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Steve Horseman, 1950–2004

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It’s close to a year since Steve Horseman died and there is still a hole in the British Geological Survey that cannot be filled. He was a respected colleague, a keen and effective debater of scientific issues, a source of knowledge, a mentor for junior staff and a friend.

As a scientist Steve had rare qualities. He was a combination of a theoretician and experimentalist with an impressive knowledge of chemistry, physics and mathematics. What he didn’t know he could acquire, either as a voracious reader of journals and books or through discussion with a wide range of international colleagues. He could work across disciplines understanding the language and nomenclature of each and with the capability to unify disparate theories into solutions to solve the particular problems he was working on at the time. He developed models that coupled theories of fluid chemistry, fluid–rock interactions and rock mechanics. He could then explain everything . . . [Full Text of this Article]