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October 2021
GA Lecture: October 1
"Pills and Politics"; a new look at George Bellas Greenough and his Geological Map of 1820... Prof Hugh Torrens (Keele University)
Find out more »Geoconservation: principles into practice
Please contact the hgs_secretary@btinternet.com to register your interest in joining us for this talk given by Dr Colin Prosser (Principal Specialist in Geoconservation, Natural England). Abstract: The UK is extremely geodiverse with many geological features and sites of international, national and local importance for research, education, tourism and recreation. However, we are a small country with a large population and our geoheritage is subject to a range of threats. These include development pressure, landfill, coastal and river engineering, neglect and…
Find out more »2021 GA Annual Conference
2021 GA Annual Conference Surgeons Quarters, Edinburgh
Find out more »GA Zoom talk/workshop on the Wealden (Smokejacks)
The popular annual Wealden field trip will take the form of a Zoom talk/workshop. The workshop will start with a virtual tour of the Smokejacks clay pit, describing the geological contexts and environment in the Lower Cretaceous when these sediments were deposited. We will then move on to look at some of the fossil finds that have been made there. Starting with the discovery of dinosaur Baryonyx in 1983 and run through some of the more important and unusual finds…
Find out more »November 2021
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 »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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