Any member can attend any event and places are filled on a first come, first served basis. Non members are also welcome to attend events, but members will be given priority if places are short.
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| Location: | Somerset, Watchet UK |
| Event Title: | Watchet |
| Date: | July 2008 |
| Event Type: | Weekend Trip (organising Branch: wmi) |
| Summary: | Structural geology and fossil hunting. Dates are TBC when the tides have been calculated to avoid swimming after the geology! |
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| Location: | Eden Valley, Cumbria England |
| Event Title: | Eden Valley Evaporites |
| Date: | Jul 12, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: nwe) |
| Summary: | Leader: Noel Worley. A visit to a gypsum mine and quarry. Hard hats and high vis jackets required. Booking essential as maximum of 20 allowed in mine. |
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| Location: | Barton on Sea, Hampshire |
| Event Title: | Fossil Hunting for all of the Family led by Iain Fletcher |
| Date: | Jul 13, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: lon) |
| Summary: | Spend a day at the sea side looking for fossils at Barton on Sea. |
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| Please note: event details have altered since originally published. |
| Location: | Marlborough, Wiltshire England |
| Event Title: | A Day of Mystery and Suspense with Dr Graham Williams |
| Date: | Jul 13, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: oxf) |
| Summary: | A day of mystery and suspense around the Marlborough area. PLEASE CONTACT HELEN CRAGGS OR GEORGE WARD TO CONFIRM A PLACE BEFORE THE DAY |
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| Location: | Powys Wales |
| Event Title: | ‘All Features Great and Small !! |
| Date: | Jul 13, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: ssi) |
| Summary: | An excursion to explore relict glacier margin landforms and the de-glaciation of the Brecon, Bronllys and Llangorse area’
Leader. Duncan Hawley |
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| Location: | Snake Pass |
| Event Title: | Landslides of the Snake Pass |
| Date: | Jul 13, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: yor) |
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| Location: | London |
| Event Title: | Building Stones Trail devised by Iain Fletcher |
| Date: | Jul 17, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Talk(s) (organising Branch: lon) |
| Summary: | An evening building stones trail around an area in London t.b.c. This replaces our normal monthly talk at the Natural History Museum. |
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| Location: | Lyme Regis – Portland area. |
| Event Title: | Classical fossiliferous area of the World Heritage Coast. |
| Date: | Jul 19, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: swe) |
| Summary: | Classical fossiliferous area of the World Heritage Coast – Lyme Regis to Charmouth.
Leader Richard Edmonds (Dorset CC World Heritage Coast Team)
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| Location: | National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOCS) UK |
| Event Title: | Oceanography Experience |
| Date: | Jul 21, 2008 - Jul 22, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Longer Trip (organising Branch: wsx) |
| Summary: | First day on the research vessel Callista. The second day analysing sample from the first day in the lab at NOCS |
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| Location: | National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) UK |
| Event Title: | Oceanography Experience |
| Date: | Jul 24, 2008 - Jul 25, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Longer Trip (organising Branch: wsx) |
| Summary: |
First day on the research vessel Callista. The second day analysing sample from the first day in the lab at NOCS |
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| Please note: event details have altered since originally published. |
| Location: | Buckinghamshire UK |
| Event Title: | Visit to Coombs Quarry with Dr Jill Eyers |
| Date: | Jul 27, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: wha) |
| Summary: | Day in the field, contact the organiser for details, and to register. |
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| Location: | Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire England |
| Event Title: | Magpie Mine and Sough, and Alport Cupola |
| Date: | Aug 03, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: emi) |
| Summary: | Led by Vanessa Banks, BGS. Looking at some industrial archaeology and scientific work in the hydrogeology of the Peak District. |
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| Please note: event details have altered since originally published. |
