Events
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November 2016 talk: Cave deposits (speleothems) as archives of past environments and climates Ian Fairchild
St Francis of Assisi R C ChurchCave deposits (speleothems) as archives of past environments and climates Ian Fairchild, University of Birmingham A clear understanding of long-term climatic change over the Quaternary has come primarily through studies of sediments in the deep ocean and cores through the major ice sheets, forming a framework to which the myriad more fragmentary and less definitive ...
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Sept 2016 talk: The village of Martley, Worcestershire, John Nicklin & Bill Barclay
St Francis of Assisi R C ChurchThe village of Martley, Worcestershire We will have two speakers covering topics relating to the village of Martley, Worcestershire. John Nicklin is a founding member of the Teme Valley Geological Society (TVGS). He is not a professional geologist, but a great ambassador for the subject. He will speak about how and why TVGS was formed ...
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April 2016 talk: The History of the Harbury Railway Cutting, by Luke Swain, Network Rail
St Francis of Assisi R C ChurchLuke Swain CGeol , Senior Asset Engineer (Geotechnics) — Network Rail: The History of the Harbury Railway Cutting. Since the Great Western Railway came to Harbury in Warwickshire, the geology which underlies the village, has provided its fair share of challenges to all of the infrastructure owners. First constructed in circa 1850, the original plan ...
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March 2016 talk: Rivers, lakes, swamps and seas: exploring an early Carboniferous environment, Prof. Sarah Davies
St Francis of Assisi R C ChurchProf. Sarah Davies (University of Leicester): Rivers, lakes, swamps and seas: exploring an early Carboniferous environment Following the end-Devonian mass extinction, new terrestrial habitats developed and this was a major change in the Earth system. Examples of terrestrial environments and habitats are preserved in the early Mississippian (Carboniferous) sedimentary rocks that crop out across the ...
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Feb 2016: Festival of Geology, in Kenilworth with WGCG
Kenilworth Senior Citizens ClubFESTIVAL OF GEOLOGY Senior Citizens Club, Abbey End Car Park(at the top of the car park beyond the Kenilworth centre) A FREE event for all the family What’s under your Feet? A galaxy of rocks, fossils and minerals comes to Kenilworthon Saturday 20th February 2016 (10am till 3pm) Come and see…. Stunning specimens Great displays Look at ...
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Feb 2016 talk: Minerals, Magmas & Man, by Paul Olver
St Francis of Assisi R C ChurchDr Paul Olver (Hereford & Worcester EHT): Minerals, Magmas & Man: Beneath every active volcano is a complex plumbing system for magma movement including deep seated plutons and their even deeper magma chambers. The slow crystallisation of these magma bodies gives rise to a whole suite of pegmatites, greisens and their later hydrothermal veins. Essential ...
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Jan 2016 talk: Exceptionally preserved Cambrian fossils of the Chengjiang Lagerstatte,Prof. David Siveter
St Francis of Assisi R C ChurchProf. David Siveter (University of Leicester): Exceptionally preserved Cambrian fossils of the Chengjiang Lagerstatte, China: the flowering of early animal life. The discovery in 1984 of the Chengjiang biota, in rocks of early Cambrian age in south China, was one of the most significant palaeontological finds of the 20th century. The fossils are abundant and ...
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Nov 2015 talk: The Genesis and Evolution of Sulphate Evaporites, by Dr Noel Worley
St Francis of Assisi R C ChurchDr Noel Worley (formerly chief geologist, British Gypsum): The Genesis and Evolution of Sulphate Evaporites Evaporites not only provide information about past climates, but also because they are chemically very mobile, present a record of the changes they have undergone through geological time. These changes very often hinder sedimentological interpretation but provide valuable evidence about ...