Programme of indoor meetings 2004/2005

All held at 7.30pm on the Leicester University campus, in Lecture Theatre 3, Ken Edwards Building, except where stated.

Contact Chairman Andrew Swift, tel. 0116 252 3646, e-mail as48@le.ac.uk

2004

Wednesday October 6th

Prof Andy Saunders (Dept of Geology, University of Leicester) – ‘Mantle plumes and volcanoes’

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Wednesday October 20th

Sue Beardmore (ex-Utah Museum of Natural History, USA) – ‘Letters from America: fossil excavations in Utah, USA’

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Wednesday November 3rd

Professor Ian Fairchild (School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham) - ‘Underground secrets’

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Wednesday November 17th

Dr Ian Sutton (School of Continuing Education, University of Nottingham) - ‘Aspects of New Zealand geology’

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Wednesday December 1st

Dr Jason Hilton (School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham) –  ‘Carboniferous coal swamp extinction: an alternative hypothesis from China’

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Wednesday December 15th

Christmas meeting, to be held at the New Walk Museum, Leicester

2005

Wednesday January 12th

Barry Hunt (IBIS Ltd., London) – 'Building stone pathology'

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Wednesday January 26th

Professor Dick Merriman (BGS, Keyworth) -  ‘The role of clay minerals in recycling crustal rocks’

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Wednesday February 9th

Members evening, to be held at the New Walk Museum, Leicester

Monday February 21st

Parent Body Lecture, to be held at New Walk Museum, Leicester. Professor Chris Stringer (Natural History Museum, London) – ‘The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain (AHOB) Project’

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Wednesday February 23rd

Dr Rosalind White (Leicester) – ‘Volcanism, impact and mass extinctions: incredible or credible coincidences?’

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Saturday March 5th (whole day)

Saturday School, Ken Edwards Building, University of Leicester. 9.30 am - 5.00 pm. 'Earth, Life and Climate - 3 billion years of interaction'.

Programme and abstracts

Wednesday March 9th

Dr Simon Lewis (Queen Mary College, London) – ‘Middle Pleistocene glaciations in the English Midlands’

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Wednesday March 23rd

AGM and Chairman's address - Andrew Swift (Department of Geology, Leicester University) – ‘Eight and a half years in the trenches - a Chairman's Tale

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