Events
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DR Nigel Woodcock – The History of Building Stone Use in South Cambridgeshire Churches
St Andrew's Centre School Hill, HistonA geological survey of about 120 medieval churches in south Cambridgeshire reveals a dominant theme of local fieldstone rubble walls with dressings of local Cretaceous Clunch and imported Jurassic Barnack […]
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Dr Will McMahon – The Oldest Fossilized Trees Ever Found
St Andrew's Centre School Hill, HistonThe evolution of trees and forests through the Devonian Period fundamentally changed the Earth's land biosphere, as well as impacting physical environments and geomorphology by stabilizing sediments and interacting with […]
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Dr Steve Boreham – The Geodiversity Landscapes of Cambridgeshire
St Andrew's Centre School Hill, HistonDr Steve Boreham (BSc PhD) worked for the University of Cambridge for more than 30 years and has a special interest in Southern England, East Anglia, Fenland and the Cambridge […]
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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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