Down to Earth extra February 2024
Down to Earth extra February 2024
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The giant pliosaur, Steve Etches and David Attenborough
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 …
Ask a Geologist – Warwick Museum
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 January 2024
Down to Earth extra December 2023
Down to Earth extra – December 2023
Edinburgh, Sir Charles Lyell collection updates
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 …
October 14 & 15 WGCG Host Hertfordshire Geological Society Field trip to Warwickshire
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 …
Oct 14th Earth Science Week – Geo-conservation at Kenilworth Cutting
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.
Horsts and Grabens: A field trip to Cleeve Hill , Gloucester with Nick Cridlaw. 8th Oct 2023
by Jane Allum Towards the end of the Palaeozoic (c.290m years ago), the north south trending Severn Basin began to form between what is now the Malverns, the Birmingham area and the Gloucestershire Oxfordshire border. Subsidence of the basin continued as sediments were deposited through the Triassic and early Jurassic. At that time the UK …
Urban Geology of Warwick led by Jon Radley – Oct 13th – Earth Science Week event
Despite a very gloomy weather forecast, a full party of 16 turned up at the museum for this public engagement event. We were very fortunate that the weather stayed dry for our building stones trip. This trip took a different and shorter tour than the tour in June, finishing with a guided tour of the …