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SUMMARY:IGA Lecture:  Dr John Murray (NUI Galway) - Searching for our Pleistocene human ancestors at Azokh Cave\, in the South Caucasus
DESCRIPTION:Dear Members\, \nDr John Murray (NUI Galway) will be giving a talk on some of our very distant European cousins. The talk will take place Thursday [note]\, February 12th\, 2015\, at 6:30 pm in the Geological Survey of Ireland (Beggars Bush\, Dublin 2). Coffee and biccies will be served from 6:00 pm. \nThe origin of man\, the evolution of our species\, and how and when man started living in Europe. Come along and see if you can spot a family resemblance. \nSee you there! \nAbstract: \nAzokh Cave is located in the mountainous terrain of the South Caucasus and contains sediments dating from at least middle Pleistocene times to the present. The site was discovered by M.M. Huseinov in 1960\, who directed excavations there over the course of the following 20 years. During this time\, many animal fossils and stone tool artefacts were recovered. However\, it was the discovery in 1968 of a fragment of a hominin mandible\, thought to represent a transitional evolutionary form between Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis\, which propelled the site to prominence. \nIn 2002 excavations were resumed at Azokh Cave by the present international and multidisciplinary research group and this work has continued to the present. This talk will present the results of this more recent phase of investigation\, the geological component of which has included mapping the cave system out in 3-dimensions\, describing the lithostratigraphy in detail and using radiometric dating methods to establish the age of the succession. The talk will also provide a flavour of what it is like to travel to this part of the world and conduct fieldwork with an international archaeological team. \nBiography: \nDr John Murray is a lecturer in palaeontology in Earth & Ocean Sciences\, at the School of Natural Sciences in NUI Galway. He holds a B.A. and PhD from Trinity College Dublin and lectured there for two years before moving to Galway in 2003. He has wide-ranging research interests in all aspects of palaeontology\, palaeoclimatology and carbonate sedimentology\, with particular reference to the Carboniferous. His PhD work focussed on the Viséan (Carboniferous) stratigraphy of the Shannon Basin in southwest Ireland. Recent research has investigated the timing and magnitude of the Permo-Carboniferous glaciation\, utilising stable isotope proxies preserved in conodont microfossils\, and also the Late Pleistocene to Holocene palaeoenvironmental history of Galway Bay. For the past decade John has conducted extensive fieldwork and actively collaborated with the international Azokh Cave Research Project\, which is examining Middle to Late Pleistocene hominid evolution and migration through the southern Caucasus.
URL:https://geology.ie/event/iga-lecture-dr-john-murray-ucg-searching-for-our-pleistocene-human-ancestors-at-azokh-cave-in-the-south-caucasus/
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SUMMARY:Event: The IGA's Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Dear Members\,\n\nThe IGA’s Annual General Meeting will take place\, subject to confirmation\, in the Geological Survey of Ireland (Beggars Bush\, Dublin 2) at 6:30 pm on Wednesday February 4th\, 2015. This is the opportunity for all members to vote for the committee for 2015; hear statements from the current 2014 committee on what happened during 2014 and the present status of the IGA; and to make any comments\, queries or suggestions that you\, as a member\, would like to raise.\n  \nNon-members are very welcome to attend the AGM itself; but only members can submit nominations beforehand or vote. \n\nThe committee positions for which nominations are sought are the following: \n\nPresident \nVice-President \nExcursions Secretary \nTreasurer \nGrants Secretary \nMinutes Secretary \nWebsite (and/or Communications) Coordinator \nGalway Representative \nCork Representative \nOrdinary Member \n\nAll nominations should be submitted by December 30th\, 2014\, and the final list will be circulated in the first week of January\, 2015 in preparation for the AGM itself on February 4th. If there is more than one nomination for a position (except Ordinary Member)\, a vote will be taken. \n\nThis is your IGA …. so please do feel free to contribute and participate. Your input will always be welcome. \n\nThe 2014 Committee
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20150128T060000
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SUMMARY:Event: Prof. Peter Haughton (UCD School of Geological Sciences)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday January 28th – we have the great pleasure of inviting you to a talk by UCD geologist Prof. Peter Haughton\, the title and abstract of which are below. \n  \nThe talk will be in UCD itself [in room G01 in the UCD School of Geological Sciences] at 6:30 pm; there will be tea and coffee and biccies beforehand at 6:00 pm in the department’s foyer area\, from which we can clearly see the back door and so let people in. Because the venue is UCD\, we advise you to arrive in good time to get fully legal parking spaces [the clampers out there are legendarily strict – please be warned!]. \n  \nSee you there! \n  \nGoing subsurface –adventures with a drill rig in west Clare \nPeter Haughton \nThe Namurian (mid-Carboniferous) geology of Clare is world famous\, partly because it is so well exposed in the high sea cliffs around the mouth of the Shannon and extending to the north all the way to the Cliffs of Moher.  The succession\, over 2 km thick\, is arranged in a major shallowing-upwards sequence passing from deep-sea deposits upslope into a series of delta units\, all deposited at a time when the Earth was plunged into an icehouse period.  Although the Clare Basin lay in the tropics close to the equator\, the growth and collapse of polar ice sheets drove numerous high frequency cycles of deposition much like we see in the Quaternary.  Recently\, a major drilling programme on the cliff tops has acquired continuous cores through the deep-water sections behind the cliffs and extending beneath the level currently exposed.  This talk will describe some of the insights and real surprises (some good\, some bad!) arising from this project and explain what we plan to try and do with the cores and data that have been collected in the boreholes.
