2010 Field Trips
ScarboroughWeekend 14th - 17th May
Leader Dr Mike Keen ( Glasgow University)
A dome in the Jurassic at Robin Hood's Bay, north of Scarborough
Devensian boulder clay on Upper Jurassic at Filey Brigg
A hematite mineralised fault at Hodbarrow Point
The Over Kellet Monocline - 15 August
Leaders - Mike Balderstone( Chairman: WGS)
Dr. Peter Thomas(WGS)
(Capernwray)
Sketch map showing the possible Asbian / Brigantian palaeogeography
of the north Lancashire area based on new mapping by JMB and PRT
including data from BGS Lancaster Sheet 59 (1995)
(This sketch was used in the Field Trip summary by PRT and is included here
to help those who could not see the detail on the map in the field.)
Honister Slate Mine - 12 September
The Society at Honister Slate Mine
WGS at Kirkland
Lowhouse Woods sandstones & brockram
This site is on the western bank of the River Eden at Low House (2 miles N of Armathwaite). The rocks are here are Lower Permian fluvial sandstones with an overlying conglomerate (brockram) that was deposited by a wadi.
WGS at Rhoscolyn Head, Angelsey
A group photograph of Anglesey summer excursion attendees on the South Stack Group. The deposits here are meta-sedimentary rocks situated on the Rhoscolyn Anticline
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