Upcoming Field Trips and past trips

TVGS Field Trips for 2023

Penarth S. Wales Saturday 14th October

Field trips from summer evening strolls (Geoambles)
to foreign trips

Been on a TVGS field trip (big or small) – please send your photos of interesting geology plus a brief note about what the picture shows and the field trip it was taken.

Send an email, with photo(s) attached to:
TVGS-trips@geo-village.eu

Past Field Trips

THE DOWARDS | 16th Sept 2023 | Led by Jim Handley

Separated from the Forest of Dean by a deep gorge incised by the River Wye, The Dowards comprises a Carboniferous Limestone Series overlaying Devonian Upper Old Red Sandstone. Both the geology and the views are spectacular. We started in Lord’s Wood quarry where the interesting stratigraphy of the Llanelly Formation – including stromatolite and breccia layers – succeeds Gully Oolite (see https://deeptime.voyage/resources/lordswood/ for a detailed case study including drone footage). We were expertly guided by EHT Champion Jim Handley past a viewpoint, to learn how the Wye cut through the hard rock due to sea level change, to the base of the gorge and up past outcrops of the 6 rock series making up Little Doward, to a limestone pavement made up of a reef of colonial corals. The trip finished with a visit to King Arthur’s cave showing the effect of water erosion 200m above the current river level.

SOUTHERN MALVERN HILLS | 1st Sept 2023 | Led by Peter Bridges

This was a fascinating trip, visiting some of the best places to see where Precambrian Malvern Complex rock was overlain by younger rocks of the Cambrian and Silurian Periods and subsequently uplifted into a monocline. We also visited the “Silurian Gap” on the ridge at the north end of Swinyard Hill, where Silurian bedrock lies over the top of the ridge and has been found on the eastern flank of the hill.

SOUTH EAST ALPS | JUNE 2019 | Led by Prof. Donny Hutton