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Next Meeting

Saturday 23rd January 2010, Saturday 27th February 2010, 2pm: University of Leeds, Weetwood Hall: Deep Water Sedimentology

Summary programme and Abstracts:

Dr Chris Jackson (Imperial College, London): Submarine slope morphology as a control on the development of sand-rich turbidite depositional systems: 3D seismic analysis of the Kyrre Fm (Upper Cretaceous), 
Måløy Slope, offshore Norway

Three-dimensional seismic and well data are integrated to investigate the geometry and controls on a series of sand-rich slope systems in the Kyrre Fm (Upper Cretaceous) on the Måløy Slope, offshore Norway. Norway. Slope systems were fed by sediments eroded from mainland Norway to the east, and transported across a relatively narrow shelf into four canyons developed at the shelf-edge. These canyons were not formed through erosional or mass-wasting processes during the Late Cretaceous, but represent a series of underfilled canyons developed during an earlier, Late Jurassic erosional period. Channels, which are commonly arranged into laterally- or vertically-stacked channel complexes, were fed sediment through the shelf-edge canyons and may be associated downslope with small terminal fans. The canyons and their associated depositional systems were not active synchronously, with a clear southward migration of the active depositional systems. On the slope, syn-depositional topography was formed via; (i) differential compaction of mudstone-rich strata across underlying Late Jurassic canyons which resulted in the a series of E-W-trending structural lows; and (ii) differential compaction of mudstone-rich strata across the underlying Upper Jurassic fault blocks which resulted in N-W-trending structural highs. Both of these features had a variable influence on the incision, fill and overall spatial distribution of slope channels/channel complexes and associated fans. A large fan which overlies the shelf-edge canyons and associated downslope depositional systems represents the final depositional unit within the study area. The fan effectively ‘seals’ the underlying shelf-edge canyons, suggesting it was not supplied by sediment routed through the canyons. The results of this study support previous studies which indicate that the shelf-edge canyons may be the first-order control on the location of sand-rich, turbidite-fed depositional systems on submarine slopes. Furthermore, this study demonstrates that differential compaction may be a key control on slope morphology in submarine settings, and the associated topography can markedly influence depositional patterns.

Dr David Hodgson (University of Liverpool): Relative Timing Of External And Internal Submarine Levee Construction And The Implication For Submarine Fan Growth: insights from the Karoo Basin, South Africa.

The initial filling of a high latitude proto-foreland basin during an icehouse climate is recorded in a well-exposed 1.3 km thick basin-floor to shelf-edge succession of late Permian siliciclastic deposits in the Laingsburg depocentre of the SW Karoo basin, South Africa,. Uniformly fine-grained sandstones were derived from far-field granitic sources (Patagonia?), although the coeval staging and delivery systems (fluvial and shelfal) are not preserved. Initial mud-prone basin floor turbidites of the Vischkuil Formation contain three regionally developed zones of soft sediment deformation related to emplacement of major debris-flows that mark the initiation of a major sand delivery system. The overlying 300 m thick sand-prone basin floor fan system (Fan A) and 150 m thick base-of-slope channel/levee system (Unit B) are divisible into four composite sequences that show long term forward stepping, aggradation and backstepping stacking patterns, followed by basinwide pelagic mud deposition.

