Full programme
The calendar below gives a month by month overview of ALL WGCG activities.
This includes WGCG monthly talks, field trips both local and residential and our outreach work within Warwickshire’s community.
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Nov 2015 talk: The Genesis and Evolution of Sulphate Evaporites, by Dr Noel Worley on November 18, 2015 7:00 pm
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Jan 2016 talk: Exceptionally preserved Cambrian fossils of the Chengjiang Lagerstatte,Prof. David Siveter on January 20, 2016 7:00 pm
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Feb 2016 talk: Minerals, Magmas & Man, by Paul Olver on February 17, 2016 7:00 pm
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Feb 2016: Festival of Geology, in Kenilworth with WGCG on February 20, 2016 10:00 am
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March 2016 talk: Rivers, lakes, swamps and seas: exploring an early Carboniferous environment, Prof. Sarah Davies on March 16, 2016 7:00 pm
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April 2016 talk: The History of the Harbury Railway Cutting, by Luke Swain, Network Rail on April 20, 2016 7:00 pm
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Sept 2016 talk: The village of Martley, Worcestershire, John Nicklin & Bill Barclay on September 21, 2016 7:00 pm
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November 2016 talk: Cave deposits (speleothems) as archives of past environments and climates Ian Fairchild on November 16, 2016 7:00 pm
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January 2017 talk: The volcano that changed the World: Tambora and the great eruption in 1815 by Dr. Ralf Gertisser on January 18, 2017
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Workshop on Igneous Rock Identification on February 11, 2017
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Feb 2017 talk: Can we get metals out of the ground in a “green” sustainable way? by Dr Gawen Jenkins on February 15, 2017
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March 2017 talk: The Corsi Collection of decorative stones:
where geology meets the arts, by Monica T. Price, on March 15, 2017
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April 2017 talk:Life just got complicated: The Ediacaran Fossils of Charnwood Forest, Dr Phil Wilby, BGS on April 19, 2017
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Sept 2017 talk: Marie Stopes: Sex, Lies and Fossil Plants, Professor Howard Falcon-Lang on September 20, 2017 7:00 pm
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Nov 2017 talk: Sinkholes and Subsidence by Dr. Tony Waltham on November 15, 2017 7:00 pm
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Jan 2018 talk: Holloway Bursary recipient: Pterosaurs, teeth and a fossil festival by Jordan Bestwick on January 17, 2018 7:00 pm
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Feb 2018 talk: New insights into Triassic origins of dinosaurs & their close relatives, by Prof Richard Butler on February 21, 2018 7:00 pm
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April 2018 talk: Waking the giant – how a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes, by Prof Bill McGuire on April 18, 2018 7:00 pm
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April 2018: Walk: Led by Dave Kennett & Hugh Jones – To look at stones & brickwork in local building on April 21, 2018 9:30 am
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May 2020, Walk: Kenilworth Building Stones Trail, Ian Fenwick on May 8, 2018
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May 2018, Walk, Kenilworth Cutting & Common on May 9, 2018 7:30 pm
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May 2018: Walk: Leamington Building Stones and Geology, Leader John Crossling on May 13, 2018
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June 2018: Walk: Wolstonian Clay Pit, led by Brian Ellis & Ian Fenwick on June 20, 2018
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July 2018, Visit, Ecton Copper Mine, Led by Ecton Ed. Trust staff on July 21, 2018
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Sept 2018, Visit Residential, Lake District: Borrowdale Volcanics & Ordovician-Silurian boundary rocks, Led by Dr Simon Drake on September 7, 2018
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Sept2018 talk: “Doctors in Geology” by Dr. Albert Benghiat on September 19, 2018 7:00 pm
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November 2018 talk: The secret life of your mobile phone: metal supply and digital devices on November 21, 2018 7:00 pm
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April 2019 Walk: Warwick Town Walk and Warwick Museum on April 10, 2019 6:00 pm
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April 2019 Talk – The Geology of Norway – Senior Citizens Club on April 17, 2019 7:00 pm
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GeoWeek: Walk 600 million years in 20-minutes at the Brandon Marsh GeoWall – Sunday 5 May on May 5, 2019 10:30 am
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GeoWeek: Upton House Reveals its Secrets Hidden in the Stones – Tuesday 7 May from 11 am on May 7, 2019 11:00 am
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GeoWeek: Rock solid evidence that Jurassic Park came to Banbury – Tuesday 7 May, 7 pm on May 7, 2019 7:00 pm
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GeoWeek: Kenilworth Rocks! Meet ‘The Stones’ – Thursday 9 May 2pm on May 9, 2019 2:00 pm
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GeoWeek: Gold in them thar Burton Dassett hills? Yes! Fool’s Gold! – Sunday 12 May 10:30 am on May 12, 2019 10:30 am
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May 2019 Field Trip: Torquay, Devon residential field trip on May 13, 2019
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June 2019 Walk: Bredon Hill (joint with BCGS) on June 22, 2019
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July 2019 Walk: Malvern Hills (led by Dick Bryant) on July 12, 2019
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Aug 2019 Field Trip: Ufton Fields on August 28, 2019
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Sept 2019 Field Trip: Dorset Coast (Invitation from BCGS) Enrol ASAP on September 13, 2019
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Sept 2019 Talk: Yorkshire’s ancient storms on September 18, 2019 7:00 pm
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Nov 2019 Talk: “The Real value of Microfossils” on November 20, 2019 7:00 pm
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Jan 2020 Talk: Meteorites (Tom Barratt) on January 15, 2020 7:00 pm
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Feb 2020 Talk: “Geology & Wine in Southern France” on February 19, 2020 7:00 pm
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Feb 2020 – Workshop: Making Sense of Geological Maps on February 22, 2020 9:45 am
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May 2020, Talk: Fracked or Fiction (via Zoom) on May 13, 2020 7:30 pm
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June 2020 Talk: The Geology of Arran on June 17, 2020 7:30 pm
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July 2020 Talk: Contrasting Islands: The Geology of Eigg & Rum on July 8, 2020 7:30 pm
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Aug 2020 Talk: Mining in North Wales, Rob Vernon on August 19, 2020 7:15 pm
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Sept 2020 Talk: Life & Death in the Jurassic Sea of Dorset, Malcolm Hart on September 16, 2020 7:15 pm
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Oct 2020 Talk: 50 Years of Plate Tectonics on October 14, 2020 7:30 pm
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Oct 2020 Talk: From Coprolites to Cholera, the life of William Buckland, by Peter Lincoln on October 21, 2020 7:30 pm
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Nov 2020 Talk: The Jurassic Coast; The biggest story on Earth, Richard Edmonds on November 18, 2020 7:30 pm
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Dec 2020 Talk: History & Hidden Gems of the Lapworth Museum of Geology, Aerona Moore on December 9, 2020 7:30 pm
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Jan 2021 Talk: New Ordovician fossil discovery in Wales on January 20, 2021 7:30 pm
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Feb 2021 Talk: “Geological Time and the Anthropocene.” by Ian Fairchild on February 17, 2021 7:30 pm
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March 2021: Zoom Talk: The Geology of Iceland, Stuart Blake on March 17, 2021 7:30 pm
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March 2021: Stuart Blake: An introduction to The Geology of Iceland on March 17, 2021 7:30 pm
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April 2021, Talk: ‘Henry Clifton Sorby – Sheffield’s Greatest Scientist’ by Noel Worley on April 21, 2021 7:30 pm
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Aug 2021 – Mendips Field Weekend on August 20, 2021
Also see: Google Calendar at WGCG
