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East Herts Geology Club

Bedfordshire & Luton Geology Group

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2011 Meetings

Date

Speaker

Title

13  January

Graham Bradley 
(Geography Department, University College

“From Palaeozoic glaciers to Neogene river reversal: the history of the Katonga valley in Uganda”

10 February

Dr Chris Woolston 
(Welwyn Garden City)

“The first nine billion years”

3 March

Annual General Meeting, followed by wine and cheese 

Exhibitions of specimens and slide shows by members of the society

7 April

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”

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

6 October

Dr Peter Hall 
(University of Portsmouth)
“Archaean breccias in SW Greenland – Earth’s oldest impact structure?”

10 November

Dr Paul Bown 
(University College London)
“Micropalaeontology results of the Tanzania drilling project”

1 December

Dr Paul Grant 
(Geology Department, Imperial College London)

“Plate tectonics in the Aegean”

  

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2011 Field Trips

  

Date

Location

Leader

Saturday 11 June  Thanet

Haydon Bailey and Alasdair Bruce

Saturday 16 July  East Walton Fen
Replaced by
Chalk excursion:  Dunstable Downs, Totternhoe & Wendover Arm

Haydon Bailey

Friday 23 September - Sunday   25 September Dieppe-Etretat area, N. France Rory Mortimore and Haydon Bailey
  

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2010 Meetings

  

Date

Speaker

Title

7  January
CANCELLED

Talk moved to 6 May

 

4 February

Bernard O’Connor 
(Friends of Sedgwick Museum)

“Hertfordshire’s 19th century fossil industry”

4 March

Annual General Meeting, followed by wine and cheese 

Exhibitions of specimens and slide shows by members of the society

8 April

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”

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”

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

7 October

Dr Peter Skelton 
(Open University)
“Charles Darwin and the tree of life”

4 November

Prof. G. Slavin 
(St Bartholomew’s London)
“Geology and disease”

2 December

Dr James Ford 
(Peter Brett Associates, Reading)

Cancelled - replaced at short notice by John Catt

“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

Date

Location

Leader

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

Date

Location

Leader

8  January

Diana Clements 
(Natural History Museum)

"The geology of London"

5 February

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".

5 March

Annual General Meeting, followed by wine and cheese 

Exhibitions of specimens and slide shows by members of the society

16 April

Dr Peter Banham "Introduction to Pembrokeshire field meeting"

7  May

Dr R.J.Bailey "Great stratigraphic myths"

Saturday 
13 June

 

Symposium on the Chalk
of Hertfordshire:

Linked with field trip next day

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

Friday 10 July

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: 

Saturday 
8 August
Annual Soiree
at Verulamium Museum
Wine, bring & share food, and members' specimens, photos and slides

8 October

Dr Colin Whiteman
(Brighton University)
"Interpretation of the Black Rock SSSI, Brighton"

12 November

Dr Chris Kilburn (UCL) "Mt Vesuvius"

3 December

Robert Sage
(Three Valleys Water plc)
"The hydrogeology of Hertfordshire"

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2009 Field Trips

  

Date

Location

Leader

Saturday 18 April – Thursday 23 April Pembrokeshire
based at St Davids

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

See details of Symposium meeting 
Saturday 11 July,
 Sunday 12 July

Visits to local sites
following meeting on Friday 10 July

Dr P.H.Banham 
Dr J.A.Catt
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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