nsgga bulletin 124 - keele university · periglaciated terrains within a uk context. case study...
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NSGGA Dates for Your Diary Thursday 11 October @ 19:30 Lecture – ‘A multiproxy approach to the
reconstruction of the mid- to late-Pleistocene interglacial environments’ by Tom White (NHM)
Wednesday 7 November @ 19:30 Wolverson Cope Lecture - Quaternary Geological Ground Models for the Reduction of Engineering Risk' by David Giles (Portsmouth)
Saturday 10 November @ 10:00 Geoconservation Day at Hulme Quarry, Park Hall Thursday 6 December @ 19:00 Christmas Social and NSGGA 70th Anniversary
with talk on ‘Into the dark: a journey to the frontiers of mineral and metal extraction.’ by Andrew Bloodworth (BGS). Tickets £12.
Thursday 24 January @ 19:30 Lecture – ‘The Geomorphological and Geological Impacts of Glaciers: Recent Insights from Modern-Day Glacial Landsystems’ by Richard Waller (Keele).
Thursday 7 February @ 19:30 Lecture - 'BGS collections: over 200 years in the making ' by Michael Howe (BGS).
Thursday 14 March @ 19:00 AGM and Chairman's Address by Stuart Egan, (Keele).
Winter Lecture Programme 2017/18 Lectures are held in room WS0.06 in the William Smith Building, Keele University Thursday 11 October 2018 @ 19:30 A multiproxy approach to the reconstruction of the mid- to late-Pleistocene interglacial environments Dr Tom White (Natural History Museum) The study of interglacials is an increasingly important element of Quaternary research, primarily because knowledge of how past warm climatic episodes evolved naturally (in the absence of anthropogenic factors) provides important analogues for the future progression of the Holocene. This review of the British Pleistocene terrestrial record critically examines the basis for reconstructing
Bulletin of the North Staffordshire Group of the Geologists’ Association
Number 124 : October 2018
Image: Tom White
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quantified palaeotemperature estimates using a variety of Pleistocene fossil proxies (beetles, ostracods, plant macrofossils and vertebrates). These can provide Mutual Climatic Range (MCR) and Mutual Ostracod Temperature Range (MOTR) estimates, together with threshold values for summer and winter temperature minima derived from the known ecological tolerances of various plant and animal species. The British
Pleistocene record is ideal for a critical assessment of such reconstructions, owing to its well-resolved Pleistocene chronology and abundance of fossiliferous localities; furthermore, Britain's position on the periphery of northwest Europe means that it is particularly sensitive to climatic and environmental changes. I present multi-proxy palaeotemperature datasets for sites dated to the Early and early Middle Pleistocene (the 'Cromerian Complex', MIS 19-13), the late Middle Pleistocene (MIS 11, 9, and 7) and the Late Pleistocene (MIS 5e). Where available, pollen records allow these estimates to be positioned relative to each other within a given interglacial. The resulting summer and winter palaeotemperature estimates are compared with each other and with modern averages, showing that the climate was often more continental and more seasonal during the Pleistocene. Wednesday 7 November 2018 @ 19:30 – Please note the lecture is on a Wednesday Quaternary Geological Ground Models for the Reduction of Engineering Risk Dr David Giles (School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Portsmouth)
The geology of the Quaternary Period is often overlooked on many undergraduate geoscience courses, yet its legacy is highly significant for ground engineering and construction. All ground projects will encounter relict Quaternary terrains, deposits and landforms and their correct identification and interpretation is key to the success of any such engineering projects. The development of Quaternary ground models will help to communicate and understand the vertical and lateral
variability of these environments, defining geological hazards that may be present and understanding the risks that they potentially pose. This presentation will highlight the report developed by the Engineering Group Working Party on the Engineering Geology and Geomorphology of Glaciated and
Image: Tom White