| Location: | Egham, Surrey, England |
| Event Title: | Annual Symposium |
| Date: | Aug 08, 2008 - Aug 11, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Symposium (organising Branch: ouc) |
| Summary: | Topic for 2008 will be the History of Geology to link in with the 150th anniversary of the GA, and the 200th anniversay of the GeolSoc and their "Local Heroes" initiative. A new format has been devised to present this fascinating topic - see News Article for details. |
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| Location: | Ham Hill, Near Yeovil, South Somerset |
| Event Title: | Ham Hill Quarries |
| Date: | Aug 16, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: swe) |
| Summary: | The Geology of the Ham Hill Quarries |
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| Location: | East Fife Scotland |
| Event Title: | The Dinantian of East Fife |
| Date: | Aug 24, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: esc) |
| Summary: | Dr Ruth Robinson (University of St Andrews), will lead a field trip visiting localities at St Andrews, Fife Ness, Pittenweem and maybe
Ardross
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| Location: | Cumbria UK |
| Event Title: | Penrith Earth Sciences Weekend |
| Date: | Aug 29, 2008 - Aug 31, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Weekend Trip (organising Branch: ouc) |
| Summary: | Staying at Newton Rigg College, Penrith. |
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| Please note: event details have altered since originally published. |
| Location: | Cerne Abbas, Dorset |
| Event Title: | Manufacture of faced buiding blocks and Building stones of Cerne Abbas |
| Date: | Aug 31, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: wsx) |
| Summary: | Leaders - Tony Harding and Jo Thomas. How building blocks faced with flint, chert, basalt etc are manufactured. Also a look at the building stones of Cerne Abbas. |
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| Please note: event details have altered since originally published. |
| Location: | OU, Milton Keynes, UK |
| Event Title: | Talk - by Helen Craggs Climate Change evaluation from fossil leaves & sediments. |
| Date: | Sep 04, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Talk(s) (organising Branch: wha) |
| Summary: | Talk in the Seminar Room of the Robert Hooke Building, Earth Sciences Dept. Gass Building, Milton Keynes, 19.50 for 20.00 start.
No booking necessary. |
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| Please note: event details have altered since originally published. |
| Location: | Isle of Bute, Argyll Scotland |
| Event Title: | Geology of Bute with Julian Hill |
| Date: | Sep 05, 2008 - Sep 07, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Weekend Trip (organising Branch: wsc) |
| Summary: | Looking at sills, garnets, columnar sandstones, the highland boundary fault and recently discovered Carboniferous flora. |
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| Location: | Folkestone, Kent |
| Event Title: | Landslips, Gault Clay and Chalk |
| Date: | Sep 07, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: lon) |
| Summary: | A day trip led by Peter Golding |
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| Location: | Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge England |
| Event Title: | Sedgwick Museum Cambridge, joint event with West Midlands |
| Date: | Sep 13, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: emi) |
| Summary: | Visit the new displays and meet the Curators |
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| Location: | Sedgewick Geology Museum, Cambridge |
| Event Title: | Tour of Sedgewick Geology Museum |
| Date: | Sep 13, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: wmi) |
| Summary: | New Darwin Dispaly underway and possible sneak preview. Meet the currators. |
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| Location: | Winster England |
| Event Title: | Winster area geology |
| Date: | Sep 14, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: emi) |
| Summary: | Leader: Gerry Shaw. Details to be finalised. |
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| Location: | White Horse Hill, Oxfordshire England |
| Event Title: | Trip to White Horse Hill and Wayland Smithy with Jill Eyers |
| Date: | Sep 14, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: oxf) |
| Summary: | Day trip to look at the Geology, Geomorphology and Archaeology of the area around White Horse Hill |
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| Location: | Woolhope, Hereford |
| Event Title: | Woolhope Dome |
| Date: | Sep 14, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: ssi) |
| Summary: | Leader: Bob Owens, Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Study the Silurian rocks of the Woolhope Dome.
