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2009 Meetings
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Date
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Speaker
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Title
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8 January |
Diana Clements
(Natural History Museum) |
"The geology of London" |
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5 February
8:00 pm |
Dr Danielle Schreve
(Royal Holloway College London) |
The Percy Evans Memorial Lecture:
"Haunt of the hippo: Pleistocene mammals, early humans
and Pleistocene environments of Hertfordshire".
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5 March |
Annual General Meeting, followed by wine and cheese |
Exhibitions of specimens and
slide shows by members of the society |
16 April
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Dr Peter Banham |
"Introduction to Pembrokeshire field
meeting" |
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7 May |
Dr R.J.Bailey |
"Great stratigraphic myths" |
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Saturday
13 June
10:30 am to 4:30 pm |
Symposium on the Chalk
of Hertfordshire:
Linked with field trip next day
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Dr J.A.Catt: Superficial deposits, soils and geomorphology
Dr Peter Banham: Hydrogeology
Dr T.J.James: Ecology
Dr S.Bryant or
Dr I.Thompson: Archaeology
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Friday 10 July
7:30 pm |
Joint meeting with East Midlands Geological
Society
Followed by visits to local sites on Saturday 11 and Sunday
12 July |
Introductory talks on Hertfordshire Geology by Dr
P.H.Banham and Dr J.A.Catt:
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Saturday
8 August
7 pm |
Annual Soiree
at Verulamium Museum |
Wine, bring & share food, and members' specimens, photos and
slides |
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8 October |
Dr Colin Whiteman
(Brighton University) |
"Interpretation of the Black Rock SSSI,
Brighton" |
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12 November |
Dr Chris Kilburn (UCL) |
"Mt Vesuvius" |
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3 December |
Robert Sage
(Three Valleys Water plc) |
"The hydrogeology of
Hertfordshire" |
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2009 Field Trips
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Date
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Location
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Leader
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| Saturday 18 April – Thursday
23 April |
Pembrokeshire
based at St Davids
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Prof Barrie Rickards
Dr Peter Walsh
Dr Peter Banham |
| Saturday 9 May |
The Hertfordshire Bourne and
Berkhamsted |
Dr John Catt |
| Sunday 14 June |
Kensworth/Dunstable area
following Symposium on Sat 13 June
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See details of
Symposium meeting |
Saturday 11 July,
Sunday 12 July
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Visits to local sites
following meeting on Friday 10 July
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Dr P.H.Banham
Dr J.A.Catt
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| Saturday 5 September |
Denbies Vineyard |
Prof. R.C.Selley
(Imperial College, London) |
| Saturday 10 October |
Brighton |
Dr Colin Whiteman
(Brighton University) |
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2008
Meetings
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Date
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Location
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Leader
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10 January |
Prof. Matthew Thirlwall
(Department of Geology,
Royal Holloway College, London) |
"The geology of southern
Iceland" |
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7 February
8:00 pm |
Prof. Barrie Rickards
(Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge) |
The Percy Evans Memorial Lecture:
"Living Graptolites" |
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6 March |
Annual General Meeting, followed by wine and cheese |
Exhibitions of specimens and
slide shows by members of the society |
3 April
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Dr Adrian Rundle
(Natural History Museum,
South Kensington) |
"Shell sands" |
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8 May |
Mike Howgate
(Amateur Geological Society) |
"Geology of the Potters Bar area" |
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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"
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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 |
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9 October |
Dr Peter Hoare
(School of Geosciences, University of Sydney) |
"Scandinavian erratics and
the case of the missing British glaciation" |
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6 November |
Sally Walker |
"A Visit to Antarctica" |
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4 December |
Nick Pierpoint
(BG Group.com – an exploration and production company) |
