SW Meeting - September 2018 (archived content)
Collectors, Collections and the geology of South West Britain
Booking is now closed
Abstracts booklet and programme
The digital versions of the abstracts booklet and programme are available here for download:
GCG/HoGG/BRLSI Joint Meeting 2018
REGISTRATION HAS NOW CLOSED
(but we look forward to meeting all who have already registered on 18 September in Bath!)
Joint Meeting of HOGG and GCG (History of Geology Group and Geological Curators’ Group)
Collectors, Collections and the geology of South West Britain
Hosted by the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, Bath
Tuesday 18th September 2018,
with a day of related field trips in Bath and immediate area on Wed 19th September
| GCG Event: Essential information | |
| Event title: | Collectors, Collections and the geology of South West Britain A joint meeting of GCG, HoGG and BRLSI |
| Venue: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 16-18 Queen Square, Bath https://www.brlsi.org/about-us/contact-us |
| Led by: | Matthew Parkes (GCG) Nina Morgan (HOGG) Matt Williams (BRLSI) |
| Date and time: | Tuesday 18th September, with optional field trips on Wednesday 19th September 2018. Very small additional charges for transport may apply for fieldtrips on day 2. 09.00-10:00 registration for 10.00 start |
| Catering: | Complimentary tea, coffee and cold drinks will be provided between sessions Lunch not included but many local cafes etc serve a variety of food at lunchtime, or bring your own and eat at the venue Details of field trip lunch venues will be circulated with booking details |
| Suitable for: | Curators, researchers, educators, volunteers, collectors, enthusiasts |
| Cost: | £19 includes all refreshments, discount rate £15 available for GCG, HoGG, BRLSI, and Bath Geological Society members |
| Booking: | Booking is now closed. Opens 6th August 2018 and closes 13th September 2018 |
Provisional Programme (as of 10th June 2018)
Collectors, Collections and the geology of South West Britain
Tuesday 18th September 2018
| 09.00 | Registration (poster set up, coffee available) |
| 10.00 |
Keynote Speaker – Steve Etches of The Etches Collection, Kimmeridge: A new museum – starting from scratch! |
| 10.30 |
Chris Duffin, Earth Science Department, Natural History Museum, London: Charles Moore and Late Triassic vertebrates. |
| 10.50 |
Matt Williams, Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution: Charles Moore & Strawberry Bank, Ilminster, Somerset |
| 11.10 | Coffee break and poster viewing |
| 11.40 |
Tom Cotterell, National Museum Wales: Francis Basset, 1st Baron de Dunstanville and Basset, and his mineral collection |
| 12.00 |
Maurice Tucker, Bath Geological Society and Earth Sciences Department, Bristol University: The source of stone for Roman Bath. |
| 12.20 |
Owen Green and Tony Watts, Earth Sciences Department, Oxford University: The Beacon Hill Silurian Volcano: An ancient analogue of a modern island arc? |
| 12.40 |
Jan Freedman: Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery: Plymouth’s lost Pleistocene sites. |
| 13.00 | Lunch break and poster viewing |
| 14.10 |
Geoffrey Warrington, School of Geography, Geology & Environment, University of Leicester: The Bristol Spore: The origin of Triassic palynology in Britain. |
| 14.30 |
Simon Harris, British Geological Survey: Lost and Found – the rediscovery of the Christian Malford Lagerstätte. |
| 14.50 |
Roy Starkey, Independent researcher: “Shall I send them to you now?”– Richard Talling of Lostwithiel, the greatest Cornish mineral dealer of all time. |
| 15.10 |
Mike Howe, British Geological Survey: BGS and the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall Collections. |
| 15.30 | Coffee break and poster viewing |
| 16.00 |
Karen Cook, Kansas University, US: Reflections across the Pond: Cuvier and Brongniart’s Carte géognostique des environs de Paris (1811) and Conybeare and De la Beche’s Map of 24 miles round the city of Bath coloured geologically (1823). |
| 16.20 |
Debbie Hutchinson, Bristol city Museums: Mr Sanders' Map of Bristol. |
| 16.40 |
Brian Rosen and Jill Darrell: Stratigraphic solutions: fossil corals of William Smith and Arthur Vaughan from SW England. |
| 17.00 | Close of meeting and final information on fieldtrip options |
| 17.15 | End |
| all day | Poster Presentations |
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David Hill and Natalie Watson, Alfred Gillett Trust: The Alfred Gillett Fossil Collection of Marine Reptiles from the 19th Century Quarries of Street, Somerset. |
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Jan Freedman, Curator of Natural History, Plymouth Museums, Galleries, Archives: The South West’s Greatest Mineral Collectors |
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Graham P Hickman. Bath Geological Society: Geology and hydrology of the Limpley Stoke valley and Somerset Coal Canal. |
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Deborah Hutchinson, Bristol Museum: J.W. Tutcher (1858-1951) — Geologist and pioneer of scientific photography. |
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Nina Morgan, science writer and Philip Powell, Oxford University Museum of Natural History Gravestone Geology |
Wednesday 19th September 2018
| Morning |
10:30 - 12:30 Gravestone geology walk in Haycombe Cemetery, Whiteway Rd Bath BA2 2RQ, led by Nina Morgan, science writer and Phillip Powell, Oxford University Museum of Natural History. You'll never look at cemeteries in the same way again! |
| Afternoon |
2:30 - 4:30 Trip to examine exposures at Brown's Folly, Bathford, some of the best outcrops of the Chalford Oolite Formation, Great Oolite Group, the strata that provided stone for Bath for 2000 years. Led by Maurice Tucker, Bath Geological Society and Department of Earth Sciences, Bristol University |
| All day |
Full day trip to Moons Hill volcanics, led by Tony Watts and Owen Green, Department of Earth Sciences, Oxford University |