Programme for Autumn 2010

Existing members please note: For paid up members, there is now a mailing list that you can join. Information on field trips, sharing lifts and the like will be posted to this list and members can post to it as well.

Indoor Meetings

at 7.00 pm in the NEW Department of Earth Sciences, South Parks Road, Oxford.
Visitors are welcome at indoor meetings; £1 a time

• 21 Oct: Professor John Dewey

Natural Hazards:Dangerous Earth.

• 18 Nov: Dr Gordon Chancellor

Darwin as Geologist

• 16 Dec: Christmas Meeting

In the University Museum. Refreshments, Quiz, Members' Exhibits.

• 20 Jan: Professor Simon Kelley

Evidence for asteroid showers in the geological record: Did the dinosaurs get caught without a brolly?

Field Meetings

• 18 Sep: Wicklesham Pit, Faringdon

Fossiliferous Lower Cretaceous Sponge Gravels. Hard hat, high visibility top and boots required. Meet at 9 am at the quarry entrance, along A420 at SU 292942.

• 8-10 Oct: Dorset Coast

Minibus trip: Leaving Oxford Friday evening. Further details to be posted nearer the time, or from Kevin Walsh.