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2011
Meetings
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Date
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Speaker
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Title
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13 January |
Graham
Bradley
(Geography Department, University College |
“From Palaeozoic glaciers to Neogene river reversal: the history of the Katonga
valley in Uganda” |
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10 February
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Dr Chris Woolston
(Welwyn Garden City) |
“The
first nine billion years” |
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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 |
7 April
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Dr
Haydon Bailey
(Network Stratigraphic plc)
and
Alison Doggett
(Chairman of the Chiltern Society & Head of Geography at
Berkhamsted Collegiate School) |
The Percy Evans Memorial Lecture:
“The making of the Chilterns and their safe keeping”
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5 May |
Nikki Edwards |
“An introduction to plate tectonics” |
| 9 June |
Dr Sally Gibson
(Cambridge University ) |
“Galapagos volcanism” |
| 7 July |
Paul Clay
(Richard Hale School, Hertford)
Replaced by Prof Peter Doyle |
“The pingos of East
Walton Fen”
Replaced by
"Geology of the Great War" |
Saturday
6 August |
Annual soiree |
Talks, wine, bring & share food, and members' specimens, photos and
slides
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6 October |
Dr Peter Hall
(University of Portsmouth) |
“Archaean breccias in SW Greenland – Earth’s oldest impact
structure?” |
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10 November |
Dr Paul Bown
(University College London) |
“Micropalaeontology results of the Tanzania drilling project” |
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1 December |
Dr Paul Grant
(Geology Department, Imperial College London) |
“Plate tectonics in the Aegean”
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2011
Field Trips
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Date
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Location
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Leader
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| Saturday
11 June |
Thanet |
Haydon Bailey and Alasdair Bruce |
| Saturday 16 July |
East Walton Fen
Replaced by
Chalk excursion: Dunstable Downs, Totternhoe &
Wendover Arm
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Haydon Bailey |
| Friday 23 September - Sunday
25 September |
Dieppe-Etretat area, N. France |
Rory Mortimore and Haydon Bailey |
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2010 Meetings
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Date
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Speaker
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Title
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7 January
CANCELLED |
Talk moved to 6 May |
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4 February
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Bernard
O’Connor
(Friends of Sedgwick Museum) |
“Hertfordshire’s
19th century fossil industry” |
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4 March |
Annual General Meeting, followed by wine and cheese |
Exhibitions of specimens and
slide shows by members of the society |
8 April
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Prof.
Tim Atkinson
(University College London) |
The Percy Evans Memorial Lecture:
“Radioactive
particles in seabed sediments off Scotland – a legacy of
Britain’s nuclear
industry” |
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6 May |
Dr
Phil Hopley
(University College London) |
“Caves,
climate change and human evolution in South Africa” |
| 10 June |
Prof.
Rory Mortimore
(Brighton University) |
“The
lost Chalks of
Scotland” |
| 8 July |
Dr
Jan Zalaseiwicz
(Leicester University) |
“The
Anthropocene”
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Saturday
7 August
3:30 pm |
Puddingstone Pow-wow!
Joint event with
East Herts Geology Club |
Talks, wine, bring & share food, and members' specimens, photos and
slides |
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7 October |
Dr
Peter Skelton
(Open University) |
“Charles
Darwin and the tree of life” |
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4 November |
Prof.
G. Slavin
(St Bartholomew’s London) |
“Geology
and disease” |
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2 December |
Dr
James Ford
(Peter Brett Associates, Reading)
Cancelled
- replaced at short notice by John Catt
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“Historical
brick,
tile and pottery making in Reading and associated chalk
mining”
Preview
of the book "Hertfordshire Geology and Landscape"
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2010 Field Trips
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Date
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Location
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Leader
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| Saturday
17 April |
Mimram
valley and Chiltern scarp west of Hitchin |
Mike
Howgate |
| Saturday
8 May - Saturday 15 May |
N.
Ireland, based at Carnlough.
Giants Causeway, Ballycastle Coalfield, Cushendun, Larne,
Slieve Gullion, Marble Arch International Geopark,
Belfast Museum etc, etc |
Dr
Phil Doughty |
| Sunday
13 June |
Hampstead
Heath |
Diana
Clements
(Natural History Museum) |
| Saturday
10 July |
Burnham
Beeches and
Northmoor Hill, Buckinghamshire |
Graham
Hickman,
John Catt |
| Friday
10 September - Sunday 12 |
Charnwood
Forest,
based at Loughborough
Cancelled |
Dr
Ian Sutton |
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2009 Meetings
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Date
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Location
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Leader
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8 January |
Diana Clements
(Natural History Museum) |
"The geology of London" |
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5 February
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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 |
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
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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 |
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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