Next week 3rd to 9th July 2017

NEXT WEEKS EVENTS

 3rd to 9th July 2017

The following is an extract from Bristol Geology Calendar

More details can be found in the Calendar and on the web sites of the relevant Society or organisation.

Monday

Stroud Museum - Ichthyosaur Exhibition

When23 May – 9 Jul 2017

WhereGeology Gallery, Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, Stratford Road, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 4AF. (map)

DescriptionExhibition: The Watery World of the Ichthyosaur Tuesday 23 May - Sunday 9 July | Admission Free A mini exhibition in the Geology Gallery Taking our very own fossil baby Ichthyosaur, freshly cleaned and conserved, as its centrepiece, this temporary display will allow you to explore the underwater environment that this creature lived in. Discover what an Ichthyosaur ate for lunch, as well as the other creatures and plant life that shared its watery world. With artistic representations of how the Ichthyosaur lived around 190 million years ago, plus the fossilised remains of the Ichthyosaur and its contemporaries this exhibition is not to be missed. Supported by the The Curry Fund of the Geologists Association

19:30

 Dave Green's Geology of the Oceans

WhenMon, 3 July, 19:30 – 21:30

WhereWynstones School, Stroud Road, Whaddon, Gloucester (map)

DescriptionThe Geology of the Oceans past and present (including plate tectonics, environments, and current/developing ideas on oceanography and marine geology). Often termed the last frontier to be explored on Earth, there have been great advances in our understanding of the oceanic realm over the past half century. This course aims to study the main developments and what we might expect in the future, based on current research. Monday 24th April, for 10 weeks, until 10th July (not 1st nor 29th May). Held at Wynstones School, Stroud Road, Whaddon, Gloucester from 7.30-9.30pm on Mondays. Cost £70.

Tuesday

Teme Valley Geological Society - Evening Geology Course

When4 – 5 Jul 2017

WhereTBA (map)

Description Evening Geology Course Field Trip 4th or 5th July Volcanoes in action – their magmas and minerals Dr Paul Olver Contact John 01886 888318 Cost £35

19:00

 Dave Green's Geology and Landscape in Gloucestershire

WhenTue, 4 July, 19:00 – 21:00

WhereSee website, separate leaflet, and/or by contacting Dave Green. (map)

Ashleworth, Staunton and Corse Lawn

This area, in the subdued topography of the Severn Vale to the north of Gloucester, shows considerable and surprising variations in relief, due to the influence of a few more resistant thin beds in the midst of a sea of weak mudstones and shales, of Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic age. The resistant beds appear many times, partly due to gentle folding, and partly because of faulting; each time producing characteristic landscape. A further complicating feature is the presence of remnants of the former flood plains of the Severn, now dissected by erosion during and since the Ice Age

Meet at the roadside (park on verge) at the junction between the Upleadon/Newent road with the B4211 at SO 800 280

Stroud Museum - see Monday's entry

Wednesday

Teme Valley Geological Society - Evening Geology Course

When4 – 5 Jul 2017

WhereTBA (map)

Description Evening Geology Course Field Trip 4th or 5th July Volcanoes in action – their magmas and minerals Dr Paul Olver Contact John 01886 888318 Cost £35

Stroud Museum - see Monday's entry

Thursday

19:15

 Bath Geol Soc Lecture - Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

WhenThu, 6 July, 19:15 – 21:45

WhereBath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 16 Queen Square, Bath (map)

DescriptionCarbon Capture and Storage (CCS) – demonstrating the safety and performance of underground CO2 storage by site monitoring Professor Andy Chadwick, British Geological Survey Underground storage of carbon dioxide emitted from fossil fuel combustion and other industrial processes offers the most credible way of achieving the deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions agreed at last year’s COP-21 climate change conference in Paris. The regulatory framework for underground CO2 storage has been set up via a European Directive. In this there is a regulatory requirement to prove that storage sites are not leaking, that their current behaviour is understood, and that stored CO2 will continue to be contained in the long term. Time-lapse monitoring at storage sites, using geophysical and geochemical techniques provides the means by which these quite challenging objectives can be met. Industrial-scale CO2 injection has been in operation at the Sleipner gas field in the Norwegian North Sea since 1996, with more than 16 million tonnes of CO2 now stored. A comprehensive time-lapse monitoring programme has been carried out, with a series of 3D seismic surveys providing strikingly clear images of the CO2 plume in the storage reservoir and its progressive spreading and growth with time. These can be matched with numerical fluid flow models to demonstrate that subsurface processes are well understood. Other monitoring datasets from storage sites worldwide also provide robust indication that we do understand the key physical processes controlling the behaviour of stored CO2 and that longer-term predictions of storage site performance are likely to be reliable.

Stroud Museum - see Monday's entry

Friday

Stroud Museum - see Monday's entry

Saturday

Stroud Museum - see Monday's entry

Sunday

O.U. Geol Soc South West Branch - Field Trip

WhenSunday, 9 Jul 2017

DescriptionWest Somerset Coast Field Trip on July 9th 2017 Examine the evidence for a tectonic inversion on the West Somerset coast. leader: Dr Mark Anderson More details to follow

Stroud Museum - see Monday's entry