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WINTER LECTURE PROGRAMME 2010/2011 Lectures are held in the William Smith Building, Keele University The committee invites you to join them for a meal at 6pm in the COMUS restaurant (01782 734121) to entertain the speaker before each lecture (except the AGM and Christmas Social). Please make your own booking with the restaurant mentioning that you wish to join the NSGGA party. The cost is approximately £9 for a two-‐course meal not including wine or coffee. Thursday 14th October 19:30 ‘The genesis and evolution of sulphate evaporites in the Midlands’ Speaker: Dr. Noel Worley (Saint-‐Gobain) Evaporites are economically important industrial minerals and are essential sources of raw materials for not only manufacturing a wide range of goods but also to sustain life. The United Kingdom is fortunate to have World Class evaporite resources the most important of which formed during the Triassic Period. Triassic rocks underlie most of the Midlands and contain the most important of the sulphate evaporite deposits, gypsum and anhydrite. The latter have become the source of some of the attractive alabasters for which the deposits in the Dove and Trent Valley are famous. Thursday 18th November 19:30 The Tenth Wolverson Cope Lecture: ‘Permian Extinctions: death by fire’ Speaker Professor Paul Wignall (University of Leeds) The talk will centre on the two mass extinctions in the Permian and their relationship with the eruption of giant volcanic provinces. The older event, in the Middle Permian, is little known and associated with huge, shallow marine eruptions in South China. The younger event, at the end of the Permian, was the biggest in the history of life and coincided with the Siberian Traps eruptions. Thursday 9 December at 19:00 Christmas Social with talk on Eyjafjallajökull eruption in Iceland by Dr Peter Floyd The buffet will be £10 per person including wine, please book on the attached flyer by post enclosing the necessary payment by Friday 19th November. Thursday 13th January at 19:30 ‘Bio-‐geochemical cycles; Bugs, bogs and labs’
by Dr Rebecca Bartlett (Birmingham University) Thursday 10th February at 19:30 ‘Coal bed methane’ by Professor Peter Styles (Keele University) Thursday 10th March at 19:00 AGM and Chairman’s Address.
‘British Earthquakes’ by Dr Ian Stimpson (Keele University)
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FIELD REPORT A September Evening Trip to the Apedale Gallery Section of the Apedale Mine Tuesday 7th September 2010: Leader: Les Mason The NSGGA was offered the exclusive opportunity of visiting the newly opened gallery, not open to the general public. On view was the blackband ironstone, bitumen coal and fire clay within the Apedale fault.
Entrance to new drift No7 (David Osborn)
Going down No 4 drift. (David Osborn)
Blackband Ironstone Roof (Bob Fletcher)
Walking down the drift (Bob Fletcher)
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Lower part of the upper coal seam viewed, with the clay seat earth below (Bob Fletcher)
The steep tilt of the lower coal seam navigated. This is currently being 'worked' on a small scale. (Bob Fletcher)
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OTHER SOCIETIES Black Country Geological Society Indoor Meetings at the Dudley Museum & Art Gallery, St James's Road, Dudley Monday 18 October @ 20:00 Is Man's role in Climate Change significant? Colin Knipe (Senior
Partner, Johnson, Poole & Bloomer). Monday 29 November @ 19:00 BCGS Members' Evening and Christmas Social. More details at www.bcgs.info East Midlands Geological Society Lectures in B3, Biology Building of the University of Nottingham Saturday 23 October @ 18.30 Going Underground: In search of the coal forests by Howard
Falcon-‐Lang Saturday 20 November @ 18.30 The Jurassic Coast: a walk through time by Sam Scriven Saturday 11 December @ 18:00 The Earth After Us by Jan Zalasiewicz Saturday 15 January @ 18:00 Britain in the Freezer -‐ a long-‐term perspective of Quaternary Ice
