Teesdale u3a

Meeting on July 27th    There were talks on two very different areas of Geology in our July meeting. In the first half, Les Knight gave a fascinating talk about glacial erratics and the introduction of a database recording these boulders that are found across large areas of the UK. An erratic is a glacially deposited rock… Read more

Meetings on May 25th and June 22nd   In our May and June meetings, David Saville continued his exploration of life on Earth looking at the Permian and Triassic periods.  In the Permian (299 – 252 mya), the wet climate of the Carboniferous was slowly replaced by a land dominated environment. This saw the development of a… Read more

The meeting in May was tinged with both shock and great sadness at the news of sudden death of Trevor Morse, our long-standing leader of the group. The u3a Geology Group was in its infancy in 2009 when Trevor joined and then led the group for over 16 years, sharing his knowledge and expertise in… Read more

We had a varied and very interesting meeting which ranged from coal mining in Woodland to some amazing plants and insects in the Carboniferous Period some 300 million years ago. In the first half Mike Caldwell gave a fascinating account of his investigation into an area of SW Durham where his ancestors had lived during… Read more

Bob Tuddenham This was an interesting and varied meeting which ranged from the dip and strike on geological maps to holiday geology in Shropshire. In the first half Wilf Wrigley gave an excellent tutorial style presentation on the interpretation and importance of dip and strike in geological maps. These key measurements apply to the bedrock… Read more