Organised Field Trips
Please
note that all field trips require booking with Ian Sutton.
Hard hats are required on all trips.
Members should book field trip places with Ian
Sutton (Tel: 0115 9232360)
Non members should register with the secretary
| 2008 FIELD TRIP PROGRAMME |
Date |
Field trip |
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Sun, 18th May '08 |
Trip: Little known oilfields of the East Midlands
Leader: Paul Guion |
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Sun, 1st June '08 |
Trip: Charnwood Forest
Leader: John Carney (BGS) |
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Wed, 11th June '08 |
Trip: Evening walk: Hoptonwood Stone
Leader: Ian Thomas (Provisional) |
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Sun, 13th July '08 |
Trip: Skipton Moor
Leader: Neil Aitkenhead |
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Wed, 23rd July '08
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Trip: Evening walk: Charnwood Forest
Leader: Keith Ambrose |
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18th & 19th Oct '08 |
Trip: Weekend trip to the Gower
Leader: TBA |
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Booking
Members are reminded that the Society has only public liability insurance
and that personal accident insurance is a matter for individual
members to arrange as they consider necessary. Members are reminded
that up to date hard hats are obligatory for all field excursions
involving quarries or cliff faces and strongly recommended for all
trips. High visibility clothing is sometimes required in working
quarries.
High visibility tabards can be obtained from GA Enterprises, 126
Fleetside W. Molesey Surrey KT8 2NQ at £4.70 inc. pp. Members
without suitable hard hats may be refused access to certain sites!
Suitable hard hats can be obtained from many Builders Merchants,
Wickes, B&Q Warehouse etc. for about £4.
If you would like to cancel a booking it is requested that you contact the appropriate committee member above.
Please note: All field trips should be booked with the Field Secretary, Ian Sutton, using the current booking form which includes his contact details.
It is regretted that a coach will not be provided for any of the trips advertised in our Summer Programme this year. This is not a new Society policy, but merely because the venues we will be visiting are not suitable for coach access. Members are, therefore, please asked to say on their booking forms whether they are prepared to offer lifts/share transport with others.
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Little known oilfields of the East Midlands |
Date: |
Sun, 18th May '08 |
Leader: |
Paul Guion |
Details: |
Meet 9.30 am at the Eric Byne Car Park, next to the Robin Hood pub on the A619 Baslow – Chesterfield
Road (Grid Ref SK 281 722). Please note that the nearest public toilets are in Baslow about 3 km to the
west down the A619.
In the morning, we will visit one or two outcrops of the Crawshaw Sandstone, which is the lowest
sandstone of the Westphalian Coal Measures and is the principal East Midlands hydrocarbon reservoir.
This includes Birchen Edge, which is about a 1 km ascending walk from the car park on a rough track.
Depositional features of this sandstone will be examined, and its origin and suitability as a hydrocarbon
reservoir will be discussed.
After visiting outcrops of the Crawshaw Sandstone in Derbyshire, we will drive to Whisby, near Lincoln,
where we will find a hostelry for lunch (or consume packed lunches). It is proposed to split the party into
two, to visit a working oil rig, engaged in exploration in the area. At around 3.30 we will visit the Dukes
Wood Oil Museum and Nature Reserve, near Eakring, Notts http://www.dukeswoodoilmuseum.co.uk
This is on the site of the former Eakring - Dukes Wood oilfield, which made a significant contribution to
Britain’s energy supplies during the Second World War.
NB The party will need to be restricted to 24 participants in total, allotted on a first-come-firstserved
basis. Boots and hard hats are obligatory. Given that there are likely to be restrictions on
parking, and quite a lot of driving is involved, car sharing is encouraged. The oil rig visit cannot be
guaranteed because of operational considerations.
See pictures of this fieldtrip in the Picture Gallery. |
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Charnwood Forest |
Date: |
Sun, 1st June '08 |
Leader: |
John Carney (BGS) |
Details: |
Meeting place: Mt St Bernard Abbey - enter the Car Park by the entrance leading south off Oaks
Road (grid reference: SK459164).
Please bring a packed lunch with you.
About 560 million years ago, the English Midlands resembled the modern-day Caribbean island arc, with
lines of highly explosive volcanoes surrounded by the sea. On this excursion to the western part of
Charnwood Forest we will visit some of the more spectacular products of this activity - the 'Bomb Rocks'
of Charnwood Lodge - and will see how these rocks pass upwards into fine-grained sedimentary strata
as volcanism waned. The 'high point' is in the afternoon, with a walk up to the top of Bardon Hill where
volcanic breccias related to one of the eruptive sites can be examined. The summit ridge overlooks the
immense Bardon Hill Quarry, with excellent views of the Triassic unconformity.
Information about the subsequent Field Trips will be included in the next Circular, by which time the
provisional dates will also be confirmed.
See pictures of this fieldtrip in the Picture Gallery. |
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Evening walk: Hoptonwood Stone |
Date: |
Wed, 11th June '08 |
Leader: |
Ian Thomas (Provisional) |
Details: |
TBA |
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Skipton Moor |
Date: |
Sun, 13th July '08 |
Leader: |
Neil Aitkenhead |
Details: |
TBA |
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Evening walk: Charnwood Forest |
Date: |
Wed, 23rd July '08 |
Leader: |
Keith Ambrose |
Details: |
TBA
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Weekend trip to the Gower |
Date: |
18th & 19th Oct '08 |
Leader: |
TBA |
Details: |
TBA |
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