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December 2021
GA Lecture: December 3
From bones to pixels – using computer technology to understand the behaviour of fossil animals Dr Stephan Lautenschlager (University of Birmingham)
Find out more »The last British Ice Sheet
given by Dr Bethan Davies (Royal Holloway, University of London) Abstract: Understanding how the last British-Irish Ice Sheet behaved in response to external climatic forcing may be used as an analogue for how the Antarctic Ice Sheet may behave in the future. We can use these empirical datasets to calibrate numerical simulations and better understand ice-sheet response to climate and ocean forcing. During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), ice streams of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet (BIIS) controlled the ice…
Find out more »A very British summer in the late Triassic: torrential rain, the Arden Sandstone and the dawn of the dinosaurs
A talk by Emeritus Prof Stuart Burley, Keele University. The Arden Sandstone Formation is a late Triassic, truly local Warwickshire formation, named from its type section on the Grand Union Canal at Shrewley, first described by the Rev. Peter Bellinger Brodie of Rowington in 1856, and now an SSSI. The upper unit has been widely used as a local building stone in Warwickshire, including in the construction of the fine St Peter’s Church in Wootton Wawen (and many other local…
Find out more »March 2022
Geological and Archaeological trip to the Teke Peninsula of Lycia in Southern Turkey
POSTPONED FROM APRIL 2020 now being run March 30th to April 9th 2022 Leaders: Professor David Bridgland and Alison Ure. This successful and popular trip has been run 3 times previously by OUGS, and this will be the third time David has led it. A write up in the OUGS national newsletter September 2014 can be accessed through the OUGS website. The area covered is the Lycian Region of South West Turkey, an area laid down in the Cretaceous times…
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