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Dr Liam Herringshaw: York: A Rocky History

York: Rock of Ages

What Lies Beneath? The Remains of An Ice Age (Hall et al. 2010)

What Lies Beneath? The Moraines of An Ice Age

Immigrant Stones Glacial erratics Museum Gardens (image from Briggs 2009) Crossgates Stone, Seamer

The Superficial Vale Glacial 'drift' Image from Hall et al. (2010)

The Bedrock of the Vale 'Solid' Geology Image from Hall et al. (2010)

Robin's Desert Triassic: Sherwood Sandstone © Tim Heaton, Geograph

Salty Seas Permian: Magnesian Limestone © Oliver Dixon, Geograph

“[C]ompared with other Roman sites…it has one major disadvantage, [that] there is no suitable source of building stone for at least 15 km in every direction” Building York Gaunt & Buckland (2002)

Permian (Cadeby Formation) dolostones Building The City

Carboniferous: York Stone & Millstone Grit Wikimedia Commons © British Geological Survey © Matthew Hatton, Geograph

Building The City Jurassic: Hackness Stone

Building The City Exotics © Pablo York, Flickr

Science In The City Geologists in York

Rock Stars Dr Martin Lister ( ) (York: ) Fossil shells (1678) Geological mapping (1683)

Schools of Rock The York Courant, Dec Leeds, Sheffield, Hull societies: “Do not these useful institutions…convey a severe reproof to the tardiness of our own city? Whilst York can boast her…Associations for Fashionable Amusements, she presents none of the characteristics of an enlightened and scientific people.”

Rock Stars 1821: Bones found in Kirkdale Cave 1822: Buckland enters a hyaena den William Buckland & the YPS

Built from bones: the YPS ‘to elucidate the Geology of Yorkshire’ William Vernon Harcourt ( ) Cleric chemist 1 st YPS President (1822)

Rock Stars 1824: William Smith

Smith & Nephew 1825: Keeper of Geology; 1829: Geology of Yorkshire John Phillips ( ) 1830: Yorkshire Museum opens

‘The cultivators of science’ 1831: Inaugural meeting of the not-yet-BAAS

Fossil Time : Phillips defines 3 eras

Yorkshire Time Wars 1844 BAAS: Sedgwick vs Cockburn

Anne Phillips ( ) A Trowelblazer anne-phillips/ “Through many years your counsel has been my guide & Your gentle & true affection my reward” (Letter from John to Anne)

Death of a Time Lord ‘eminently judicious, ever courteous, genial, and conciliatory.’

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