Event Reminder: The Geology of Islay and Whisky, Wednesday 9th February
Wednesday 9th February at 7.30pm on zoom
Dr. David Webster
Meeting ID: 811 2888 6128 Passcode: 050739
The Islay archipelago has a great variety of geology: 2-billion-year old gneisses of the Rhinns Complex, a lightly metamorphosed late-Precambrian sedimentary succession including rocks deposited by ice during the time of a ‘Snowball Earth’, lead mines, and igneous rocks from the Silurian, Carboniferous and Palaeocene. Pleistocene glacial features abound and a recent archaeological dig has found evidence of probably the earliest human occupation of Scotland with ice-age hunters living on Islay some 12,000 years ago. Oh, and we have some nice whiskies too –many with geological stories to tell.
Zoom Details: Icelandic Plume, Wednesday 12th January 2022
Wednesday 12th January at 7.30pm on Zoom
Professor Nicky White, Cambridge University
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Meeting ID: 860 6628 3204
Passcode: 069868
Event Reminder: Icelandic Plume, Wednesday 12th January 2022
Icelandic Plume
Professor Nicky White, Cambridge University
All meetings at 7.30 and are on zoom unless otherwise indicated
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Postponed: Members’ Evening, Wednesday 15th December 2021
With the emergence of a new Covid variant, advice from scientists most concerned with the pandemic, and concern about the nature of the venue has led to the Council having to consider whether it was better to postpone such a meeting until a more appropriate time. Consequently, after consultation it was decided that the Members’ Evening on 15 December is POSTPONED.
Event Reminder: Lake Sediments & flooding, with particular reference to Cumbria, Wednesday 10th November 2021
Wednesday 10th November at 7.30pm on Zoom
Dr Schillereff, Lecturer in Physical Geography, Kings College London
Lake Sediments & flooding, with particular reference to Cumbria
Zoom Meeting Information
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Meeting ID: 886 6258 1891
Passcode: 4365649
In this talk, Daniel will explore how sediment cores extracted from multiple Cumbrian lakes can shed new light on flood frequency and magnitude over the last 1500 years. Daniel will review the physical processes which enable lakes to record sedimentary signatures of past floods, illustrate the value of these datasets in extending flood histories beyond conventional instrumental data from river gauging stations and outline what these sedimentary flood reconstructions can (and cannot yet) tell us about past, current and future trends in flooding across northwest England.