Finishing with tea and cakes at Kiddleys Copse, Mordiford, Hereford |
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| Location: | London |
| Event Title: | Wegener and the beginning of Plate Tectonics - Paul Grant |
| Date: | Sep 18, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Talk(s) (organising Branch: lon) |
| Summary: | A talk given by Paul Grant |
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| Please note: event details have altered since originally published. |
| Location: | North East England |
| Event Title: | Geology of Weardale and the North Pennines |
| Date: | Sep 19, 2008 - Sep 21, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Weekend Trip (organising Branch: nor) |
| Summary: | A weekend trip with the Northumbria branch to look at the stunning geology of weardale and the north pennines. Staying at the Langdon Beck hostel at the head of Weardale. This is an award winning eco-friendly hostel and the weekend includes dormitory accommodation and all meals, licenced refreshments are also available. |
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| Please note: event details have altered since originally published. |
| Location: | Cranborne Chase, Dorset |
| Event Title: | Local fossils, archaeology museum and sites |
| Date: | Sep 20, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: wsx) |
| Summary: | Leader - Martin Green. It's all in the title. |
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| Please note: event details have altered since originally published. |
| Location: | Yorkshire England |
| Event Title: | Chapel-le-Dale and White Scar Caves tour |
| Date: | Sep 21, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: nwe) |
| Summary: | Joint Trip with Manchester Geological Association. BOOKING ESSENTIAL. Leaders: Norma Rothwell (OU) and Jane Michael (OU and MGA): Geology of Chapel-le-Dale area (low mobility trip) in the morning, followed by official guided tour of White Scar Caves at 2.00pm (cost £6.20) Finish at approx 3.30pm |
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| Location: | Canterbury, Kent |
| Event Title: | Building Stones of Canterbury |
| Date: | Sep 21, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: sea) |
| Summary: | Building Stones of Canterbury and the Cathedral
Led by Geoff Downer |
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| Location: | Skipton |
| Event Title: | Millstone Grit |
| Date: | Sep 21, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: yor) |
| Summary: | Looking at lower millstone grit exposures in the Skipton area.
Leader Neil Aitkenhead. |
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| Please note: event details have altered since originally published. |
| Location: | Reading |
| Event Title: | Affordable Volano Monitoring - Dr Hazel Rymer |
| Date: | Sep 23, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Talk(s) (organising Branch: oxf) |
| Summary: | Talk will be held in the Sorby Room, SHES Building, Reading University Campus and will start at 8pm sharp. Doors open 7.30 - 8pm. |
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| Location: | Chester |
| Event Title: | S260 / 279 Revision Day |
| Date: | Sep 28, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Revision Day (organising Branch: gcy) |
| Summary: | S260 and S279 revision day organised by GCOUGS and NWOUGS |
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| Location: | Egham, Surrey |
| Event Title: | S260 Revision Day |
| Date: | Sep 28, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Revision Day (organising Branch: lon) |
| Summary: | Practical hands on session for maps, rocks, fossils and sediments, led by current and former S260 tutors and the London Branch Committee. The day (£5) is based at Royal Holloway at Egham. |
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| Location: | Northamptonshire |
| Event Title: | Twywell and Cranford Geology |
| Date: | October 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: emi) |
| Summary: | Visit to former Iron ore workings at Twywell and Cranford, Northamptonshire. Jurassic rocks and fossils |
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| Location: | Isle of Portland |
| Event Title: | Vertebrate footprint localities on the Isle of Portland and the World Heritage Coast |
| Date: | Oct 11, 2008 - Oct 12, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Weekend Trip (organising Branch: swe) |
| Summary: | This will be a weekend trip, with limited numbers. Early booking is essential (maximum number is 15). Cost will be in the region of £100.00 to £120.00
Provisional Itinerary - Saturday
[1]. Dinosaur Tracks at Stone Firms, Portland.
[2]. Bowers Quarry - where we will view patch reefs and the mine.
[3]. Worbarrow Bay/Tout (Saturday late am – pm).
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Eypes Mouth - Middle Lias, Upper Lias and Forest Marble + Fullers Earth if exposed.
