NEXT WEEKS EVENTS
3rd to 9th June 2019
THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXTRACT FROM BRISTOL AND WEST COUNTRY GEOLOGY CALENDARS
MORE DETAILS CAN BE FOUND IN THE BRISTOL AND THE WEST COUNTRY CALENDARS AND ON THE WEB SITES OF THE RELEVANT SOCIETY OR ORGANISATION.
MONDAY 3rd
Course - The Practical Study of Minerals
When
Mon, 3 June, 19:30 – 21:30
Where
Wynstones School, Stroud Rd, Whaddon, Gloucester (map)
Description
The Practical Study of Minerals .
How to identify minerals using techniques based on both physical (crystallographic, twinning, cleavage, hardness, density, streak, colour, lustre, acid reaction, taste etc) and optical properties under the petrological microscope (relief, pleochroism, birefringence, extinction etc) Monday 29th April, for 10 weeks, until 15th July (not 6th nor 27th May). Held at Wynstones School, Stroud Rd, Whaddon, Gloucester from 7.30-9.30pm on Mondays. Cost £75.
Contact Dave Green by email at davegeostudies@gmail.com, by phone at 01594 960858 and by post at Dave Green, Joys Green Farm, Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, GL17 9QU
Tuesday 4th
Wednesday 5th
Thursday 6th
DGAG Excursion - Hay Tor and other Dartmoor locations
When
Thursday, 6 Jun 2019
Where
Dorset (map)
Description
Igneous rocks and weathering. The trip will cover locations such as Hay Tor, looking at the geological and geomorphological features of the granite. There will also be visits to localities looking at the evolution of tors and a chance to view the metamorphic aureole and contact zone. If you wish to attend please contact Alan or Kelvin and we'll add you to the list and provide further details.
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Michael Benton Lecture - Festival of Nature 2019
When
Thu, 6 June, 18:30 – 19:30
Where
The Station, Silver St, Bristol BS1 2AG, UK (map)
Description
Festival of Nature 2019 includes a special series on nature writing. We’ve asked 5 different writers to join us at 4 feature events in Bristol to share their work, their upcoming projects, and to help us explore the nation’s ongoing love for nature writing. Join us!
We are living in ‘a new golden age of dinosaur science’ (The Times, 19 January 2019). It’s true. Recently, there has been a revolution in dinosaur science. Questions we thought we unanswerable can now be answered. How fast could dinosaurs run? What was the force of their bite? Were they feathered, and what colour were they? How did they care for their young? How could they be so huge?
Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has changed from natural history to a true scientific discipline. New technologies have revealed secrets locked in the prehistoric bones in ways that nobody predicted. Remarkable new fossil finds, such as giant sauropod dinosaur skeletons from Patagonia, dinosaurs with feathers from China, and even a tiny dinosaur tail in Burmese amber – complete down to every detail of its filament-like feathers, skin, bones, and mummified tail muscles – have caused media sensations. New fossils are the lifeblood of modern palaeobiology, of course, but it is the advances in technologies and methods that have driven the revolution in the scope and confidence of the field.
The Dinosaurs Rediscovered presents all the latest palaeontological evidence, with first-hand insights from behindthe scenes of the expeditions and in museum laboratories, tracing the transformation of dinosaur study from its roots in antiquated natural history to a highly technical, computational and indisputable scientific field today. In this engaging, anecdotal account, University of Bristol Professor Michael Benton explores what we know of the world of the dinosaurs, how dinosaur remains are found and excavated, and especially how palaeontologists read the details of the life of the dinosaurs from their fossils – their colours, their growth, feeding and locomotion, how the grew from egg to adult, how they sensed the world, and even whether we will ever be able to bring them back to life.
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Bath Geol Soc - Lecture
When
Thu, 6 June, 19:30 – 21:00
Where
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 16 Queen Square, Bath (map)
Description
Dr. Mike Fowler, Portsmouth University
Granite petrogenesis
Friday 7th
Saturday 8th
Bath Geol Soc - Excursion
When
Sat, 8 June, 10:00 – 16:00
Where
Meet at 10 am in Tintern Abbey car park, (G.R. ST 5331999), (map)
Description
Lower Wye Valley AONB – Tintern and Barbadoes Hill areas
Leader - Dave Green
The geology of the area is of Old Red Sandstone as far as Tintern and below this point to Chepstow it is Carboniferous limestone.
Meet at 10 am in Tintern Abbey car park, (G.R. ST 5331999), £3.00 no time limit.
We then transfer into as few cars as possible to go up to Tidenham, from where we walk down to Tintern via the Devil’s Pulpit, and have lunch in Tintern. After lunch, we visit the quarries from which the abbey was constructed.
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OUGS Severnside - Field Trip
When
Sat, 8 June, 10:30 – 16:00
Where
We will meet at the Knab Rock car park on Mumbles promenade, near Verdi's cafe. Grid ref SS 625 877, postcode SA3 4EL. (map)
Description
Coastal Geology of the Gower Peninsula
Leader: Dr Gareth George
Location: West Glamorgan, South Wales
Date: June 8th 2019 (Saturday)
Type: Field Trip (Day)
Summary: During the day we will investigate a variety of Carboniferous Limestone exposures at The Mumbles, Bracelet Bay, Limeslade Bay and Caswell Bay.
More info:
Start time 10:30 am.
