Sunday 8th May – West Suffolk
Visit to High Lodge Forest Centre
to see the representation of a core sample of sediment from Grimes Graves,
followed by a visit to a chalk pit.
Leaders: Tim Holt-Wilson and
Antonia Weston.
Meet at West Stow Anglo-Saxon
village car park at 11.00am; we shall drive on from there. West Stow is about 5
miles northwest of Bury St Edmunds.
Thursday 7th July – Bawdsey
Evening visit to see London Clay
at low tide.
Meet at the car park at the sea
end of East Lane at 5.30pm.
Bawdsey is about 8 miles
southeast of Woodbridge.
Sunday 10th July – Crags
Visit to fossiliferous crag pits.
Meet at Woodbridge rail station
car park at 10.30am; we shall drive on from there.
This is a joint meeting with the
Essex Rock and Mineral Society.
Wednesday 17th August – Stutton
Visit to see London Clay and
Interglacial Brickearth.
Meet at the car park on the B1080
road, about 600 metres west of the village shop and school, at 2.00pm.
Stutton is about 6 miles south of
Ipswich.
Saturday 20th August – Walton Common, Norfolk
Visit to ‘pingos’, also possibly
at Thompson Common.
Meet at Walton Common at 11.00am
(take the track west-south-west from the road junction with the post office and
telephone box at East Walton village).
East Walton is on the B1153 road
about 8 miles east south east of King’s Lynn.
This is a joint meeting with the
Geological Society of Norfolk.
Saturday 8th October – Gipping Valley
Visit to see chalk, tertiary and
glacial deposits.
Meet at Bramford picnic site car
park (immediately south-west of the railway bridge) at 10.30am; we shall drive
on from there.
You may be required to sign an indemnity form in quarries,
and wear helmets and reflective jackets.
Bramford is about 3 miles
northwest of Ipswich.
Wear stout footwear for all field trips, for walking on uneven ground and muddy footpaths.
GeoSuffolk (Suffolk RIGS) are organising an East Anglian RIGS meeting at 10.30am on Saturday 21st May at Amberfield School, Nacton.
The morning programme will include short lectures on the Westleton Beds, unusual local building stones, a geography teacher’s use of RIGS, Suffolk Geodiversity Officer’s report, Colchester earthquake, Sizewell B, and a Quaternary subject.
In the afternoon we will visit Nacton shore to see London Clay with mudstones, ash bands and faults, landslips, a valley gravel terrace and modern estuarine deposits.
If you wish to support Suffolk RIGS (Regionally Important Geological/Geomorphological Sites work, please register your interest. There is no charge for this meeting.
For further information on Suffolk Naturalists’ Geological
Group field meetings and on GeoSuffolk (Suffolk RIGS) contact:
Bob Markham,
telephone 01394 384525,
email:
bobmark@ukonline.co.uk
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