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| Location: | Studland, Dorset |
| Event Title: | Cretaceous & Tertiary coastal features |
| Date: | Oct 12, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: wsx) |
| Summary: | Leader - John Chaffey. A chance to study the Cretaceous & Tertiary coastal features on the south coast. |
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| Location: | London |
| Event Title: | Monitoring the most active volcano in Mexico - Volcan de Colima - John Stevenson |
| Date: | Oct 16, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Talk(s) (organising Branch: lon) |
| Summary: | A talk given by John Stevenson |
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| Location: | Dalmatia Croatia |
| Event Title: | Croatia - Geology of Dalmatia |
| Date: | Oct 18, 2008 - Oct 25, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Longer Trip (organising Branch: eur) |
| Summary: | A group of scientists from Zagreb University will show us the geology of Dalmatia and the sites on which they work. |
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| Please note: event details have altered since originally published. |
| Location: | Lancashire England |
| Event Title: | Namurian Goniatites on top of the Pennines |
| Date: | Oct 18, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: nwe) |
| Summary: | Leader: Fred Broadhurst. Aim: To examine and interpret succession up from Kinderscout Grit through clayrocks containing the Bilinguites gracilis and B.Bilinguis marine bands of the Namurian |
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| Location: | Western Weald, NE Hampshire |
| Event Title: | Western Weald |
| Date: | Oct 19, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: lon) |
| Summary: | A day trip looking at the Middle & Upper Cretaceous rocks, Building Stones and the Great Flood. Led by Graham Williams |
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| Location: | Powys Wales |
| Event Title: | ? Brecon building stones ? |
| Date: | Oct 19, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: ssi) |
| Summary: | Leader: Adrian Humpage, BGS, Cardiff |
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| Location: | North Yorkshire |
| Event Title: | Malham |
| Date: | Oct 19, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: yor) |
| Summary: | Vist to Gordale Scar and Malham Cove. |
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| Please note: event details have altered since originally published. |
| Location: | Shropshire |
| Event Title: | Weekend in Shropshire with John Downes |
| Date: | Oct 24, 2008 - Oct 26, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Weekend Trip (organising Branch: oxf) |
| Summary: |
An insight into an amazing diversity of the county’s geology by one of the most respected leaders in the OUGS. Against the back-drop of the famous Shropshire countryside and based in the historic town of Shrewsbury we shall share the benefits of John’s long experience of the area.
WAITING LIST ONLY |
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| Location: | Bideford |
| Event Title: | Field weekend based at Bideford |
| Date: | November 2008 |
| Event Type: | Weekend Trip (organising Branch: swe) |
| Summary: | Provisional |
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| Please note that this event has been cancelled. |
| Location: | Arizona USA |
| Event Title: | Geology of Northern Arizona and southern Colorado Plateau |
| Date: | Nov 06, 2008 - Nov 14, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Longer Trip (organising Branch: wsx) |
| Summary: | Trip Cancelled. |
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| Location: | Wirrall and Cheshire England |
| Event Title: | Snowflake in the Wirral and Cheshire |
| Date: | Nov 07, 2008 - Nov 09, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Weekend Trip (organising Branch: emi) |
| Summary: | Triassic Geology on the Wiarral, led by 2 OU Tutors, Hilary Davies and Cynthia Burek. Saturday in the North of the Wirral, Heswall and Hoylake. Sunday we will be looking at the Building stones of the City of Chester and the Holt Farndon area. |
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| Location: | Wells, Somerset |
| Event Title: | The Mendips |
| Date: | Nov 07, 2008 - Nov 09, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Weekend Trip (organising Branch: lon) |
| Summary: | Our winter weekend to the Mendips led by Dr Paul Olver. |
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| Location: | Ramsgate, Kent |
| Event Title: | The Geology of Ramsgate Harbour |
| Date: | Nov 15, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: sea) |
| Summary: | The Geology of Ramsgate Harbour led by Geoff Downer. A leisurely walk around the harbour and town centre looking at the range of building materials used over the years including igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. |
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| Location: | Derbyshire |
| Event Title: | Ashover Inlier and Earl Sterndale |
| Date: | Nov 15, 2008 - Nov 16, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Weekend Trip (organising Branch: wmi) |
