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Dr Liam Herringshaw: lgh865@hotmail.comlgh865@hotmail.com York: A Rocky History
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York: Rock of Ages http://www.historyofyork.org.uk/themes/prehistory
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What Lies Beneath? The Remains of An Ice Age (Hall et al. 2010)
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What Lies Beneath? The Moraines of An Ice Age
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Immigrant Stones Glacial erratics Museum Gardens (image from Briggs 2009) Crossgates Stone, Seamer
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The Superficial Vale Glacial 'drift' Image from Hall et al. (2010)
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The Bedrock of the Vale 'Solid' Geology Image from Hall et al. (2010)
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Robin's Desert Triassic: Sherwood Sandstone © Tim Heaton, Geograph
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Salty Seas Permian: Magnesian Limestone © Oliver Dixon, Geograph
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“[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)
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Permian (Cadeby Formation) dolostones Building The City
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Carboniferous: York Stone & Millstone Grit Wikimedia Commons © British Geological Survey © Matthew Hatton, Geograph
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Building The City Jurassic: Hackness Stone
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Building The City Exotics © Pablo York, Flickr
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Science In The City Geologists in York
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Rock Stars Dr Martin Lister (1639-1712) (York: 1670-1683) Fossil shells (1678) Geological mapping (1683) http://www.ypsyork.org
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Schools of Rock The York Courant, Dec. 1822 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.”
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Rock Stars 1821: Bones found in Kirkdale Cave 1822: Buckland enters a hyaena den William Buckland & the YPS
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Built from bones: the YPS ‘to elucidate the Geology of Yorkshire’ William Vernon Harcourt (1789-1871) Cleric chemist 1 st YPS President (1822) http://www.ypsyork.org
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Rock Stars 1824: William Smith
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Smith & Nephew 1825: Keeper of Geology; 1829: Geology of Yorkshire John Phillips (1800-1874) 1830: Yorkshire Museum opens
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‘The cultivators of science’ 1831: Inaugural meeting of the not-yet-BAAS
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Fossil Time 1840-41: Phillips defines 3 eras
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Yorkshire Time Wars 1844 BAAS: Sedgwick vs Cockburn
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Anne Phillips (1803-1862) A Trowelblazer http://trowelblazers.com/ anne-phillips/ “Through many years your counsel has been my guide & Your gentle & true affection my reward” (Letter from John to Anne)
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Death of a Time Lord ‘eminently judicious, ever courteous, genial, and conciliatory.’
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The Volcano- chaser Tempest Anderson: 1846-1913 http://www.ypsyork.org
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20 th / 21 st Century Rockers Stuart “The Oracle” Ogilvy Phil Manning
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A Rocky Road Ahead?
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New Adventures In Rock Geology of Yorkshire & Northern England Online PG Diploma, Univ. of York, Sept 2015-
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Geological History of Britain Saturday March 14 th 2015, 9.30am – 4.30pm http://store.york.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=5&catid=78&prodid=1828
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@fossiliam's Shameless Plugs Professor Herring’s MOST INGENIOUS, GEOPHANTASMAGORICAL & NATURALLY HYSTERICAL GUIDE TO YORK York Festival of Ideas, Sunday June 14 th, 2pm & 3.30pm.
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@fossiliam's Shameless Plugs Yorkshire Fossil Festival Sept. 18 th -20 th, Rotunda Museum, Scarborough
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