The evening commenced with a look back at last years activities and future plans, HERE is the presentation.
Tim Carter gave a short talk about his recent trip to Bornholm, a Danish island in the Baltic with a spectacular range of geology to be seen in rugged cliffs and many quarries, easily accessible. Rocks from 1.7Ba directly adjacent to Cambrian of around 500Ma. HERE is Tim’s presentation. Expensive place, nevertheless Tim was a good, perhaps unwitting sales person and am sure we would all love to visit! HERE is a link to one of the museums and here is the island’s location:
Arthur Tingley updated us on the progress of the Knighton mapping project and one can only admire and respect the dedication over 4 or 5 years now, that Arthur has brought to this project. His team of apprentice mappers has come on in leaps and bounds, hopping from crag to crag, clip board in hand. Arthur is now bringing together all the findings and these will be field tested to either prove or disprove, in the case of the latter it means more work needed.
David Cropp talked and showed slides of his and Jane’s (Dave’s wife) trip, this month, to Greenland (Ilulissat) where they took small plane and boat journeys to see the gigantic glacial ice conveyors that calve into the north Atlantic and where the effects of global warming are startlingly apparent. Surely one has to go there to appreciate the scale of the ice cliffs and bergs and to see the numerous sea monsters that displayed close to the shore.
We had a general discussion as to the direction of the Society. Those present added to ideas from previous meetings. Many members and visitors are happy to come along just for the evening with its talk, library and social interaction, but others enjoy, in addition, field trips, geology courses, local events, academic work and so on. It is one of the duties of the committee to follow up as many of these ideas as is reasonable given the timetable and capacity. To cope with our ambitions to cover a wider range of activities and interests, it is felt that an increased level of partnership working with like minded groups would benefit all. For example, this year, there have been field trips with the Woolhope club and at the time of this meeting, Dave and John are to shortly meet the Chair and other members of the Earth Heritage Trust to investigate joint working and support.