Thursday 3rd January 2008
Presentation of papers and posters
08:30 onwards Registration – Tregenna
Castle Hotel (registration
forms available here)
09:15 – 09:20 Chairman’s Introduction
Bob Symes
09:20 – 09:45 The Cornish Building Stone and Slate Guide
and associated planning considerations
Denise Pascoe
09:45 – 10:10 Public domain geological data for Cornwall
in the age of Google Earth
Charles Moon
10:10 – 10:35 The tectonics of mineralization associated
with the Land’s End Granite
Nick LeBoutillier and Robin Shail
10:35 – 11:10 Morning Coffee/Tea
11:10 – 12:20 SCOTT SIMPSON LECTURE
From Dines to the 21st Century: Past activity, research and prospects
for metal mining in SW England
Richard Scrivener
12:20 – 12:45 Late 18th and Early 19th Century forays into
economic geology – little-known Franco-German papers describing
Carclaze Old Pit, St Austell
Colin Bristow
12:45 – 13:00 Proceedings of The Ussher Society: members
pdf archive
Chris Cornford
13:00 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 14:40 Redcliff Point, Weymouth, Dorset, SW England
and Savournon, Serres, Haute Provence, SE France: candidate Global
Stratotype Section and Points (GSSP) for the base of the Oxfordian
Stage (Upper Jurassic)
Kevin Page, Guillermo Meléndez and Francois Atrops
14:40 – 15:05 The stratigraphy of the Charmouth Mudstone
Formation (Lower Jurassic); Vale of Ilchester and adjacent areas
(Somerset, SW England)
Hugh Prudden and Kevin Page
15:05 – 15:30 Lower Jurassic mud volcanoes and methane,
Kilve, west Somerset
Gregory Price, N. Vowles-Sheridan and M.W. Anderson
15:30 – 16:00 Afternoon Coffee/Tea
16:00 – 16:25 Geodiversity and conservation in Devon: integrated
approaches to heritage management.
Kevin Page
16:25 – 16:50 The English Riviera European Geopark: geodiversity
and community in Torbay
Kevin Page and Mel Border
17:15 – 18:30 Annual General Meeting of the
Ussher Society
18:45 – 20:00 Reception (kindly sponsored by IGI Ltd)
20:00 Ussher Society Conference Dinner
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