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 …
Field Trip to Hill Farm, Maxstoke & Corley Rocks – 19/8/23 by Mike Allen
This excursion examines two sites offering perhaps the best exposures of the late Carboniferous Red-Beds of the “Warwickshire Group” currently available in the north of the county. They are located on opposite sides of the Warwickshire Coalfield (an uplifted area known as the Coventry Horst) and both display outcrops of current-bedded sandstone delivered by large …
Ask a Geologist – Warwick Museum
On Saturday 30th September Kathrin Schütrumpf and Ray Pratt held a “Ask a Geologist” session at Warwick museum from 10:30 to 12:30. This event, a suggestion from Julie Harrald, was months in the planning and well advertised by the Museum. The museum set us up with a table on the ground floor where we laid …
WGCG Suffolk Field trip 15-17th September 2023 by Frances Morley
We assembled in Saxmundham Market Hall on Friday evening to meet our leader for the weekend, Tim Holt-Wilson. Despite problems with the projector, he delivered an interesting and informative talk about the geology of Suffolk, setting the scene for the field trip. Whilst walking to the next location, we passed the impressive ruins of a 14th century …
Down to Earth extra October 2023
Down to Earth extra – October 2023
Ask a geologist 30/9/23 10:30am
On Saturday 30th September 2023 WGCG will host a “Ask a Geologst” session at Warwick museum from 10:30 to 12:30. The first session will be staffed by Ray Pratt and Kathrin Schutrumpf. Our theme this month is the geology of Warwick. We plan to take along a tray of samples that visitors can examine and …
GFYS WGCG Quiz
In October WGCG will host the Geologists Association “Geology From Your Sofa”. The GA introduced the GFYS monthly online newsletter during the Covid lockdown period. This proved very popular and enabled the GA to provide a service its members during this disruption to normal activities. Now all activities have returned to normal the need for …
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