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Most recent publications

 

Number 1 (published 1975)

Editorial from No. 1 - by Brian Latham

Field excursion to Robin Hood's Bay by Ken Fenton

Field meeting at Melton Bottoms by Felix Whitham

Fossils of all kinds digested into a method  by John Woodward 1728

List of members

Members' Evening by Hubert Watson

Temporary section of the Black Band at Flixton by Brian Latham

Number 2 (published 1977)

Bridlington to Hornsea 1975 by Kenneth Fenton

Editorial by Lynden Emery & Ken Fenton

The Hessle Till - new light on an old problem by Lewis Penny

Tides on the Yorkshire coast by Hubert Watson

Number 3 (published 1980)

Editorial by Lynden Emery

In the beginnings - by Kenneth Fenton.

The T B Parks collection in Hull Museum by Patrick Boylan

Recollections by Robert Stainforth

Number 4 (published 1984)

Members' Evening by Mike Horne

Report of field excursion to Kelsey Hill, June 16th. 1888  by F F Walton

A Short Walk near North Newbald by Mike Horne

The Society in the 1930s by Willy Wright

Number 5 (published 1986)

Editorial by Lynden Emery

Excursion to Bridlington June 30th 1888

The Geology of Pearson Park, by Mike Horne

In Memoriam - Kenneth Fenton

Notes and Comments

Past Officers of the Hull Geological Society (updated version 2021)

Tom Sheppard "Hyper-Scientist" by Mike Horne

Number 6 (published 1988)

The Centenary Chalk Project by Mike Horne

Editorial by Mike Horne and Lynden Emery

Field meetings 1986-7 by Mike Horne

Galerites abbreviatus in East Yorkshire by Lynden Emery

Hull Geological Society 1945 to 1962 by George De Boer

Kenneth Fenton by Eric Chicken

Kenneth Febton and the Hull Geological Society by Mike Horne

Notes and Comments compiled by Mike Horne

Officers and contents

 

Number 7 (published 1989)

The History of the Hull Geological Society 1888 - 1988 by Mike Horne (slightly updated version; without pictures or appendix).

The History of the Hull Geological Society 1888 - 1988 by Mike Horne (slightly updated version; with pictures - 500KB ).

Number 8 (published 1991)

The Cretaceous beds of North Lincolnshire by C F B Shilito

Editorial by Mike Horne

Excursion to Market Weighton 1888

Field Meeting at Betton Farm and Cayton Bay 1990 by Felix Whitham and Terry Rockett

Field Meetings 1990 by Mike Horne

A geological walk in the city of Hull by Ron Harrison and Mike Horne

List of members 1990

Notes and Comments by Mike Horne

C F B Shilito by Mike Horne

Stratigraphy of the Chalk at Thixendale by Felix Whitham, Mike Horne and Lynden Emery

Summer Meetings 1988 by Mike Horne

Humberside Geologist No. 9 (published 1991) 

Bibliography of East Yorkshire Geology by Mike Horne (updated March 2006 - about 210Kb)

Number 10 (Published 1992)

Aland Erratics in Britain by John Barry

Bridestones by Cyril Dutton

Editorial by Mike Horne

Excursion to South Ferriby and Barton in 1888 by F F Walton (with notes by Mike Horne)

Flint Meal  by Mike Horne

The geology of Middlegate Quarry, South Ferriby by Felix Whitham

The geology of South Cave Station Quarry by Felix Whitham

Glaciation and the Yorkshire Coast by Terry Rockett

Members' Evening 1992

Notes and Comments (1992) by Mike Horne and Mike Boyd

The origin of flint in chalk by Cyril Dutton

Report of the East Riding Boulder Committee 1987-1991

Some Eighteenth Century Notes on Glacial Erratics in Humberside - by Mike Boyd

Starting geology in East Yorkshire by Mike Horne

Water resources of the Yorkshire Chalk by C Green

Number 11 (published 1995)

Extinctions in the fossil record by Terry Rockett

Field meetings 1993 by Mike Horne

Geological conservation in East Yorkshire

The Geology of the Market Weighton By-pass

Geology in the City by Mike Horne

An Ichthyosaur vertebra from Hotham Carrs by Peter Halkon

Notes and Comments by Mike Horne

Visit to a lead mine at Nenthead by David Hill

Number 12 (published 1999)

