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Latest News
- SSSI Monitoring – Gareth Jenkins, Peter Hawksworth, Kathrin Schütrumpf & Anthony Allen
- Ask a Geologist – Warwick Museum
- Down to Earth extra January 2024
- Down to Earth extra December 2023
- Edinburgh, Sir Charles Lyell collection updates
- October 14 & 15 WGCG Host Hertfordshire Geological Society Field trip to Warwickshire
- Oct 14th Earth Science Week – Geo-conservation at Kenilworth Cutting
- Horsts and Grabens: A field trip to Cleeve Hill , Gloucester with Nick Cridlaw. 8th Oct 2023
- Urban Geology of Warwick led by Jon Radley – Oct 13th – Earth Science Week event
- WGCG host the GA “geology from your sofa” (GFYS) for October
- Ask a Geologist – Market Place Museum, Warwick December 16th 10:30 – 12:30
- AGM short presentation Thursday 19/10/23, St Francis of Assisi, Kenilworth
- The giant pliosaur, Steve Etches and David Attenborough
- Field Trip to Hill Farm, Maxstoke & Corley Rocks – 19/8/23 by Mike Allen
- Ask a Geologist – Warwick Museum
- WGCG Suffolk Field trip 15-17th September 2023 by Frances Morley
- Down to Earth extra October 2023
- Ask a geologist 30/9/23 10:30am
- GFYS WGCG Quiz
- Down to Earth Extra August 2023
- Summer Field trip bonanza – updated with links
- GeoWeek: Urban Geology walk of Warwick
- GeoWeek. Deep Time Travel through Kenilworth old town
- Down to Earth extra September 2024
- Down to Earth extra March 2025
- WGCG Workshop: Practical use of geological resources and techniques. Sat 15th February 2025
- Down to Earth extra February 2025
- Down to Earth extra January 2025
- WGCG Ask a Geologist – 07/12/24
- Down to Earth extra December 2024
- Down to Earth extra November 2024
- WGCG Ask a Geologist – 12/10/24
- WGCG Urban Geology walk of Warwick 18/10/24 Led by Dr Jon Radley
- WGCG Charnwood Field Trip 20-22/9/24 Led by Nick Chidlaw
- Down to Earth extra October 2024
- GeoWeek Event in Talisman Square, Kenilworth
- Down to Earth extra August 2024
- Down to Earth extra July 2024
- Down to Earth extra June 2024
- Down to Earth extra May 2024
- GeoWeek Events
- Fossil Resource boxes for schools
- Down to Earth extra April 2024
- Down to Earth extra March 2024
- WGCG Workshop: How to identify Minerals, Rocks and Fossils. Sat 17th February 2024
- Down to Earth extra February 2024
- Down to Earth Extra – June 2021
- WGCG give a talk to WWT
- Down to Earth Extra February 2022
- Down to Earth extra January 2022
- Down to Earth Extra December 2021
- Down to Earth Extra November 2021
- Registration is now open for 2 new residential field trips.
- 2022 Subscritions.
- WGCG to hold its first hybrid lecture December 15th 2021 at 7:30pm
- Down to Earth extra October 2021
- Burton Dassett Video
- Down to Earth Extra September
- Down to Earth extra March 2022
- Geology Field Trips with WGCG
- Down to Earth (115) May ’21 Out Now!
