© Liverpool Geological Society
Founded 1859
Registered Charity No: 500067
LIVERPOOL
GEOLOGICAL
SOCIETY
159th Session
All indoor meetings at 7.30pm in
Lecture Theatre 137 of Liverpool
John Moores University, Byrom
Street L3 3AF unless otherwise
stated.
Campus map of LJMU - please click
to get one you can read! The
meeting is in the City Campus (1)
The building map is here:
Go in the main entrance - up to the
first floor - and all the way along the
corridors towards the James Parsons
Tower . At the end of the corridor is
the Lecture Theatre.
Hon. Excursions Sec.: Maggie Williams
email: williams.maggiee@gmail.com
Refreshments will be served
at the front of the lecture
theatre prior to the lecture.
Speakers’ Sec.: C. Hunt
email: chris1972scfc@outlook.com
October 24
Dr Janine Kavanagh
University of Liverpool
Mechanisms of Igneous
Intrusion
“Almost 50 year ago, the LGS and the University of Liverpool hosted a Symposium entitled ‘Mechanism of Igneous Intrusion’, with over 200 attendees and attracting the lead researchers in the field from around the world. Proceedings from the symposium were published in a book with the same name, focusing on magma intrusive processes from their initiation, ascent and emplacement. The now famous ‘orange book’ still has its place on the bookshelves of eminent researchers across Geosciences, and contains what have now become the foundations of today’s models of magma intrusion. In this talk I will review the advances in igneous intrusion models that have been made over the past 50 years, and describe some new exciting developments in the field.”November 7
Members Evening:
Keith Nicholls
“I will present a series of thin sections of the Hirnant Limestone (Bala)
recovered from the Sedgwick Museum. I will give the briefest of introductions
to the geological background of the HL and how I came across the slides.”
Chris Hunt
The Nov 2016 New Zealand Earthquake
Landslips, cows, tsunami, faults; definitely no whales; and fantasy?Philip Firth
Volcano tour of Indonesia in 2016
Indonesia is made up of an archipelago of islands that extends for over 5000 km from east to west. Indonesia also has the greatest number and density of active volcanoes on the planet, some capable of producing particularly explosive and deadly eruptions, for example the Tambora eruption in 1815 (the largest known eruption during historical times, "the year without summer"). This presentation will describe my two month and 4000 km volcano tour of the Indonesian islands of Flores, Sumbawa, Lombok, Bali Java and Sumatra in 2016 making use of photographs taken on route.November 21
Joint Meeting with the Herdman Society
at University of Liverpool
Dr Roger Suthren
University of Derby
Geology of Wine – Languedoc, France (With samples) this meeting will be by ticket.November 28
Patrizia Onnis
Liverpool John Moores University
The geology of Sardinia: from the edge of the Gondwana to the center of the Mediterranean Sea Geologically Sardinia is a complicated "puzzle" of limestone, granite and basalt stretched and compressed during the geological time. The geological map looks really colorful and each Sardinia region tells us a story of endogenetic strengths smoothed by a continuous weathering. Starting from the edge of the Gondwana, it moved with the Iberian and Eurasian plates taking part in the Pyrenese Alpine and Apennine orogenese. In this talk I want to take you on a trip to Sardinia, stopping in some wonderful places which reveal to us key clues to solve this geological puzzle.December 5
Dr Maggie Williams
Prof Jim Marshall
Practical Session Central Teaching Laboratory, University of LiverpoolDecember 12
Hazel Clark
Quiz – Cheese & Wine
January 9
Dr Lis Rushworth
University of Liverpool
Early ManJanuary 23
Dr Tim Lane
Liverpool John Moores University
Greenlandic ice cap behaviour during the last millenniumFebruary 6
Dr Pat Byrne
Liverpool John Moores University
River PollutionFebruary 17
Herdman SymposiumFebruary 20
Prof Richard Chiverrell
University of Liverpool
Lake SedimentsMarch 6
Distinguished Visitor’s Address
Prof Derek Siveter
Oxford University
'Exceptional Cambrian fossils, the flowering of early animal life, and world heritage in Yunnan'March 13
DinnerMarch 20
TBA
© Liverpool Geological Society
Liverpool Geological
Society
159 th session
Registered Charity No: 500067
October 24
Dr Janine Kavanagh
University of Liverpool
Mechanisms of Igneous Intrusion
“Almost 50 year ago, the LGS and the University of Liverpool hosted a Symposium entitled ‘Mechanism of Igneous Intrusion’, with over 200 attendees and attracting the lead researchers in the field from around the world. Proceedings from the symposium were published in a book with the same name, focusing on magma intrusive processes from their initiation, ascent and emplacement. The now famous ‘orange book’ still has its place on the bookshelves of eminent researchers across Geosciences, and contains what have now become the foundations of today’s models of magma intrusion. In this talk I will review the advances in igneous intrusion models that have been made over the past 50 years, and describe some new exciting developments in the field.”November 7
Members Evening:
Keith Nicholls
“I will present a series of thin sections of the Hirnant Limestone
(Bala) recovered from the Sedgwick Museum. I will give the briefest
of introductions to the geological background of the HL and how I
came across the slides.”
Chris Hunt
The Nov 2016 New Zealand Earthquake
Landslips, cows, tsunami, faults; definitely no whales; and fantasy?Philip Firth
Volcano tour of Indonesia in 2016
Indonesia is made up of an archipelago of islands that extends for over 5000 km from east to west. Indonesia also has the greatest number and density of active volcanoes on the planet, some capable of producing particularly explosive and deadly eruptions, for example the Tambora eruption in 1815 (the largest known eruption during historical times, "the year without summer"). This presentation will describe my two month and 4000 km volcano tour of the Indonesian islands of Flores, Sumbawa, Lombok, Bali Java and Sumatra in 2016 making use of photographs taken on route.November 21
Joint Meeting with the Herdman Society
at University of Liverpool
Dr Roger Suthren
University of Derby
Geology of Wine – Languedoc, France (With samples) this meeting will be by ticket.November 28
Patrizia Onnis
Liverpool John Moores University
The geology of Sardinia: from the edge of the Gondwana to the center of the Mediterranean Sea Geologically Sardinia is a complicated "puzzle" of limestone, granite and basalt stretched and compressed during the geological time. The geological map looks really colorful and each Sardinia region tells us a story of endogenetic strengths smoothed by a continuous weathering. Starting from the edge of the Gondwana, it moved with the Iberian and Eurasian plates taking part in the Pyrenese Alpine and Apennine orogenese. In this talk I want to take you on a trip to Sardinia, stopping in some wonderful places which reveal to us key clues to solve this geological puzzle.December 5
Dr Maggie Williams
Prof Jim Marshall
Practical Session Central Teaching Laboratory, University of LiverpoolDecember 12
Hazel Clark
Quiz – Cheese & Wine
January 9
Dr Lis Rushworth
University of Liverpool
Early ManJanuary 23
Dr Tim Lane
Liverpool John Moores University
Greenlandic ice cap behaviour during the last millenniumFebruary 6
Dr Pat Byrne
Liverpool John Moores University
River PollutionFebruary 17
Herdman SymposiumFebruary 20
Prof Richard Chiverrell
University of Liverpool
Lake SedimentsMarch 6
Distinguished Visitor’s Address
Prof Derek Siveter
Oxford University
'Exceptional Cambrian fossils, the flowering of early animal life, and world heritage in Yunnan'March 13
DinnerMarch 20
TBA
