| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| When: | Monthly on Monday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm 1st Monday afternoon |
| Venue: | Springwood Community Centre, Waterlooville |
This group started in April, 2019.
Can you identify rocks? What are fossils? What is Plate Tectonics?
We have fun learning about these topics and many more in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere. Amongst other things, we have studied Minerals, Igneous Rocks and Sedimentary Environments.
Topics we looked at in 2024 :
Earthquakes
Geology of the Isle of Wight (field trip)
Kimmeridge and Etches Museum
Geology of Chichester Harbour
Fossils
Dinosaurs
Geology of North York Moors
Geology snippets
Mineral extravaganza!
Snowball Earth
2024 Isle of Wight field trip
December 2019 Kimmeridge field trip
On a dry sunny winter's day 14 of us visited the Etches Fossil Collection at Kimmeridge in Dorset. Fossils collected locally over a lifetime by Steve Etches are beautifully preserved here and provide a deeper understanding of the Jurassic environment over 100 million years ago. After lunch in the local restaurant we then tried our own fossil collecting finding plenty of ammonites in the soft clays at Kimmeridge Bay.
September 2019 fossil hunting
We went to Bracklesham Bay where there are deposits that are 45 million years old. We managed, between the showers, to find quite a hoard!
