Humberside Geologist number 16

2019 to 2022

Editorial

The last few years have seen a number of changes for the Hull Geological Society and probably many other scientific societies and clubs. There was the Coronavirus pandemic with its lockdowns from March 2020 which meant that we could not hold indoor lecture meetings or roadshows and that outdoor field meetings had to be limited to two or six people at various times. This continued through most of 2020 and 2021 and the Society replaced these with online events using Facebook and Zoom, as well keeping in touch via our e-mail newsletters and web pages. This did mean that members who do not use these forms of electronic communication were unable to take part; however members who live further away or prefer not to drive to Hull for an evening meeting were able to participate more frequently. These changes are likely to affect our plans for the future; perhaps we will have a “blended” programme of virtual and actual meetings.

The HGS Committee came to the decision earlier to only publish Humberside Geologist on the internet; most members did not collect their free printed copies of Number 15 and no one seemed interested in back numbers, or the CD-ROM versions which offered the possibilities of better quality illustrations and additional data.

Number 16 offers 20 research articles mostly about the Quaternary of Holderness and the study of erratics (the Bisat Research Project and the East Riding Boulder Committee), some collaborations with lichenologist Mark Seaward and our very own SSSI (Rifle Butts owned by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust). This reflects the current research interests of our members, it was not planned as a Quaternary special!  In this volume we have used the pdf format to condense the size of some longer articles which contain more illustrations than would be achievable in the usual html format.

As well as this formal peer reviewed journal, we have published some back numbers of older publications (Transactions of the Hull Geological Society and East Yorkshire Field Studies) as well as many informal web pages about local geology, Society activities, obituaries and field guides; before the internet these would have been published in our journal or just remained hidden in our paper archives.

On behalf of the Society I thank our editors for reviewing and where necessary recommending changes to the articles – Rodger Connell, Paul Hildreth, David Hill, Anne Horne, Mary Howard, Jan Silva, Stuart Jones and Tracy Marsters for their help and the authors for their contributions to our journal.

Mike Horne, Honorary General Secretary, December 2022.

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