Oral presentations given at the 2006 Ussher Society conference, Bideford

• The Scott Simpson Lecture: The United Plates of Europe - the Variscan explained
  Prof. Wolfgang Franke
• Parish Geodiversity Audits in Devon: Raising awareness of local geodistinctiveness in the community
  Kevin N. Page
• River Terraces of the South West and their Relevance to its Palaeolithic Archaeology
  L.S. Basell, A.G. Brown and R. Hosfield
• Mid-Late Holocene Channel Change of the Exe River: Stability, Migration and Avulsion
  J A Bennett and A G Brown
• Fresh evidence for geological evolution during the Variscan data from the new survey of the Newquay sheet
  L M Hollick, B E Leveridge, R C Scrivener, R K Shail and E Burt
• Geothermic Variscan Front defined from oil drilling in Porcupine Trough, offshore West Ireland
  Chris Cornford
• Nature and origin of the Great Perran Iron Lode, Perranporth area, Cornwall
  R. C. Scrivener, J. B. Grant, L. M. Hollick and C. W. Smith
• Mineralization in the Mid Triassic
  Geoff Warrington
• Minerals, mould and mining: Geological conservation at the Royal Cornwall Museum
  Jodie Fisher and Sara Chambers
• The Wootton Bassett mud springs (Wiltshire, UK): an unusual Lagerstätten for Jurassic Foraminifera
  Malcolm B. Hart, Andrew S. Henderson, Clare L. Harrington and Tim Frayling
• The geology of the hot springs at Bath Spa, Somerset
  R. W. Gallois
• Bright Bovey borehole blaze casts new light on old problem
  Alan Cattell
• Peter Orlando Hutchinson (1810-1897) and the geology of Sidmouth
  J D Mather and R F Symes
• Geological fieldwork at the turn of the 20th Century: the photograph album of Howard Fox
  R C Scrivener (short contribution)
• The Earth Science Centre - saltash.net community school
  Gordon Neighbour
• Disused quarries in Somerset as a public resource
  Hugh Prudden
• The Wheal Martyn Boulder Park
  C.M. Bristow and P.W. Scott
• The GeoValue Project: Testing the Geodiversity Profile in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset
  Peter Scott, David Roche, Clive Nicholas, Robin Shail, Hugh Prudden and Peter Ealey
• A case study in coastal erosion and management - Westward Ho! and Northam Burrows
  Peter Keene
• Sedimentary facies changes across the marine-fluvial boundary - a new Holocene record from the River Taw valley, Devon, England
  G.M. Havelock, A.G. Brown and J.T.Jordan
• The Development of Crow Point, Taw-Torridge Estuary, North Devon
  Deryck Laming
• The Culm seams of North Devon - history of exploitation
  James Coulter
• Biddi Black and its geological setting
  N.E. Butcher (short contribution)

"Case Histories in Earth Investigations" - Special Session of the Southwest Regional Group of the Geological Society, London

• The Remaining Reserves of Libya - implications for Opec output
  D. D. Clark Lowes
• Hydrocarbon exploration in the Dorset area
  Matt England, Paul Farrimond, Andrew Hindle et al.
• Polar climate proxies: do they cut any ice?
  Steven Rowland, Simon Belt, Guillaume Masse and Michel Poulin
• Regional radon distribution as a guide to uranium mineralisation in SW England
  C.J. Moon
• Investigations of shallow mine workings at Horrabridge
  Richard Gould

Posters


Protecting and Presenting the Jurassic Coast
Richard Edmonds/Chris Pamplin

The West Dorset fossil collecting code of conduct
Richard Edmonds/Chris Pamplin

The Cornubian Dinosaur Project
Gordon Neighbour

Gillan Creek, South Cornwall – anatomy of a small ria
P.J.Ealey

Some examples of small-scale folds in Somerset
Hugh Prudden

The evolution of the River Otter catchment, east Devon
R. W. Gallois

Thematic trails - booklets on place , time and landscape
Peter Keene

The stratigraphy of the Dunscombe Mudstone Formation (late Triassic) of south-west England
R. W. Gallois

A sedimentological and ichnological study of the Carnian arenaceous units of the Mercia Mudstone Group of south-west England
Richard J. Porter & Ramues W. Gallois