Hull Geological Society
(Founded 1888)
Registered Educational Charity No. 229147
List of past meetings and events from 20
19Saturday 5th January 2019 - New Year geology walk and picnic at Withernsea led by Mike Horne
Thursday 10th January 2019 - Committee Meeting
Thursday 17th January 2019 - Evening lecture - Dr. Michael Oates on "Exploring Morocco's Palaeontological Riches".
Thursday 24th January 2019 - Club Night - topic - Sand and Microfossils
Sunday 10th February 2019 - field meeting at Bridlington led by Rodger Connell
Thursday 21st February 2019 - Evening Lecture -
Prof Chris Clark of Sheffield University on
the "Retreat
of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet
Sunday 24th February
2019 – Bisat
Research Group Field Meeting
Thursday 28th February 2019 - Club Night - topic - fossils
Sunday 10th March 2019 -
Bisat Research Group Field Meeting
Thursday 21st March 2019 - Evening Lecture - Prof David Bond of Hull
University on "When life nearly died - new perspectives on the
Permian-Triassic mass extinction
Thursday 28th March 2019 - Annual General Meeting and guest speaker
Dr Lyndsey Fox of Hull University on "Illuminating Anthropogenic
climate change with 150 years of ocean science"
Sunday 7th April 2019 - Flamborough Quaternary Research Group field meeting
Saturday 27th April 2019 - Conservation visit to Rifle Butts SSSI led by Mike Horne
Thursday 9th May 2019 - Club Night - topic: geological maps
Thursday 16th May 2019 - field meeting at Withernsea led by Brenda and Jack Almond and Janet Robson (part of Yorkshire Geology Month)
Sunday 19th May 2019 - Rocks in the Cemetery walk led by Mike Horne (part of Yorkshire Geology Month)
Saturday 1st June 2019 - field meeting at North Cave Wetlands cancelled
Thursday 6th June 2019 - Club Night - sand and microfossils.
Sunday 9th June 2019 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow at Flamborough Village Hall (part of Yorkshire Geology Month). Open to the public 11am to 3pm; admission free .
Saturday 29th June 2019 - field meeting - Churches, Lichens and Rocks led by Janet Robson, Mark Seaward and Mike Horne; visiting Rudston, Kilham and Kirkburn.
Thursday 11th July 2019 - Club Night - topic: patterns in rocks and fossils
Wednesday 17th July 2019 - display at Driffield Show display cancelled
Saturday 20th July 2019 - display at Hornsea Carnival display cancelled
Saturday 3rd August 2019 - field meeting - geological mapping at North Newbald. Click here for more information about mapping
Thursday 8th August 2019 - Club Night - topic: geological fieldwork.
Saturday 24th August 2019 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow at Hornsea. Open to the public 11am to 3pm; admission to the Roadshow is free *.
Sunday 15th September 2019 - Flamborough Quaternary Research Group field meeting
Thursday 26th September 2019 - Club Night - topic: my favourite geology books
Thursday October 24th 2019 - (evening lecture) - Laura Eddey on "A Reevaluation of Lake Pickering, North Yorkshire".
Saturday 26th October 2019 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow at the Market House in Exchange Street, Driffield. Open to the public 11am to 3pm; admission free.
Saturday 9th November 2019 - Microfossils Workshop
Thursday 14th November 2019 - (evening lecture) - Chris Darmon (of GeoSupplies) on "The Geology of Southern Norway"
Thursday 28th November 2019 - Club Night - topic: unusual rocks and fossils
Thursday 12th December 2019 (evening lecture) - Graham Kings
and Rodger Connell on "A long walk on the beach...
in the company of W.S.Bisat and others"
Thursday 16th January 2020 - Members' Evening
Thursday 30th January 2020 - Club Night - topic: geology on the world wide web
Thursday 13th February 2020 - (evening lecture) - Cancelled
Thursday 12th March 2020 - AGM and evening lecture - Richard Forrest on 'Plesiosaurs from Yorkshire (with a brief excursion south of the Humber)'
Following the AGM the government imposed restrictions on meetings due to the Covid-19 pandemic; indoor meetings were cancelled and the number of people attending field meetings was restricted until June 2021.