- Down to Earth (101) May ’21)
- Make Exercise an Exploration
- Holloway Donation for Etches Museum
- Charles Lyell’s Notebooks Saved
- New Ryton Pools Interpretation Panel
- Half LGS Re-surveyed & Published
- New Leaflet: Ryton Pools ‘Exploring the Landscape Trail’
- WGCG helps fund special microscope for New Ordovician fossil discovery in Wales
- Four Shire Stone
- Down to Earth Extra – April 2023
- Down to Earth Extra – March 2023
- WGCG delivers a successful Outreach event to Shipston Primary School
- The annual workshop back with a bang
- A day with the rangers at Burton Dassett
- Change of Venue for February Talk
- WGCG 2023 Field programme shaping up
- A weekend with Joe Botting
- Whats taking place in The Midlands
- Down to Earth extra Jan23
- Life Membership Awards
- ‘Henry Clifton Sorby – Microscopist & Geologist – Sheffield’s Greatest Scientist’ by Noel Worley for WGCG 21 April 2021
- Down to Earth extra – December 2022
- Down-to-Earth extra – November 2022
- Down to Earth extra – October 22
- Hybrid Meetings
- Down to Earth Extra – September
- Down to Earth Extra August 2022
- Down to Earth Extra July 2022
- Down to earth Extra
- GeoWeek 2022, 7-15th May
- Field Outing to Dudley Archives & Wrens Nest
Events
- Nov 2015 talk: The Genesis and Evolution of Sulphate Evaporites, by Dr Noel Worley
- Jan 2016 talk: Exceptionally preserved Cambrian fossils of the Chengjiang Lagerstatte,Prof. David Siveter
- Feb 2016 talk: Minerals, Magmas & Man, by Paul Olver
- Feb 2016: Festival of Geology, in Kenilworth with WGCG
- March 2016 talk: Rivers, lakes, swamps and seas: exploring an early Carboniferous environment, Prof. Sarah Davies
- April 2016 talk: The History of the Harbury Railway Cutting, by Luke Swain, Network Rail
- Sept 2016 talk: The village of Martley, Worcestershire, John Nicklin & Bill Barclay
- November 2016 talk: Cave deposits (speleothems) as archives of past environments and climates Ian Fairchild
- January 2017 talk: The volcano that changed the World: Tambora and the great eruption in 1815 by Dr. Ralf Gertisser
- Workshop on Igneous Rock Identification
- Feb 2017 talk: Can we get metals out of the ground in a “green” sustainable way? by Dr Gawen Jenkins
- March 2017 talk: The Corsi Collection of decorative stones: where geology meets the arts, by Monica T. Price,
- April 2017 talk:Life just got complicated: The Ediacaran Fossils of Charnwood Forest, Dr Phil Wilby, BGS
- Sept 2017 talk: Marie Stopes: Sex, Lies and Fossil Plants, Professor Howard Falcon-Lang
- Nov 2017 talk: Sinkholes and Subsidence by Dr. Tony Waltham
- Jan 2018 talk: Holloway Bursary recipient: Pterosaurs, teeth and a fossil festival by Jordan Bestwick
- April 2018 talk: Waking the giant – how a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes, by Prof Bill McGuire
- April 2018: Walk: Led by Dave Kennett & Hugh Jones – To look at stones & brickwork in local building
- May 2018, Walk: Kenilworth Building Stones Trail, Ian Fenwick
- May 2018, Walk, Kenilworth Cutting & Common
