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Programme of Indoor Meetings 2019 - 2020

Wednesday 25 September 2019 at 19:00

Holiday Geology: members' talks

Abstracts

Friday 18 - Sunday 20 October 2019

Geologists' Association GeoConference Conference to be held at the University of Manchester

Conference programme, including field trips, available at the Geologists' Association website

Thursday 14 November 2019 at 18:30 - Joint Meeting with Geological Society NW Branch

Geology and Geodynamics of the Betic Cordilleras, South East Spain - Prof Ernie Rutter

Details here

Refreshments available from 18:00

Saturday 23 November 2019 at 13:30 - The Broadhurst Lectures: The Anthropocene

What is the Anthropocene, when did it start and what is the material and geochemicalevidence? - Prof Colin Waters, Leicester University
Climate in the Anthropocene - Dr Colin Summerhayes, University of Cambridge
The Anthropocene biosphere and its implications for the well-being of all organisms on planet Earth - Prof Mark Williams, Leicester University

Abstracts

Saturday 7 December 2019 at 13:30 - Geotourism

Geotourism/Geoconservation in Mainland Spain - Javier Carmona Carrillo
Lanzarote - A geoconservation island - Prof Cynthia Burek, University of Chester
Small is Beautiful - Dave Cropp, Martley GeoVillage

Abstracts

Saturday 18 January 2020 at 13:30 - Vertebrates: Cambrian to Mesozoic

The Cambrian explosion and the first vertebrate skeletons - Dr Duncan Murdock, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Mesozoic Mammals of the Inner Hebrides and the Birth of the Modern Ecosystem - Dr Elsa Panciroli, University of Oxford
The early evolution of jawed vertebrates: new clues from Mongolia and the Canadian Arctic - Dr Martin Brazeau, Imperial College, London

Abstracts

Wednesday 12 February 2020 at 19:00 - AGM followed by Presidential Address

Living in a greenhouse world: what the Cretaceous can tell us about global warming - Professor Cathy Hollis, MGA President

Abstract

Tuesday 3 March 2020 at 18:30 - Joint Meeting with Manchester Geographical Association

Meeting cancelled.

The speaker is unable to return to the UK in timely fashion due to flight cancellations


Meetings are held in the Lecture Theatre in the Williamson Building, University of Manchester, 176 Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9QQ, unless otherwise stated.

Full details of the speakers and their lecture titles will be circulated nearer the times of the meetings.