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Members are welcome to attend Westmorland Geological Society field trips. Saturday 12th September Shap Pink QuarryVisit to Shap Pink Quarry to view the current workings, granite petrology, features and minerals. The foreman Steve Elliott will meet us in the car park to tell us briefly about the current extraction plan and will accompany us along our …
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Contents EDITORIAL 3 LANDMARKS IN THE HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY1962-2012Alan Smith 4 THE FIRST 50 YEARS’ FIELD EXCURSIONSOF THE CUMBERLAND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.Mervyn Dodd 22 NOTES ON MISSISSIPPIAN (LOWER CARBONIFEROUS)CRINOIDS FROM NORTHERN ENGLANDStephen K. Donovan 29 HOW DO TOPOGRAPHY AND AVAILABILITY OF TILLINFLUENCE DRUMLINS EAST OF KENDAL, CUMBRIA?Arthur Robinson 34 A SUB-LATERAL BOULDER MORAINE IN DUNNERDALE,SW …