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February 2019
GA Lecture
February 1 – Henry Stopes Lecture The Climate, palaeogeography and early human settlement of Britain Prof Nick Ashton
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GA Lecture
March 8 – Halstead Lecture *Note 2nd Friday* The secret Life of salt giants: 3d seismic data reveals new insights into the structural evolution of salt-influenced passive margins Sian Evans
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Geological Highlights of Morocco
Led by: Mr Mohamed Segaoui (Moha) (Morocco-Geo-Travel) www.atlasgeotours.com & Professor David Martill (University of Portsmouth) The Morocco trip for 2019 is full but please email to be on waiting list.
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April 5 – Minerals from the English Midlands Roy Starkey
Find out more »GA Devon Weekend Field Trip
This weekend trip will examine the Devonian and Permian rocks south of Torbay and towards Start Point. Starting with the Devonian succession, near Brixham, including stromatoporoid reef limestones with local fissure-filling infills of Permian red-beds.
Find out more »May 2019
GA Lecture
May 3 – AGM and Presidential Address Risky Business –Exploring for Hydrocarbons Nick Pierpoint
Find out more »GA Yorkshire Coast weekend fieldtrip
This GA weekend FieldTrip is being held to celebrate the recent publication of a new edition of GA Guide 34, “The Yorkshire Coast”, and forms part of “Yorkshire Geology Month”. Jurassic, Cretaceous and Pleistocene localities in the vicinity of Scarborough will be visited, and members should book accommodation in Scarborough, where there is a wide range of hotels and B&Bs.
Find out more »June 2019
The Shetlands
Leaders: Allen Fraser and Robina Barton Our first three days will be spent on the islands of Unst and Fetlar where we will examine aspects of the Shetland Ophiolite nappes. These will include depleted mantle and magma chamber rocks, inter-nappe sheared conglomerates and a later granite intrusion. We will also visit abandoned chromite quarries from the 19th. and 20th. centuries and a restored horse-driven ore crushing circle.
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June 7 – Virtual Reality and Drone Mapping- Geological Applications of Immersive Learning Claudia Ruiz-Graham
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GA Lecture
July 5 – Cretaceous amber: bits of ancient ecosystems Dr Ricardo Perez-De-La-Fuente
Find out more »The Wealden Excursion
Leaders: Peter Austen & Ed Jarzembowski Location: Wealden – exact location to be decided. This trip continues the popular annual Wealden excursions and again will visit one of the sites in the Weald Clay of south-east England. The venue will be confirmed later so as to take advantage of conditions at the time. Attendees will need to be sure they can safely cope with the conditions to be found in working quarries.
Find out more »August 2019
GA trip: North Lincolnshire weekend field trip
Leaders: Dr. Michael Oates and Paul Hildreth This GA weekend Field Trip will focus on the Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks of North Lincolnshire. Access to a large working quarry has been obtained guaranteeing unobscured geology. PPE is essential and full requirements will be shared in the joining instructions. Meeting points and further details will be communicated to participants nearer the time. Participants are to arrange their own transport, accommodation and meals. Also suggest bring your own packed lunch into the…
Find out more »September 2019
Behind the scenes geology store tour
During 2019 we hope to celebrate the publication of the new GA guide to the geology of the Bristol area. This trip will take a ‘behind the scenes tour of the library and geology store’ at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery revealing some of the unseen treasures. We are limited to a maximum tour size of 10 people, however it can be run more than once in the afternoon if required.
Find out more »Jurassic geology around Bath/Bristol, Bath
Prof. Maurice Tucker is one of the authors, in the soon to be published and updated, GA guide to the geology of the Bristol area. The Saturday trip will visit Brown’s Folly near Bath and Midford to examine the rocks of the Great Oolite Group and Inferior Oolite.
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GA Lecture
October 4 – Searching for an impact crater in Scotland Dr Mike Simms
Find out more »GA Annual Conference
Geological Resources in the North West: Past, Present and Future
Find out more »November 2019
Festival of Geology
Free event for everyone interested in the Earth and its origins.
