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.

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

Regard the pearly nautilus in all its splendid sheen,
Been with us since Late Triassic times, and still here to be seen;
No need of change or to evolve: why tamper with perfection,
Unlike the fickle ammonites which change without reflection.

A hundred thousand years of time’s advance into the future
Sufficed for them to change their ribbing, whorls and suture.

This frantic evolution speed was really quite phenomenal
And troubles palaeontologists with problems taxonomical.

Whilst to the ammonites themselves it confers remarkable distinction
It failed entirely to protect them from the K/T mass extinction.