Thursday 2nd April 2020
- Virtual Club Night - "Geological I Spy... something
beginning with A"
Saturday 4th April 2020 - Conservation visit and social at Rifle Butts SSSI led by Mike Horne and Stuart Jones Cancelled
Thursday 30th April 2020 - Virtual Club Night - "Time to Rethink"
Saturday 9th May 2020 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow* at Treasure House in Beverley organised by Rod Towse (part of Yorkshire Geology Month); Cancelled
Sunday 10th May 2020 - morning geology walk in Hull's Spring Bank Cemetery led by Mike Horne (part of Yorkshire Geology Month)
Thursday 21st May 2020 - afternoon geology walk in Driffield Cemetery led by Mike Horne (part of Yorkshire Geology Month)
Thursday 21st May 2020 - Virtual Club Night - Geological Drawing
Sunday 24th May 2020 - the Quaternary and Chalk Geology of Flamborough, led by Mike Horne (part of Yorkshire Geology Month). Event Cancelled
Sunday 7th June 2020 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow at Flamborough Village Hall organised by Stuart Jones,(part of Yorkshire Geology Month) Event Cancelled
Thursday 18th June 2020 - Virtual Club Night - topic: gemstones and semi-precious stones
Tuesday 30th June 2020 - evening picnic and boulder survey at Mappleton led by Mike Horne - Cancelled
Saturday 4th July 2020 - boulder survey at Skipsea Withow Mere, led by Mike Horne - Cancelled
Sunday 5th July 2020 - a morning geology walk in Hull's Spring Bank Cemetery led by Mike Horne
Wednesday 8th July 2020 - a different morning geology walk in Hull's Spring Bank Cemetery led by Mike Horne
Thursday 16th July 2020- Virtual Club Night - "Geological I Spy... something beginning with B"
Saturday 18th July 2020 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow* at Driffield Masonic Hall organised by Stuart Jones, open to the public 11am to 3pm; admission free. Event Cancelled
Thursday 30th July 2020 - Club Night at Dinostar in Humber Street, Hull - postponed.
Thursday 6th August 2020 - pop-up field meeting at Skipsea led by Mike Horne
Thursday 6th August 2020 - Virtual Club Night - Rocks and fossils as household ornaments
Thursday 27th August 2020 - Virtual Club Night - topic: Holderness erratics
Saturday 29th August 2020 - Rock and Fossil Roadshow* at Hornsea Museum Event Cancelled because the Museum was closed.
Saturday 5th September 2020 - field meeting to Barmston and Fraisthorpe led by Arthur Speed - postponed.
Thursday 10th September 2020 - Virtual Club Night - something beginning with "C"
Sunday 20th September 2020 - morning Bisat Research Group field meeting at Skipsea - training on geological logging led by Graham Kings and Mike Horne
Thursday 24th September 2020 - Virtual Club Night on Facebook - the topic is "Building Stones".
Tuesday 29th September 2020 - morning field trip to Keyingham Gravel Pit, led by Mike Horne
Monday 5th October 2020 - morning Bisat Research Group field meeting on the Holderness Coast - cancelled
Thursday 8th October 2020 - (evening lecture) Dr Peter Hoare on "Foot prints and hearths: recent advances in East Anglian Palaeolithic archaeology" - cancelled.
Monday 12th October 2020 - morning walk in Hull's Northern Cemetary led by Mike Horne
Thursday 15th October 2020 - field meeting to South Ferriby led by Mary Howard and Mike Horne
Monday 19th October 2020 - morning Bisat Research Group field meeting at Barmston - training on geological logging led by Graham Kings and Mike Horne
Thursday 22nd October 2020 - Virtual Club Night on Facebook - something beginning with "D"
Wednesday 4th November 2020 - morning Bisat Research Group field meeting on the Holderness Coast - cancelled.
Saturday 7th November 2020 - Morning building stones walk for the Geologists' Association Festival of Geology led by Mike Horne - cancelled.
Sunday 8th November 2020 - Morning grave stones walk for the Geologists' Association Festival of Geology led by Mike Horne.
Thursday 12th November 2020 - evening lecture by Dr Jonathon Dean, - postponed.
Wednesday 18th November 2020 - morning Bisat Research Group field meeting on the Holderness Coast - cancelled.
Thursday 26th November 2020 -
Virtual Club Night
on Facebook
- I spy something geological beginning with
"E"
Thursday 3rd December 2020 - Virtual Club Night on Zoom - memories of HGS field meetings
Thursday 10th December 2020 - evening lecture by Dr Eddie Dempsey on the geology of the Scottish Highlands, postponed.
Thursday 17th December 2020 - evening Zoom lecture meeting - David Hill on "The Volcanoes of Sicily and the Aeolian islands"
Saturday 2nd January 2021 (provisional) - New Year Picnic on the Holderness Coast - postponed.
