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SUMMARY:Gondwana Landscapes: Geology on a Plate - Brian Ellis
DESCRIPTION:Using examples from Australia (mainly South Australia) the talk willexamine existing landscapes which are directly inherited from Gondwana.It will consider the role of their location on the Australian Plate in theconservation of those landscapes and the significance of the dating of thebreakup of Gondwana to the evolution of the geology of Australia. Thetalk will reflect on the difference between interpreting landscapes inBritain and on interpreting those in Australia. \n\n\n\n*Please note that this final talk of the lecture season will be given in-person only. It will not be broadcast on Zoom or recorded. \n\n\n\nOutline of talk PDF
URL:https://www.wgcg.co.uk/event/wolstonian-glaciation-hs2-phil-gibbard-seb-gibson/
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SUMMARY:Lecture: The early evolution of animal life and the generation of form - Frankie Dunn
DESCRIPTION: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 animal groups appear in the fossil record during a major evolutionary radiation event between ~520 and 550 million years ago known as the Cambrian Explosion when the blueprints for the animal phyla (arthropods\, vertebrates\, cnidarians) were laid down and\, remarkably\, have remained more-or-less unchanged in the half a billion years since. My research is focused on the Period of time just before the Cambrian Explosion – the Ediacaran Period\, and the Ediacaran-Cambrian transition. While fossil representatives of the living animal phyla diversify in the Cambrian Period\, the timing and nature of their earliest antecedents remains controversial. Fossil assemblages from the late Ediacaran Period preserve the remains of fossil organisms with long-extinct bodyplans\, historically excluded from analyses of the early evolution of animals because of extreme uncertainty regarding their phylogenetic placement. My novel approach to the study of these organisms has been to investigate their growth and development across whole populations of taxa with non analogue frond-like bodyplans. My work has revealed new developmental characters that can be used to rigorously constrain the phylogenetic position of these fossils. In this talk\, I will introduce my work on the fossils of the Ediacaran Period and set out the case for an animal affinity\, but also discuss new fossil finds which suggest that the oldest yet known crown-group members of animal phyla lived and died hidden amongst the fronds. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrankie Dunn is a palaeobiologist based at the University of Oxford. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Warwick in 2015 and her PhD in 2019 from the University of Bristol\, which focused on the Ediacaran Macrobiota – a strange group of organisms sometimes invoked as ancient animals but displaying non-analogue bodyplans. She subsequently moved to Oxford to take up two fellowships: a Junior Research Fellowship at Merton College and an Early Career Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the exhibition of 1851 hosted at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. Frankie is currently a NERC independent research fellow and a Senior Researcher at the OUMNH and her research focuses on the origin and early evolution of animals and particularly on the fossil record of the late Ediacaran Period (approximately 570 – 540 million years ago). The aim of this research is to understand how animal bodyplans evolved in deep time. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe talk will be held at St Francis of Assisi in Kenilworth and will simultaneously be broadcast live to an online Zoom audiance. For those unable to attend in person click on the Zoom link to watch online. \n\n\n\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUqcOGtpjIiGdepFkaqdtj3hfRn6mR0utN_
URL:https://www.wgcg.co.uk/event/lecture-charnwood-ediacaran-fossils-frankie-dunn/
LOCATION:St Francis\, 110 Warwick Road\, Kenilworth\, CV8 1HL
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Geology & Caves of N / NE Greenland -physical record - Paul Smith 
