, 1981). Legs 79, 81 (northern Atlantic Ocean, 1981). Legs 82 (northern Atlantic Ocean, 1981), 83 (eastern Pacific Ocean, 1981- 82). Leg 84 (eastern Pacific Ocean, 1982). Leg 85 (northern Pacific Ocean, 1982). Leg 89 (western Pacific Ocean, 1982). Leg 90 (western Pacific Ocean, 1982-83). Legs 86 (northern Pacific Ocean, 1982), 87 (Sea of Japan, 1982), 88 (northern Pacific Ocean). Leg 94 (northern Atlantic Ocean, 1983). Leg 93 (northern Atlantic Ocean, 1983). Leg 91 (southern Pacific Ocean, 1983). Leg 92 (Pacific Ocean, 1983). P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 95 (northern Atlantic Ocean, 1983). Leg 96 (northern Atlantic Ocean, 1983). Leg 101 (Gulf of Mexico, 1985). Legs 103 (northern Atlantic Ocean, 1985), 104 (Norwegian Sea, 1985). Leg 105 (Baffin Bay and Labrador Sea, 1985). Leg 106 (Atlantic Ocean, 1985). C.1 1, Gil te Leg 107 (Tyrrhenian Sea, 1985-86). 2 folders. C.113, C.114 Leg 108 (Atlantic Ocean, 1986). 2 folders. Leg 109 (Atlantic Ocean, 1986). Leg 110 (Caribbean Sea, 1986). Correspondence re Leg 25 and Kent's contribution, January - May 1973. Leg 25 of the DSDP surveyed the western Indian Ocean, particularly the area around Madagascar. Kent was asked by JOIDES to review the results and contribute a chapter on 'Leg 25 results in relation to East African coastal Stratigraphy’ to volume 25 of Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (Bibliog. 91, 1974). P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Deep Sea Drilling Project Correspondence re Leg 25 and Kent's chapter, June 1973 - January 1974. Draft of Kent's chapter, 15pp typescript + figures, with ms correction. C.120, C.121 ‘Hole Summaries’: summary of scientific results of Leg 25 in two volumes. Retained in original binding. ‘Book 1°. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 SECTION D PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES PUBLICATIONS D.1-D.80 Drafts D.81-D.93 Editorial correspondence D.94-D.97 Letters to The Times D.98-D.133 LECTURES BROADCAST REPRINTS P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 PUBLICATIONS Publications and lectures A chronological sequence of material relating to publications, or to the intention to publish. Where applicable reference has been made to the Bibliography in the Royal Society memoir of Kent (A.1) in the form Bibliog... . ‘Intra Jurassic movements in North Northamptonshire’. Dated '10/36' but not listed in Bibliog. 3pp typescript. ‘On the Serengeti plains of Tanganyika’. bibliographical reference 1936. Not listed in Bibliog., latest This is an account of Kent's journey from Kenya to the Serengeti with the 1934-35 East African Archaeological Expedition (see A.53-A.102). ‘The lower Lias of South Nottinghamshire’, Bibliog. 2, 1937. ‘A borehole at Foston (Lincolnshire)’, Bibliog. 4, 1938. Letter only. 2pp ms. 3pp typescript. Qpp typescript with ms corrections and additions. It is drafted on the verso of typescript notes of the geology of sites visited by the expedition. 3pp typescript + figure. ‘Note on faulting south east of Nottingham’. not listed in Bibliog. ‘Note on a borehole at Kettleby, near Brigg’, Bibliog. 8, 1939. Dated 27 November 1939 but P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Publications and lectures ‘Note on the age of the uppermost Kimmeridge Clay of north Lincolnshire’, Bibliog. 9, 1940. 3pp typescript. ‘A short outline of the stratigraphy of the Lincolnshire Limestone’, Bibliog. 11, 1941. 8pp typescript. ‘The Pleistocene beds of Kanam and Kanjera, Kavirondo, Kenya’. 14, 1942. Bibliog. 19pp typescript + figures. ‘The country round the Kavirondo Gulf of Victoria Nyanza’. Bibliog. 15, 1942. 18pp typescript + references and ms list of plates; 16pp typescript ?earlier draft 'Physiographical features of the Kavirondo Gulf of Lake Victoria, Kenya’. ‘Pleistocene climates in Kenya and Abyssinia’, Bibliog. 16, 1942. ‘Upper Rhaetic beds in North Lincolnshire’, Bibliog. 17, 1943. 2pp typescript. 3pp typescript. 5pp typescript, with covering letter from Kent to his Commanding Officer at RAF Medmenham, 19 May 1942, requesting permission for its publication. 13pp typescript + table and figure. ‘The age and tectonic relationships of East African volcanic rocks’, Bibliog. 18, 1944. Book review of South African Scenery. L.C. King (Oliver & Boyd 1942), by Kent, 1943. A text book of geomorphology by P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Publications and lectures 'Glacially transported Inferior Oolite at Hougham', Bibliog. 21, 1944. 1p typescript. ‘Tangential and vertical forces in the Earth's crust’. but Fourmarier. Review of Bibliog. listed not in the geophysical theories of Dated 14 August 1946 P. 2pp typescript. ‘The Carr Lane borehole, Hibaldstow’, Bibliog. 28, 1948. 3pp duplicated typescript + figure. ‘A structure contour map of the surface of the buried pre-Permian rocks of England and Wales’, Bibliog. 29, 1949. Draft summary; 3 typescript pages of comments by N.L. Falcon and L. Richardson 1947. the draft with ms corrections; Not listed in D.16-D.18 of samples and palaeontological 4pp typescript with ms correction + figure. 6pp typescript + diary of traverses, lists reports. ‘Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks of the Bagamoyo district’. Bibliog., latest reference 1954. ‘Shallow borings in the Jurassic rocks near Hibaldstow, North Lincolnshire’, Bibliog. 35, 1953. Figures. Bears typescript note 'Draft of paper, written 1951 revised 1955, intended for eventual publication’ and ms annotation ‘Copied to NCB January 1975’. ‘The structural history of South Nottinghamshire’. Dated March 1955 but not published. 11pp typescript + plate. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Publications and lectures ‘1st Draft’, 8pp typescript + ms list of figures. ‘A Kimmeridge sandstone in North Lincolnshire’ (with R.Casey), Bibliog. 48, 1963. 13pp typescript + figure, with covering letters; ?earlier draft, 7pp typescript. ‘The basal Lias near Long Bennington’. Dated 18 June 1964 and intended for publication in Transactions of the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union but not listed in Bibliog. 