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Some other sites which may interest you

National organisations for the amateur and professional:

The Geologists Association

The Geological Society

More local organisations - their sites include an introduction to the geology of the region:

East Herts Geology Club

Essex RIGS Group

The following meetings are planned during 2008

Meetings usually take place on Thursdays at the Verulanium Museum, St. Michaels, 
St. Albans, and start at 7:30pm unless otherwise noted.

This year there are also a number of joint meetings with other local societies as part of the bicentennial celebrations of the Royal Geological Society,

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Date

Speaker

Title

10  January

Prof. Matthew Thirlwall
(Department of Geology, 
Royal Holloway College, London)

"The geology of southern Iceland"

7 February
8:00 pm

Prof. Barrie Rickards
(Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) 

The Percy Evans Memorial Lecture: 
"Living Graptolites"

6 March

Annual General Meeting, followed by wine and cheese 

Exhibitions of specimens and slide shows by members of the society

3 April

Dr Adrian Rundle
(Natural History Museum, 
South Kensington)
"Shell sands"

8  May

Mike Howgate 
(Amateur Geological Society)

"Geology of the Potters Bar area"

5 June 

Dr Ian Jarvis 
(School of Earth Sciences and Geography, Kingston University)

"Deep-sea muds in the NE Atlantic: a 20 million year record of major disasters"

10 July

Jack Doyle 
(Harlow College)
"The Gault Clay at Folkestone with special reference to its ammonites"
Saturday 
9 August
 6:30 pm
Geological walk followed by Annual Soiree
at Verulanium Museum
Short local geological walk.
Then wine, food, and members' specimens, photos and slides

9 October

Dr Peter Hoare 
(School of Geosciences, University of Sydney)
"Scandinavian erratics and the case of the missing British glaciation"

6 November

Sally Walker "A Visit to Antarctica"

4 December

Nick Pierpoint 
(BG Group.com – an exploration and production company)
"The role of an operations geologist in hydrocarbon exploration"


Visitors are welcome to attend meetings, subject to a small charge.