All OUGS events are open to all OUGS members and are advertised initially in the events list below and then in the events diary in subsequent OUGS newsletters. Bookings, with deposit, are not confirmed for any residential trip until at least a month after the first appearance of the event in the OUGS newsletter events diary, and then in order of deposits received.
For longer trips which are likely to be popular, it is advisable to register your interest with the contact person when a trip is first advertised so that a booking form can be sent when full details are arranged.
Non-members are also welcome to attend events, but there will usually be a small additional charge to cover insurance and members will be given priority if places are short.
Click the box in the top right of the page to search on Keyword, Branch or event type e.g. talk(s), day or longer trips etc.
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| Location: | Nottinghamshire |
| Event Title: | East Midlands AGM |
| Date: | Jan 28, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Annual General Meeting (organising Branch: emi) |
| Summary: | The East Midlands AGM will be held at BGS, Keyworth, Nottingham. |
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| Location: | UCD Dublin Ireland |
| Event Title: | AGM, Talk and Lunch |
| Date: | Jan 28, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Annual General Meeting (organising Branch: ire) |
| Summary: | The AGM will take place in The Science Building in UCD |
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| Location: | Leyland, near Preston |
| Event Title: | NW Branch AGM and Dinner |
| Date: | Jan 28, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Annual General Meeting (organising Branch: nwe) |
| Summary: | Coffee/tea provided from 6.00pm, NW Branch AGM at 6.30pm. Dinner at 8.00pm at the Best Western Leyland Hotel, near J28 of M6. |
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| Location: | Cornwall, England |
| Event Title: | AGM Weekend |
| Date: | Jan 28, 2012 - Jan 29, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Weekend Trip (organising Branch: swe) |
| Summary: | To be based at Truro School. More details to follow. |
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| Location: | Cardiff Wales |
| Event Title: | Branch AGM |
| Date: | Jan 29, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Annual General Meeting (organising Branch: ssi) |
| Summary: | To be held at 11am at the Museum of Wales, Cardiff. |
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| Location: | Milton Keynes UK |
| Event Title: | AGM and Talk to be arranged |
| Date: | Feb 02, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Evening Talk (organising Branch: wha) |
| Summary: | AGM and talk (to be arranged) |
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| Location: | Pitlochry, Perthshire Scotland |
| Event Title: | East and West of Scotland Branches AGM weekend |
| Date: | Feb 03, 2012 - Feb 05, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Annual General Meeting (organising Branch: esc) |
| Summary: | including Sat morning field trip, Sat evening guest speaker and Burns Supper. |
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| Location: | West Stow Country Park, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk |
| Event Title: | Talks, Branch AGM, & Archaeology Tour |
| Date: | Feb 04, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Talk(s) (organising Branch: ean) |
| Summary: | 2 Talks in the morning followed by the AGM. In the Afternoon there is an Archaeological Tour around West Stow Village. |
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| Location: | London |
| Event Title: | Branch AGM and Talk by Alex Dickson |
| Date: | Feb 04, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Annual General Meeting (organising Branch: lon) |
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| Location: | Cumbria UK |
| Event Title: | 2011 review |
| Date: | Feb 04, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Annual General Meeting (organising Branch: nor) |
| Summary: | The Northumbria OUGS AGM will be held at the Langdon Beck Hotel on Saturday 4th February 2012 commencing 12.30 pm.
IMPORTANT NOTE: in the event of bad weather the event will instead be conducted at the Skiff (Restaurant and Bar) Blaydon-on-Tyne at the same time. Members will be notified a couple of days beforehand. |
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| Location: | Kent England |
| Event Title: | South East Branch AGM and morning talk and walk |
| Date: | Feb 04, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Annual General Meeting (organising Branch: sea) |
| Summary: | Canterbury Heritage Museum, Stour Street, Canterbury, CT1 2NR at 2.00pm
Talk in the morning by Philip Hadland at the museum at 10.15. Contact Geoff Downer if intending to go to morning talk. |
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| Location: | Birmingham University |
| Event Title: | WMOUGS AGM |
| Date: | Feb 04, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Annual General Meeting (organising Branch: wmi) |
| Summary: | West Midlands branch AGM followed by a tour of the Lapworth Museum.
