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October 2018
GA Conference 2018 – The Geology of ‘Mordor’
The Geology of 'Mordor' Geoscience and Geoconservation in the West Midlands. Lapworth Museum 19-21 October 2018 GA Annual Conference supported by Elsevier.
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AGS North London Mineral, Gem and Fossil Show
AGS North London Mineral, Gem and Fossil Show
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GA Lecture – December 7
Hyoliths - where they fit in Dr Martin Smith
Find out more »April 2019
Yorkshire Coast
April 2019 - exact date tbc Yorkshire Coast Details have still to be finalised, but the intention of this trip is to coincide with the newly updated GA guide to the Yorkshire Coast.
Find out more »Geological Highlights of Morocco
Led by: Mr Mohamed Segaoui (Moha) (Morocco-Geo-Travel) www.atlasgeotours.com & Professor David Martill (University of Portsmouth) The Morocco trip for 2019 is full but please email to be on waiting list.
Find out more »GA Devon Weekend Field Trip
This weekend trip will examine the Devonian and Permian rocks south of Torbay and towards Start Point. Starting with the Devonian succession, near Brixham, including stromatoporoid reef limestones with local fissure-filling infills of Permian red-beds.
Find out more »May 2019
Yorkshire Coast
This GA weekend FieldTrip is being held to celebrate the recent publication of a new edition of GA Guide 34, “The Yorkshire Coast”, and forms part of “Yorkshire Geology Month”. Jurassic, Cretaceous and Pleistocene localities in the vicinity of Scarborough will be visited, and members should book accommodation in Scarborough, where there is a wide range of hotels and B&Bs.
Find out more »June 2019
The Shetlands
Leaders: Allen Fraser and Robina Barton Our first three days will be spent on the islands of Unst and Fetlar where we will examine aspects of the Shetland Ophiolite nappes. These will include depleted mantle and magma chamber rocks, inter-nappe sheared conglomerates and a later granite intrusion. We will also visit abandoned chromite quarries from the 19th. and 20th. centuries and a restored horse-driven ore crushing circle.
Find out more »July 2019
The Wealden Excursion
Leaders: Peter Austen & Ed Jarzembowski Location: Wealden – exact location to be decided. This trip continues the popular annual Wealden excursions and again will visit one of the sites in the Weald Clay of south-east England. The venue will be confirmed later so as to take advantage of conditions at the time. Attendees will need to be sure they can safely cope with the conditions to be found in working quarries.
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