| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| When: | Monthly on Monday afternoons 2:00 pm-4:00 pm 2nd Monday afternoon |
| Venue: | Members' Homes and Out'n'About |
This group started in March, 2009.
Have you ever wondered how the amazing scenery of our country came about?
Can you identify rocks?
What are fossils?
What is Plate Tectonics?
Our geology group has fun learning about these topics and many more, including gem stones, in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere.
2025 Shropshire
Days out along river banks, hills, disused quarries and a disused lead mine
2024 Leicestershire
A day in the amazing Bradgate Park, including the Information Centre video of geology, a visit to the NGS headquarters and Leicester Museum to see the famous Charnia fossil.
2023 Somerset
Minehead to East Quantoxhead. We were fortunate to have a retired geologist take us to the beach at Watchet where we saw an ammonite fossil only exposed a few months before. .
2022 Cornwall
St. Ives, Lands End and the Lizard. Included a visit to a tin mine.
Post-Covid
We enjoyed a day trip to Kimmeridge Museum to see, among other fossils, the skull of the pliosaur removed from the cliff nearby
A day trip to Chichester Harbour with a guide.