Proceedings 1979-81 Part 2
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.
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed within the Proceedings are solely the author’s and do not reflect the opinions and beliefs of the website or its affiliates. Localities visited may no longer be accessible. Rules regarding collection of fossil and mineral samples mentioned in the publication may have changed.
Contents
| Drumlins at Watendlath, P.Wilson | Page 105 |
| Further Vertebrate Footprints from the Lower Permian Sandstones of Cumbria, W. A. S. Sarjeant | 111 |
| Glacial Geomorphology of the Keswick Area, Northern Cumbria, J. Boardman | 115 |
| Excursion to Thornthwaite Forest. Skiddavian Turbidites | 135 |
| Palaeozoic Rocks of the Orton Area | 138 |
| The Lower Carboniferous Limestones of Furness | 140 |
| Carboniferous Limestone Quarries in the Frizington Kirkland Area | 143 |
| The Elterwater Slate Quarry | 144 |
| Stockhow Hall Limestone Quarry | 145 |
| Excursion to the Buttermere Valley | 146 |
| The Faulted Outlier at Mousegill Quarry, Wilton, near Egremont | 147 |
| The Ordovician Inlier of Taythes Beck (Cautley area, near Sedbergh) | 147 |
| The Mell Fell Conglomerate | 152 |
| The Watch Hill Grit and the Igneous Rocks of the Embleton area | 153 |
| The Rocks of the Langholm area | 156 |
| Excursion to Carrock Fell and Brandy Gill | 157 |
| Mines of the Newlands Valley | 160 |
| The Granite in Wasdale | 161 |
| The Scilly Banks Opencast Coal Site | 163 |
| Rocks and Features of the Upper Calder Valley | 165 |
| Excursion to Edinburgh | 167 |
| Other Excursions and Short Evening Excursions | 168 |
| Early Palaeozoic Shelf Sediments in Prince of Wales and Somerset Islands, Arctic Canada | 169 |
| The Persistence of Man | 171 |
| Dam Geology | 173 |
| British Carboniferous Volcanoes and their Origins | 175 |
| The Stratigraphy of the Yorkshire Dales | 177 |
| The Mineralisation of the Pennines | 179 |
| The Geology of North Cumbria and the Borders | 182 |
| Earthquake Activity in Northern Britain | 184 |
| The British Antarctic Survey | 186 |
| The Geological Record of Pleistocene Climatic Changes | 187 |
| Geology and Ancient Man | 189 |
| The Late-glacial Period (15,000 – 10,000 years ago) | 191 |
| The Cambrian Geology of the Northern Interior Plains of Canada | 194 |
| The Morphology of an Active Plate Boundary | 196 |
| Geology and Wine | 198 |
| A Practical Approach to Geological Field Work | 201 |
| NOTES ON GASTRIOCERAS CUMBRIENSE | 203 |
| ANNUAL DINNERS: 25th April, 1980 and 9th May, 1981 | 206 |
| 19th, 20th and 21st ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS | 212 |
| A NEW PUBLICATION – LAKE DISTRICT GUIDE | 227 |
| LIST OF SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS | 228 |
| NOTICES | 230 |
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Proceedings 1977-78 Part 1
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.
Disclaimer: Opinions expressed within the Proceedings are solely the author’s and do not reflect the opinions and beliefs of the website or its affiliates. Localities visited may no longer be accessible. Rules regarding collection of fossil and mineral samples mentioned in the publication may have changed.
Contents
| A Study of Four Localities in the Martin Limestone (Lower Carboniferous, Dinantian) of Furness and. Grange over Sands, D. Leviston | Page 3 |
| A New Assessment of the Stratigraphy of the Skiddaw Group along the Northern Edge of the Main Skiddaw Inlier, D. E. Jackson | 21 |
| Pre-Devensian Weathered Tills near Threlkeld Common, Keswick, Cumbria, J.Boardman | 33 |
| The Redbum Fluorspar Mine in Weardale | 45 |
| The Carboniferous Limestones of the area around Caldbeck and Uldale | 46 |
| A Field Week in the Isle of Arran | 51 |
| The Armboth Dyke | 59 |
| Weekend Excursion to the Settle-Skipton region | 62 |
| The Ordovician and Silurian Rocks of Kentmere and Longsleddale | 67 |
| Other Excursions and Short Evening Excursions | 69 |
| The Study of Limestones by Stain and Peel Techniques | 70 |
| The Evolution of the Structure of the Lake District | 71 |
| The Outlook for World Energy | 75 |
| The History of Haematite Mining in West Cumbria | 76 |
| The Deep Structure of Northern England | 77 |
| The History and Exploration of Potash Deposits in North East England | 78 |
| The Background to the Dinosaurs | 80 |
| Radio-Carbon Dating and the Last Glaciation | 82 |
| Exploration of the British Continental Shelf | 83 |
| OBITUARIES: H.A.White and R.H.Hewitt | 86 |
| ANNUAL DINNERS: 14th April, 1978 and 28th April, 1979 | 88 |
| THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETINGS | 90 |
| BOOK LIST AND NOTICES | 100 |