The Summer Programme for 2023

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.

June

'Yorkshire Dales'
A residential weekend 30th June - 2nd July
This Field outing was planned for 2019, but unavoidably postponed. Circumstances mean a base in Cumbria!
Accommodation, in an Estate cottage, will be near Sedburgh.
The Leader will be Dr Martin Whiteley, recently of The University of Derby. Members of the WGCG are welcome to join.
The locales will be the Silurian, Devonian & Lower Carboniferous strata in the southern Howgill Fells, and in river sections including that of the Clough (The Sedgwick Trail), to view the Dent Fault; and to Dent village.
Further east we visit the Carboniferous Great Scar Group and the Yoredale Group, before passing over Blea Moor to Thorn Gill and Devensian till. Then down Ribblesdale to the Helwith Bridge area for Combs and Dry Rigg quarries on Moughton Moor, and then the Silurian Newfield Crags. The last afternoon will be walking the fields of the Norber Erratics, and Nappa Scar.