Appreciating, conserving and promoting Somerset's diverse geology
Somerset Geology Group
Mendip Rocks is an annual festival that hosts a series of geological events during the autumn in October to celebrate the fascinating 450-million-year history of the Mendip Hills. The festival… Continue reading Mendip Rocks 2025
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… Continue reading DGAG Building Stone Field Trip – Blandford Forum
An existing LGS (there are 232 in Somerset) is being cleared for better exposure with assistance by Somerset Council
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… Continue reading The Ussher Society – Geoscience in South-West England 63rd Annual Conference
Talk by Andy Gordon, SGG, at the request of Bath Geological Society.
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… Continue reading OUGS WESSEX FIELD TRIP to the West Compton/ Shepton Mallet area of Somerset in the vicinity of the Mendip Hills.