Wednesday, 8 October, 2025 starts at 19:30
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84686626847?pwd=wXBNaoaOAGT0pfX7gA13A1eC6eLvpv.1
Dr Nigel Woodcock, Cambridge University, will give a talk on “The Acadian Orogeny – British & Irish slate belts and their relationship to Devonian granite emplacement.”
This meeting will be on Zoom.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84686626847?pwd=wXBNaoaOAGT0pfX7gA13A1eC6eLvpv.1
Meeting ID: 846 8662 6847
Passcode: 921084
These proceedings ran from 1962 to 2019 before being replaced by our newest publication The Cumberland Geologist. Each Proceedings has been digitized and made searchable.
| Contents | |
| Editor’s Notes | 4 |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLES | 5 |
| White Limestone deposition in north-west Cumbria, A. D. Thurlow | 5 |
| Cumbria Rigs Group, M. Dodd | 35 |
| Book Review – The structure and evolution of the Northumberland-Solway Basin and adjacent areas, E. Skipsey | 41 |
| Alluvial fans in the Buttermere-Crummock Valley, Dr A. Smith | 47 |
| EXCURSION NOTES | 63 |
| Sedimentary variations in the Fifth to White Limestones – A. Thurlow | 63 |
| The graptolites of Dobb’s.Linn – Dr. E. N. Clarkson & C. Taylor | 67 |
| The Skiddaw Group above Loweswater – M. Dodd | 69 |
| Silurian and Carboniferous rocks in the Langholm area – I. Gray | 70 |
| Upper Carboniferous of the Cockermouth area – M. Boland | 73 |
| Carboniferous Limestone exposures along the Dalton-in-Furness by-pass – D. Leviston | 75 |
| The St Bees Sandstone at Hawcoat Quarry – B. Neil | 77 |
| The Windermere Group in the Troutbeck area – Dr A. Bell | 80 |
| Glacial sediments around St Bees – J. Merritt | 82 |
| Mineral deposits of the Coniston Coppermines Valley – B. Young | 84 |
| Geology from the Cycleway – M. Dodd | 87 |
| Glacial landforms of the Western Pennines – Dr W.Mitchell | 89 |
| The Latterbarrow Sandstone – D. Kelly | 91 |
| The Geology of the Vale of Eden – E. Skipsey & Dr S.Munro | 94 |
| Ashfell Edge – A. Day | 99 |
| List of other excursions held in 1994 – 1995 | 101 |
| LECTURE NOTES | |
| The geology and scenery of north-west Scotland – Joe Crossley | 103 |
| Geological aspects of the A66 trunk road improvement – David O’Farrell | 106 |
| The recent geological investigations around the Sellafield area – Dr Bob Chaplow | 108 |
| Current thoughts on the Coal Measures in Cumbria – Dennis Dickins | 112 |
| Plate tectonics, volcanic islands & pygmy elephants – Dr Martyn Pedley | 114 |
| Quaternary landforms of Upper Edenside – Dr Wishart Mitchell | 118 |
| The glaciation of the northern Pennines – Dr Angus Lunn | 120 |
| Holes in the ground – Ian Williamson | 125 |
| Geological mapping and prospecting from space – Dr John Moore | 126 |
| Problems in the reconstruction of past climates – Margaret Fox | 130 |
| Palaeokarst, pits and problems – Dr Peter Vincent | 134 |
| Progress of survey mapping in West Cumbria – Mike McCormac | 136 |
| ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS – 1995 & 1996 | 139 |
| ANNUAL DINNERS – 1994 & 1995 | 139 |
| OBITUARIES | 140 |
| SOCIETY BEQUESTS | 142 |
| LIST OF SOCIETY OFFICERS AND COUNCIL – 1995 & 1996 | 143 |
These proceedings ran from 1962 to 2019 before being replaced by our newest publication The Cumberland Geologist. Each Proceedings has been digitized and made searchable.
