
Stoney Beginnings
Wednesday 12th Feb
Talk by Ian Enlander ( Belfast Geologists Society) and Maia Gill (Historic Environment Record of N.Ireland)
Venue Public Records Office,N.Ireland PRONI
Time 1-2pm
Wednesday 12th Feb
Talk by Ian Enlander ( Belfast Geologists Society) and Maia Gill (Historic Environment Record of N.Ireland)
Venue Public Records Office,N.Ireland PRONI
Time 1-2pm
Monday 17th February
Talk by Dr Norman Moles
Venue TBC
Time TBC
Friday 21st Feb and Sat 22nd Feb
Talk by Prof Mike Benton ( NI Science Festival)
Venue is Ulster Museum
Time on Friday is 7pm and Saturday 1pm
Sat 22nd Feb
Karen Parks
Carrickfergus Museum( part of NI Science Festival)
10.30- 2.30
Monday 20th January
Talk by PhD Student Phoebe Sleath( University of Aberdeen)
Venue Zoom only
Time 7.00pm
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Thursday 5th December
Talk by Dr Sam Roberson
Venue Zoom onlyTBC
Time 7.00pm
Research in the field of glacial geology over the past twenty years has dramatically improved our understanding of the growth and decay of the British and Irish Ice Sheet, primarily through the BRITICE and BRITICE-CHRONO projects. New understandings of glacial dynamics in the Mourne Mountains have also come about though mapping work by the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland, as well as by research projects led by Queens University Belfast, University College Dublin and the University of New South Wales. Building on the seminal research by Marshall McCabe in the early 2000s, this recent research has provided us with further age constraints for the deglaciation of valley glaciers in the Mournes, as well as an understanding of local ice cap dynamics through numerical modelling. Rather than being fed by an ice building up on the mountains themselves, glaciers flowing out of the Mourne Mountains in the Annalong Valley and Silent Valley are thought to have been supplied by a large ice dome centred over Lough Neagh. Late-glacial (Nahanagan stadial) corrie glaciers similar to those identified in the Wicklow Mountains are not thought to have been found in the Mournes.