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WGCG Field Trip to Shropshire – Dr Martin Whiteley
Residential Field Trip to Field Trip to Church Stretton, Shropshire to be led by Dr Martin Whiteley. For more information on this event, please view the flyer by clicking here Places are limited to 15 participants - first come, first served. If you would like to attend, please complete the below form and return it ...
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Bradgate Park, Charnwood Field Trip – Dr Nick Chidlaw
A few miles north west of Leicester the landforms of the east Midlands are conspicuously interrupted by the craggy, locally-wooded hills of Charnwood Forest. Here are found rocks formed from explosive volcanic eruptions about 600 million years ago, together with lavas and igneous intrusions; these comprise the Charnian Supergroup. Most of the rocks are thought ...
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Ask A Geologist – Under Dippy!
Herbert GalleriesThe 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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Urban Geo Walk Royal Leamington Spa – Jane Allum and Michaela Bokor
A WGCG Geo Walk through the town of Royal Leamington Spa that will be lead by former residents Jane Allum and Michaela Bokor who will expertly guide you around the town explaining the origin of the rocks, and what can be interpreted from these urban exposures. The walk will look at a range of the ...
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Kenilworth Castle quarry – Geoconservation Work
WGCG plan to carry out some much-needed conservation work at Kenilworth Castle Quarryon the afternoon of Saturday 17th May. We need all the help you can offer - more handsmake for a shorter task. If you can help, please register your interest no later than 8th May. This will help with planning the work, which will be led by ...
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Cotswold Scarp Field Trip (Hawkesbury – Stroud) – Dr Nick Chidlaw
In May 2023 (13th and 14th) we ran a Cotswold scarp 2-day field trip comprising 2 linear walks in the southern Cotswolds between the city of Bath and the village of Hawkesbury Upton. Some attendees on this field trip indicated that they would be interested in a similar event, continuing further N along the scarp, ...
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The Triassic of Warwickshire – Joe Mazgajcyk & Kieren Quigley
Kieren and Joe will provide an overview of part of the geological succession of the Triassic geology comprising the Helsby Sandstone Formation (Sherwood Sandstone Group) and the formations of the Mercia Mudstone Group relevant to the Warwickshire region. During the talk we will set the scene during the Triassic: Provide findings from recent field trips ...
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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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