2025 Leeds Geological Association AGM and Conversazione
The Leeds Geological Association Annual General Meeting followed by member's talks, specimens and food, drink and chat!
The Leeds Geological Association Annual General Meeting followed by member's talks, specimens and food, drink and chat!
Space Weather encompasses a wide variety of physical phenomena that are ultimately driven by solar activity. The charged particles of the solar wind can disrupt satellite communications in space, create auroral displays, and interfere with telecommunications. At ground level, magnetic fluctuations induce electric currents that...
Our annual lectures given by final year students from the University of Leeds School of Earth and Environment. These are always excellent talks given by earth scientists of the future and cover a wide and interesting range of topics.
Crystal perspectives on the Iceland eruptions in the Reykjanes Peninsula since the reactivation of activity in 2020-2021 Lecture given by Dr Dan Morgan, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment.
Scale of human impact in the Anthropocene. Lecture given by Professor Colin Waters, University of Leicester and Yorkshire Geological Society.
An introduction to the cobalt-enriched gold deposits of northern Finland. Lecture given by Lily Dickson, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment.
Thursday. June 11th (evening) Leader: Bill Fraser LGA A guided tour of the geology trail in Roundhay Park which will explain the story the rocks (Millstone Grit Group Rough Rock & Coal Measures Group, Elland Flags). Numbers limited to 15 please email lga.sec@btinternet.com to book...
Leader: Carolina Goodship. Cumbria GeoConservation Group We will be visiting two very different sites in and around the Arnside & Silverdale National Landscape to examine a variety of geological features in the Lower Carboniferous limestones, including their lithology, fossil record, palaeokarst, Quaternary karst features and...
Leader: Richard Myerscough. FEAST Chalk succession through the Upper Flamborough Formation with several regionally and nationally important biozones and marker horizons. Overlying are the glaciogenic and glaciofluvial Devensian and post Devensian tills, sands, and gravels. The interglacial Ipswichian Buried cliff cuts through the chalk sequence...
Leader: Steve Livera Contact the LGA secretary on lga.sec@btinternet.com for more information if you wish to attend.