The Lapworth Museum of Geology has the finest and most extensive collections of fossils, minerals and rocks in the Midlands. The Museum dates back to 1880, and is one of the oldest specialist geological museums in the UK. For more details see: Lapworth Museum of Geology |
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| Location: | North Yorkshire |
| Event Title: | Winter Weekend – Scarborough area |
| Date: | Feb 10, 2012 - Feb 12, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Weekend Trip (organising Branch: yor) |
| Summary: | This year the leader will be Phil Robinson taking us on Saturday to see the Middle Jurassic in Scalby Bay and on Sundaythe Chalk at Thornwick Bay and Flamboro' ( Nice Cafe at the lighthouse to finish)! |
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| Location: | Aberystwyth Wales |
| Event Title: | Aberystwyth -Sediments and fossils |
| Date: | Feb 11, 2012 - Feb 12, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Weekend Trip (organising Branch: ssi) |
| Summary: | A weekend in the labs at Aberystwyth University with Charlie Bendall and Bill Perkins. |
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| Location: | Vallis Vale, Somerset |
| Event Title: | Introduction to Geology II |
| Date: | Feb 12, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: wsx) |
| Summary: | Leader Alan Holiday:
An opportunity to learn new skills, relearn old skills and help others where appropriate. This trip is suitable for students on S104, S276, etc. |
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| Location: | London |
| Event Title: | Visit to Cross Rail's Tottenham Court Road Station & Canada Water sites |
| Date: | Feb 16, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Half Day Trip (organising Branch: lon) |
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| Location: | London |
| Event Title: | Tunnelling under London by Ursula Lawrence |
| Date: | Feb 16, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Evening Talk (organising Branch: lon) |
| Summary: | Crossrail is a new underground railway through London that will involve tunnelling 21km of twin bore tunnels under and through London's historic infrastructure. The presentation will detail the scheme and the expected programme over the next decade. A brief summary of the geology of the London basin will be followed by an overview of the challenges involved in tunnelling through the geology and the urban environment of London. |
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| Location: | Bristol UK |
| Event Title: | OUGS Executive Meeting |
| Date: | Feb 18, 2012 |
| Event Type: | OUGS Committee Meeting (organising Branch: ouc) |
| Summary: | OUGS Executive meeting at 11.00 am in the OU SW Regional Office
4 Portwall Lane, Bristol, BS1 6ND
10 mins walk from Temple Mead Rail Station. |
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| Location: | Reading University Campus |
| Event Title: | Megafloods in the English Channel - how Britain became an island |
| Date: | Feb 21, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Evening Talk (organising Branch: oxf) |
| Summary: | Lecture by Professor Sanjeev Gupta, Imperial College, London.
How did Britain become an island? Surprisingly the answer to this question has remained unresolved until recently. Yet Britain’s island status has governed its palaeogeography in relation to western Europe, its archaeology, and ultimately its historical development. The talk will show new geophysical data from the floor of the English Channel that reveals morphological evidence pointing to a huge megaflood event/s being the causative mechanism. |
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| Location: | Fuerteventura and Lanzarote Spain |
| Event Title: | Volcanoes on a Shoestring- a change from Tenerife. Waiting list only |
| Date: | Feb 25, 2012 - Mar 07, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Longer Trip (organising Branch: ssi) |
| Summary: | Waiting list only: - Self catering accommodation in Fuerteventura and an overnight visit to Lanzarote. Possibly a 10 day trip.
