Contact the Adviser, Martin

Martin Eales was educated at Emmanuel College Cambridge then researched for a doctorate and lectured at Glasgow University. He has been a geologist for 50 years including working for the largest oil companies in the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Italy, and also lived in North Africa and the Middle East. In that time, he has studied the geology of most countries in the world. He is married with 3 children and 1 dog.

Kevin Huff from Dorchester u3a set up a website with plenty of advice for Geology group convenors/coordinators. Click the link below to find out more and network with other Geology group leaders:

I have presented a number of talks to regional and national science/geological groups and can deliver these  using virtual platforms such as Google Meet, Zoom etc. Each presentation may take 1-2 hours depending on the audience but can easily be shortened/edited/divided as appropriate. 

Examples of these talks are below and others could be easily compiled if there is sufficient interest: 

• The Unification of the British Isles: a Lesson in Geology
• The Geology of Britain in the Palaeozoic, the Era of Early Life
• The Geology of Britain in the Mesozoic, the Era of Middle Life
• Continental Drift
• Plate Tectonics
• Sedimentary Rocks: the formation & environment of deposition of non-clastic rocks
• Igneous Rocks: their plate tectonic setting and formation from volcanoes to granites
• Metamorphic rocks: the history of mountain building
• Petroleum Geology 

More information about the talks -  Geological talks by Martin Eales  (19.67 KB) Geological talks by Martin Eales

Ideas for online sharing activities - geology and similar fun

• Rock Around the Alphabet
• Alphabet Snoop
• Crystal World at Home 
• Rock around the Home 

and plenty more... Sharing Geology Online  Sharing Geology Online (153.47 KB)