The Ussher Society

The Ussher Society, named after W.A.E. Ussher, is the regional geological society for the South West of England and promotes all aspects of geoscience in the South West of England (including the Channel Islands and the Isles of Scilly).

The Society holds an annual meeting in early January at various venues around the region. This year's meeting was held in St Ives, next year's event will be held in Paignton. The form of the Conference is two days of presentations on all aspects of geoscience in, or associated with, South West England together with one or two days of field excursions. The event includes the Scott Simpson Lecture given by an invited speaker of international status, the Annual General Meeting, and an informal dinner.  In recent years, it has been a feature of the Conference to include a joint session of applied geology presentations with the SW Regional Group of the Geological Society. 

The Society publishes the double refereed journal "Geoscience in south-west England" annually. The journal covers a range of disciplines including geology, geomorphology, engineering geology and environmental geology. 

News & events

One day conference on "South-west geology: past present and future"
Saturday, 28^th June 2008

The Devonshire Association Geology Section, in association with the Ussher Society and the Geologists’ Association, are holding a one day conference on Saturday 28^th June at the Boniface Centre, Crediton, Devon on "South-west geology: past present and future". For more details and a booking form, please see the news section.

Going Underground – Saturday 31st May 2008 - places still available

Robin Shail and Nick Leboutillier will be leading a mid-year Ussher Society field excursion to two mines in west Cornwall. The first venue will be the CSM Test Mine (Carnmenellis Granite), a few km south of Camborne, which was used for much of the 20th Century as a research and development facility by the Holman Company. The second venue will be Rosevale Mine (Land’s End Granite), near to Zennor. The day will provide an insight into magmatism, mineralization, regional tectonics, mining methods and a little industrial archaeology. For more details and a booking form, please see the news section.

Channel Islands Field Visit, May 2008

Bookings for this trip are now closed. Enquiries to John Renouf.

Abstracts of back-issues of the Proceedings of the Ussher Society (now Geoscience in south-west England) will be available on-line shortly

2008 conference abstracts are available to download here

2007 journal abstracts will be uploaded shortly

2006 journal abstracts are now available on-line

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