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Let’s talk about fracking

Last month, Professor Richard Davies of the ReFINE (Researching Fracking In Europe) project at Durham University gave a GSL Lecture entitled ‘Fracked or Fiction: What are the risks associated with...

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2015 – the Year of Mud!

We’re kicking of a series of themed years, by declaring 2015 the year of mud, mud, glorious mud! Geological Society Council Member Lucy Slater explains…           “In 2015, we’re focusing on the...

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Terra Infirma: What has salt tectonics ever done for us?

Folded salt in a Sicilian mine Our London Lecture series ended on a high last year with Imperial College’s Chis Jackson explaining why we should all be halophiles. For those who missed out, it’s now...

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Deadly volcanic flows

Dr Rebecca Williams of the University of Hull As everyone of course knows, Dante’s Peak is the greatest of all geological disaster movies (fight with me in the comments.) So I was thrilled last month...

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Confronting the fracking furore with facts

A guest blog from Paul Younger, Professor of Energy Engineering at the University of Glasgow* The author in Blenkinsopp Colliery, Northumberland Shale gas fracking is not really my fight: I do not have...

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Engineering a Dinosaur

Our March London Lecture was given by Professor Emily Rayfield, a palaeontologist at the University of Bristol. Her research concerns the evolution of the skull and its relation to feeding behaviour in...

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