NEXT WEEKS EVents
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.
All Week (except Monday)
WhenSun, 13 August, 10:00 – 17:00
WhereBristol Museum & Art Gallery (map)
DescriptionTravel back in time 150 million years and dive into Bristol’s Jurassic seas.
We dare you to come face to face with one very special creature – an eight metre long Pliosaurus called Doris.
She’s the ultimate predator and you’ll be awestruck as you touch her skin, listen to her heartbeat and smell her disgusting breath!
Then travel forward to the present day to find out more about this amazing beast. See her actual fossil – one of the world’s most complete – and play games to discover more about her life and death.
All the family can have fun investigating the science that helped us bring her back to life. Ideal for children aged 3-11 years old.
Discovered in Westbury, Wiltshire in 1994, our internationally significant specimen is the world’s only example of a new species of pliosaur – Pliosaurus carpenteri – and will be on public display for the first time. Pliosaurs are so big that it took ten years to prepare all the fossils that were found.
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery opening times:
Tue-Sun: 10am-5pm
Closed Mondays except Bank Holiday Mondays and Mondays during Bristol school holidays: 10am-5pm
Monday 30th
19:30
Dave Green - The Devonian Period
When
Mon, 30 October, 19:30 – 21:30
Where
Wynstones School, Stroud Road, Whaddon, Gloucester
Description
The Devonian Period 419 to 358 million years ago, this period (whose existence was hotly disputed by Sedgwick and Murchison in the 1820s and 30s) saw the amalgamation of two parts of Britain (but strangely not including Devon!), the emergence of widespread land vegetation, closely followed by insects and terrestrial tetrapods. A major extinction, of disputed origin, wiped out a large proportion of life towards the end of the period. Half the world consisted of a vast ocean (Panthalassa), which, like the modern Pacific, was gradually being destroyed by subduction, in favour of the Rheic and PalaeoTethyian Oceans. Starts Mon 18th September for 10 weeks (not 16th or 23rd Oct), until 4th December Held at Wynstones School, Stroud Road, Whaddon, Gloucester from 7.30-9.30pm on Mondays. Cost £70 (including tea, coffee etc at breaktime!).
Contact Dave Green, Joys Green Farm, Forge Hill, Lydbrook, Glos GL17 9QU Tel 01594 860858
davegeostudies@gmail.com
Tuesday 31st
Wednesday 1st
Thursday 2nd
19:15
Bath Geol Soc Lecture - Fossil plankton from drilling the deep sea; stratigraphy, evolution and climate change
When
Thu, 2 November, 19:15 – 20:45
Where
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 16 Queen Square, Bath
Description
Latest research on the ‘so called’ Indo-Pacific warm pool
Professor Paul Pearson, School of Earth & Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University
This talk focuses on the use of microscopic fossils from deep sea sediments and how they were used in recent scientific coring expedition to the Indo-Pacific 'warm pool' - the hottest part of the oceans.
Professor Pearson will describe how microfossils are used to date sediment cores recovered from hundreds of metres below the sea bed, stretching back millions of years in time; what can be learned from them about evolution and extinction in the oceans; and how the chemistry of the shells is used to track changes in temperature, the waxing and waning of the ice sheets, and the role of carbon dioxide in shaping earth's climate history.
Friday 3rd
Saturday 4th
10:30
Festival of Geology
When
Sat, 4 November, 10:30 – 16:30
Where
University of London, Gower Street.
Sunday 5th
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