DESCRIPTION: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 in this remote region have been collected on field expeditions over a 40-year period\, and they provide information about palaeoclimates in otherwise poorly documented geological intervals. These geological young caves are mainly phreatic (sub-water table) conduits\, and they are consistently located a few 100 m beneath the distinctive plateau that characterises the topography of the northern coast. Their identical context suggests that they developed in a single phase of cave formation\, and the timing of cave development is constrained by the mid- to late-Miocene (15–5 Ma) uplift of the plateau surface and the onset of fjord-forming glaciation in the latest Pliocene – earliest Pleistocene (c. 2.7–2.5 Ma). The caves of North and North-East Greenland offer a glimpse of large-scale phreatic drainage systems that developed below an uplifted coastal peneplain during Neogene time. They preserve an important part of the geological history of North and North-East Greenland that is otherwise absent from the physical geological record \n\n\n\nPaul Smith is Director of Oxford University Museum of Natural History and Professor of Natural History\, and has spent most of his career working in university museums in Cambridge\, Copenhagen\, Birmingham and Oxford. His geological research is focussed on the interactions of Earth systems and organisms from the late Neoproterozoic to the Ordovician\, using a combination of palaeobiology\, sedimentology and geochemistry. Paul also has interests in the application of digital technologies to science museums\, particularly in the areas of 3D visualisation\, virtual reality and the evaluation of user experience. Much of his geological research has been carried out in Greenland and Svalbard\, where he has over thirty years’ experience of field expeditions and he was awarded the Polar Medal in 2017. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe talk will start at 7:30 pm at St Francis in Kenilworth. For those unable to attend in person the talk will be broadcast live on Zoom.  https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUsd-mvpj4vGtQMAwtCeZQF3_SI6ukxkvfS
URL:https://www.wgcg.co.uk/event/lecture-geology-caves-of-n-ne-greenland-physical-record-paul-smith/
LOCATION:St Francis\, 110 Warwick Road\, Kenilworth\, CV8 1HL
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SUMMARY:Lecture: La Palma Eruption by Dougal Jerram                                  
DESCRIPTION:‘Volcanoes in the spotlight; Exciting examples from La Palma\, Stromboli and the ancient rock record.’ \n\n\n\nErupción volcánica de La Palma de 2021: Wikipedia – Eduardo Robaina\n\n\n\nRecent 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 observe and record\, while the ancient rock record is the legacy of such eruptions. Here we will explore some exciting footage and details of the 2021 La Palma eruption which Dougal visited in person\, learn about techniques developed for mapping volcanoes in 3D on Stromboli and will look forward to the role of digital geology in the ancient rock record. Dougal has authored a number of Earth Science and volcanology related books and has also made a number of appearances in the media\, and will look forward to highlight some of these informally after the talk. \n\n\n\nDougal Alexander Jerram is a earth sciences expert. He has appeared on the BBC\, National Geographic\, Discovery Channel\, History Channel and Channel 4\, and on many other TV and radio programs\, relating the earth sciences to the general public. He has published over 45 scientific papers\, has edited for scientific journals\, and has held posts on committees including the Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group of the Geological Society. In 2006 he received the Murchison Fund by the Geological Society of London for his early career contribution to geology. \n\n\n\nWe encourage those able to join us at in Kenilworth for this talk. For those unable to attend in person we will be broadcasting the talk live on Zoom. Click the link below to register for Zom participation; https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAld-2pqzkpGtKXccbctcnPaIwFjuioxeUq \n\n\n\nFor those attending in person there will be an opportunity to buy signed copies of his books listed below : \n\n\n\nIntroducing Volcanology; a guide to hot rocks –  rrp£10 \n\n\n\nThe Travellers Guide to the Centre of the Earth – rrp£10 \n\n\n\nVictor the Volcano (childrens picture story book) – rrp£6.99 \n\n\n\nVolcanoes of Europe rrp £32 \n\n\n\nField description of Igneous Rocks £30 Field description of Metamorphic Rocks £30
URL:https://www.wgcg.co.uk/event/lecture-palma-eruption-by-dougal-jerram/
LOCATION:St Francis\, 110 Warwick Road\, Kenilworth\, CV8 1HL
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SUMMARY:Lecture: The birds and rocks of Flamborough Head - Paul Hildreth
