Sites which have connections with the Geologists’ Association
Non-GA Geological Trusts & Groups
University Geology Departments
UK Geology Museums & Museums with Geology Departments
Public fossil-collecting trips
UK Fossil Identification & Fossil Sites
Other useful Websites (International)
SITES WHICH HAVE CONNECTIONS WITH THE GEOLOGISTS’ ASSOCIATION
These include sites with which we have reciprocal www links. Click here for a full list of GA Local Groups and Affiliated Society.
(Please note: The Geologists’ Association is not responsible for the content of external websites)
Rockwatch, the Junior Club of the GA: www.rockwatch.org.uk
Home of the GA Library: www.ucl.ac.uk/library
British Geological Survey, GA Marjorie Carreck Archive: www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/geologyOfBritain/archives/GeologistsAssociation/home.html
Geological Society of London (GA office): www.geolsoc.org.uk
Earth Heritage (Magazine administered by the GA): www.earthheritage.org.uk
Earth Science Teachers Association: www.esta-uk.net
Geology Today (reduced subscription to members: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1365-2451
Your Planet Earth – a series of PPT talks aimed at the National Curriculum but appropriate for all, created as part of the GA150 celebrations: www.earth4567.com
BGS free online viewing of over 6000 BGS maps and sections: www.bgs.ac.uk/data/maps/home.html
BGS map of the UK, zoom in to your area of interest for solid and superficial outcrop data: http://mapapps.bgs.ac.uk/geologyofbritain/home.html
BGS interactive GeoBritain which shows the start point of the first itinerary of the Geotrails and BS walks of GA Guides and publications supplied to the GA by our groups. It also shows the BGS Holiday Geology Guides and other useful information: www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/geologyOfBritain/geoBritainMap
Natural England (for geological Sites of Special Scientific Interest): www.gov.uk/government/organisations/natural-england
UKOGL Onshore seismic lines to download: https://ukogl.org.uk/map
NON-GA GEOLOGICAL TRUSTS & GROUPS (see separate listing for GA Local Groups and Affilliated Societies)
English Geodiversity Forum: www.englishgeodiversityforum.org/Downloads/Geodiversity%20Charter%20for%20England.pdf
Scottish Geodiversity Forum: https://scottishgeodiversityforum.org/charter/
The Geology Trusts: www.thegeologytrusts.org
Gloucestershire Geology Trust: www.glosgeotrust.org.uk
Hereford & Worcester Earth Heritage Trust: www.earthheritagetrust.org
Oxfordshire Geology Trust: www.oxfordshiregeologytrust.org.uk
NE Yorkshire Geology Trust : www.neyorksgeologytrust.com
West Yorkshire Geology Trust with many links to local sites and information: www.wyorksgeologytrust.org
Craven and Pendle Geological Society: www.cpgs.org.uk
Earth Learning Idea – Earth Science teaching resources and ideas: http://earthlearningidea.com
Geo-East: http://www.geo-east.org.uk/special_projects/index.htm
London Geodiversity Partnership: looking after Geoconservation in Greater London www.londongeopartnership.org.uk
Paleontological Association: www.palass.org
Rotunda Geology Group, Scarborough: www.rotundageologygroup.org
Sorby Natural History Society, Geology Group (Sheffield): www.sorby.org.uk
The Sussex Geodiversity Partnership comprises a small group of geologists and geomorphologists with the aim of sharing information on the geodiversity of Sussex, influencing policy and promoting cross-regional working for geodiversity. The public face of the Partnership is the new website: www.geodiversitysussex.org.uk/geology/
Quaternary Research Association: www.qra.org.uk
West Country Geology Blogspot: http://geologywestcountry.blogspot.com
Wiltshire Geology Group: www.wiltshiregeologygroup.org.uk
BGS interactive map showing localities of all the UK Geoparks: http://www.bgs.ac.uk/discoveringGeology/geologyOfBritain/geoparks/home.html?src=topNav
The Abberley & Malvern Hills Geopark: www.geopark.org.uk
English Riviera UNESCO Global Geopark (Torbay): www.englishrivierageopark.org.uk
Fforest Fawr UNESCO Global Geopark (Brecon Beacons): www.fforestfawrgeopark.org.uk
North Pennines AONB UNESCO Global Geopark: www.northpennines.org.uk
Lochaber Geopark (Scotland): www.lochabergeopark.org.uk
North West Highlands UNESCO Geopark (Scotland): www.northwest-highlands-geopark.org.uk
Marble Arch Caves & Cuilcagh Mountain UNESCO Global Geopark (N.I): www.marblearchcaves.net
European UNESCO Global Geopark Network: www.europeangeoparks.org
UNIVERSITY GEOLOGY DEPARTMENTS
