Charnia - the newsletter of Section C

Three issues of 'Charnia' - Section C's newsletter - are published annually and circulated to all members. A selection of articles that have been published in the newsletter can be accessed here:

Charnia Editorial (May 2011)

On the trail of large glacial erratics in and near Leicestershire by Helen Boynton (May 2011)

Extract of January 2011 Charnia includes editorial by Andrew Swift, Glebe Quarry report by Helen Jones, Collections at risk and A short history of the Geology Museum of the Wigan and District Mining and Technical College by Dennis Gamble and an obituary for Alan Dawn 1923 - 2010

Leicester's extractive industries (October 2010)

Editorial (October 2010)

Chairman's Report for 2009-10, given to the AGM on March 24th 2010, Joanne Norris (May 2010)

Report on Plate Tectonics Seminar (May 2010)

Editorial (May 2010)

Editorial (January 2010)

Editorial (September 2009)

Chairman's Report for 2008-9, given to the AGM on March 25th 2009, Joanne Norris (May 2009)

Editorial (May 2009)

Christmas Meeting at New Walk Museum, December 2008 (January 2009)

Report of the Festival of Geology event, 1st November 2008, Joanne Norris (January 2009)

Editorial (January 2009)

Editorial (September 2008)

Ring Quarry by Trevor D. Ford (September 2008)

Chairman's Report for 2007-8, given to the AGM on March 26th 2008, Joanne Norris (Spring 2008)

Early hominins in Britain, Anne Graf (Autumn 2008)

David Attenborough visits Charnwood to film Precambrian rocks and fossils, Helen Boynton (Autumn 2008)

Chairman's Report for 2006-7, given to the AGM on March 28th 2007, Mark Evans (Spring 2007)

Charnia Editorial, Andrew Swift (Spring 2007)

Leicester’s fossil celebrity: Charnia and the evolution of early life (Report on 2007 Review Seminar, David Jones (Spring 2007)

An account of the discovery of Charnia, Tina Negus (Spring 2007)

Meet the membership, No.1: Dr Trevor Ford OBE, Andrew Swift (Spring 2007)

Chairman’s Report for the session 2004-5, presented at the AGM on March 23rd 2005

Editorial, Graham Stocks (Winter 2005)

The discovery of Charnia, Trevor Ford (Winter 2005)

Saturday School 2004. Not walking with dinosaurs: the swimming and flying reptiles of the Mesozoic, Vaughan College, Leicester, 21st February 2004 (Summer 2004)

Chairman’s Report for 2003-4, given to the AGM on March 24th 2004 (Summer 2004)

Charnia Editorial, Graham Stocks (Spring 2004)

Book review: The Geology of the East Midlands, Geologists’ Association Guide No. 63 (Winter 2003/4)

Charnia Editorial, Graham Stocks (Winter 2003/4)

Charnia Editorial, Graham Stocks (Autumn 2003)

Chairman’s Report for the Session 2002-2003, Andrew Swift (Summer 2003)

Hominid evolution and climate - The climatic constraints on the success or failure of hominid lineages (Report on 2003 Saturday School), Andrew Swift (Summer 2003)

The disposal and dispersal of Buckland's geological collection, Graham Stocks (Winter 2003)

'The Big Dig' - The story of the excavation of a gigantic Leedsichthys fish in Summer 2002, Kay Hawkins (Winter 2003)

Geology on the Web, Graham Stocks (Autumn 2002)

Bobkingite – a new mineral, Paul Monk (Autumn 2002)

The story of Charnia and the British Association Festival of Science, Andrew Swift (Autumn 2002)