MEMBERS, please check your SPAM folder as we communicate via MailChimp. Thank you! Upcoming Lectures and Field Trips:- THURSDAY 27 January 2022: Aileen Bohan (Geological Survey Ireland / GEBCO)- 23 February 2022: Dr Frank McDermott (UCD)- March 2022: TBC- 13 April 2022: James Hendry- 11 May 2022: Dr Catherine Delaney…
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WHEN: THURSDAY 27th JANUARY 2022 AT 7PM. ABSTRACT We will begin by looking at INFOMAR, the successor to the Irish National Seabed Survey, and the importance of seabed mapping for an island nation, before investigating a variety of seafloor features and shipwrecks from around the Irish coast. We’ll then look at…
Abstract: Volcanic instability can lead to explosive activity and pyroclastic flow generation, both during an ongoing eruption and outside of active lava extrusion, making edifice instability one of the most deadly consequences of volcanic activity. The mechanisms linked to a collapse are, however, still poorly understood and very few numerical…
Abstract: This talk will weave together the two strands of my geological vocation (mineral exploration) and avocation (mineral collecting) as they have evolved over more than 40 years of mineral work in Mexico. The geological environment and framework of each of the major mineral specimen localities that I have worked…
FULL ABSTRACT The evolution of the sedimentary basins in Algeria began with the amalgamation of the Gondwana supercontinent. By the Upper Cambrian, the northern margin of Gondwana was open to the Proto Tethys, leading to the deposition of a vast clastic Cambro– dominated sequence from the Ordovician onwards. The Saharan…