Date: 18 June 2015
Location: Burlington House, Piccadilly, London
Convenor: Anthony Brook
Tickets:
- HOGG Members: £20
- Non-members: £25
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PROGRAMME
09.00 Doors open, Registration
09.40 Welcome etc.
Session 1: Building Stones
09.45 ‘A Thousand Years of Building-Stone’ Project in two Welsh Border Counties.
Kate Andrew
10.15 Some Maps, Measures and Models of Building Stone Use.
Roger Cordiner
10.45 Coffee & Biscuits
Session 2: Opening Decades of the 19th Century
11.15 KEYNOTE Tambora: Supervolcano Eruptions and their impacts on Society and History
Bill McGuire
12.00 Brighton and Hove Basement: Geological Basis of a Conurbation.
Geoffrey Mead
12.30 Geology and Fiction 1815–1850.
Adelene Buckland
13.00 Lunch
Session 3: Our Geological Heritage
13.50 keynote Geoheritage and the UK’s most significant Geological Sites.
Rob Butler
14.45 Interpreting Geoheritage: Challenges and Themes––Case study of the World Heritage Site
of the Jurassic Coast.
Sam Scriven
15.15 The Importance of Global Geoparks––Case study of the English Riviera Geopark.
Melanie Border
15.45 The Importance of Being RIGS!––Case study of the Sussex Geodiversity Sites.
John Cooper
16.15 Tea & Biscuits
Session 4: Miscellany
16.45 Geology, Groundwater and Tunnelling Problems at Merstham, East Surrey.
Paul Sowan
17.15 The Mineral Prospecting Expedition to the South Atlantic islands by the Scottish geologist David Ferguson, 1912–1914.
Phil Stone
17.45 Close
