Posts treating: "Cardiff"
Monday, 18 April 2016
Geology in the West Country [2016-04-18 10:48:00]
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(148 visits) 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 [...]
Thursday 18th February 2016 Mr Smith's Remarkable MapsTom Sharpe (University of Cardiff) The Studio, M Shed, Princes Rd, Bristol, 6.00pm William Smith's great geological map of Britain, published 200 years ago, was fourteen years in the making and the first of its kind in the world. In the course of making it, Smith developed the fundamental principles of rock sequences - stratigraphy - and recognised the value of fossils in identifying strata. The groundwork for these discoveries [...]
This week’s fossils were the subject of a presentation at the 2015 Larwood Symposium of the International Bryozoology Association in Thurso, Scotland, last month. Caroline Buttler, Head of Palaeontology at the National Museum Wales, Cardiff, brilliantly gave our talk describing cryptic-and-exposed trepostome bryozoans and their friends in an Upper Ordovician assemblage I found years ago
BRIDGEND, WALES (June 25, 2015) — On our last day in Wales, Tim had an errand at the National Museum Wales in Cardiff. We took the opportunity to visit their new dinosaur exhibit with the skeleton that had been collected from an outcrop we visited earlier in the week at Lavernock Point. The exhibit is
Geology in the West Country [2011-12-09 17:28:00]
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(26 visits) Triassic,Carboniferous
Dr Nick Chidlaw is currently offering two 1-day courses on the same weekend in Thornbury next March, describing locations he has run field trips to in the past. These courses may be particularly interesting to those who are not able to visit these field areas, e.g. because of work/family commitments, or health problems. You can enrol on either, or both, courses.Each course comprises powerpoint-based lectures, together withexamination of hand specimens of relevant mineral and rock types, and [...]
Too often we read about the impending “crisis” in the mining industry when all the old folk like me retire, supposedly taking our expertise away with us and leaving a void in the knowledge and experience field.
I have spent the past week in Cardiff and Johannesburg hearing variations on this theme all week. Some of the
Cardiff was once the coal mining capital of the world. Just besides the harbor was the coal exchange where the daily price of coal was set. Mining in Wales goes back much further than that. The native-born, Welsh-speaking miner who was my host told me that the Romans in the days of the Empire mined
On Thursday October 1st, Bath Geological Society is hosting Professor Paul Pearson's lecture, 'Global Warming and Climate Change in the Eocene and Oligocene Epochs' The Eocene world (55 million years ago) was much warmer than today, with tropical-type conditions extending into the polar regions. Then in the Oligocene (34 million years ago) the world cooled dramatically and a large ice cap appeared on Antarctica. In this lecture Paul Pearson from the University of Wales at Cardiff, assesses the [...]
Links from del.icio.us, tagged with geology for August 30th, 2009:
Museum Victoria Natural Science Collections Online
Nature Made Rocks: People: Faces and Figures Photos
OPLI Oregon Paleo Lands Institute
National Museum Cardiff, Department of Geology, online catalogue
Natural History Museum Rijeka – Collections online
Franklin Mineral Museum – Franklin, NJ
Geoscience-Related Information Servers
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Meteorite Identification: Have you found a space [...]