Image: Geological Society of London
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Periglaciated Terrains within a UK context. Case study examples will be presented to illustrate the hazards potentially encountered in these terrains and the diagnostic characteristics that the geologist should be aware of during the site investigation process in order to manage the uncertainty presented by these highly variable ground conditions. Thursday 6 December 2018 @ 19:00 in the William Smith Building ‘Christmas Social’ and NSGGA 70th Anniversary Celebrations - £12 to members including a talk ‘Into the dark: a journey to the frontiers of mineral and metal extraction’ Andrew Bloodworth (British Geological Survey) This talk will consider what drives the human use of minerals and metals and what pushes the mining industry to work at the frontiers of possibility. To mark the 70th ('Platinum') Anniversary of the North Staffordshire Group of the Geologists' Association, reference will be made to the extraction and uses of platinum, one of the rarer elements in the Earth's crust. As well as Andrew’s talk, there will be 'Bring your own Geology' displays as usual. Also, as this is our Platinum 70th Anniversary, members are asked to bring along any NSGGA memorabilia from past events to display on the evening. Tickets, including a buffet meal with a free glass of wine cost £12 each. Please complete the booking form at the end of this bulletin and return with payment to Tony Marks by post by Friday 9 November or in person at the October or November meetings. Geoconservation Day Geoconservation Day at Hulme Quarry NNR (at Park Hall Country Park) Saturday 10 November 2018 10:00 to 13:00 Leader Ian Stimpson Join us for a practical conservation work-party to help maintain Park Hall’s nationally important rock faces.
All tools and full supervision will be provided. Please wear outdoor clothes, boots and gloves. Please meet at the visitor centre car park, off Hulme Road, Weston Coyney at 10am OS grid reference SJ 930447
Park Hall Conglomerates. Image Ian Stimpson
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Membership Subscriptions Just a reminder that subscriptions are now due for the 2018/2019 season. Full membership is £13, family membership £15, retired/unemployed £10. Student membership is now just £3 for the entire duration of your course. Please complete the membership form at the back of the bulletin or see David Osborn, our membership secretary at one of the evening meetings. Executive Committee We are pleased to announce that Richard Campbell has stepped forward to fill the vacant post of Vice Chair. He will take up the role with immediate effect and become our new Chair at the AGM in 2019.
A Geological Oddity Jonathan O'Dell sends a photograph of a geological oddity - a stale gravestone, well at least it appears to be curled up at the corners like the old British Rail sandwiches. It is in Swettenham church yard near Congleton.
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Other Societies Geologists' Association Lectures at Geological Society of London, in Burlington House, Piccadilly but the lectures are available to view by members of the GA online via their website. Friday 19- Sunday 21 October GA Conference – Geology of Mordor. Lapworth
Museum, Birmingham Saturday 3 November Festival of Geology, University College, London More details at www.geologistsassociation.org.uk Black Country Geological Society Indoor meetings at Abbey Room at the Dudley Archives, Tipton Road, Dudley, DY1 4SQ Monday 15 October @ 19:30 Catastrophic Volcanoes – Sebastian Watt Saturday 3 November @ 13:00 Geoconservation Day: Wren’s Nest Monday 19 November @ 19:30 Abberley & Malvern Hills Geopark' - Georgia
Jacobs More details at www.bcgs.info East Midlands Geological Society Indoor meetings at the Clive Granger Building, University of Nottingham Saturday 13 October @18:00 In search of giant meteorite impact in Scotland –
Michael Simms Saturday 10 November @18:00 Terra Firma: What has salt ever done for us –
Christopher Jackson Saturday 8 December @18:00 Wine, Whisky and Beer: the role of Geology – Alex
Maltman More details at www.emgs.org.uk East Midlands Regional Group of the Geological Society De La Beche Conference Suite, British Geological Survey, Keyworth, Nottingham Tuesday 9 October @19:00 The Isle of Skye Meteorite Event – Simon Drake
