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September 2021
Eileen Hendriks, the Rock Lady (Geology Section)
To be held by Zoom video conferencing. A talk “Eileen Hendriks, the Rock Lady – disentangling Devonian geology in Devon and Cornwall” to be given by Dr Jenny Bennett. Eileen Hendriks (1887–1978) played a…
Find out more »October 2021
Sidmouth Science Festival (Geology Section)
Dr Jenny Bennett, Chair of the Geology Section, will be giving a talk on the geology of the River Exe at the Sidmouth Science Festival Geology Day on 9 October at 11 am. For…
Find out more »The Moroccan High Atlas Mountains (Geology Section)
To be held by Zoom video conferencing. Dr Sarah Boulton (University of Plymouth) will give a talk “When did the Moroccan High Atlas Mountains get high?” Important notes To join this meeting please contact…
Find out more »Visit to Kelly Mine (Geology Section)
A half day visit to Kelly Mine, near Lustleigh. One does not go underground during the tour but instead one looks over a unique piece of mining heritage because all of the original processing…
Find out more »November 2021
Cretaceous forests of Antarctica (Geology Section)
To be held by Zoom video conferencing. A talk “Cretaceous forests of Antarctica: back to the future for climate change” to be given by Prof Howard Falcon-Lang, Royal Holloway, University of London. Monkey puzzles…
Find out more »December 2021
Birdwatching on a cosmic scale (Geology Section)
To be held by Zoom video conferencing. A talk “Birdwatching on a cosmic scale” to be given by Dr Daniel Field (University of Cambridge). Daniel Field’s research bridges the worlds of palaeontology and evolutionary…
Find out more »January 2022
AGM 2022 (Geology Section)
To be held by Zoom video conferencing. The Geology Section AGM to be followed by a talk “Geology in the Falklands” by Dr Richard Porter (incoming Geology Section Chair). Note that this meeting, originally…
Find out more »February 2022
Military Geology (Geology Section)
To be held by Zoom video conferencing. A talk ‘Military Geology’, to be given by Dr Paul Nathanail, University of Nottingham. Important notes To join this meeting please contact the Organiser (details below). You…
Find out more »March 2022
Surviving the last Ice Age in Sherford Cave and beyond (Geology Section)
A Zoom talk by Professor Danielle Schreve, Royal Holloway, University of London Excavations at Sherford, the new town near Plymouth, have uncovered 30–60,000-year-old fossils, belonging to woolly mammoths, woolly rhinoceros, hyena, horse, reindeer, mountain…
Find out more »Earthquake chasing around the world (Geology Section)
“Earthquake chasing around the world”. A lecture by Dr Zoe Mildon from the University of Plymouth. If you wish to attend, please contact the organiser as numbers may be limited. Note the change in…
Find out more »April 2022
Medicine and Geology (Geology Section)
A talk “Medicine and Geology” by Dr Albert Benghiat. His talk will recount the historical contribution of medical practitioners to the science of geology and go on to explore methodological similarities between the practice…
Find out more »May 2022
Field Trip to N. W. Scotland (Geology Section)
A week-long Geology Section field trip to North West Scotland led by Prof John Winchester. This trip has been postponed twice due to Covid and as of August 2021 is fully booked.
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