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MAGAZINE OF THE GEOLOGISTS’ ASSOCIATION Volume 20 No.1 March, 2021 The Smugglers Trail of Thanet | Orleigh Court | Orleigh | Thanet of Smugglers Trail The The Quaternary exposed west of the Cuckmere, East Sussex | The Chilterns chalk dry valleys, not so dry? | Chilterns chalk dry valleys, not The the Cuckmere, East Sussex | Quaternary exposed west of The conditions during rebuilding of an Early Carboniferous ecosystem | Almost like being there: new approaches to deciphering animal deciphering approaches to there: new being Almost like an Early Carboniferous ecosystem | of rebuilding during conditions behaviour from trace fossils | An update from Geology from your sofa (GFYS) | Real Urban Geology Walks near you | Hull Cemetery Hull | | Walks near you Real Urban Geology | from your sofa (GFYS) from Geology An update from trace fossils | behaviour |A journey from Lilliput to Brobdingnag | Shallow hazards and environmental change | Pterodactyls of the Sahara Desert | Environmental the Sahara Desert | Pterodactyls of environmental change | hazards and Shallow | Brobdingnag to from Lilliput |A journey Published by: Magazine of the The Geologists’ Association. Geologists’ Association Four issues per year. ISSN 1476-7600 Volume 20, No. 1 March, 2021 The GEOLOGISTS’ ASSOCIATION does not accept any CONTENTS responsibility for views and opinions expressed by individual authors in this magazine. 4 From the President Editor: DR. LIAM GALLAGHER 6 Report from Council The Geologists’ Association 8 Evening Lecture April 2021: A journey from Lilliput to Founded in 1858 The Geologists’ Association serves the interests Brobdingnag: Bivalve molluscs body size trends across of both professional and amateur geologists, as well as making geology available to a wider public. It is a national organisation the end-Triassic mass extinction and recovery based in London, but is represented by local and affiliated groups By: Dr Jed W. Atkinson around the country. The GA holds monthly lecture meetings, publishes a journal and geological guides and organises field 8 Presidential Address May 2021: Shallow geohazards excursions both in the UK and abroad. and environmental change By: Dr. Vanessa Banks Subscriptions are renewed annually on November 1st. 9 Evening Lecture June 2021: Pterodactyls of the Sahara You can join the GA on-line on our website: Desert By: Prof David Martill www.geologistsassociation.org.uk/JoiningtheGA.html [email protected] 11 Evening Lecture December 2020: Environmental By phone 020 7434 9298 or by post to Sarah Stafford, conditions that existed during rebuilding of an Early Executive Secretary, The Geologists’ Association, Burlington Carboniferous ecosystem; Prof Sarah Davies; House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0DU. By: Lesley Exton 13 Evening Lecture January 2021: Almost like being Research Award Deadline there: new approaches to deciphering animal 15 November annually behaviour from trace fossils; Dr. Jon Noad; [email protected] By: Lesley Exton 15 News Item: An update from Geology from your sofa © The Geologists’ Association. (GFYS) By: Janet Smith & Alison Barraclough All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any 18 Circular means, without the prior permission in writing of the Geologists’ Association. 21 vFoG Walks: Real Urban Geology Walks near you LAST Copy dates for the Circular & Magazine: By: Diana Clements March Issue: January 20th June Issue: April 20th 22 vFoG Walks: Hull Cemetery By: Mike Horne September Issue: July 20th December Issue: October 20th Items should be submitted as soon as possible and not targeted on 25 Opinion Article The Quaternary exposed west of the these dates. We welcome contributions from Members and others Cuckmere, East Sussex By: Ed Jarzembowski & [email protected] Peter Austen 27 Opinion Article: The Chilterns chalk dry valleys, not so Curry Fund Dates for 2021 dry? By: Simon Cains Application deadline Committee date 29 News Item: The Smugglers Trail of Thanet May 20th June 10th By: Richard Hubbard August 19th September 9th November 18th December 9th 32 Opinion Article: Orleigh Court By: David Ward [email protected] 34 Rockwatch News Cover picture: “Learning in Lockdown” - a product from the Geology & Art II Workshop hosted by Emma Theresa Jude in January 2 Magazine of the Geologists’ Association Vol. 20, No.1 2021 COVID-19 Geologists’ Association - Interim Status Update (5) This is a further update on the Geologists’ Association response to government directives on the ‘Coronavirus (Covid 19) pandemic’. Since December 2020 when we were pinned in to the latest period of ‘Lockdown’ - which largely ‘cancelled’ planned Christmas and New Years’ celebrations - the