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URL:https://www.cumberland-geol-soc.org.uk/events/recent-work-on-acadian-s
 laty-cleavage/
SUMMARY:Acadian arcuate fold trends
DESCRIPTION:Dr Alastair Baird (Kingston University) will give a talk on "A 
 consideration of Acadian arcuate fold trends in north Wales and the southe
 rn Lake District".\n\nAlastair graduated from Bedford College London in 19
 75\, with a 1st class Hons. degree in Geology. In 1976 he obtained an MSC
  with Distinction\, from Imperial College in Structural geology &amp\; Roc
 k Mechanics..\n\nIn the summer of 1976 he returned to Bedford College Lond
 on to commence a PhD into the structural &amp\; metamorphic geology of the
  Moine rocks of the Scottish Highlands around Glenfinnan. 4 years later he
  became a research assistant for 3 years to Dr D Powell\, working on rocks
  from adjacent areas.\n\nIn 1983 he began 3 years of Post Doctoral Researc
 h in Durham with Prof John Dewey into the tectonics of the Pennine Alps in
  Switzerland &amp\; Italy.\n\nIn 1986 he left Durham\, submitted his PhD\,
  (after completing the Post Doc research )\, and started work as a lecture
 r in what was then Kingston Polytechnic\, but subsequently became Kingston
  University.  He lectured in Kingston for 31 years\, before retiring in 2
 017.\n\nFrom 1986 to 1996 he regularly consulted for major Oil Companies\,
  working mostly in Tunisia\, but also in the Italian Alps\, the Italian So
 uthern Apennines\, the Black Sea coast of Northern Turkey (with Danny Clar
 k-Lowes)\, Cuba and latterly on the potential Shale Gas deposits of the UK
 ..\n\nIn 1996 he started consulting on the Lead - Zinc deposits of Norther
 n Tunisia\, and did so for about 12 years\, working as an exploration geol
 ogist and subsequently as a Director of Maghreb Minerals Plc.\n\nAfter ret
 irement he moved to Colwyn Bay.  In 2023 he resumed geological activity i
 n north Wales\, revisiting the Ogwen - Idwal area of Northern Snowdonia\, 
 where he'd previously published a short paper in 1999. Since then he's don
 e additional fieldwork in Snowdonia\, regularly worked with 'GeoMon' in An
 glesey and lectured to the Liverpool Geol. Soc.\, the North Wales Geol.Soc
 . and the NW Regional Group of the Geological Society.\n\nIn the next few 
 months he will be lecturing to the u3a Llandudno Group\, and then leading 
 them on a field trip around the Idwal - Ogwen area. In the autumn he'll be
  co-leading the Yorkshire Geol Soc on a 4-5 day trip to Anglesey.\n\n&nbsp
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LOCATION:Crosthwaite Parish Rooms\, Main Street\, Keswick\, CA12 5NN\, Unit
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