University College London: www.ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-physical-sciences/departments/earth-sciences
University of Aberdeen: www.abdn.ac.uk/geosciences/departments/geology
Birkbeck University of London: www.bbk.ac.uk/geology
University of Birmingham: www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/gees/index.aspx
University of Brighton: www.brighton.ac.uk/about-us/contact-us/academic-departments/school-of-environment-and-technology.aspx
University of Bristol: www.bristol.ac.uk/earthsciences
Cardiff University: www.cardiff.ac.uk/earth-ocean-sciences/courses/undergraduate
University of Cambridge: www.esc.cam.ac.uk
University of Derby: www.derby.ac.uk/geology-courses
Durham University: www.dur.ac.uk/earth.sciences
University of Edinburgh: www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences
University of Exeter, Cambourne School of Mines: http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/csm
University of Glamorgan: www.southwales.ac.uk/study/subjects/geography-geology-environment
University of Glasgow: www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges
Imperial College London: www.imperial.ac.uk/study/ug/courses/earth-science-department/geology
Keele University: www.keele.ac.uk/gge
Leeds University: www.see.leeds.ac.uk/home
University of Leicester: https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/geology
University of Liverpool: www.liverpool.ac.uk/earth-ocean-and-ecological-sciences
Liverpool John Moores University: www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/faculties/faculty-of-science/school-of-natural-sciences-and-psychology
University of Manchester: www.sees.manchester.ac.uk
University of Northampton: www.northampton.ac.uk/study/courses/environmental-science-bsc-hons
Open University, School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences: www.open.ac.uk/science/environment-earth-ecosystems
OU Practicing science Reading the Rocks and Ecology (free course): http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=3063
Oxford University: www.earth.ox.ac.uk
University of Plymouth: www.plymouth.ac.uk/schools/school-of-geography-earth-and-environmental-sciences
University of Portsmouth: www.port.ac.uk/school-of-earth-and-environmental-sciences
Royal Holloway University of London: www.royalholloway.ac.uk/earthsciences/home.aspx
University of Southampton: www.southampton.ac.uk/oes
University of St. Andrews: https://earthsci.st-andrews.ac.uk
University College London: www.ucl.ac.uk/earth-sciences
UK GEOLOGY MUSEUMS & MUSEUMS WITH GEOLOGY DEPARTMENTS
The Etches Museum of Kimmerigian Fossils, Kimmerage Bay: www.theetchescollection.org
Hunterian Museum, Glasgow: www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian
Lyme Regis Museum: www.lymeregismuseum.co.uk
National Museum of Scotland: www.nms.ac.uk
Natural History Museum: www.nhm.ac.uk
Oxford University Museum of Natural History: www.oum.ox.ac.uk
Rotunda Museum, Scarborough, home to William Smith’s original exhibition: www.scarboroughmuseumstrust.com/rotunda-museum
Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge: www.sedgwickmuseum.org
Whitby Museum: https://whitbymuseum.org.uk/whats-here/collections/fossils
A comprehensive list of Geotrails and Building Stone Walks can be found here
Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre includes details of guided fossil hunting walks: http://charmouth.org/chcc
Devon County Council – discovering geology in Devon http://devon.gov.uk/geology
Dorset GA – Weymouth Trail: www.dorsetgeologistsassociation.com/weymouthtrail/index.html
Geology of the Wessex Coast of Southern England. A superb comprehensive overview including fossil locations and identification: www.soton.ac.uk/%7Eimw
Scotland – introduction to some Scottish resources: www.geowalks.co.uk/ilinks.html
Scotland – fly through of the opencast coal site at Spireslack in East Ayrshire – stunning geological exposures: www.bgs.ac.uk/research/ukgeology/scotland/carboniferousLegacyLandscapes.html
UK Fossils network – a comprehensive list of fossil collecting sites in the UK, arranged in regions with full details of locations. Also lists supplies and information: www.ukfossils.co.uk
William Smith’s 1815 map and later county maps digitised to give you a fly-through: www.strata-smith.com
PUBLIC FOSSIL-COLLECTING TRIPS
Discovering Fossils UK fossil sites arranged by age of fossils. It includes details of organised fossil hunting trips: www.discoveringfossils.co.uk
Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site has descriptions of locations including fossils: www.jurassiccoast.org