Friday 8th January 2021 - Virtual Club Night on Facebook - the topic is Dinosaurs
Thursday 14th January 2021 - Zoom Lecture - Professor Patrick Boylan, School of Arts and Social Sciences, City, University of London on "New light on the Neanderthals: music, rope-making. and now an apparent genetic link to Coronavirus" postponed
Saturday 16th January 2021 - morning Bisat Research Group field meeting on the Holderness Coast - cancelled.
Thursday 21st January 2021 - evening lecture by Dr Bryony Caswell postponed
Wednesday 27th January 2021 - Zoom Talk - John Connor on Geomorphological Aspects of the San Andreas Fault click here for the abstract
Monday 1st February 2021 - morning Bisat Research Group field meeting on the Holderness Coast - cancelled.
Tuesday 3rd February - Zoom Lecture - Professor Patrick Boylan, School of Arts and Social Sciences, City, University of London on "New light on the Neanderthals: music, rope-making. and now an apparent genetic link to Coronavirus" click here for the abstract
Thursday 4th February 2021 - Morning walk "Geology in Hull" led by Mike Horne,
Thursday 11th February 2021 - evening Zoom lecture meeting - Mike Horne on "the Geology beneath Hull"
Monday 15th February 2021 - morning Bisat Research Group field meeting on the Holderness Coast - cancelled.
Thursday 18th February 2021 - evening lecture by Steve Plater of Dinostar postponed
Wednesday 24th February 2021 - Zoom Seminar - Fossilisation - chaired by Mike Horne
Thursday 25th February 2021 - Virtual Club Night on Facebook - "something geological beginning with F"
Thursday 11th March 2021 - evening Zoom lecture meeting - David Hill on "The geology of southern Sweden"
Thursday 18th March 2021 - Annual General Meeting - virtual meeting with postal ballot.
Thursday 25th March 2021 - Members' Evening on Zoom - includes Helen Kitson on Keyingham Gravel Pit, Arthur Speed on "Churches big and small", and Mike Horne on South Ferriby Foreshore
Thursday 8th April 2021- evening Zoom lecture meeting - Mike Horne on "the Type Erratics collection" click here for the abstract
Friday 16th April 2021 - morning Bisat Research Group field meeting on the Holderness Coast
Friday 16th April 2021 - Virtual Club Night on Facebook - "Sedimentary structures"
Wednesday 21st April 2021- Zoom Seminar - John Connor and Mike Horne on "The cobble churches of Holderness"
Thursday 29th April 2021 - South Ferriby Foreshore fieldwork led by Mary Howard and Mike Horne
Wednesday 12th May2021 - evening Zoom lecture meeting - John Connor on "The Use of Geophysics for Marine Archaeology" click here for the abstract
Friday 14th May 2021- morning Bisat Research Group field meeting on the Holderness Coast
Friday 28th May 2021 - morning Bisat Research Group field meeting on the Holderness Coast - Cancelled
Friday 28th May 2021 - Virtual Club Night on Facebook - "something geological beginning with G"
Wednesday 2nd June 2021 - evening zoom lecture - Paul Hildreth on Middlegate Quarry, South Ferriby. click here for the abstract
Sunday 13th June 2021 - morning Bisat Research Group field meeting on the Holderness Coast - Cancelled
Sunday 20th June 2021 - conservation visit to Rifle Butts SSSI organised by Stuart Jones and Mike Horne
Monday 21st June 2021 - afternoon geological walk in Northern Cemetery led by Mike Horne
Monday 28th June 2021 - morning Bisat Research Group field meeting on the Holderness Coast - Cancelled
Wednesday 7th July 2021 - Committee Meeting on Zoom
Monday 12th July 2021 - morning Bisat Research Group field meeting on the Holderness Coast - Suspended
Wednesday 28th July 2021 - Zoom Seminar - Reading the Landscape - chaired by Mike Horne - includes slideshows by John Connor, David Hill and Mike Horne .
Sunday 8th August 2021 - New Year Picnic (re-arranged) at Withernsea led by Mike Horne.
Wednesday 11th August 2021 - Bisat Research Group field meeting at Withernsea.
Wednesday 11th August 2021 - Zoom Members' Evening on the topic of "Why Geology (what inspired you to become a geologist)?"
Thursday 12th August 2021 - members only evening visit to Dinostar.
Thursday 19th August 2021 - Virtual Club Night on Facebook - "something geological beginning with H"
Wednesday 25th August 2021 - Zoom talk by John Connor on "Old-fashioned Seismic in Mesopotamia
Sunday 29th August 2021 - a morning walk in Hull General Cemetery led by Mike Horne
Tuesday 21st September 2021 - field trip to Holderness Coast led by Mike Horne
Wednesday 22nd September 2021- Bisat Research Group field meeting at Withernsea
Thursday 7th October 2021 - Virtual Club Night on Facebook - "something geological beginning with I"
Thursday 21st October 2021 - Zoom talk by Dr Arthur Speed on "A virtual field trip to Barmston"
Thursday 4th November 2011 - Committeee Meeting
Thursday 18th November 2021 - Club Night on Zoom - the topic is "my favourite geological places".