3pp typescript; letter to Kent from editor, 1 December 1964. D.21, D.22 ‘The transport mechanism in catastrophic rock falls', Bibliog. 51, 1966. D.21 Qpp typescript + references; 7pp typescript earlier draft. Brief editorial correspondence; background information on landslides. 3pp typescript; request to review. D.23 ‘Final draft’ 16pp typescript + references. D.23, D.24 ‘A review of the correlation of the Lincolnshire Limestone’, Bibliog. 56, 1966. Correspondence with paper, 1966; ‘Third draft’, 10pp typescript. L. Richardson and P.C. Sylvester-Bradley re the 2pp typescript; brief editorial correspondence and correspondence arising. Book review of C.A. Burk, Geology of the Alaska peninsula - island arc and continental margin, (with A.P. Terris). This review was submitted to the Geological Magazine 2 January 1967 but not listed in Bibliog. Geology of the country around Nantwich This review was submitted to the Book review of E.G. Poole et al, and Whitchurch. Bibliog. Geological Magazine 20 February 1967. 58, 1967. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Publications and lectures ‘Sections through the Great Oolite series near Spital’’ Dated 18 May 1967 and intended for publication in Transactions of the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union but replaced by ‘Fossiliferous Dogger in North Lincolnshire’, Bibliog. 68, 1968 (see D.31). 1p typescript + references; covering letter. ‘A contour map of Midlands’, Bibliog. 64, 1967. the pre-Carboniferous surface in the North-East 1st Draft’, 5pp typescript with ms corrections + ‘Tentative contour map...'. D.27-D.30 ‘The buried floor of eastern England’, Bibliog. 66, 1968. D.27 12pp typescript + references; 3pp appendix ‘The Lower Carboniferous at Grace Dieu, Leicestershire’. ‘First draft’ of ‘The buried floor...' dated 2 January 1962’, 8p typescript with extensive ms correction; 4pp ms draft of appendix. Letter covering galley proofs (not found). ‘Fossiliferous Dogger in North Lincolnshire’, Bibliog. 68, 1968. 2pp typescript; editorial correspondence. D.29, D.30 Miscellaneous figures found with preceding. 2 folders. ‘The Jurassic-Cretaceous junction at Elsham' (with F.C. Dilley), Bibliog. 67, 1968. 2pp typescript. ‘Dating of the North Atlantic opening’. Dated 8 July 1969 and probably intended for publication in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society but not listed in Bibliog. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Publications and lectures D.32, D.33 ‘The salt plugs of the Persian Gulf Region’, Bibliog. 77, 1970. This was a revised and extended version of his Bennett lecture to Leicester University, January 1970 (see D.111). 32pp typescript + references. Correspondence with P.C. Syivester-Bradley, including his Preface to Kent's paper. ‘Exploring Canada's Arctic islands’. Not listed in Bibliog. but annotated 'BP Magazine’ and possibly early draft of Bibliog. 79, 1971. Dated 3 August 1971. 7pp typescript. ‘The Mesozoic history of the east coast of Africa’, Bibliog. 81, 1972. App typescript; miscellaneous figures. Dated 1973. note by exposures near Old 6pp typescript. Kent ‘Temporary ‘The Lias at Old Dalby, Leicestershire’, Bibliog. 88, 1973. ‘The world's future oil reserves - the problem of discovery’. Not listed in Bibliog. but intended for publication in 'BP Shield’. 5pp typescript + references and captions for figures; background information including Dalby, Leicestershire’ dated 27 May 1965. Comments on Kent's draft from Rayner; references; miscellaneous figures. ‘Structural history’, Bibliog. 90, 1974. This was chapter 2 of D.H. Rayner and J.E. Hemingway (eds), The geology and mineral resources of Yorkshire. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Publications and lectures ‘The contribution of industry to knowledge of ocean margins’, Bibliog. 94, 1974. 19pp typescript proof + references and captions for figures; brief editorial correspondence. ‘Continental margin of East Africa - region of vertical movements’, Bibliog. 95, 1974. Editorial correspondence only. ‘Middle Jurassic nomenclature in eastern England: the “Upper Estuarine beds" ', written for Mercian Geologist but annotated 'Not submitted or used’, latest bibliographical reference 1975. 2pp typescript + references. ‘The Madagascar controversy still lives’ (with D.H. Tarling), Bibliog. 104, 1976. 4pp typescript + references and figures (titled ‘Madagascar controversy still very miscellaneous background information. co-author; alive'); notes; much letter ms from ‘Hydrocarbons in Cleveland - an early proposal by P.F. Kendall’, Bibliog. 108, 1976. 6pp typescript; proof with ms corrections; draft of letter to editor re correction of mistakes in Kendall's original note reproduced in this paper. Request to Kent to write introduction for J. Brooks’ book Carbonisation and coalification brief correspondence arising. 1976-78. 1p typescript; earlier draft sent to N.L. Falcon for comment. ‘The structure of Mesozoic basins in southern England’. Drafted as Letter to Geological Magazine, April 1977, but not listed in Bibliog. of sedimentary organic matter, with P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Publications and lectures ‘The emergent Hormuz salt plugs of southern Iran’, Bibliog. 121, 1979. See also B.281. Ms drafts of sections of the paper. Brief correspondence; photographs for plates. ‘Tectonics of the northwest European continental shelf’, Bibliog. 122, 1980. 8pp typescript. D.47-D.60 Eastern England from the Tees to the Wash, Bibliog. 123, 1980. D.47-D.50 Final draft, 129pp typescript + preface, tables etc. 4 folders. D.54-D.56 D.54 1973-75 D.55 1976 D.51-D.53 Typescript chapters of '2nd Draft’. 3 folders. D.56 1977, 1981 Miscellaneous figures, tables etc. Correspondence with others, 1973-77, 1981. Institute of Geological Sciences, contributors and Editorial correspondence; reviews; miscellaneous ms notes. Minerals from the Marine Environment, Bibliog. 