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Tectonic evolution of the Himalaya and Karakoram mountains

  • 23 Mar 2026
  • 19:30 - 21:00
  • Hansom Hall in the Leicester Adult Education College, 50-54 Belvoir St, Leicester LE1 6QL
  • 100

Registration

  • Guest tickets allow you to attend in person or by Zoom. For this event, it is also possible to pay at the door without purchasing a ticket in advance.
  • Student tickets allow you to attend in person or by Zoom. For this event, it is also possible to pay at the door without purchasing a ticket in advance.

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The Geology Section Joint Lecture

Professor Mike Searle PhD 

Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences Worcester College University of Oxford











Lecture outline

The talk will discuss how we can unravel tectonic processes of mountain building by looking at the geology of the Himalaya (mainly in Ladakh, Zanskar, and Nepal) and the Karakoram (north Pakistan).

Biographical note

Professor Searle is Emeritus Professor of Earth Sciences and a Fellow of Worcester College at the University of Oxford.

Over the past 30 years he has undertaken field-based geological research in the Himalaya, carrying out numerous treks and climbs in the Annapurna region, as well as the Manaslu, Ganesh, Langtang, Everest and Makalu regions of Nepal and Tibet. He has published numerous books and scientific papers on the geology of the Himalaya, Karakoram and Tibet.

Awarded the Murchison Medal of the Geological Society of London (2008), he was elected as a Foreign Fellow of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences (2014) and in to the Academia Europea (2018). In 2025 he was elected as an Honorary Fellow of the Nepal Geological Society.

Attending the lecture

The lecture is open both to members of the Society and to guests.

The lecture will take place in Hansom Hall - how to find Hansom Hall.

Please note that tea and coffee drinks will be available between 7.00pm and 7.15pm before the formal start of the event at 7.30pm.

The lecture will also be streamed on Zoom. A recording of the lecture may be available to members only.


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