Cryogenian glaciation: the extraordinary Port Askaig record
Online eventA workshop to present the results of an eight-year field programme on a world-class example of the deposits of an ancient ice age
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A workshop to present the results of an eight-year field programme on a world-class example of the deposits of an ancient ice age
Tours of the Fossil House and the quarry and activities for children
The festival will feature visitor and virtual events, including field trips, online exhibitions, fossil hunting and talks.
David Webster
1800 Ma gneiss, Precambrian metasediments and fossil stromatolites, the famous Port Askaig Tillite (possible "Snowball Earth"?), low grade metamorphic Dalradian rocks retaining original sedimentary structures, reactivated and reversed extensional faults, substantial mineralisation, 60 Ma igneous intrusions (opening of the Atlantic Ocean) and a large selection of Quaternary Ice Age features.
Tours of the Fossil House and the quarry and activities for children
Tours of the Fossil House and the quarry and activities for children
Professor Mike Searle, University of Oxford
Tours of the Fossil House and the quarry and activities for children
The AGM will be followed by the December lecture.
Dr Neil Clark, Hunterian Museum (Retiring Presidential Address)
Dr Emrys Phillips, British Geological Survey, Edinburgh
Dr Andrew Finlayson, British Geological Survey, Edinburgh
Noel Williams, Lochaber Geopark
Professor Colin Ballantyne, University of St Andrews
Tours of the Fossil House and the quarry and activities for children
A journey through the magma chamber of an early Palaeogene volcano, with visits to significant localities of igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks
A series of short presentations by society members
