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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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2006
Meetings
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Date
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Speaker
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Title
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12 January |
Dr Lorraine Cornish
(Natural History Museum) |
"Fossils
at the Natural History Museum: how they are prepared and cared
for" |
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9 February |
Dr Peter Allen |
The Percy Evans Memorial Lecture
"The terraces of the Lower Thames: recent views on their
formation and stratigraphic importance" |
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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" |
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11 May |
Dr Julian
Murton
(University of Sussex) |
"Reconstructing Ice Age environmental
change along the foot of the Chilterns scarp" |
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8 June |
James
Clifton
(British Waterways) |
"The
new Bedford-Milton Keynes Waterway" |
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6 July |
Roger
Belshaw
(Norwich) |
"Drainage
development in eastern and central England: patterns and
problems" |
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28 September |
Dr
Richard Preece
(Zoology Department, Cambridge University) |
"The
geological context of the earliest archaeological sites in
Britain" |
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5 October |
Dr
Michael Carpenter
(Earth Sciences Department, Cambridge University) |
"Mineral
physics: an area of overlap between geoscience and solid state
physics" |
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2 November |
Dr
Tim Potter
(Palaeontology Department, Natural History Museum) |
"Acritarchs:
Lower Palaeozoic palynomorphs in the Malvern area" |
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25 November |
Annual soiree at the Age Concern Hall, St. Peter’s
Street, St.Albans |
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| 7 December |
Dr
Brian d’Olier
(Rickmansworth) |
"International
energy transfer: a marine geologist’s viewpoint" |
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2006 Field Trips
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Date
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Location
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Leader
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Saturday
29 April |
London
Clay exposures near Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex and Blue House
Farm Nature Reserve, North Fambridge |
Tim
Lawrence |
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Saturday
20 May – Saturday 27 May |
N.
Devon and N. Somerset,
staying at Barnstaple |
Dr.
P.A.Madgett and others |
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Saturday
9 September – Saturday 16 September |
Co
Durham and N. Yorkshire,
staying at Darlington |
Dr
Glynda Easterbrook and others |
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Saturday
21 October |
Bedford-Milton
Keynes Waterway |
Dr
Peter Banham |
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2005 Meetings
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Date
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Location
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Leader
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13 January |
Prof. Hugh Torrens
(Keele University) |
"William Smith and the search for raw
materials" |
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10 February |
Dr Chris Green
(President) |
The Percy Evans Memorial Lecture
"Building Stones in Hertfordshire churches" |
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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" |
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5 May |
Dr Neil Ellis (Joint Nature Conservation
Committee) |
"The Geological Conservation Review –
Past, Present and Future" |
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9 June |
Dr Angus Duncan
(University of Luton) |
"Volcanoes and the people
they serve: the relationship between volcanoes and their
adjacent communities" |
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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" |
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6 October |
Dr Jonathan Holmes
(Geography Department, University College London) |
"Ostracods and the
reconstruction of Quaternary environments" |
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3 November |
Derek Morris |
"Oil exploration" |
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26 November |
Annual soiree at the Age Concern Hall, St. Peter’s
Street, St.Albans |
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2005 Field Trips
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Date
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Location
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Leader
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Saturday
12 March |
Excavations
for the Baldock By-pass,
and Steeple Morden Chalk Quarry |
Drs
Haydon Bailey, John Catt and
Chris Wood
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Friday
20 May – Monday 23 May |
Weekend visit to
the Bath area. Joint meeting with
Bath Geology Society |
Dr
Peter Banham |
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Saturday
11 June |
Beacon
Hill and Cothill Quarries, Oxfordshire |
Tim Lawrence |
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Saturday
10 September – Saturday 17 September |
Western Ireland
(Donegal & Connemara) |
Dr
Helène Burningham |
Saturday
15 October
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Gerrards Cross,
Westwood and Harlow areas – deposits of the
proto-Thames and Anglian glaciation |
Dr.
Chris Green and Jack Doyle
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