XRD and Minerals- 15^th May 2008 , British Geological Survey (BGS), Keyworth, Nottingham.

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Fees: Both days £60, 1 day £40, STUDENTS FREE (half price concessions)
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Accomodation: Link to local accomodation BSG web page.
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Organiser & Chair: Martin Gill.

Programme: View a one page printer friendly two day programme (77kb PDF).
Abstracts are available for viewing as they become available.

09:30 Registration & Coffee (sponsored by PANalytical)

10:00 Structural Studies and High Temperature Properties of Bismuth Vanadate Sillenite.
Caroline Kirk, Loughborough University.

10:30 Synthesis and Structural Studies of the Ettringite Group of Minerals.
Stephen Cairns, Glasgow University.

11:00 Investigation of Smectite Structure Heterogeneities: an XRD Profile Modelling Approach.
Eric Ferrage, Laboratoire HydrASA, Université de Poitiers.

11:30 High Pressure Crystallography of Methane.
Helen Maynard, Edinburgh University.

12:00 Geology of wine. including a tasting!
Jenny Huggett, Petroclays.

12:45 Lunch & Exhibition.

14:00 A Soil Mineralogical Database for Scotland.
Stephen Hillier, Macaulay Institute.

14:30 Heavy-metal minerals in old and new cosmeceuticals? An unusual application of XRPD.
Andrew Hardy, Exeter University.

14:45 Chasing the Blue Mixed-valence Iron Sulphate.
David Beveridge.

15:00 Tea (sponsored by Rigaku)

15:30 Synchrotron Studies of the Structures of Hydrous Phyllosilicates at High Pressures and Temperatures.
Alison Pawley, Manchester University

16:00 Accuracy in Analysis - How much crystalline quartz do you think you have?
Peter R. Stacey. HSL, Buxton.

16:30 Analysis of non-marine evaporitic deposits Wadi Natrun, Egypt.
Melanie Sapsford, Cranfield University.

17:00 Close

Contact the programme organisor Martin Gill.