- May 2018: Walk: Leamington Building Stones and Geology, Leader John Crossling
- June 2018: Walk: Wolstonian Clay Pit, led by Brian Ellis & Ian Fenwick
- July 2018, Visit, Ecton Copper Mine, Led by Ecton Ed. Trust staff
- Sept 2018, Visit Residential, Lake District: Borrowdale Volcanics & Ordovician-Silurian boundary rocks, Led by Dr Simon Drake
- Sept2018 talk: “Doctors in Geology” by Dr. Albert Benghiat
- November 2018 talk: The secret life of your mobile phone: metal supply and digital devices
- April 2019 Walk: Warwick Town Walk and Warwick Museum
- April 2019 Talk – The Geology of Norway – Senior Citizens Club
- GeoWeek: Walk 600 million years in 20-minutes at the Brandon Marsh GeoWall – Sunday 5 May
- GeoWeek: Upton House Reveals its Secrets Hidden in the Stones – Tuesday 7 May from 11 am
- GeoWeek: Rock solid evidence that Jurassic Park came to Banbury – Tuesday 7 May, 7 pm
- GeoWeek: Kenilworth Rocks! Meet ‘The Stones’ – Thursday 9 May 2pm
- GeoWeek: Gold in them thar Burton Dassett hills? Yes! Fool’s Gold! – Sunday 12 May 10:30 am
- May 2019 Field Trip: Torquay, Devon residential field trip
- June 2019 Walk: Bredon Hill (joint with BCGS)
- July 2019 Walk: Malvern Hills (led by Dick Bryant)
- Aug 2019 Field Trip: Ufton Fields
- Sept 2019 Field Trip: Dorset Coast (Invitation from BCGS) Enrol ASAP
- Sept 2019 Talk: Yorkshire’s ancient storms
- Nov 2019 Talk: “The Real value of Microfossils”
- Jan 2020 Talk: Meteorites (Tom Barratt)
- Feb 2020 Talk: “Geology & Wine in Southern France”
- Feb 2020 – Workshop: Making Sense of Geological Maps
- May 2020, Talk: Fracked or Fiction (via Zoom)
- June 2020 Talk: The Geology of Arran
- July 2020 Talk: Contrasting Islands: The Geology of Eigg & Rum
- Aug 2020 Talk: Mining in North Wales, Rob Vernon
- Sept 2020 Talk: Life & Death in the Jurassic Sea of Dorset, Malcolm Hart
- Oct 2020 Talk: 50 Years of Plate Tectonics
- Oct 2020 Talk: From Coprolites to Cholera, the life of William Buckland, by Peter Lincoln
- Nov 2020 Talk: The Jurassic Coast: The biggest story on Earth, Richard Edmonds
- Dec 2020 Talk: History & Hidden Gems of the Lapworth Museum of Geology, Aerona Moore
- Jan 2021 Talk: New Ordovician fossil discovery in Wales
- Feb 2021 Talk: “Geological Time and the Anthropocene.” by Ian Fairchild
- March 2021: Stuart Blake: An introduction to The Geology of Iceland
- Talk: ‘Henry Clifton Sorby – Sheffield’s Greatest Scientist’ by Noel Worley
- Talk: Iapetus No More – The continental collision that shaped Scotland by Angus Miller
- Talk: Mary Anning, The Fossil Woman by Tom Sharpe
- WGCG Members’ Field Visit to Blockley Quarry
- WGCG 3-Night Residential Field Trip to North Lincolnshire
- Evening Lecture (Zoom)
- Visit to Bockley Quarry
- Geoconservation Henley in Arden
- LPS Zoom Lecture: Dinosaurs and Deserts in South Wales – presented by Cindy Howells National Museum Wales
- Birmingham City Centre Building Stones walk – Trail 1
- AGM (Kenilworth)
- LLPS Lecture (Zoom)
- Evening Lecture (Kenilworth)
- LLPS: Volcanic Tsunamis: Krakatau, 1883 and 2018.
