2025-2026
All talks for 2025-26 will take place at the Central Teaching Hub of the University of Liverpool, Lecture Theatre C, but please check the LGS Newsletter to make sure there has not been a change of room for a particular meeting. Entrance will be via the main door.
Talks will start at 7.30pm and finish by 9.00pm.
Please be aware that for security reasons, the building manager may lock the main door to stop access from outside at some time after 7.30pm. If you arrive late or are unable to gain access, you may need to contact someone inside the lecture to let you in.
This is a provisional timetable of lectures for 2026-2027 and may be revised.
2026
October 6th
Colonel Martin Amlôt
Presidential address
October 20th
Dr. Janet Richardson, Edge Hill University
The African surface debate, updates from cosmogenic nuclide dating.
October 27th
Professor Andy Biggin, University of Liverpool
‘Huge hot blobs may have made Earth’s magnetic field wonky.’
I will be talking about my group’s latest research into using records of Earth’s magnetic field recovered from continental igneous rocks of all ages to ascertain aspects of global magnetic field behaviour and infer the deep Earth structures and processes giving rise to them. I’ll touch on our latest findings around how fluctuations in the strength of the dominant axial dipole part of the magnetic field are linked to full-blown polarity reversals and how supercontinent-sized structures in the lowermost mantle may be causing deviations from this simple symmetry morphology.
November 17
Professor Peter Styles, Keele University
Kefalonia – a new plate boundary and perhaps the site of Homer’s Ithaca.
December 1st
Dr. Vanessa Banks, BGS
Geohazards in the Peak District.
A review of the natural and anthropogenic geohazards that are encountered in the shallow and deeper near surface geology of the Peak District. The review will embrace around fifteen geohazards including mass movement, karst, flooding, and anthropogenic hazards for example related to mining.
December 15th
Mike Stoddart
Xmas Quiz
Cheese & Wine
2027
January 12th
Members’ Evening
This depends on you volunteering to talk about something that you are interested in, for 10 – 15 minutes.
Without your input – there is no meeting.
Please contact Chris Hunt [ chris1972scfc@outlook.com ]
January 19th
Professor Peter Folkingham, Liverpool John Moores University.
Dinosaur footprints as a window on the past.
February 2nd
Peter Williams, University of Liverpool
Radon – UK’s big geohazard
February 9th
Dr. Joanne Egan, Edge Hill University
Impact and significance of tephra deposition from Mount Mazama and Holocene climate variability in northwest USA.
February 23rd
Dr. Maggie Williams, University of Liverpool
Practical session: Bubbles, lava lamps and density fireworks.