DESCRIPTION: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 seabirds gather here between March and October to raise a family on towering cliffs overlooking the North Sea. Perhaps the most popular attraction is the puffin colony\, though each visitor will have his or her own favourite. \n\n\n\nThe headland\, though founded on solid chalk\, has a blanket of Quaternary deposits\, mainly till and stratified gravels. In places such as Danes Dyke\, these deposits fill deep ravines cut into the chalk bedrock and provide a completely different habitat from the cliffs at Bempton. A walk from the car park to the beach in early May will take you through woodland where the sometimes harsh calls of seabirds give way to the more melodious sounds of the blackcap\, wren and robin and the ‘tapping’ of woodpeckers. \n\n\n\nThe ornithologist notes that the northern side of Flamborough Head hosts most\, if not all\, of the breeding sites for sea birds such as gannet\, guillemot\, razorbill and puffin. The geologist notes that the Chalk of the northern side of the headland is different from that on the southern side and that there is a significant variation in the influence of the Quaternary “blanket”. So this talk will try to combine these observations and look for possible geological explanations to variations in bird distribution. In doing so I will throw in some questions based on observation: Do guillemots use clinometers? Can seabirds recognise deformed rock layers? Are gannets and auks fellow members of the Flint Appreciation Society? The preparation of this talk has been helped by the staff at RSPB Bempton Cliffs\, in particular Sarah Aitken\, with whom I collaborated for a number of years and for whom the YGS produced an information leaflet ‘The Geology of Bempton Cliffs’ for visitors to the reserve. Peter and Sylvia Nettleship of Buckton provided historical data and a ‘seabird fact sheet’\, and almost all of the stunning bird portraits are supplied by an old-school friend\, Tony Malt from Malton\, who came on a Yorkshire Geology Month boat trip from North Landing in 2016 \n\n\n\nThe talk will be given at St Francis church hall in Kenilworth and broadcast live to an online Zoom audiance. Those able are encouraged to come in person to the meeting in Kenilworth.
URL:https://www.wgcg.co.uk/event/lecture-northern-chalks-and-their-associated-flints/
LOCATION:St Francis\, 110 Warwick Road\, Kenilworth\, CV8 1HL
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230921T193000
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SUMMARY:Evening Lecture: Stromatolites: Making Mountains out of Microbes - Prof Ian Fairchild
DESCRIPTION: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 sediments and precipitates over time under the sticky surface mats created by communities of such organisms mats can make limestone and dolomite masses up to hundreds of metres thick. Stromatolites reveal many fascinating stories of past environments and examples from several continents will be discussed.  \n\n\n\nThe lecture will be given at St Francis church hall and will be broadcast live via Zoom to an online audiance. We encourage those able to be present in person to join us at the church hall. To participate by Zoom click on the Zoom link above.
URL:https://www.wgcg.co.uk/event/evening-lecture-details-to-follow/
LOCATION:St Francis\, 110 Warwick Road\, Kenilworth\, CV8 1HL
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20221117T193000
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SUMMARY:Talk: The NW Highlands controversy: Geology\, geologists and social climbing in Victorian times. Talk by Dr Peter Gutteridge
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nThese all form part of a major fold and thrust belt on which the metamorphosed Moine schists were emplaced. \n\n\n\nHowever\, geologist Roderick Impy Murchison saw this as a conformable succession. It is worth asking the question\, why did Victorian geologists so completely miss evidence that is so obvious to geologists today? \n\n\n\nThe answers lie in the state of geological science at the time\, geopolitics and social climbing. Resolution of the Moine thrust controversy was a turning point in the history of geology gave us the foundations of the science of geology as we now know it. \n\n\n\nView the promotional video for this talk \n\n\n\nBiography: As a carbonate sedimentologist Dr Gutteridge has worked on carbonate systems from all parts of the geological column throughout the world. He did his first degree at Leeds\, which had a strong structural emphasis at that time. This included numerous lectures and field trips to NW Scotland\, particularly to the Moine thrust. Dr Gutteridge has been back there many times since and this lecture offers a new perspective on an old controversy. \n\n\n\nThe talk will be given live at St Francis of Assisi in Kenilwoth.  Members and guests are encouraged to attend in person if possible. Registration is not required and there is plenty of free car parking available at the venue. \n\n\n\nWe will attempt to transmit this talk live over Zoom to those who are unable to attend the venue. Zoom participants must register in advance using the following link;   \n\n\n\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkc-ygrTosHN1ORd5Zkt_eWbPyrTqnUoEm 
URL:https://www.wgcg.co.uk/event/evening-lecture-3/
LOCATION:St Francis\, 110 Warwick Rd\, Kenilworth\, CV8 1HL
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211124T193000
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SUMMARY:LLPS: Volcanic Tsunamis: Krakatau\, 1883 and 2018.
