Events
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May 2018, Walk: Kenilworth Building Stones Trail, Ian Fenwick
Tuesday 8th May. Kenilworth Building Stones Trail and Geology. Start 2.00pm Meet at St Nicholas’ Car Park, Bridge Street, Kenilworth Leader Ian Fenwick. Old Kenilworth, its geology and building materials Buildings tell a story about the history of towns through the style of the buildings and the materials used. This trail will help you explore ...
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April 2018: Walk: Led by Dave Kennett & Hugh Jones – To look at stones & brickwork in local building
Led by Dave Kennett & Hugh Jones to look at both brickwork and building stones. Introductory talk from a brickwork expert followed by a town walk, possibly with lunch out.
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April 2018 talk: Waking the giant – how a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes, by Prof Bill McGuire
St Francis of Assisi R C ChurchProf Bill McGuire Waking the giant – how a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes
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Jan 2018 talk: Holloway Bursary recipient: Pterosaurs, teeth and a fossil festival by Jordan Bestwick
St Francis of Assisi R C ChurchJordan Bestwick (Leicester – Holloway Bursary recipient) Pterosaurs, teeth and a fossil festival Examination of the late Caledonian Ben Loyal syenite intrusion (426Ma), one of three bodies making up the Loch Loyal Syenite intrusions.
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Nov 2017 talk: Sinkholes and Subsidence by Dr. Tony Waltham
St Francis of Assisi R C ChurchSinkholes and Subsidence A talk by Dr. Tony Waltham (formerly of Nottingham Trent University) Ground subsidence is a frequent challenge for construction engineers, and one of the greatest geohazards is created by collpase and subsidence over cavernous groun, in limestone and other soluble rocks. Please note that due to unforeseen circumstances our proposed speaker ...
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Sept 2017 talk: Marie Stopes: Sex, Lies and Fossil Plants, Professor Howard Falcon-Lang
St Francis of Assisi R C ChurchSeptember 2017 evening lecture Marie Stopes: Sex, Lies and Fossil Plants, Professor Howard Falcon-Lang Marie Stopes (1880–1958) was one of the most flamboyant and influential figures of the early twentieth century. In addition to her well-known work on birth control, she wrote a controversial sex manual for women, and produced numerous novels, plays and works ...
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April 2017 talk:Life just got complicated: The Ediacaran Fossils of Charnwood Forest, Dr Phil Wilby, BGS
St Francis of Assisi R C ChurchDr Phil Wilby, BGS 19th April 2017 LIFE JUST GOT COMPLICATED: THE EDIACARAN FOSSILS OF CHARNWOOD FOREST Life first appeared on Earth at least 3,800 million years ago but, for the great majority of this time, it was dominated by simple microbes. Large, complex organisms only appear at around 580 million years ago, but their ...
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March 2017 talk: The Corsi Collection of decorative stones: where geology meets the arts, by Monica T. Price,
St Francis of Assisi R C ChurchThe Corsi Collection of decorative stones: where geology meets the arts Monica T. Price, Collections Manager, Earth Collections Oxford University Museum of Natural History Faustino Corsi was an early 19th century lawyer in Rome who delighted in collecting samples of the different marbles, granites, serpentines and other polished decorative stones used since ancient times in ...
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Feb 2017 talk: Can we get metals out of the ground in a “green” sustainable way? by Dr Gawen Jenkins
St Francis of Assisi R C ChurchCan we get metals out of the ground in a “green” sustainable way? Speaker: Dr Gawen Jenkins from the University of Leicester Dr Gawen Jenkin will first examine the ongoing need for mineral resources to underpin a good quality of life for the population of planet Earth. Although we might ultimately develop a “circular economy” ...
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Workshop on Igneous Rock Identification
Kenilworth Senior Citizens ClubWorkshop on Igneous Rock Identification Led by Dr Paul Olver A 5 hour intensive workshop which aims to provide novices – and not-so-novices – through the mysteries of differentiating igneous rocks from sediments and metamorphics, and then provide the tools for them to separate out the main igneous families when examined in hand specimens. To ...