Aberdeen Geological Society

Programme of Lectures 2011-2012

Name Title Date
David lacopini (University of Aberdeen) The geology of Italian Wine (With wine tasting!) Thursday 13th October 2011
John Logel (Talisman Oil and Gas) Shale Gas: What's the fuss all about? Thursday 27th October
Stuart Haszeldine (University of Edinburgh) Carbon capture and storage: will it work for Scotland? Thursday 3rd November
Rob Butler (University of Aberdeen) Continental Collision and How the Crust Deforms: Early ideas from the Scottish Highlands to active deformation in the Himalayas. Thursday 17th November
Steven Andrews (CASP) Red Rocks in a Green Land Thursday 15th December : Christmas Lecture and Party
Peter Cawood (University of St. Andrews) Making Mountains - Drivers and Consequences Thursday 9th February 2012
Simon Cuthbert (University of Western Scotland) Eclogites and their Kin: Messengers from the Deep Earth Thursday 23rd February
Tony Prave (University of St. Andrews) Neoproterozoic Earth history as written in the Highlands Thursday 8th March
Graham Leslie (BGS) Highland thrust tectonics reviewed in a digital world- would Peach and Horne approve? Thursday 19th April
Jan Zalasiewicz (University of Leicester) The Anthropocene: a new epoch of geological time Thursday 26th April (New Date)
Tom Bradwell (BGS) What happened to the last British lce Sheet: New evidence from offshore Northern Scotland Thursday 3rd May

AGM, Travelogues and Rock Sale Thursday 17th May
Lectures take place in Lecture Theatre 4 of the Meston Building, Kings College, University of Aberdeen unless otherwise stated, at 6:30pm. Join us from 5:30pm for tea and coffee in the Map Room of the Department of Geology & Petroleum Geology, Meston Building.
Please download a PDF poster of the programme and display it somewhere prominent at your place of work!!