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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WGCG Summer Social field walk in Leek Wooton
Evening field meeting at Leek Wooton led by Jane Allum, Stuart Burley, and Ray Pratt Members and their guests are invited to participate in our summer social event, centred around the Anchor pub in Leek Wooton. For the physically active we have scheduled a gentle summers evening walk along the Millenium Way footpath on the ...
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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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EMGS and WGCG Joint Residential Field Trip – Nick Chidlaw
EMGS: Residential Field Trip: Friday 11th – Sunday13th September 2026 Conducted Jointly with WGCG: Led by Nick Chidlaw‘South Malverns to Cleeve Hill’ Itinerary: Friday p.m (c.2 - 5 p.m) - Gullet Quarry and Hangman Hill.Circular walk viewing Gullet Quarry, along crest of Swinyard Hill, to Hangman’s Hill to see aspects of the late Pre-Cambrian Malverns ...
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Etruria Marl: what it is; how it formed; why it’s special – Dr Bernard Besley
In the English Midlands the term ‘Marl’ has meant, from time immemorial, any clay from which bricks can be made. The Etruria Marl is thus not a marl in the geological sense of the word, but a raw material formed by the red mudrocks of the Westphalian Etruria Formation, a marginal alluvial red-bed facies of ...
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Day Field Meeting: Smestow Valley and Wightwick Bank – Led by Andrew Harrison and Julie Schroder
Following a recent BCGS geo-conservation effort, a quarried passage provides an excellent exposure of the Early Triassic Wildmoor Sandstone (Olenikian-Anisian). Deposited in the Staffordshire basin, these well sorted fluvial sandstones display excellent sedimentological features revealing the depositional setting. The phot (left) shows a depression behind the face of the quarried Wildmoor Sandstone exposing a fill ...
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Mines, manganese and mistakes – Alison Barraclough
The region around Harlech is well known the Harlech Dome, mineralisation and the Mochras borehole. The most famous and economically important mineralisation is the Dolgellau gold-belt centred on two mines, Clogau and Gwynfynydd, the former closed in 1998 but now being investigated for unexploited gold veins. Less significant are the sedimentary manganese deposits from beds ...
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Ask a Geologist – Under Dippy!
To celebrate Earth Science Week 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, ...
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Geology of Stonehenge – Peter Worsley
A talk on the geology of Stonehenge by Peter Worsley. More details to follow. Venue:St Francis Of Assisi RC Church, 110 Warwick Rd, Kenilworth CV8 1HLhttps://maps.app.goo.gl/9CGWRNdgFfttDKtd7
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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 ...