125, 1980. Photographs. Some used in the volume. 3 folders. D.58-D.60 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Publications and lectures ‘Subsidence and inversion’, Bibliog. 129, 1980. uplift in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire: a double ‘Penultimate’ draft entitled 'Epeirogenic subsidence and inversion in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire’, 11pp typescript with extensive ms correction and annotation; editorial correspondence. ‘The structural and tectonic environment of Permian and Mesozoic igneous rocks’, Bibliog. 133, 1982. ‘Final copy’, 13pp typescript + reference; ‘Draft extensive ms correction. Il’, 11pp typescript with Editorial correspondence 1976-82. D.65, D.66 ‘The Somali ocean basin and the continental shelf of East Africa’, Bibliog. 134, 1982. ‘Final Draft’, 14pp typescript with ms corrections. Editorial correspondence 1977-82. D.67 Proof, 36pp typescript with ms correction. D.67-D.71 ‘Montague Mattinson Pennell’, Bibliog. 136, 1982. and other biographical material. ‘Copy vetted by BP Legal Dept’, 33pp typescript with ms correction and annotation (not all in Kent's hand). Correspondence, principally with Pennell's family and colleagues; ms notes Ms and typescript drafts of parts of the memoir. 2 folders. D.69, D.70 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Publications and lectures ‘The origin of North Sea pockmarks'. Written 1983 but not listed in Bibliog. This arose from a Royal Society Discussion Meeting at which T. Gold's controversial views on the origin of hydrocarbons were considered. See also E.179-E.188. 4pp ms and typescript draft with extensive ms correction; correspondence re pockmarks, including comments on Kent's paper. Preface to Geophysical Logs in British stratigraphy, Bibliog. 140, 1985. 2pp typescript; brief editorial correspondence. Foreword to R.C. Cooke and R.C. Nesbit, Target: Hitler's oil, Bibliog. 141, 1985. 2pp typescript and 4pp ms drafts; correspondence from author. ‘D.C. lon’. 1985. Not listed in Bibliog. Kent wrote obituaries of lon for the British Geologist and Petroleum Review. He of Remembrance and Thanksgiving, 11 February 1986. address Service gave also the at the Biographical information on lon Obituaries by Kent and text of address at Remembrance Service; draft of obituary for the Geological Society by N.L. Falcon (Kent had declined the invitation to write lon's obituary for the Geological Society and suggested Falcon). ms notes on Wills's career. 3pp typescript; correspondence with publishers and colleagues; obituaries; Kent had written the obituary of Wills for Nature in 1980, Bibliog. 124. ‘Leonard Johnston Wills’, Bibliog. 142, 1986. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Publications and lectures ‘Island salt plugs in the Middle East and their tectonic implications’, Bibliog. 144, 1987. This was published posthumously. Editorial correspondence. D.79, D.80 ‘The place of Infra-Cambrian salt in Middle East tectonics’. Dated c.1986 but not listed in Bibliog. This is related to the preceding and may be a draft towards a planned book. 31pp ms and typescript draft with extensive ms correction + abstract, ms captions for figures and acknowledgements. Miscellaneous figures. Editorial correspondence Arranged alphabetically by publisher or journal title. BP Explorer Paper on UK onshore exploration. Adam Hilger Ltd. 1980 Invitation to write monograph on the geological structure of the North Sea (declined). Magazine. Correspondence re Associate Editorship; book reviews for the Geological Geological Magazine 1974-85 Earth and Planetary Science Letters Refereeing. Kent was an Associate Editor. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Publications and lectures Graham & Trotman Ltd. 1982 Invitation to serve as Senior Adviser to Graham & Trotman on earth science series (declined). Journal of Petroleum Geology Requests for papers. Journal of the Geological Society Refereeing. Mitchell Beazley Publishers Ltd 1978-81 Kent acted as adviser for the energy section of Atlas of Earth Resources, published by Mitchell Beazley in 1979, commenting on draft chapters as they were sent to him. D.84 1978 March-August D.87 1978 October (2) D.85 1978 September D.88 1978-79, 1981 D.86 1978 October (1) Book reviews for Open Earth. Refereeing; fee for contribution. Refereeing. Invitation to write book for OUP (declined). Oxford University Press Nature Open Earth Pergamon Press Ltd P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Publications and lectures Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 1974, 1978 Refereeing. World Oil Invitation to write article on North Sea exploration (declined). Letters to The Times In addition to the Letters listed below, Kent wrote to The Times in 1968, about the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia (see H.32). ‘East African glaciers’, 26 September 1944. ‘Meeting world demands for oil', 28 January 1974. ‘Problem of atomic waste disposal’, written as Chairman of the NERC, 0.1973-77. ‘The quality of architecture’, written 15 August 1977. publication. No evidence of ‘Need for law to aid exploration into Britain's mineral resources’, 9 January 1980 and ‘Minerals exploration’, 22 April 1980 (both with K.C. Dunham). ‘Assessing future oil resources’, drafted in reply to Letter of P.R. Odell, 24 October 1977. No evidence of publication. meeting with All-Party group. Kent and Dunham's Letter of 9 January, arguing for Crown ownership of all undiscovered mineral reserves, provoked a lively correspondence in The Times. Following their second Letter Kent and Dunham were invited to speak before the House of Commons All-Party Minerals Group on 23 July. Letters of Kent and Dunham and other Letters published in The Times in response. Correspondence arising, including exchange with T.H.H. Skeet MP re P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Publications and lectures ‘Cohabitee’, written 23 January 1982. No evidence of publication. ‘Keeping coal for the future’, 5 July 1984. See also B.495. Unpublished Letter, January 1985. LECTURES ‘Problems of Midlands Geology’, University College Nottingham, 4 February 1952. Ms list of ?slides only. ‘Evaporite Piercement structures in the Northern Richardson mountains’ (with W.A.C. Russell). This was published as Bibliog. 