The overlying 500 m thick mud-dominated submarine slope succession is characterized by 60 – 120 m thick sand-prone to heterolithic packages that show abrupt lateral and down-dip changes in thickness and lithofacies, which are separated by extensive 30 – 70 m thick claystone packages. On the largest scale the slope stratigraphy is defined by two major cycles, each comprising three composite sequences of repeating architectural style. Each composite sequence comprises three sequences. The lower cycle comprises lithostratigraphic Units B/C, C and D while the upper cycle includes Units E/F, E and F. In each case a sandy basal sequence is dominated by intraslope lobe deposits (Units B/C and E/F). The second composite sequence in each cycle (Unit C and Unit E) is characterized by slope channel-levee complexes that feed lobes down dip. The uppermost composite sequence in each cycle (Units D and F) comprises deeply entrenched slope valley/canyon systems. Although complicated in detail, the deepwater succession shows a consistent hierarchical order, enabling prediction of temporal changes in architectural style within each composite sequence. This stratigraphic organisation is interpreted as due to high magnitude/high frequency glacial-eustatic sea level changes during a tectonically quiescent pre-foreland basin period. Architectural style is similar at individual sequence scale in comparable positions in each major cycle, but intrinsic controls such as along-strike changes in sequence expression as a function of shelf edge delivery system and variable substrate compaction complicate the resultant architecture.

Prof Bill McCaffrey (University of Leeds): Controls on submarine channel levee development.

Submarine channel levee systems arise and develop due to complex feedbacks between turbidity currents and confining bathymetry. In particular, because the flow can be lost overbank, there must be a link between the flow transmitted downstream from any particular point and the evolution of the geometric form of the levee. Consideration of aspects of this complex system can potentially give insights into: auto vs. allo-cyclic controls on channel development and avulsion; monotonic evolution of flow properties within the channel; topological approaches to channel pattern development, such as avulsion node migration directions and inundation area analysis; bed thickness distribution patterns with the levee, and in channel-fed lobes. The implications for the interpretation of architecture development will be explored, together with the implied limits on interpretation.

Dr Ian Kane (University of Leeds): Aspects of the sedimentology and architecture of the Pendle Grit and Hind Sandstone, Craven Basin, UK.

Lateral tilting is a common deformation style in extensional basins, its influence on subaerial channels is, to a degree, understood, and may be significant, controlling the style of channel development and the resultant sand-body architecture. Growth faulting and lateral tilting in turbidite channel systems have been demonstrated from 3D seismic, but the resultant architecture of channels within these settings has not yet been documented. In the Carboniferous of northern England, a sand-rich slope channel, developed within a basin undergoing late-stage extension, underwent progressive and unidirectional migration towards a topographic low on a laterally tilting block. The resultant sandstone body is wedge shaped in cross section, and comprised dominantly of sigmoidal lateral accretion deposits. The channel returned to an axial course before undergoing lateral migration in the same direction, creating a multistorey, multilateral channel sandstone body. The repeated unidirectional migration combined with evidence of syn-depositional deformation suggests that active tectonism strongly influenced channel evolution and deposition. A model of submarine channel evolution in extensional basins is presented; in systems where large displacements occur, the channel system may avulse, creating isolated sand ribbons which are connected updip; where the lateral dip is always more influential than the regional dip, the system may pond in the hanging-wall syncline. The model is compared to a subsurface channel within the Pliocene of the Nile Delta slope, which was influenced by syndepositional fault movement; application of the outcrop-derived model allows some simple architectural interpretations to be made.

Continuing Professional Development: This meeting counts as 2 hours of Continuous Professional Development under the Geology Society CPD Scheme.


Draft Summary Programme for the rest of 2010

Indoor Meetings

Saturday 27th March British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Notts.: Planning for Climate Change

October (date to be confirmed: either Saturday 23rd or Saturday 30th), University of Hull: Modern Geological Techniques (Joint Meeting with the Hull Geological Society)

28th November University of Leeds Weetwood Hall: AGM, Presidential Address Part 2, President's Reception Buffet & Speeches

Field Meetings

8th or 9th May: Yorkshire Geology Month excursion to Ingleborough, led by David Turner

12-13th June: Weekend field meeting in Teesdale: new ideas on mineralisation in Teesdale, led by Brian Young

July (date to be confimed): Ironstone mining in North Yorkshire, led by Simon Price Jon Ford & Rebecca Levell

August: Wadsley Fossil Forest, Sheffield, led by Ken Dorning


hot.gif (2213 bytes)Proceedings now fully digitised from vol. 1 (1839) to vol. 58 (2008) with free online access to individual YGS members

