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.
2026
3rd Mar.
Joaquín Alberto Cortés – Senior lecturer, Edge Hill University.
Birth, life and death of volcanoes; the evolution of magmatic systems”
Just like animals, volcanoes go through a life cycle of birth, growth, decline and finally death; they become extinct. In this presentation, I will introduce, using several example volcanoes from North, South America and even Scotland the different stages of the evolution of an active volcano. From the insights gathered from these examples, I will show that “magma chambers” are not quite what we used to believe they were, and instead they represent dynamic, vertically extensive magmatic systems composed of transient melt lenses, crystal mush zones and interconnected conduits that evolve through time.