46, 1961. ‘Persian salt plugs’, Leicester, November 1963. Ms list of slides only. See also B.278. ‘UK operations’, Bristol, 16 January 1964. Typescript list of slides only. ‘Lecture copy’ 12 January 1960, 11pp typescript with ms annotation + references and figure. See also B.435. 27pp typescript + ms introductory remarks and typescript list of slides. ‘The structure of of North-eastem England’, Presidential address to the Yorkshire Geological Society, York, 11 December 1965. This was published as Bibliog. 52, 1966. D.101-D.104 the concealed Carboniferous rocks ‘North Sea exploration’, Fyzabad, Trinidad, 24 March 1965. Poster only. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Publications and lectures D.102, D.103 Figures for slides. 2 folders. Correspondence 1965-66; notice of Kent's lecture. ‘Outline geology of the North Sea basin’, Presidential address to the Yorkshire Geological Society, York, 10 December 1966. This was published as Bibliog. 59, 1967. References, figures December 1966. and plates; programme; letter re publication, 31 The North Sea, Royal Geographical Society, 16 January 1967. 8pp typescript + list of slides. Invitation to lecture on North Sea exploration to Petroleum Exploration Society of Libya in 1967. ‘The building of the Zagros mountains’, 17 February. Typescript list of slides with ms annotation; notice of Kent's lecture. a study of an epeirogenic region’, 11 May. ‘The search for North Sea gas’ by Kent, 22 November. D.108, D.109 Adrian Visiting Fellowship, Leicester University. In 1968 Kent gave three lectures as Adrian Visiting Fellow. See also F.255- F.264. ‘Tanzania - Kent gave this lecture, under the title ‘The coastlands of East Africa. A stratigraphical and structural study’. Typescript lecture notes; ms list of ?slides; notice of Kent's lecture. Typescript lecture notes and list of slides; list of fossils for lecture. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Publications and lectures Lecture on Society, 23 January 1969. Persian surveys, Sheffield University Students Geological Ms lecture notes; letter re arrangements. Lecture on the North Sea, Geological Society of Alaska, 2 April 1969. Typescript introductory remarks; ms list of slides. Invitation December 1969. to lecture to Arthur Holmes Society, Durham University in Lecture on the North Sea, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 7 January 1970. Letter re arrangements; typescript list of slides. ‘Salt Mountains of University, 9 January 1970. the Middle East’, 11th Bennett Lecture, Leicester Typescript list of slides; ms notes; notice of lecture. See also D.32, D.33. D.113, D.114 5pp typescript. Brief correspondence re arrangements only. Lecture on East African structures, Cambridge University, 29 January 1970. Address on opening the new Department of Geology, Keele University, February 1970. miscellaneous notes and data. ‘Lincolnshire geology in Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union, 1970. 1970. its regional setting’, Presidential address to the This was published as Bibliog. 78, ‘Final copy’, 10pp typescript + references; typescript list of slides. 7pp typescript; typescript 1969 draft of the address, list of slides; P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Publications and lectures Correspondence re possible lecture to the Geological Society on the North Sea. It was planned to hold this in November or December 1969 but was subsequently postponed to no evidence it was ever delivered. 1970. There is participate included Kent did discussion of the developments in the North Sea in October 1969 (see H.43). a Geological Society meeting which in ‘Arctic oil exploration’, Nottingham University Geological Society, 14 January 1971. Typescript list of slides; correspondence re arrangements. Invitation to lecture on the North Sea to Geological Society of Glasgow in October 1971 or later (declined). ‘Geotechnical problems in Alaskan oil exploration and production’, British Geotechnical Society, London, 8 December 1971. This presentation was originally scheduled for 22 November. Correspondence re arrangements. Ms list of slides; correspondence re arrangements. Invitation to lecture to Geographical Association Lincoln Branch, January or March 1972 (declined). ‘Geological problems in exploration for oil and gas in the North Sea’, Luton College of Technology, 1 February 1972. This formed part of the College's short course ‘Advances in Geology’. Brief correspondence. Invitation to speak at Institute of Geological Sciences Leeds Office annual dinner, 25 February 1972. This was subsequently cancelled. Invitation to speak at University College of Swansea Geological Society Dinner-dance, 16 February 1972 (declined). P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Publications and lectures ‘New light on North Sea geology’, Petroleum Exploration Society of New York, 18 May 1972. Correspondence re arrangements. Lecture on Arctic islands, 27 September 1972. Typescript list of ?slides; ‘Concessional history’ of Canadian Arctic islands’. Invitation to lecture on Petroleum to Brincliffe Grammar School for Girls, Nottingham, in October, November or December 1972 (declined). Invitation to lecture to University College of Swansea Geological Society in October or November 1972 (declined). List of ‘Dr P.E. Kent lectures: 1973’. tectonics ‘Plate hypothesis’, Leicester University Geological Society, 16 January 1973. imperfections Inadequacies problems. and in the and in the search for Durham geophysics hydrocarbons’, Invitation; typescript outline of lecture. Correspondence re arrangements; ms list of ?slides. ‘Geology University, 1 June 1973. Invitation to speak at Queen Mary College London Geological Society annual dinner, 23 February 1973 (declined). Letter re arrangements only. ‘Exploration of continental margins’, Wigan and District Geological Society, Wigan, 19 October 1973. Lecture to North Notts Mining Engineering Society, Mansfield, c.1973. Correspondence re arrangements only. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Publications and lectures Address to Queen Mary College London [?Geological Society annual dinner], 15 February 1974. 3pp typescript with ms annotation. Address to Manchester Geological Association annual dinner, 1974. 1 March 2pp ms introductory remarks; letter re arrangements. Address to Swinnerton Geological Society, Nottingham, 14 March 1974. Invitation; 4pp typescript with ms correction and annotation. Address to Leeds Geological Association centenary dinner, 19 April 1974. Kent spoke to the Association on ‘The North Sea and its problems’ on 18 April. 3pp typescript; letter re arrangements. Typescript list of slides only. 3pp typescript. Lecture at Trinity College Dublin, 9 January 1976. Royal Institution Evening Discourse, 31 January 1975. Typescript list of slides; letter arising. Invitation to February 1975. lecture to Cambridge Natural History Society, January or Lecture at Birkbeck College London, 11 February 1975. ‘The modern face of the Geological Society of London’, address of welcome at Charles Lyell centenary celebration reception, 2 September 1975. Ms list of slides only. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Publications and lectures ‘Major synchronous events Evening Discourse, 7 April 1976. This was published as Bibliog. 111, 1976. in continental shelves’, [?Royal Institution] 4pp typescript; typescript list of slides. Address on opening of new British Antarctic Survey headquarters by H.M. The Queen, 7 May 1976. 2pp typescript. Mesozoic lectures. Kent delivered three lectures in this series in Cambridge 16, 17 and 18 November 1976: ‘Eastern England and the southern North Sea - a history of blocks and basins’, ‘The northern North Sea and the western approaches. Model for continental margin development’ and ‘The problem of aseismic continental margins - the problem of world wide synchronism’. Ms lists of slides; references; brief correspondence re arrangements and ms itinerary of ‘Cambridge week’. Correspondence re arrangements. ‘Epeirogenic movements on the continental shelf of N.W. Britain’, Celebrity lecture of the Geological Society of Glasgow and Edinburgh Geological Society, Glasgow, 5 April 1977. Lecture on offshore oil exploration, Endeavour Society University College of North Wales, 30 November 1977. ‘Structure of the British continental shelf, Aberdeen Geological Society, 15 February 1978. This was rearranged from 12 October 1977. Invitation and letter re arrangements only. British ‘The continental Cockermouth, 4 April 1979. Correspondence re arrangements. Letter re arrangements only. shelf, Cumberland Geological Society, P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Publications and lectures ‘Applied research in Government science and the relation of science and industry’, Luton Technical College, 17 April 1979. 8pp ms. Lecture on the geological background to Middle East oil Geological Society, Nottingham, 19 January 1981. to Swinnerton Invitation only (accepted). Lectures on oil and gas to residential course on energy resources for HM Forces, Nottingham University, September 1981. Invitation only (?accepted). ‘Oil exploration in Britain’, Sylvester-Bradley Geological Society, Leicester University, 11 March 1982. Ms “list of slides; correspondence re arrangements. Ms list of slides; correspondence re arrangements. ‘Deep exploration in the North Sea - scientific achievement and mineral wealth’, 2nd L.R. Moore Lecture, Sheffield University, 27 April 1983. Ms introductory remarks; ms list of slides; correspondence re arrangements. ‘A history and review of UK onshore activity’, Annual University Celebrity Lecture, Strathclyde University, 16 May 1985. A.K. Wells Memorial Lecture to the Lyell Club, King's College London, 24 February 1983. Correspondence re arrangements; poster. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 BROADCAST REPRINTS Publications and lectures ‘Comparisons in Travellers' series, 12 February 1965. oil prospecting’, broadcast in BBC Home Service ‘The Transcript, December 1964; cutting of review from the Listener magazine. retained in letter and contract from BBC original binding; Published papers 1941-82. Not a complete set. 1 box. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 SECTION E NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL E.1-E.196 Kent served on the Geology and Geophysics Committee (later Institute of Geological Sciences Advisory Committee) of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) 1968-73. In 1973, following his retirement from BP, he was appointed Chairman of the NERC for four years. Kent continued to serve on the Council of the NERC until September 1980. He sat on a number of NERC committees during his Chairmanship and subsequent period on Council. The material presented in this section is by no means comprehensive. Both Kent's Chairmanship of the NERC 1973-77 and his service on Council 1977-80 are poorly documented. Of particular interest therefore is Kent's ‘daybook' for 1973-74 (E.23-E.35), a folder in which he kept copies of outgoing correspondence and papers. This chiefly, though by no means exclusively, relates to NERC business. The best documented area of NERC activity is Kent's service as adviser on geological and geophysical activities under the auspices of Preparatory Group ‘A’. The material is presented as follows: E.65-E.188 PREPARATORY GROUP A GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS COMMITTEE MISCELLANEOUS E.179-E.188 | Working Group on Abiogenic gases within E.91-E.178 Deep Geology Committee E.65-E.90 General, and Visiting Group to IGS/IOS CHAIRMANSHIP AND COUNCIL the UK crust E.189-E.196 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Natural Environment Research Council GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS COMMITTEE (later INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES ADVISORY COMMITTEE) The Committee's terms of reference were ‘To guide, co-ordinate and keep of research on geology and geophysics, under review the whole field including to assume responsibility... for the Institute of Geological Sciences, [and] to advise on the award of grants to universities and other bodies, and of fellowships and training grants to post-graduate students, in the earth sciences’. geology and geophysics sea-floor, the the of Kent served on the Committee as BP representative for three years from 1 August 1968 in succession to N.L. Falcon. In 1971 the Committee was restructured into a number of smaller Committees, including the Institute of Geological Sciences Advisory Committee. Kent served on this body for a further three year term. Correspondence re appointment, meetings etc 1968; minutes of tenth meeting 15 October 1968. Papers of discussion meeting on NERC interest in geology and geophysics 20 February, and of eleventh Committee meeting 25 March 1969. Papers of thirteenth meeting 10 March 1970. 2 folders. General correspondence 1970; minutes of fourteenth meeting 2 June 1970. General correspondence 1969; minutes of twelfth meeting 4 November 1969. Papers of first meeting of IGS Advisory Committee 13 October 1971. Correspondence 1971 re Report of Working Party on Geotectonics and Crustal Studies. With ‘Revised Interim’ draft sent to Kent for comment. General correspondence 1971. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Natural Environment Research Council Papers of second meeting 2 May 1972. Correspondence May-August 1972, chiefly re possible UK participation in the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP) (see section C). Kent served on a Working Group to advise on this. Draft Report of Working Party on Mining and Economic Geology, with Kent's comments 3 August 1972. Kent was a member of the Working Party. Correspondence and papers September 1972 - January 1973 re possible UK participation in the DSDP. Minutes of third meeting 11 October 1972. CHAIRMANSHIP AND COUNCIL Correspondence re terms of appointment, 1973-75. E.17-E.20 Papers of Council meeting 26 July 1973. Council chaired by Kent. 4 folders. This was the first meeting of Papers for Annual Week-End Meeting of the NERC, Edinburgh, 21-23 September 1973. October 1974. The material does not cover NERC business exclusively but This folder comprises Kent's own copies of correspondence and papers sent out from his office as Chairman of the NERC 12 September 1973 - 14 ‘Chairman's Daybook’. Contents of Kent's bulky folder so inscribed divided into thirteen for ease of reference. ‘Research in the Geological Sciences’, NERC Publications Series B, no.7, September 1973. Annotated by Kent. E.23-E.35 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Natural Environment Research Council includes scientific and social correspondence. invitations to NERC policy on support of research. Subjects range from social the NERC response to continuing theme in these papers is A the Government White Paper Cmnd 5046, which changed the way in which certain areas of research were funded. Certain programmes of applied research were to be funded by the relevant Government Departments with funds transferred from the NERC. This entailed negotiations with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), the Department of the Environment and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries over which projects should be supported by them and how much money should be transferred. Most of the discrepancy between the sum to be transferred from the NERC to the Department of Trade and Industry (which in 1974 was then divided into three Departments of Energy, Trade and Industry) and the cost of the existing and available applied research programmes. material concerns negotiations over the gap’, ‘DTI the 1973 September-October. 1973 November. 1974 February. 1974 March (1). 1973 December - 1974 January. Includes typescript note on NERC support for energy 1974 March (2). research, submitted to the ABRC. and misleading’. article ‘European 1974 May. Scientists Disunite' which Kent and co-signatories believed to be ‘erroneous to Nature responding to 1974 April. Includes letter P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Natural Environment Research Council 1974 June. Includes 3pp typescript note by Kent 'Mesozoic development of aseismic continental margins, Europe and elsewhere’ sent to Royal Society 19 June 1974, and minutes of meeting on funding of the Marine Biological Association activities, 19 June. 1974 July (1). 1974 July (2). 1974 August, September. supported by the NERC. Includes correspondence re offshore research 1974 September, October. Correspondence re criticism of NERC organisation 1975. E.38, E.39 E.46-E.49 Miscellaneous 1975-77. correspondence re completion of term of service as Chairman. correspondence papers and Includes Papers of Council meeting 24 May 1977. 2 folders. ‘Taxonomy in Britain: The Report of the ABRC Review Group on Taxonomy, 1977'. Annotated by Kent. This report was discussed by the NERC at their meeting on 24 November 1977. 5 folders. Papers of Council meeting 27 March 1980. 5 folders. Miscellaneous correspondence 1978-79. research grants awarded by the NERC. Papers of Council meeting 24 May 1979. 4 folders. Includes data on duration of P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Natural Environment Research Council E.55, E.56 Papers for ad hoc meeting of Council members to discuss British Antarctic Survey (BAS) scientific priorities. ‘Report on BAS's [British Antarctic Survey] Antarctic activities & facilities’ by P.F.G. Twinn and D.R. Gipps, March 1980. Retained in original binding. Paper on 'BAS's Scientific Programmes’, April 1980. Correspondence April- June 1980, principally re reorganisation of NERC. E.58, E.59 Interim members 14 July 1980. 