NEXT WEEKS EVENTS
13th to 19th January 2019
NEXT WEEKS EVENTS
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 13TH
Geostudies Lecture Course - Germany
Monday, 13 January⋅19:30 – 21:30
Weekly on Monday, until 29 Mar 2020
Wynstones School, Stroud Road, Whaddon, Gloucester
Description:The Geology of Germany
Monday 13th for 10 weeks (not 17th Feb) until 23rd March. Held at Wynstones School, Stroud Road, Whaddon, Gloucester from 7.30 - 9.30pm on Mondays.
Like Britain, Germany consists of a number of exotic Terranes, derived from different continents and amalgamated together by plate tectonic collisions. Northern Germany is part of Avalonia, which amalgamated with the East European Craton (Baltica) along the Tornquist suture in the east. A great deal of this area is plastered by thick Quaternary glacial sediments.
Central Germany is part of Armorica, which collided with the north during the Variscan orogeny. There is, in places, thick Mesozoic unconformable cover. The extreme south is part of the Alpine orogeny, but its effects were transmitted northwards to affect and reactivate older structures. There was extensive volcanic activity during the Tertiary, and some famous asteroid impact sites.
Cost £75
TUESDAY 14TH
Cardiff University Lecture - Volcanoes—all you need to know!
When
Tue, 14 January, 18:30 – 20:00
Where
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences will be held in the Wallace Lecture Theatre (0.13), Main Building, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT (map)
Description
Volcanoes: from fuming vents to extinction events. Tamsin Mather, Earth Sciences, Oxford
The 2019-2020 monthly Tuesday evening lecture series in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences will be held in the Wallace Lecture Theatre (0.13), Main Building, Cardiff University, Park Place,
Cardiff CF10 3AT. Lectures begin at 18.30. Booking is not needed. Should you require the Q&A sessions to be in Welsh, please email edwardsd2@cardiff.ac.uk at least two weeks before the event.
Did you know that the majority of volcanic eruptions – maybe even 90% – occur under water and of which we are largely unaware? There remains a very great deal we don't know about volcanoes, but many exciting new insights are emerging from ongoing research. This lecture series will encompass the diversity of volcanoes, their functioning and products, together with the nature of eruptions and their attendant problems of predictions plus their ensuing past and present environmental and biological impacts.
WEDNESDAY 15TH
THURSDAY 16TH
Geostudies Lecture - Uniformitarianism
When
Thu, 16 January, 19:30 – 21:30
Where
The Chantry, Thornbury (map)
Description
The Limits of Uniformitarianism.
The science of geology is heavily dependent on the principle of uniformitarianism – the idea that geological conditions and processes have remained substantially unchanged through geological time, meaning that we can interpret the past on the basis of our understanding of the geological present. But how accurate is this principle? To what extent were conditions and processes different in the past? Are present conditions and processes typical? How well do we understand present processes? And there are also spatial features to consider; A casual examination of a modern sedimentary or volcanic environment reveals rapid and wide-ranging changes in facies over a small area. Our evidence of past environments is largely based on small, possibly unrepresentative, exposures of tiny fractions of those past environments. Are we justified in using evidence from the past to interpret the present and future, such as climate change? Held at The Chantry, Thornbury, in the Hanover Room. First meeting 7.30 – 9.30, Thurs 16th January until April 2nd (not Thurs 20th Feb or 19th March). Cost £75
Programme
What do we mean by Uniformitarianism? Origin of the term and the historical context in which it arose and developed as a counter to “Old” Catastrophism.
What are the main problems with Uniformitarianism? The rise of “New” Catastrophism in the later part of the 20th century. Problems of direction, cyclicity, punctuation, gradualism in the following fields of geology:
Uniformitarianism and sedimentation. Have conditions changed over geological time? How representative in terms of coverage and completeness is the sedimentary record?
Uniformitarianism and volcanicity, earthquakes, intrusion and landslides
Uniformitarianism and the solar system – external processes affecting earth geology
Uniformitarianism and major environmental change (such as climate and sea level changes)
Uniformitarianism, evolution and mass extinction
Uniformitarianism and tectonics – was plate tectonics a relatively young development? Is the Wilson (supercontinent) Cycle real?
Geomorphology and Uniformitarianism
Is the present the key to the past? (or in reverse?)
