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North Eastern Geological Society
a Society for amateur as well as professional geologists
(affiliated to the Geologists' Association)
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Monthly Newsletter: May - 2012

Previous newsletters

Next Event: 23rd. June:  Leaders: Derek Teasdale & Gordon Liddle:  The meeting will be in two parts. Part 1: Meet 10.30am at GR NZ078967. Wards Hill (south of Rothbury). Unusual features of the Whin Sill intrusion and its effects. Lower Carboniferous rocks with fossils. Part 2: Meet 1:00pm at GR NZ054989.  Lordenshaws Hill Fort and Tosson Lime Kiln. Click here for more details.

Previous event: 12th. May: Field Trip. Durham Permian: Ryhope Dene, Seaham and Blast Beach. Leader: Andy Lane, Univ. of Sunderland. Click here for report & photo's

(Reports on Dec.,Jan. & Feb. lectures can be accessed on "Lectures" below. Report on March lecture is in the March-April Newsletter.)

**********Some Additional Items of interest********** 

Details of our new Chairman can be found under Contacts

"Plates vs. Plumes". A Geological Controversy. Professor Gillian Foulger, N.E.G.S. University Liaison Officer and  winter Lecture Programme Organiser.

New publication: Carboniferous Geology: Bowland Fells to Pendle Hill. Ed. Paul Kabrna. cf. also Craven & Pendle Geol. Soc. under "Links"

A  downloadable poster to promote the Society.

Last year's (2011) N.E.G.S. prize.

Formation of a Durham RIGS Group

An article from the Geologists' Association. "Church Geology"
(specifically aimed at north eastern geologists"

From the Geologists' Association. "Church Geology - Part 2"
(again, specifically aimed at north eastern geologists"

The [Durham] Limestone Landscapes Project

Appeal for help in developing the The [Durham] Limestone Landscapes Project

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