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Newsletter - March 2006
Dear Member,
At the AGM in February the Council was re-elected with a few changes. David Handley has stepped down from his role of Treasurer and was warmly thanked for his hard work over the past few years, Niall Clarke has taken over the books. Ron Powell and Joyce Little have left the Council. Derek Brumhead was appointed as official Archivist and Christine Arkwright endorsed as our second Vice President. All the other Officers gave their reports, were thanked and re-elected - see the Who's Who page.
Our President John Price gave us “A Layman’s View of Archaeopteryx”. Personally I think that it should have been called “Chemist’s View of Feathers”. Click here to read a summary of John's talk.
The indoor programme still has 2 meetings to go before we venture out into the field. Jim Spencer has arranged an extra lecture on May 10th so that we can hear about “Volcanism in Alaska” before Dr. Diana Roman goes back to the States. Click here to access lecture notes for our programme of Indoor Meetings.
Jane Michael has arranged a very full programme of Outdoor Activities for us this season - see the Outdoor Events page. It is essential to book with Jane if you intend to go on any of these; there are very few places left on the Skye trip.
Manchester University CCE has some interesting geological courses and geological walks, open to all, this spring - see lower down.
The RIGS group are holding an Open Morning at Stockport Library on Saturday 29th April. Please support them if you can and take your geological friends. For details see the Other Events page.
The North West Geologist The Council and contributors were all very disappointed in the quality of reproduction of the NW Geologist, therefore last year’s edition is being reprinted and will come out with the next edition.
The Horrocks Fund is a substantial literary legacy, from a well known northern, physical geographer, Norman K. Horrocks. Norman was a Senior Geography Master at Central Grammar School, Manchester and the author of a standard Physical Geography and Climatology textbook.
A donation from the Horrocks Fund was used recently to support a display of cobbles at Knutsford Heritage Centre - click here to read about this.
The Fund still has money available to support geological projects and we would be delighted to receive requests for grants to support their implementation. If you know of any efforts that need financial support, get in touch with our Secretary, Michael Aiers, it’s not doing much good sitting in the bank!
Now I’m looking forward to some warm weather and getting out in the field to enjoy this year’s very full excursion programme. See you there folks!
Mary Howie newsletter editor
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Niall Clarke went to the Herdman Symposium in Liverpool and made notes of some very interesting lectures. Click here to read his summary.**************************************
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More Holiday Geology:- Stone Detectives: A geological trail for Conwy Town, by Dr Rob Crossley (N Wales GA) and published by RIGS Wales. Visitors to N Wales could spend a most interesting half-day following this excellent (and free!) trail round many varied geological features in Conwy's historic buildings. With 34 locations, including the 13th century castle and its walls, Aberconwy House, the Civic Hall, the famous river bridges and the Police Station, the trail explains why the early buildings were built of local rocks and how the development of transport allowed rocks from further afield to be incorporated into later structures. The Castle and Town Walls are built on a weather resistant, steeply dipping sandstone ridge which was extensively quarried to build them. The space created was filled with assorted debris which now underlies the town! Look on our web site for a photo of the Conwy Rhyolite found on the north west side of the town. A practical exercise with your compass/clinometer quickly reveals that this strata is folded - a consequence of the sinestral N-S slip-fault (having a displacement of over 1 km) beneath the Conwy estuary. I have a few copies of the trail for anyone who is interested. Fred Owen |
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Courses for the Public at Manchester University -
Spring 2006 A Practical Guide to Fossils for Beginners - John Pollard 4 Wednesdays from 1.30 pm to 3.30 pm, starting May 10th at the University Geological Walks on Thursday Evenings 6.30 pm - 8.30 pm 11th May - Geology of Park Bridge, Oldham - Christine Arkwright 25th May - Geology of Deeply Dale, Bury - Paul Aplin 8th June - Rocks and Ore at Alderley Edge - Alison Scott 15th June - Geology & Scenery of Lantern Pike, Hayfield - Paul Aplin 22nd June - Geology & Landscape of The Roaches - Kevin Stephen 29th June - Geology & Landscape of Lyme Park - Elaine Walker A look at the lower part of Poynton Village - Basil Jeuda Saturday 13th May 1.30 pm - 3.30 pm - a walk around the mining history of the Poynton Coal Field Out and About - Geology - in Manchester, Macclesfield, Mam Tor & Castleton Wednesdays (daytime) 7th, 14th and 21st June - Alison Scott, Christine Arkwright and Paul Aplin Armchair Tourism - three separate Day Schools which combine art, literature and geology on Tuesdays: 4th July: The Lake District; 11th July: Whitby and Thursday 13th July: North Wales To book on these courses and for further details please contact Alison Scott at the Manchester University CCE Department Tel 0161 275 5592 ~ email to alison.scott@manchester.ac.uk Alternatively ring 0161 275 3275 or email cce.reception@manchester.ac.uk, or see the web site www.manchester.ac.uk/continuingeducation for a CCE brochure with these and many other fascinating courses open to the public |
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Phossils (sic)
"Some Trilobites have large eyes to enable them to escape from their creditors"
"The Trilobites that did not have eyes were, very appropriately, described as blind"
John Price gave me a book of Geological Howlers - more next time. Ed.
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Events Elsewhere
MGA members are welcome as guests at events of the following societies. Ring the contact given for details of times and places and to book in, or look at their web sites via our 'Links' page.**************************************
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