| Description | Present: Sir Peter Kent, Chairman; Professor D R Bowes; Professor J C Briden; Dr G M Brown; Mr A M Clarke; Mr J B W Day; Professor C H Holland; Mr Mr D C Ion; Dr W D I Tolfe; Dr P A Sabine; Dr R C Selley; Professor F W Shotton; Professor F J Vine; Dr W H Ziegler
By invitation; Professor J E Prentice
1. Minutes
The minutes [NGL/14 (80)] of the meeting on 20 February 1980 were confirmed
2. International Geological Congress 1980
3. IUGS Council
4. IUGS Subscriptions
5. International Mineralogical Association
6. International Palynology Conference
7. Lithosphere programme
8. Geochemistry and cosmochemistry
9. Engineering Geology
10. Hydrogeology
11. Quaternary research
12. History of Geological Sciences
Received the minustes [NGL/15 (80)] of the istory fo Geological Sciences Subcommittee meeting on 2 April 1980
13. Co-operation with Spain
14. Trans - Atlantic Geotraverse Atlas
15. Geosciences and Man
16. Site access working party
17. Coal Study
18. Silurian stratigraphy
19. Geology of Europe publication
20. Deep drilling in Europe
Professor Vine reported that an ad hoc international consortium (in which the UK was involved), having arranged the drilling of a deep (2 km) borehole in Iceland in 1978, was now considering follow-up projects in Cyprus and Iceland; the results from the initial borehole in eastern Iceland were to be published in J.Geophys.Res. in April 1981.
21. Date of next meeting
Subject to need, it waasd agreed the next meeting should be held in late October or early November 1981.
Recommendations
Minute 3. IUGS subscription
The UK should remain in category 7, providing the FRG did so also and pay an annual subscription to IUGS of $10500 (35 units at $300 p.a. ) from 1981/2, subject to the necessary provision in the Parliamentary grant-in-aid.
Minute 8. IAGC subscription
The UK subscription to the IAGC (with 6 units in the second highest category) be increased from $180 (at $30 per unit) to $360 (at $60 per unit) from 1981/2, subject to the necessary provision in the Parliamentary grant-in-aid. |