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 …
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.
The AGM is a members only event held in Kenilworth and will not be available online.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Join our team of volunteers in a clearence session of our LGS exposure in Kenilworth Cutting. This is one of the very few exposures of the Permian Kenilworth sandstone, an important site for geological education. A major benefit of participating in clearance sessions is that you get to examine details within the outcrop that may …
Using examples from Australia (mainly South Australia) the talk willexamine existing landscapes which are directly inherited from Gondwana.It will consider the role of their location on the Australian Plate in theconservation of those landscapes and the significance of the dating of thebreakup of Gondwana to the evolution of the geology of Australia. Thetalk will reflect …