DESCRIPTION:LLPS Zoom talk by Dr Seb Watt
URL:https://www.wgcg.co.uk/event/llps-volcanic-tsunamis-krakatau-1883-and-2018/
LOCATION:Zoom Video Talk
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210519T193000
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SUMMARY:Talk: Iapetus No More – The continental collision that shaped Scotland by Angus Miller
DESCRIPTION:Iapetus No More – The continental collision that shaped Scotland by Angus Miller\n\n\n\n\n\nTalk Outline:  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.More at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus_Ocean \n\n\n\nMore at: EarthWisehttp://earthwise.bgs.ac.uk/index.php/Early_Palaeozoic_Iapetus_Ocean\,_South_of_Scotland \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur speaker: Dr Angus MillerAngus has been leading Geowalks since 1998\, including day walks\, walking holidays and group excursions exploring Scotland’s geology and its influence on landscape & people. He teaches adult education courses for the Centre for Open Learning at the University of Edinburgh and is the Promotion Coordinator for the Edinburgh Geological Society. He’s also been involved as a volunteer for Lothian and Borders GeoConservation\, particularly in public outreach events and leaflets. He was chair of the Scottish Geodiversity Forum from 2011-2020\, responsible for publishing and promoting Scotland’s Geodiversity Charter\, and is now a trustee of the new Scottish Geology Trust. \n\n\n\n\n\nThis is a ‘virtual’ Zoom talk. Here is the Registration Link:- \n\n\n\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvf–hrz0pGNz9zDF0GzMIDvFjpw71AHL_ \n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \n\n\n\n\n\nMore about WGCGWGCG programmes include talks\, currently virtual\, field walks and residential field visits. WGCG creates and publishes trail guides and interpretation panels. We survey local geological sites (LGS) and works to conserve some of them. We can provide bursaries via the Holloway Award. We invite you to take a look at the geology\, geodiversity\, iceage history revealed in the Brandon Wall. We hope you will find great interest in The Geology of Warwickshire provided by the Warwickshire Geological Conservation Group (WGCG) including Meriden Shafts\, Stratford Trail Guide\, Solihull\, Rugby\, Guides to Building Stones in many towns\, Corley Rocks and The Burton Dassett Hills Country Park. Come and see the Warwickshire’s Jurassic rocks and fossils including ammonites and belemnites. \n\n\n\nAlthough this is a talk on Zoom\,  we normally meet in the church hall of: St Francis Of Assisi R C Church\, 110 Warwick Rd\, Kenilworth CV8 1HL \n\n\n\nEvent URL: https://www.wgcg.co.uk/event/iapetus-no-more-the-continental-collision-that-shaped-scotland-by-angus-miller/
URL:https://www.wgcg.co.uk/event/iapetus-no-more-the-continental-collision-that-shaped-scotland-by-angus-miller/
LOCATION:Zoom Video Talk
CATEGORIES:Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210421T193000
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SUMMARY:Talk: ‘Henry Clifton Sorby – Sheffield’s Greatest Scientist’ by Noel Worley
DESCRIPTION:Wed 21 April 2021: ‘Henry Clifton Sorby\, Microscopist & Geologist – Sheffield’s Greatest Scientist’ by Noel Worley\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIntroduction \n\n\n\nHenry Clifton Sorby\, Microscopist & Geologist. ‘Outside Sheffield\, and outside geology and metallurgy the name Henry Clifton Sorby is little known and even within these circles all that is known by many is the name.  This is not surprising but it is regrettable for apart from his outstanding achievements in a wide variety of scientific fields the life of the man is interesting from a number of viewpoints.’ wrote Norman Higham in 1961 in his biography.  Sorby’s geological accomplishments have since undergone a reprise with international scientific recognition in the fields sedimentology\, fluid inclusion geochemistry\, structural geology and cosmology.  