More details later |
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| Location: | Clitheroe, Lancashire |
| Event Title: | Beginners in the Field Day |
| Date: | Feb 26, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Introductory Field Trip (organising Branch: nwe) |
| Summary: | AM: Examine rocks at Nick of Pendle quarry with Chris Arkwright (OU tutor) plus others. PM: Follow the Salt Hill Trail at Clitheroe with Alan Diggles (Clitheroe Castle and Museum if time) |
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| Location: | Hertfordshire |
| Event Title: | Tring Natural History Museum visit |
| Date: | March 2012 |
| Event Type: | Half Day Trip (organising Branch: oxf) |
| Summary: | A chance to see the wide range of artifacts in the Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild collection, gifted to the nation in 1937 and now part of the Natural History Museum. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/tring/whats-on/index.html |
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| Location: | Milton Keynes UK |
| Event Title: | To be arranged |
| Date: | Mar 01, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Evening Talk (organising Branch: wha) |
| Summary: | To be arranged |
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| Location: | West Sussex |
| Event Title: | Bignor and Duncton with David Bone |
| Date: | Mar 04, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: lon) |
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| Location: | Milton Keynes UK |
| Event Title: | Walton Hall Branch Dinner (please note change of date from previously published) |
| Date: | Mar 10, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Evening Outing (organising Branch: wha) |
| Summary: | At the THE AIRMAN, Meppershall, between Hitchin and Shefford.
Members, Partners and guests welcome to attend. |
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| Location: | London |
| Event Title: | The 2010 eruption of Erte Ale, Afar, Ethiopia by Lorraine Field |
| Date: | Mar 15, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Evening Talk (organising Branch: lon) |
| Summary: | The 2010 eruption of Erta Ale, Afar, Ethiopia by Lorraine Field
Please contact Di Clements if you wish to attend as a list of participants has to be given to the Natural History for security reasons. |
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| Location: | Brightling England |
| Event Title: | Brightling Gypsum Mine |
| Date: | Mar 15, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Half Day Trip (organising Branch: sea) |
| Summary: | A third trip to this fascinating site. Only a few places available as numbers restricted. Steel toe cap boots must be worn. Start time 9.00 am. |
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| Location: | Warwickshire |
| Event Title: | Ryton Pools Country Park |
| Date: | Mar 17, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: wmi) |
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| This event is new since the last newsletter. |
| Location: | Winchester Area |
| Event Title: | Chalk in the Winchester area |
| Date: | Mar 18, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: wsx) |
| Summary: | Leader Professor Rory Mortimore: A field trip led by one of the leading experts in Chalk. A trip not to be missed. Exact location to be added later.
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| Location: | Southern Arizona USA |
| Event Title: | Explore Arizona's Basin & Range - Leaders : Colin & Linda Morley |
| Date: | Mar 22, 2012 - Apr 01, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Longer Trip (organising Branch: wsx) |
| Summary: | Explore the features and geological history of the Basin and Range. Visit mines that created Arizona's wealth and see the effects on local flora and fauna. Leaders - Colin & Linda Morley |
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| Location: | Wirral, Merseyside |
| Event Title: | Wirral Geology with Hilary Davies (OU tutor) |
| Date: | Mar 25, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: nwe) |
| Summary: | Aim: to become familiar with all environments of deposition seen in the Triassic on the Wirral peninsula, under the expert guidance of experienced local geologist and OU tutor, Hilary Davies |
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| Location: | Argyll and Bute |
| Event Title: | Joint East Midlands and Yorkshire trip to the Isle of Mull *** WAITING LIST ONLY *** |
| Date: | Mar 31, 2012 - Apr 07, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Longer Trip (organising Branch: emi) |
| Summary: | A joint branch trip to various localities on the Isle of Mull |
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| This event is new since the last newsletter. |
| Location: | Isle of Mull |
| Event Title: | Mull trip joint with E Midlands |
| Date: | Mar 31, 2012 - Apr 07, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Longer Trip (organising Branch: yor) |
| Summary: | Follow link below for full details
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| Location: | Wiltshire |
| Event Title: | Chicksgrove Quarry 2 |
| Date: | April 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: oxf) |
| Summary: | Another chance to visit this famous source of the Chilmark Stone, see and possibly find some of the many fossils that emerge from the Portland and Purbeck limestone beds. Led by OUGS member and stonemason, John Needham. |
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| Location: | Milton Keynes UK |
| Event Title: | Reconstructing Holocene sea-level variability in the Bay of Cadiz using salt marsh foraminifera |
| Date: | Apr 05, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Evening Talk (organising Branch: wha) |
| Summary: | Talk by Frazer Bird (OU Earth Science PhD Research Student).