2 folders. reports of NERC Special Topic programmes sent to Council E.60, E.61 Papers of Council meeting 31 July 1980. 2 folders. PREPARATORY GROUP A General and Visiting Group to IGS/IOS Papers of Council meeting 25 September 1980. 2 folders. Correspondence August-October 1980 re end of Kent's term of office and Council meeting of 25 September 1980. Kent was unable to attend this, due to be his final Council meeting, through illness. (IOS) Marine Geophysical Group. Kent served on the NERC's Preparatory Group ‘A’ (Earth Sciences) which He was a member advised Council on geological and geophysical matters. of (IGS) Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Continental Shelf Division and the the Visiting Group to the Institute of Geological Sciences P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Natural Environment Research Council E.65-E.70 Visiting Group to the |OS Marine Geophysical Group and IGS Continental Shelf Division on 17 and 25 October, 20-21 November and 1 December 1978. Kent chaired the Group. Papers for visits. 4 folders. Kent's ms notes on visit of 17 October to IOS, Wormley. Draft report of Visiting Group sent to Kent correction and additions by Kent. April 1979. With extensive ms The final Preparatory Group 'A' on 17 May (see E.71). report was circulated with the papers for the meeting of E.71-E.73 Papers for meeting of NERC Preparatory Group ‘A’, folders. 17 May 1979. 3 ‘Proposal for the continuation of the Mineral E.75-E.79 Letter re meeting of Preparatory Group 'A’, May 1980. Papers for meeting of Preparatory Group 'A’, 5 February 1980. 5 folders. IGS Reconnaissance Programme’, paper for meeting of Preparatory Group 'A', 5 December 1979. Papers for meeting of Preparatory Group 'A’, 2 February 1981. 2 folders. Papers for meeting of Preparatory Group 'A’, 1 July 1980. 2 folders. joint meeting of Preparatory Groups ‘A’ and 'D' on marine Papers for sedimentology, 1 July 1980. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Natural Environment Research Council Papers for meeting of Preparatory Group ‘A’, 5 February 1982. Kent was a Visitor at the meeting reporting on the future of IPOD. E.87, E.88 Visiting Group to the IGS Continental Shelf Division, Edinburgh, 23-24 November 1983. Timetables, annotated by Kent; ‘The Continental Shelf Division. A view of the future’ by H.R. Tainsch, sent to Kent for comment 20 January 1984. Papers for visit. Retained in original folder. E.89, E.90 Visiting Group to the IGS Marine Geology Unit, Keyworth, 13 December 1983. Timetables, annotated by Kent; draft report of the Group sent to Kent for comment 8 March 1984. Deep Geology Committee Papers for visit. Retained in original folder. In 1978, following the creation by the Institute of Geological Sciences of a Deep Geology Unit, the NERC established a Deep Geology Programme to coordinate research into Deep Geology carried out by the IGS Unit and a number of universities. The Deep Geology Committee was established in February 1979 to oversee the Programme. Kent served on the Committee from its inception (as the first Chairman 1979-83). The Committee reviewed progress and considered proposals for the research to be carried out under the Programme, and organised meetings. It reported to Preparatory Group ‘A’. programme. Notes on IGS/Universities Discussion Group on Deep Geology, 2 May 1978. This was an exploratory meeting called to discuss the future direction of the P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Natural Environment Research Council Notes on IGS/Universities Discussion Group on Deep Geology, 23 May 1978; ms notes by Kent. This meeting received detailed proposals for ten projects. of projects recommended for funding List the Deep Geology Programme, 1 June 1978; notes on IGS/Universities Discussion Group on the Lower Crust (Deep Geology Programme), 15 June 1978. within E.94, E.95 Papers for first meeting of Committee, 30 May 1979. 2 folders. Paper on ‘Role of Government geological agencies in mineral resource development’, commenting particularly on the role of the French Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Miniéres, with enclosures, July 1979; ‘NERC and the Earth Sciences' by J. Sutton, 4pp typescript, 27 September 1979. E.97-E.99 Papers for second meeting of Committee, 8 May 1980. 3 folders. E.102, E.103 illness. Papers re proposal for deep crustal reflection profiling in British Isles, sent to Kent 1 July 1980. Workshop on the Deep Geology of the onshore UK, Leicester, 23-24 September 1980. Kent was unable to attend due to ‘Deep Geology Project: Availability of U.K. onshore confidential information’ by Kent, 1p typescript with ms correction and addition, 8 May 1980, with comments on the draft by members of the IGS. See E.115. Papers of third meeting of Committee, 11 November 1980. 3 folders. Correspondence re arrangements, programme, correspondence arising. Abstracts. E.104-E.106 P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Natural Environment Research Council E.107-E.111 Papers of fourth meeting of Committee, 13 January 1981. 5 folders. Chiefly research grant applications and proposals arising from the Deep Geology Workshop (E.102,E.103). Report of Deep Geology Committee 1979-1981 for Preparatory Group ‘A’. E.113, £.114 Papers of fifth meeting of Committee, 28 July 1981. 2 folders. ‘Deep Geology Project: Availability of U.K. onshore confidential information’ by Kent, 2pp typescript, 9 August 1981, and 2pp typescript amended version. With covering and related correspondence. See E.100. E.116-E.118 Sections of Deep Geology Committee Report sent to Kent for corrections September 1981. Principally project reports. 3 folders. Chiefly research grant applications and reports. E.125-E.130 E.131, E.132 Chiefly research grant applications. E.123, E.124 Papers of seventh meeting of Committee, 28 April 1982. 2 folders. E.119-E.122 Papers of sixth meeting of Committee, 24 February 1982. 4 folders. Papers of eighth meeting of Committee, 20 October 1982. 