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Summer Field Programme 2011 Each person attending field meetings does so on the understanding that they attend at their own risk. The NSGGA has public liability insurance through a GA insurance policy that also carries limited personal accident cover for members attending meetings or field trips. Non-members pay £2 to cover temporary membership giving them insurance cover. A field fee of £2 per head is normally charged for members and non-members to cover leader’s expenses. In the absence of a field secretary we are running a number of ad-hoc field trips this summer. If you would like to help the NSGGA by becoming the field secretary please contact the chairman, David Osborn. Saturday September 17th at 10:00 Ercall Quarries led by Dr Michael Montenari (Keele University) This trip involves a gentle walk into the Ercall Quarries, Shropshire to examine the Precambrian / Cambrian unconformity. Meet at 10am at Forest Glen Car Park, SJ 6384 0926, Nr The Wrekin, Salop. [~1 mile south of J7 M54 (Wellington)] Please contact [email protected] if you intend attending so that she can establish demand for the fieldtrip. Image: Ian G. Stimpson Other Field Meetings Saturday 25th – 26th September Park Hall Open Weekend The Park Hall rangers are requesting the help of the NSSGA with their open weekend in September in explaining the geology, identifying pebbles, etc. From 10.00 to 15.00 each day. Image: Ian G. Stimpson
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Summer Field Programme 2011 Each person attending field meetings does so on the understanding that they attend at their own
risk. The NSGGA has public liability insurance through a GA insurance policy that also carries
limited personal accident cover for members attending meetings or field trips. Non-members pay
£2 to cover temporary membership giving them insurance cover.
A field fee of £2 per head is normally charged for members and non-members to cover leader’s
expenses.
In the absence of a field secretary we are running a number of ad-hoc field trips this summer. If you
would like to help the NSGGA by becoming the field secretary please contact the chairman, David
Osborn.
Saturday September 17th at 10:00 Ercall Quarries
led by Dr Michael Montenari (Keele University)
This trip involves a gentle walk into the Ercall Quarries,
Shropshire to examine the Precambrian / Cambrian
unconformity.
Meet at 10am at Forest Glen Car Park, SJ 6384 0926,
Nr The Wrekin, Salop.
[~1 mile south of J7 M54 (Wellington)]
Please contact [email protected] if you intend
attending so that she can establish demand for the fieldtrip. Image: Ian G. Stimpson
Other Field Meetings
Saturday 25th – 26th September Park Hall Open Weekend
The Park Hall rangers are requesting the help of the NSSGA with
their open weekend in September in explaining the geology,
identifying pebbles, etc. From 10.00 to 15.00 each day.
Image: Ian G. Stimpson
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Field Report Rocks to Roses – Brown End Quarry
Saturday 25th June
Image: Don Steward
NSGGA members Carol and Mike Fereday, Chris Eardley and Don Steward helped with Staffordshire
Wildlife Trust’s ‘Rocks to Roses’ by assisting members of the public with fossil casting. The weather
unfortunately was very wet and although the NSGGA gazebo was put to very good use, only a three
families braved the elements to cast some fossils.
Image: Don Steward
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Image: Lynn Hunt Myers Award Winners Amy Gough, Emma Hunt and Thomas Dodd with Mike Fereday
John Myers Awards Winners 2011
The following students were presented with the John Myers Awards by Mike Fereday on behalf of
the NSGGA
Year 3 : Major/Dual Honours
Winner: Isabel Adams awarded a Medal and £150 prize money for her field based mapping report
of the Cospedal/Robledo area, Cantabria North West Spain
Year 4 : M. Geolscience
Winner: Amy Gough awarded a Medal and £150 prize money for her project on “3D architecture
and internal facies variations of large-scale alluvial fan deposits, and their correlation to the
interpretation of the Bockram Facies, UK”.
Runner-up: Thomas Dodd awarded £50 prize money for his project on “salt controls on
sedimentation in a marginal-marine to continental setting: implications for facies development and
hydrocarbon entrapment”.
This year there was an exceptional 4-year project submitted by Emma Hunt.
Emma, a member of NSGGA, has had her project “supra- to sub-solidus coalescence of Cr-Spinel
crystals within layered mafic-ultramafic intrusions” submitted to Geological Magazine.
It was of such an exceptional standard that the John Myers panel decided to award a medal
specially engraved with "John Myers Special Award" and £150 prize money.
Vicky Tunstall
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NSGGA Winter Lecture Programme 2011/12
The winter lecture programme is still being arranged. The following are provisional talks. More
details will be published in the October Bulletin
Thursday 13 October 2011: April Fitz-Gerald and Adam Jeffrey (Keele University) Topics in
Igneous Petrology
Thursday 10 November 2011: Wolverston Cope Memorial Lecture. Dr David Rothery (Open
University) Mercury – new views of the Sun’s innermost planet
Thursday 8 December 2011: Christmas Social with geology quiz.
