****LECTURE NEW DATE!****: 6th February 2019 – Paul Rondelez ( Director of the Irish Mining Heritage Trust) on “The Blast Furnace in 17th and 18th Century Ireland” ****WORKSHOP****: 16th February 2019 – “Poster Making Party” (for the 2019 IGRM) ****LECTURE****: Date TBC – Niall Reenan on IT in Geology ****LECTURE****: 1st May 2019 – Maria McNamara (UCC) ***FIELD TRIP***: 17th-19th May: Geology of the…
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WHO: The Irish Geological Association invites you to: WHAT: a “Poster Making Party” THAT IS: a print & design seminar & poster proof working day. WHEN: on 16th February 2019, a Saturday (10:00hrs to 17:00hrs), in advance of the 2019 IGRM WHY: to develop digital content and designs to improve the visual aesthetics of your own PowerPoint conference poster presentation.…
Abstract: Iron has been one of the most important materials available in Ireland for over a thousand years. Until the 16th century, iron was made in small clay bloomery furnaces, but in the 17th and 18th centuries the industry was based on the much larger water-powered charcoal-fueled blast furnace. This talk will give an overview of the history of this…
PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE! LECTURE NOW ON 19TH DECEMBER! Abstract: Volcanic ash (tephra) produced by explosive eruptions may be transported by wind and deposited thousands of kilometers from its source to form marker layers in time. These tephra layers may be used to link and to date geological, palaeoecological, palaeoclimatic, and archaeological sequences and events, including whether the transition from…
Abstract: Tsunamis can be caused by movements of large portions of submerged slopes, and geologists are now realising that underwater landslides are more common than once thought. Until now, we have been studying slope failures from research ships at the sea surface, several hundreds of metres above the landslide scarps themselves. Wouldn’t it be better if we were able to walk…