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Saturday, 21 April 2018

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Bath Geol Soc's event for GeoWeek 

Geology in the West Country [2018-04-21 12:58:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (128 visits) info
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Bath Geological Society have an event for GeoWeek! Bath Geol Soc have sent me the following:- Geo-week event Saturday 5th May 2018 10.30am Brown’s Folly car park ST79864 Minor road between Monkton Farleigh and Bathford Geological guided tour, fossils and geocaching Free event Visitors welcome: all ages with sturdy footwear Further details on the website www.bathgeolsoc.org.uk

July 7th - Environmental Impact of a degassing volcano, Masaya, Nicaragua 

Geology in the West Country [2016-07-03 18:28:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (569 visits) info
Environmental Impact of a degassing volcano, Masaya, NicaraguaProfessor Hazel Rymer, The Open UniversityThursday July 7th, 7.30 p.m.Our primary goal is a better understanding of the environmental and ecological hazards posed by gas emissions at persistently active volcanoes. Armed with this understanding, our second goal is to develop strategies to mitigate the environmental and ecological risk at these sites.Further details from the Bath Geological Society websiteBRLSI, 16 Queen Square, Bath - [...]

May 5th - Lucky Planet 

Geology in the West Country [2016-04-26 14:57:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (138 visits) info

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Bath Geological Society - May 5thThe "Lucky Planet"Prof. David Waltham, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Royal Holloway, University LondonHumankind has long fantasized about life elsewhere in the universe. And as we discover countless exoplanets orbiting other stars—among them, rocky super-Earths and gaseous Hot Jupiters—we become ever hopeful that we may come across extraterrestrial life. Yet even as we become aware of the vast numbers of planets outside our solar system, it also becomes clear [...]

April 23rd - Sully Island and Lavernock Point and copy of talk on Chernobyl, April 7th 

Geology in the West Country [2016-04-18 10:48:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (148 visits) info

 Triassic,Carboniferous; GB
Saturday 23rd AprilSully Island and Lavernock PointLeader: Professor Maurice Tucker, University of Bristol and Bath Geological SocietyThe Triassic rocks near Sully and Penarth (50 miles west of Bristol), near Cardiff, were deposited around the edge of a lake or inland sea in which the Mercia Mudstone/ Keuper Marl was deposited. The Trias overlies the Carboniferous limestone which locally created hills and cliffs around the lake; wave-cut shore-platforms and wave-notches were cut into the [...]

June 22nd - Vale of Wardour field trip 

Geology in the West Country [2016-04-15 17:20:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info

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Bath Geological Society - West Country Geology field tripsVale of WardourIsobel Geddes and Steve Hannath, Wiltshire Geology GroupWednesday 22nd JuneThis field trip involves a walk of around 5 miles which will take us across the vale from one side of the eroded anticline to the other. The walk will start at Dinton in the National Trust car park for Philips House on St Mary’s Rd, (SP3 5HH, OS sheet 130 009316) and finish with a pub lunch at the Wyndham Pub in Dinton on the Hindon Rd (SP3 5EG, [...]

April 7th - Chernobyl exclusion zone - 30 years on 

Geology in the West Country [2016-03-28 16:33:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (155 visits) info

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April 7th - Bath Geological SocietyChernobyl exclusion zone - 30 years onDr. Lorraine Field, British Geological SurveyThe world’s worst nuclear disaster took place on the 26th April 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the town of Pripyat, in the then Ukrainian SSR. The battle to contain the contamination cost in excess of an estimated 18 billion roubles, and involved over 500,000 workers from across the Soviet Union. There is now a 30 km exclusion zone in effect around the plant. The [...]

Brown's Folly Middle Jurassic SSSI 

Geology in the West Country [2016-03-15 17:50:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (174 visits) info

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The Brown's Folly website has been updated with some new photos.Net-like colonial coral from the patch reef at Site 8Brachiopod inside boring into the coral, Site 8Parts of Apiocrinus, a crinoid from the Bradford Clay at Site 7Calcite rimmed brachiopod shells from the Combe Down Oolite, Site 11Many thanks to Mell Freeman, Bath Geological Society for the

3rd March - Landscape dynamics, climate and tectonics 

Geology in the West Country [2016-02-25 17:23:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (196 visits) info

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Landscape dynamics, climate and tectonics:Dr. Alex Whittaker, Senior Lecturer in Tectonics, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College.Thursday 3rd March, 7.30 p.m.BRLSI, 16 Queen Square, BathBoth tectonics and climate profoundly influence the erosional-depositional processes that shape the Earth’s surface.  Moreover, the magnitude, locus and characteristics of sediment export from catchments to basins play a fundamental role in determining depositional [...]

Saturday 27th February 

Geology in the West Country [2016-02-16 15:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info

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Saturday 27th FebruaryBrown's Folly, near Monkton Farleigh and BathfordEither - walk around the geological trail with Elizabeth Devon, Bath Geological SocietyOr - join us in our annual conservation of the sites Come along with gardening tools or just take the opportunity to visit the sites and talk about geology.Meet at 10.30 a.m. at Brown's Folly Car Park (G.R. ST 798663). Please note that the car park has been cleared of trees and is now available. Strong boots, waterproofs, [...]

27th - 30th May - Field trip to Anglesey 

Geology in the West Country [2016-02-11 14:09:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (250 visits) info

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A Geology Course in AngleseyDave Green, GeostudiesFriday 27th May from 7.30 p.m. to Monday 30th May at lunch timeFull details on the Bath Geological Society websiteand from the secretaryThere are a few places left; everyone is welcome. 