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hot.gif (2213 bytes)Latest part of Proceedings of Yorkshire Geological Society (vol. 57 pts. 3-4, November 2009) now published: Contents and Abstracts

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Cover illustration: Chadian (Lower Carboniferous) ammonoid Fascipericyclus fasciculatus (McCoy) from Beeston Tor, southern Peak District (Staffordshire) (British Geological Survey Colln.) (See Tilsley & Korn, this part)

P. Vincent and A. S. Smith: A redescription of Plesiosaurus propinquus Tate & Blake, 1876 (Reptilia, Plesiosauria), from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Yorkshire, England (pp. 133-142)

SUMMARY: The type specimen (WM 851.S, skull and post-cranial skeleton) of Plesiosaurus propinquus Tate & Blake, 1876, from the Toarcian (Upper Lias, Lower Jurassic) of Yorkshire, is re-examined. New observations permit a detailed understanding of the cranial anatomy of this specimen and hence its taxonomic affinity. The few differences between Plesiosaurus propinquus and Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus cannot be considered diagnostic. Consequently, Plesiosaurus propinquus is here assigned to and considered a junior synonym of Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus. Currently only three valid species of the genus Rhomaleosaurus are known; a complete revision of the specimens formerly attributed to Rhomaleosaurus must now be carried out.

C. H. Holland: Pisocrinus from the type Ludlow Series (pp. 143-144)

SUMMARY: A unique specimen of Pisocrinus ?pilula is recorded and described from the Middle Elton Formation (Ludlow Series, Gorstian Stage) in the Ludlow district.

W. A. Fairburn: Landforms and the geological evolution of the Vale of York during the Late Devensian (pp. 145-154)

SUMMARY: Preliminary landform mapping over the York terminal moraine showed that persistent terraces on the sides of the moraine are strandlines that must have formed during regression of pro-glacial Lake Humber. Of widespread significance is a conspicuous shoreline between 30 and 35 m above OD that lasted for sufficient time to develop both erosional and depositional lacustrine terraces. This surface is contemporaneous with the 100 Foot Strandline mapped on the western side of the Vale of York, on the Permian escarpment. Between the Escrick and York moraines there are two additional major strandlines, with associated littoral and lacustrine deposits, that effectively subdivide the fluvioglacial sediments of the Vale of York into three offlapping planar landforms, with lateral erosional contacts independent of lithology. Above the 100 Foot Strandline, mounds and ridges of till form prominent landmarks, such as Severs Howe near York. The North Sea ice could not have plugged the Humber mouth until the Vale of York glacier had formed the York Moraine, and must have remained long enough for a prolonged stillstand of Lake Humber at c. 33 m above OD. Subsequent stillstands, recorded on the southern face of the York Moraine at c. 20 m and c. 14 m above OD (lowering to c. 15 m and c. 10 m above OD at Escrick), mark stages in the unplugging of the Humber mouth from either ice or till. The mapping also suggests that the Crockey Hill ‘esker’ consists of erosional remnants, preserved on interfluves, of a fluvial gravel sheet.

S. K. Donovan: John Phillips and the British Silurian Crinoidea: 170 years of monographic endeavour (pp. 155-164)

SUMMARY: John Samuel Miller’s A Natural History of the Crinoidea or Lily-Shaped Animals . . . (1821), the first monograph of the fossil crinoids, included only three species from what we would now call the British Silurian. The first monographic study devoted to the British Silurian crinoids was by John Phillips (in Murchison’s The Silurian System, 1839), who described 14 species (eleven new), all from the Wenlock Series of the area around Dudley. These were conservatively placed in five genera, Cyathocrinites Miller, Marsupiocrinites Phillips, Hypanthocrinites Phillips, Actinocrinites Miller and Dimerocrinites Phillips; the same species are now divided between eleven genera. Eight of these taxa are type species, but none is now classified as either Cyathocrinites or Actinocrinites. Hypanthocrinites is a junior synonym of Eucalyptocrinites Goldfuss. The illustrations in Phillips, drawn by J. de C. Sowerby, were much superior to Miller’s plates, but lacked his innovative ‘exploded’ diagrams.