Thursday 2nd December 2021 - (cancelled due to technical problems) Zoom talk by Dr Sam Griffiths of CITIZAN on " Geology and Humans : Chalk and Cheese or intertwined. " click here for the abstract
Thursday 16th December 2021 - Virtual Club Night on Facebook - "something geological beginning with J"
Wednesday 5th January 2022 - New Year Picnicat Withernsea led by Mike Horne
Thursday 6th January 2022 - Zoom talk by Mike Horne on "the Boulder Clays of Holderness"
Thursday 27th January 2022 -
Virtual Club Night
on Facebook - "something geological beginning with K"
Thursday 24th February 2022 - Evening lecture by Bryony Caswell of Hull University on "Ocean seafloors past, present and future: benthic responses to environmental change".
Thursday 3rd March 2022 - Virtual Club Night on Facebook - "something geological beginning with L"
Thursday 17th March 2022 - AGM followed by a talk by David Hill about "the Ammonites of Ilminster",
Wednesday 23rd March 2022 - Bisat Research Project field meeting at South Landing led by Graham Kings.
Friday 25th to Monday 28th March 2022 - weekend field trip to Anglesey - Ynys Mon Global Geopark - led by David Hill.
Wednesday 13th April 2022 - Zoom talk by John Connor on "Mud Volcanoes of the South Caspian Sea" click here for the abstract
Thursday 28th April 2022 - Wold Newton Walk led by Martin Longshaw
Thursday 12th May 2022 - Club Night - "Curiosities and Treasures".
Saturday 14th May 2022 - Yorkshire Geology Day at Caphouse Colliery - HGS display and publications on sale
Sunday 15th May 2022 - a morning walk in a Hull Cemetery led by Mike Horne - Part of Yorkshire Geology Month
Thursday 26th May 2022 - Virtual Club Night on Facebook - "Vertebrate Fossils"
Thursday 9th June 2022 - Virtual Club Night on Facebook - "something geological beginning with M"
Saturday 16th July 2022 - conservation visit and social at Rifle Butss SSSI, led by Stuart Jones and Mike Horne
Wednesday 20th July 2022 - Zoom talk - John Connor
on "More
Chert Than You Can Shake A Stick At"
Saturday 30th July 2022 - East Riding Boulder Committee field meeting on the Holderness Coast led by Mike Horne
Monday 1st August 2022 - Zoom talk by Mike Horne - Rocks in the Cemetery: Arnos Vale.
Friday 19th August 2022 - Cancelled - Driffield Mortimer Walk led by Rodger Connell click here for the abstract
Saturday 27th August 2022 - Roadshow at Hornsea Museum
Saturday 10th September 2022 - HGS display and field trips at the Geologists' Association Annual Conference. The theme for the Saturday conference is a celebration of the extraordinary palaeontological discoveries made in the UK over the last couple of years. Click here to read a report.
Sunday 11th September 2022 - morning geology and architecture walk around Hull's city centre led by Mike Horne. Joint meeting with the Geologists' Association.
Wednesday 14th September 2022 - Zoom talk - John Connor on
"Geology
of Red Rock Canyon, Nevada"
Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th September 2022 - (cancelled) HGS display at the Yorkshire Fossil Festival in Scarborough.
Thursday 29th September 2022 - Virtual Club Night on Facebook - "something geological beginning with P"
Saturday 8th October 2022 - extra meeting - field trip to Skipsea led by Mike Horne
Thursday 13th October 2022 - Committee Meeting
Thursday 3rd November 2022 - Virtual Club Night on Facebook - "something geological beginning with Q"
Wednesday 9th November 2022 - Zoom talk - Mike Horne on
the "Rocks under Kingston upon Hull"
Wednesday 16th November 2022 - Zoom talk - John Connor on "Yorks/Lincs/Norfolk Coastal Erosion - Compare &
Contrast"
Thursday 15th December 2022 - Quiz Night on Zoom with question rounds set by Terry Rockett, Mary Howard and Mike Horne. - click here to see the questions and answers
Thursday 29th December 2022 - Virtual Club Night on Facebook - "something geological beginning with R"
Wednesday 11th January 2023 - Zoom talk - John
Connor on "Bay
Area Exotics"