February - Forthcoming events 

Geology in the West Country [2016-02-03 12:06:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (167 visits) info

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4th February - Bath Geological Society AGM and 'Cotham Marble'Further details here 16th February - WRGS24th February - Bristol NATS - Geology sectionThomas Hawkins and his Sea Dragons – a mad, bad fossil collector?Stephen Locke 7:30pm, Wednesday 24 FebruaryStephen Locke will give a talk on the controversial 19th century fossil collector Thomas Hawkins. Thomas Hawkins (1810-1889) was the son of a Somerset Farmer/Cattle Dealer who lived at Glastonbury. He inherited a considerable sum of [...]

4th February - Bath GS - Cotham Marble 

Geology in the West Country [2016-01-26 16:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (139 visits) info

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4th February - Bath Geological Society.The replacement talk is 'Cotham Marble'by Dr. Sarah Greene, NERC Independent Research Fellow,School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol7.00 p.m. AGM followed by this talkBRLSI, 16 Queen Square BathEveryone welcome, £4 for visitors, free

4th February - Bath Geological Society AGM 

Geology in the West Country [2016-01-25 16:41:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (172 visits) info

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The Bath Geological Society is having its Annual General Meeting on Thursday 4th February at 7 pm at the BRLSI in Queen Square, BathAll members are welcome to attend the AGMTwo positions on the Bath GS committee will become vacant- Membership secretary- Fieldtrip programme secretaryPlease contact the Chairman if you wish to fulfil either of these important roles.7.30 p.m. First talk of 2016 - title and speaker to be announced as soon as possible. We are sorry about this unavoidable change to [...]

24th January - Ramblers Walk - Wiltshire 

Geology in the West Country [2016-01-23 15:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (193 visits) info

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January 24th Ramblers Walk around PotterneLed by Judy Hible ( 01249-701265) 10.30 a.m. My Ramblers walk on Sunday morning passes along Coxhill Lane, a hollow way in the Upper Greensand, much-used locally for building with doggers and for fossils.Our 4 ½ mile walk starts in Potterne. The walk, which is graded as “moderate” goes via the hill at Potterne Field, out to Ninehills, then past Sleight farm down into the Stert valley, and then back via Potterne wood and Coxhill lane. Please [...]

December 3rd - Geology of Anglesey 

Geology in the West Country [2015-11-29 17:43:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (653 visits) info

 Cambrian; GB
Bath Geological Society - December 3rdThe Geology of AngleseyDave Green, GeostudiesFor years the geology of Anglesey has caused controversy amongst those studying its complex arrangement of seemingly unrelated fault blocks, particularly the status of the PreCambrian (or are they?) granites and gneisses, sedimentary extrusive sequence, blueschists, ophiolitic/deep ocean facies and melange. So complex that the very stratigraphy has been completely overhauled and re-interpreted twice during the [...]

November 5th - Decorative & Building Stones / November 7th - Geologists' Association Festival 

Geology in the West Country [2015-10-27 17:02:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (142 visits) info

 Mesozoic; GB
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November 5th - The Geology of Decorative and Building Stones at Kingston Lacy; the William Bankes Palladian Mansion and Park, near Wimborne, Dorset.Peter Bath, Dorset Geologists' Association GroupKingston Lacy Hall is a major, but little known, competitor to Chatsworth for decorative polished stone; notably for foreign stones of Grand Tour Provenance. Two dozen notable rocks from the African Precambrian basement, Mesozoic Sediments and many resulting from the Alpine and Apennine Orogenies have [...]

Field trip to Anglesey, May 2016 - Lecture December 3rd 2015 

Geology in the West Country [2015-10-07 13:49:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (246 visits) info

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Bath Geological SocietyField trip to Anglesey, Cemaes Bay in north Anglesey 27th to 30th May 2016Dave Green, Geostudies The course will start at 7.30 pm on 27th and is based at the Harbour Hotel in Cemaes Bay. The course ends at lunch time on 30th May near the Menai Straits bridge, but details will be given of other sites to visit for those who wish to stay on.The cost for tuition is £40 of which only £20 is refundable.Transport is by private car to the location. Sharing is advisable during [...]

Mystery object found on the Bath GS Manor Farm trip 

Geology in the West Country [2015-10-06 18:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (143 visits) info

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The object above was found at Borrow Pit, Manor Farm, Aust - a Triassic mystery.  An expert's opinion is as follows:-"My interpretation of this is that it lacks the symmetry and detail to be a fossil animal in its own right, though algal activity may have played a part in producing the lumps on the surface.  It has a slightly laminated appearance and I believe it to be a sedimentary accretion.  Whether it has a nucleus of any kind could only be resolved by sectioning and [...]

Good lectures - October 1st and October 7th 

Geology in the West Country [2015-09-30 12:36:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (148 visits) info

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October 1stA Bug’s Life: The role of micropalaeontology in industrial problem solvingProfessor Malcolm Hart, Emeritus Professor of Micropalaeontology at the University of PlymouthMicropalaeontology is the study of microscopic fossils and has been used extensively by the hydrocarbons industry for the stratigraphical correlation of rock successions (especially recovered in boreholes). In many quarrying or engineering projects stratigraphical “control” is also required and this will be [...]

Dates to note in September 

Geology in the West Country [2015-08-21 19:02:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (209 visits) info

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3rd September - Geological evolution of N American cordilleraDr Doug Robinson7.30 BRLSI, 16 Queen Square, BathBath Geological Society9th September 2015 - Tour of Redcliffe Caves, Bristol.7pm at the Ostrich Pub - BS1 6TJWestern Region, The Geological Society 19th September - Aust Cliff & Manor Farm, South GloucestershireSimon CarpenterBath Geological Society
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