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 …
WGCG host the GA “geology from your sofa” (GFYS) for October
The GFYS monthly circulation was initiated by the Geologists Association (GA) during the Covid lockdown period when normal activities were suspended. This has proved very popular and highlights the large amount of diverse geoscience material available on the internet. With the return of field trips and meetings the GA decided to cease circulating the GFYS …
Ask a Geologist – Market Place Museum, Warwick December 16th 10:30 – 12:30
Members of the public are invited to come and talk with WGCG geologist Gareth Jenkins at a drop in session at the museum. Gareth will have a number of local samples available and participants will be invited to bring along their samples which they wish know more about.
AGM short presentation Thursday 19/10/23, St Francis of Assisi, Kenilworth
The AGM is a members only event held in Kenilworth and will not be available online.
SSSI Monitoring – Gareth Jenkins, Peter Hawksworth, Kathrin Schütrumpf & Anthony Allen
Condition surveys have been undertaken at Waverley Wood Farm SSSI and Harbury Quarries SSSI in partnership with The Geology Trusts. The purpose of the visits are to determine the current condition of selected SSSI for Natural England. Waveley Wood Farm (naturalengland.org.uk) SSSI is located in Bubbenhall Wood and was visited on the 6th September by …