Spring Programme - 2 March 2013

Recent research on the Yorkshire coast


Recent research on the Yorkshire coast. Joint meeting with the Yorkshire Geological Society

  • Dealing with the environmental legacy of Britain’s metal mining heritage - problem, Investigation and a solution for minewater discharges from Cleveland Ironstone workings at Saltburn.
    Richard Lord, Strathclyde University
  • Bored but not boring: bioerosion of belemnites in the Speeton Clay (Lower Cretaceous) of the Yorkshire Coast
    Paul D Taylor, Jane Barnbrook and Consuelo Sendino, Natural History Museum, London
  • The Development of the Betton Farm Coral Bed within the Malton Oolite (Upper Jurassic) of the Scarborough District
    John K. Wright, Royal Holloway, University of London and Prof. Peter Rawson, University of Hull and Department of Earth Sciences, University College,London
  • Sedimentology and Stratigraphy of the Callovian-Oxfordian succession, Castle Hill, Scarborough; emerging results from site investigations at the Toll House Cliff Shaft site
    John H Powell and Jim B Riding, British Geological Survey and Tom Casey, Arup, Leeds

For further information see: http://www.yorksgeolsoc.org.uk/Circulars/578.pdf