Forensic Geology

(tutor - Mike Horne FGS, Hull University)

for the University of Hull

Departments of Chemistry and Lifelong Learning

Geoscientists can act as experts in forensic investigations in the following ways -

• are gems and expensive fossils genuine?
• do they really come from the sites that are claimed
• are they from unethical sources?

Negligence in civil cases

• natural or man-made geohazards
• contaminated land

Crime scene investigations

• what happened and in what order?

Was the suspect ever at the crime scene?

• samples from clothing
• samples from footwear
• samples from vehicles
• samples from tools

Searches

• for hidden graves
• for buried armaments

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