Events
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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 ...