MEMBERS, please check your SPAM folder as we communicate via MailChimp. Thank you! Upcoming Lectures and Field Trips:- 24 November 2021, 7pm: Dr Peter K. M. Megaw (President of IMDEX/Cascabel) on “40 Years of Mineral Collecting Adventures in Mexico”- 8 December 2021, 7pm: Dr Claire Harnett (UCD) on the volcanology…
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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…
Cambrian and Devono-Carboniferous palaeoenvironments of the Hook Peninsula, Co Wexford Leader: Prof Peter Haughton (UCD School of Earth Sciences) Date: Saturday, 25th September, 2021. TO REGISTER please fill in the registration form HERE Registration is on a first come, first served basis. Please register by Saturday 18th September. N.B. All…