The Yorkshire Geological Society’s William Smith Map Bicentenary Meeting
On Saturday 31 October the YGS is holding a meeting jointly with the Scarborough Museums Trust/Rotunda Geology Group on: “Superposition and correlation: William Smith’s principles applied to 21st century Yorkshire”.
The meeting is free and open to the public. It commences at 2 pm in Quad 4 at the University campus on Filey Road; a 30 minute walk or short bus ride from the centre of town. Car parking is available on the campus.
Programme:
| 14.00 | Society Business and Announcements President of the Society, Dr John Knight |
| 14.05 | Introduction Pete Rawson |
| 14.10 | Back to the future of William Smith’s map – meeting modern needs for geological knowledge Andrew Howard |
| 14.45 | William “Seismic” Smith. The seismologist that might have been… Paul Wood |
| 15.20 | Coffee\Tea Break |
| 16.00 | Buried valleys, Pleistocene sediments and dating the last ice sheet advance in eastern Britain: new evidence from Flamborough Head Rodger Connell |
| 16.35 | The Osgodby Formation (Callovian, Middle Jurassic) at Burythorpe Quarry, Malton, North Yorkshire; tidally influenced sedimentation on the northern margin of the Market Weighton High John Powell, Peter Rawson, Jon Ford, James Riding and Simon Broad |
| 17.10 | End of meeting |