Aberdeen Geological Society

Programme of Lectures 2009-2010

Name Title Date
Dr Alex Fordham. Chevron, Aberdeen. Double Negative Makes a Positive: Sedimentology Inside an Artwork Thursday 15th October 2009
Dr Ken McCaffrey. University of Durham. Laser Scanning: Lighting Up the Rocks. Thursday 22nd October
Dr Nick Fraser. Royal Museums Scotland. The Birth of the Modern World: Terrestrial Life in the Late Triassic. Thursday 12th November
Dr Ian Alsop. University of Aberdeen. Salt of the Earth. Thursday 19th November
Helen Plumb. Just Gems. Diamonds and All That Glitters. Thursday 10th December: Christmas Lecture and Party
Dr Simon Gould. Ithaca Energy. The Beatrice Field; How 165 Million Year Old Rocks Can Change Over 30 Years. Thursday 21st January 2010
Prof John Underhill. Edinburgh University. The Geological, Geomorphological and Geophysical Evidence for Relocating Odysseus’ Homeland, Ancient Ithaca. Thursday 4th February
Dr Tony Prave. St Andrews University. Neoproterozoic Earth History as Recorded in the Scottish and Irish Highlands. Thursday 25th February
Prof Richard Aldridge. Leicester University. The Dawn of the Vertebrates: Cambrian Enigmas, Conodonts and Boneless Fishes. Thursday 18th March
Prof Nigel Trewin. University of Aberdeen. Hugh Miller the Geologist. Thursday 29th April

AGM, Travelogues and Rock Sale Thursday 6th May
Lectures take place in Lecture Theatre 1 of the Meston Building, University of Aberdeen at 6:30pm Join us from 5:30pm for tea and coffee in the Staff Common Room of the Department of Geology & Petroleum Geology, up the stairs from Lecture Theatre 1
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