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Wednesday, 12 February, 2025 starts at 19:30

WHERE

Click here to open Teams Meeting

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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.

Details if prompted:

Meeting ID: 339 826 984 49

Passcode: 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

 

WHEN

Wednesday, 22 January, 2025 starts at 19:30

WHERE

Click here to open Zoom Meeting

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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.

WHEN

Wednesday, 11 December, 2024 starts at 19:30

WHERE

Crosthwaite Parish Rooms
Main Street
Keswick
CA12 5NN

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Speaker: Alan Smith

Larvikite is the popular name for a group of igneous rocks from the Larvik area  of S E Norway. In its polished form it is renowned throughout the world as a particularly attractive ornamental stone.

The talk will explain the geology of this unique rock and will be illustrated with material from a field visit to the area by the speaker early this year.

The second part of the talk will illustrate locations where it can be seen in the buildings and other places in Cumbria.

A table has been booked at the Casa Bella restaurant in Keswick for 6 people including the speaker before the lecture.  We are now unable to book a large table together so if anyone wants to organise booking their own table there is an easy online booking system at   www.casabellakeswick.co.uk The booking form has a ‘Notes’ box so it might be worth filling it in to ask for a table near the table that’s already booked for the Speaker. (Quote the  Booking Reference RL7Y4M in the name of Helen James from 17.45pm) Depending on the positions of the tables we are given on the night it may hopefully work out that we can all chat together.

WHEN

Wednesday, 11 December, 2024 starts at 19:30

WHERE

Crosthwaite Parish Rooms
Main Street
Keswick
CA12 5NN

DETAILS

Speaker: Alan Smith

Larvikite is the popular name for a group of igneous rocks from the Larvik area  of S E Norway. In its polished form it is renowned throughout the world as a particularly attractive ornamental stone.

The talk will explain the geology of this unique rock and will be illustrated with material from a field visit to the area by the speaker early this year.

The second part of the talk will illustrate locations where it can be seen in the buildings and other places in Cumbria.

A table has been booked at the Casa Bella restaurant in Keswick for 6 people including the speaker before the lecture.  We are now unable to book a large table together so if anyone wants to organise booking their own table there is an easy online booking system at   www.casabellakeswick.co.uk The booking form has a ‘Notes’ box so it might be worth filling it in to ask for a table near the table that’s already booked for the Speaker. (Quote the  Booking Reference RL7Y4M in the name of Helen James from 17.45pm) Depending on the positions of the tables we are given on the night it may hopefully work out that we can all chat together.

WHEN

Wednesday, 13 November, 2024 starts at 19:30

WHERE

Zoom event will open 10 minutes prior to start time. Please attend via the link below
The Brigham Smelter in Keswick - Is this the Most Important Historic Industrial Site in Britain?

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Speaker: Mark Hatton, (Cumbria Amenity Trust Mining History Society)

 

Zoom meeting. Opens 19:20, 10 minutes before the scheduled event start time

In the year that William Shakespeare was born, men arrived in Keswick at the invitation of Queen Elizabeth I, to establish a Copper Mining & Smelting operation. These men came from Germany in 1564 bringing technology far more advanced than had been seen in England before. They were granted patents to protect their technology & a monopoly to protect their business model. But the really radical thing was how much capital they had at their disposal and how that capital had been raised. Was this combination of technology, legal protection & large scale private capital the birth of Modernity in the British Isles and the beginning of the age of Capitalism ? This richly illustrated talk looks at the evidence and leaves the audience to draw their own conclusion.

WHEN

Wednesday, 9 October, 2024 starts at 19:30

WHERE

Crosthwaite Parish Rooms
Main Street
Keswick
CA12 5NN

DETAILS

Outline: This talk examines how the concept of global glaciation in Late Precambrian (Neoproterozoic) time has evolved over the past century and more, culminating in the controversial theory of “Snowball Earth”. We take a brief look at the fieldwork we undertook in Svalbard and East Greenland in the 1970s and 1980s and then again in the 2010s. However, mostly we focus on our recent field investigations, led by Tony Spencer, on the remarkably well-preserved glacial strata on the Garvellach Islands and the Isle of Islay in western Scotland, and offer some insights into what might be appropriate modern analogues of that ancient glaciation. This work is currently being worked up for a Memoir of the Geological Society.

The presenter: Mike Hambrey is Emeritus Professor of Glaciology at Aberystwyth University, and resident of Threlkeld. He has published extensively on the topic of Neoproterozoic glaciation, particularly in the Arctic, but also has research interests in contemporary glaciology. His latest book, “Our Frozen Planet” is due to be published on 23rd October, and is a photographic journey through the world of snow and ice, with emphasis on climate change.

Please register your interest to attend via the link below
Exploring the evidence for Snowball Earth in Scotland and the North Atlantic region: a tale of Late Precambrian ice ages