AGM

WGCG AGM – Members only event. Details to follow

Talk: Mike Benton. :‘Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World’

Mike Benton. :‘Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World’ This lecture will be held at St Francis of Assisi in Kenilworth. We will also attempt to share this on Zoom for those unable to make it in person. We will be trying out new technology and may incur technical hitches, therefore we recommend attending in …

Geohazards – A Recipe for Disaster (Zoom & KMC)

Talk by Sekbal Hussain – BGS. Hybrid meeting held at KMC & via Zoom

Wine, Whisky and Beer – the role of geology (Zoom & KMC)

Alex Maltman. Hybrid meeting held at KMC & via Zoom. We read that the taste of wine is affected by the geology of the vineyard and that whisky is influenced by the rocks the water encountered on its way to the distillery….(Download Poster).

The Kilchrist Caldera, Skye (Zoom & KMC)

Talk by Simon Drake. Hybrid meeting at KMC and via Zoom ‘Catastrophic caldera forming eruptions spanning the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum at Kilchrist and Belig, Isle of Skye, NW Scotland’ Highly silicic Paleocene-Eocene ignimbrite deposits, and mafic lavas at Kilchrist and Belig, Isle of Skye, NW Scotland, form part of a ~800m thick extensive caldera …

WGCG to hold its first hybrid lecture December 15th 2021 at 7:30pm

Following months of consultation and testing the WGCG is pleased to announce that it will hold its first hybrid meeting in December. The talk, “A very British summer in the late Triassic: torrential rain, the Arden Sandstone and the dawn of the dinosaurs” will be given by Stuart Burley, Emeritus Professor of Keele University. This …

‘Henry Clifton Sorby, Microscopist & Geologist – Sheffield’s Greatest Scientist’ by Noel Worley Samples re Henry Clifton Sorby The purpose of the talk is to review his principle successes, to examine the circumstances surrounding Henry Clifton Sorby’s life in Sheffield between 1826 to his death in 1908;