Wednesday 4th January 2006

08.30 - onwards: Registration

09.00 - 09.25: Parish Geodiversity Audits in Devon: Raising awareness of local geodistinctiveness in the community
Kevin N. Page

09.25 - 09.50
River Terraces of the South West and their Relevance to its Palaeolithic Archaeology
L.S. Basell, A.G. Brown and R. Hosfield

09.50 - 10.15
Mid-Late Holocene Channel Change of the Exe River: Stability, Migration and Avulsion
J A Bennett and A G Brown

10.15 - 10.45 Coffee

10.45 - 11.45 The Scott Simpson Lecture: The United Plates of Europe - the Variscan explained
Prof. Wolfgang Franke

11.45 - 12.10
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

12.10 - 12.35
Geothermic Variscan Front defined from oil drilling in Porcupine Trough, offshore West Ireland
Chris Cornford

12.35 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 14.25
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

14.25 - 14.50 Mineralization in the Mid Triassic
Geoff Warrington

14.50 - 15.15
Minerals, mould and mining: Geological conservation at the Royal Cornwall Museum
Jodie Fisher and Sara Chambers

15.15 - 15.40 Tea

15.40 - 16.05
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

16.05 - 16.30
The geology of the hot springs at Bath Spa, Somerset
R. W. Gallois

16.30 - 16.55
Bright Bovey borehole blaze casts new light on old problem
Alan Cattell

16.55 - 17.20
Peter Orlando Hutchinson (1810-1897) and the geology of Sidmouth
J D Mather and R F Symes

17.20 - 17.30
Geological fieldwork at the turn of the 20th Century: the photograph album of Howard Fox
R C Scrivener (short contribution)

18.00 - 19.00 AGM

19.30 - … Conference meal

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

 

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