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Current research in regional geology

School of Geological Sciences, Kingston Polytechnic, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE
¹ Department of Geology and Physical Sciences, Oxford Polytechnic, Headington, Oxford OX3 OBP

Report of a Society Ordinary General Meeting held at Burlington House on 13 November 1985. The meeting was organized by Dr M. Brown and Dr H. Colley.

With the success of the Specialist Groups and the decline of the ‘traditional’ OGM, the Society has sponsored several one-day thematic meetings either as OGMs or as SpecialScientific Meetings. Additionally, specialist or thematic meetings have reduced the opportunities for interdisciplinary research on a regional scale to be presented and discussed. These reasons prompted the convenors to propose a meeting on ‘Current research in regional geology’, with papers from academic institutes, the BGS and overseas. Speakers presented recent unpublished research results, and both the substantial attendance at the meeting and the lively discussion after each paper suggest that this style of OGM is very worthwhile. The BGS also displayed a number of poster contributions.

An introduction to the meeting was given by M. Brown, who also shared the chair during the morning session with H. Colley. In the first paper, R. L. Johnson presented a general overview of the work undertaken by the BGS overseas, particularly in Africa. The most interesting type of project undertakh by the BGS in Africa under funding from the Overseas Development Administration is that involving research and development in which success is judged in terms of the prospecting licences sought at the end of a project! P. J. Treloar followed with a detailed account of recent research’in the Magondi (mid-Proterozoic) and Zambesi (Pan-African) mobile belts of NW and N

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