R L Folk\, the famous American sedimentologist and holder of the International Association of Sedimentologists Sorby Medal when listing the variety of scientific topics that were fathered by Sorby remarked ‘… a truly imposing patrimony for a life-long bachelor.’ \n\n\n\nSorby was a gentleman of independent means\, and whilst well educated had no formal training.  He devoted the whole of his life to scientific enquiry working solidly until his death in 1908.  He was motivated by the spirit of original investigation and never sought the attention that his achievements merited. His averseness to specialisation led to criticism by some of his contemporaries in the scientific establishment.  They suggested that he merely ‘showed the way’ rather than exhausting the possibilities of a discovery. \n\n\n\n\n\nSorby\, Microscopist & Geologist\n\n\n\n\n\nSamples re Henry Clifton Sorby\n\n\n\nSamples re Henry Clifton Sorby \n\n\n\nThe 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; and to explain the key influences that led him along the path of scientific discovery. His greatest triumphs were undoubtedly in the development and application of microscopic techniques and he is regarded throughout the world as the father of petrography\, metallography and sedimentology.  He unleashed the power of the microscope in the investigation of meteorites and his work in this area has never been bettered. He was the first to use the microscope in forensic science and the first to study inclusions in crystals. \n\n\n\nSorby devoted the whole of his life to scientific enquiry working solidly until his death.  He was motivated by the spirit of original investigation and never sought the attention that his achievements merited. He was a powerful force in the development of higher education in Sheffield whose university he helped to establish and was a pioneer in the promotion of the provision of facilities for original scientific research. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur speaker: Noel Worley \n\n\n\nNoel Worley is a geologist having worked within the industrial minerals sector at British Gypsum until retirement in 2012. He has been president of the Yorkshire Geological Society and deputy chairman of the CBI Minerals Group. His main interests and publications concern the geology of the north of England including mineralization and karst in the South Pennines\, evaporites\, microscopy\, and the work of H.C.Sorby. \n\n\n\n\n\nMore about WGCGWGCG programmes include talks\, currently virtual\, field walks and residential field visits. WGCG creates and publishes trail guides and interpretation panels. We survey local geological sites (LGS) and works to conserve some of them. We can provide bursaries via the Holloway Award. We invite you to take a look at the geology\, geodiversity\, iceage history revealed in the Brandon Wall. We hope you will find great interest in The Geology of Warwickshire provided by the Warwickshire Geological Conservation Group (WGCG) including Meriden Shafts\, Stratford Trail Guide\, Solihull\, Rugby\, Guides to Building Stones in many towns\, Corley Rocks and The Burton Dassett Hills Country Park. Come and see the Warwickshire’s Jurassic rocks and fossils including ammonites and belemnites. \n\n\n\n\n\nZoom Talk \n\n\n\nYou are invited to a Zoom meeting. You can join the meeting on Wed 21 April 2021 from 7:00 pm i.e.\, up to 30 minutes beforehand. \n\n\n\nTalk starts promptly at 7:30 pm \n\n\n\nPlease register well in advance of the evening of Wed 21 April 2021 with this Registration Link  \n\n\n\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvd–prT0tGdGCtfWEjTC13MRLNFhjtqjR \n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting with a link to be used on the night. \n\n\n\n– Queries and Enquiries to: warwickshiregcg@gmail.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue: Virtual (Zoom or YouTube) Zoom as if from – St Francis of Assisi R C Church\, Kenilworth
URL:https://www.wgcg.co.uk/event/april-2021-talk-henry-clifton-sorby-sheffields-greatest-scientist-by-noel-worley/
LOCATION:Online Via Zoom or YouTube
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