Events
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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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WGCG Christmas Social
The next Christmas Social of Warwickshire Geological Conservation Group will be on Saturday 12th December at Kenilworth Senior Citizens’ Club, Abbey End, Kenilworth CV8 1QJ at 7.00pm. This year will feature wine tasting. Details TBC.
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WGCG: AGM
AGM Evening (Members only) Talk: The rocks beneath your seat - sedimentation in a syn-orogenic Variscan foreland basin – the intriguing story of the Kenilworth Sandstone - Prof Stuart Burley. Venue:St Francis Of Assisi RC Church, 110 Warwick Rd, Kenilworth CV8 1HLhttps://maps.app.goo.gl/9CGWRNdgFfttDKtd7
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WGCG Bridgnorth Field Trip – Led by Stuart Burley, Mike Allen & Ray Pratt
Bridgnorth, straddling the Severn Valley in a spectacular setting, is well known for its striking topography, defined by the Bridgnorth Sandstone Formation, a bright orange-red, soft sandstone of Permian age, some ≈ 256-260 million years ago. The succession is composed of well-sorted, quartz arenite sandstones organised into large scale sets of cross-strata and has long ...