Thursday 12 January 2012: Dr Michael Montenari (Keele University) "Ediacara: The
evolution of Earth's first complex Life"
Thursday 9 February 2012: Richard Haslam (Keele University) The geology of Doonreay.
Thursday 8 March 2012: Chairman’s Address: David Osborn. The Statfjord field.
Other News
Geofest 2011 – Abberley & Malvern Hills Geopark
Geofest 2011 runs from the June 1 to August 31, the partners of the Abberley and Malvern Hills
Geopark are hosting different activities and events that highlight and promote the many attributes
of the Geopark including:
• Children’s activities at Bewdley Museum, Severn Valley Country Park, Worcestershire
County Museum (Hartlebury Museum) and the Wyre Forest Discovery Centre.
• Guided walks throughout the Geopark, many of which are Geology and Landscape themed
walks.
• Talks.
At Bewdley museum on the 23rd August there will be opportunity to quiz the geology experts. Bring
along your rocks, fossils and minerals to our specialists who will try to identify them for you.
A program of events is available to download at
http://79.170.44.138/earthheritagetrust.org/pub/wp-content/uploads/GEOFEST-PROGRAMME-A4-
layout-for-download.pdf
Snailbeach Lead Mine Heritage Open Weekend 17-18th September
The Shropshire Mines Trust and the Shropshire Caving & Mining Club will be opening Snailbeach
Lead Mine. The mine is located in the village of Snailbeach near Minsterley, Shropshire.
More details:
www.shropshiremines.org.uk/snailbeach/sbheri.htm
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Other Societies
Black Country Geological Society
Lectures at Dudley Museum & Art Gallery, St James's Road, Dudley – 8pm start.
Saturday 24 September & Dudley Rock 'n' Fossil Festival.
Sunday 25 September It will feature the usual talks, activities, demonstrations,
exhibitors, special exhibitions and traders in everything earth
science related for boffins and families.
Monday 17 October @ 20:00 'A New Look at The Silurian Period' by Dr David Ray (Neftex)
Monday 21 November @ 20.00 'Next Steps for the Development of the Lapworth Museum of
Geology'. By Jon Clatworthy (Lapworth Museum)
Monday 5 December @ 19:00 Christmas members' evening.
More details at www.bcgs.info
East Midlands Geological Society
Lectures: B3, Biology Building of the University of Nottingham
Sunday 4 September Day Excursion in the Upper Dove Valley by Neil Aitkenhead
Sat/Sun 17/18 September Weekend Excursion to Shropshire by Andrew Jenkinson
Saturday 15 October @ 18.00 'Coal - more than just a fuel'
by Professor David Large, (Nottingham University)
Saturday 19 November @ 18.00 '56 years of aircraft flying into ash' by Colin Small
Saturday 10 December @ 18.00 'Great Stratigraphical Myths' by Robin 'Bill' Bailey
More details at www.emgs.org.uk
East Midlands Regional Group of the Geological Society
Tuesday 27 September 'Shale Gas Exploration in the UK and Mainland Europe'
by Peter Turner (Cuadrilla Resources Ltd)
Evening Lecture at BGS, Keyworth
Tuesday 18 October 'Geological mapping in the United Arab Emirates'
by Andrew Farrant (BGS) & Helen Burke (BGS)
Evening Lecture at University of Leicester
Tuesday 8 November SiLC (Specialist in Land Condition). The new SiLC register'
by TBC. Evening Lecture at University of Nottingham
Tuesday 6 December 'Deep Geothermal Energy' by Peter Styles (University of Keele)
Evening Lecture at University of Derby
More details at http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/groups/regional/emrg
Liverpool Geological Society
More details at liverpoolgeologicalsociety.org.uk
Manchester Geological Association
Friday-Sunday 26-29 August Cardiff Museum and Pembroke Coast by John Nudds and Cindy
Howells
Saturday 24 September Fred Broadhurst Memorial Trip: Rowarth by Jane Michael
Sunday 8 October Haigh Hall, Wigan by Chris Arkwright
Wednesday 12 October @ 19.00 Fossil Molecules - chemistry as a tool for palaeontology
‘Whodungit?’ by Dr. Fiona Gill, University of Leeds
‘Dead in the Water’ by Dr. Jo Hellawell, University of Bonn
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Saturday 12 November The Broadhurst Lectures: The Coal Measures
‘Rates of Sedimentation in the Namurian and Westphalian: A
Review’ by Dr. Derek Brumhead MBE, MGA
‘Trace Fossils of the Carboniferous Coal-Bearing Rocks: 160-Year
Manchester Heritage’ by Dr. John Pollard, University of
Manchester
‘The Rise and Fall of the Coal Forests’ by Dr. Howard Falcon-
Lang, Royal Holloway, University of London
‘Coal Mining in Lancashire, the Photographic Record’ by Alan
Davies, formerly Curator, Lancashire Mining Museum
More Details at www.mangeolassoc.org.uk
North West Regional Group of the Geological Society
More details at www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/groups/regional/nwrg
Shropshire Geological Society
Wednesday 17 August Shrewsbury building stones trail by David Pannett and Mary
Steer.