Find out more »Festival of Geology Walks
Saturday 2 November Festival of Geology at UCL As part of the GA Festival we will be offering a free Building Stones Walk as well as free lectures. The walk will be led by Ruth Siddall of University College and will be a tour of the Campus and local streets. Meet 11.00 am at the GA stand. No advance booking required
Find out more »Festival of Geology Trips – 3rd November 2019
Sunday 3 November Festival trips Non-GA Members and Beginners welcome but booking is essential using the links below. There is a charge of £5 per person per trip. For further details and to register for any of the trips below please contact fieldtrips@geologistsassociation.org.uk, telephone 020 7434 9298 or use the links below to register online via the GA website: www.geologistsassociation.org.uk/festival.html 1. City Building Stones Walk from Cannon Street to the Tower led by Dr Matthew Loader 2. Geotrail along the…
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GA Lecture
December 6 – The Secret Life of the starfish: The origin of asterozoan echinoderms in the Ordovician Dr Aaron Hunter
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GA Lecture
February 7 – Drilling the Chicxulub Impact Crater Prof Jo Morgan
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GA Lecture
March 6 – Environments and Landscapes during the development of the mid-Palaeocene Hebridean Igneous Province, NW Scotland Dr Ian Williamson
Find out more »GA Dorset Weekend Field Trip
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE This weekend trip will examine the upper half of the Lias Group, the MIddle and the Upper Jurassic, with bits of Cretaceous and Tertiary thrown in. The best tides are Sat 21 and Sun 22 March 2020. Attendees are to arrange their own accommodation. Bridport is recommended. Meeting points and further details will be communicated to participants nearer the time. Contact details and emergency contact required at booking.
Find out more »April 2020
GA behind the scenes NHM – William Smith’s fossils
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE This event will take you behind the scenes at NHM London to look at the William Smith fossil collection. We are limited to a maximum tour size; however it can be run more than once in the afternoon if required. Afterwards members are invited to make their own way to Burlington House, Piccadilly, for tea at 5:30pm and where the evening GA lecture will follow a William Smith theme starting at 6:00pm Meeting points and further…
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POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE April 3 – “Pills and Politics”; a new look at George Bellas Greenough and his Geological Map of 1820. Prof Hugh Torrens
Find out more »Geological and Archaeological trip to the Teke Peninsula of Lycia in Southern Turkey
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE Geological and Archaeological trip to the Teke Peninsula of Lycia in Southern Turkey 15th to 25th April 2020. Leaders: Professor David Bridgland, Dr Robert Westaway and Alison Ure. This successful and popular trip has been run 3 times previously by OUGS, and this will be the third time David and Rob have led it. A write up in the OUGS national newsletter September 2014 can be accessed through the OUGS website. The area covered is the…
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GA Lecture
POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE May 1 – Presidential Address Nick Pierpoint
Find out more »GASS 2020 – POSTPONED
GASS 2020 POSTPONED It may not surprise you to hear that in this present climate we will be postponing the Geologists’ Association Student Symposium 2020 (GASS 2020), which was scheduled to be held at Burlington House on the 15th of May. Given the currently unfolding COVID-19 pandemic, and following the closure of the Geological Society until the end of April and current government advice, we have unfortunately had to make the tough decision to postpone the upcoming Geologists’ Association Student…
Find out more »Geologists’ Association fieldtrip, north Somerset coast
The field excursion will focus on magnificently exposed cliffs and the extensive foreshore between Blue Anchor Bay and Hinkley Point power station, north Somerset. This section provides some of the best outcrops of Triassic (Sherwood Sandstone and Mercia Mudstone Groups) to Lower Jurassic ‘Blue Lias’, including the transitional Penarth (‘Rhaetic’) Group recording one of the major marine transgressions of the rock record. It is also one of the best places anywhere to examine faults, fractures and compressional deformation, which in…
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