Firstly our evening talks re-commence at Martley Memorial Hall on January 27th Monday 7.30pm–do come along, you will be most welcome. Tom Jones’s talk is entitled
“What Crystals in Ash can tell us: Examples from Mount St. Helens”
Studies of the crystal component of ash gives us ideas of ash production processes, ash interactions in the plume and below the surface. Example 2004/8 eruption of Mt St Helens
Don’t forget the free refreshments and do come prepared to rejoin the society (as 42 have done thus far), remember it is well worth it–none members £3/meet, members £1 so after your 4th meeting you are ‘in pocket’
The EVENTS section of the web site has been updated with advance advice on new courses for your delectation and entertainment–Paul will commence a five week course (£35) on May 12th, plus field trip on ‘The Landscape of Britain‘–-where we will learn how to interprete why and how the land looks as it does, how rocks may be identified and with bags of information we can impress our friends with! A second, more advanced 6 week course (£40) will take place later in the year, commencing October 9th,topic TBA (suggestions welcome).
Young persons from our 11 valley primary schools are to be invited to a 4 session plus 1 field trip course commencing at Chantry 4.30pm March 6th. If you know youngsters years 4,5,6 at any of the valley school please encourage them along; Janet and I will be visiting each school with promotional materials in the next week or so.
There is a full day of lectures run by the Open University Geological Society to be held Saturday 15 February 2014 at the Department of Earth Sciences, Birmingham University. All welcome, bookings essential; MORE INFO and One or two of us intend to go, let’s discuss at Jan 27th meeting.
There is a very worthwhile bi-annual magazine ‘Earth Heritage’ that you can view and download here, including back issues. Thanks Julie and Nat for forwarding me the link.
The Building Stones Project proceeds, some of you are involved, if you wish to be, please speak to or email . Here is the newsletter from Elizabeth Andrews at EHT.
Some of us plan to re-visit Sentheim in the Vosges region of France for a few days around mid June to coincide with the final summing up Grundtvig geo-village conference. We are just thinking through the planning but having been to the area it is well worth a visit, beautiful, French national rail and motor museums, excellent wine, oh yes and some pretty good geology too–if at all interested do speak up.