This year Dr Cherry Lewis, HoGG committee member, will give the Geological Society’s Founders’ Day Lecture. Hogg members can attend the lecture free of charge. Her talk entitled James Parkinson and the Founding of the Geological Society will be held at The Geological Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly on Wednesday 13 November, 2013. 17.30 Tea & coffee 18.00 Lecture […]
It’s 50 years this week since Vine and Matthews published their paper that confirmed the theory of plate tectonics. Read the full story.
Two exhibitions of particular interest to historians of geology are on at the moment. Fossils: the evolution of an idea can be seen at the Royal Society in London until Friday 8 November, 2013. It combines an exhibition of books and archives from the Royal Society Library with fossils from the Sedgwick Museum of […]
Marie Tharp was born July 30, 1920 in Ypsilanti, Michigan. As a young girl she followed her father, a soil surveyor for the United States Department of Agriculture, into the field. However, she also loved to read and actually wanted to study literature at St. John’s College in Annapolis, but as women were not admitted […]
The British Geological Survey has recently released scans of all the early hand-coloured maps of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland (1835-1905). During this period, the entire mapping output, at the basic scale of 1:63 360, or one inch to the mile, was produced as engraved sheets that were then hand-coloured. These historical […]
Volcanoes are nothing unusual on Iceland, but the eruption that started 230 years ago on June 8, 1783 was one of the deadliest events we remember. Over a six-month period an estimated 14 cubic kilometres of lava poured out from a total of 135 fissures near the old crater ofLaki,[1] covering an estimated 2,500 square […]
This year the Geological Society of London has awarded its Sue Tyler Friedman Medal to Professor Henry (Hank) Frankel of the Department of Philosophy,UniversityofMissouri–Kansas City,USA. The award was established by Gerry Friedman in 1987 by a gift of the Northeastern Science Foundation Inc. of Troy,New York, and dedicated to his wife Sue Tyler Friedman. The […]
A few places are still available on Field trips 2 and 3 and can be reserved on a first-come first-served basis by paying the full registration fee to HOGG by 15 June. Please see full details on the Inhigeo field trips webpages.
A Celebration of the work of Lord Blackett and Professor Sir Edward Bullard, on the Physics of the Earth. Although both were trained in nuclear physics, Patrick Blackett and Edward (Teddy) Bullard enjoyed careers that encompassed the Earth sciences. They were both convinced that Wegener’s ideas about continental drift had been right and their work […]
In the December issue of Focus, a science and technology magazine published by the BBC, Cherry Lewis answers the question of how we know the age of the Earth. Based on her book The Dating Game, she summarises the history of how we came to know the age of the Earth through the progressive development […]