Ages by Jon Lee Saturday 12 February @ 18:00 The last 50 years of mineral exploration in Britain by Tim Colman Saturday 12 March @ 18:30 Multiphase in Volcanoes by Barry Azzopardi Saturday 16 April @ 18:30 Members' Evening More details at www.emgs.org.uk East Midlands Regional Group of the Geological Society Lectures Tuesday 5 October @ 18.30 Geology and Human Health. Mark Cave (BGS). Room OL2 (off the
Atrium), Kedleston Road campus, Derby University Tuesday 19 October @ 19:00 Opencast Backfill: A Beginner's Guide. Sam Wood. Meeting
Room 1, British Geological Survey, Keyworth Monday 6 December @ 19:00 Challenged by Carbon: the oil industry and climate change. Dr
Bryan Lovell (Cambridge University) Rattray Lecture Theatre, University of Leicester
More details at http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/groups/regional/emrg Liverpool Geological Society Lectures 19.30 James Parsons Building, Liverpool John Moores University, Byrom Street, Liverpool Tuesday 12 October Presidential Address by Mike Collins and the AGM. Tuesday 26 October Geology and Scenery of NW Scotland by Joe Crossley. Tuesday 16 November Land of Ice and Fire -‐ Iceland 2010 by Alan Thompson and Chris
Hunt. Tuesday 30 November Do It Yourself Geological Quiz and Cheese & Wine. Tuesday 18 January Lecture Meeting TBA. Tuesday 8 February The Distinguished Visitor's Address by Richard Fortey. Tuesday 22 February Does the answer lie in the rocks? By Rick Brassington. Tuesday 25 February Annual Society Dinner at The Mandarin Chinese Restaurant,
Victoria Street, Liverpool. Tuesday 22 March Distinguished Member's Address by Professor Tony Harris. More details at liverpoolgeologicalsociety.org.uk
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Manchester Geological Association Lectures: (Variable start times in the Williamson Building, Oxford Road, Manchester) Wednesday 13th October @19:00 Meteorites, Stardust and the Early Solar System. Professor Jamie
Gilmour (University of Manchester) Saturday 13th November @ 10:30 The Broadhurst Lectures: Jurassic Seas, Jurassic Skies
Burrowing Bivalves and Shuffling Shrimps: What can trace fossils tell us about the sediments in the Jurassic? Dr. Peter Hardy (University of Bristol) Feeding Habits of Jurassic Ichthyosaurs and Sharks. Dr. John Pollard (University of Manchester) Breathing New Life into Old Bones: bringing plesiosaurs to life. Dr. Leslie Noè (Universities of Birmingham and Cambridge) Airborne in the Jurassic: Pterosaurs diversify. Dr. Dave Martill (University of Portsmouth) The Life of Archaeopteryx. Dr. Derek Yalden (University of Manchester)
Saturday 11th December @ 13:30 The Quaternary of the North West. New Insights into the pre Late Devensian Succession of East Cheshire Professor Peter Worsley (University of Reading) The last Ice Sheet and later Glaciers in Wales: Timings, Extents and associated Palaeoclimates. Dr. Phil Hughes (University of Manchester) Moraines and Outwash Plains: A Re-‐assessment of the late Devensian in South Lancashire, Merseyside and Greater Manchester. Dr. Dick Crofts (British Geological Survey) Glacial Lake Deposits and Reconstructing Deglaciation in Northwest England. Dr. Cathy Delaney (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Saturday 15 January To be announced Wednesday 16 February @ 19:00 AGM followed by Presidential Address Dr. Tony Adams
(University of Manchester) Wednesday 9 March @ 18:30 Geohazards. Dr. Jeff Blackford (University of Manchester) Joint
Meeting with the Geographical Association More Details at www.mangeolassoc.org.uk North West Regional Group of the Geological Society Lectures Wednesday 13 October @ 18:30 Re-‐Run of the 50th Rankine Lecture: Stiffness at small strain -‐
research and practice. Prof. Chris Clayton (Southampton University) The Renold Building, Manchester University
Thursday 4 November @ 18:30 Coal Bed Methane Extraction – Warrington and the Wirral. Brent Cheshire (Technical Director -‐ IGas Energy plc) The Centre Lecture Theatre, Warrington