URL:https://geology.ie/event/event-prof-peter-haughton-ucd-school-of-geological-sciences/
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SUMMARY:IGA Lecture: Dr. Patrick Orr (UCD School of Geological Sciences)
DESCRIPTION:Putting flesh on bone: what the fossil record can reveal about the history of life on Earth.\nIt is with great pleasure that we can announce the details of the IGA New Year Lecture. \nThe talk will be by internationally renowned palaeontologist Dr. Patrick (Paddy) Orr\, who is based at the UCD School of Geological Sciences and who has worked with many of the biggest names in preservation palaeontology\, including dinosaur specialists. The talk will feature the latest incredible discoveries on the real (i.e.\, actual) colour of dinosaurs  – and that’s just part of it!  Do not miss this talk. \nIt will be held between 18:30 and 19:30 in the Synge Theatre in the Arts Block of Trinity College Dublin on Wednesday\, January 21st; nibbles start at 18:00 and there will be time for questions up to 20:00. \nSee you there. \nAbstract:\nThe fragments of shell that litter the seashore are a poor record of the complexity and diversity of marine environments\, yet such information is the norm in the fossil record.  This bias challenges palaeobiologists’ attempts to reconstruct the history of life on Earth.  Fortuitously\, under certain environmental conditions more than the ‘bones shells and teeth’ can be preserved. These examples allow more comprehensive analysis of the biology\, ecology and evolution of extinct animals\, including topics as diverse as the ecology of 520 million year old marine communities\, the color of the feathers of 100 million year dinosaurs\, and the last meal of a blood sucking 46 million year old insect.
URL:https://geology.ie/event/iga-lecture-dr-patrick-orr-ucd-school-of-geological-sciences/
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SUMMARY:IGA Event: The Annual IGA Christmas Party!
DESCRIPTION:The Annual IGA Christmas Party will be held in the Geological Survey of Ireland on Wednesday 17th December from 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm. A festive selection of seasonal snacks and beverages – e.g.\, mulled wine\, mince pies\, cheeses\, fancy biccies\, etc – will be available\, and members are very much encouraged to bring along something geological that others can enjoy: a rock\, mineral\, fossil\, geo-book you have enjoyed and would recommend\, article you have written\, problem you want to ask about\, anything at all. \n\nSee you there!\n\nAnd a happy start to the Christmas Season ……. (pa) Ho(e) Ho(e) Ho!\n\nIGA Council
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SUMMARY:IGA Event: Dr Patrick Roycroft - "Mineral Treasures Revealed"
DESCRIPTION:“Mineral Treasures Revealed”.  \n\nDr Patrick Roycroft will host an afternoon with the newly saved University College Dublin mineral collection at the National Museum of Ireland’s Beggars Bush stores from 2:00 to 4:00 pm on Sunday December 14th. The NMI stores are the big grey (Calp limestone) building just behind the Geological Survey of Ireland and beside the National Print Museum\, so very easy to get to. An abstract for this event is as follows:\nConservation of University College Dublin’s Mineral Collection\nIn February 2014\, Patrick Roycroft was awarded a grant from the Heritage Council (grant M03895) to rescue and conserve a large part of UCD’s extensive\, yet almost unkown\, mineral collection. The problem was that thousands of specimens had been neglected over many decades and many minerals and their often historic labels were literally degrading away inside a leaking shipping container. With the permission of Prof J. Stephen Daly (head of the School of Geological Sciences) to take the specimens to a safe haven and carry out conservation work\, Patrick\, in collaboration with Matthew Parkes (National Museum of Ireland)\, was busy this summer and autumn turning the UCD collection into a national and international mineral resource. As a by-product of this work\, minerals either new to Ireland or from hitherto unknown localities have been found and various historically important specimens have been uncovered\, such as two very rare native silver specimens from Glendalough (Wicklow) thought by many to no longer exist. An exhibition on the project is currently on display at the National Museum of Ireland (Natural History) on Merrion Square. Further details\, plus an ongoing range of pictures and mini-stories\, can be found on the Facebook page\, “UCD Mineral Collection”.  Or copy/type in the URL:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/UCD-Mineral-Collection/738136006225828?ref=hl&ref_type=bookmark  .
