Events
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Members Talks
St Andrew's Centre School Hill, HistonDominic Davey gave a talk on Septarian Nodules Penny Coggill gave a talk on International Commission on Geo-Heritage Sites Peter Fletcher gave a talk on Carbonatites in Assynt
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Dr Ursula Lawrence – The Construction of Crossrail
St Andrew's Centre School Hill, HistonThe presentation summarises the Crossrail project before explaining the main construction methods for the tunnels and stations. The Cretaceous to Holocene geology encountered along the route is presented including both […]
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Paul Fellows – Shooting Stars and Space Rocks
St Andrew's Centre School Hill, HistonComets and Meteors can be an impressive sight in the night sky, but the study of them has told us a huge amount about the origins of the Solar System […]
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Professor Phil Gibbard – Unravelling the Glacial History of Eastern England
St Andrew's Centre School Hill, HistonThe glacial history of our region has a complexity that is yet to be fully unrav- elled, but significant discoveries have been made in recent years that throw light on […]
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Dr Mike Tuke – Isostasy; The Ups and Downs of the Earth’s Crust
St Andrew's Centre School Hill, HistonIsostasy explains why there are raised beaches and fossil cliffs, why mountains like icebergs have roots, the shape of rift valleys, the height of Everest, and many other aspects of […]
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Peter Fletcher – iPhone LiDAR Technology – A Geological Tool?
St Andrew's Centre School Hill, HistonWe are probably aware of the contribution of large scale Lidar surveys to understanding the landscape around us, by organisations using aircraft or drone borne commercial Lidar and 3d mapping […]
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Franziska Norman – The Mass Grave in the Coal Mine; The Iguanodons of Bernissart
St Andrew's Centre School Hill, HistonIn 1878, some Belgian coal miners discovered the first nearly complete dinosaur skeletons ever found: a group of 30 Iguanodons. This talk will show how far the real appearance of […]
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Dr Robin Catchpole – Are We Star Dust or Nuclear Waste?
St Andrew's Centre School Hill, HistonEverything around us, apart from hydrogen and helium, was made inside stars. The Earth and Sun contain elements made in generations of stars that were born and died before the […]
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Dr John Cook – The Oil Industry; Getting Rid of Carbon Dioxide
St Andrew's Centre School Hill, HistonOne of the proposed routes for mitigating the impact of greenhouse gases on the climate is to collect carbon dioxide (CO2), from the atmosphere or at source, and put it […]
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Mike Tuke – Determining the shape, size and internal structure of the Earth
St Andrew's Centre School Hill, HistonA talk to demonstrate how 2000 years ago the Greeks knew the Earth was a sphere and could calculate its circumference; how the speed of rotation affexts the direction of […]
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Professor Neil Davies – Carboniferous Park – Giant Millipedes and other new fossil discoveries from the Northumberland Basin
St Andrew's Centre School Hill, HistonThe Northumberland Basin developed as a depression in the lithosphere during the Palaeozoic Caledonian and Variscan orogenies. It extends from near Eyemouth in the north to near Newcastle in the […]
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Professor Mike Searle – Geological Evolution of the Himalaya
St Andrew's Centre School Hill, HistonEight field seasons mapping around the Everest – Makalu massifs in Nepal and south Tibet has resulted in a detailed geological map (scale: 1:100,000). Combining macro- and micro-scale structural mapping […]
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