Patrick will illustrate how college students and amateur geologists, among others, can research geological history by applying genealogy techniques to solve etymological problems in fossil, mineral, and mineral collection names. The talk will use five Irish case studies: the etymological hunt for the Ichthyorachis newenhami fossil; revealing the Miss Cotter behind the mineral variety ‘cotterite’; discovering the ‘finger-lickin’ background to…
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When and where: The lecture theater in the Geological Survey of Ireland, Beggars Bush, Dublin 4 on Wednesday, December 14th, between 6:30 and 7:30 pm. Coffee and biscuits will available from 5:30 pm. All welcome.
Dear Members, Dr. Ruth Carden (Consultant Palaeontologist) will be giving a talk on “The Irish Cave Bones Project” at the Geological Survey of Ireland on the 30th of November. Please see below for further details. Abstract The Irish Cave Bones Project (led by Dr. Ruth Carden) is an examination of almost 300,000 bones and associated remains from 34 caves in Ireland to…
Dear Members, Dr. Ian Sanders (Trinity College Dublin, emeritus) will be giving a talk on “Meteorites and the Origin of Planets” at the Geological Survey of Ireland on the 19th of October. Please see below for further details. Abstract: Most meteorites are fragments of our Solar System left over from its birth some 4.567 billion years ago, before the Earth was ‘born’.…