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Wednesday, 12 February, 2025 starts at 19:30
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Speaker: Dr David Schofield
*Please note that there’s been a change to the meeting arrangements.* This meeting will now be held via Microsoft Teams. You don’t need a Teams account. You will be able to join by using the link above – the meeting will open in your browser in a similar way to Zoom.
Meeting opens at 19:20, 10 minutes before scheduled start.
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Meeting ID:Â 339 826 984 49
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Dr David Schofield is the Chief Geologist at Nuclear Waste Services. He is a Chartered Geologist with over 27 years professional experience much of which has been spent in the survey geology and international development fields. Throughout this experience David has contributed to geological aspects of a number of nuclear sector safety cases including leading a significant task withing the National Geological Screening process as part of the current Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) development.
Illustrative example of a GDF © gov.uk
Wednesday, 12 February, 2025 starts at 19:30
Click here to open Teams Meeting
Speaker: Dr David Schofield
*Please note that there’s been a change to the meeting arrangements.* This meeting will now be held via Microsoft Teams. You don’t need a Teams account. You will be able to join by using the link above – the meeting will open in your browser in a similar way to Zoom.
Meeting opens at 19:20, 10 minutes before scheduled start.
Details if prompted:
Meeting ID:Â 339 826 984 49
Passcode:Â hU9Fr3UH
Dr David Schofield is the Chief Geologist at Nuclear Waste Services. He is a Chartered Geologist with over 27 years professional experience much of which has been spent in the survey geology and international development fields. Throughout this experience David has contributed to geological aspects of a number of nuclear sector safety cases including leading a significant task withing the National Geological Screening process as part of the current Geological Disposal Facility (GDF) development.
Illustrative example of a GDF © gov.uk
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Wednesday, 22 January, 2025 starts at 19:30
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Speaker: Dr Con Gillen
Zoom meeting. Opens 19:20, 10 minutes before the scheduled event start time.
Dr Con Gillen did a structural geology PhD at the University of Glasgow. His notable publications include the popular ‘Geology and Landscapes of Scotland’. He is Director of Lifelong Learning at the University of Edinburgh.
This talk will take you on a geological journey across Scotland’s west coast islands, from St Kilda in the north to Ailsa Craig in the south. The route covers the ancient rocks of the Lewisian complex in the Outer Hebrides, to Moine rocks of the Northern Highlands ‘terrane’, then Dalradian of the Grampian and Argyll Highlands and Old Red Sandstone, Carboniferous and Permian-Triassic rocks of the Midland Valley. We will cross the Outer Hebrides Fault, the Moine Thrust and the Great Glen and Highland Boundary faults. Highlights include the volcanic and intrusive igneous rocks of the Hebridean province, of Paleogene age, with the famous Fingal’s Cave on Staffa and the Black Cuillin gabbro hills of Skye. The islands showcase some of Scotland’s best geology and landscapes.

Members may be interested in a forthcoming zoom talk for Edinburgh Geological society on 15 January at 7 pm by Linda Cotterill (formerly Marshall).
The title is “Origin of mixed magma ring intrusions- implications for their extrusive, explosive ignimbrite equivalents in the BPIP, West Scotland.“
Further details from the EGS website https://www.edinburghgeolsoc.org/lectures/#toggle-id-7
The zoom link for this talk will be https://us06web.zoom.us/j/8962221717?pwd=akOgU7siMVoT9OoaN9SOLDGC2UuL6R.1&omn=86592733041
Meeting ID: 896 222 1717
Passcode: EGS
The talk will also be available later on the EGS Youtube channel.