country has been waiting for signs of a credible way out of its enforced restrictions on liberty. The first ‘shoots’ have appeared, to a certain extent, with the roll out of viable vaccines across the United Kingdom and elsewhere which have progressed at an encouraging pace and with the government’s February 22nd 2021 announcement of the way markers toward June 2021 that will hopefully see a return to something approaching normality. At the time of writing there remains (again...) considerable uncertainty in planning for the future, but GA Council will continue to do its utmost to provide its members with access to a quality range of varied geological enjoyment. The Geological Society of London’s Burlington House headquarters remains closed other than strictly for business matters only in a ‘COVID-19 secure’ way, and with an occupancy that allows for strict social distancing, There is no reported prospect of opening for more general purposes before late Spring 2021 at the earliest. Currently the earliest conceivable time-scale for any public events taking place there remains mid 2021. Undoubtedly the opening will be gradual and phased. As noted in the December 2020 edition of the GA Magazine, the Geologists’ Association has had to continually review its calendar for the first half of 2021 and beyond. GA staff and Council members continue with remote working using electronic media to facilitate business, including Council meetings. We have continued to respond to our membership through the website, providing access to online Zoom-hosted lectures (encouragingly attracting record numbers of ‘attendees’), as well as regular updates to the Geology from your Sofa pages (https://geologistsassociation.org.uk/sofageology/), which has established itself as a veritable cornucopia of geologically themed resources which continues to be well received; don’t miss out! In the coming months you can look forward to more Zoom-hosted lectures direct from the GA including the President’s Address and we encourage Local Groups and Affiliated Societies to share links to their content to as wide an audience within our community as possible. We also welcome write ups for the magazine of your innovative activities - we want to continue to engage in ways to communicate and ‘share’ during these difficult times and we welcome any ideas from members to increase the range of activities on offer – all ideas welcome. Please keep safe and enjoy Volume 20 No. 1 of the Magazine of the Geologists’ Association. Keep all that interesting content coming! By: The Magazine Editor on behalf of the GA Executive Magazine of the Geologists’ Association Vol. 20, No.1 2021 3 FROM THE PRESIDENT Vanessa Banks For many a geology highlight of the Christmas 2020 festive off to fantastic start on 8th January with his thoughtful, fun, period was the first of the Royal Institution Christmas informative and well-illustrated talk titled Almost like being Lectures: Planet Earth a user guide, Engine Earth by Professor there: new approaches to deciphering animal behaviour from Chris Jackson. The talk focused on how the planet’s rocks trace fossils. This was one of those talks that comes to an and fossils represent climate change and how the earth’s end and leaves you wondering where the time has gone. Two tectonic system has controlled carbon dioxide levels, but Saturday evening workshops followed: Art and Geology II, anthropogenic influences are driving these an interdisciplinary fossil drawing workshop towards tipping points. A parallel highlight MAGAZINE OF THE led by Emma Theresa Jude on 9th January for the Geologists’ Association was the rich GEOLOGISTS’ and Photography Workshop led by Dr Paul ASSOCIATION wealth of published geological information that Volume 19 No.4 December, 2020 Markwick on Saturday, 23rd January. appeared for us all to mull over during Both events were arranged the ongoing “Lockdown” through by Graham Hickman the Christmas holiday Earth Heritage and were period. well attended To this end, with good our thanks and effective to Dr Liam participant Gallagher for the engagement in excellent edition the virtual format. of the Magazine On 5th February Marine Protected of sedimentology | Comparing the flints of the Upper Cretaceous of England with the cherts/flints from the Eocene-Miocene at Lyme Regis Museum | Raspberry Shake: A Saga of Seismic Scale | Is Deep Sea Mining the Key to a Zero Carbon Economy? | of the Geologists’ risks and consequences | The GA and coping with the ‘virus’ | The Etches Collection Museum | Ericdotes | My life in Geology / Areas and White Limestone of Jamaica | Presentation of the 2020 Foulerton Award and Curry Fund Certificate of Excellence | Subsurface we enjoyed Dr. | Almost like being there: