Please note the following amendments and additions to the winter lecture series.
November 12th 2025 will now be “Glacial readvances of western Cumbria; their relevance to hydrogeological modelling.” by Jon Merritt (BGS) at Crosthwaite Parish Rooms.
December 10th 2025 will now be “The Windermere Supergroup: what does it tell us about the evolution of Avalonia?” by Emeritus Professor Ben Kneller (Aberdeen University) at Crosthwaite Parish Rooms.
An additional talk is now scheduled for April 22nd 2026 : “Supergene mineralisation in the Lake District – are the Caldbeck Fells a special case?” by Brian Young (Hon. Res. Fellow, Durham University). Crosthwaite Parish Rooms (tbc).
Full details of the winter lecture series are on the Events page.
Dr Nigel Woodcock, Cambridge University, will give a talk on “The Acadian Orogeny – British & Irish slate belts and their relationship to Devonian granite emplacement.”
Dr Nigel Woodcock, Cambridge University, will give a talk on “The Acadian Orogeny – British & Irish slate belts and their relationship to Devonian granite emplacement.”
Eycott Hill Car Park Cumbria Wildlife Trust Car Park Berrier CA11 0SQ
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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
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.
