Clyde and Avon Valley Geology Exhibition meeting
Image GalleryMembers of the public are invited to join a meeting in New Lanark to find out more about the forthcoming Clyde and Avon Valley Geology Exhibition.
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Members of the public are invited to join a meeting in New Lanark to find out more about the forthcoming Clyde and Avon Valley Geology Exhibition.
Professor Lorna Dawson, Head of Forensic Soil Science, The James Hutton Institute, Aberdeen
The Scottish Geodiversity Forum has worked with partners to revise and update Scotland’s Geodiversity Charter. The renewed charter will be launched at this conference.
Join Ann Ainsworth, Glasgow Museums' Curator of Geology, to take a closer look at some of the fossil fish found in Scotland.
Professor Stephen Daly, University College Dublin
Dr Simon Cuthbert, University of the West of Scotland
Ann Ainsworth, Glasgow Museums' Curator of Geology, will explain how the Ice Age woolly mammoth survived life in the cold.
Dr Roger Anderton
Professor Bob Holdsworth, Durham University/Geospatial Research (Joint Celebrity Lecture with Edinburgh Geological Society, to be held in Edinburgh)
Dr Nick Tosca, Oxford University
Dr Tony Spencer
We will examine a range of rocks within the Hebridean Terrane, ranging from Archaean gneisses of the Lewisian Complex and the overlying Proterozoic sedimentary rocks of the Torridonian Supergroup through to glacial deposits of the Pleistocene epoch.
A series of short oral presentations by society members, followed by desktop presentations, nibbles and drinks
We will be looking at several sites around the park, including the area around the now disused barite mine, and considering aspects of our industrial geological heritage.
We will continue our exploration of Glen Lednock and will visit the Comrie pluton to examine the igneous rocks themselves and their contact relations with the country rocks.
We will examine Devonian volcanic and sedimentary rocks (perhaps including the source of the Stone of Destiny) and look at a variety of building stones in Perth City.
Why not escape to Arran this summer & learn about its fascinating geology? This geology course gives you the chance to do just that. Suitable for beginners or those who understand a little but would like to know a lot more.
The opencast coal site at Spireslack in East Ayrshire delivers a unique and stunning geological exposure of the Carboniferous. BGS is working closely with the Scottish Mines Restoration Trust to find ways of restoring the site to deliver a unique, natural rock laboratory for industry and university training and research.
This tour will take you behind the scenes of extremely rare isotope metrology at SUERC to illustrate the complexity and effort involved in making precise and accurate measurement of isotopes in minerals and rocks.
Beecraigs visitor centre (dyke and Carboniferous Limestone); Cairnpapple Hill and the Knock (lavas, sill, limestone and mineralization) via Witch Craig geology wall; Petershill Reserve (fossiliferous reef limestone); East Kirkton quarry (time permitting) (oil shales and limestones).
