Lyell Meeting 2011

This free, one-day meeting aims to bring together experts on diverse aspects of the geology and palaeontology of islands. Island chains furnish key evidence for plate tectonic processes, providing subaerial expressions of suites of rocks that are otherwise limited to the marine realm. The rock records of oceanic islands are dominated by igneous rocks and limestones which together contribute to an unusual suite of natural environments. And the fossil biotas of islands provide evidence of generally widespread marine taxa contrasted with unusual terrestrial biotas brought together by chance biogeographic processes, influenced by the barriers of geology, tectonics and physiography.

Speakers include
Grenville Draper (Florida International University, Miami)
Trevor Jackson (University of the West Indies, Trinidad)
Tom Spencer (University of Cambridge)
David Harper (University of Copenhagen)
Peter Skelton (The Open University)
Hanneke Meijer (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
Daniela Winkler (University of Hamburg)
Don McFarlane (W.M. Keck Science Center, Los Angeles)

Programme

Below is a downloadable provisional programme.

Registration

Attendance is FREE, but you must pre-register your interest in attending this conference. Please email Ellie Duncanson-Hunter.

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