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Wednesday, 14 January, 2026 starts at 19:30
Crosthwaite Parish Rooms
Main Street
Keswick
CA12 5NN
Phil Davies (CGS), David Boote and Graham Yielding will give a talk on “A fresh look at the geological history of the Skiddaw Group”.
If you would like to purchase publications please contact the secretary.
SALE
Physical Copies £5.00 + P&P
Digital Copies £5.00 (pdf)
This book is an attempt to answer the questions of those who want to know more about the formation of the fantastic rocks and landscapes of Cumbria. An introductory chapter sets the scene and the 17 excursions are aimed at everyone. They are written with a minimum of technical language and very from easy low-level half-day excursions to more demanding full day trips in mountainous country. They are profusely illustrated with maps and photos.
Authored by local enthusiasts and who are members or closely associated with the Cumberland Geological Society.
If you would like to purchase publications please contact the secretary.
SALE
Physical Copies £5.00 + P&P
Digital Copies £5.00 (pdf)
Edited by Alan Smith and published by the Cumberland Geological Society, this book seeks to explore the people behind what we know of Lakeland Geology. From Jonathan Otley and Adam Sedgwick to the later academics and pysiographers who clarified the work of the earlier ‘fathers’ of geology.
Wednesday, 10 December, 2025 starts at 19:30
Crosthwaite Parish Rooms
Main Street
Keswick
CA12 5NN
Emeritus Professor Ben Kneller (Aberdeen University) will give a talk “The Windermere Supergroup: what does it tell us about the evolution of Avalonia”
This will be followed by an opportunity to socialise for the members’ evening.
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.
| EDITORIAL | 354 |
| Records of the use of Egglestone marble in Cumbria | 355 |
| The many uses of Shap Granite | 365 |
| The Seathwaite Graphite Mine | 371 |
| Dr Richard Peter Kelvin Clark (1927-2009) An Appreciation | 381 |
| The Raasay iron mines | 389 |
| The society trip to Raasay | 395 |
| Excursion Reports 2008 | 401 |
| Excursion Reports 2009 | 409 |
| Obituary Notice | 423 |
| Lecture Meetings | 425 |
| Annual General Meetings | 428 |
| Annual Dinners | 429 |
| List of Society Officers and Council | 430 |
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 | 145 |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLES | 146 |
| Multum ex parvo: graptolites from Threlkeld Quarry and their implications, DrA. W. A. Rushton | 146 |
| The fossils collected during John Bolton’s marathon search at Rosside, Dr A. W. A. Rushton and Dr P. Shepherd. | 154 |
| On identifying frontal positions of Lake District valley glaciers, Dr R. P. K. Clark | 162 |
| FIELDWORK REPORTS | 177 |
| The Geology of the Northern Marginal Zone complex on the isle of Rum, 177 Scotland, Edward Loffill | 177 |
| Late Devensian outwash environments in the Tyne Valley: Preliminary investigations., Lynda Yorke | 179 |
| Biological responses and environmental change across the Carboniferous boundary, Rejmyrefjellet, Templefjorden, Svarlbard, Tom Chailands. | 184 |
| EXCURSION REPORTS 2004 | 190 |
| Chalk Beck Quarries, East Curthwaite, David Powell | 190 |
| Sale Fell: minette intrusion and Skiddaw Group, David Livesey | 192 |
| The Coal Measures south of Whitehaven Harbour, David Kelly and John Brown | 193 |
| The submerged forest on Allonby beach, Fred Lawton | 194 |
| The Namurian rocks and mineralisation around Alston, Dr Charlotte Vye and Dr Stu Clarke | 195 |
| Force Crag Mine, Coledale, Penny Webb | 199 |
| The Borrowdale Volcanics of upper Wasdale and lllgill Head, Dr Alan Smith | 207 |
| The Howk, Caldbeck, Anne Freeland and Susan Beale | 211 |
| EXCURSIONS REPORTS 2005 | 212 |
| The Borrowdale Volcanic Group at Water Crag, Wastwater, David Kelly | 212 |
| Fossil hunt at White Horse, Broad End, Skiddaw Massif, Dr Alan Smith | 213 |
| North Pennine Carboniferous at Hallbankgate and the Great Whin Sill quarry at Midgeholme, Judy Suddaby | 229 |
| Skiddaw Group geology, Dr Adrian Rushton | 230 |
| Raise Beck, Dunmail Raise, Dr Richard Johnson | 231 |
| Geology of the Kirkbeck Valley, Mervyn Dodd and Michael Forsdyke | 233 |
| Mineralisation in the Caldbeck Fells, Brian Young | 236 |
| Geology of the northern part of High Rigg, Dr Alan Smith | 237 |
| Other excursion held in 2005 | 238 |
| LECTURE REPORTS 2004 – 2005 | 239 |
| Remote sensing and fieldwork on active volcanoes, Professor Harry Pinkerton | 239 |
| The Burgess Shale fauna: new light on theories of evolution, Professor Simon Conway Morris | 241 |
| Other lectures held in 2004 – 2005 | 242 |
