West Sussex Geological Society

11^th January 2024
This is a Zoom Meeting.
Presented by Martin Whiteley
The Peak District
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9^th February 2024
This is a Zoom Meeting.
Presented by Professor Emrys Phillips
Scotland during the last Ice Age
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26^th April 2024
The Worlds End Pub A27 Arundel Road Patching BN13 3UQ
The Spring Social Gathering -- meet at 6:00 for 6:30pm
A spring evening outdoors (weather permitting and if not too cold) social event at a great local location, with food and drinks -- well recommended

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10^th May 2024
This is the Long Weekend Annual Field Trip,
Leader Martin Whitely
WSGS Annual Long Weekend Field Outing
The Peak District is centrally located in the heart of England, easily accessible and endowed with fabulous scenery. Compact enough to walk across in a day, you can find soaring limestone ridges, bold gritstone edges, high peat-covered moorland and sylvan valleys within a stone's throw of each other. The key to this wonderful range of scenery lies in having just the right combination of old rocks beneath the surface, some hard and resistant, others weak and easily worn away. Natural agents of erosion, such as the wind, rain, ice and long-lost seas have sculpted the landscape over millions of years, aided by the hand of man in the most recent past.

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22^nd May 2024
This is a local Field Trip,
Leader John Lonergan
Scaynes Hill private collection
Final details to be confirmed.

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15^th June 2024
This is a local Field Trip,
Leader David Bone
Pebbles on the Beach
Collect the various types of pebbles for type and indentification. Part of the Worthing Heritage Featival

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22^nd June 2024
Leader the WSGS committee
Worthing Festival event at the Worthing Museum
As part of Worthing Festival event the WSGS are attending. We will have a stall in the Worthing Museum. There will be a 'show and tell', and we will attempt to Identify any fossil, rock or mineral specimens visitors may like to bring along. We will also have some 'come and see' examples and will be talking to anybody, young and old, interested in fossils, rocks, minerals, dinosaurs and any related subject that you are interested in, to do with Geology and Palaeontology. In addition there will be a lucky dip and an affordable original & pre-owned geology book stall.

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28^th June 2024
The Worlds End Pub A27 Arundel Road Patching BN13 3UQ
The Summer Social Gathering -- new time -- meet at 6:00pm for 6:30pm.
A good summers evening outdoors social event at a great local location, with food and drinks -- well recommended.

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29^th June 2024
This is a local Field Trip,
Leader David Bone (WSGS)
The Historic Building Stones of Chichester.
Check out the London OUGS web site to find out more and to book a place. This is a cut-down version of the full trip with several sites omitted, however, the key sites are still included. The objective of this trip is to explore some of the lesser-known parts of the city to introduce the more unusual historic building stones, many of local origin, that have been used from Roman through to Victorian times. We start 11.00 at the Market Cross in the city centre (at the junction of North Street, East Street, South Street and West Street). This trip is a full day excursion, total walking distance of the itinerary is about 2 km on footpaths with some steps. A hand lens may be useful.

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1^st July 2024
This is a local Field Trip,
Leader David Bone
An evening guided walk around Clapham Church.
Visiting Clapham Church of St Mary the Virgin, BN13 3UU, commencing at 7:00pm, to look at the historical church building stones. Please park at the end of the gravel track that leads off Church Close, Clapham. We may / could retire to the nearby World’s End pub at Patching for refreshment after the meeting.

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10^th August 2024
Geology Day at the Novium Museum
A great day out for all the family, especially the kids, to see Rocks, Minerals, Fossils. Bring your own item to show / identify. Books & Maps for sale.

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15^th September 2024
This is a local Field Trip,
Leader Alex Vincent
High Salvington Geology and Archaeology walk, then to the High Salvington Windmill Open Day
The meeting point for this walk is West Hill Car Park in West Hill, High Salvington at 1pm. The walk will be about the possible river cliffs where a river ran along the valley and the Neolithic village there, which is associated with the flint mines plus saying something about the flint mines themselves and the chalk & flint. Alex has been walking and studying this area since the Cretaceous. The windmill site opens at 2.30pm with a £1 admission and there are tours inside the mill also at £1 There are also refreshments available. This is the last open day for this current year.

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29^th September 2024
the Geological Association Conference
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4^th October 2024
The Worlds End Pub A27 Arundel Road Patching BN13 3UQ
The Autumn Social Gathering -- new time -- meet at 6:00pm for 6:30pm.
Our increasingly popular evening social event, now in the autumn, at a great local location, with food and drinks -- well recommended.

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19^th October 2024
This is a local Field Trip.
Leader John Lonergan
A Geology and Landscape walk of the South Downs, Amberley and South Stoke then return.
Starting in Amberley Railway Station car park, meet at 1pm. A walk of about 4 miles. This is based on Professor Rory Mortimore’s itinerary nine walk in his GA Guide, Volume two. Starting with looking at the geology in the car park, then along the valley looking at the landscape, and available exposures. John is going to avoid the tidal section for simplicity, though there will be still plenty to see ! On the day subs (per person) of £3 per guest and £2 for members.

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2^nd November 2024
The Festival of Geology
The WSGS table & display at the annual Festival of Geology at Burlington House off Picadilly W1J 0BE in London.
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16^th November 2024
The Sussex Mineral and Fossil Show
With a wealth of exhibits at the show, from not just minerals, but all aspects of geology. Displays and sales of minerals, gems, fossils, meteorites, flints, books, & accessories. Mineral and fossil tombola. Children's workshop for gold panning, fossil and gem hunts. Fluorescent minerals room. Illustrated talks. Held at Haywards Heath College, Harlands Road, Haywards Heath RH16 1LT

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1^st April 2025
This is a local Field Trip.
Leader David Shilston
A walk around the Wiggonholt area.
Postponed from 2024 -- Date & Time yet to be Announced

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16^th August 2025
Geology Day at the Novium Museum
We've been asked back again for another year. A great day out for all the family, especially the kids, to see Rocks, Minerals, Fossils. Bring your own item to show / identify. Books & Maps for sale.

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13^th September 2025
This is the Long Weekend Annual Field Trip.
Leader Mick Oates
The WSGS Annual Long Weekend Field Trip Outing
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