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| Location: | Cyprus |
| Event Title: | Cyprus:Geology and History of an ophiolite, and the geological development of the Island of Cyprus |
| Date: | Apr 11, 2012 - Apr 18, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Longer Trip (organising Branch: nor) |
| Summary: | An opportunity to explore the Cyprus Ophiolite and geology of the island under the leadership of Dr. Paul Williams. |
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| Location: | Nottingham |
| Event Title: | OUGS AGM and Social Weekend |
| Date: | Apr 13, 2012 - Apr 15, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Annual General Meeting (organising Branch: ouc) |
| Summary: | Saturday 14th AM - OUGS Committee meeting
PM - OUGS AGM; Geoff Brown Memorial Lecture; Annual Dinner/Disco
Moyra Eldridge Photographic Competition; Sunday field trips. |
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| This event is new since the last newsletter. |
| Location: | Nottingham |
| Event Title: | OUGS Committee Meeting |
| Date: | Apr 14, 2012 |
| Event Type: | OUGS Committee Meeting (organising Branch: ouc) |
| Summary: | On the morning of the OUGS AGM.
Room A18/A19 in Lenton Grove - adjacent to Ancaster Hall, the venue for the AGM in the afternoon. More details later. |
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| Location: | London |
| Event Title: | Solnhofen by Chris Duffin |
| Date: | Apr 19, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Evening Talk (organising Branch: lon) |
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| Location: | Cork Harbour Ireland |
| Event Title: | Cork Harbour Geology |
| Date: | Apr 21, 2012 - Apr 22, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Weekend Trip (organising Branch: ire) |
| Summary: | Bettie Higgs will do a weekend Spring/Summer 2012 This date is provisional and may be changed. |
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| Location: | Bedfordshire |
| Event Title: | Chalk Quarries in the Dunstable area with Haydon Bailey |
| Date: | Apr 21, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: lon) |
| Summary: | To include the large Kemsworth working quarry |
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| Location: | Turkey |
| Event Title: | The Ancient Lycian Region |
| Date: | Apr 21, 2012 - Apr 28, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Longer Trip (organising Branch: sea) |
| Summary: | Archeological and Geological trip to the ancient Lycian region in the Teke Peninsular of Southern Turkey.
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| Location: | Rudry, S Glamorgan Wales |
| Event Title: | Geology and landscape on the edge of the South Wales Coalfield. Tom Sharpe |
| Date: | Apr 22, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: ssi) |
| Summary: | Meet at 10am at Rudry Common car park ST 1825 8645 on the minor road between Van (Caerphilly) and Rudry.
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| Location: | Cornwall, England |
| Event Title: | Boscastle |
| Date: | Apr 22, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: swe) |
| Summary: | Alan Holiday (retired lecturer at Weymouth College) is leading a trip to Boscastle, North Cornwall on 22nd April 2012, to see the geology and the flood defences built since 2004. |
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| Location: | Scotland |
| Event Title: | Sediments of the Forth Basin with Professor Dorrik Stow |
| Date: | Apr 28, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: esc) |
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| Location: | Eden Valley, Cumbria |
| Event Title: | Eden Valley, Cross Fell Inlier and Pennine Escarpment |
| Date: | Apr 28, 2012 - Apr 29, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Weekend Trip (organising Branch: nwe) |
| Summary: | Sat April 28th: Eden Valley with John Gunner (CGS). Sun April 29th: Cross Fell Inlier, High Cup Nick and the Pennine Escarpment with John Rodgers (CGS). Optional overnight B&B at the Royal Oak Inn, Appleby or other B&B. Three course Dinner available at the Royal Oak on Sat evening. |
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| Location: | Dudley, West Midlands |
| Event Title: | Wren's Nest National Nature Reserve and canal trip |
| Date: | Apr 28, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: wmi) |
| Summary: | Follow up to Graham Worton's (Dudley MBC Geologist) talk at the WMOUGS 2011 AGM.