| Contents | |
| Editorial | 279 |
| Towards an integrated model for hematite mineralization at the margins of the East Irish sea basin. Stephen F Crowley | 280 |
| How tough are the Lake District’s accretionary lapilli? Clive Boulter | 326 |
| A note on the occurrence and characteristics of small-scale sorted patterened ground in tarn-bed gravels at Beck Head, western Lake District. Peter Wilson | 335 |
| Landforms, tectonics and mines of the Hartley Fell side. Noel Pearson | 343 |
| Local Geological Sites (LGS) and the work of the Cumbria Geoconservation Group (CGC). Sylvia Woodhead | 361 |
| Field research projects | 365 |
| Excursion reports 2014 | 377 |
| Excursion reports 2015 | 385 |
| Lecture meetings winter 2014/15 | 398 |
| Lecture meetings winter 2015/16 | 399 |
| Annual dinners | 400 |
| Officers and council of the society | 401 |
| Obituary | 403 |
The 2020-2021 CGS publication articles are now available. Please visit our Publications page and navigate to Cumberland Geologist to view the articles. https://www.cumberland-geol-soc.org.uk/publications/
These proceedings ran from 1962 to 2019 before being replaced by our newest publication The Cumberland Geologist. Each Proceedings has been digitized and made searchable.
| Editor’s Notes | 404 |
| Origin of Limestone Pavements | 405 |
| The Conservation of Limestone Pavements | 413 |
| Conflicting Interpretations of Glacial Sediments and Landforms in Cumbria | 419 |
| The Skiddaw Massif Problem | 437 |
| The Last 200 Million Years in Cumbria | 449 |
| Geology in the Churchyard | 457 |
| The Vale of Chipping and Trough of Bowland, Dr. N. Aitkenhead | 463 |
| The Borrowdale Volcanic Group in the upper Calder Valley, D. Kelly | 467 |
| Westphalian sedimentology of the Whitehaven/Lowca area, Dr. N. S. Jones & Dr. P. D. Guion | 469 |
| Upper Teesdale, E. Skipsey | 473 |
| Controversial Irish Sea glacial models, Dr. D. Huddart | 476 |
| Kinniside Lead Mine, M. Dodd | 481 |
| The Permo-Triassic Rocks of the Eden Valley, Dr. L. Macchi | 483 |
| Mineralisation in the Caldbeck Fells, B. Young | 486 |
| The Seventh Limestone at Frizington Park Quarry, A. Thurlow | 490 |
| B. V. G. Rocks in Lingmoor Area of Langdale, Dr. F. Moseley | 493 |
| Civil Engineering Geology Along A66 Trunk Road, J. Cockersole | 496 |
| Other Excursions Held During 1992 & 1993 | 499 |
| North Sea hydrocarbon plays, Dr. S. Brown | 501 |
| The challenge of the Lake District’s big landforms, Dr. R. Clark | 502 |
| Lake District Vulcanism: caldera cycles & crustal extension, Dr. D.Millward | 505 |
| Gypsum caves and subsidence, Dr. A. H. Cooper | 507 |
| Mineral heritage of the north, B. Young | 509 |
| Volcanoes ancient & modern, Dr. R. J. Suthren | 511 |
| Hot dry rock geothermal energy research, Dr. H. G. Richards | 514 |
| Rise & fall of Ordovician Volcanic island arc, Dr. E. W. Johnson | 515 |
| The Building stones of Cartmel Priory, M. Mitchell | 518 |
| Geological mapping & photogeology in the Lake District, Dr. F. Moseley | 520 |
| Modern desert sedimentary environments, Dr L. Macchi | 523 |
| Other Talks | 525 |
| ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS – 1993 &1994 | 526 |
| ANNUAL DINNERS – 1992 & 1993 | 526 |
| OBITUARIES | 527 |
| LIST OF SOCIETY OFFICERS AND COUNCIL – 1993 & 1994 | 527 |