 I. D. Somerville, P. Cózar, M. Aretz, H.-G. Herbig, W. I. Mitchell and P. Medina-Varea: Carbonate facies and biostromal distribution in a tectonically controlled platform in northwest Ireland during the late Viséan (Mississippian) (pp. 165-192)

SUMMARY: The North–West Carboniferous Basin (NWCB) contains a c. 3 km-thick succession of Mississippian (Courceyan to Arnsbergian) limestone, mudstone and sandstone, mostly of marine origin. The litho- and biostratigraphy of some sections in the basin are revised and new logged sections described in upper Viséan, limestone-dominated platform successions. In the O’Donnell’s Rock area, a precise correlation of the Glencar Limestone Formation with the lower part of the Bricklieve Limestone Formation, and the Dartry Limestone Formation with the upper part of the Bricklieve Limestone Formation is confirmed. Consequently, in late Viséan (Asbian) times the NWCB developed as an extensive (>12,000 km2) carbonate platform, in which sediments of the facies typical of outer, middle and inner parts of the platform were deposited. The Asbian rocks of this platform contain abundant solitary and fasciculate rugose corals, with laterally persistent biostromes dominated by different species of Siphonodendron. Evidence of regional uplift and subaerial exposure occurs at the top of the Dartry Limestone/Bricklieve Limestone formations, especially in the northern half of the platform. The base of the succeeding Meenymore Formation is defined by a change from marine limestone below an erosional disconformity surface, to sediments deposited on a sabkha and in supratidal–peritidal facies. Evolution of the platform was controlled, in part, by syn-sedimentary faults, which allowed different thicknesses of sediment to accumulate. Between the margins of the NWCB there existed a turbid carbonate platform with relatively shallow to moderately deep water characterized by impoverished microfaunal assemblages. The platform margin extended SE into deeper water facies of the Dublin Basin.

 J. K. Wright: The geology of the Corallian ridge (Upper Jurassic) between Gilling East and North Grimston, Howardian Hills, North Yorkshire (pp. 192-216)

SUMMARY: The northern edge of the Howardian Hills, running for 25 km from Gilling East to North Grimston, North Yorkshire, comprises a near-continuous ridge of Oxfordian limestones and calcareous sandstones, here termed the Corallian ridge. These strata rise gently from the Vale of Pickering up to a steep scarp face which overlooks underlying Oxford Clay to the south. The limestones and sandstones belong to the Corallian Group, which in the Howardian Hills includes the Lower Calcareous Grit, Coralline Oolite and Upper Calcareous Grit formations. The Lower Calcareous Grit Formation comprises a succession of finegrained, calcareous or spicular, siliceous sandstones, and forms a prominent feature. The Coralline Oolite Formation underlies gently rolling hills leading down to the Vale of Pickering, and is composed of a series of oolitic and fine-grained limestones with subordinate calcareous sandstones and sandy limestones. The Upper Calcareous Grit is represented here largely by calcareous strata, the North Grimston Cementstone, and is only exposed in faulted inliers to the south. The sequence was laid down in a tectonically active area, and movement of faults during deposition of the strata in the Mid Oxfordian led to marked changes in thickness and lithology across the area. Complications caused by these penecontemporaneous movements have meant that, though the outcrop has been investigated by numerous geologists over the last 150 years, the exact sequence of strata present and its correlation with the Corallian sequence on the north side of the Vale of Pickering have long presented problems. Much that was uncertain about the geology of the area has been resolved through detailed mapping of the area west of Malton.