AM - Tour of the Wren's Nest with Graham Worton.
PM - Canal trip to visit the limestone caverns. |
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| This event is new since the last newsletter. |
| Location: | Yorkshire |
| Event Title: | York Moraine |
| Date: | Apr 28, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: yor) |
| Summary: | The trip will be led by W Fairburn
For full details contact the organiser. |
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| Location: | Santorini Greece |
| Event Title: | Visit to Santorini (The Minoan Volcano Tour) with Dr Mark Davies - WAITING LIST ONLY |
| Date: | May 01, 2012 - May 15, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Longer Trip (organising Branch: wha) |
| Summary: | Minoan Volcano Tour. (Booking Form now available to download, below)
Two Separate weeks available: WAITING LIST ONLY
Please note there has been a recent change of dates for this trip due to unforseen circumstances.
Week 1: Tuesday 1 May 2012 to Tuesday 8 May 2012
Week 2:Tuesday 8 May 2012 to Tuesday 15 May 2012
SEE FLIER IN pdf file below. |
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| Location: | Walton Hall UK |
| Event Title: | PhD projects on Bhutan and Sikkim, Himalaya |
| Date: | May 03, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Evening Talk (organising Branch: wha) |
| Summary: | A talk by Catherine Mottram and Lucy Greenwood (OU Earth Sciencw PhD Research Students) |
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| Location: | Snowdonia Wales |
| Event Title: | Snowdonia |
| Date: | May 04, 2012 - May 07, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Weekend Trip (organising Branch: ssi) |
| Summary: | A weekend exploring Snowdonia, led by Dr Elaine Burt, BGS, who will describe the latest interpretation of the area resulting from recent mapping. |
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| Location: | Assynt Scotland |
| Event Title: | Leader John Mendum - 'The Geology of the Northwest Highlands' |
| Date: | May 05, 2012 - May 11, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Longer Trip (organising Branch: wsx) |
| Summary: | Lead by John Mendum, this area has the oldest sedimentary rocks in Europe, the clues to the shallow Cambrian seas and, of course, the great thrust structures that built up the Caledonian Mountain range 430 mya. |
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| Location: | Leicestershire |
| Event Title: | Charnwood Forest |
| Date: | May 11, 2012 - May 13, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Weekend Trip (organising Branch: oxf) |
| Summary: | The rocks of Charnwood Forest remain the only place in Western Europe where the earliest known large complex fossilised Precambrian species, Charnia masoni, have been found. |
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| Location: | Berwickshire Scotland |
| Event Title: | St. Abbs Head with Fiona McGibbon |
| Date: | May 12, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: esc) |
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| Location: | Oxfordshire |
| Event Title: | Faringdon & Abingdon - Fossil Sponge Reefs and Jurassic Bahamas with Graham Williams |
| Date: | May 13, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: lon) |
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| Location: | London |
| Event Title: | Kurdistan by Paul Logan |
| Date: | May 17, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Evening Talk (organising Branch: lon) |
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| Location: | Devon, England |
| Event Title: | Torbay Geopark |
| Date: | May 19, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: swe) |
| Summary: | Fieldtrip to Torbay Geopark led by Elaine Burt of BGS |
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| Location: | Surrey |
| Event Title: | S276 Revision Day |
| Date: | May 20, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Revision Day (organising Branch: lon) |
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| Location: | Wrexham |
| Event Title: | Brymbo Fossil Forest with Peter Appleton |
| Date: | May 20, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: nwe) |
| Summary: | A visit to the famous Brymbo Fossil Forest (Coal Measures) plus another nearby site (tba), with Peter Appleton (North Wales Geological Association) |
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| Details for this event have changed since originally displayed. |
| Location: | near Chorley, Lancashire |
| Event Title: | S276 Revision Day with OU Tutors |
| Date: | May 26, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Revision Day (organising Branch: nwe) |
| Summary: | Euxton Community Hall nr Chorley (near M6, M61). Revision Day for the S276 Exam in June. OU tutors will give help with practical part of exam, how to revise and exam technique. |