6 folders. Programme and abstracts, Report on Workshop. Second Workshop on the Deep Geology of the onshore UK, Cambridge, 5-6 January 1983. Kent introduced the Workshop. Correspondence, list of participants, ms notes for introduction etc. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Natural Environment Research Council Correspondence and papers re Deep Fluid Processes seminars. Three of these meetings were held during 1983: Cambridge, 14 February, and London, 16 May and 19 September. Kent attended the first. E.133-E.138 Papers of ninth meeting of Committee, 20 April 1983. 6 folders. Chiefly research grant applications. Correspondence May-July 1983, re Kent's period of service as Chairman. E.140-E.143 Papers of tenth meeting of Committee, 12 October 1983. 4 folders. Chiefly research grant applications. E.144, E.145 Papers of BIRPS [British Institutions Reflection Profiling Syndicate] Advisory Committee meeting, 29 November 1983. 2 folders. Chiefly research grant applications. E.147-E.157 Papers of eleventh meeting of Committee, 22 March 1984. 11 folders. Correspondence and papers re BIRPS North Sea 1984 Workshop held following the BIRPS Advisory Committee meeting. BIRPS was established in 1981 to operate a UK programme of deep seismic reflection profiling. The BIRPS Advisory Committee reported to the Deep Geology Committee with proposals for experimental projects. January 1985. E.162, E.163 Third Workshop on the Deep Geology of the onshore UK, Durham, 3-4 E.158-E.161 Papers of twelfth meeting of Committee, 2 October 1984. 4 folders. Chiefly research grant applications. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Natural Environment Research Council Brief correspondence re arrangements, list offered, 1p ms notes on ‘Future of BIRPS'. of participants and papers Programme and abstracts. E.164-E.166 Papers of thirteenth meeting of Committee, 26 March 1985. 3 folders. E.167-E.172 Papers of fifteenth meeting of Committee, 10 October 1985. 6 folders. Chiefly research grant applications. Papers of BIRPS Advisory Committee meeting, 25 March 1986. E.174-E.178 Papers of sixteenth meeting of Committee, 20 June 1986. 5 folders. Chiefly research grant applications. attending. The subject under study arose from the hypothesis of Professor Thomas Gold of Cornell University that throughout geological time carbon gases trapped inside the Earth during its formation gradually seep out through the Earth's surface. The most common of these carbon gases was methane and it was suggested that if the hypothesis were correct this methane could be a valuable source of energy. Kent's interest in Gold's ideas about the origins of natural gases and oil preceded the formation of the Working Party. In 1980 Gold visited the Energy Technology Support Unit (ETSU) at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, to lecture on ‘Primordial methane - energy source for the future?’ and discuss his ideas, and Kent had been among those Working Group on Deep Source Gases within the UK crust This Working Group was established by the Deep Geology Committee at their meeting on 24 February 1982 ‘to propose a programme of work to investigate occurrences of methane, actual and potential within the UK crust’. Kent was Chairman of the group. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 Natural Environment Research Council E.179-E.182 Papers from visit of Gold to ETSU, 9 April 1980. E.179 Invitation; programme of visit. E.180, E181 Background information provided by ETSU. 2 folders. Notes on round table meeting with Gold; copy of ‘Harwell Bulletin’ covering the visit of Gold; correspondence arising April-June 1980. Letter re establishment of Working Group, 1 March 1982; papers for meeting of Working Group, 7 April 1982, annotated by Kent; Kent's ms notes. Draft report of meeting; ‘Draft programme to investigate the possibility of economically significant accumulation of deep source hydrocarbons existing in the UK crust’, annotated by Kent. E.185, E.186 US Department of Energy meeting on Unconventional Deep Source Gas, Morgantown, WV, 3-4 May 1982. Unofficial report by A.T. Huntingdon, NERC representative at the meeting. US Department of Energy report of the meeting. Discussion meeting on Origin of fossil fuels - biogenic vs non-biogenic, London, 7 October 1982. Kent spoke on ‘Investigation of Deep Source Gas’ as Chairman of the Working Group. 1984. Draft of ‘The duplex origin of natural gas and petroleum, and the prognosis for future supplies’ by Gold, sent by him to Kent for information 4 December Programme; Kent's notes for his lecture and ms notes on lecture by Gold; brief correspondence. P. E. Kent NCUACS 43/5/93 MISCELLANEOUS Natural Environment Research Council E.189, E.190 Working Party on the Law of the Sea. This was established by the European Science Foundation to consider the implications of the Law of the Sea negotiations for marine research. It was feared that the terms under consideration might restrict such research. Kent was the NERC representative on the Working Party. Most of the material concerns the meeting of the Working Party in Paris on 8 February 1978. Correspondence and papers, December 1977 - February 1978. Includes ‘draft paper of what could be the ESF answer to the American statement on the implications of the conclusions reached by the Conference on the Law of the Sea negotiations upon marine research’, heavily annotated by Kent. Papers of meeting of 8 February, including Kent's ms notes and report; revised draft of ESF paper telexed to Kent 13 February, with Kent's reply suggesting amendments. for Department of Energy. Brief correspondence January-April 1978; maps. Kent was Chairman of this body. E.191, E.192 Contents of Kent's envelope so E.193-E.196 Geological Survey of Great Britain Consortium. ‘NERC misc - continental shelf survey’. inscribed divided into two for ease of reference. ‘Programme of Offshore Studies by IGS Proposals for 10 year programme 1979-1988". Seventh meeting, 20 February 1980. Papers for meetings 1979 and 1980. See also F.145-F.161. E.193-E.195 Sixth meeting, 12 June 1979. 3 folders.