dr liam herringshaw: [email protected]@hotmail.com york: a rocky history
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York: Rock of Ages
http://www.historyofyork.org.uk/themes/prehistory
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
Building The City
Carboniferous:
York Stone &
Millstone Grit
Wikimedia Commons
© British Geological Survey
© Matthew Hatton, Geograph
Building The CityBuilding The City
Jurassic: Hackness Stone
Building The City
Exotics© Pablo York, Flickr
Science In The City
Geologists in York
Rock StarsDr Martin Lister
(1639-1712)
(York: 1670-1683)
Fossil shells
(1678)
Geological mapping
(1683)
http://www.ypsyork.org
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.”
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
(1789-1871)
Cleric chemist
1st YPS President (1822)
http://www.ypsyork.org
Rock Stars
1824: William Smith
Smith & Nephew
1825: Keeper of Geology;
1829: Geology of Yorkshire
John Phillips (1800-1874)
1830: Yorkshire Museum opens
‘The cultivators of science’
1831: Inaugural meeting of the not-yet-BAAS
Fossil Time
1840-41: Phillips defines 3 eras
Yorkshire Time Wars
1844 BAAS: Sedgwick vs Cockburn
Anne Phillips (1803-1862)
A Trowelblazerhttp://trowelblazers.com/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.’
The Volcano-chaser
Tempest Anderson: 1846-1913
http://www.ypsyork.org
20th / 21st Century Rockers
Stuart “The Oracle” Ogilvy
Phil Manning
A Rocky Road Ahead?
New Adventures In Rock
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