Events
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Evening field meeting at Gibbets Hill
Evening field meeting at Kenilworth Castle Quarry led by Stuart Burley and Jane Allum. W3W: larger.waving.ages, SP 305 751 For more information, please view the flyer by clicking here Extreme caution is required when crossing the busy Gibbet Hill Road to access these sites. If you have a high visibility vest or jacket, we recommend it ...
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Evening field meeting at Kenilworth Castle Quarry
Evening field meeting at Kenilworth Castle Quarry led by Stuart Burley and Jane Allum. (W3W:///entry.songs.down, Grid Reference SP278 719) For more information, please view the flyer by clicking here Note that access down into the quarry is steep and is not recommended for anyone who isnot confident on their feet. No geological knowledge is necessary ...
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Day Field Meeting: Burton Dasset – Ray Pratt
WGCG & BCGC Field Trip to Burton Dassett. Field trip Leader: Ray Pratt The Burton Dassett Country Park, part of the Cotswolds, is located in Southern Warwickshire just off the M40. This is a popular upland leisure area for walkers and picknickers with good parking and toilet facilities. The park has been created in 1972 ...
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Castle Quarry Kenilworth & Gibbet Hill Quarries – Geoconservation Work
To enable the planned fieldtrips on 8th and 15th July to go ahead some geo conservation work is required at these two sites. It should be a maximum of 2 hours on each site only following extensive geoconservation work undertaken last year. Castle Quarry KenilworthThe work is likely to mainly consist of cutting down vegetation ...
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WGCG Field Trip to South Shropshire – Led by Dr Martin
This field trip follows on from the WGCG weekend field trip led by Martin Whiteley to the north part of Shropshire in June 2025, when we looked at Precambrian to Silurian rocks. It is not needful for you to have attended last year’s trip in order to come on this trip, which will visit late ...
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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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Ask a Geologist – Under Dippy!
To celebrate GeoWeek 2026, the Warwickshire Geological Conservation Group (WGCG) is hosting a special "Ask a Geologist" session. Join us right beneath the tail of Dippy the Diplodocus at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum in Coventry. WGCG geological experts will be at hand to discuss geology in our everyday lives, geological careers, and geological ...
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Evening Field Meeting at SSSI Guy’s Cliffe – Stuart Burley
We will explore the spectacular Guy’s Cliffe exposures of the Helsby Sandstone on the banks of the river Avon, recently conserved by the Friends of Guys Cliffe volunteers. The Helsby Sandstone, (formally the Warwick, or Bromsgrove Sandstone), exhibits outstanding examples of cross-bedding giving participants the opportunity to unravel the type and size of the rivers ...
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WGCG Visit to Warwickshire Museum’s Jurassic Collection
Jurassic Monsters Warwickshire Museum's collections include many Jurassic fossils collected from local quarries. These are the remains of long-extinct creatures that lived here between 200 and 170 million years ago. Our tour will focus upon a selection of spectacular fossils and theworld that they inhabited - ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, dinosaurs and giant ammonites. The tour ...
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Solihull Urban Geology Trail – Ray Pratt
Solihull Urban Geology trail led by Ray Pratt. Maximum number of participants 20. We will explore the geological materials of Touchstone shopping centre and the Core centre. Time and weather permitting, we will take in a couple of locations in Mell Square opposite. Meeting point: Outside Nat West Bank, High Street, SolihullWhat 3 Words ///swing.artist.same ...