Event Archive

Please join us for a research seminar to be given by Dr Adam Jeffery of Keele University on ‘The ignimbrites of Terceira: a petrogenetic puzzle of peralkaline pyroclastics’. The seminar will take place on Nov. 16th at 13:00-14:00 in Meston Lecture Theatre 2. All are welcome to attend. Abstract The recent (<...

Please join us for a research seminar to be given by Dr Stephanie Zihms of Heriot-Watt University entitled ‘Crato Formation laminites - a representative geomechanical (pre-salt) analogue?’ The seminar will take place on Thursday, 9th November in Meston Lecture Theatre 2. All are welcome to attend. Abstract: With recent hydrocarbon discoveries in...

Please join us for a research seminar to be given by Dr Philip Heron of Durham University entitled ‘Beyond the crust: the role of the mantle lithosphere in plate tectonic processes’. The seminar will take place on Tuesday, 7th November in Meston MT4. All are welcome to attend. Abstract: The mantle lithosphere...

Please join us for a research seminar presented by Gretchen Früh-Green, senior research scientist at the Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology of ETH Zurich. The Seminar will take place at 1pm on 2nd November in Meston Lecture Theatre 2. All are welcome to attend. Abstract: Progressive interaction of seawater with mantle-dominated...

Please join us for a Geosciences research seminar on ‘Observation, Imaging and Interpretation in Ambient Noise Seismology’, presented by Dr Sjoerd de Ridder of the University of Edinburgh. The seminar will take place at 1PM in Meston Lecture Theatre 2. All are welcome to attend. Seminar Abstract: Microseism noise is excited by...

Please join us for a research seminar presented by Dr Cees van der Land of Newcastle University on ‘Microbialites, mudstones and Mars: Tracing biosignatures in rocks’. The seminar will take place at 1PM on Thursday 19th October in Meston Lecture Theatre 2. All are welcome to attend. 

All are invited to a Geosciences research seminar presented by Adam Cawood (University of Aberdeen) on ‘Virtual outcrops for structural geology: applications, workflows and limitations’. The talk will be held at 1PM in Meston Lecture Theatre 2. Abstract: LiDAR, and more recently, Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photogrammetry, have been used extensively in Earth...

This talk will explore three textual sources from widely differing times and places, bringing them together in previously unattempted combinations to illuminate aspects of ritual life in the Viking Age. In focus will be the treatment of the dead, sexual habits and social customs. Although the seminar will largely rely...

There will be islands.

There will be caribou.