"The role of an operations
geologist in hydrocarbon exploration" |
| Saturday 10 May |
North Mymms
area |
Mike Howgate
(Amateur Geological Society) |
| Saturday 21
June |
Kew Gardens
Entry fee. Book with Lynn by 3 April |
Dr Lynn Allen |
| Saturday 12
July |
Folkestone -
collect buckets of fossils! |
Jack Doyle |
| Friday 19
September to Sunday 21 September |
Suffolk |
Bob Markham
(Ipswich Museum). |
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2008
Field Trips
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Date
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Location
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Leader
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| Saturday 10 May |
North Mymms
area |
Mike Howgate
(Amateur Geological Society) |
| Saturday 21
June |
Kew Gardens
Entry fee. Book with Lynn by 3 April |
Dr Lynn Allen |
| Saturday 12
July |
Folkestone -
collect buckets of fossils! |
Jack Doyle |
| Friday 19
September to Sunday 21 September |
Suffolk |
Bob Markham
(Ipswich Museum). |
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2007 Meetings
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Date
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Speaker
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Title
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11 January |
Dr John Wright
(Department of Geology,
Royal Holloway College, London) |
"Ammonites" |
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8 February
8:00 pm |
Prof. Hilary Downe
(Department of Geology,
Birkbeck College, London) |
The Percy Evans Memorial Lecture:
"A field trip to the mantle"
Postponed due to snow |
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8 March |
Annual General Meeting, followed by wine and cheese and... |
...postponed Percy Evans
Memorial Lecture
"A field trip to the mantle" |
12 April
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Dr Haydon Bailey
(Network
Stratigraphic Consulting) |
"The forensic use of microfossils" |
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10 May |
Dr Antonia Weston
(GeoData Institute,
University of Southampton) |
"The Colchester earthquake of 1884 - a
repeat scenario" |
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Friday
29 June |
Joint meeting with the Kirkaldy Society, at Potters
Bar Museum
See also field trip next day.
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"Local heroes: Prof J F Kirkaldy"
Click here for details
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5 July |
Dr. Gerald Roberts
(Department of Geology,
Birkbeck College, London) |
"Active normal faulting and earthquakes in
Italy" |
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Saturday 22 September
10:30 am |
Joint meeting with St Albans and
Hertfordshire Archaeological Society, celebrating the London
Geological Society's Bicentennial.
See also field trip next day
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A program of talks featuring
heroes of Hertfordshire geology. Speakers include:
Dr. Peter Banham
Jack Doyle
Prof. Peter Worsley
Bring a packed lunch, or book a sandwich
lunch with Dr.J.Catt.
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11 October |
Tony Rook (Welwyn) |
"The landscape and history
of Hertfordshire" |
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8 November |
Dr Bryan Lovell
(Cambridge
University) |
"Geological and
archaeological aspects of Hertfordshire Puddingstone" |
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6 December |
Wendy Brownsell
(University of
Hertfordshire) |
"Glacial deposits of north
Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire" |
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2007 Field Trips
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Date
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Location
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Leader
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Saturday 14 April |
Fairlight, E.
Sussex |
Ken Brooks
(Hastings Geological Society) |
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Saturday 19 May – Sunday 20 May |
Bakewell area,
Derbyshire |
Dr. Ian Sutton |
| Saturday 30
June |
"Geology
around Water End - in the footsteps of Prof. Kircaldy" |
Jointly with
the Kircaldy Society
Click here for details |
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Saturday 18
August |
Codicote
Quarry, Welwyn Roman Baths, Mill Green Museum and more! |
Jointly with
the AGS (Amateur Geologists Society) |
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Saturday 22
September |
Meet at
Westmill Quarry - other locations to be decided |
Jointly with
the AGS |
| Sunday 23
September |
Building stones
and other geological and architectural features of St Albans |
Jointly with St
Albans and Hertfordshire Archaeological and Architectural
Society |
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Saturday 10
November |
Chafford Gorges
Nature Park, Essex
(old chalk quarries) |
Diana Clements
(Natural History Museum) |
Wednesday 14 November
repeated
Saturday 17 November |
Hitchin Museum
Resources Centre;
Oughtonhead - Hoxnian Tufa & chalk spring |
John Wong (AGS) |
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