Thursday 25 November @ 18:30 Discovery of the Reko Diq porphyry copper – gold system in Pakistan. Tim Livesey (Director, Drilling Support & Technology; Exploration Manager, Eurasia -‐ Barrick Gold) Williamson Lecture Theatre, University of Manchester
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Thursday 9 December @ 18:30 The use of Electrokinetics in ground improvement and slope stabilisation. John Lamont-‐Black (Operations Director – Electrokinetic Ltd) Williamson Lecture Theatre, University of Manchester
Thursday 13 January @ 18:30 Quiz Night and AGM. TBC Thursday 20 January @ 18:30 Your Continued Professional Development and route to
Chartership. Bill Gaskarth (Chartership Officer – Geological Society of London) TBC
Thursday 10 February @ 18:30 Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) -‐ Firth of Forth. Steve Walters (Director – Thornton New Energy Ltd / BGC Energy Ltd) Williamson Lecture Theatre, University of Manchester
Thursday 10 March @ 18:30 First Street remediation and redevelopment, Manchester. Kate Canning (Senior Engineer -‐ Arup). The Centre Lecture Theatre, Warrington
Thursday 7 April @ 18:30 New Zealand Slope Stability and Highway Failures. Jonathan Cahm (Principal Geotechnical Engineer – Opus International) TBC
Thursday 5 May @ 18:30 Advances in Hydrogeology. Prof. Jonathan Smith (Shell Global Solutions). The Centre Lecture Theatre, Warrington
Thursday 9 June @ 18:30 Manchester Metrolink Extension. TBC (Jacobs) Williamson Lecture Theatre, University of Manchester
More details at www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/groups/regional/nwrg Shropshire Geological Society Fieldtrips: Saturday 16 October (morning Rockhop meeting, commencing 10.00 am):
Stiperstones, to be led by Andrew Jenkinson Saturday 20 November (morning Rockhop meeting, commencing 10.00 am): Shrewsbury
Abbey, to be led by David Pannett Saturday 18 December (morning Rockhop meeting, commencing 10.00 am):
Haughmond Hill, to be led by Mary Steer Lectures: (7.30 Shire Hall, Shrewsbury) Wednesday 13 October Robert Townson (1766-‐1826): an all too long forgotten Salopian
by Prof. Hugh Torrens (Keele University). In the Morris Hall, Bellstone Court, Shrewsbury
Wednesday 10 November Glacial geology. Dr Simon Cook (Aberystwyth University) Wednesday 8 December @ 19:00 AGM and Projects Update. Andrew Jackson Wednesday 12 January Shropshire Unconformities. Dr Peter Toghill Wednesday 9 February Longmyndian fossils. Alex Liu (University of Oxford) Wednesday 9 March Stone. Dr Ian Thomas (Director of the National Stone Centre) More details at www.shropshiregeology.org.uk/SGS/SGSintro.html
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Warwickshire Geological Conservation Group Lectures 19:30 at the Senior Citizen's Club, Southbank Road, Kenilworth, CV8 1JZ Wednesday 15 September Tenerife Volcanoes by Brian Ellis Wednesday 20 October Annual General Meeting plus Conservation: where we've been
and where we're going by Ian Fenwick Thursday 4 November Lead Mining in the Peak District by Paul Chandler Wednesday 15 December Christmas soireé with members displays and rock samples More details at www.wgcg.co.uk West Midlands Regional Group of the Geological Society Monday 25 October @ 20:00 Is Man's Role in Climate Change Significant? Colin Knipe (JPB)
Dudley Museum, St James Road, Dudley Tuesday 9 November @ 18:30 Severn Valley Railway Landslides and Flood Damage 2007:
Investigation, Design and Repair. Julian Hughes (GIP Ltd) Wolverhampton University, Room MC001, School of Applied Sciences, Wulfruna St, Wolverhampton
Tuesday 14 December @ 18:30 Urban Groundwater Recharge and AGM. Rae MacKay Birmingham University, Dome Lecture Theatre, Geology Department
Tuesday 11 January @ 19:00 Chartership Guidance Meeting. TBA. Old Joint Stock pub, Temple Row, Birmingham City Centre
More details at www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/groups/regional/wmrg Western Institute of Mining and Minerals Lectures 19:00 at the William Smith Building, Keele University Monday 4 October Opportunities for Renewable Energy in the Built Environment.
