Events
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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 – Colliding Continents
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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Ruth Siddall – The Geology of Roman Wall Painting: pigments and plasters
St Andrew's Centre School Hill, HistonNon Members £3.00 -
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2026 – 2027 Season of Talks
St Andrew's Centre School Hill, HistonMembers Free, Non Members £3.00 -
Dominic Davey – Edward Charlesworth: Geologist, Controversialist
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Professor Marian Holness – The Trinity Cobbles, a Story of Plate Tectonics
St Andrew's Centre School Hill, HistonNon Members £3.00