Lecture: The early evolution of animal life and the generation of form – Frankie Dunn

St Francis 110 Warwick Road, Kenilworth

The rise of the animals was a profound transition in the History of Life; for the first-time organisms were able to engineer the environment around them, altering geochemical cycles, building complex ecosystems and diversifying into myriad forms. However, the rise of the animals is also one of the most controversial episodes in Earth History. Most major ...

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Free

Ask a Geologist

Warwick Museum Market Place, Warwick

WGCG will hold a stall within Warwick Museum for the general public to come along and chat with a geologist. We will have a number of specimens and slides available from the WGCG collection. Visitors are encouraged to bring along a sample or two they have collected and would like to discuss. Supported by wherecanwego.com & ...

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Free

Minerals, Rocks & Fossils Workshop-‘Identifying Specimens’

Kenilworth Senior Citizens Club, Abbey End, Kenilworth, CV8 1QJ Abbey End, Kenilworth

10:00 - 11:00 Introductionary presentations on the petrology and classifications of each of the major groups 11:30 - 15:00 rotating sessions of practical hands on specimen inspection and identification. There will be 5 tables each exhibiting one of the following; Fossils, Minerals, Igneous rocks, Sedimentary rocks or Metamorphic rocks. The WGCG specimen collection will be ...

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£10

Lecture: Geology & Caves of N / NE Greenland -physical record – Paul Smith 

St Francis 110 Warwick Road, Kenilworth

Carbonate rocks of Neoproterozoic to Silurian age are abundantly distributed around the coasts of North and North-East Greenland. Large cave entrances are distributed across the whole caves distributed across the whole of North Greenland, an ice-free larger than England, from 80–82.5°N and they constitute the northernmost documented karst caves globally. Data relating to the caves ...

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Lecture: La Palma Eruption by Dougal Jerram                                  

St Francis 110 Warwick Road, Kenilworth

'Volcanoes in the spotlight; Exciting examples from La Palma, Stromboli and the ancient rock record.' Recent advances in the capture of 3D geological data has re-invigorated the way in which we study volcanoes and their deposits. The recent eruption on La Palma, on going active volcanoes such as Sromboli act as modern day laboratories to ...

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£3

Lecture: The birds and rocks of Flamborough Head – Paul Hildreth

St Francis 110 Warwick Road, Kenilworth

Flamborough Head is England’s most northerly outcrop of the Late Cretaceous Chalk Group and is home to the highest chalk sea cliffs and the only mainland gannet colony in the UK. In recognition of these latter claims, the RSPB has established the very popular and successful Bempton Cliffs reserve which sees around half a million ...

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AGM (members only event)

St Francis 110 Warwick Road, Kenilworth

The AGM will be held at 7pm and is expected to take C.20 minutes. This will be followed by a slide show and a short talk given by a guest speaker. (Details to follow).

Geo Conservation: Kenilworth Cutting / Greenway

Join our team of volunteers in a clearence session of our LGS exposure in Kenilworth Cutting. This is one of the very few exposures of the Permian Kenilworth sandstone, an important site for geological education. A major benefit of participating in clearance sessions is that you get to examine details within the outcrop that may ...

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Urban Geology of Warwick

Jon Radley of WGCG will lead an urban geology walk around Warwick starting and finishing at the entrance to the Market Hall Museum. The tour will focus on Warwick's building stones with emphasis on the locally sourced examples and what they can tell us about ancient Warwickshire. Fossils, minerals, climate change and ancient environments will ...

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