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
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
Wednesday, 24 September, 2025 starts at 19:30
Crosthwaite Parish Rooms
Main Street
Keswick
CA12 5NN
Dr Danny Clark-Lowes (CGS) introduces the Winter Programme, a themed set of talks on Lakeland Geology.
David Haselden (CGS) will give a talk on “Current interpretations of the Borrowdale Volcanics”.
Preliminary arrangements are in progress for a one-week residential trip for Members only to Shropshire next year.
Saturday, 13 September, 2025 starts at 13:00 - 16:00
Eycott Hill Car Park
Cumbria Wildlife Trust Car Park
Berrier
CA11 0SQ
* PLEASE NOTE AMENDED START TIME OF 1 PM *
Leader: Ian Francis
An afternoon excursion to Eycott Hill nature reserve to examine rocks and geomorphology at the site location of the Eycott Volcanic Group, a mid-Ordovician (Caradoc) sequence of basaltic andesite and andesite lava flows and sills, including an unusual porphyritic andesite lithology exposed near the base of the sequence. If time permits we will also visit Fairy Knott, north of Naddle Crag, where faulting reveals an exposure of the underlying Skiddaw Group.
The excursion will be held jointly with the Cumbria Wildlife Trust
Image credit: Cumbria GeoConservation
Suggested further reading:
Non-technical:
Note Cumb Geol Soc articles are available for download from this website here.
Clark, R. 1989 Landscapes and Rocks in The Eycott Hill and Carrock Fell Areas Proc Cumb. Geol. Soc. Vol 5 Part 2. pp220-221
Cumbria Wildlife Trust Virtual Tour
Francis, I. , Holmes, S. & Yardley, B. 2022 The Lake District: Landscape and Geology Crowood Press pp 149-151
Gate, S. H. 1971 Excursion to the Eycott Lavas Proc Cumb Geol. Soc. Vol 3 Part 2 pp105-108
Rogers, J. 2017Â Proc. Cumb. Geol. Soc. Vol 8 (2016-2017) Part 4 pp 542-543
Smith, A. 2019 Lakeland Rocks Crowood Press pp 28-30
Technical:
Eastwood, T. et al 1968 Geology of the Country around Cockermouth and Caldbeck HMSO pp pp46-7
Millward, D, and Molyneaux, S G. 1992. Field and Biostratigraphic Evidence for an unconformity at the base of Eycott Volcanic Group in the Lake District. Geological Magazine, Vol.129/1, p.77-92.
Millward, D et al., 2000. The Eycott Volcanic Group, an Ordovician continental margin andesite suite in the English Lake District. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, Vol.53, 81-96.