Jurassic Coast Tours – guided field trips on Devon & Dorset’s Jurassic Coast www.fossilwalks.com
UK Amateur Fossil Hunters (UKAFH) is the largest fossil hunting society in the UK, specifically aimed at the amateur fossil collector and enthusiast. They encourage everyone, of all ages, to enjoy the rewarding fossil hunting experience at some of their great organised hunts: www.ukafh.com
UK FOSSIL IDENTIFICATION & FOSSIL SITES
Ancient Human Occupation of Britain: www.ahobproject.org
Chalk fossils identification: www.chalk.discoveringfossils.co.uk
Eocene and Oligocene Fossils compiled by Alan Morton – a comprehensive photographic catalogue of more than 2000 fossils, well identified, found from the Hamstead, Bembridge & Osborne Beds (IOW), Headon Beds, Barton Beds, Bracklesham Beds and London Clay. There is a link to Fossils of Abbey Wood: www.dmap.co.uk/fossils
The Etches Collection of Kimmerigian Fossils: www.theetchescollection.org/collections
Gault ammonites from Folkestone and elsewhere in the southeast: www.gaultammonite.co.uk
Sheppey Fossils from the London Clay: www.sheppeyfossils.com Jurassic Coast: http://jurassiccoast.org/fossilfinder
Natural History Museum’s specimen records from the collection, with photographs http://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/collection-specimens
Natural History Museum Fossil Explorer App. Based on the fossils illustrated in the NHM Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossil books: www.nhm.ac.uk/take-part/identify-nature/fossil-explorer-app.html
Trilobites: Sam Gon’s site: A Guide to the order of Trilobites: www.trilobites.info
Whitby ammonites: Figured and Type ammonites in Whitby: https://whitbymuseumfossils.wordpress.com
3-D fossils: database of type specimens held in British collections of macrofossil species and subspecies found in the UK, including links to photographs (including ‘anaglyph’ stereo pairs) and a selection of 3D digital models: www.3d-fossils.ac.uk
Beringer Lying stones: http://historyofgeology.fieldofscience.com/2010/08/fakes-frauds-and-fossils-lying-stones.html and: http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.co.uk/2006/08/fossil-fakes.html
Burgess Shale, flora and fauna: https://park.org/Canada/Museum/burgessshale/faunaandflora.html
The Palaeontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences: www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/pin/pin.html
Vertebrate Palaeontology at the University of Nebraska: www-museum.unl.edu/research/vertpaleo/welcome.html
Current active volcanoes: www.volcanodiscovery.com/erupting_volcanoes.html
Hotspots: www.mantleplumes.org
How volcanoes work: www.geology.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work
A Kid’s Guide to Volcanoes: www.larsonjewelers.com/tungsten-resources-a-kids-guide-to-volcanoes.aspx
Michigan Technological University Volcanoes Page: www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes
Volcano Discovery: www.decadevolcano.net/index.htm
Volcano Research Centre: www.eri.u-tokyo.ac.jp/VRC/index_E.html
Interactive list of volcano teaching resources http://www.hawaiianshirtsonline.co.uk/volcano-resources/
BGS data on earthquakes in the UK and worldwide: www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk
Himalayan website: www.geo.arizona.edu/geo5xx/geo527/Himalayas/geology.html
Plate tectonics course from the OU (free). Also Earthquakes: http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=2717
USGS – real-time data on volcanoes and earthquakes: www.usgs.gov
Your Planet Earth – a series of PPT talks aimed at the National Curriculum but appropriate for all, created as part of the GA150 celebrations: www.earth4567.com
OTHER USEFUL WEBSITES (INTERNATIONAL)
Antarctic Glaciers – peer reviewed science on Antarctic glaciers and their response to climate change by Dr Bethan Davies aimed at A-level students and the general public: www.AntarcticGlaciers.org
Berkeley Dinosauria: www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinosaur.html
Coastal Systems Research Group (Hawaii): www.soest.hawaii.edu/coasts/index.html
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The Geological Society of America – (GSA): www.geosociety.org
JPL: Mission to Planet Earth: www.jpl.nasa.gov/earth
The National Geophysical Data Center (USA): www.ngdc.noaa.gov
On-line Earth Science Journals: www.ocgy.ubc.ca/books/earth.journals.html
PAGES – Past Global Changes: www.pages-igbp.org
The United States Geological Survey: www.usgs.gov
University of Nevada Seismological Laboratory: www.seismo.unr.edu
Sites which have connections with the Geologists’ Association.