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| This event is new since the last newsletter. |
| Location: | Bridgend Wales |
| Event Title: | Ogmore and Southerndown with Geraint Owen |
| Date: | May 26, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: ssi) |
| Summary: | A visit to Ogmore, lunch then to Southerndown |
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| Location: | Wiltshire |
| Event Title: | LAMBOURN DOWNS |
| Date: | May 27, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: wsx) |
| Summary: | Leader: Jill Eyres
As many of you will know Jill Eyres is an OU tutor and will link the geology and archaeology of Uffington White Horse and Wayland Smithy. We have very few trips to this area; so take advantage of this one. |
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| Location: | Southern Uplands. |
| Event Title: | Gold panning in Southern Uplands. |
| Date: | June 2012 |
| Event Type: | Weekend Trip (organising Branch: yor) |
| Summary: | For full details contact the organiser, contact details below. |
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| Location: | Sussex |
| Event Title: | Boxgrove and Bracklesham with David Bone |
| Date: | Jun 03, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: lon) |
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| Location: | Milton Keynes UK |
| Event Title: | To be arranged |
| Date: | Jun 07, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Evening Talk (organising Branch: wha) |
| Summary: | To be arranged |
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| Location: | North Wales |
| Event Title: | Lleyn Peninsula |
| Date: | Jun 08, 2012 - Jun 10, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Weekend Trip (organising Branch: wmi) |
| Summary: | Weekend exploring the geology of this area led by Dave Green. |
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| This event is new since the last newsletter. |
| Location: | Kimmeridge Bay, Dorset |
| Event Title: | The geology and fossils of Kimmeridge Bay |
| Date: | Jun 17, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: wsx) |
| Summary: | Leader: Steve Etches
Steve Etches is probably the premier expert in the fossils of the Kimmeridge Clay. He has explored this area for most of his life. His trips do not come up that often. Don't miss it. |
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| Details for this event have changed since originally displayed. |
| Location: | London |
| Event Title: | Carbon Capture and Storage by Martin Blunt |
| Date: | Jun 21, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Evening Talk (organising Branch: lon) |
| Summary: |
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) could play an important part in reducing CO2 in the atmosphere. This talk concentrates on the storage of CO2 deep undergraound.
Please contact Di Clements if you wish to attend as a list of participants has to be given to the Natural History for security reasons. |
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| Location: | Conwy, North Wales |
| Event Title: | Conwy Rhyolite excursion with Jonathan Wilkins |
| Date: | Jun 24, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: nwe) |
| Summary: | Joint trip with MGA:
AM: Explore Ordovician Conwy Rhyolite Formation at Sychnant Pass and Conwy Quarries. PM Around Deganwy Castle and Quarries - view tuffs and ignimbrite plus more. |
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| This event is new since the last newsletter. |
| Location: | Southampton |
| Event Title: | Oceanography Experience |
| Date: | July 2012 |
| Event Type: | Course-related Event (organising Branch: ouc) |
| Summary: | A 2-day practical experience of oceanography at the
National Oceanography Centre Southampton |
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| Location: | Shropshire |
| Event Title: | Visit to open cast coal mine near Much Wenlock |
| Date: | July 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: wmi) |
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| This event is new since the last newsletter. |
| Location: | Hampshire |
| Event Title: | Geology of Hurst Spit |
| Date: | Jul 08, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: wsx) |
| Summary: | Leader: Dr Ian West
You must have used or browsed his geology website at Southampton University. Now meet the person and learn more. |
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| Location: | London |
| Event Title: | London Building Stones walk in London Bridge area with Diana Smith |
| Date: | Jul 12, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Evening Outing (organising Branch: lon) |
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| This event is new since the last newsletter. |
| Location: | Suffolk England |
