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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

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2007 Meetings

Date

Speaker

Title

11  January

Dr John Wright
(Department of Geology, 
Royal Holloway College, London)

"Ammonites"

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

8 March

Annual General Meeting, followed by wine and cheese and...

...postponed Percy Evans Memorial Lecture "A field trip to the mantle"

12 April

Dr Haydon Bailey
(Network Stratigraphic Consulting)
"The forensic use of microfossils"

10  May

Dr Antonia Weston
(GeoData Institute,
University of Southampton)

"The Colchester earthquake of 1884 - a repeat scenario"

Friday 
29 June 

Joint meeting with the Kirkaldy Society, at Potters Bar Museum

See also field trip next day.

"Local heroes: Prof J F Kirkaldy"

Click here for details

5 July

Dr. Gerald Roberts 
(Department of Geology, 
Birkbeck College, London)
"Active normal faulting and earthquakes in Italy"

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

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. 

11 October

Tony Rook (Welwyn) "The landscape and history of Hertfordshire"

8 November

Dr Bryan Lovell
(Cambridge University)
"Geological and archaeological aspects of Hertfordshire Puddingstone"

6 December

Wendy Brownsell
(University of Hertfordshire)
"Glacial deposits of north Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire"

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2007 Field Trips

 

Date

Location

Leader

Saturday 14 April Fairlight, E. Sussex Ken Brooks
(Hastings Geological Society)
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
Saturday 18 August Codicote Quarry, Welwyn Roman Baths, Mill Green Museum and more! Jointly with the AGS (Amateur Geologists Society)
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
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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2006 Meetings

 

Date

Speaker

Title

12 January

Dr Lorraine Cornish 
(Natural History Museum)

"Fossils at the Natural History Museum: how they are prepared and cared for"

9 February

Dr Peter Allen 

The Percy Evans Memorial Lecture 
"The terraces of the Lower Thames: recent views on their formation and stratigraphic importance"

9 March

Annual General Meeting, followed by wine and cheese 

Exhibitions of specimens and slide shows by members of the society

6 April

Dr Glynda Easterbrook
(Open University)
  
 
"The geology of north-east England: an introduction to the September excursion"

11  May

Dr Julian Murton
(University of Sussex)

"Reconstructing Ice Age environmental change along the foot of the Chilterns scarp"

8 June

James Clifton 
(British Waterways)
"The new Bedford-Milton Keynes Waterway"

6 July

Roger Belshaw 
(Norwich)
"Drainage development in eastern and central England: patterns and problems"

28 September

Dr Richard Preece 
(Zoology Department, Cambridge University)
"The geological context of the earliest archaeological sites in Britain"

5 October

Dr Michael Carpenter 
(Earth Sciences Department, Cambridge University)
"Mineral physics: an area of overlap between geoscience and solid state physics"
2 November Dr Tim Potter
(Palaeontology Department, Natural History Museum)
"Acritarchs: Lower Palaeozoic palynomorphs in the Malvern area"

25 November

Annual soiree at the Age Concern Hall, St. Peter’s Street, St.Albans

 
7 December Dr Brian d’Olier
(Rickmansworth)
"International energy transfer: a marine geologist’s viewpoint"

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2006 Field Trips

 

Date

Location

Leader

Saturday 29 April

London Clay exposures near Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex and Blue House Farm Nature Reserve, North Fambridge

Tim Lawrence

Saturday 20 May – Saturday 27 May

N. Devon and N. Somerset,
staying at Barnstaple

Dr. P.A.Madgett and others

Saturday 9 September – Saturday 16 September

Co Durham and N. Yorkshire,
staying at Darlington

Dr Glynda Easterbrook and others

Saturday 21 October

Bedford-Milton Keynes Waterway

Dr Peter Banham

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2005 Meetings

Date

Location

Leader

13 January

Prof. Hugh Torrens 
(Keele University)

"William Smith and the search for raw materials"

10 February

Dr Chris Green 
(President)

The Percy Evans Memorial Lecture 
"Building Stones in Hertfordshire churches"

3 March

Annual General Meeting, followed by wine and cheese 

Exhibitions of specimens and slide shows by members of the society

21 April

Dr Helène Burningham (Geography Department, University College London)
"An introduction to the coast of Donegal"

5  May

Dr Neil Ellis (Joint Nature Conservation Committee)

"The Geological Conservation Review – Past, Present and Future"

9 June

Dr Angus Duncan 
(University of Luton)
"Volcanoes and the people they serve: the relationship between volcanoes and their adjacent communities"

7 July

Dr Lorraine Cornish 
(Department of Palaeontology, Natural History
Museum, London)
"Fossils at the Natural History Museum London – how they are prepared and cared for"

6 October

Dr Jonathan Holmes 
(Geography Department, University College
London)
"Ostracods and the reconstruction of Quaternary environments"

3 November

Derek Morris "Oil exploration"

26 November

Annual soiree at the Age Concern Hall, St. Peter’s Street, St.Albans

 

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2005 Field Trips

Date

Location

Leader

Saturday 12 March

Excavations for the Baldock By-pass,
 and Steeple Morden Chalk Quarry

Drs Haydon Bailey, John Catt and 
Chris Wood

Friday 20 May – Monday 23 May

Weekend visit to the Bath area. Joint meeting with Bath Geology Society

Dr Peter Banham

Saturday 11 June

Beacon Hill and Cothill Quarries, Oxfordshire

Tim Lawrence

Saturday 10 September – Saturday 17 September

Western Ireland (Donegal & Connemara)

Dr Helène Burningham

Saturday 15 October

Gerrards Cross, Westwood and Harlow areas – deposits of the proto-Thames and Anglian glaciation

Dr. Chris Green and Jack Doyle

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