and Andrew Beard More details at www.geolsoc.org.uk/en/Groups and Networks/Regional Groups/East Midlands Liverpool Geological Society Indoor meetings at Lecture Theatre 137, James Parsons Building, Liverpool JMU, Byrom Street, Liverpool, L3 3AF Tuesday 9 October @19:30 Lid Tectonics to Plate Tectonics – John Piper Tuesday 23 October @19:30 Ups, downs, tilting and rebounds of ancient sea
level – Peter Burgess Tuesday 30 October @19:30 Hydrogeology of Beer – Rick Brassington (Ticket
£3 – at Herdman Building, Liverpool University) Tuesday 6 November @19:30 Earth’s Magnetic Field – Richard Holme Tuesday 20 November @19:30 Sea floor imaging – Mike King More details at liverpoolgeologicalsociety.org
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Manchester Geological Association Indoor meetings at the Williamson Building, University of Manchester Saturday 10 November @ 13:30 The Broadhurst Lectures: Earth’s Distant Past -
Stephan Schroeder, Richard White, Matthew Warke
Thursday 22 September @ 18:30 Melting Ice - Rising Seas: Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment - Colin Summerhayes – at MMU Brooks Building
Saturday 8 December @ 13:30 Aspects of the Quaternary – Jamie Woodward, Jeff Peakall and David Bridgland
More Details at www.mangeolassoc.org.uk North West Regional Group of the Geological Society Indoor meetings at Manchester University unless otherwise specified Thursday 11 October @ 18:30 Use and management of the Permo-Triassic
sandstone aquifers of north west England – Keith Seymour
Sunday 14 October @ 13:15 Family friendly Plesiosaurs talk and visit to the Manchester Museum – Dean Lomax
More details at www.geolsoc.org.uk/en/Groups and Networks/Regional Groups/North West Shropshire Geological Society Indoor meetings at The Shire Hall, Shrewsbury at 19:30 Wednesday 10 October @ 19:30 Escaping Snowball Earth – Ian Fairchild Wednesday 14 November @ 19:30 Education at the Lapworth Museum – Anna
Chrystal More details at www.shropshiregeology.org.uk/SGS/SGSintro.html Warwickshire Geological Conservation Group Indoor meetings at St Francis Church Hall, Warwick Road, Kenilworth CV8 1HL Wednesday 21 November @ 19:00 The secret life of your mobile phone – Andrew
Bloodworth More details at www.wgcg.co.uk West Midlands Regional Group of the Geological Society Indoor Meetings at The Birmingham & Midland Institute. 9 Margaret St, B3 3BS Tuesday 13 November @ 18:30 The UNESCO Black Country Geopark – Graham
Worton Tuesday 11 December @ 18:30 Fracking in the UK – Mike Stephenson More details at www.geolsoc.org.uk/en/Groups and Networks/Regional Groups/West Midlands Western Institute of Mining and Minerals Indoor meetings are held at the William Smith Building, Keele University Monday 5 November @ 19:00 Karstic ground investigation and remediation of
Settle to Carlisle Railway – Mark Flanagan Monday 3 December @ 19:00 To be confirmed – Andy Birtles More details at www.iom3.org/wimm
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NSGGA - Next Committee Meeting: Thursday November 01, 2018 @ 19:00 In room WS1.44, the William Smith Building, Keele University Contacts List: NSGGA Committee 2018-19 Chair: Stuart Egan
Geography, Geology & the Environment, Keele University Tel. 01782 733174 e-mail: [email protected]
Vice-Chair: Richard Campbell e-mail: [email protected] General Secretary: Barbara Kleiser
email: [email protected] Treasurer: Tony Marks
4 Scarratt Drive, Forsbrook, Stoke-on-Trent, ST11 9AN email: [email protected]
Membership Secretary: David Osborn Stretton, 2 Croyde Place, Meir Park, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 7XD. Tel 01782 396692 email: [email protected]
Speakers Secretary: Peter Jones e-mail: [email protected]
Field Secretary: Steve Alcock Longfields, Park Lane, Cheddleton, near Leek ST13 7J Tel. 01538 360431or mobile 07711 501028 e-mail: [email protected]
GeoConservation Staffordshire Liaison Officer: Dr Ian Stimpson, e-mail: [email protected]
Bulletin Secretary: Dr Ian Stimpson, e-mail: [email protected]
Honorary Life Member: Ann Myatt Executive Committee (honorary):
Peter Floyd, Don Steward Executive Committee (elected):
Dr Lloyd Boardman; Janet Osborn (Minutes Secretary); John Reynolds, Jeff Ackerley.
