To promote a wider interest in the science of geology through organised lectures, field excursions and social activities.
To provide a link between the amateur, the student, the teacher and the professional geologist.
To foster interest in geological sites within the area with a view to their study and wise conservation.
To establish and maintain good relations with organisations that have common interests.

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

Our Newsletter contains many articles which have been written by our members.

Often it is about a holiday they have taken, a topic which interests them, or it could be a report on some activity which the group has done. Repeating them here lets others know the sorts of things we get up to.

 

 

Toothpaste and Dynamite

Swimming in Hot Acid

Glorious Mud

Slate at 3000°K

Cromwell and the Landscape

The Rocks of Bristol

Catch a Falling Star

Schwarzenegger and The Pump Room

The Stones of Lille

The Stones of Abbots Leigh

Iceland

G A Reunion 2002

Lower Lias

Skye and Rassay

The Real Cullen Skink

 

 

Mas d'Azil

Voidikilia

Evolution under the Microscope

Codrington

Rocky Road Show 2006

The Stones of the Alhambra

Iceland

The Dingle Peninsula

Hatched, Matched and Despatched + (3R's)

A Trip to Paris in the Spring - I

A Trip to Paris in the Spring - II

OU Lectures 2002

Radio Active Salt

Chalk and Talk

 

 

 

 

Tytherington

Geology Open Day, 2007

Holiday Bonus

Mnemonics

Mnemonic 2

Mnemonic 3

 

 

 

Rum

Terranes by Alan Comer

The Nautiloids and the Ammonites - a poem by Horace Sanders

Stone Runs, Falkland Islands by John Phillips