 

 J. W. Tilsley and D. Korn: Chadian (Tournaisian–Viséan, Carboniferous) ammonoids from the Milldale Limestone Formation of the southern Peak District, England (pp.217-234)

SUMMARY: Ammonoids from the Chadian Waulsortian mud-mounds of the Peak District (Derbyshire and Staffordshire) have been examined utilizing new collections and additional museum material. The genera Fascipericyclus, Ammonellipsites, Helicocyclus, Dzhaprakoceras, Eonomismoceras, Polaricyclus and Merocanites are present. One new species, Eonomismoceras wettonense sp. nov., is described. The independent status of Fascipericyclus fasciculatus and F. furcatus is confirmed.

 Obituary: George Anthony Lobjoit Johnson 1925–2009 (pp. 235-236)                                                                  

 Society Proceedings, 2008 (pp. 237-242)

Index to Volume 57 (pp. 243-248)

Title Page and Contents for Volume 57, 2008-2009  (pp. i - iv)


Some British Geological Survey Memoirs for Yorkshire to download


In a major new development for the Society, the British Geological Survey (BGS) had made available to the Society's website full facsimile copies (in PDF format, including all illustrations) of some earlier Geological Survey Memoirs, listed below. These are now available for downloading for personal, academic, educational, non-commercial research and other non-commercial use, from the Yorkshire Geological Society website http://www.yorksgeolsoc.org.uk/ only. All users must agree to the BGS terms and conditions before downloading each Memoir.

 

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Searchable Indexes to 138 years of the Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society (1837-1995) now available on line!

The Society has been publishing its Proceedings since 1837, and its many thousands of pages contain a great deal of original research and other unique material relating to the earth sciences, especially in respect of Yorshire and adjacent regions, both also nationally and internationally.  Complete reference sets of the PYGS are held by many leading regional and national libraries including the British Library, the Geological Society LIbrary, and the Society's own library, now part of the University of Leeds Library (which members of the Society can apply to use as a benefit of membership via the General Secretary of the Society).

Over the years the Society has published three cumulative indexes to the Proceedings, but it has been an aim of the Society's Council to make these indexes available on line via this website to help members and others to search and explore the rich resources available in the Proceedings

We are delighted announce that thanks to the generous help of Pinpoint Digital of Winsford, Cheshire, which has undertaken the necessary scanning of the published indexes free of charge, these are now available as searchable PDF files as follows:

Index to PYGS volumes 1 to 25 (1837-1946)

Index to PYGS volumes 26 to 37 (1947-1970)

Index to PYGS volumes 38 to 50 (1970-1995

To access each index click on the appropriate link above to open or download the file. (Each is very large - over 2Mb - so unless you have a fast broadband connection it is advisable to download the files onto your own hard disk, and then search from there.  Whether using an index on line or from a downloaded file simply open the file in  Adobe Acrobat and then use the normal Acrobat "Search" (or "Find") facility.  Any geological term, placename or author name can be used to search each index: Acrobat will then give you a list of occurences in the subject or author indexes, and each occurence is highlighted in colour within ePDF (facsimile) image of the index page. 

Very many thanks to Pinpoint Digital Document Management and Storage Systems for their sponsorship,and particularly John Hatton for his advice and practical assistance.

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Yorkshire Rocks and Landscape – the popular YGS Field Guide, Third Edition, is now available

Yorkshire, famed for its scenic beauty and its rich industrial heritage, contains some of the most interesting geology and scenery in England , from the moors to the coast, including the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors national parks. The influence of the geology on the landscape and on the industrial development in the region is profound.  

This book is a stimulating field guide to twenty-one locations selected to give comprehensive coverage of the geology, minerals, rocks, fossils and landforms of the area. Excursions vary from easy half–day walks to longer outings. Some are in moorland areas such as the Craven Inliers and the Pennines; others cover the Dinosaur Coast, famous for its rugged beauty and natural history, and coalfields adjacent to the major cities.

 Aimed at beginners and more experienced geologists, the book includes a general introduction to the area’s geological history, detailed location maps, a full glossary of terms, and details of local museums.