Useful Reading
There is very little in the form of recently published books on the subject, though there are some classic older publications, not issued as e-books:
Berggren and Van Couvering Catastrophism and Earth History – the new uniformitarianism (1984)
C C Albritton Catastrophic Episodes in Earth History (1989)
D V Ager The Nature of the Stratigraphic Record (1993 3rd edition)
DV Ager The New Catastrophism (1993)
Tony Hallam Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities – the causes of mass extinctions (1994)
Richard Huggett Catastrophism (1997 2nd edition)
FRIDAY 17TH
SATURDAY 18TH
sunday 19th
Geostudies Lecture Course - Germany
Monday, 13 January⋅19:30 – 21:30
Weekly on Monday, until 29 Mar 2020
Wynstones School, Stroud Road, Whaddon, Gloucester
Description:The Geology of Germany
Monday 13th for 10 weeks (not 17th Feb) until 23rd March. Held at Wynstones School, Stroud Road, Whaddon, Gloucester from 7.30 - 9.30pm on Mondays.
Like Britain, Germany consists of a number of exotic Terranes, derived from different continents and amalgamated together by plate tectonic collisions. Northern Germany is part of Avalonia, which amalgamated with the East European Craton (Baltica) along the Tornquist suture in the east. A great deal of this area is plastered by thick Quaternary glacial sediments.
Central Germany is part of Armorica, which collided with the north during the Variscan orogeny. There is, in places, thick Mesozoic unconformable cover. The extreme south is part of the Alpine orogeny, but its effects were transmitted northwards to affect and reactivate older structures. There was extensive volcanic activity during the Tertiary, and some famous asteroid impact sites.
Cost £75
Cardiff University Lecture - Volcanoes—all you need to know!
When
Tue, 14 January, 18:30 – 20:00
Where
School of Earth and Ocean Sciences will be held in the Wallace Lecture Theatre (0.13), Main Building, Cardiff University, Park Place, Cardiff CF10 3AT (map)
Description
Volcanoes: from fuming vents to extinction events. Tamsin Mather, Earth Sciences, Oxford
The 2019-2020 monthly Tuesday evening lecture series in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences will be held in the Wallace Lecture Theatre (0.13), Main Building, Cardiff University, Park Place,
Cardiff CF10 3AT. Lectures begin at 18.30. Booking is not needed. Should you require the Q&A sessions to be in Welsh, please email edwardsd2@cardiff.ac.uk at least two weeks before the event.
Did you know that the majority of volcanic eruptions – maybe even 90% – occur under water and of which we are largely unaware? There remains a very great deal we don't know about volcanoes, but many exciting new insights are emerging from ongoing research. This lecture series will encompass the diversity of volcanoes, their functioning and products, together with the nature of eruptions and their attendant problems of predictions plus their ensuing past and present environmental and biological impacts.
Geostudies Lecture - Uniformitarianism
When
Thu, 16 January, 19:30 – 21:30
Where
The Chantry, Thornbury (map)
Description
The Limits of Uniformitarianism.
The science of geology is heavily dependent on the principle of uniformitarianism – the idea that geological conditions and processes have remained substantially unchanged through geological time, meaning that we can interpret the past on the basis of our understanding of the geological present. But how accurate is this principle? To what extent were conditions and processes different in the past? Are present conditions and processes typical? How well do we understand present processes? And there are also spatial features to consider; A casual examination of a modern sedimentary or volcanic environment reveals rapid and wide-ranging changes in facies over a small area. Our evidence of past environments is largely based on small, possibly unrepresentative, exposures of tiny fractions of those past environments. Are we justified in using evidence from the past to interpret the present and future, such as climate change? Held at The Chantry, Thornbury, in the Hanover Room. First meeting 7.30 – 9.30, Thurs 16th January until April 2nd (not Thurs 20th Feb or 19th March). Cost £75
Programme
What do we mean by Uniformitarianism? Origin of the term and the historical context in which it arose and developed as a counter to “Old” Catastrophism.
What are the main problems with Uniformitarianism? The rise of “New” Catastrophism in the later part of the 20th century. Problems of direction, cyclicity, punctuation, gradualism in the following fields of geology:
Uniformitarianism and sedimentation. Have conditions changed over geological time? How representative in terms of coverage and completeness is the sedimentary record?
Uniformitarianism and volcanicity, earthquakes, intrusion and landslides
Uniformitarianism and the solar system – external processes affecting earth geology
Uniformitarianism and major environmental change (such as climate and sea level changes)
Uniformitarianism, evolution and mass extinction
Uniformitarianism and tectonics – was plate tectonics a relatively young development? Is the Wilson (supercontinent) Cycle real?
Geomorphology and Uniformitarianism
Is the present the key to the past? (or in reverse?)
Useful Reading
There is very little in the form of recently published books on the subject, though there are some classic older publications, not issued as e-books:
Berggren and Van Couvering Catastrophism and Earth History – the new uniformitarianism (1984)
C C Albritton Catastrophic Episodes in Earth History (1989)
D V Ager The Nature of the Stratigraphic Record (1993 3rd edition)
DV Ager The New Catastrophism (1993)
Tony Hallam Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities – the causes of mass extinctions (1994)
Richard Huggett Catastrophism (1997 2nd edition)
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