| Event Title: | Thorpness |
| Date: | Jul 14, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: ean) |
| Summary: | Led by Bob Markham
Possibly Dunwich as well as a location
Examine Coastal Processes, Sea Defences plus other features |
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| Location: | Kent |
| Event Title: | Ramsgate with Geoff Downer |
| Date: | Jul 15, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: lon) |
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| Location: | Far Arnside, Morecambe Bay |
| Event Title: | Carboniferous Geology of Far Arnside area with Mike Dewey (WGA) |
| Date: | Jul 15, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: nwe) |
| Summary: | Aim: To examine the limestone succession of the Arnside area with speciall emphasis on structure and fossil corals. See 'Exploring Lakeland Rocks and Landscapes' (2008) walk number 9. |
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| Location: | Shetland |
| Event Title: | London goes to Shetland led by Allan Fraser |
| Date: | Jul 31, 2012 - Aug 07, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Longer Trip (organising Branch: lon) |
| Summary: | This trip is now full, waiting list only |
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| Details for this event have changed since originally displayed. |
| Location: | Northampton |
| Event Title: | 40th Anniversary Symposium |
| Date: | Aug 17, 2012 - Aug 19, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Symposium (organising Branch: ouc) |
| Summary: | Weekend of lectures, field trips and socialising based at Northampton University celebrating 40 years of the OUGS. |
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| This event is new since the last newsletter. |
| Location: | Location to follow |
| Event Title: | DIGS trip -OUGS Members welcome |
| Date: | Sep 02, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: wsx) |
| Summary: | Leader: Alan Holiday
Your help is needed to maintain sites by carrying out conservation work, mostly clearing vegetation (brambles, nettles etc) so that the rock faces do not become obscured. The reward (apart from the intrinsic) is a geological explanation of the site.
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| Location: | Gaspe Canada |
| Event Title: | Gaspe, a peninsular, SE Quebec, with Prof. Brian Williams. Waiting list only |
| Date: | Sep 13, 2012 - Sep 23, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Longer Trip (organising Branch: ssi) |
| Summary: | Pre-Camb. metamorphics; Cambro-Ordovician turbidites (world-famous!!);
Silurian marine shelfal clastics and carbonates (full of fossils);
Lr - Mid - & Up. Devonian [ORS Facies] clastics with World Heritage
fish faunas and palaeobotany;
ALL of this is overlain u/c by horizontal Upper. Carboniferous coarse clastic red beds.
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| Details for this event have changed since originally displayed. |
| Location: | Cumbria |
| Event Title: | Autumn Weekend in the Southern Lake District. |
| Date: | Sep 14, 2012 - Sep 16, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Weekend Trip (organising Branch: yor) |
| Summary: | A weekend of field trips based at the Y.M.C.A. National Centre on the western shore of Lake Windermere. Organised for all OUGS members by the Yorkshire Branch. |
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| This event is new since the last newsletter. |
| Location: | West Sussex |
| Event Title: | Chichester & Bracklesham, |
| Date: | Sep 16, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: wsx) |
| Summary: | Leader David Bone
Detail to follow |
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| Location: | London |
| Event Title: | London's Basement and its influence on the geology of S.E. England by John Cosgrove |
| Date: | Sep 20, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Evening Talk (organising Branch: lon) |
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| Location: | Surrey |
| Event Title: | Reigate and Godstone caves with Andy Belcher |
| Date: | Sep 23, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: lon) |
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| Location: | Shropshire |
| Event Title: | Vist to the Ercall Quarries |
| Date: | Sep 23, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: wmi) |
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| Location: | Island of Corsica France |
| Event Title: | Introduction to the Geology of Corsica |
| Date: | Sep 24, 2012 - Sep 30, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Longer Trip (organising Branch: nwe) |
| Summary: | Longer trip (4 days at the end of Sept) to Corsica led by Dr Giancarlo Molli, University of Pisa. Dr Molli is a world expert on the geology of NE Corsica and has frequently led trips there. Please email to express interest. |