| Summary: | Dr Joe Jennings leads day trips or stay for the weekend |
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| Location: | London |
| Event Title: | Members' Evening - Branch Members |
| Date: | Nov 20, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Talk(s) (organising Branch: lon) |
| Summary: | A series of short talks presented by members of the Branch. |
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| Location: | Dorset |
| Event Title: | Climate Change Past and Present Conference and field trip weekend |
| Date: | Nov 29, 2008 - Nov 30, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Weekend Trip (organising Branch: wsx) |
| Summary: | Lectures on the Saturday - subject 'Climate change'. This will be followed by a Sunday field trip. Detail to follow soon. Just keep these dates clear for this event!! |
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| Location: | Rainhill, Merseyside England |
| Event Title: | Afternoon of Geological Talks at Rainhill village hall |
| Date: | Nov 30, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Talk(s) (organising Branch: nwe) |
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| Location: | Keyworth, Nottinghamshire |
| Event Title: | Day of talks at BGS, Keyworth |
| Date: | December 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: emi) |
| Summary: | 4 Speakers on a variety of geological subjects |
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| Please note: event details have altered since originally published. |
| Location: | Oxford England |
| Event Title: | Palaeoclimate Change - A guide to the World’s end? - Prof Bob Spicer |
| Date: | Dec 09, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Talk(s) (organising Branch: oxf) |
| Summary: | Talk on Paleaoclimate and what we can learn about today's environmental change.. |
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| Location: | London |
| Event Title: | Homo Britanicus- Chris Stringer |
| Date: | Dec 11, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Talk(s) (organising Branch: lon) |
| Summary: | A talk given by Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum |
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| Location: | Lyme Regis, Dorset |
| Event Title: | Fossil Hunting |
| Date: | Dec 28, 2008 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: wsx) |
| Summary: | Leader - Bob Christian. A day's fossil hunting at this world famous location. |
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| Location: | Tenerife Spain |
| Event Title: | Volcanoes on a Shoestring No 11 |
| Date: | Mar 17, 2009 - Mar 24, 2009 |
| Event Type: | Longer Trip (organising Branch: ssi) |
| Summary: | Leader: Linda Fowler
Organiser:Jan Ashton-Jones
Back again by popular request.Explore the amazing variety of Tenerife's Volcanics |
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| Location: | Ogmore-by-Sea |
| Event Title: | The geology of the Glamorgan Heritage Coast |
| Date: | Mar 21, 2009 - Mar 22, 2009 |
| Event Type: | Weekend Trip (organising Branch: swe) |
| Summary: | The geology of the Glamorgan Heritage Coast between Ogmore-by-Sea and Dunraven Bay |
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| Location: | South Hams |
| Event Title: | Geography and Geomorphology in the South Hams |
| Date: | April 2009 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: swe) |
| Summary: | Geography and Geomorphology in the South Hams with Dr Gerd Masselink, University of Plymouth, date tba |
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| Location: | Outer Hebrides Scotland |
| Event Title: | Geology of the Outer Hebrides: Dr John Mendum |
| Date: | May 24, 2009 - May 30, 2009 |
| Event Type: | Longer Trip (organising Branch: nwe) |
| Summary: | Joint trip - NW and Wessex branches: Five days in the field exploring the geology of 4 Outer Hebridean islands (Harris, N.Uist, S.Uist and Barra). Leader: Dr John Mendum (BGS and Edinburgh Geol Soc). Staying at the Orasay Inn on S Uist (website: www.orasayinn.com ) Cost: approx £500 including 6 nights at the hotel, meals, transport on the islands and internal ferry crossings, but not the cost of getting there. |
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| Location: | Atlas Mountains Morocco |
| Event Title: | Geology, Architecture and Culture of Morocco with Prof. Bob Spicer |
| Date: | September 2009 |
| Event Type: | Longer Trip (organising Branch: wha) |
| Summary: | Trip planned for Autumn 2009 7 - 10 days, staying in Berber villages, meeting local people. Touring - probably by mini bus, staying at 3-4 locations in the Atlas Mountains. Register your interest now, further details will be supplied as soon as they are available, if enough people are interested. |
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| Location: | Bayreuth, Germany |
| Event Title: | Upper Franconia area of Germany |
| Date: | May 2010 |
| Event Type: | Longer Trip (organising Branch: swe) |
| Summary: | Field week in the Upper Franconia area of Germany. Leaders from the University of Bayreuth. Date tba |
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