Executive Committee (co-opted): Keele GeoSoc Rep.: Max Tuzinkiewicz
NSGGA web pages: www.esci.keele.ac.uk/nsgga The NSGGA website is on the move! The servers that have hosted the NSGGA web pages since 2006 are very much past their best before date. Before we lose everything, the website is moving to a shiny new home so keep an eye out on www.nsgga.org over the next few months. Once the transition is complete we will redirect the old site to the new one automatically.
Produced for the NSGGA by Ian G. Stimpson, Geography, Geology and the Environment, Keele University, Staffs, ST5 5BG
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Thursday 6 December 2018 at 19:00 The Christmas Social and NSGGA 70th Anniversary Celebrations This year we are back in our spiritual home of the William Smith Building Bring your own geology displays (rocks /minerals / fossils / books / maps etc.) … … any NSGGA memorabilia from past events … … and a talk ‘Into the dark: a journey to the frontiers of mineral and metal extraction.’ by Andrew Bloodworth (BGS) The buffet for NSGGA Members / GCStaffs Volunteers and their families will be £12 per person with free glass of wine, please book using the booking form below, enclosing payment, by Friday 9th November. Please send form with payment to: Tony Marks, 4 Scarratt Drive, Forsbrook, Stoke-on-Trent, ST11 9AN Pre-booking is essential, as numbers have to be pre-booked with the caterer To book a meal, please enclose a cheque (payable to NSGGA) for the full amount I/We would like to book places for the Christmas Social on Thursday, 6th December, 2018 I/We enclose a cheque for £ payable to NSGGA (£12 per person) Name/s Address Telephone Please Tick: I am a member of NSGGA I am a GCStaffs Volunteer
70 YEARS OF THE NSGGA
1948 - 2018
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NSGGA MEMBERSHIP Subscriptions due from October 1st Name Address Telephone e-mail address Ordinary (Full) £13.00 John Myers Award Fund*** Family * £15.00 contribution of £…………….. Retired/Unemployed £10.00 Student ** £ 3.00 Course: …………………………………. GDPR: For New Members or Members who have not yet provided consent: I consent to you contacting me (please tick appropriate boxes) NAME E-MAIL POST PHONE TEXT
* For insurance purposes, please list the names of all members of the household to be included in the table above (you don’t need to complete the GDPR compliance if you have already done it before) ** Students please name your full-time course Cheques should be made payable to the: "NSGGA" and sent to: David Osborn (NSGGA Membership Secretary), Stretton, 2 Croyde Place, Meir Park, Stoke-on-Trent, ST3 7XD. Tel: 01782 396692. e-mail: [email protected] For our records, are you currently a member of the national GA ? yes no *** Two John Myers Awards are presented annually to students at Keele University. John Myers gave a 60-year contribution to the understanding of Geology in North Staffordshire and beyond. From 1927 he taught at Wolstanton Grammar School for 40 years and began evening classes at “Stoke Tech” [now Staffordshire University], encouraging members to join the Geologists’ Association of London. Thus was born the NSGGA in 1948. In the 1950s and 60s he helped Keele University Postgraduate Certificate of Education students with a teaching methods course, joining the staff of the Education Department in 1967 on his retirement from teaching. Also in 1967, he was a Founding Father of the Association of Teachers of Geology that had its inaugural meeting at Keele, at which he was elected Treasurer, a post he held for 10 years. His daughter Ann has generously funded the John Myers Awards in his memory.