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The 2022 LGA AGM is due to take place on 8th December. Please note there is also a Special General Meeting taking place in order to consider proposed amendments to the existing Rules with a view to modifying those Rules which affect the management of...
Presentations from final year students of the Leeds University, School of Earth and Environment. Speakers: students, TBC.
Extinction and recovery during the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) with data from the Cleveland Basin. Speaker: Prof. Cris Little, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds.
Interacting Palaeocene volcanism and sedimentation on the islands of Canna and Sanday, Inner Hebrides, NW Scotland. Speaker: Dr Ian Williamson, Independent researcher.
Purpose: To examine sedimentary rocks and structures in the Carboniferous age rocks of the Bowland sub-Basin (part of the more extensive, Craven Basin) The rocks vary with shales, mudstone, siltstones, limestones and sandstone belonging to the Craven and Millstone Grit Groups all being exposed. Fossils...
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New techniques used in the study of fossils Speaker: Dr Russell Garwood, Manchester University.
Seawater chemistry and mass extinctions Speaker: Dr Rob Newton, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds. An image of a Sabkha environment from the middle east where we have modern day deposition of gypsum: Changes in the deposition of gypsum from the ocean through...