1. Dr Liam Herringshaw: lgh865@hotmail.com
Geology of York
Dr Liam Herringshaw:

2. York: Rock of Ages

3. What Lies Beneath?
The Remains of An Ice Age
(Hall et al. 2010)

4. The Moraines of An Ice Age
What Lies Beneath?
The Moraines of An Ice Age

5. Immigrant Stones Glacial erratics Museum Gardens
(image from Briggs 2009)
Crossgates Stone,
Seamer

6. The Superficial Vale
Glacial 'drift'
Image from Hall et al. (2010)

7. The Bedrock of the Vale
'Solid' Geology
Image from Hall et al. (2010)

8. Triassic: Sherwood Sandstone
Robin's Desert
© Tim Heaton, Geograph
Triassic: Sherwood Sandstone

9. Permian: Magnesian Limestone
Salty Seas
© Oliver Dixon, Geograph
Permian: Magnesian Limestone

10. Building York Gaunt & Buckland (2002)
“[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”

11. Permian (Cadeby Formation) dolostones
Building The City
Permian (Cadeby Formation) dolostones

12. Building The City Carboniferous: York Stone & Millstone Grit
Wikimedia Commons
© British Geological Survey
Carboniferous:
York Stone &
Millstone Grit
© Matthew Hatton, Geograph

13. Jurassic: Hackness Stone
Building The City
Jurassic: Hackness Stone

14. Building The City
Exotics
© Pablo York, Flickr

15. Science In The City
Geologists in York

16. Rock Stars Dr Martin Lister (1639-1712) (York: 1670-1683)
Dr Martin Lister
( )
(York: )
Fossil shells
(1678)
Geological mapping
(1683)

17. Leeds, Sheffield, Hull societies:
Schools of Rock
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.”
The York Courant, Dec. 1822

18. Rock Stars William Buckland & the YPS 1821: Bones found
in Kirkdale Cave
1822: Buckland enters a hyaena den

19. Built from bones: the YPS
‘to elucidate the Geology of Yorkshire’
William Vernon Harcourt
( )
Cleric chemist
1st YPS President (1822)

20. Rock Stars
1824: William Smith

21. Smith & Nephew John Phillips (1800-1874) 1825: Keeper of Geology;
1829: Geology of Yorkshire
1830: Yorkshire Museum opens

22. ‘The cultivators of science’
1831: Inaugural meeting of the not-yet-BAAS

23. 1840-41: Phillips defines 3 eras
Fossil Time
: Phillips defines 3 eras

24. 1844 BAAS: Sedgwick vs Cockburn
Yorkshire Time Wars
1844 BAAS: Sedgwick vs Cockburn

25. Anne Phillips (1803-1862) A Trowelblazer http://trowelblazers.com/
“Through many years your
counsel has been my guide
& Your gentle & true
affection my reward”
(Letter from John to Anne)

26. ‘eminently judicious, ever courteous, genial, and conciliatory.’
Death of a Time Lord
‘eminently judicious, ever courteous, genial, and conciliatory.’
John & Anne Phillips Lecture
University of Hull,
Thursday March 8th, 6pm

27. The Volcano-chaser
Tempest Anderson:

28. Yorkshire’s Jurassic World