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GEOWEEK 2024
GEOWEEK 2024. Commencing Saturday May 25 ending Sunday 2 June 2024. Details to follow.
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Rugby cement plant & quarry
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Kenilworth Cutting Field Visit – Ray Pratt
Ray Pratt will lead a field outing, around the Kenilworth area, visiting 3 sites exposing early Permian rocks, each of which is designated as a Local Geological Site (LGS). We plan to start at 11:00 hrs with an examination of the recently cleared exposure at Kenilworth Cutting on Kenilworth Greenway (LGS 97). Here we will ...
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Gondwana Landscapes: Geology on a Plate – Brian Ellis
Using examples from Australia (mainly South Australia) the talk willexamine existing landscapes which are directly inherited from Gondwana.It will consider the role of their location on the Australian Plate in theconservation of those landscapes and the significance of the dating of thebreakup of Gondwana to the evolution of the geology of Australia. Thetalk will reflect ...
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Lecture: The early evolution of animal life and the generation of form – Frankie Dunn
St Francis 110 Warwick Road, KenilworthThe 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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Ask a Geologist
Warwick Museum Market Place, WarwickWGCG 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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Minerals, Rocks & Fossils Workshop-‘Identifying Specimens’
Kenilworth Senior Citizens Club, Abbey End, Kenilworth, CV8 1QJ Abbey End, Kenilworth10:00 - 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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Lecture: Geology & Caves of N / NE Greenland -physical record – Paul Smith
St Francis 110 Warwick Road, KenilworthCarbonate 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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Xmas Social (Members Only)
St Francis 110 Warwick Road, KenilworthDetails to follow
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