Lecture: Short Talks From Our Members
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Entry Fee
Members: Free
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Date and Time
19:30 -
Location
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, 16-18 Queen Square, Bath BA1 2HN
Lecture Description
This evening features three short talks from our members:
Sam Medworth: Brick clay extraction in Oldfield Park, Bath in the 19th and early 20th centuries
The Hoffman kiln at Victoria Brickworks in Oldfield Park – an important industrial site which facilitated Bath’s rapid urban expansion in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Jonathan Slack: The Ardnamurchan Igneous Complex
The vivid birefringence of an olivine crystal in one of Jonathan’s slides from the Paleogene Ardnamurchan igneous complex (one of the five major centres of the British Tertiary Volcanic Province (BTVP)).
Eric Squires: The curious history of the Thurstaston Sandstones: what links the RMS Titanic, the Niigata earthquake of 2004 and the Irish Sea Gas Fields?
The Thurstaston Sandstones of the Wirral Peninsula display a range of sedimentary structures, some very familiar and others rather unusual. Between them they tell an interesting story about their deposition and what happened next.