Sedgwick-Phillips-Smith Bicentennial Meeting - Developments in N England Geology
University of Durham
Doug Holliday & Mark Allen (University of Durham)
9th April 2022, 2:00 -5:00 pm
Main Lecture Theatre, Calman Learning Centre, University of Durham, DH1 3LE
Smith, Sedgwick and Phillips were three of the leading figures in the development of geology as a science in the early 19 th Century. All have strong connections with Yorkshire and the North of England. This meeting attempts to give a picture of the geological thinking at the time of their first meeting and contrast this with the latest ideas on some of the problems the three great geologists had attempted to tackle in 1822 and later years. While this will provide some measure of how far we have progressed in this area of study in the last two hundred years, it should not in any way be taken as belittling their efforts. Rather, it is a celebration of the sound foundation they left us.
Meeting Schedule
2.00pm-2.15pm Society Business
2.15pm-2.45pm Douglas Palmer: The 1822 Meeting of Adam Sedgwick. John Phillips
and William Smith
2.45pm-3.15pm Douglas Holliday: The Origin of The Great Whin Sill Complex –
Intrusion or Lava Flow - Adam Sedgwick vs John Phillips
3.15pm-3.45pm Tea and Coffee
3.45pm-4.15pm Craig Magee: Sills and Sill-Complexes: The State-of-Art
4.15pm-4.45pm Timothy Pharaoh: Calc-Alkaline Magmatism in The Lake District and
Eastern England: Hallmark of Lost Late Ordovician Oceans
4.45pm-5.00pm Questions and Discussion; Close of Meeting
This will be a face-to-face event held at the University of Durham
Main Lecture Theatre, Calman Learning Centre, University of Durham, DH1 3LE