We will meet at the Knab Rock car park on Mumbles promenade, near Verdi's cafe. Grid ref SS 625 877, postcode SA3 4EL.
We expect to finish around 4:30 pm.
Contact: Kath Addison-Scott [kathaddisonscott@gmail.com]
Sunday 9th
NEXT WEEKS EVENTS
Course - The Practical Study of Minerals
When
Mon, 3 June, 19:30 – 21:30
Where
Wynstones School, Stroud Rd, Whaddon, Gloucester (map)
Description
The Practical Study of Minerals .
How to identify minerals using techniques based on both physical (crystallographic, twinning, cleavage, hardness, density, streak, colour, lustre, acid reaction, taste etc) and optical properties under the petrological microscope (relief, pleochroism, birefringence, extinction etc) Monday 29th April, for 10 weeks, until 15th July (not 6th nor 27th May). Held at Wynstones School, Stroud Rd, Whaddon, Gloucester from 7.30-9.30pm on Mondays. Cost £75.
Contact Dave Green by email at davegeostudies@gmail.com, by phone at 01594 960858 and by post at Dave Green, Joys Green Farm, Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, GL17 9QU
DGAG Excursion - Hay Tor and other Dartmoor locations
When
Thursday, 6 Jun 2019
Where
Dorset (map)
Description
Igneous rocks and weathering. The trip will cover locations such as Hay Tor, looking at the geological and geomorphological features of the granite. There will also be visits to localities looking at the evolution of tors and a chance to view the metamorphic aureole and contact zone. If you wish to attend please contact Alan or Kelvin and we'll add you to the list and provide further details.
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Michael Benton Lecture - Festival of Nature 2019
When
Thu, 6 June, 18:30 – 19:30
Where
The Station, Silver St, Bristol BS1 2AG, UK (map)
Description
Festival of Nature 2019 includes a special series on nature writing. We’ve asked 5 different writers to join us at 4 feature events in Bristol to share their work, their upcoming projects, and to help us explore the nation’s ongoing love for nature writing. Join us!
We are living in ‘a new golden age of dinosaur science’ (The Times, 19 January 2019). It’s true. Recently, there has been a revolution in dinosaur science. Questions we thought we unanswerable can now be answered. How fast could dinosaurs run? What was the force of their bite? Were they feathered, and what colour were they? How did they care for their young? How could they be so huge?
Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has changed from natural history to a true scientific discipline. New technologies have revealed secrets locked in the prehistoric bones in ways that nobody predicted. Remarkable new fossil finds, such as giant sauropod dinosaur skeletons from Patagonia, dinosaurs with feathers from China, and even a tiny dinosaur tail in Burmese amber – complete down to every detail of its filament-like feathers, skin, bones, and mummified tail muscles – have caused media sensations. New fossils are the lifeblood of modern palaeobiology, of course, but it is the advances in technologies and methods that have driven the revolution in the scope and confidence of the field.
The Dinosaurs Rediscovered presents all the latest palaeontological evidence, with first-hand insights from behindthe scenes of the expeditions and in museum laboratories, tracing the transformation of dinosaur study from its roots in antiquated natural history to a highly technical, computational and indisputable scientific field today. In this engaging, anecdotal account, University of Bristol Professor Michael Benton explores what we know of the world of the dinosaurs, how dinosaur remains are found and excavated, and especially how palaeontologists read the details of the life of the dinosaurs from their fossils – their colours, their growth, feeding and locomotion, how the grew from egg to adult, how they sensed the world, and even whether we will ever be able to bring them back to life.
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Bath Geol Soc - Lecture
When
Thu, 6 June, 19:30 – 21:00
Where
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 16 Queen Square, Bath (map)
Description
Dr. Mike Fowler, Portsmouth University
Granite petrogenesis
Bath Geol Soc - Excursion
When
Sat, 8 June, 10:00 – 16:00
Where
Meet at 10 am in Tintern Abbey car park, (G.R. ST 5331999), (map)
Description
Lower Wye Valley AONB – Tintern and Barbadoes Hill areas
Leader - Dave Green
The geology of the area is of Old Red Sandstone as far as Tintern and below this point to Chepstow it is Carboniferous limestone.
Meet at 10 am in Tintern Abbey car park, (G.R. ST 5331999), £3.00 no time limit.
We then transfer into as few cars as possible to go up to Tidenham, from where we walk down to Tintern via the Devil’s Pulpit, and have lunch in Tintern. After lunch, we visit the quarries from which the abbey was constructed.
-----------------------
OUGS Severnside - Field Trip
When
Sat, 8 June, 10:30 – 16:00
Where
We will meet at the Knab Rock car park on Mumbles promenade, near Verdi's cafe. Grid ref SS 625 877, postcode SA3 4EL. (map)
Description
Coastal Geology of the Gower Peninsula
Leader: Dr Gareth George
Location: West Glamorgan, South Wales
Date: June 8th 2019 (Saturday)
Type: Field Trip (Day)
Summary: During the day we will investigate a variety of Carboniferous Limestone exposures at The Mumbles, Bracelet Bay, Limeslade Bay and Caswell Bay.
More info:
Start time 10:30 am.
We will meet at the Knab Rock car park on Mumbles promenade, near Verdi's cafe. Grid ref SS 625 877, postcode SA3 4EL.
We expect to finish around 4:30 pm.
Contact: Kath Addison-Scott [kathaddisonscott@gmail.com]
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