Lecture: The early evolution of animal life and the generation of form – Frankie Dunn

St Francis 110 Warwick Road, Kenilworth

The rise of the animals was a profound transition in the History of Life; for the first-time organisms were able to engineer the environment around them, altering geochemical cycles, building complex ecosystems and diversifying into myriad forms. However, the rise of the animals is also one of the most controversial episodes in Earth History. Most major ...

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Lecture: Geology & Caves of N / NE Greenland -physical record – Paul Smith 

St Francis 110 Warwick Road, Kenilworth

Carbonate rocks of Neoproterozoic to Silurian age are abundantly distributed around the coasts of North and North-East Greenland. Large cave entrances are distributed across the whole caves distributed across the whole of North Greenland, an ice-free larger than England, from 80–82.5°N and they constitute the northernmost documented karst caves globally. Data relating to the caves ...

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Lecture: La Palma Eruption by Dougal Jerram                                  

St Francis 110 Warwick Road, Kenilworth

'Volcanoes in the spotlight; Exciting examples from La Palma, Stromboli and the ancient rock record.' Recent advances in the capture of 3D geological data has re-invigorated the way in which we study volcanoes and their deposits. The recent eruption on La Palma, on going active volcanoes such as Sromboli act as modern day laboratories to ...

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Lecture: The birds and rocks of Flamborough Head – Paul Hildreth

St Francis 110 Warwick Road, Kenilworth

Flamborough Head is England’s most northerly outcrop of the Late Cretaceous Chalk Group and is home to the highest chalk sea cliffs and the only mainland gannet colony in the UK. In recognition of these latter claims, the RSPB has established the very popular and successful Bempton Cliffs reserve which sees around half a million ...

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Evening Lecture: Stromatolites: Making Mountains out of Microbes – Prof Ian Fairchild

St Francis 110 Warwick Road, Kenilworth

For most of Earth history the only macroscopic evidence of life are the intricately layered rocks called stromatolites. Like trace fossils they record an interaction between organisms and sedimentary processes. The key players are the cyanobacteria, formerly known as blue-green algae, which played a vital role in oxygenating the Earth through their photosynthesis. Build-up of ...

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Talk: The NW Highlands controversy: Geology, geologists and social climbing in Victorian times. Talk by Dr Peter Gutteridge

St Francis 110 Warwick Rd, Kenilworth

The NW Highlands of Scotland probably has the best scenery and geology in the world. You can find the oldest rocks in the British Isles, the first evidence of life, ancient landscapes carved out by preCambrian rivers and beautifully exposed Lower Palaeozoic clastic and carbonate sediments. These all form part of a major fold and ...

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Talk: Iapetus No More – The continental collision that shaped Scotland by Angus Miller

Zoom Video Talk
Online Event

Five hundred million years ago, the Iapetus Ocean lay between three continents in the southern hemisphere. The tectonics of the next 100 million years brought different segments of continent together, formed the grain of the land and created the building blocks of much of Scotland’s landscape. This talk will explore the closure of the Iapetus Ocean, the formation of most of the metamorphic and igneous rocks of the Highlands and Southern Uplands, and the complex events that together make the most significant event in Scotland’s geological history.

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Talk: ‘Henry Clifton Sorby – Sheffield’s Greatest Scientist’ by Noel Worley

Online Via Zoom or YouTube

‘Henry Clifton Sorby, Microscopist & Geologist – Sheffield’s Greatest Scientist’ by Noel Worley Samples re Henry Clifton Sorby The purpose of the talk is to review his principle successes, to examine the circumstances surrounding Henry Clifton Sorby’s life in Sheffield between 1826 to his death in 1908;

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