Founded 1874. To further knowledge and experience of geological matters
(This is part of the Otley Walking Festival programme and aimed at the general public as well as LGA members. It is one that we hope will attract ‘interested people’ who may then be encouraged to join us. The event will operate under the OWF...
Dr. Ebmeier investigates different aspects of volcanic activity using satellite remote sensing. In particular, she studies the physical processes that control the character of volcanic activity, including magma storage, edifice growth & collapse, and volcanic interactions. An important aspect of the research using satellite imagery...
Exceptional Preservation of Dinosaur Eggs and Embryos from the Cretaceous of China and Argentina. Dr John Nudds, Manchester University Dinosaur eggs have been known for almost 100 years, but it is still exceptionally rare to find eggs containing any remains of their tiny embryos. I...
The Geology of Islay, David Webster. The Islay archipelago has a great variety of geology: 2-billion-year old gneisses of the Rhinns Complex, a lightly metamorphosed late-Precambrian sedimentary succession including the world-famous Port Askaig Tillite deposited by ice during the time of a ‘Snowball Earth’,...