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Programme of Indoor Meetings 2012 - 2013Wednesday 10 October 2012 at 19:00Talk commences at 7pm. Refreshments from 6pmCarbonate Deposition in the Cayman Islands - Dr Hilary Corlett, University of Manchester Meeting notes are available as Word or PDF files Saturday 10 November 2012 at 13:30 - Some Early North-West GeologistsJonathan Otley, Man of Lakeland - Dr Tom Smith, Science HistorianThe Bicentenary of the Manchester Geologist Edward William Binney (1812-1881) - Dr John Pollard, University of Manchester John Cunningham & Robert Grant - the forgotten stars of 1838 - Dr Geoff Tresise, Honorary Curator Geology, National Museums Liverpool Meeting notes are available as Word or PDF files Saturday 8 December 2012 at 13:30A Tour of the Outer Hebrides - Drs Doug Fettes and John Mendum, British Geological Survey, EdinburghMeeting notes are available as Word or PDF files Saturday 12 January 2013 at 10:30 - The Broadhurst Lectures: The Palaeontology of ChinaThe venue for this meeting only is Lecture Theatre A, University Place (building 37 on the campus map, next to the usual venue of the Williamson Building)Registration from 10:00, lectures commence 10:30 Doushantuo Microfossils: the oldest animals in the fossil record? - Dr John Cunningham, University of Bristol The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China: the flowering of early animal life - Professor David Siveter, University of Leicester Shaking the tree of life by the roots: a bottom-up perspective on the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic fossil plants of China - Dr Jason Hilton, University of Birmingham Jurassic Spiders from China - Professor Paul Selden, University of Kansas Exceptional Preservation of Dinosaur Eggs and Embryos from the Upper Cretaceous of Henan Province, People's Republic of China - Dr John Nudds, University of Manchester Pterosaurs from the People's Republic of China - another great leap forward? - Dr David Unwin, University of Leicester Booking is essential. The booking form is available as Word and PDF files Meeting notes are available as a PDF file
Manchester Geological Association is also grateful to the Broadhurst family for their support and encouragement with this series of lectures Wednesday 13 February 2013 at 19:00 - AGM followed by Presidential AddressThe Middle Jurassic of Ketton, Rutland - Peter del Strother MBE, Manchester Geological AssociationTuesday 12 March 2013 at 18:30 - Joint Meeting with the Geographical AssociationNow that the dust has settled... The Impacts of Icelandic Volcanic Eruptions - Professor Fiona Tweed, Staffordshire UniversityThis meeting is taking place in Lecture Theatre B of the Roscoe Building, (building 53 on the campus map, adjacent to the Williamson Building, building 52) |