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 …
Down to Earth extra – October 2023
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 …
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 …
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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 …
The rise of the animals was a profound transition in the History of Life; for the first-time organisms were able to engineer the environment around them, altering geochemical cycles, building complex ecosystems and diversifying into myriad forms. However, the rise of the animals is also one of the most controversial episodes in Earth History. Most major …