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  • Deep time travel through Kenilworth

    The car park - Abbey Fields Bridge Street, Kenilworth

    Ray Pratt will lead participants around the urban geology trail compiled by Ian Fenwick. Participants to meet at 12:15 at Abbey Fields car park for a 12:30 start. (Ray will be wearing a yellow fluorecent vest). This event has been organised on behalf of Kenilworth Council and their Nature Week initiative Pre registration is requested ...

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    Free

  • WGCG Public Engagement Stall

    Talisman square Kenilworth Talisman Square, Kenilworth

    As part of Kenilworth Nature Week an Geo-Week activities, WGCG will have a stall in Talisman Square, Kenilworth. The aim is to engage with the general public on the importance of geology in their daily lives. We will have a selected number of specimens available to help engage with the public and lots of brochures ...

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    Free

  • The Geology of Warwickshire Workshop

    Kenilworth Senior Citizens Club

    This year, in response to requests from members, we are devoting our study day to an introduction to the geology of our county.  With some of the oldest rocks in the country as well as others that were deposited just a few thousands of years ago, this will be a ‘broad-brush’ introduction.  It will be ...

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  • Talk: The NW Highlands controversy: Geology, geologists and social climbing in Victorian times. Talk by Dr Peter Gutteridge

    St Francis 110 Warwick Rd, Kenilworth

    The NW Highlands of Scotland probably has the best scenery and geology in the world. You can find the oldest rocks in the British Isles, the first evidence of life, ancient landscapes carved out by preCambrian rivers and beautifully exposed Lower Palaeozoic clastic and carbonate sediments. These all form part of a major fold and ...

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  • AGM

    St Francis 110 Warwick Rd, Kenilworth

    WGCG AGM - Members only event. Details to follow

  • Lickey Hills Geo Walk

    Lickey Hills Visitor Centre Warren Lane, Lickey, Worcestershire

    A free guided walk for all the familyThe history of the Earth is written in the rocks beneath your feet.Your guide will take you back almost 500 million years to an ancient shoreline, when Britain lay in the southern hemisphere. You will explore the evidence for the convulsions the rocks suffered as Britain collided with ...

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  • Talk: Mike Benton. :‘Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World’

    St Francis, 110 Warwick Rd, Kenilworth CV8 1HL 110 Warwick Road, Kenilworth, United Kingdom

    Mike Benton. :‘Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World’ This lecture will be held at St Francis of Assisi in Kenilworth. We will also attempt to share this on Zoom for those unable to make it in person. We will be trying out new technology and may incur technical hitches, therefore we recommend attending in ...

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  • Warwickshire Arden Sandstone Field Trip

    Leader: Stuart Burley Stuart will take participants to 3 of 4 exposures of the Arden Sandstone to look at the sedimentary depositional setting of this locally important building stone - details to be announced. (An ice cream in Henley in Arden is very probable). Contact: [email protected]