2023 has began with a plethora of talks and events on offer in the Midlands region. Our website contains a page dedicated to these other events offered by other local geology groups and from the Geologists Association. A lot of these are free to attend, particularly those held on Zoom. Other Society Events
During the pandemic the WGCG employed Zoom to keep our education program going to members and friends. As restrictions eased the management committee were agreed to continue to employ Zoom to maintain links with our large following, at the same time as restarting our talks programme in person. In order to do this we had …
The NW Highlands of Scotland probably has the best scenery and geology in the world. You can find the oldest rocks in the British Isles, the first evidence of life, ancient landscapes carved out by preCambrian rivers and beautifully exposed Lower Palaeozoic clastic and carbonate sediments. These all form part of a major fold and …
WGCG AGM – Members only event. Details to follow
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 …
At 6pm Wednesday 2/3/22 Stuart Burley of the WGCG will address members and friends of the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust on the geology of Warwickshire. (The talk will be given online using Zoom). To view the talk announcement go to https://greatfon.com/t/WilderWarwickshire To register for the talk: Register via the link in our bio! @warwickshirewt
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).
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 …
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 …