  Yorkshire Rocks and Landscape will be used and enjoyed by all those interested in the geology and natural heritage of this exciting and diverse region, especially the links between landscape and the underlying geology,

 About the Authors: The field guide, edited by Drs. Colin Scrutton and John Powell, has contributions from knowledgeable academics, professional geologists and dedicated amateurs, many of them members of the Yorkshire Geological Society. Together in this book they provide the most up-to-date and authoritative guide to the geology of Yorkshire and surrounding areas currently available.  

Published: September 2006; 224 pp, 22 figures.  Price £9.99, plus postage and packing (£2.00); cheques should be made payable to "Yorkshire Geological Society".  Please send your order form to: Dr J H Powell, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG

  Also available at indoor meetings of the Yorkshire Geological Society (no p&p) and from selected bookshops.

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A major Yorkshire Geological Society Publication!

Carboniferous Hydrocarbon Geology: the southern North Sea and surrounding onshore areas

edited by

John Collinson, David Evans, Doug Holliday & Neil Jones, 2005

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Price now reduced to £10 plus £5 p. & p. Cheques should be made payable to Yorkshire Geological Society. Please send your order form to: Dr J H Powell, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham, NG12 5GG


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Corresponding Societies

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CRAVEN & PENDLE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: Contact: Paul Kabrna e-mail: paul_kabrna@hotmail.com or http://www.cpgs.org.uk/ (usual meeting place for indoor lectures: The Rainhall Centre, Barnoldswick)

Friday 12th February: Global Sea-Level Control on Sedimentation in the Carboniferous of the British Isles: Rachael Dale BSc.(Hons), University of Leeds

CUMBERLAND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: Secretary: Rosemary Vidler, 11 Blencathra View, Threlkeld, Cumbria, phone no 017687 79326, e-mail: rosevidler@freeuk.com For further detials of summer field meetings contact Alan Smith on 01768 771068

EAST MIDLANDS GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: Janet Slatter, tel. 01509-843.297; e-mail: sec@emgs.org.uk or http://www.emgs.org.uk (usual meeting place for indoor lectures: Lecture Theatre B3, Biological Sciences Building, University of Nottingham)

Saturday 13th Febraury: Gold in Britain, followed by Annual Dinner: Tim Colman

EAST MIDLANDS REGIONAL GROUP OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: Chair: Vanessa Banks, BGS, Keyworth, E-mail: vbanks@bgs.ac.uk, tel. 0115 9363531

Wednesday, 10th February:   The Coal Mining Legacy: The Danger Beneath Your Feet: Keith Banton, The Coal Authority

HUDDERSFIELD GEOLOGY GROUP: Julie Earnshaw (Secretary). Telephone: 01484 311 662 or e-mail: earniehome@ntlworld.com

Friday 8th February: ABC of Geochemical Isotopes and How They Are Used In Geology: Phil Robinson

Friday 8th March: Coal Balls - their origin, plant remains and significance in the study of palaeobotany: Alison Tymon

HULL GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: Mike Horne. Tel: 01482 346 784 or e-mail: m.j.horne@hull.ac.uk or http://www.hullgeolsoc.org.uk (Usual meeting place for indoor lectures: Department of Geography, University of Hull, at 7.30 pm. N.B.   for security reasons the door is locked at 7.40pm)

Thursday 18th February: An Investigation into the Behaviour of Benthic Foraminifera During Post-Mortem Transport: Angela Kelham, University of Hull

Thursday 11th March: AGM & Flint formation - some early thoughts: Paul Hildreth

LANCASHIRE GROUP OF THE GEOLOGISTS’ ASSOCIATION: Secretary: Jennifer Rhodes, e-mail: sjrhodes@hotmail.com

LEEDS GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: Anthea Brigstocke (General Secretary). Tel: 01904 626 013: E-mail:  lga@brigstocke.myzen.co.uk or http://www.leedsgeolassoc.freeserve.co.uk (usual meeting place for indoor lectures: Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, Michael Sadler Building, Leeds University at 7pm)

