Devon's rivers:
is the past the key to the present?
Prof Tony Brown - University
of Southampton
Events and News If you have any events or news that you would like included in these pages, please contact the web editor Field Day with the Black Bear Geology Group, Dorset. 12th July, 2008 This is an informal field-day to be held in Dorset on 12th July 2008. The aim of the day will be to look at Pleistocene terraces and terrace deposits of the Rivers Frome and Piddle in the Dorchester area which have been mapped by members of the Black Bear Geology Group over the last few years. For further details including meeting place and time contact Tony Brown by e-mail on Tony.Brown@soton.ac.uk All Ussher Society members are welcome.
One day conference
on "South-west geology: past, present and future" As part of the celebrations to mark the 150th anniversary of the Geologists’ Association, the Devonshire Association Geology Section, in association with the Ussher Society and the Geologists’ Association are holding a one day conference on "South-west geology: past, present and future". The conference will be held at the Boniface Centre, Crediton, Devon on the 28th June, 2008 between 10:00 and 16:30. An interesting and varied programme has been compiled with speakers talking on the following:
Tickets are £25 and include coffee, buffet lunch and tea. Ample parking is available as well as regular bus and train services to Exeter. Further details and a booking form are available here
Old News Going Underground – Saturday 31st May 2008 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. Virtual tours are available in hi-res (broadband only) or low-res (dial-up). The second venue will be Rosevale Mine (Land’s End Granite), near to Zennor (see www.rosevalemine.co.uk). The day will provide an insight into magmatism, mineralization, regional tectonics, mining methods and a little industrial archaeology. The start time at the CSM Test Mine will be 10:00 and we will finish in the late afternoon. Lunch will be taken en route between the two venues (possibly in Zennor). Lifts can be arranged from/to Camborne railway station and, possibly, further afield. Spaces are limited to 16 people and booking is essential. Participants must be at least 16 years old and have a reasonable degree of mobility – Rosevale Mine includes a 1 km walk-in from Zennor and a total of 30 m of fixed ladders to ascend. Hardhats and lamps will be supplied. To book a place, please telephone Robin Shail on 01326 371827 (office), or email R.K.Shail@ex.ac.uk ensuring that you leave a contact address and telephone number. Full joining instructions will be sent in late May.
Bookings for this trip are now closed. Enquiries to John Renouf.
Abstracts for Geoscience in south-west England now available Abstracts are now available for Geoscience in south-west England Vol. 11 parts 1, 2 (2004 to 2006) - please see the journal pages. Back issues will hopefully be added in the near future - please check back periodically for updates.
Ussher Society Conference, St Ives, January 2008 The Ussher Society's 46th Annual Conference was held between the 2nd and 5th January, 2008 at the Tregenna Castle Hotel, St. Ives, Cornwall. The conference was very well attended. In addition, electronic copies of the back issues of the Proceedings of the Ussher Society (now Geoscience in south west England) was distributed to all paid-up members. This fantastic resource reflects the hard work of Chris Cornford and all involved at IGI limited. For full details of the 2008 conference (and previous events), please see the conference pages
History of Geology Group Conference The history of on-shore hydrocarbon use in the UK or "From oil shales and seeps to 'shaleopolis' and 100 roughnecks!" The History of Geology Group held a three day meeting in Weymouth from the 20th to the 22nd April 2007. The meeting comprised two days of field excursions and a one-day seminar. Further details and a full programme are available here The History of Geology Group (HOGG)
was inaugurated in October
1994 to encourage the interest in the history of geology
Jurassic Coast hosted the 2007 Ussher Society 45th Annual Conference The Jurassic Coast team hosted the 45th annual conference at Weymouth in January 2007. Papers on a variety of aspects of geoscience in south-west England were presented during the four day meeting (two days field excursions and two days of presentations). The second afternoon of presentations was held jointly with the southwest regional group of the Geological Society of London focused on the theme of "Geotourism". This year's excellent Conference Dinner was free due to the kind sponsorship of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Team. Field excursions were to (1) Osmington MIlls to examine the structure and stratigraphy of the area along the Abbotsbury-Ridgeway Fault System and to examine the fine coastal sections in the Oxfordian-Kimmeridgian rocks (led by Prof. John Cope) and (2) to the Charmouth Heritage Centre and to Lyme Regis to examine the engineering works (led by Richard Edmonds, Chris Pamplin and others). For full details of the 2007 conference (and previous events), please see the conference pages.
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