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Field Trip Arden Sandstone – Stuart Burley
Led by Stuart Burley for BCGS, WGCG members welcome. Meet in the car park to St. Laurence Church, Rowington, at 10.30am. Estimated finish time approximately 4pm. The car park is on the south side of the B4439 (Old Warwick Road) opposite the church of St Laurence, in Rowington, OS Sheet 221 Coventry & Warwick GR ...
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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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Alpine peaks and salt intrusions – geological windows into deep Earth’s mantle – Jonathan Turner
The blood-red serpentinites exposed at Kynance Cove in the Lizard of south Cornwall are arguably Britain’s most beautiful rocks and they tell a fascinating geological story. Serpentinite is an unusual rock type that forms where seawater circulates through deep mantle rocks, changing their mineralogy from olivines and pyroxenes to amphiboles such as the curiously named ...
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Footprints from the past: the nature and value of the UK’s dinosaur track record – Kirsty Edgar
Dinosaurs were a hugely successful group of vertebrates with a wide array of morphologies and ecologies that dominated terrestrial ecosystems globally during much of the Mesozoic (~228-66 million years ago). Dinosaur tracks (footprints) are a key means of determining the palaeoecology and distribution of dinosaurs through time and highly complementary to the skeletal record. There ...
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WGCG Workshop – Practical use of geological resources and techniques
This annual WGCG workshop will include presentations from British Geological Survey (BGS) and WGCG geologists and include training in accessing and understanding geological data as well as recording it. Note - participants are asked to bring a laptop / tablet / phone so that they can access the BGS website, and also a ruler, pencils ...
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Glaciations of the British Isles – Jim Rose
Although our understanding of the history of the Last Glaciation in Britain (c. 35,000 to 11,000 years ago) is the best in the world, our understanding of earlier glaciations is far from secure and subject to much disagreement and controversy. Recent publications relating to the glaciation of the West Midlands, using up-to-date methods of dating ...
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Christmas Social
The next evening meeting of Warwickshire Geological Conservation Group will be the Christmas Social on Thursday 12th December at St Francis' Church Hall, Warwick Road, Kenilworth at 7.30pm. There will be a quiz and a short presentation from a local artist. And there will be plenty of time to socialise. It is hoped that members ...
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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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AGM
AGM Evening (Members only) Agenda and voting• Welcome Chair• Apologies received Chair• Minutes of the 2023 AGM Chair• Chairman's report (TAR) Chair• Finance report Treasurer• Trustee nominations received Secretary• Members Questions / Suggestions Members / Secretary• Collate Ballot / Results Secretary• Nominations for awards Secretary Members are reminded to bring their voting slips along if they ...
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Urban Geology tour of Warwick
Market Place, Warwick Market Place, Warwick, United KingdomDr John Radley will give a guided tour of historic Warwick town centre looking at the building stones used in its construction. Jon will enlighten participants with his historical snippits of information, which have literally "shaken" the town. This is a popular gentle walk commencing from the museum entrance over a distance of about 1.5 ...
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