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WGCG: Ask a Geologist
Market Hall Museum Market Hall Museum, Market Pl, Warwick,, United KingdomThe WGCG shall be holding a special Ask a Geologist session at Market Hall Museum in Warwick. WGCG geological experts will be at hand to discuss geology in our everyday lives, geological careers, and geological science in general. Come along and examine specimens in super detail with our blue tooth microscope. We will have a ...
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Deep geothermal fluids: From the hottest of the hot to dissolved resources – Dr Chris Rochelle
Deep geothermal fluids: From the hottest of the hot to dissolved resources We stand at the cusp of a revolution in deep geothermal exploitation, as technological improvements enable economic exploitation of hot waters from great depths in areas of lower thermal gradient, such as in the UK. These advances also allow access to super-hot resources ...
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AGM followed by a talk on the Warwick Sandstone – Xiang Yan
The AGM followed by a talk on the Warwick Sandstone, presented by Xiang Yan, a PhD student at Imperial College London. Reconstructing Triassic landscapes and rivers in the Warwick Sandstone The Warwick Sandstone, known more generally as the Helsby Sandstone Formation (HSF), was deposited by large rivers and aeolian dunefields approximately 240 million years ago ...
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Ask a Geologist – Under Dippy!
The WGCG shall be holding a special Ask a Geologist session under Dippy at the Herbert Galleries, Coventry. WGCG geological experts will be at hand to discuss geology in our everyday lives, geological careers, and geological science in general. Come along and examine specimens in super detail with our blue tooth microscope. We will have ...
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Preserving Earth’s first complex life – Dr Ross Anderson
Blurb:Fossils have been used to track the history of life on Earth from trilobites, through to dinosaurs, woolly mammoths, and eventually humans. Yet, most fossils only preserve skeletons or shells, the hard parts of organisms. Soft tissues, like skin and internal organs, are rare in the fossil record. So how do we understand the early ...
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Field Trip to Northumberland, N. E. England – Karl Egeland-Erikson
Residential Field Trip to Northumberland, N. E. England to be led by Karl Egeland-Erikson. This trip will include exposures at Seahouses (Snook Point ). The Cheviots (Brough Law). Holy Island (Southern coastline). Cocklawburn (Saltpan Rocks to Far Skerr). For more information please click here To register for this event please complete the form by clicking ...
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WGCG: Ask a Geologist
Market Hall Museum Market Hall Museum, Market Pl, Warwick,, United KingdomThe WGCG shall be holding a special Ask a Geologist session at Market Hall Museum in Warwick. WGCG geological experts will be at hand to discuss geology in our everyday lives, geological careers, and geological science in general. Come along and examine specimens in super detail with our blue tooth microscope. We will have a ...
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Geological field trip to the north Malvern Hills – Adrian Wyatt
An opportunity to see a selection of unique geological features including examples of a fault, a dyke, a sill and micro folding together with panoramic views (weather permitting). To view the flyer containing full details of the trip and geological features, please click here. Note that there is a small charge of £3 for this ...
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A ‘Geowalk’ around the “Dudley Volcano”- Mike Allen
A 'Geowalk' to be led by Mike Allen at Barrow Hill Nature Reserve, north of the A4101, 3 km west of Dudley. The walk will offer a glimpse of the Midlands in late Carboniferous times, with a mixed sequence of sedimentary and volcanic rocks including small intrusive bodies of microgabbro (dolerite). The walk will include ...
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Lickey Hills Field Trip – Ray Pratt
A WGCG visit on the Landscape and Geology of the Likely Hills Country Park, Birmingham to be led by Ray Pratt. This field trip will include a visit to three quarries examine the structural, sedimentological and lithological features of the Ordovician Lickey Quartzite. Unconformities and and folding found with the Palaeozoic Strata found here will ...
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