Hertfordshire Geological Society

The Rutland Ichthyosaur: Digging up a ‘Dragon’

over Zoom

Talk by Dr. Emma Nicholls, Oxford University Museum of Natural History Abstract: The full-scale excavation in 2021 uncovered the largest near-complete reptile skeleton ever found in Britain. The animal nicknamed the ‘Rutland Sea Dragon’, would have been around 10m long, in life, and is thought to be the first confirmed record of its species, Temnodontosaurus […]

More adventures in the Lambeth Group – how understanding stratigraphy helps engineering understanding

Zoom Talk

Desiccated Reading Formation clays around the London Underground Jubilee Line between Baker Street and Bond Street stations. Image is in the public domain at Bowers, Keith, and Neil Moss, 2018. "Investigation and reconstruction of a London Underground tunnel, UK." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Civil Engineering. Vol. 171. No. 50th anniversary lecture by Dr. […]

Epping Forest through geological time

Oaklands College Sapsed Room (SR), Oaklands College, St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

48th Percy Evans Lecture given by Mike Lambert, HGS Honorary President

Sea Level Change in the Anthropocene

Oaklands College Sapsed Room (SR), Oaklands College, St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Talk by Dr. Colin Summerhayes, Emeritus Associate, Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge

Golden Anniversary Dinner

The Wellington 1 High Street, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Details to follow nearer the time

Icelandic volcanoes – title TBC

Oaklands College Sapsed Room (SR), Oaklands College, St Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Talk by Emeritus Professor Hazel Rymer, The Open University