Events
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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 ...
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January 2017 talk: The volcano that changed the World: Tambora and the great eruption in 1815 by Dr. Ralf Gertisser
St Francis of Assisi R C ChurchThe volcano that changed the World: Tambora and the great eruption in 1815 by Dr. Ralf Gertisser (Keele University). The year 2015 marked the bicentenary of the largest eruption in recent historic times: the 10-11 April 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora on the island of Sumbawa, Indonesia. In this talk, I will give an overview ...
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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 ...