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    On the trail of the turbulent Aptian world: a geological Forbrydelsen


    Speaker: Dr Peter Skelton

    Thursday 16th February, 2012: 19:30

    Department of Earth sciences,
    South Parks Road,
    Oxford,
    OX1 3AN

    Visitors welcome at a cost of £2

    The hugely successful Danish thriller serial, Forbrydelsen, shown as ‘The Killing’ on UK television, began with an horrific murder and then teased the audience with a string of suspects, each successively dismissed in the face of new evidence. We knew that something dreadful had occurred, but working out exactly what was hard enough, and how it happened, even harder – just like our attempts to untangle the troubled history of the Aptian world.

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