URL:https://geology.ie/event/iga-event-dr-patrick-roycroft-mineral-treasures-revealed/
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SUMMARY:IGA Lecture: Dr. Peadar McArdle (Geological Survey Of Ireland)
DESCRIPTION:Peering into the depths! The geology of Fogo Island\, Newfoundland.\nFogo comprises a composite granite-gabbro intrusion which has been emplaced along the bedding of its host rocks. This stratiform magma chamber is 7km thick and tilted on its side\, so that its contents are well exposed. It was the very hot gabbro magma which melted the lower crust to produce granitic magma\, and both magmas travelled upwards along seismically-active fractures in small batches. The pluton was formed by incremental assembly over an extended time period\, its upper part composed of granite and the lower of gabbro. The landscape of Fogo has been scoured by ice sheets so that its bedrock is well exposed and it illustrates some modern concepts of igneous intrusion. \non the following dates nationwide: \nDecember 3rd (Cork)\,\n December 10th (Dublin)\,\n December 11th (Galway). \nBettie Higgs will be organising the Cork venue in University College Cork\, and Fiona Stapleton will be organising Galway at University College Galway. \nThe Dublin venue will be the usual Geological Survey of Ireland at Beggars Bush (Dublin 2) at 6:30 pm\, with coffee and biccies at 6:00 pm. \nPeadar McArdle is a UCD graduate who completed his PhD on mineralisation associated with the Leinster Granite. Following work in the minerals industry\, Peadar had an extended career in the Geological Survey of Ireland\, from which he retired as Director in 2010.
URL:https://geology.ie/event/iga-lecture-dr-peadar-mcardle-geological-survey-of-ireland-2/
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SUMMARY:IGA Lecture: Dr Deirdre Lewis (Technical Director\, SLR Consulting)
DESCRIPTION:Social Licence to Operate: the Challenge for the 21st Century: The Third Leg of the Stool (society = the third leg of the stool!)\nThis Wednesday\, 26th November\, continues our season of diverse talks with something a little different. Deirdre Lewis\, who works with a geological consultancy firm\, will be discussing the what it takes for geological enterprises to actually get to the stage where they can mine/drill/frack [yes\, the ‘F’ word is here]. This talk will be of great interest to anyone concerned with practical economic geological activity – something on which we\, as a society\, all heavily rely – and the many social and environmental issues that must be addressed to carry out such activity. Knowing Deirdre’s interest in the subject\, this talk should be very thought-provoking. \nThe talk will take place on Wednesday 26th November at 6:30 pm in the Geological Survey of Ireland. Tea and biccies will be available from 6:00 pm. \nSee you there!
URL:https://geology.ie/event/iga-lecture-dr-deirdre-lewis-technical-director-slr-consulting/
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SUMMARY:IGA Lecture: Prof. Quentin Crowley (Trinity College Dublin)
DESCRIPTION:Dear Members\, \nProf. Quentin Crowley (Trinity College Dublin) will give a talk to the IGA at 6:30 pm on Wednesday November 19th in the Geological Survey of Ireland (Beggars Bush\, Dublin 2) on some new and very exciting research that he and his team are carrying out on the very earliest signs of life on Earth\, which includes when oxygen first started to appear in abundance in both the ocean and the atmosphere. I (Patrick) have had a preview of this talk and it is fascinating. \nCoffee and biccies at 6:00 pm beforehand. \nSee you there.
URL:https://geology.ie/event/iga-lecture-prof-quentin-crowley-trinity-college-dublin-2/
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