- Social Evening (Kenilworth)
- Evening Lecture in Kenilworth and online via Zoom
- LLPS: The secret life of the starfish/crinoid
- Mining on the Iberian Peninsula (Zoom & KMC)
- LLPS: Ethiopian volcanics
- The Kilchrist Caldera, Skye (Zoom & KMC)
- Geo Conservation, Rowington Canal Cutting
- Wine, Whisky and Beer – the role of geology (Zoom & KMC)
- Geohazards – A Recipe for Disaster (Zoom & KMC)
- Field Outing Dudley Archives & Wrens Nest
- Llandrindod Wells, Builth inlier, Weekend Field Trip led by Dr Joe Botting & Dr lucy Wells
- Field Outing: Cannock Chase – leader is Ian Stimpson – Keele University
- Field Outing to Cleeve Hill. Leader – Nick Chidlaw
- Mendips Field Trip – Weekend Field Trip
- Warwickshire Arden Sandstone Field Trip
- Talk: Mike Benton. :‘Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World’
- Lickey Hills Geo Walk
- AGM
- Talk: The NW Highlands controversy: Geology, geologists and social climbing in Victorian times. Talk by Dr Peter Gutteridge
- WGCG Christmas Social
- LLP: New fossil finds in the Middle Jurassic of the Cotswolds: Tim Ewen
- ‘Astronomical Cycles & Climate’ by Jim Riding
- LLP: Dr Phil Bird (University of Leicester) The Circular Economy and Material Supply
- Zoe Jackson on ‘Birmingham Erratics Project’
- The Geology of Warwickshire Workshop
- Peter Worsley on ‘The Voyage of the Beagle’
- The geology of the Chilterns and the potential impact of HS2 – by Haydon Bailey
- WGCG Public Engagement Stall
- Deep time travel through Kenilworth
- An urban geology walk around Warwick
- Evening Excursion to Roundberry Quarry, Tamworth. Grid reference: SK 2765 0382 Post Code B79 0JW
- Weekend Field Trip: Flamborough Coast (Yorkshire), led by Paul Hildreth
- Guy’s Cliffe SSSI field excursion
- Field Trip: Hill Farm, Maxstoke & Corley Rocks
- Weekend Field Trip: Suffolk Coast led by Tim Holt-Wilson
- Evening Lecture: Stromatolites: Making Mountains out of Microbes – Prof Ian Fairchild
- Field Trip: Moorwood (Nuneaton) CANCELLED
- Field Trip: Cleeve Hill, Gloucestershire. Led by Dr Nick Chidlaw
- Urban Geology of Warwick
- Geo Conservation: Kenilworth Cutting / Greenway
- AGM (members only event)
- Lecture: The birds and rocks of Flamborough Head – Paul Hildreth
- Xmas Social (Members Only)
- Lecture: La Palma Eruption by Dougal Jerram
- Lecture: Geology & Caves of N / NE Greenland -physical record – Paul Smith
- Minerals, Rocks & Fossils Workshop-‘Identifying Specimens’
- Ask a Geologist
- Lecture: The early evolution of animal life and the generation of form – Frankie Dunn
- Gondwana Landscapes: Geology on a Plate – Brian Ellis
- Kenilworth Cutting Field Visit – Ray Pratt
- Rugby cement plant & quarry
- GEOWEEK 2024
- Deep Time Travel Through Old Kenilworth
- A science walk and talk along Kenilworth Common
- Urban Geology Walk of Warwick – CANCELLED
- Ask a Geologist
- Saltwells, Doulton’s Claypit (Black Country) – Andy Harrison (BCGS)
- Castleton (Peak District) Field Trip – Martin Whiteley
- Warwick Folk Festival – fringe event
- Tardebigge reservoir circular walk (near Bromsgrove) – Mike Allen
- Moorwood Cutting and area near Nuneaton – Mike Allen
- Ask a Geologist
- Bones and Badlands – Phil Manning
- Charnwood Forest Field Trip – Nick Chidlaw
- Ask a Geologist
- Dawn of the Modern World: Life, Death and Rain in the late Triassic – Mike Simms
- Urban Geology tour of Warwick
- AGM
- Ask a Geologist
- Christmas Social
- Glaciations of the British Isles – Jim Rose
- WGCG Workshop – Practical use of geological resources and techniques
- Footprints from the past: the nature and value of the UK’s dinosaur track record – Kirsty Edgar
- Alpine peaks and salt intrusions – geological windows into deep Earth’s mantle – Jonathan Turner
- Ask a Geologist
- Field Trip Arden Sandstone – Stuart Burley
- The Triassic of Warwickshire – Joe Mazgajcyk & Kieren Quigley
- Ask A Geologist – Under Dippy!
- WGCG Field Trip to Shropshire – Dr Martin Whiteley
- Barrow Hill ‘volcano’ (west of Dudley) – Mike Allen
- Field Trip to Northumberland, N. E. England – Karl Egeland-Erikson
- Ask A Geologist – Under Dippy!
Last Updated on 07 May 2021