| Description | Present: Professor P Allen, Chairman; Dr M C Boulter; Professor G M Brown; Mr E N K Clarkson; Dr J W Cowie; Professor G Y Craig; Dr D S Cronan; Mr J B W Day; Professor D L Dineley; Mr F W Dunning; Dr H G Reading; Dr P A Sabine; Dr R A Scrutton
Dr M G Bassett; Mr S E Churchfield; Dr J M Hancock; Mr D C Ion; Dr R N Thompson
Dr P T Warren, Executive Secretary of the Royal Society; Mr C R Argent
Unable to attend; Professor R J Elliott; Professor R A Howie; Professor R G West
At the Chairman's request, the Committee stood for a minute's silence in homage to the late Professor Janet V Watson.
1. Introduction
In welcoming new members, the Chairman explained that the structure of the Committee had been changed so that it would more accurately reflect its function as the UK link with the IUGS. Rather than being a forum for British geology, the Committee's responsibilities centred on promotion of British geology in an international context, initiatives of an international character and representation at international (IUGS) meetings (including the nomination of delegates).
2. Minutes
The minutes [NGL/29 (84)] of the meeting on 29 June 1984 were confirmed.
3. Membership
4. Internatinoal Geological Congress 1984
5. Initernational Geological Congress 1989
6. IUGS - Congress Relations
7. IUGS Finances
8. Episodes
9. Geological Map of the World
10. Sedimentology
11. Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry
12. Hydrogeology
13. Quaternary Research
14. History of Geological Sciences
15. Support for Geological Sciences
16. Deep Drilling
17. Geological Reserch Overseas
18. Discussion Meetings
19. Systematics in Petrology
20. Next meeting
Agreed to meet next in May 1986
Recommendations
Minute 6 - Relations between IUGS and the Geologica Congresses
That the nomination of Dr Cronan as the National Committee's representative on the IUGS Study Group (to examine the structure of the IGC and its relations with IUGS ) be endorsed and that provision be made for his expenses in attending a meeting of the Study Group (probably in Zurich in December 1985) if the IUGS was unable to provide them.
Minute 10 - International Association of Sedimentology Congress, UK, 1990
That an informal invitation be extended to the International Association of Sedimentologists, on behalf of the National Committee for Geology, to hold its 1990 Congress in the UK (at one of five potential host universities). |