Saturday 17 September @10.00 Wenlock Edge: a fossil ecosystem by Andrew Jenkinson.
Saturday 1 October @10.00 Wrekin and the Ercall, to be led by Chris Rayner.
Wednesday 7 September @19.30 Geology for Beginners: General Principles of Geology - Rock
types, Geological Time, and Plate Tectonics by Dr Peter Toghill
Wednesday 14 [email protected] Geology for Beginners: What we learn from fossilised remains
by Andrew Jenkinson
Wednesday 21 September @19.30 Geology for Beginners: Rocks of the Ercall and Wrekin by Chris
Rayner
Wednesday 28 September @19.30 Geology for Beginners: Bending and Breaking: an introduction
to structural geology with the emphasis on Shropshire by Prof
Michael Rosenbaum
Wednesday 12 October @ 19.30 Conserving the Stone Built Heritage of Shropshire by Colin
Richards MBE, Shropshire Council
Wednesday 9 November @ 19.30 Current perspectives on meteorites by John Armitage
Wednesday 14 December@ 19.00 AGM and lecture on Yellowstone National Park by Mary Steer
More details at www.shropshiregeology.org.uk/SGS/SGSintro.html
Warwickshire Geological Conservation Group
More details at www.wgcg.co.uk
West Midlands Regional Group of the Geological Society More details at www.geolsoc.org.uk/gsl/groups/regional/wmrg
Western Institute of Mining and Minerals
Lectures 19:00 at the William Smith Building, Keele University
More details at www.iom3.org/wimm
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NSGGA - Next Committee Meeting: PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN DATE !
Thursday 15 September @ 19:00 In F34, the William Smith Building, Keele University
Contacts List: NSGGA Committee 2011-12
Chairman: David Osborn
Stretton, 2 Croyde Place, Meir Park, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 7XD. Tel 01782 396692
email: [email protected]
Vice-Chairman: Dr Ian Stimpson
24 Sorrell Gardens, Newcastle-under-Lyme, ST5 3FA Tel. 07779 083243
e-mail; [email protected]
General Secretary: Eileen Fraser,
47 Longdown Road, Congleton, Cheshire CW12 4QH Tel. 01260 271505
email: [email protected]
Treasurer: Brenda Kay,
9 Copthorne Drive, Audlem, Crewe, Cheshire, CW3 0EQ Tel. 01270 811650
email: [email protected]
Membership Sec.: Gerald Ford,
Woodville, Tower Road, Ashley Heath, Market Drayton, Shropshire TF9 4PU Tel. 01630 673409
e-mail: [email protected]
Speakers Sec: Diane Lawrence,
9 Brickfield Close, Hixon, Stafford, ST18 0NY Tel. 01889 207195
e-mail: [email protected]
Field Sec.: Vacant
GeoConservation Staffordshire Liaison Officer: Dr Ian Stimpson,
24 Sorrell Gardens, Newcastle-under-Lyme, ST5 3FA Tel. 07779 083243
e-mail; [email protected]
Bulletin Sec.: Dr Ian Stimpson,
24 Sorrell Gardens, Newcastle-under-Lyme, ST5 3FA Tel. 07779 083243
e-mail; [email protected]
Executive Committee (honorary):
Dr. Colin Exley; Terry Jones; David Thompson; Ted Watkin.
Honorary Life Member: Ann Myatt
Executive Committee (elected):
Dr Lloyd Boardman; Dr Stuart Egan; Carol Fereday; Mike Fereday; Dr Peter Floyd; Janet Osborn
(Minutes Secretary); Vicky Tunstall (John Myers Awards);
Executive Committee (co-opted):
Don Steward, John Reynolds; Michael Kelly (Keele GeoSoc).
Why not visit the NSGGA web pages: www.esci.keele.ac.uk/nsgga
Produced for the NSGGA by Ian G. Stimpson, Earth Sciences & Geography, Keele University, Staffs, ST5 5BG
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Membership Subscription Reminder
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soon as possible, using the form below:
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