The Summer Programme for 2020

In the warmer months, from April to September, we hold a number of field excursions, usually monthly, involving visits to working quarries, or natural exposures, that may be of restricted access to individuals, where Members can add to their collections, absorb new knowledge of our diverse science, or maybe just enjoy the great outdoors. The excursion Leaders are geologists with specialised knowledge of each particular locality.

The programme is under development!
It may be noted that there is an increasing tendency for the elf Anne Safetie to obstruct our access to working quarry sites
Also, please note that, following the wet winter, quarry sites are subject to high ground-water levels, and access is precluded.
We have notional acceptance at a CEMEX site, and a brick quarry but await drier conditions.

For those who peruse this page - your curiosity is exemplary.
In the extant circumstances, entries here are but dreams.
No further entries are planned.

Guiting Quarry Johnston Quarry Group
Upper Coscombe, Temple Guiting, Cheltenham

With the kind permission of the Quarry Manager Paul Keyte.
The quarry product is Jurassic oolitic bioplastic limestone, which is marketed as Guiting Gold Block; and Cotswold Cream Block; as well as aggregate and agricultural lime. The masonry output is around 16,000 tonnes.




The Yorkshire Dales
April

Our thoughts are to re-arrange in 2021: however, during the continuing pandemic, accommodation will be solo.

The Leader would have been Dr Martin Whiteley, who led our recent, very successful, excursion to the Mendips.
The nature of the Dales requires our movement over steep gradients and rough ground.
The strata include Ordovician, Silurian and Carboniferous rocks, with unconformities and faulting; glacial erratics; and karst scenery.
There are so many fine locations, this could be a seed to a longer stay!