In 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 […]

Everything 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 […]

One 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 […]

A 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 […]

The 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 […]

Eight 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 […]