SGG – Visit to Cleeve Abbey and Dunster
As part of the building stones survey, these are the second and third locations that SGG is documenting for English Heritage.
Appreciating, conserving and promoting Somerset's diverse geology
Somerset Geology Group
As part of the building stones survey, these are the second and third locations that SGG is documenting for English Heritage.
Several events as part of Sidmouth Science Week
For details see here SGG will be exhibiting.
Details are here
This trip will introduce the local geology setting and guide you round the variety of stone used in Blandford’s buildings. There are many fossils visible and we recommend you bring a hand lens. The trip will be a guided walk round the building stone trail (guide booklet available to buy if you wish). Full details… Continue reading DGAG Building Stone Field Trip – Blandford Forum
USSHER 63 Exeter Conference Circular_Jan26 Friday agenda item "Open Workshop Discussion – Geosites in SW England Recording, storing and accessing RIGS/CGS/LGS site Information" will be of interest to SGG (who are attending).
Talk by Andy Gordon, SGG, at the request of Bath Geological Society.
An existing LGS (there are 232 in Somerset) is being cleared for better exposure with assistance by Somerset Council
Step back in time this February half term for fossil handling, visiting dinosaurs, a mammoth trail, storytime, dino discos and prehistoric crafts.
A walk to study the underlying Geology of the area. There is a disused Railway cutting through the Carboniferous Limestone. Each end of the cutting shows the Triassic and Jurassic unconformity against it, a large fault behind displaces them. There is a walk up a thrust faulted hill which gives very good views of the… Continue reading OUGS WESSEX FIELD TRIP to the West Compton/ Shepton Mallet area of Somerset in the vicinity of the Mendip Hills.