Mark Bedford (Wardell Armstrong LLP) Monday 1 November Marine Renewable Energy: concept to connection. Emma
Toulson (Parsons Brinkerhoff) Monday 6 December Mining and London. Dr Chris Broadbent (Wardell Armstrong LLP) Monday 7 February Tailings Dam Remediation Scheme and Electron Micro analysis of
Tailings, Mauritania. Dr Richard White (CERAM) & Christine Blackmore (Wardell Armstrong LLP)
Monday 7 March Forensic Geoscience: How to find a dead body? Dr Jamie Pringle (Keele University)
Monday 9 May Kellingley YZ502`s Coal Face Project. Wyn Griffith (UK Coal)
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NSGGA -‐ Next Committee Meeting Wednesday 24 November @ 19:00 In the William Smith Building, Keele University Contacts List: NSGGA Committee 2010-‐11 Chairman: Dr Ian Stimpson
24 Sorrell Gardens, Newcastle-‐under-‐Lyme, ST5 3FA Tel. 077790 83243 e-‐mail; [email protected]
Vice-‐chairman: David Osborn Stretton, 2 Croyde Place, Meir Park, Stoke-‐on-‐Trent, ST3 7XD. Tel 01782 336692 email: [email protected]
General Secretary: Eileen Fraser, 47 Longdown Road, Congleton, Cheshire CW12 4QH Tel. 01260 271505 email: [email protected]
Treasurer: Brenda Kay, 9 Copthorne Drive, Audlem, Crewe, Cheshire, CW3 0EQ Tel. 01270 811650 email: [email protected]
Membership Sec.: Mike Brown, 6 Spring Close, Rode Heath, Stoke-‐on-‐Trent ST7 3TQ Tel. 01270 878130 email: [email protected]
Speakers Sec: Dr Bob Fletcher, 40 Oaklands, Guilden Sutton, Chester, CH3 7HE Tel. 01244 300705 email: [email protected]
Field Sec.: Nick Hulley 3 Honeysuckle Close, Upper Tean, Staffs, ST10 4LZ Tel. 01538 722017 email: [email protected]
RIGS Liaison Officer: Dr Richard Waller, 2 Bunts Lane, Stockton Brook, Stoke-‐on-‐Trent, ST9 9PR Tel. 01782 505282 email: [email protected]
Bulletin Sec.: Dr Ian Stimpson, 24 Sorrell Gardens, Newcastle-‐under-‐Lyme, ST5 3FA Tel. 077790 83243 e-‐mail; [email protected]
Executive Committee (honorary): Dr. Colin Exley; Terry Jones; David Thompson; Ted Watkin.
Honorary Life Member: Ann Myatt Executive Committee (elected):
Dr Lloyd Boardman; Dr Peter Floyd; Janet Osborn (Minutes Secretary); Gerald Ford; Vicky Tunstall (John Myers Awards); Elizabeth Hallam, Carol Fereday; Mike Fereday
Executive Committee (co-‐opted): Don Steward, John Reynolds
Why not visit the NSGGA web pages: www.esci.keele.ac.uk/nsgga
Produced for the NSGGA by Ian G. Stimpson, Earth Sciences & Geography, Keele University, Staffs, ST5 5BG