These include the http://www.ucl.ac.uk/UCL which houses the GA Library, and sites either run by Members, or with which we have reciprocal www links (Please note: The Geologists’ Association is not responsible for the content of external websites):
http://earthlearningidea.com/ Earth Learning Idea – Earth Science teaching resources and ideas
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/ UCL: home of the GA Library
http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/d.ward/ Tertiary Research Group
http://www.wega.org.uk/ West of England GA Group
http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/~majcp/ The Volcanic and Magmatic Studies Group
http://www.soton.ac.uk/%7Eimw/ West’s Geology of the Wessex Coast
http://www.londongeopartnership.org.uk: London Geodiversity Partnership: looking after Geoconservation in Greater London.
Other useful websites (UK):
http://www.geo-east.org.uk/special_projects/index.htm Chalk East
– promoting the contribution of Chalk geodiversity to landscape, economy, biodiversity and culture in the East of England region.
http://www.charmouth.org/ Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre
http://www.charmouthfossils.co.uk/ Charmouth Fossils
http://www.dartmoortors.co.uk Dartmoor Tors – the geology and scenery of Dartmoor
http://devon.gov.uk/geology Devon County Council – discovering geology in Devon
http://www.dorsetgeologistsassociation.com/weymouthtrail/index.html Dorset GA – Weymouth Trail
http://www.geo-east.org.uk/index.htm The East of England Geodiversity Partnership (Geo-East)
– partnership work for geodiversity in Beds, Cambs, Essex, Herts, Norfolk & Suffolk.
http://www.english-nature.org.uk/special/geological/default.htm English Nature: Geology
http://www.fossilwalks.com Jurassic Coast Tours – guided field trips on Devon & Dorset’s Jurassic Coast
http://ammonites.port5.com Lower Jurassic Ammonites – an informative ammonite ID site
http://www.nms.ac.uk National Museum of Scotland
http://www.ukfossils.co.uk UK Fossils network – UK fossil localities, supplies and information
http://www.geolsoc.org.uk Geological Society
http://www.qra.org.uk Quaternary Research Association
http://www.nhm.org.uk Natural History Museum
http://www.inqua.tcd.ie INQUA
http://www.pages-igbp.org PAGES
Other useful websites (INTERNATIONAL):
http://www.ned.dem.csiro.au/AGCRC/ The Australian Geodynamics Cooperative Research Centre
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/dinosaur.html Berkeley Dinosauria
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/coasts/csrg.html Coastal Systems Research Group (Hawaii)
http://www.geosociety.org/ The Geological Society of America – (GSA)
http://www.bgi.uni-beyreuth.de/~geoscied5/ International Geoscience Education Conference,Beyreuth, Germany 21st September 2006
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/earth/ JPL: Mission to Planet Earth
http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/ Michigan Technological University Volcanoes Page
http://griffy.nmt.edu/Geop/erebus.html Mount Erebus Volcano Observatory
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ The National Geophysical Data Center (USA)
http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ University of Nevada Seismological Laboratory
http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/mineralogie/index.html University of Würzburg Institute of Mineralogy
http://www.wdcb.rssi.ru/WDCB/ World Data Center-B (Russia)
http://www.ocgy.ubc.ca/books/earth.journals.html On-line Earth Science Journals
http://www.unige.ch/sciences/terre/esr/ University of Geneva Geoscience Links
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/pin/pin.html The Palaeontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
http://tigger.cc.uic.edu/orgs/paleo/homepage.html The Paleontological Society (USA)
http://www.usgs.gov/ The United States Geological Survey
http://nmnhwww.si.edu/departments/paleo.html Palaeobiology at the Smithsonian Institution
http://www-museum.unl.edu/research/vertpaleo/welcome.html Vertebrate Palaeontology at the University of Nebraska
http://www.larsonjewelers.com/tungsten-resources-a-kids-guide-to-volcanoes.aspx A Kid’s Guide to Volcanoes
www.AntarcticGlaciers.org: peer reviewed science on Antarctic glaciers and their response to climate change by Dr Bethan Davies aimed at A-level students and the general public.
http://www.geodiversitysussex.org.uk/geology/
The Sussex Geodiversity Partnership comprises a small group of geologists and geomorphologists with the aim of sharing information on the geodiversity of Sussex, influencing policy and promoting cross-regional working for geodiversity. The public face of the Partnership is the new website.
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The following geological groups are posted here for info but are not ‘Affiliated’ or ‘Local Group’ of the GA.
Craven & Pendle Geological Society
Ms Yvonne James
6 Colne Road
Barwoldswick
BB18 5QU
Tel: 01282 813772
Web: www.cpgs.org.uk
Paleontological Association
Web: www.palass.org
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