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Proceedings 1962 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.

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Contents

Presidential Address ‘Granite and Granitization’ (delivered by the Vice President at Workington College), 15th FebruaryPage 1
Excursion to the Haile Moor Mine, Egremont, 22nd January17
Excursion to Ullcoats Mine, Egremont, 23rd February19
Outing to St Bees and Fleswick, 17th March21
Sketch Map and Outline on the Skiddaw Granite, 1st April23
Excursion to the Skiddaw Granite, 1st April24
Excursion to the Nowlands Valley, 20th May27
Field Excursion to Yeatouse Limestone Quarry, 14th April31
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Event Reminder: The Geology of Islay and Whisky, Wednesday 9th February

Wednesday 9th February at 7.30pm on zoom

Dr. David Webster

Meeting ID: 811 2888 6128 Passcode: 050739

The Islay archipelago has a great variety of geology: 2-billion-year old gneisses of the Rhinns Complex, a lightly metamorphosed late-Precambrian sedimentary succession including rocks deposited by ice during the time of a ‘Snowball Earth’, lead mines, and igneous rocks from the Silurian, Carboniferous and Palaeocene. Pleistocene glacial features abound and a recent archaeological dig has found evidence of probably the earliest human occupation of Scotland with ice-age hunters living on Islay some 12,000 years ago. Oh, and we have some nice whiskies too –many with geological stories to tell.

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Postponed: Members’ Evening, Wednesday 15th December 2021

With the emergence of a new Covid variant, advice from scientists most concerned with the pandemic, and concern about the nature of the venue has led to the Council having to consider whether it was better to postpone such a meeting until a more appropriate time. Consequently, after consultation it was decided that the Members’ Evening on 15 December is POSTPONED. 

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