Thursday 28th January: Hot stuff in the deep sea: present and past life at hydrothermal vents: Dr. Crispin Little, Leeds University

Thursday 25th February: Presentations by students of the School of Earth and Environment, Leeds University

Thursday 18th February: Sea Level Science; Global and Local Relevance: Professor Andrew Willmott, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory

ROTUNDA GEOLOGY GROUP: contact Sue Rawson, tel. 01723-506.502, email: suerawson[at]yahoo.co.uk (usual meeting place Room CG7, Scarborough Campus of the University of Hull, Filey Road, Scarborough)

Thursday 4th February: Open Evening and AGM

SORBY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY: Ken J Dorning, Geology Group Secretary,  e-mail: geology [at] sorby.org.uk; website:  http://www.sorby.org.uk/

WESTMORLAND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: contact:  E-mail: mail@westmorlandgeolsoc.org.uk westmorlandgeolsoc.org.uk/ Venue: Shakespeare Centre, Kendal

Wednesday 17th February: AGM starting at 7:45pm followed by the Presidential Address: Professor Euan Clarkson University of Edinburgh

YORKSHIRE REGIONAL GROUP OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: Chair: katie.dunn [at] WorleyParsons.com


 

Saturday February 27th: Deep Water Sedimentology: Joint Meeting with the Yorkshire Geological Society (see YGS programme above) N.B. at Weetwood Hall, Otley Road, Leeds 2pm - 5pm

Thursday 11th March: Where did all the ice go? Ice sheet fluctuations in Yorkshire during the Last Glacial Maximum: Dr. Mark Bateman,Sheffield University

LEICESTER LITERARY & PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY - SECTION C GEOLOGY: Chairman: Dr. Joanne E. Norris, 0116 2833127, j.e.norris @ ntlworld.com; Website: http://www.charnia.org.uk/ (usual meeting place for indoor lectures unless otherwise stated: Lecture Theatre 3, Ken Edwards Building, University of Leicester at 7.30pm.  For field meetings contact Kay Hawkins, 0116 252 3369

Wednesday 27th January: Bubbling Under - An Accidental Look at Antarctic Sub-Glacial Drainage: Professor Duncan Wingham, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University College, London

MANCHESTER GEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION: Jane Michael. Tel: 0161 366 0595, e-mail: jane.michael1[at]tesco.net orhttp://www.mangeolassoc.org.uk (usual meeting place for indoor lectures: Williamson Building, Department of Geology, University of Manchester)

Wednesday 17th February: AGM followed by the Presidential Address Various Volcanoes -Vesuvius et al.: Dr Christine Arkwright, University of Manchester

NORTH EASTERN GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Mavis Gill.Tel:OI207 545907, e-mail mavisgill@btinternet.com or www.northeast-geolsoc.50megs.com

Tuesday 16th February:  Can Remote Sensing and Geophysics Provide Us With All We Need to Know About Active Volcanoes? A case study based on 35 years on Etna: Prof. Harry Pinkerton University of Lancaster

NORTH EAST YORKSHIRE GEOLOGY TRUST: contact@neyorksgeologytrust.com;   website: http://www.neyorksgeologytrust.com/ : Kathryn Brown North East Yorkshire Geology Trust, 5 Station Workshops, Robin Hoods Bay, Whitby, N. Yorks. YO22 4TG Tel. 01947 881000

NORTHERN REGIONAL GROUP OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON: Secretary: Dr Mark Allen, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Durham, e-mail: m.b.allen [at] durham.ac.uk

NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE GROUP OF THE GEOLOGISTS' ASSOCATION: Eileen Fraser Tel: 01260 271505 email: fraser[at]fraserco.co.uk or  http://www.esci.keele.ac.uk/nsgga/ (usual meeting place for indoor meetings: School of Earth Sciences and Geography, University of Keele)

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