WGCG
Events
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Weekend Field Trip: Flamborough Coast (Yorkshire), led by Paul Hildreth
This weekend Field trip will commence on Friday evening with a presentation of the geology of the area followed by dinner. Saturday and Sunday will be spent in the field, ending around 16:00 hrs Sunday 9/7/23. The Flamborough headland coast is celebrated for its Chalk scenery, geomorphology and tectonics. There are also some superficial glacial ...
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An urban geology walk around Warwick
Jon Radley will lead a 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. The length of the walk will be approximately 1-2 miles. Participants are ...
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Deep time travel through Kenilworth
The car park - Abbey Fields Bridge Street, KenilworthRay 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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WGCG Public Engagement Stall
Talisman square Kenilworth Talisman Square, KenilworthAs 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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The Geology of Warwickshire Workshop
Kenilworth Senior Citizens ClubThis 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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WGCG Christmas Social
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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, KenilworthThe 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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Geohazards – A Recipe for Disaster (Zoom & KMC)
Kenilworth Methodist Church 60 Priory Rd,, KenilworthTalk by Sekbal Hussain - BGS. Hybrid meeting held at KMC & via Zoom
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Wine, Whisky and Beer – the role of geology (Zoom & KMC)
Kenilworth Methodist Church 60 Priory Rd,, KenilworthAlex Maltman. Hybrid meeting held at KMC & via Zoom. We read that the taste of wine is affected by the geology of the vineyard and that whisky is influenced by the rocks the water encountered on its way to the distillery....(Download Poster).
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The Kilchrist Caldera, Skye (Zoom & KMC)
Kenilworth Methodist Church 60 Priory Rd,, KenilworthTalk by Simon Drake. Hybrid meeting at KMC and via Zoom 'Catastrophic caldera forming eruptions spanning the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum at Kilchrist and Belig, Isle of Skye, NW Scotland' Highly silicic Paleocene-Eocene ignimbrite deposits, and mafic lavas at Kilchrist and Belig, Isle of Skye, NW Scotland, form part of a ~800m thick extensive caldera ...