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| This event is new since the last newsletter. |
| Location: | North Cornwall, England |
| Event Title: | Widemouth Bay North, Millook Haven, and Crackington Haven |
| Date: | Sep 30, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: swe) |
| Summary: | We will be looking at the Crackington and Bude formations, including some Variscan Orogeny features |
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| Location: | Shropshire |
| Event Title: | Visit to Snailbeach Lead Mine |
| Date: | October 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: wmi) |
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| Location: | London |
| Event Title: | Wander up the Wandle and Merton Priory |
| Date: | Oct 07, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: lon) |
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| Details for this event have changed since originally displayed. |
| Location: | Bolton and Wigan, Lancashire |
| Event Title: | Bury RIGS site (Chris Arkwright) and Bolton Building Stones (Alan Diggles) |
| Date: | Oct 14, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: nwe) |
| Summary: | AM Bury RIGS site with Chris Arkwright and PM Bolton Building Stones with Alan Diggles |
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| This event is new since the last newsletter. |
| Location: | Dorset |
| Event Title: | Ringstead Bay |
| Date: | Oct 14, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: wsx) |
| Summary: | Leader Professor Chris Wilson
An exploration of the Corallian at Ringstead Bay.
Note: Numbers are limited to 30 only. |
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| Details for this event have changed since originally displayed. |
| Location: | London |
| Event Title: | Meteorites by Caroline Smith |
| Date: | Oct 18, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Evening Talk (organising Branch: lon) |
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| Location: | Hampshire |
| Event Title: | Isle of Wight with Rory Mortimore |
| Date: | Oct 19, 2012 - Oct 21, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Weekend Trip (organising Branch: lon) |
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| This event is new since the last newsletter. |
| Location: | Northern Arizona USA |
| Event Title: | Northern Arizona's Colorado Plateau |
| Date: | Nov 01, 2012 - Nov 10, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Longer Trip (organising Branch: wsx) |
| Summary: | Leaders - Colin & Linda Morley: Small group to discover the geology of the Painted Desert, Petrified Forest, Meteor Crater, Sunset Crater Volcanic Field, Grand Canyon, collecting trips, etc.
The level of instruction will appeal to all levels of geological study. |
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| This event is new since the last newsletter. |
| Location: | Warbarrow Bay, Dorset |
| Event Title: | Introduction to Geology I |
| Date: | Nov 04, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: wsx) |
| Summary: | Leader George Raggett
Another chance to learn new skills or refresh what you have forgotten. This trip is suitable for students on S104, S276, etc. experienced people are also welcome to help the less experienced. |
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| Location: | Kent |
| Event Title: | S276 Student Day at Herne Bay |
| Date: | Nov 11, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Course-related Event (organising Branch: lon) |
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| Location: | London |
| Event Title: | Members Evening |
| Date: | Nov 15, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Evening Talk (organising Branch: lon) |
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| This event is new since the last newsletter. |
| Location: | Cuddington, Cheshire England |
| Event Title: | Winter Lectures in Cheshire |
| Date: | Dec 02, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Talk(s) (organising Branch: nwe) |
| Summary: | Geological Talks and Social afternoon with refreshments and branch library. To be held at Cuddington Village Hall, Cuddington, near Northwich, Cheshire. Cost £2 pp including refreshments. |
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| Location: | London |
| Event Title: | Dinocochlia by Paul Taylor |
| Date: | Dec 06, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Evening Talk (organising Branch: lon) |
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| Please note that this event has been cancelled. |
| Location: | Anywhere Not Overseas |
| Event Title: | Spare Event Test for emergencies only |
| Date: | Dec 31, 2012 |
| Event Type: | Day Trip (organising Branch: ouc) |
| Summary: | Test page |
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