Another letter from Mary Sheppard

Discovering garnets along the shore by Cyril Dutton

Editorial by David Hill

Field Meeting to Langtoft Chalk pits by Felix Whitham

Field Trip to Scotland by David Hill

First UK RIGS Conference by Mike Horne

Notes and Comments by Mike Horne

On the Beach? by Paul Hildreth

Professor Ansel Dunham

Reminiscences of some early collecting in East Yorkshire by E V & C W Wright

Rifle Butts Quarry SSSI by Mike Horne and Cyril Dutton (a revised version was published in 2020)

Rudist bivalves - a bizarre group of fossils from the Cretaceous of Jamaica by Simon Mitchell

Speeton Clay Dinosaurs by E V Wright

Starting a small fossil collection by Mike Horne

The Geology of the Hull Fish Trail by Mike Horne

The Geology of the Melton Ross Chalk Quarries, North Lincolnshire - F Whitham

The Variegated Beds Member of the Welton Chalk Formation of North Lincolnshire - P Hildreth

Two very interesting and contrasting coarse-grained plutonic rocks found on our beaches - C Dutton

Visit to Boulby Potash Mine by Mike Horne and Nigel Whittington

Yorkshire's Jurassic Park by Mike Horne

Number 13 (published 2000)

Abstracts from joint meeting November 2000 - various authors

A field Trip to Castleton, Derbyshire - N P Whittington

A year in the life of the Hull Geological Society (1999-2000) on-line version with added photos by Mike Horne

Cement making at South Ferriby - P Vjestica & F Whitham

Editorial

Excursions from the past - P Hildreth

Lewis Frederick Penny 1920-2000 - J W Neale

Lewis Penny remembered

List of Officers and Committee for 2000.

Mark Piasecki remembered

Millennium (updated version) by Mike Horne

Millenium, Time for reflection on Time and tides - N P Whittington

Notes and comments

Report of Field Meeting in North Lincolnshire by Paul Hildreth

Report of Hull Geological Society field trip to Derbyshire - F Whitham

Report of the East Riding Boulder Committee 1992-2000 by Mike Horne

Report of 3rd UKRIGS Conference - B Heaton & M Horne

Student memories of Lewis Penny - J A Catt

The Glacial Geology of Dimlington High Cliff - F Whitham, M Horne & T Rockett.

The Internet, a useful tool for geologists? - N P Whittington

The strange and wonderful Speeton Clay by Mike Horne

The Upper Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay by Martin Chambers

Thoughts on the Millennium by Cyril Dutton

Walton Street and the Hull Geological Society - F Whitham

Number 14 (published 2008)

Abstracts from the "Open Questions in East Yorkshire Geology" meeting, October 2005 - various authors

Abstracts from the "The Pleistocene World" meeting 13th October 2001 - various authors (text only)

Abstracts from the "The Pleistocene World" meeting 13th October 2001 - various authors (with photographs about 500kb)

Coastal Erosion and the Lost Towns of Holderness. by Gordon Ostler

The coastal exposures of Boulder Clay and erratics in Holderness by Stuart Jones

Glazes: from ash and clay by Stan Prokop (with photographs)

The Geochemistry of the Red Clays of Holderness and their origin by Caroline Memczak et al. (236kb)

Geological rambles of a Tank Officer in World War 2 by E V Wright

The geology of East Yorkshire coast. - Report of a joint meeting of the Hertfordshire and Hull Geological Societies held in September 2003 by Mike Horne ( with photographs)

The geology of East Yorkshire coast.- Report of a joint meeting of the Hertfordshire and Hull Geological Societies held in September 2003 by Mike Horne ( text only)

The Importance of the Caytoniales and Cayton Bay (Yorkshire) Mid-Jurassic Flora in Relation to Flowering Plant Ancestry by John B. Barrett

Michael House remembered by Dr. Peter McCabe

Notes and comments by Mike Horne

Notes on the UKRIGS Conference 2002 by Barrie Heaton

Obituary - Donald Beveridge by Felix Whitahm

The real mineral resources of the United Kingdom by Peter W. Scott

Report of the East Riding Boulder Committee 2001 to 2004 by Mike Horne

Shells collected from the Kelsey Hill Gravels at Keyingham by Stephen Whittaker

Some open questions in East Yorkshire Geology by G W Lamplugh 1898.

