Down to Earth extra March 2024
Down to Earth extra March 2024
Down to Earth extra March 2024
The majority of WGCG members are amateur geologists. The level of geological knowledge varies significantly. All are keen. Each February WGCG hold a workshop for the benefit of members who wish to improve their geological knowledge and skills. Our experts put together a class based on the needs and interests of our members. Participation is …
Down to Earth extra February 2024
If you missed this riveting documentary on BBC you can catch up using the BBC iplayer (click the hyperlink). This was described as a 1 in a billion find, such is the importance of this discovery. Be amazed at how Steve and his friends designed a skid mounted box to recover this huge and importnat …
WGCG held its second “Ask a Geologist” event at Warwick Museum on Saturday 16th December 2023. Members of the public were able to engage with geologists Gareth Jenkins and Joe Mazgajczyk on local geology, their own samples or WGCG specimens on display. This is to be a quarterly event with the next session to be …
Down to Earth extra January 2024
Down to Earth extra – December 2023
Dear supporters and friends,We have good news to share. The past few years of wide ranging work at the University of Edinburgh is helping to transform and share the remarkable collection of Sir Charles Lyell. A free major exhibition Time Traveller: Charles Lyell at Work | Through Lyell’s Eyes (ed.ac.uk) at the University’s Main Library, from 10.00-6.00; Monday …
As many members will know, Haydon Bailey of the Hertfordshire Geological Society (HGS) has given several talks to WGCG over the years, so when he reached out to WGCG to assist in planning a weekend field trip to Warwickshire we were keen to assist. After discussing several options forwarded by WGCG, HGS decided that a …
The problem with inland exposures is they require regular maintenance otherwise they become quickly overgrown and lost. This LGS exposure along the Kenilworth greenway is an importnat outcrop of Early Permian Kenilworth sandstone which we plan to use for field excursions during 2024.