Linn Park – Glasgow’s mini Grand Canyon?
Linn Park Glasgow, United KingdomA short, easy walk along the White Cart Water to explore Linn Park’s geology, landscape and industrial past
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A short, easy walk along the White Cart Water to explore Linn Park’s geology, landscape and industrial past
Professor Peter Doyle
A guided tour of two key localities illustrating the 650 million year old "Snowball Earth" glaciation and a full day visit to the remote north coast of Islay to view the classic stromatolite bioherms in the Bonahaven Dolomite plus some spectacular igneous intrusions and glacial features
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.