Starting geology by Cyril Dutton

St Austin and the Fairy: a tale of two RIGS by Derek J. Gobbett

A tribute to Professor Michael House by Roger A. Hewitt

The work of G.W. Lamplugh in understanding the Quaternary history of East Yorkshire by John A. Catt

Unfolding the Ingletonian Rocks of North Yorkshire by Paul Hildreth

Yorkshire Geology Month 2005 by Mike Horne

Number 15 (published 2015)

The Amazing Mr Sheppard by M. R. D. Seaward (online version only)

Collecting Rocks, Minerals and Fossils in East Yorkshire by Ros Perry (online version only)

The current condition of inland exposures of Chalk on the Yorkshire Wolds by D Gobbett (printed version only)

HGS Field Trip to Ravenscar by Terry Rockett.

HGS Visit to Frodingham Ironstone quarries by Terry Rockett.

Macrofossil succession of the Burnham Formation of North Ormsby, Lincolnshire by J.P. Green

Notes on Trip Through France September 2011 by Barrie Heaton

The Provenance of the Glacial Tills on the Holderness Coast, East Yorkshire, UK. Luke Beaumont (online version only)

Quaternary Geology of the Holderness Coast: A Brief Overview by Tracy J. Marsters

Report of the East Riding Boulder Committee 2005 to 2011 by Mike Horne

A Section of the Burnham Chalk Formation at Ulceby Vale Quarry by P. N. Hildreth

Skipsea Withow Mere by Tracy J. Marsters

A summary Cenozoic history of the Yorkshire Wolds by Derek Gobbett

Tectonic structures in the Chalk of the northern part of the Yorkshire Wolds by Derek Gobbett

The Tertiary basalts of Antrim and the underlying Chalk - The Giant's Causeway by Terry Rockett

Whitby and the Cleveland Dyke by Paul Hildreth

Humberside Geologist no 16

(published online from 2019 to 2022)

An Ancient Mere at Barmston on the Holderness Coast – The Snail’s Tale (pdf 710k) by Arthur Speed [published 2021].

Beneath our feet in Welton, Melton and Wauldby by Terry Rockett

Bibliography of East Yorkshire Geology 1988 to 2014 by Mike Horne

The Bisat Project Phase I  - Sequential Photographs of the Cliffs of the Holderness Coast  (pdf 650k) by Graham Kings [published 2020]

Churches, Lichens and Rocks field meeting 2019 by Janet Robson, Mark Seaward and Mike Horne [published 2019]

The distribution of indicator glacial erratics in eastern Yorkshire by Mike Horne [published 2021]

Editorial [published 2022]

Excursion to South Ferriby, May 1970 [published 2021].

Geology and Lichens of Saint Michael’s Church by Mark Seaward and Mike Horne [published 2019]

The Hornsea Tesco Boulder by Dennis Haughey, Mike Horne and Stuart Jones [published 2020]

John Robert Mortimer by Rodger Connell [published 2022]

Lynden Emery remembered by Mike Horne  [published 2021]

A note on the occurrence of ironstone in the Hunstanton Formation (Red Chalk) at Rifle Butts Quarry SSSI, East Yorkshire (pdf 510k) by Peter W. Scott and Mike Horne [published 2021]

Ongoing work by the Bisat Research Group, Hull Geological Society, on the glacial stratigraphy of the Holderness cliff sections (pdf 500k) - Rodger Connell, Graham Kings, Dennis Haughey and Arthur Speed [published 2021].

Organising and leading field trips - compiled by Mike Horne [published 2020]

Past Officers of the Hull Geological Society (updated)

Report of the Bisat Project 2014 to 2019 by Dennis Haughey [published 2020]

Report of the East Riding Boulder Committee 2011 to 2021 [alphabetic version] by David Hill and Mike Horne [published 2021]

Report of the East Riding Boulder Committee 2011 to 2021 [geographic version] by Mike Horne [published 2021]

Rifle Butss SSSI by Mike Horne and Cyril Dutton [revised paper published 2021]

The scientific study of glacial erratics by Mike Horne [published 2021]

Three fieldwork scenarios by Arthur Speed, Chris Leach, Mike Horne, Philip Vixseboxse and Rodger Connell. [published 2019]

Was Rifle Butts SSSI ever a quarry and who used it? by Mike Horne [published 2020]

Some other HGS articles -

Derek Gobbett's unfinished works

East Yorkshire geology

Felix Whitham - obituary by Mike Horne and some previously unpublished works

Mike Horne's unfinished works

Obituaries

Society Archives

 

Special publication number 1 - CD-ROM of the 2005 Lamplugh meeting including recordings of talks, texts and photographs of the displays and field-meeting.

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Articles in preparation for publication at a future date:-

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