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Organised Field Trips
Last updated 26.08.2010

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
2010 FIELD TRIP PROGRAMME
Date
Field trip
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Sun 9th
May '10
 Trip: The Clitheroe Area
Leader: Neil Turner
Wed 2nd
June '10
 Trip: Evening to Bradford Dale area
Leader: Colin Bagshaw & Ian Sutton
3rd & 4th
July '10
 Trip: Weekend visit to the Yorkshire Coast and the
Rotunda Museum, Scarborough
Leader: Will Watts
Information
17 & 18th
Sep '10
 Trip: Charnwood - Joint meeting with Hertfordshire Geol. Soc.
Leader: Keith Ambrose & John Carney
Sun 17th
Oct '10
 Trip: Guided visit to the Coal Mining Museum at Wakefield
Leader: ?
Sun 31st
Oct '10
 Trip: Afternoon Visit to Chatsworth House
Leader: Ian Thomas

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. 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!
Hard hats can be obtained from many Builders Merchants, Wickes, B&Q Warehouse etc. for about £4.

Any non-members attending field excursions will have to pay a temporary membership fee of £2.00 and all participants are reminded that they must comply with any instructions from excursion leaders or, for example, quarry managers or their employees on Health & Safety issues.

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.

 
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Trip
Clitheroe 'Reef' Belt
Date:
Sunday, 9th May
Leader:
Neil Turner
Details:

Meet at 11.30 am at the Nick of Pendle, Pendle Hill, near Clitheroe (SD 7715 3850) in a small grassy parking area on left of minor road from Sabden to Clitheroe.

Directions:
From Sabden go roughly north-west for the 'Nick of Pendle' - the meeting place is approximately a mile on left and just before you start to descend. This is a busy, winding, minor road, so please take care if you need to cross it on foot at the parking area!

The fossils, rocks and origin of the limestone reef knolls of the Clitheroe area have been the subject of numerous studies over the years and the reef knolls are now called 'Waulsortian mud mounds'. A wide variety of fossils have been found in the Clitheroe Limestone Formation ranging from crinoids and echinoids, to brachiopods and bryozoa. There will be the opportunity to look for fossils in a picturesque rural setting and consider the geology of the Lower Carboniferous reef belt and the overall geological history of the Clitheroe area.

Itinerary:
Nick of Pendle, to look at view of Ribble Valley, introduce the area's geology and look at small quarry in the Pendle Grit.

For the next locality, park in car park of Calf's Head pub, Worston (SD 7680 4275) and walk to A59 road cutting exposures of Crow Hill (SD 7675 4300), and in the Peach Quarry Limestone (SD 7690 433) - both in Clitheroe Limestone Formation.

After lunch -

Salthill Quarry geology trail (SD 756 427) and Bellman Quarry (SD 762 428) in the Clitheroe Limestone Formation. Bellman Quarry is an active quarry worked by Castle Cement.
Witches Quarry, Twiston (SD 8090 4435) in Clitheroe Limestone Formation. There is limited car parking at this site so we will need to car share from Salthill Quarry.

All stops on the itinerary could be subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances.

OS Explorer Map: OL 41 Forest of Bowland & Ribblesdale
OS 1:50,000 Map: 103

PLEASE NOTE: Pre-booking is essential.
Hard hats and high visibility jackets should be worn. Warm and waterproof clothing is essential for all localities. Field boots with ankle support are also recommended as the ground surface may be uneven.
 
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Trip
Evening Field Trip to Bradford Dale
Date:
Wednesday, 2nd June
Leader:
Colin Bagshaw & Ian Sutton
Details:

Meeting Place - Just to the south of the church in the centre of Middleton by Youlgreave at 6.45 pm.

Grid Reference: OS 1:50,000 Sheet 119 Buxton and Matlock, SK195633.

Bradford Dale is one of the lesser known valleys in the White Peak but nevertheless is a favourite of many who know it. The River Bradford is a tributary of the Derwent and has very steep sides between Middleton by Youlgreave and Youlgreave. Structurally the dale is situated along the axis of the Calling Low anticline and cuts through Monsal Dale Limestone overlain by Eyam Limestone with both reef and bedded limestones. The Monsal Dale limestones are quite fossiliferous in places, with horizons rich in chert. A lava believed to be the Lathkill Dale Lava is locally poorly exposed in the floor of the dale and some hydrothermal mineralisation occurs in small veins near the lava. As well as the geology, the dale has much to offer from both its natural and industrial history.
 
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Trip
Weekend Visit to the Yorkshire Coast and the Rotunda Museum, Scarborough
Date:
Saturday, 3rd & Sunday, 4th July
Leader:
Will Watts
Details:

The Yorkshire Coast is one of the classic destinations for geology, intrinsically linked to the birth of the science through people like William Smith and John Phillips. Today the coastline is still of worldwide importance for its geology, including the Middle Jurassic dinosaur footprints that have given rise to the name Dinosaur Coast. In recent years a resurgence in the region has seen the redevelopment of the Rotunda Museum as the William Smith Museum of Geology, the second oldest surviving purpose built museum in the UK still operating as a museum and now restored to its former glory.

(www.rotunda.museum.org.uk) The trip will include a visit to the museum and a number of field excursions led by local geologists.

Saturday 3rd July (Low tide is 3pm)
10.00 am Meet at the Rotunda Museum for a guided tour and introduction to the geology of the coastline.
11.00 am Guided walk around the William Smith Trail in Scarborough following in the footsteps of the Father of English Geology.
1.00 pm Lunch in Scarborough, and drive to Scalby Bay (just north of Scarborough)
2.00 pm Middle Jurassic geology in Scalby Bay, Dinosaur Footprints and plant material.
6.00 pm Finish and return to Scarborough.

Sunday, 4th July (Low tide is 3.45 pm)
10.00 am Hackness Hills walk, Upper Jurassic geology and recreating one of William Smith's less well known maps.
1.00 pm Lunch (various options available)
2.00 pm Arrive Cayton Bay for Middle and Upper Jurassic geology, the potential for some nice fossil material.
Finish to suit EMGS departures.
 
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Trip
Charnwood - Joint meeting with Hertfordshire Geology Society
Date:
17th and 18th September 2010
Leader:
Keith Ambrose & John Carney
Details:

To be confirmed...
 
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Trip
Guided visit to the Coal Mining Museum at Wakefield
Date:
Sunday, 17th October 2010
Leader:
To be confirmed...
Details:

To be confirmed...
 
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Trip
Afternoon Visit to Chatsworth House
Date:
Sunday, 31st October 2010
Leader:
Ian Thomas
Details:

This is a repeat of a recent very successful visit to Chatsworth.
Please note numbers are restricted and an entrance fee will be charged for entry to Chatsworth House.

Meet (time to be confirmed) at the main entrance to the house (North Gate). The visit will be in two parts, one to view the excellent mineral collection of the Devonshire family, and the second to have a tour of the house where there is considerable geological interest in the building and furnishings – see the recent
Mercian Geologist article and offprint.