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Latest News
- Down to Earth Extra – June 2021
- Geology Field Trips with WGCG
- Down to Earth Extra September
- Burton Dassett Video
- Down to Earth extra October 2021
- ‘Henry Clifton Sorby – Microscopist & Geologist – Sheffield’s Greatest Scientist’ by Noel Worley for WGCG 21 April 2021
- New Leaflet: Ryton Pools ‘Exploring the Landscape Trail’
- New Ryton Pools Interpretation Panel
- Charles Lyell’s Notebooks Saved
- WGCG helps fund special microscope for New Ordovician fossil discovery in Wales
- Holloway Donation for Etches Museum
- Down to Earth (115) May ’21 Out Now!
- Make Exercise an Exploration
- Half LGS Re-surveyed & Published
- Down to Earth (101) May ’21)
Events
- Feb 2017 talk: Can we get metals out of the ground in a “green” sustainable way? by Dr Gawen Jenkins
- November 2018 talk: The secret life of your mobile phone: metal supply and digital devices
- Feb 2020 Talk: “Geology & Wine in Southern France”
- Talk: Mary Anning, The Fossil Woman by Tom Sharpe
- March 2017 talk: The Corsi Collection of decorative stones: where geology meets the arts, by Monica T. Price,
- April 2019 Walk: Warwick Town Walk and Warwick Museum
- Feb 2020 – Workshop: Making Sense of Geological Maps
- WGCG Members’ Field Visit to Blockley Quarry
- April 2017 talk:Life just got complicated: The Ediacaran Fossils of Charnwood Forest, Dr Phil Wilby, BGS
- April 2019 Talk – The Geology of Norway – Senior Citizens Club
- May 2020, Talk: Fracked or Fiction (via Zoom)
- WGCG 3-Night Residential Field Trip to North Lincolnshire
- Sept 2017 talk: Marie Stopes: Sex, Lies and Fossil Plants, Professor Howard Falcon-Lang
- GeoWeek: Walk 600 million years in 20-minutes at the Brandon Marsh GeoWall – Sunday 5 May
- June 2020 Talk: The Geology of Arran
- Visit to Bockley Quarry
- Nov 2017 talk: Sinkholes and Subsidence by Dr. Tony Waltham
- GeoWeek: Upton House Reveals its Secrets Hidden in the Stones – Tuesday 7 May from 11 am
- July 2020 Talk: Contrasting Islands: The Geology of Eigg & Rum
- Evening Lecture (Zoom)
- Jan 2018 talk: Holloway Bursary recipient: Pterosaurs, teeth and a fossil festival by Jordan Bestwick
- GeoWeek: Rock solid evidence that Jurassic Park came to Banbury – Tuesday 7 May, 7 pm
- Aug 2020 Talk: Mining in North Wales, Rob Vernon
- AGM (Kenilworth)
- Nov 2015 talk: The Genesis and Evolution of Sulphate Evaporites, by Dr Noel Worley
- Feb 2018 talk: New insights into Triassic origins of dinosaurs & their close relatives, by Prof Richard Butler
- GeoWeek: Kenilworth Rocks! Meet ‘The Stones’ – Thursday 9 May 2pm
- Sept 2020 Talk: Life & Death in the Jurassic Sea of Dorset, Malcolm Hart
- Evening Lecture (Kenilworth)
- Jan 2016 talk: Exceptionally preserved Cambrian fossils of the Chengjiang Lagerstatte,Prof. David Siveter
- April 2018 talk: Waking the giant – how a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes, by Prof Bill McGuire
- GeoWeek: Gold in them thar Burton Dassett hills? Yes! Fool’s Gold! – Sunday 12 May 10:30 am
- Oct 2020 Talk: 50 Years of Plate Tectonics
- Social Evening (Kenilworth)
- Feb 2016 talk: Minerals, Magmas & Man, by Paul Olver
- April 2018: Walk: Led by Dave Kennett & Hugh Jones – To look at stones & brickwork in local building
- May 2019 Field Trip: Torquay, Devon residential field trip
- Oct 2020 Talk: From Coprolites to Cholera, the life of William Buckland, by Peter Lincoln
- Geoconservation Henley in Arden
- Feb 2016: Festival of Geology, in Kenilworth with WGCG
- May 2018, Walk: Kenilworth Building Stones Trail, Ian Fenwick
- June 2019 Walk: Bredon Hill (joint with BCGS)
- Nov 2020 Talk: The Jurassic Coast: The biggest story on Earth, Richard Edmonds
- Birmingham City Centre Building Stones walk – Trail 1
- March 2016 talk: Rivers, lakes, swamps and seas: exploring an early Carboniferous environment, Prof. Sarah Davies
- May 2018, Walk, Kenilworth Cutting & Common
- July 2019 Walk: Malvern Hills (led by Dick Bryant)
- Dec 2020 Talk: History & Hidden Gems of the Lapworth Museum of Geology, Aerona Moore
- LPS Zoom Lecture: Dinosaurs and Deserts in South Wales – presented by Cindy Howells National Museum Wales
- April 2016 talk: The History of the Harbury Railway Cutting, by Luke Swain, Network Rail
- May 2018: Walk: Leamington Building Stones and Geology, Leader John Crossling
- Aug 2019 Field Trip: Ufton Fields
- Jan 2021 Talk: New Ordovician fossil discovery in Wales
- Evening Lecture in Kenilworth and online via Zoom
- Sept 2016 talk: The village of Martley, Worcestershire, John Nicklin & Bill Barclay
- June 2018: Walk: Wolstonian Clay Pit, led by Brian Ellis & Ian Fenwick
- Sept 2019 Field Trip: Dorset Coast (Invitation from BCGS) Enrol ASAP
- Feb 2021 Talk: “Geological Time and the Anthropocene.” by Ian Fairchild
- LLPS Lecture (Zoom)
- November 2016 talk: Cave deposits (speleothems) as archives of past environments and climates Ian Fairchild
- July 2018, Visit, Ecton Copper Mine, Led by Ecton Ed. Trust staff
- Sept 2019 Talk: Yorkshire’s ancient storms
- March 2021: Stuart Blake: An introduction to The Geology of Iceland
- January 2017 talk: The volcano that changed the World: Tambora and the great eruption in 1815 by Dr. Ralf Gertisser
- Sept 2018, Visit Residential, Lake District: Borrowdale Volcanics & Ordovician-Silurian boundary rocks, Led by Dr Simon Drake
- Nov 2019 Talk: “The Real value of Microfossils”
- Talk: ‘Henry Clifton Sorby – Sheffield’s Greatest Scientist’ by Noel Worley
- Workshop on Igneous Rock Identification
- Sept2018 talk: “Doctors in Geology” by Dr. Albert Benghiat
- Jan 2020 Talk: Meteorites (Tom Barratt)
- Talk: Iapetus No More – The continental collision that shaped Scotland by Angus Miller
Last Updated on 07 May 2021