STANMORE GRAVEL PROJECT
Samples have been collected and a site has been chosen for exposing a vertical section, more details here
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CHALK CONNECTIONS
Following our successful event for the
Colne Valley Park Festival, see the online display:
HHGS member Dr Douwe van der Meer has received the Gondwana Research Best Paper award for : Long-term Phanerozoic global mean sea-level: Insights from strontium isotope variations and estimates of continental glaciation which was published in the Journal Gondwana Research, Volume 111, November 2022, Pages 103-121 and which Douwe also presented at our February meeting.
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'Maurer Force' is gaining recognition in Japan
Professor Emeritus Shigeyuki Suzuki Department of Earth Sciences Okayama University Japan is collaborating with our very own Bob Maurer and members Dr Douwe van der Meer and Allan Wheeler to determine if the calculations in Bob's book can be used where the presently accepted Hess theory of subduction does not yield the answers. See Prof Suzuki's thoughts on the Maurer Force: