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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, KenilworthThe 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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Evening Lecture: Stromatolites: Making Mountains out of Microbes – Prof Ian Fairchild
St Francis 110 Warwick Road, KenilworthFor 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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Lecture: The birds and rocks of Flamborough Head – Paul Hildreth
St Francis 110 Warwick Road, KenilworthFlamborough 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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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: Geology & Caves of N / NE Greenland -physical record – Paul Smith
St Francis 110 Warwick Road, KenilworthCarbonate 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: The early evolution of animal life and the generation of form – Frankie Dunn
St Francis 110 Warwick Road, KenilworthThe 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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Gondwana Landscapes: Geology on a Plate – Brian Ellis
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 ...